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[RISCV WIP] Tablegen-driven Instruction Compression.
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Authored by apazos on Jan 17 2018, 8:45 PM.

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[RISCV WIP] Tablegen-driven Instruction Compression.

This patch implements a tablegen-driven Instruction Compression
mechanism for generating RISCV compressed instructions
(C Extension) from the expanded instruction form.

This tablegen backend processes CompressPat declarations in a
td file and generates all the compile-time and runtime checks
required to validate the declarations, validate the input
operands and generate correct instuctions.
The checks include validating register operands, immediate
operands, fixed register operands and fixed immediate operands.

Example:
class CompressPat<dag input, dag output> {
  dag Input  = input;
  dag Output    = output;
  list<Predicate> Predicates = [];
}

let Predicates = [HasStdExtC] in {
def : CompressPat<(ADD GPRNoX0:$rs1, GPRNoX0:$rs1, GPRNoX0:$rs2),
                  (C_ADD GPRNoX0:$rs1, GPRNoX0:$rs2)>;
}

The result is an auto-generated header file
'RISCVGenCompressEmitter.inc' which exports two functions for
compressing/uncompressing MCInst instructions, plus
some helper functions:

bool compressInst(MCInst& OutInst, const MCInst &MI,
                  const MCSubtargetInfo &STI,
                  MCContext &Context);

bool uncompressInst(MCInst& OutInst, const MCInst &MI,
                    const MCRegisterInfo &MRI,
                    const MCSubtargetInfo &STI);

The clients that include this auto-generated header file and
invoke these functions can compress an instruction before emitting
it, in the target-specific ASM or ELF streamer, or can uncompress
an instruction before printing it, when the expanded instruction
format aliases is favored.
- RISCVAsmParser::MatchAndEmitInstruction which tries to compress
instructions before emitting the instruction in the Asm Streamer.
- RISCVInstPrinter::printInst, which will try to uncompress
instructions prior to printing instructions to print the expanded
version of instructions, if aliases are enabled.
- RISCVELFStreamer::EmitInstruction which will try to compress
instructions before emitting the instruction in the Elf Streamer.
- Clients change here: https://reviews.llvm.org/D41932

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apazos created this revision.Jan 17 2018, 8:45 PM
apazos updated this revision to Diff 131329.Jan 24 2018, 12:47 PM
apazos retitled this revision from [WIP] Compress Instruction Tablegen Emitter for CompressPats. to [RISCV] Tablegen-driven Instruction Compression..Jan 24 2018, 12:48 PM
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apazos updated this revision to Diff 131380.Jan 24 2018, 6:10 PM
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apazos retitled this revision from [RISCV] Tablegen-driven Instruction Compression. to [RISCV WIP] Tablegen-driven Instruction Compression..Jan 24 2018, 8:20 PM
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apazos updated this revision to Diff 132298.Jan 31 2018, 5:08 PM
apazos abandoned this revision.Feb 1 2018, 7:58 AM

This work is continued and to be reviewed at https://reviews.llvm.org/D42780.