This PR switches Cranelift over to the new register allocator, regalloc2.
See [this document](https://gist.github.com/cfallin/08553421a91f150254fe878f67301801)
for a summary of the design changes. This switchover has implications for
core VCode/MachInst types and the lowering pass.
Overall, this change brings improvements to both compile time and speed of
generated code (runtime), as reported in #3942:
```
Benchmark Compilation (wallclock) Execution (wallclock)
blake3-scalar 25% faster 28% faster
blake3-simd no diff no diff
meshoptimizer 19% faster 17% faster
pulldown-cmark 17% faster no diff
bz2 15% faster no diff
SpiderMonkey, 21% faster 2% faster
fib(30)
clang.wasm 42% faster N/A
```
Previous changes had ported the difficult "`select` based on an `fcmp`"
patterns to ISLE; this completes porting of `select` by moving over the
final two kinds of patterns:
- `select` based on an `icmp`
- `select` based on a value
* Update lots of `isa/*/*.clif` tests to `precise-output`
This commit goes through the `aarch64` and `x64` subdirectories and
subjectively changes tests from `test compile` to add `precise-output`.
This then auto-updates all the test expectations so they can be
automatically instead of manually updated in the future. Not all tests
were migrated, largely subject to the whims of myself, mainly looking to
see if the test was looking for specific instructions or just checking
the whole assembly output.
* Filter out `;;` comments from test expctations
Looks like the cranelift parser picks up all comments, not just those
trailing the function, so use a convention where `;;` is used for
human-readable-comments in test cases and `;`-prefixed comments are the
test expectation.
This PR switches the default backend on x86, for both the
`cranelift-codegen` crate and for Wasmtime, to the new
(`MachInst`-style, `VCode`-based) backend that has been under
development and testing for some time now.
The old backend is still available by default in builds with the
`old-x86-backend` feature, or by requesting `BackendVariant::Legacy`
from the appropriate APIs.
As part of that switch, it adds some more runtime-configurable plumbing
to the testing infrastructure so that tests can be run using the
appropriate backend. `clif-util test` is now capable of parsing a
backend selector option from filetests and instantiating the correct
backend.
CI has been updated so that the old x86 backend continues to run its
tests, just as we used to run the new x64 backend separately.
At some point, we will remove the old x86 backend entirely, once we are
satisfied that the new backend has not caused any unforeseen issues and
we do not need to revert.
Previously, `select` and `brz`/`brnz` instructions, when given a `b1`
boolean argument, would test whether that boolean argument was nonzero,
rather than whether its LSB was nonzero. Since our invariant for mapping
CLIF state to machine state is that bits beyond the width of a value are
undefined, the proper lowering is to test only the LSB.
(aarch64 does not have the same issue because its `Extend` pseudoinst
already properly handles masking of b1 values when a zero-extend is
requested, as it is for select/brz/brnz.)
Found by Nathan Ringo on Zulip [1] (thanks!).
[1]
https://bytecodealliance.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/217117-cranelift/topic/bnot.20on.20b1s
