The type signatures of functions can change when they are legalized for
a specific ABI. This means that all call and return instructions need to
be rewritten to use the correct arguments.
- Fix arguments to call instructions.
- Fix arguments to return instructions.
TBD:
- Fix return values from call instructions.
When the CRETONNE_DBG environment variable is set, send debug messages
to a file named cretonne.dbg.*.
The trace facility is only enabled when debug assertions are on.
Now that some instruction formats put all of their value arguments in a
value list, we need to know how many value are fixed and how many are
variable_args.
CC @angusholder who may need this information in the verifier.
Any code that needs to manipulate a variable argument list on an
instruction will need to remove the instruction's value list first,
change the list, and then put it back on the instruction. This is
required to avoid fighting the borrow checker over mutable locks on the
DataFlowGraph and its value list pool.
Add a generated InstructionData::take_value_list() method which lifts
out and existing value list and returns it, levaing an empty list in its
place, like Option::take() does it.
Add a generated InstructionData::put_value_list() which puts it back,
verifying that no existing value list is overwritten.
Allow some flexibility in the signature matching for instruction
formats. In particular, look for a value list format as a second chance
option.
The Return, ReturnReg, and TernaryOverflow formats all fit the single
MultiAry catch-all format for instructions without immediate operands.
No instruction sets actually have single instructions for materializing
vector constants. You always need to use a constant pool.
Cretonne doesn't have constant pools yet, but it will in the future, and
that is how vector constants should be represented.
Instruction formats are now identified by a signature that doesn't
include the ordering of value operands relative to immediate operands.
This means that the BinaryRev instruction format becomes redundant, so
delete it. The isub_imm instruction was the only one using that format.
Rename it to irsub_imm to make it clear what it does now that it is
printed as 'irsub_imm v2, 45'.
Now that variable arguments are always stored in a value list with the
fixed arguments, we no longer need the arcane [&[Value]; 2] return type.
Arguments are always stored contiguously, so just return a &[Value]
slice.
Also remove the each_arg() methods which were just trying to make it
easier to work with the old slice pair.
With the Return and ReturnReg formats converted to using value lists for
storing their arguments, thee are no remaining instruction formats with
variable argument lists in boxed storage.
The Return and ReturnReg formats are also going to be merged since
they are identical now.
The Branch format also stores its fixed argument in the value list. This
requires the value pool to be passed to a few more functions.
Note that this actually makes the Branch and Jump variants of
InstructionData identical. The instruction format hashing does not yet
understand that all value operands are stored in the value list. We'll
fix that in a later patch.
Also convert IndirectCall, noting that Call and IndirectCall remain
separate instruction formats because they have different immediate
fields.
Add a new kind of instruction format that keeps all of its value
arguments in a value list. These value lists are all allocated out of
the dfg.value_lists memory pool.
Instruction formats with the value_list property set store *all* of
their value arguments in a single value list. There is no distinction
between fixed arguments and variable arguments.
Change the Call instruction format to use the value list representation
for its arguments.
This change is only the beginning. The intent is to eliminate the
boxed_storage instruction formats completely. Value lists use less
memory, and when the transition is complete, InstructionData will have a
trivial Drop implementation.
If func.locations has not been properly resized to have an entry for all
values, we should just full in the default location for the missing
values instead of crashing.
Add a Function::display() method which can include ISA-specific
information when printing the function.
If a test file has a unique ISA, use that in the `test cat`
implementation.
Add support for two new type variable functions: half_vector() and
double_vector().
Use these two instructions to break down unsupported SIMD types and
build them up again.
Insert conversion code that reconstructs the original function argument
types from the legalized ABI signature.
Add abi::legalize_abi_value(). This function is used when adapting code
to a legalized function signature.
These two methods can be use to rewrite the argument values to an EBB.
In particular, we need to rewrite the arguments to the entry block to be
compatible with a legalized function signature.
Reuse the put_ebb_arg() method in the implementation of
append_ebb_arg().
Add an abi module with code that is probably useful to all ISAs when
implementing this function.
Add a unit() method to RegClassData which can be used to index the
register units in a class.
This entry point will be used for controlling ABI conventions when
legalizing.
Provide an empty implementation for RISC-V and let the other ISAs crash
in legalization.
This is just the scaffolding. We still need to:
- Rewrite the entry block arguments to match the legalized signature.
- Rewrite call and return instructions.
- Implement the legalize_signature() function for all ISAs.
- Add shared generic types to help with the legalize_signature()
functions.
Specify the location of arguments as well as the size of stack argument
array needed. The ABI annotations are optional, just like the value
locations.
Remove the Eq implementation for Signature which was only used by a
single parser test.
This is a bare-bones outline of the SSA coloring pass. Many features are
missing, including:
- Handling instruction operand constraints beyond simple register
classes.
- Handling ABI requirements for function arguments and return values.
- Generating shuffle code for EBB arguments.
Some polymorphic instructions don't return the controlling type
variable, so it has to be computed from the designated operand instead.
- Add a requires_typevar_operand() method to the operand constraints
which indicates that.
- Add a ctrl_typevar(dfg) method to InstructionData which computes the
controlling type variable correctly, and returns VOID for monomorphic
instructions.
- Use ctrl_typevar(dfg) to drive the level-1 encoding table lookups.
When the liveness pass implements dead code elimination, missing live
ranges can be used to indicate unused values that it may be possible to
remove. But even then, we may have to keep dead defs around if the
instruction has side effects or other live defs.
