This value affinity doesn't mean "whatever", it means that the value
does not interact with any real instructions, where "real" means
instructions that have a legal encoding.
Update the liveness verifier to check this property:
- Encoded instructions can only use real values.
- Encoded instructions define real values.
- Ghost instructions define ghost values.
The legalize_signature() function will return ArgumentLoc::Reg arguments
that contain a register unit. However, the register also needs to be
able to associate a register class with the argument values to fully
track the used registers.
When values are defined by instructions, the register class is part for
the operand constraints for the instruction. For values defined on ABI
boundaries like function arguments and return values from a call, the
register class is provided by the new regclass_for_abi_type() function.
Provide implementations of this function in abi modules of all the
targets, even those that don't have a legalize_signature()
implementation yet.
Since we're adding abi modules to all targets, move the
legalize_signature() stubs in there and make the function mandatory in
TargetIsa. All targets will eventually need this function.
If we generated new instructions as part of legalize, and the new
instructions failed to legalize, we'd be left with a func.encodings[]
that would panic when you dereferenced the inst.
The other legalizer cases have a continue after setting the position
to double back, while this one didn't. Make sure that we do, in case
another legalizer block is added after this one.
This means that we can verify the basics with verify_context before
moving on to verifying the liveness information.
Live ranges are now verified immediately after computing them and after
register allocation is complete.
The liveness verifier will check that the live ranges are consistent
with the function. It runs as part of the register allocation pipeline
when enable_verifier is set.
The initial implementation checks the live ranges, but not the
ISA-specific constraints and affinities.
The test drivers can stop calling comp_ctx.verify because legalize() and
regalloc() do it themselves now.
This also makes it possible for those two passes to return other
CtonError codes in the future, not just verifier errors.
This is off by default, but enabled by the parser when reading a textual
IL file. Test files can still override the default to turn off
verification.
The setting enables IL verifier passes at critical points of the
compilation pipeline.
These special-purpose arguments and return values are only relevant for
the function being compiled, so add a `current` flag to
legalize_signature().
- Add the necessary argument values to the entry block to represent
the special-purpose arguments.
- Propagate the link and sret arguments to return instructions if the
legalized signature asks for it.
Enumerate a set of special purposes for function arguments that general
purpose code needs to know about. Some of these argument purposes will
only appear in the signature of the current function, representing
things the prologue and epilogues need to know about like the link
register and callee-saved registers.
Get rid of the 'inreg' argument flag. Arguments can be pre-assigned to a
specific register instead.
- The detach_secondary_results() is a leftover from the two-plane value
representation. Use detach_results() instead to remove all instruction
results.
- Make the append_* DFG methods more direct. Don't depend on calling the
corresponding attach_* methods. Just create a new value directly,
using the values.next_key() trick.
When converting from ABI types to original program types, the final
conversion instruction can place its result into the original value, so
it doesn't need to be changed to an alias.
When we're splitting an EBB argument, we insert a iconcat/vconcat
instruction that computes the original value from the new split
arguments.
The concat instruction can now define the original value directly, it is
not necessary to define a new value and alias the old one.
Now that we can detach and reuse all values, there is no longer a need
to create a lot of alias values during pattern expansion. Instead, reuse
the values from the source pattern when emitting instructions in the
destination pattern.
If a destination instruction produces the exact same values as a source
instruction, simply leave the values attached and replace the
instruction it. Otherwise, detach the source values, reuse them in the
expansion, and remove the source instruction afterwards.
This makes it possible to reuse one or more result values in the
instruction that is being inserted.
Also add a with_result(v) method for the common case of reusing a single
result value. This could be specialized in the future.
These methods are used to reattach detached values:
- change_to_alias
- attach_result
- attach_ebb_arg
Add an assertion to all of them to ensure that the provided value is not
already attached somewhere else. Use a new value_is_attached() method
for the test.
Also include a verifier check for uses of detached values.
All values are now references into the value table, so drop the
distinction between direct and table values. Direct values don't exist
any more.
Also remove the parser support for the 'vxNN' syntax. Only 'vNN' values
can be parsed now.
Soon, InstructionData won't have sufficient information to compute this.
Give TargetIsa::encode() an explicit ctrl_typevar argument. This
function does not require the instruction to be inserted in the DFG
tables.
Since results are in a value list, they don't need to form a linked
list any longer.
- Simplify make_inst_results() to create values in the natural order.
- Eliminate the last use of next_secondary_value().
- Delete unused result manipulation methods.
We only ever create table values now.
Simplify legalizer::legalize_inst_results. Instead of calling
detach_secondary_results, just detach all the results and don't treat
the first result specially.
We don't want to distinguish between single-result and multiple-result
instructions any longer.
- Merge the simple_instruction() and complex_instruction() builder
methods into a single build() that can handle all cases.
- All format constructors now take a ctrl_type argument. Previously,
some would take a result_type argument.
- Instruction constructors no longer attempt to compute a single result
type. Just pass a ctrl_type and let the backend decide.
Fix one format constructor call in legalizer/split.rs which now takes a
ctrl_type instead of a result type.
Now we can access instruction results and arguments as well as EBB
arguments as slices.
Delete the Values iterator which was traversing the linked lists of
values. It is no longer needed.
This is the first step of a larger refactoring to represent instruction
results as value lists instead of using linked lists. The refactoring
will also eliminate the special treatment of first results such that all
result values can be detached and redefined.
This change put us in a temporary state where results are represented
both as linked lists and ValueList vectors.
- Add a dfg.results table.
- Add the first result in make_inst(). This behavior will change.
- Recompute the result list in make_inst_results().
- Make dfg.first_result(inst) crash if the instruction has no results.
This is the same as slice::first(), except it returns the first element
by value.
The implementation can avoid checking the list length since empty lists
already have a special representation.
- Add a dfg.is_inst_valid() method for the verifier.
- Use the inst_args_mut() method when rewriting values in the parser.
- Add a new branch_destination_mut() to use when rewriting EBBs.
This also gets rid of one of the large instruction format switches in
the parser.
Now that we have a value list of the arguments, we can get rid of:
- The first_arg and last_arg members in EbbData,
- The next member in the ValueData::Arg variant.
Rather than returning the head of a linked list of EBB arguments, just
return the whole value list of all the arguments.
Delete the next_ebb_arg() method which was only used for traversing that
list.
