Modify return pseudo-instructions to have pairs of registers: virtual and real. This allows us to constrain the virtual registers to the real ones specified by the abi, instead of directly emitting moves to those real registers.
As discussed in the 2022/10/19 meeting, this PR removes many of the branch and select instructions that used iflags, in favor if using brz/brnz and select in their place. Additionally, it reworks selectif_spectre_guard to take an i8 input instead of an iflags input.
For reference, the removed instructions are: br_icmp, brif, brff, trueif, trueff, and selectif.
* cranelift: Remove iconst.i128
* bugpoint: Report Changed when only one instruction is mutated
* cranelift: Fix egraph bxor rule
* cranelift: Remove some simple_preopt opts for i128
Remove the boolean types from cranelift, and the associated instructions breduce, bextend, bconst, and bint. Standardize on using 1/0 for the return value from instructions that produce scalar boolean results, and -1/0 for boolean vector elements.
Fixes#3205
Co-authored-by: Afonso Bordado <afonso360@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com>
Co-authored-by: Chris Fallin <chris@cfallin.org>
Ported the existing implementations of the following opcodes for AArch64
to ISLE:
- `Trueif`
- `Trueff`
- `Trapif`
- `Trapff`
- `Select`
- `Selectif`
- `SelectifSpectreGuard`
Copyright (c) 2022 Arm Limited
* ABI: implement register arguments with constraints.
Currently, Cranelift's ABI code emits a sequence of moves from physical
registers into vregs at the top of the function body, one for every
register-carried argument.
For a number of reasons, we want to move to operand constraints instead,
and remove the use of explicitly-named "pinned vregs"; this allows for
better regalloc in theory, as it removes the need to "reverse-engineer"
the sequence of moves.
This PR alters the ABI code so that it generates a single "args"
pseudo-instruction as the first instruction in the function body. This
pseudo-inst defs all register arguments, and constrains them to the
appropriate registers at the def-point. Subsequently the regalloc can
move them wherever it needs to.
Some care was taken not to have this pseudo-inst show up in
post-regalloc disassemblies, but the change did cause a general regalloc
"shift" in many tests, so the precise-output updates are a bit noisy.
Sorry about that!
A subsequent PR will handle the other half of the ABI code, namely, the
callsite case, with a similar preg-to-constraint conversion.
* Update based on review feedback.
* Review feedback.
This PR switches Cranelift over to the new register allocator, regalloc2.
See [this document](https://gist.github.com/cfallin/08553421a91f150254fe878f67301801)
for a summary of the design changes. This switchover has implications for
core VCode/MachInst types and the lowering pass.
Overall, this change brings improvements to both compile time and speed of
generated code (runtime), as reported in #3942:
```
Benchmark Compilation (wallclock) Execution (wallclock)
blake3-scalar 25% faster 28% faster
blake3-simd no diff no diff
meshoptimizer 19% faster 17% faster
pulldown-cmark 17% faster no diff
bz2 15% faster no diff
SpiderMonkey, 21% faster 2% faster
fib(30)
clang.wasm 42% faster N/A
```
* Update lots of `isa/*/*.clif` tests to `precise-output`
This commit goes through the `aarch64` and `x64` subdirectories and
subjectively changes tests from `test compile` to add `precise-output`.
This then auto-updates all the test expectations so they can be
automatically instead of manually updated in the future. Not all tests
were migrated, largely subject to the whims of myself, mainly looking to
see if the test was looking for specific instructions or just checking
the whole assembly output.
* Filter out `;;` comments from test expctations
Looks like the cranelift parser picks up all comments, not just those
trailing the function, so use a convention where `;;` is used for
human-readable-comments in test cases and `;`-prefixed comments are the
test expectation.
Our previous implementation of unwind infrastructure was somewhat
complex and brittle: it parsed generated instructions in order to
reverse-engineer unwind info from prologues. It also relied on some
fragile linkage to communicate instruction-layout information that VCode
was not designed to provide.
A much simpler, more reliable, and easier-to-reason-about approach is to
embed unwind directives as pseudo-instructions in the prologue as we
generate it. That way, we can say what we mean and just emit it
directly.
The usual reasoning that leads to the reverse-engineering approach is
that metadata is hard to keep in sync across optimization passes; but
here, (i) prologues are generated at the very end of the pipeline, and
(ii) if we ever do a post-prologue-gen optimization, we can treat unwind
directives as black boxes with unknown side-effects, just as we do for
some other pseudo-instructions today.
It turns out that it was easier to just build this for both x64 and
aarch64 (since they share a factored-out ABI implementation), and wire
up the platform-specific unwind-info generation for Windows and SystemV.
Now we have simpler unwind on all platforms and we can delete the old
unwind infra as soon as we remove the old backend.
There were a few consequences to supporting Fastcall unwind in
particular that led to a refactor of the common ABI. Windows only
supports naming clobbered-register save locations within 240 bytes of
the frame-pointer register, whatever one chooses that to be (RSP or
RBP). We had previously saved clobbers below the fixed frame (and below
nominal-SP). The 240-byte range has to include the old RBP too, so we're
forced to place clobbers at the top of the frame, just below saved
RBP/RIP. This is fine; we always keep a frame pointer anyway because we
use it to refer to stack args. It does mean that offsets of fixed-frame
slots (spillslots, stackslots) from RBP are no longer known before we do
regalloc, so if we ever want to index these off of RBP rather than
nominal-SP because we add support for `alloca` (dynamic frame growth),
then we'll need a "nominal-BP" mode that is resolved after regalloc and
clobber-save code is generated. I added a comment to this effect in
`abi_impl.rs`.
The above refactor touched both x64 and aarch64 because of shared code.
This had a further effect in that the old aarch64 prologue generation
subtracted from `sp` once to allocate space, then used stores to `[sp,
offset]` to save clobbers. Unfortunately the offset only has 7-bit
range, so if there are enough clobbered registers (and there can be --
aarch64 has 384 bytes of registers; at least one unit test hits this)
the stores/loads will be out-of-range. I really don't want to synthesize
large-offset sequences here; better to go back to the simpler
pre-index/post-index `stp r1, r2, [sp, #-16]` form that works just like
a "push". It's likely not much worse microarchitecturally (dependence
chain on SP, but oh well) and it actually saves an instruction if
there's no other frame to allocate. As a further advantage, it's much
simpler to understand; simpler is usually better.
This PR adds the new backend on Windows to CI as well.
