Add an "early rematerialisation" pass
authorRichard Sandiford <richard.sandiford@linaro.org>
Sat, 13 Jan 2018 18:00:51 +0000 (18:00 +0000)
committerRichard Sandiford <rsandifo@gcc.gnu.org>
Sat, 13 Jan 2018 18:00:51 +0000 (18:00 +0000)
commit5cce817119cd31d18fbfc1c8245519d86b5e9480
tree9fcd4a856308532c0061509406f541b072746f44
parentd1d20a49a788bdb82f09ada6377d932ceac07934
Add an "early rematerialisation" pass

This patch looks for pseudo registers that are live across a call
and for which no call-preserved hard registers exist.  It then
recomputes the pseudos as necessary to ensure that they are no
longer live across a call.  The comment at the head of the file
describes the approach.

A new target hook selects which modes should be treated in this way.
By default none are, in which case the pass is skipped very early.

It might also be worth looking for cases like:

   C1: R1 := f (...)
   ...
   C2: R2 := f (...)
   C3: R1 := C2

and giving the same value number to C1 and C3, effectively treating
it like:

   C1: R1 := f (...)
   ...
   C2: R2 := f (...)
   C3: R1 := f (...)

Another (much more expensive) enhancement would be to apply value
numbering to all pseudo registers (not just rematerialisation
candidates), so that we can handle things like:

  C1: R1 := f (...R2...)
  ...
  C2: R1 := f (...R3...)

where R2 and R3 hold the same value.  But the current pass seems
to catch the vast majority of cases.

2018-01-13  Richard Sandiford  <richard.sandiford@linaro.org>

gcc/
* Makefile.in (OBJS): Add early-remat.o.
* target.def (select_early_remat_modes): New hook.
* doc/tm.texi.in (TARGET_SELECT_EARLY_REMAT_MODES): New hook.
* doc/tm.texi: Regenerate.
* targhooks.h (default_select_early_remat_modes): Declare.
* targhooks.c (default_select_early_remat_modes): New function.
* timevar.def (TV_EARLY_REMAT): New timevar.
* passes.def (pass_early_remat): New pass.
* tree-pass.h (make_pass_early_remat): Declare.
* early-remat.c: New file.
* config/aarch64/aarch64.c (aarch64_select_early_remat_modes): New
function.
(TARGET_SELECT_EARLY_REMAT_MODES): Define.

gcc/testsuite/
* gcc.target/aarch64/sve/spill_1.c: Also test that no predicates
are spilled.
* gcc.target/aarch64/sve/spill_2.c: New test.
* gcc.target/aarch64/sve/spill_3.c: Likewise.
* gcc.target/aarch64/sve/spill_4.c: Likewise.
* gcc.target/aarch64/sve/spill_5.c: Likewise.
* gcc.target/aarch64/sve/spill_6.c: Likewise.
* gcc.target/aarch64/sve/spill_7.c: Likewise.

From-SVN: r256636
20 files changed:
gcc/ChangeLog
gcc/Makefile.in
gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c
gcc/doc/tm.texi
gcc/doc/tm.texi.in
gcc/early-remat.c [new file with mode: 0644]
gcc/passes.def
gcc/target.def
gcc/targhooks.c
gcc/targhooks.h
gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/aarch64/sve/spill_1.c
gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/aarch64/sve/spill_2.c [new file with mode: 0644]
gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/aarch64/sve/spill_3.c [new file with mode: 0644]
gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/aarch64/sve/spill_4.c [new file with mode: 0644]
gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/aarch64/sve/spill_5.c [new file with mode: 0644]
gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/aarch64/sve/spill_6.c [new file with mode: 0644]
gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/aarch64/sve/spill_7.c [new file with mode: 0644]
gcc/timevar.def
gcc/tree-pass.h