Add an empty_mask_is_expensive hook
authorRichard Sandiford <richard.sandiford@linaro.org>
Sat, 13 Jan 2018 17:59:40 +0000 (17:59 +0000)
committerRichard Sandiford <rsandifo@gcc.gnu.org>
Sat, 13 Jan 2018 17:59:40 +0000 (17:59 +0000)
commit76a34e3f8565e36d164006e62f7380bfe6057154
tree5d7839c9d03b922ec19e0df424632405eecb1a18
parent535e7c114a7ad2ad7a6a0def88cf9448fcd5f029
Add an empty_mask_is_expensive hook

This patch adds a hook to control whether we avoid executing masked
(predicated) stores when the mask is all false.  We don't want to do
that by default for SVE.

2018-01-13  Richard Sandiford  <richard.sandiford@linaro.org>
    Alan Hayward  <alan.hayward@arm.com>
    David Sherwood  <david.sherwood@arm.com>

gcc/
* target.def (empty_mask_is_expensive): New hook.
* doc/tm.texi.in (TARGET_VECTORIZE_EMPTY_MASK_IS_EXPENSIVE): New hook.
* doc/tm.texi: Regenerate.
* targhooks.h (default_empty_mask_is_expensive): Declare.
* targhooks.c (default_empty_mask_is_expensive): New function.
* tree-vectorizer.c (vectorize_loops): Only call optimize_mask_stores
if the target says that empty masks are expensive.
* config/aarch64/aarch64.c (aarch64_empty_mask_is_expensive):
New function.
(TARGET_VECTORIZE_EMPTY_MASK_IS_EXPENSIVE): Redefine.

Co-Authored-By: Alan Hayward <alan.hayward@arm.com>
Co-Authored-By: David Sherwood <david.sherwood@arm.com>
From-SVN: r256631
gcc/ChangeLog
gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c
gcc/doc/tm.texi
gcc/doc/tm.texi.in
gcc/target.def
gcc/targhooks.c
gcc/targhooks.h
gcc/tree-vectorizer.c