Add a conditional branch instruction with two targets: brif. This instruction will eventually replace brz and brnz, as it encompasses the behavior of both.
This PR also changes the InstructionData layout for instruction formats that hold BlockCall values, taking the same approach we use for Value arguments. This allows branch_destination to return a slice to the BlockCall values held in the instruction, rather than requiring that we pattern match on InstructionData to fetch the then/else blocks.
Function generation for fuzzing has been updated to generate uses of brif, and I've run the cranelift-fuzzgen target locally for hours without triggering any new failures.
Add a new type BlockCall that represents the pair of a block name with arguments to be passed to it. (The mnemonic here is that it looks a bit like a function call.) Rework the implementation of jump, brz, and brnz to use BlockCall instead of storing the block arguments as varargs in the instruction's ValueList.
To ensure that we're processing block arguments from BlockCall values in instructions, three new functions have been introduced on DataFlowGraph that both sets of arguments:
inst_values - returns an iterator that traverses values in the instruction and block arguments
map_inst_values - applies a function to each value in the instruction and block arguments
overwrite_inst_values - overwrite all values in an instruction and block arguments with values from the iterator
Co-authored-by: Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>
* add clif-util compile option to output object file
* switch from a box to a borrow
* update objectmodule tests to use borrowed isa
* put targetisa into an arc
* cranelift-wasm: translate Wasm loads into lower-level CLIF operations
Rather than using `heap_{load,store,addr}`.
* cranelift: Remove the `heap_{addr,load,store}` instructions
These are now legalized in the `cranelift-wasm` frontend.
* cranelift: Remove the `ir::Heap` entity from CLIF
* Port basic memory operation tests to .wat filetests
* Remove test for verifying CLIF heaps
* Remove `heap_addr` from replace_branching_instructions_and_cfg_predecessors.clif test
* Remove `heap_addr` from readonly.clif test
* Remove `heap_addr` from `table_addr.clif` test
* Remove `heap_addr` from the simd-fvpromote_low.clif test
* Remove `heap_addr` from simd-fvdemote.clif test
* Remove `heap_addr` from the load-op-store.clif test
* Remove the CLIF heap runtest
* Remove `heap_addr` from the global_value.clif test
* Remove `heap_addr` from fpromote.clif runtests
* Remove `heap_addr` from fdemote.clif runtests
* Remove `heap_addr` from memory.clif parser test
* Remove `heap_addr` from reject_load_readonly.clif test
* Remove `heap_addr` from reject_load_notrap.clif test
* Remove `heap_addr` from load_readonly_notrap.clif test
* Remove `static-heap-without-guard-pages.clif` test
Will be subsumed when we port `make-heap-load-store-tests.sh` to generating
`.wat` tests.
* Remove `static-heap-with-guard-pages.clif` test
Will be subsumed when we port `make-heap-load-store-tests.sh` over to `.wat`
tests.
* Remove more heap tests
These will be subsumed by porting `make-heap-load-store-tests.sh` over to `.wat`
tests.
* Remove `heap_addr` from `simple-alias.clif` test
* Remove `heap_addr` from partial-redundancy.clif test
* Remove `heap_addr` from multiple-blocks.clif test
* Remove `heap_addr` from fence.clif test
* Remove `heap_addr` from extends.clif test
* Remove runtests that rely on heaps
Heaps are not a thing in CLIF or the interpreter anymore
* Add generated load/store `.wat` tests
* Enable memory-related wasm features in `.wat` tests
* Remove CLIF heap from fcmp-mem-bug.clif test
* Add a mode for compiling `.wat` all the way to assembly in filetests
* Also generate WAT to assembly tests in `make-load-store-tests.sh`
* cargo fmt
* Reinstate `f{de,pro}mote.clif` tests without the heap bits
* Remove undefined doc link
* Remove outdated SVG and dot file from docs
* Add docs about `None` returns for base address computation helpers
* Factor out `env.heap_access_spectre_mitigation()` to a local
* Expand docs for `FuncEnvironment::heaps` trait method
* Restore f{de,pro}mote+load clif runtests with stack memory
This adds support for `.wat` tests in `cranelift-filetest`. The test runner
translates the WAT to Wasm and then uses `cranelift-wasm` to translate the Wasm
to CLIF.
