This avoids the set uniqueness (hashing) test, reduces memory
churn when re-mapping virtual register onto real registers, and is
generally more memory-efficient.
This patch includes:
- A complete rework of the way that CLIF blocks and edge blocks are
lowered into VCode blocks. The new mechanism in `BlockLoweringOrder`
computes RPO over the CFG, but with a twist: it merges edge blocks intto
heads or tails of original CLIF blocks wherever possible, and it does
this without ever actually materializing the full nodes-plus-edges
graph first. The backend driver lowers blocks in final order so
there's no need to reshuffle later.
- A new `MachBuffer` that replaces the `MachSection`. This is a special
version of a code-sink that is far more than a humble `Vec<u8>`. In
particular, it keeps a record of label definitions and label uses,
with a machine-pluggable `LabelUse` trait that defines various types
of fixups (basically internal relocations).
Importantly, it implements some simple peephole-style branch rewrites
*inline in the emission pass*, without any separate traversals over
the code to use fallthroughs, swap taken/not-taken arms, etc. It
tracks branches at the tail of the buffer and can (i) remove blocks
that are just unconditional branches (by redirecting the label), (ii)
understand a conditional/unconditional pair and swap the conditional
polarity when it's helpful; and (iii) remove branches that branch to
the fallthrough PC.
The `MachBuffer` also implements branch-island support. On
architectures like AArch64, this is needed to allow conditional
branches within plausibly-attainable ranges (+/- 1MB on AArch64
specifically). It also does this inline while streaming through the
emission, without any sort of fixpoint algorithm or later moving of
code, by simply tracking outstanding references and "deadlines" and
emitting an island just-in-time when we're in danger of going out of
range.
- A rework of the instruction selector driver. This is largely following
the same algorithm as before, but is cleaned up significantly, in
particular in the API: the machine backend can ask for an input arg
and get any of three forms (constant, register, producing
instruction), indicating it needs the register or can merge the
constant or producing instruction as appropriate. This new driver
takes special care to emit constants right at use-sites (and at phi
inputs), minimizing their live-ranges, and also special-cases the
"pinned register" to avoid superfluous moves.
Overall, on `bz2.wasm`, the results are:
wasmtime full run (compile + runtime) of bz2:
baseline: 9774M insns, 9742M cycles, 3.918s
w/ changes: 7012M insns, 6888M cycles, 2.958s (24.5% faster, 28.3% fewer insns)
clif-util wasm compile bz2:
baseline: 2633M insns, 3278M cycles, 1.034s
w/ changes: 2366M insns, 2920M cycles, 0.923s (10.7% faster, 10.1% fewer insns)
All numbers are averages of two runs on an Ampere eMAG.
This reduces the size of the Inst enum from 112 bytes to 48 bytes.
Using DHAT on a regex-rs.wasm benchmark, `valgrind --tool=dhat clif-util compile --target aarch64`
The total number of allocated bytes, drops by around 170 MB.
At t-gmax drops by 3 MB.
Using `perf stat clif-util compile --target aarch64`, the instructions count dropped by 0.6%. Cache misses dropped by 6%. Cycles dropped by 2.3%.
This PR changes the aarch64 ABI implementation to use positive offsets
from SP, rather than negative offsets from FP, to refer to spill slots
and stack-local storage. This allows for better addressing-mode options,
and hence slightly better code: e.g., the unsigned scaled 12-bit offset
mode can be used to reach anywhere in a 32KB frame without extra
address-construction instructions, whereas negative offsets are limited
to a signed 9-bit unscaled mode (-256 bytes).
To enable this, the PR introduces a notion of "nominal SP offsets" as a
virtual addressing mode, lowered during the emission pass. The offsets
are relative to "SP after adjusting downward to allocate stack/spill
slots", but before pushing clobbers. This allows the addressing-mode
expressions to be generated before register allocation (or during it,
for spill/reload sequences).
To convert these offsets into *true* offsets from SP, we need to track
how much further SP is moved downward, and compensate for this. We do so
with "virtual SP offset adjustment" pseudo-instructions: these are seen
by the emission pass, and result in no instruction (0 byte output), but
update state that is now threaded through each instruction emission in
turn. In this way, we can push e.g. stack args for a call and adjust
the virtual SP offset, allowing reloads from nominal-SP-relative
spillslots while we do the argument setup with "real SP offsets" at the
same time.
