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[LoopRotate] Add support for rotating loops with switch exit
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Authored by nikic on Jan 8 2020, 3:01 PM.

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Adds basic support for rotation loops with a switch terminator. This mainly involves making sure that multi edges to the exit block are handled correctly.

This does not yet fix https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44461, because we require that there is only a single edge from the original header into the loop, while that case would require handling the multi edge case. That part is blocked on D72519.

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nikic created this revision.Jan 8 2020, 3:01 PM
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nikic updated this revision to Diff 237182.Jan 9 2020, 1:19 PM

Add tests

nikic edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)Jan 9 2020, 1:30 PM
nikic added reviewers: efriedma, reames, asbirlea.
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efriedma added inline comments.Jan 9 2020, 5:58 PM
llvm/include/llvm/Analysis/LoopInfoImpl.h
215

Move the new check out to avoid the extra contains() call?

llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/BreakCriticalEdges.cpp
283 ↗(On Diff #237182)

I'm surprised nobody else has run into this.

llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/LoopRotationUtils.cpp
489

This is going to cause non-deterministic code generation.

nikic updated this revision to Diff 237358.Jan 10 2020, 9:15 AM

Extract condition. Use SetVector to avoid non-determinism.

nikic marked 3 inline comments as done.Jan 10 2020, 9:23 AM
nikic added inline comments.
llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/BreakCriticalEdges.cpp
283 ↗(On Diff #237182)

Probably this is the first time PreserveLCSSA + MergeIdenticalEdges are used together.

Thank you, this looks like a great missed optimization.

llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/LoopRotationUtils.cpp
222

I'm missing why not keep the check&exit if Term is a branch and it's unconditional.

alex added a subscriber: alex.Mar 26 2020, 2:01 PM
G2P added a subscriber: G2P.Apr 10 2020, 11:24 AM
Gankra added a subscriber: Gankra.EditedNov 19 2020, 8:29 AM

@nikic Is this patch still something that can/should be rebased and landed? (Investigating whether it can fix some issues we're seeing in Firefox related to Rust upgrading to llvm 10)

nikic added a comment.Nov 19 2020, 9:29 AM

I'm not sure. It might make more sense to make SimplifyCFG be less aggressive about forming switches in this case. Pretty sure that converting if (a == C || B == C2) into a switch is pretty much a strict regression in optimization power, because a lot more passes support branches than switches.

FWIW, when applying this patch on a LLVM10-based rustc, the rustc build fails with:

PHI node has multiple entries for the same basic block with different incoming values!
  %35 = phi { i64*, i32 }* [ %83, %77 ], [ %84, %77 ], [ %33, %2 ]
label %77
  %83 = getelementptr { i64*, i32 }, { i64*, i32 }* %35, i64 -1
  %84 = getelementptr { i64*, i32 }, { i64*, i32 }* %35, i64 -1
in function _ZN80_$LT$alloc..vec..Vec$LT$T$GT$$u20$as$u20$alloc..vec..SpecExtend$LT$T$C$I$GT$$GT$9from_iter17h62b0d0798a862a64E
LLVM ERROR: Broken function found, compilation aborted!
error: could not compile `rustc_typeck`.
nikic planned changes to this revision.Jan 23 2021, 2:42 PM

This is currently blocked on D72519.

nikic updated this revision to Diff 321967.Feb 6 2021, 3:21 PM
nikic edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)

Make this patch independent of D72519, by not handling multi-edges from the header into the loop yet. This means this patch doesn't address my motivating case anymore, but it would be a one line change to support it after D72519.

nikic added inline comments.Feb 6 2021, 3:24 PM
llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/LoopRotationUtils.cpp
222

Unconditional branches will be rejected by the next check (!L->isLoopExiting(OrigHeader)) already, so it's not necessary to explicitly check for them. As this code no longer stores the BranchInst, I found it nicer to omit the check here.