These tests are always precise output tests. The test expectations can be
updated by running tests with the `CRANELIFT_TEST_BLESS=1` environment variable
set, similar to our compile precise output tests. The test's expected output is
contained in the last comment in the test file.
The tests allow for configuring the kinds of heaps used to implement Wasm linear
memory via TOML in a `;;!` comment at the start of the test.
To get ISA and Cranelift flags parsing available in the filetests crate, I had
to move the `parse_sets_and_triple` helper from the `cranelift-tools` binary
crate to the `cranelift-reader` crate, where I think it logically
fits.
Additionally, I had to make some more bits of `cranelift-wasm`'s dummy
environment `pub` so that I could properly wrap and compose it with the
environment used for the `.wat` tests. I don't think this is a big deal, but if
we eventually want to clean this stuff up, we can probably remove the dummy
environments completely, remove `translate_module`, and fold them into these new
test environments and test runner (since Wasmtime isn't using those things
anyways).
All instructions using the CPU flags types (IFLAGS/FFLAGS) were already
removed. This patch completes the cleanup by removing all remaining
instructions that define values of CPU flags types, as well as the
types themselves.
Specifically, the following features are removed:
- The IFLAGS and FFLAGS types and the SpecialType category.
- Special handling of IFLAGS and FFLAGS in machinst/isle.rs and
machinst/lower.rs.
- The ifcmp, ifcmp_imm, ffcmp, iadd_ifcin, iadd_ifcout, iadd_ifcarry,
isub_ifbin, isub_ifbout, and isub_ifborrow instructions.
- The writes_cpu_flags instruction property.
- The flags verifier pass.
- Flags handling in the interpreter.
All of these features are currently unused; no functional change
intended by this patch.
This addresses https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/issues/3249.
* Cranelift: Define `heap_load` and `heap_store` instructions
* Cranelift: Implement interpreter support for `heap_load` and `heap_store`
* Cranelift: Add a suite runtests for `heap_{load,store}`
There are so many knobs we can twist for heaps and I wanted to exhaustively test
all of them, so I wrote a script to generate the tests. I've checked in the
script in case we want to make any changes in the future, but I don't think it
is worth adding this to CI to check that scripts are up to date or anything like
that.
* Review feedback
* Cranelift: Make `heap_addr` return calculated `base + index + offset`
Rather than return just the `base + index`.
(Note: I've chosen to use the nomenclature "index" for the dynamic operand and
"offset" for the static immediate.)
This move the addition of the `offset` into `heap_addr`, instead of leaving it
for the subsequent memory operation, so that we can Spectre-guard the full
address, and not allow speculative execution to read the first 4GiB of memory.
Before this commit, we were effectively doing
load(spectre_guard(base + index) + offset)
Now we are effectively doing
load(spectre_guard(base + index + offset))
Finally, this also corrects `heap_addr`'s documented semantics to say that it
returns an address that will trap on access if `index + offset + access_size` is
out of bounds for the given heap, rather than saying that the `heap_addr` itself
will trap. This matches the implemented behavior for static memories, and after
https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/pull/5190 lands (which is blocked
on this commit) will also match the implemented behavior for dynamic memories.
* Update heap_addr docs
* Factor out `offset + size` to a helper
This branch removes the trapif and trapff instructions, in favor of using an explicit comparison and trapnz. This moves us closer to removing iflags and fflags, but introduces the need to implement instructions like iadd_cout in the x64 and aarch64 backends.
Add a new instruction uadd_overflow_trap, which is a fused version of iadd_ifcout and trapif. Adding this instruction removes a dependency on the iflags type, and would allow us to move closer to removing it entirely.
The instruction is defined for the i32 and i64 types only, and is currently only used in the legalization of heap_addr.
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.
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>
* cranelift: Add `fcmp` tests
Some of these are disabled on aarch64 due to not being implemented yet.
