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.
Previously, every call was lowered on AArch64 to a `call` instruction, which
takes a signed 26-bit PC-relative offset. Including the 2-bit left shift, this
gives a range of +/- 128 MB. Longer-distance offsets would cause an impossible
relocation record to be emitted (or rather, a record that a more sophisticated
linker would fix up by inserting a shim/veneer).
This commit adds a notion of "relocation distance" in the MachInst backends,
and provides this information for every call target and symbol reference. The
intent is that backends on architectures like AArch64, where there are different
offset sizes / addressing strategies to choose from, can either emit a regular
call or a load-64-bit-constant / call-indirect sequence, as necessary. This
avoids the need to implement complex linking behavior.
The MachInst driver code provides this information based on the "colocated" bit
in the CLIF symbol references, which appears to have been designed for this
purpose, or at least a similar one. Combined with the `use_colocated_libcalls`
setting, this allows client code to ensure that library calls can link to
library code at any location in the address space.
Separately, the `simplejit` example did not handle `Arm64Call`; rather than doing
so, it appears all that is necessary to get its tests to pass is to set the
`use_colocated_libcalls` flag to false, to make use of the above change. This
fixes the `libcall_function` unit-test in this crate.
This splits off lower.rs into two files: lower.rs keeps all the utility
functions, while lower_inst.rs contains the (gigantic!) function
lowering a single Cranelift instruction into vcode.
This is done to satisfy a check done on the maximal file's size when
vendoring Rust source code into Mozilla central's repository.
