[PATCH] subreg: Add -fsplit-wide-types-early (PR88233)
Segher Boessenkool
segher@kernel.crashing.org
Mon Jul 8 17:28:00 GMT 2019
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 01:27:25PM +0200, Richard Biener wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 7:12 PM Segher Boessenkool
> <segher@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> >
> > Currently the second lower-subreg pass is run right before RA. This
> > is much too late to be very useful. At least for targets that do not
> > have RTL patterns for operations on multi-register modes it is a lot
> > better to split patterns earlier, before combine and all related
> > passes.
> >
> > This adds an option -fsplit-wide-types-early that does that, and
> > enables it by default for rs6000.
>
> Do you by chance have a (target specific) testcase you can add?
I haven't yet figured out how to do a not terribly fragile test for this.
Hrm, maybe the thing in the PR with -mcpu=power8 will do. I'll work on
that.
> The docs should mention that the new option doesn't have any effect
> unless -fsplit-wide-types is enabled.
Yeah I'll make that more explicit. Thanks,
Segher
> > 2019-07-07 Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
> >
> > PR rtl-optimization/88233
> > * common.opt (fsplit-wide-types-early): New option.
> > * common/config/rs6000/rs6000-common.c
> > (rs6000_option_optimization_table): Add OPT_fsplit_wide_types_early for
> > OPT_LEVELS_ALL.
> > * doc/invoke.texi (Optimization Options): Add -fsplit-wide-types-early.
> > * lower-subreg.c (pass_lower_subreg2::gate): Add test for
> > flag_split_wide_types_early.
> > (pass_data_lower_subreg3): New.
> > (pass_lower_subreg3): New.
> > (make_pass_lower_subreg3): New.
> > * passes.def (pass_lower_subreg2): Move after the loop passes.
> > (pass_lower_subreg3): New, inserted where pass_lower_subreg2 was.
> > * tree-pass.h (make_pass_lower_subreg2): Move up, to its new place in
> > the pass pipeline; its previous place is taken by ...
> > (make_pass_lower_subreg3): ... this.
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