X86VZeroUpper.cpp revision f7c4d26f77465d731054021ba6bdde556e9f25b7
1//===-- X86VZeroUpper.cpp - AVX vzeroupper instruction inserter -----------===//
2//
3//                     The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
4//
5// This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
6// License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
7//
8//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
9//
10// This file defines the pass which inserts x86 AVX vzeroupper instructions
11// before calls to SSE encoded functions. This avoids transition latency
12// penalty when tranfering control between AVX encoded instructions and old
13// SSE encoding mode.
14//
15//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
16
17#define DEBUG_TYPE "x86-vzeroupper"
18#include "X86.h"
19#include "X86InstrInfo.h"
20#include "llvm/ADT/Statistic.h"
21#include "llvm/CodeGen/MachineFunctionPass.h"
22#include "llvm/CodeGen/MachineInstrBuilder.h"
23#include "llvm/CodeGen/MachineRegisterInfo.h"
24#include "llvm/CodeGen/Passes.h"
25#include "llvm/Support/Debug.h"
26#include "llvm/Support/raw_ostream.h"
27#include "llvm/Target/TargetInstrInfo.h"
28using namespace llvm;
29
30STATISTIC(NumVZU, "Number of vzeroupper instructions inserted");
31
32namespace {
33  struct VZeroUpperInserter : public MachineFunctionPass {
34    static char ID;
35    VZeroUpperInserter() : MachineFunctionPass(ID) {}
36
37    virtual bool runOnMachineFunction(MachineFunction &MF);
38
39    bool processBasicBlock(MachineFunction &MF, MachineBasicBlock &MBB);
40
41    virtual const char *getPassName() const { return "X86 vzeroupper inserter";}
42
43  private:
44    const TargetInstrInfo *TII; // Machine instruction info.
45    MachineBasicBlock *MBB;     // Current basic block
46
47    // Any YMM register live-in to this function?
48    bool FnHasLiveInYmm;
49
50    // BBState - Contains the state of each MBB: unknown, clean, dirty
51    SmallVector<uint8_t, 8> BBState;
52
53    // BBSolved - Keep track of all MBB which had been already analyzed
54    // and there is no further processing required.
55    BitVector BBSolved;
56
57    // Machine Basic Blocks are classified according this pass:
58    //
59    //  ST_UNKNOWN - The MBB state is unknown, meaning from the entry state
60    //    until the MBB exit there isn't a instruction using YMM to change
61    //    the state to dirty, or one of the incoming predecessors is unknown
62    //    and there's not a dirty predecessor between them.
63    //
64    //  ST_CLEAN - No YMM usage in the end of the MBB. A MBB could have
65    //    instructions using YMM and be marked ST_CLEAN, as long as the state
66    //    is cleaned by a vzeroupper before any call.
67    //
68    //  ST_DIRTY - Any MBB ending with a YMM usage not cleaned up by a
69    //    vzeroupper instruction.
70    //
71    //  ST_INIT - Placeholder for an empty state set
72    //
73    enum {
74      ST_UNKNOWN = 0,
75      ST_CLEAN   = 1,
76      ST_DIRTY   = 2,
77      ST_INIT    = 3
78    };
79
80    // computeState - Given two states, compute the resulting state, in
81    // the following way
82    //
83    //  1) One dirty state yields another dirty state
84    //  2) All states must be clean for the result to be clean
85    //  3) If none above and one unknown, the result state is also unknown
86    //
87    static unsigned computeState(unsigned PrevState, unsigned CurState) {
88      if (PrevState == ST_INIT)
89        return CurState;
90
91      if (PrevState == ST_DIRTY || CurState == ST_DIRTY)
92        return ST_DIRTY;
93
94      if (PrevState == ST_CLEAN && CurState == ST_CLEAN)
95        return ST_CLEAN;
96
97      return ST_UNKNOWN;
98    }
99
100  };
101  char VZeroUpperInserter::ID = 0;
102}
103
104FunctionPass *llvm::createX86IssueVZeroUpperPass() {
105  return new VZeroUpperInserter();
106}
107
108static bool isYmmReg(unsigned Reg) {
109  if (Reg >= X86::YMM0 && Reg <= X86::YMM15)
110    return true;
111
112  return false;
113}
114
115static bool checkFnHasLiveInYmm(MachineRegisterInfo &MRI) {
116  for (MachineRegisterInfo::livein_iterator I = MRI.livein_begin(),
117       E = MRI.livein_end(); I != E; ++I)
118    if (isYmmReg(I->first))
119      return true;
120
121  return false;
122}
123
124static bool hasYmmReg(MachineInstr *MI) {
125  for (int i = 0, e = MI->getNumOperands(); i != e; ++i) {
126    const MachineOperand &MO = MI->getOperand(i);
127    if (!MO.isReg())
128      continue;
129    if (MO.isDebug())
130      continue;
131    if (isYmmReg(MO.getReg()))
132      return true;
133  }
134  return false;
135}
136
137/// runOnMachineFunction - Loop over all of the basic blocks, inserting
138/// vzero upper instructions before function calls.
139bool VZeroUpperInserter::runOnMachineFunction(MachineFunction &MF) {
140  TII = MF.getTarget().getInstrInfo();
141  MachineRegisterInfo &MRI = MF.getRegInfo();
142  bool EverMadeChange = false;
143
144  // Fast check: if the function doesn't use any ymm registers, we don't need
145  // to insert any VZEROUPPER instructions.  This is constant-time, so it is
146  // cheap in the common case of no ymm use.
