Ghost instructions don't generate code, but they can keep registers
alive. The coloring pass needs to process values killed by ghost
instructions so it knows when the registers are freed up.
Also track register pressure changes from ghost kills in the spiller.
Add a spilling pass which lowers register pressure by assigning SSA
values to the stack. Important missing features:
- Resolve conflicts where an instruction uses the same value more than
once in incompatible ways.
- Deal with EBB arguments.
Fix bugs in the reload pass exposed by the first test case:
- Create live ranges for temporary registers.
- Set encodings on created spill and fill instructions.
Provide a drop_dead_args() function which deletes them instead.
We still need to assign a register to dead EBB arguments, so they can't
just be ignored.
The live value tracker goes through the trouble of looking up the live
range for each value it tracks. We can cache a few more interesting
properties from the live range in the LiveValue struct.
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 the value list refactoring which will replace
linked lists of values with value lists.
- Keep a ValueList in the EbbData struct containing all the EBB
arguments.
- Change dfg.ebb_args() to return a slice instead of an iterator.
This leaves us in a temporary hybrid state where we maintain both a
linked list and a ValueList vector of the EBB arguments.
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.
Most of the register allocator algorithms will only have to look at the
currently live values as presented by LiveValueTracker. Many also need
the value's affinity which is stored in the LiveRange associated with
the value.
Save the extra table lookup by caching the affinity value inside
LiveValue.
