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[SelectionDAG] Remove an early-out from computeKnownBits for smin/smax
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Authored by foad on Sep 4 2020, 8:24 AM.

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Even if we know nothing about LHS, it can still be useful to know that
smax(LHS, RHS) >= RHS and smin(LHS, RHS) <= RHS.

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foad created this revision.Sep 4 2020, 8:24 AM
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foad added a comment.Sep 4 2020, 8:26 AM

N.B without D87034, this change wouldn't affect any codegen tests. So this is one case where the improved known bits analysis actually makes a difference.

RKSimon added a subscriber: craig.topper.
RKSimon added inline comments.
llvm/test/CodeGen/X86/avx512-trunc.ll
1020

Is this testing what it means to? I can't remember offhand what the test is for - @craig.topper any ideas?

llvm/test/CodeGen/X86/masked_store_trunc_usat.ll
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regression?

6420

regression?

llvm/test/CodeGen/X86/vector-trunc-usat.ll
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we appear to have 3 constant loads now instead of 2

craig.topper added inline comments.Sep 7 2020, 6:22 PM
llvm/test/CodeGen/X86/avx512-trunc.ll
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Not sure either. InstCombine simplifies it to a store of all ones.

foad added inline comments.Sep 8 2020, 2:48 AM
llvm/test/CodeGen/X86/masked_store_trunc_usat.ll
5199

Wel, yes... It has spotted that the result of the pminsw is always negative, so rather than XOR with 0x8000 to flip (i.e. clear) the sign bit, it can AND with 0x7fff to clear the sign bit. But unfortunately that means materialising another constant.

I don't know where this XOR -> AND "optimization" happens, or whether it can be finessed.

The other regressions you pointed out below are basically the same issue.

foad added inline comments.Sep 10 2020, 5:45 AM
llvm/test/CodeGen/X86/masked_store_trunc_usat.ll
5199

I don't know where this XOR -> AND "optimization" happens, or whether it can be finessed.

We have done this basically forever, in the XOR case in TargetLowering::SimplifyDemandedBits:

// If one side is a constant, and all of the known set bits on the other
// side are also set in the constant, turn this into an AND, as we know
// the bits will be cleared.
//    e.g. (X | C1) ^ C2 --> (X | C1) & ~C2 iff (C1&C2) == C2

It seems to me that this is just bad luck, that we transform X^0x8000 into X&0x7FFF, but that happens to regress code quality because now we can't share with another use of the constant 0x8000. Is there any systematic way of fixing this, e.g. by doing the reverse transformation once we know what constants are already available in registers? Or can I commit this patch even with a known regression like this? After all, I'm sure if I looked hard enough I could find another test that got better by luck instead of worse.

foad added inline comments.Sep 10 2020, 9:25 AM
llvm/test/CodeGen/X86/masked_store_trunc_usat.ll
5199

If you buy the argument that SimplifyDemandedBits replacing XOR -> AND is not an optimization and is unhelpful in this case, D87464 + D87465 is my attempt at fixing that. If I rebase this patch on those two then all the bad diffs go away, leaving only the good diffs in avx512-trunc.ll.

RKSimon added inline comments.
llvm/test/CodeGen/X86/avx512-trunc.ll
1020

The test was added as part of D45315 - @ArturGainullin hasn't been an active for some time afaict.

I think we might be able to get away with adjusting the -1 splat to be a non-uniform mix of -ve constant values.

reverse ping?

yubing added a subscriber: yubing.Dec 16 2020, 4:54 AM
RKSimon added inline comments.
llvm/test/CodeGen/X86/avx512-trunc.ll
1020

Any recommendations on what to do with these tests?

foad updated this revision to Diff 316673.Jan 14 2021, 8:44 AM

Rebase. D87236 seems to have fixed the code quality regressions.

@foad Please can you rebase? I think I've replaced the dodgy test with something useful now

foad updated this revision to Diff 316697.Jan 14 2021, 10:08 AM

Rebase.

RKSimon accepted this revision.Jan 14 2021, 10:09 AM

LGTM - cheers!

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jan 14 2021, 10:09 AM
This revision was landed with ongoing or failed builds.Jan 14 2021, 10:15 AM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.