* cranelift: Implement float PartialEq for Ieee{32,64} (fixes#4828)
Previously `PartialEq` was auto derived. This means that it was implemented in terms of PartialEq in a u32.
This is not correct for floats because `NaN != NaN`.
PartialOrd was manually implemented in 6d50099816, but it seems like it was an oversight to leave PartialEq out until now.
The test suite depends on the previous behaviour so we adjust it to keep comparing bits instead of floats.
* cranelift: Disable `fcmp ord` tests on aarch64
* cranelift: Disable `fcmp ueq` tests on aarch64
This is the implementation of https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/issues/4155, using the "inverted API" approach suggested by @cfallin (thanks!) in Cranelift, and trait object to provide a backend for an all-included experience in Wasmtime.
After the suggestion of Chris, `Function` has been split into mostly two parts:
- on the one hand, `FunctionStencil` contains all the fields required during compilation, and that act as a compilation cache key: if two function stencils are the same, then the result of their compilation (`CompiledCodeBase<Stencil>`) will be the same. This makes caching trivial, as the only thing to cache is the `FunctionStencil`.
- on the other hand, `FunctionParameters` contain the... function parameters that are required to finalize the result of compilation into a `CompiledCode` (aka `CompiledCodeBase<Final>`) with proper final relocations etc., by applying fixups and so on.
Most changes are here to accomodate those requirements, in particular that `FunctionStencil` should be `Hash`able to be used as a key in the cache:
- most source locations are now relative to a base source location in the function, and as such they're encoded as `RelSourceLoc` in the `FunctionStencil`. This required changes so that there's no need to explicitly mark a `SourceLoc` as the base source location, it's automatically detected instead the first time a non-default `SourceLoc` is set.
- user-defined external names in the `FunctionStencil` (aka before this patch `ExternalName::User { namespace, index }`) are now references into an external table of `UserExternalNameRef -> UserExternalName`, present in the `FunctionParameters`, and must be explicitly declared using `Function::declare_imported_user_function`.
- some refactorings have been made for function names:
- `ExternalName` was used as the type for a `Function`'s name; while it thus allowed `ExternalName::Libcall` in this place, this would have been quite confusing to use it there. Instead, a new enum `UserFuncName` is introduced for this name, that's either a user-defined function name (the above `UserExternalName`) or a test case name.
- The future of `ExternalName` is likely to become a full reference into the `FunctionParameters`'s mapping, instead of being "either a handle for user-defined external names, or the thing itself for other variants". I'm running out of time to do this, and this is not trivial as it implies touching ISLE which I'm less familiar with.
The cache computes a sha256 hash of the `FunctionStencil`, and uses this as the cache key. No equality check (using `PartialEq`) is performed in addition to the hash being the same, as we hope that this is sufficient data to avoid collisions.
A basic fuzz target has been introduced that tries to do the bare minimum:
- check that a function successfully compiled and cached will be also successfully reloaded from the cache, and returns the exact same function.
- check that a trivial modification in the external mapping of `UserExternalNameRef -> UserExternalName` hits the cache, and that other modifications don't hit the cache.
- This last check is less efficient and less likely to happen, so probably should be rethought a bit.
Thanks to both @alexcrichton and @cfallin for your very useful feedback on Zulip.
Some numbers show that for a large wasm module we're using internally, this is a 20% compile-time speedup, because so many `FunctionStencil`s are the same, even within a single module. For a group of modules that have a lot of code in common, we get hit rates up to 70% when they're used together. When a single function changes in a wasm module, every other function is reloaded; that's still slower than I expect (between 10% and 50% of the overall compile time), so there's likely room for improvement.
Fixes#4155.
* Cranellift: remove Baldrdash support and related features.
As noted in Mozilla's bugzilla bug 1781425 [1], the SpiderMonkey team
has recently determined that their current form of integration with
Cranelift is too hard to maintain, and they have chosen to remove it
from their codebase. If and when they decide to build updated support
for Cranelift, they will adopt different approaches to several details
of the integration.
