This is an extension of the shuffle combining from r203229:
http://reviews.llvm.org/rL203229
The idea is to widen a short input vector with undef elements so the existing shuffle transform for extract/insert can kick in.
The motivation is to finally solve PR2109:
https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2109
For that example, the IR becomes:
%1 = bitcast <2 x i32>* %P to <2 x float>* %ld1 = load <2 x float>, <2 x float>* %1, align 8 %2 = shufflevector <2 x float> %ld1, <2 x float> undef, <4 x i32> <i32 0, i32 1, i32 undef, i32 undef> %i2 = shufflevector <4 x float> %A, <4 x float> %2, <4 x i32> <i32 0, i32 1, i32 4, i32 5> ret <4 x float> %i2
And x86 SSE output improves from:
movq (%rdi), %xmm1 ## xmm1 = mem[0],zero movdqa %xmm1, %xmm2 shufps $229, %xmm2, %xmm2 ## xmm2 = xmm2[1,1,2,3] shufps $48, %xmm0, %xmm1 ## xmm1 = xmm1[0,0],xmm0[3,0] shufps $132, %xmm1, %xmm0 ## xmm0 = xmm0[0,1],xmm1[0,2] shufps $32, %xmm0, %xmm2 ## xmm2 = xmm2[0,0],xmm0[2,0] shufps $36, %xmm2, %xmm0 ## xmm0 = xmm0[0,1],xmm2[2,0] retq
To the almost optimal:
movhpd (%rdi), %xmm0
Note: There's a tension in the existing transform related to generating arbitrary shufflevector masks. We avoid that in other places in InstCombine because we're scared that codegen can't handle strange masks, but it looks like we're ok with producing those here. I purposely chose weird insert/extract indexes for the regression tests to see the effect in these cases. For PowerPC+Altivec, AArch64, and X86+SSE/AVX, I think the codegen is equal or better for these examples.
Note 2: The 2x shufflevector mask limitation is not in the IR Language Reference shufflevector instruction definition, but it is encoded in ShuffleVectorInst::isValidOperands().