147  bool YMMUsed = false;
148  const TargetRegisterClass *RC = &X86::VR256RegClass;
149  for (TargetRegisterClass::iterator i = RC->begin(), e = RC->end();
150       i != e; i++) {
151    if (MRI.isPhysRegUsed(*i)) {
152      YMMUsed = true;
153      break;
154    }
155  }
156  if (!YMMUsed)
157    return EverMadeChange;
158
159  // Pre-compute the existence of any live-in YMM registers to this function
160  FnHasLiveInYmm = checkFnHasLiveInYmm(MRI);
161
162  assert(BBState.empty());
163  BBState.resize(MF.getNumBlockIDs(), 0);
164  BBSolved.resize(MF.getNumBlockIDs(), 0);
165
166  // Each BB state depends on all predecessors, loop over until everything
167  // converges.  (Once we converge, we can implicitly mark everything that is
168  // still ST_UNKNOWN as ST_CLEAN.)
169  while (1) {
170    bool MadeChange = false;
171
172    // Process all basic blocks.
173    for (MachineFunction::iterator I = MF.begin(), E = MF.end(); I != E; ++I)
174      MadeChange |= processBasicBlock(MF, *I);
175
176    // If this iteration over the code changed anything, keep iterating.
177    if (!MadeChange) break;
178    EverMadeChange = true;
179  }
180
181  BBState.clear();
182  BBSolved.clear();
183  return EverMadeChange;
184}
185
186/// processBasicBlock - Loop over all of the instructions in the basic block,
187/// inserting vzero upper instructions before function calls.
188bool VZeroUpperInserter::processBasicBlock(MachineFunction &MF,
189                                           MachineBasicBlock &BB) {
190  bool Changed = false;
191  unsigned BBNum = BB.getNumber();
192  MBB = &BB;
193
194  // Don't process already solved BBs
195  if (BBSolved[BBNum])
196    return false; // No changes
197
198  // Check the state of all predecessors
199  unsigned EntryState = ST_INIT;
200  for (MachineBasicBlock::const_pred_iterator PI = BB.pred_begin(),
201       PE = BB.pred_end(); PI != PE; ++PI) {
202    EntryState = computeState(EntryState, BBState[(*PI)->getNumber()]);
203    if (EntryState == ST_DIRTY)
204      break;
205  }
206
207
208  // The entry MBB for the function may set the initial state to dirty if
209  // the function receives any YMM incoming arguments
210  if (MBB == MF.begin()) {
211    EntryState = ST_CLEAN;
212    if (FnHasLiveInYmm)
213      EntryState = ST_DIRTY;
214  }
215
216  // The current state is initialized according to the predecessors
217  unsigned CurState = EntryState;
218  bool BBHasCall = false;
219
220  for (MachineBasicBlock::iterator I = BB.begin(); I != BB.end(); ++I) {
221    MachineInstr *MI = I;
222    DebugLoc dl = I->getDebugLoc();
223    bool isControlFlow = MI->isCall() || MI->isReturn();
224
225    // Shortcut: don't need to check regular instructions in dirty state.
226    if (!isControlFlow && CurState == ST_DIRTY)
227      continue;
228
229    if (hasYmmReg(MI)) {
230      // We found a ymm-using instruction; this could be an AVX instruction,
231      // or it could be control flow.
232      CurState = ST_DIRTY;
233      continue;
234    }
235
236    // Check for control-flow out of the current function (which might
237    // indirectly execute SSE instructions).
238    if (!isControlFlow)
239      continue;
240
241    BBHasCall = true;
242
243    // The VZEROUPPER instruction resets the upper 128 bits of all Intel AVX
244    // registers. This instruction has zero latency. In addition, the processor
245    // changes back to Clean state, after which execution of Intel SSE
246    // instructions or Intel AVX instructions has no transition penalty. Add
247    // the VZEROUPPER instruction before any function call/return that might
248    // execute SSE code.
249    // FIXME: In some cases, we may want to move the VZEROUPPER into a
250    // predecessor block.
251    if (CurState == ST_DIRTY) {
252      // Only insert the VZEROUPPER in case the entry state isn't unknown.
253      // When unknown, only compute the information within the block to have
254      // it available in the exit if possible, but don't change the block.
255      if (EntryState != ST_UNKNOWN) {
256        BuildMI(*MBB, I, dl, TII->get(X86::VZEROUPPER));
257        ++NumVZU;
258      }
259
260      // After the inserted VZEROUPPER the state becomes clean again, but
261      // other YMM may appear before other subsequent calls or even before
262      // the end of the BB.
263      CurState = ST_CLEAN;
264    }
265  }
266
267  DEBUG(dbgs() << "MBB #" << BBNum
268               << ", current state: " << CurState << '\n');
269
270  // A BB can only be considered solved when we both have done all the
271  // necessary transformations, and have computed the exit state.  This happens
272  // in two cases:
273  //  1) We know the entry state: this immediately implies the exit state and
274  //     all the necessary transformations.
275  //  2) There are no calls, and and a non-call instruction marks this block:
276  //     no transformations are necessary, and we know the exit state.
277  if (EntryState != ST_UNKNOWN || (!BBHasCall && CurState != ST_UNKNOWN))
278    BBSolved[BBNum] = true;
279
280  if (CurState != BBState[BBNum])
281    Changed = true;
282
283  BBState[BBNum] = CurState;
284  return Changed;
285}
286