In the meantime, after discussion with the SpiderMonkey folks, they
agree that it makes sense to remove the bits of Cranelift that exist
to support the integration ("Baldrdash"), as they will not need
them. Many of these bits are difficult-to-maintain special cases that
are not actually tested in Cranelift proper: for example, the
Baldrdash integration required Cranelift to emit function bodies
without prologues/epilogues, and instead communicate very precise
information about the expected frame size and layout, then stitched
together something post-facto. This was brittle and caused a lot of
incidental complexity ("fallthrough returns", the resulting special
logic in block-ordering); this is just one example. As another
example, one particular Baldrdash ABI variant processed stack args in
reverse order, so our ABI code had to support both traversal
orders. We had a number of other Baldrdash-specific settings as well
that did various special things.
This PR removes Baldrdash ABI support, the `fallthrough_return`
instruction, and pulls some threads to remove now-unused bits as a
result of those two, with the understanding that the SpiderMonkey folks
will build new functionality as needed in the future and we can perhaps
find cleaner abstractions to make it all work.
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1781425
* Review feedback.
* Fix (?) DWARF debug tests: add `--disable-cache` to wasmtime invocations.
The debugger tests invoke `wasmtime` from within each test case under
the control of a debugger (gdb or lldb). Some of these tests started to
inexplicably fail in CI with unrelated changes, and the failures were
only inconsistently reproducible locally. It seems to be cache related:
if we disable cached compilation on the nested `wasmtime` invocations,
the tests consistently pass.
* Review feedback.
* Allow 64-bit vectors and implement for interpreter
The AArch64 backend already supports 64-bit vectors; this simply allows
instructions to make use of that.
Implemented support for 64-bit vectors within the interpreter to allow
interpret runtests to use them.
Copyright (c) 2022 Arm Limited
* Disable 64-bit SIMD `iaddpairwise` tests on s390x
Copyright (c) 2022 Arm Limited
When parsing isa specific values we were accidentally discarding the
value of the flag, and treating it always as a boolean flag.
This would cause a `clif-util` invocation such as
`cargo run -- compile -D --set has_sse41=false --target x86_64 test.clif`
to be interpreted as `--set has_sse41` and enable that feature instead
of disabling it.
Introduce a new concept in the IR that allows a producer to create
dynamic vector types. An IR function can now contain global value(s)
that represent a dynamic scaling factor, for a given fixed-width
vector type. A dynamic type is then created by 'multiplying' the
corresponding global value with a fixed-width type. These new types
can be used just like the existing types and the type system has a
set of hard-coded dynamic types, such as I32X4XN, which the user
defined types map onto. The dynamic types are also used explicitly
to create dynamic stack slots, which have no set size like their
existing counterparts. New IR instructions are added to access these
new stack entities.
Currently, during codegen, the dynamic scaling factor has to be
lowered to a constant so the dynamic slots do eventually have a
compile-time known size, as do spill slots.
The current lowering for aarch64 just targets Neon, using a dynamic
scale of 1.
Copyright (c) 2022, Arm Limited.
Move from passing and returning u8 and u16 values to u32 in many of
the functions. This removes a number of type conversions and gives
a small compilation time speedup, around ~0.7% on my aarch64 machine.
Copyright (c) 2022, Arm Limited.
This change removes all variants of `load*_complex` and `store*_complex`
from Cranelift; this is a breaking change to the instructions exposed by
CLIF. The complete list of instructions removed is: `load_complex`,
`store_complex`, `uload8_complex`, `sload8_complex`, `istore8_complex`,
`sload8_complex`, `uload16_complex`, `sload16_complex`,
`istore16_complex`, `uload32_complex`, `sload32_complex`,
`istore32_complex`, `uload8x8_complex`, `sload8x8_complex`,
`sload16x4_complex`, `uload16x4_complex`, `uload32x2_complex`,
`sload32x2_complex`.
The rationale for this removal is that the Cranelift backend now has the
ability to pattern-match multiple upstream additions in order to
calculate the address to access. Previously, this was not possible so
the `*_complex` instructions were needed. Over time, these instructions
have fallen out of use in this repository, making the additional
overhead of maintaining them a chore.
