ABI: implement register arguments with constraints. (#4858)

* ABI: implement register arguments with constraints.

Currently, Cranelift's ABI code emits a sequence of moves from physical
registers into vregs at the top of the function body, one for every
register-carried argument.

For a number of reasons, we want to move to operand constraints instead,
and remove the use of explicitly-named "pinned vregs"; this allows for
better regalloc in theory, as it removes the need to "reverse-engineer"
the sequence of moves.

This PR alters the ABI code so that it generates a single "args"
pseudo-instruction as the first instruction in the function body. This
pseudo-inst defs all register arguments, and constrains them to the
appropriate registers at the def-point. Subsequently the regalloc can
move them wherever it needs to.

Some care was taken not to have this pseudo-inst show up in
post-regalloc disassemblies, but the change did cause a general regalloc
"shift" in many tests, so the precise-output updates are a bit noisy.
Sorry about that!

A subsequent PR will handle the other half of the ABI code, namely, the
callsite case, with a similar preg-to-constraint conversion.

* Update based on review feedback.

* Review feedback.
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Chris Fallin
2022-09-08 20:03:14 -05:00
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parent 13c7846815
commit 2986f6b0ff
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@@ -100,6 +100,9 @@ pub trait MachInst: Clone + Debug {
/// (ret/uncond/cond) and target if applicable.
fn is_term(&self) -> MachTerminator;
/// Is this an "args" pseudoinst?
fn is_args(&self) -> bool;
/// Should this instruction be included in the clobber-set?
fn is_included_in_clobbers(&self) -> bool {
true