This approach is not the best but avoids an extra instruction; perhaps at some point, as mentioned in https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/pull/2248, we will add the extra instruction or refactor things in such a way that this `Inst` variant is unnecessary.
In particular:
- try to optimize the integer emission into a 32-bit emission, when the
high bits are all zero, and stop relying on the caller of `imm_r` to
ensure this.
- rename `Inst::imm_r`/`Inst::Imm_R` to `Inst::imm`/`Inst::Imm`.
- generate a sign-extending mov 32-bit immediate to 64-bits, whenever
possible.
- fix a few places where the previous commit did introduce the
generation of zero-constants with xor, when calling `put_input_to_reg`,
thus clobbering the flags before they were read.
Eventually, we should be able to unify this function's implementation
with the aarch64 one; but the latter does much more, and this would
require abstractions brought up in another pending PR#2142.
Previously, in #2128, we factored out a common "vanilla 64-bit ABI"
implementation from the AArch64 ABI code, with the idea that this should
be largely compatible with x64. This PR alters the new x64 backend to
make use of the shared infrastructure, removing the duplication that
existed previously. The generated code is nearly (not exactly) the same;
the only difference relates to how the clobber-save region is padded in
the prologue.
This also changes some register allocations in the aarch64 code because
call support in the shared ABI infra now passes a temp vreg in, rather
than requiring use of a fixed, non-allocable temp; tests have been
updated, and the runtime behavior is unchanged.
The logic for generation of shifts-by-immediate was not quite right. The result was that even
shifts by an amount known at compile time were being done by moving the shift immediate into %cl
and then doing a variable shift by %cl. The effect is worse than it sounds, because all of
those shift constants are small and often used in multiple places, so they were GVN'd up and
often ended up at the entry block of the function. Hence these were connected to the use points
by long live ranges which got spilled. So all in all, most of the win here comes from avoiding
spilling.
The problem was caused by this line, in the `Opcode::Ishl | Opcode::Ushr ..` case:
```
let (count, rhs) = if let Some(cst) = ctx.get_constant(inputs[1].insn) {
```
`inputs[]` appears to refer to this CLIF instruction's inputs, and bizarrely `inputs[].insn` all
refer to the instruction (the shift) itself. Hence `ctx.get_constant(inputs[1].insn)` asks
"does this shift instruction produce a constant" to which the answer is always "no", so the
shift-by-unknown amount code is always generated. The fix here is to change that expression to
```
let (count, rhs) = if let Some(cst) = ctx.get_input(insn, 1).constant {
```
`get_input`'s result conveniently includes a `constant` field of type `Option<u64>`, so we just
use that instead.
It does this by providing an implementation of the CLIF instructions `AtomicRmw`, `AtomicCas`,
`AtomicLoad`, `AtomicStore` and `Fence`.
The translation is straightforward. `AtomicCas` is translated into x64 `cmpxchg`, `AtomicLoad`
becomes a normal load because x64-TSO provides adequate sequencing, `AtomicStore` becomes a
normal store followed by `mfence`, and `Fence` becomes `mfence`. `AtomicRmw` is the only
complex case: it becomes a normal load, followed by a loop which computes an updated value,
tries to `cmpxchg` it back to memory, and repeats if necessary.
This is a minimum-effort initial implementation. `AtomicRmw` could be implemented more
efficiently using LOCK-prefixed integer read-modify-write instructions in the case where the old
value in memory is not required. Subsequent work could add that, if required.
The x64 emitter has been updated to emit the new instructions, obviously. The `LegacyPrefix`
mechanism has been revised to handle multiple prefix bytes, not just one, since it is now
sometimes necessary to emit both 0x66 (Operand Size Override) and F0 (Lock).
In the aarch64 implementation of atomics, there has been some minor renaming for the sake of
clarity, and for consistency with this x64 implementation.
This change is a pure refactoring--no change to functionality. It removes `use crate::ir::types::*` imports and uses instead `types::I32`, e.g., throughout the x64 code. Though it increases code verbosity, this change makes it more clear where the type identifiers come from (they are generated by `cranelif-codegen-meta` so without a prefix it is difficult to find their origin), avoids IDE confusion (e.g. CLion flags the un-prefixed identifiers as errors), and avoids importing unwanted identifiers into the namespace.
This change is a pure refactoring--no change to functionality. It removes newlines between the `use ...` statements in the x64 backend so that rustfmt can format them according to its convention. I noticed some files had followed a manual convention but subsequent additions did not seem to fit; this change fixes that and lightly coalesces some of the occurrences of `use a::b; use a::c;` into `use::{b, c}`.