Addresses #3809: when we are asked to create a Cranelift backend with
shared flags that indicate support for SIMD, we should check that the
ISA level needed for our SIMD lowerings is present.
This commit adds support for denoting cold blocks in the CLIF text
format as follows:
```plain
function %f() {
block0(...):
...
block1 cold:
...
block2(...) cold:
...
block3:
...
```
With this syntax, we are able to see the cold-block flag in CLIF, we can
write tests using it, and it is preserved when round-tripping.
Fixes#3701.
This also paves the way for unifying TargetIsa and MachBackend, since now they map one to one. In theory the two traits could be merged, which would be nice to limit the number of total concepts. Also they have quite different responsibilities, so it might be fine to keep them separate.
Interestingly, this PR started as removing RegInfo from the TargetIsa trait since the adapter returned a dummy value there. From the fallout, noticed that all Display implementations didn't needed an ISA anymore (since these were only used to render ISA specific registers). Also the whole family of RegInfo / ValueLoc / RegUnit was exclusively used for the old backend, and these could be removed. Notably, some IR instructions needed to be removed, because they were using RegUnit too: this was the oddball of regfill / regmove / regspill / copy_special, which were IR instructions inserted by the old regalloc. Fare thee well!
Transforming this into a generic function is proving to be a challenge
since most of the necessary methods are not in a trait. We also need to
cast between the signed and unsigned types, which is difficult to do
in a generic function.
This can be solved for example by adding the num crate as a dependency.
But adding a dependency just to solve this issue seems a bit much.
Implemented `SaddSat` and `SsubSat` to add and subtract signed vector
values, saturating at the type boundaries rather than overflowing.
Changed the parser to allow signed `i8` immediates in vectors as part of
this work; fixes#3276.
Copyright (c) 2021, Arm Limited.
* cranelift: Add heap support to filetest infrastructure
* cranelift: Explicit heap pointer placement in filetest annotations
* cranelift: Add documentation about the Heap directive
* cranelift: Clarify that heap filetests pointers must be laid out sequentially
* cranelift: Use wrapping add when computing bound pointer
* cranelift: Better error messages when invalid signatures are found for heap file tests.
This PR switches the default backend on x86, for both the
`cranelift-codegen` crate and for Wasmtime, to the new
(`MachInst`-style, `VCode`-based) backend that has been under
development and testing for some time now.
The old backend is still available by default in builds with the
`old-x86-backend` feature, or by requesting `BackendVariant::Legacy`
from the appropriate APIs.
As part of that switch, it adds some more runtime-configurable plumbing
to the testing infrastructure so that tests can be run using the
appropriate backend. `clif-util test` is now capable of parsing a
backend selector option from filetests and instantiating the correct
backend.
CI has been updated so that the old x86 backend continues to run its
tests, just as we used to run the new x64 backend separately.
At some point, we will remove the old x86 backend entirely, once we are
satisfied that the new backend has not caused any unforeseen issues and
we do not need to revert.
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.
* Remove some uses of riscv in tests
* Fix typo
* Apply suggestions from code review
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Benjamin Bouvier <public@benj.me>
As discussed in #2251, in order to be very confident that NaN signaling bits are correctly handled by the compiler, this switches `DataValue` to use Cranelift's `Ieee32` and `Ieee64` structures. This makes it a bit more inconvenient to interpreter Cranelift FP operations but this should change to something like `rustc_apfloat` in the future.
This adds a new feature experimental_x64 for CLIF tests.
A test is run in the new x64 backend iff:
- either the test doesn't have an x86_64 target requirement, signaling
it must be target agnostic or not run on this target.
- or the test does require the x86_64 target, and the test is marked
with the `experimental_x64` feature.
This required one workaround in the parser. The reason is that the
parser will try to use information not provided by the TargetIsa adapter
for the Mach backends, like register names. In particular, parsing test
may fail before the test runner realizes that the test must not be run.
In this case, we early return an almost-empty TestFile from the parser,
under the same conditions as above, so that the caller may filter out
the test properly.
This also copies two tests from the test suite using the new backend,
for demonstration purposes.
Clif files are not meant to be written by end-users anyway. The main
effects are that non-ascii identifiers fail to lex instead of parse and
whitespace must now be in the ascii range. Comments still have full
unicode support.
This also inlines all char::is_* methods to avoid nested matches.
Overall this results in a slight reduction of instruction count.
The implementation is pretty straightforward. Wasm atomic instructions fall
into 5 groups
* atomic read-modify-write
* atomic compare-and-swap
* atomic loads
* atomic stores
* fences
and the implementation mirrors that structure, at both the CLIF and AArch64
levels.
At the CLIF level, there are five new instructions, one for each group. Some
comments about these:
* for those that take addresses (all except fences), the address is contained
entirely in a single `Value`; there is no offset field as there is with
normal loads and stores. Wasm atomics require alignment checks, and
removing the offset makes implementation of those checks a bit simpler.
* atomic loads and stores get their own instructions, rather than reusing the
existing load and store instructions, for two reasons:
- per above comment, makes alignment checking simpler
- reuse of existing loads and stores would require extension of `MemFlags`
to indicate atomicity, which sounds semantically unclean. For example,
then *any* instruction carrying `MemFlags` could be marked as atomic, even
in cases where it is meaningless or ambiguous.
* I tried to specify, in comments, the behaviour of these instructions as
tightly as I could. Unfortunately there is no way (per my limited CLIF
knowledge) to enforce the constraint that they may only be used on I8, I16,
I32 and I64 types, and in particular not on floating point or vector types.
The translation from Wasm to CLIF, in `code_translator.rs` is unremarkable.
At the AArch64 level, there are also five new instructions, one for each
group. All of them except `::Fence` contain multiple real machine
instructions. Atomic r-m-w and atomic c-a-s are emitted as the usual
load-linked store-conditional loops, guarded at both ends by memory fences.
Atomic loads and stores are emitted as a load preceded by a fence, and a store
followed by a fence, respectively. The amount of fencing may be overkill, but
it reflects exactly what the SM Wasm baseline compiler for AArch64 does.
One reason to implement r-m-w and c-a-s as a single insn which is expanded
only at emission time is that we must be very careful what instructions we
allow in between the load-linked and store-conditional. In particular, we
cannot allow *any* extra memory transactions in there, since -- particularly
on low-end hardware -- that might cause the transaction to fail, hence
deadlocking the generated code. That implies that we can't present the LL/SC
loop to the register allocator as its constituent instructions, since it might
insert spills anywhere. Hence we must present it as a single indivisible
unit, as we do here. It also has the benefit of reducing the total amount of
work the RA has to do.
The only other notable feature of the r-m-w and c-a-s translations into
AArch64 code, is that they both need a scratch register internally. Rather
than faking one up by claiming, in `get_regs` that it modifies an extra
scratch register, and having to have a dummy initialisation of it, these new
instructions (`::LLSC` and `::CAS`) simply use fixed registers in the range
x24-x28. We rely on the RA's ability to coalesce V<-->R copies to make the
cost of the resulting extra copies zero or almost zero. x24-x28 are chosen so
as to be call-clobbered, hence their use is less likely to interfere with long
live ranges that span calls.
One subtlety regarding the use of completely fixed input and output registers
is that we must be careful how the surrounding copy from/to of the arg/result
registers is done. In particular, it is not safe to simply emit copies in
some arbitrary order if one of the arg registers is a real reg. For that
reason, the arguments are first moved into virtual regs if they are not
already there, using a new method `<LowerCtx for Lower>::ensure_in_vreg`.
Again, we rely on coalescing to turn them into no-ops in the common case.
There is also a ridealong fix for the AArch64 lowering case for
`Opcode::Trapif | Opcode::Trapff`, which removes a bug in which two trap insns
in a row were generated.
In the patch as submitted there are 6 "FIXME JRS" comments, which mark things
which I believe to be correct, but for which I would appreciate a second
opinion. Unless otherwise directed, I will remove them for the final commit
but leave the associated code/comments unchanged.
