[llvm] r178636 - Second pass at addressing PR15351 by explicitly checking for AVX support

Craig Topper craig.topper at gmail.com
Wed Apr 3 09:14:47 PDT 2013


Isn't _xgetbv only supported by MSVC 2010 SP1? Shouldn't this be checking
that you're using at least that MSVC version?

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:25 AM, Aaron Ballman <aaron at aaronballman.com>wrote:

> Author: aaronballman
> Date: Wed Apr  3 07:25:06 2013
> New Revision: 178636
>
> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=178636&view=rev
> Log:
> Second pass at addressing PR15351 by explicitly checking for AVX support
> when getting the host processor information.  It emits a .byte sequence on
> GNUC compilers to work around lack of xgetbv support with older assemblers,
> and resolves a comment typo found in the previous patch.
>
> Modified:
>     llvm/trunk/lib/Support/Host.cpp
>
> Modified: llvm/trunk/lib/Support/Host.cpp
> URL:
> http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/lib/Support/Host.cpp?rev=178636&r1=178635&r2=178636&view=diff
>
> ==============================================================================
> --- llvm/trunk/lib/Support/Host.cpp (original)
> +++ llvm/trunk/lib/Support/Host.cpp Wed Apr  3 07:25:06 2013
> @@ -112,6 +112,21 @@ static bool GetX86CpuIDAndInfo(unsigned
>  #endif
>  }
>
> +static bool OSHasAVXSupport() {
> +#if defined( __GNUC__ )
> +  // Check xgetbv; this uses a .byte sequence instead of the instruction
> +  // directly because older assemblers do not include support for xgetbv
> and
> +  // there is no easy way to conditionally compile based on the assembler
> used.
> +  int rEAX, rEDX;
> +  __asm__ (".byte 0x0f, 0x01, 0xd0" : "=a" (rEAX), "=d" (rEDX) : "c" (0));
> +#elif defined(_MSC_VER)
> +  unsigned long long rEAX = _xgetbv(_XCR_XFEATURE_ENABLED_MASK);
> +#else
> +  int rEAX = 0; // Ensures we return false
> +#endif
> +  return (rEAX & 6) == 6;
> +}
> +
>  static void DetectX86FamilyModel(unsigned EAX, unsigned &Family,
>                                   unsigned &Model) {
>    Family = (EAX >> 8) & 0xf; // Bits 8 - 11
> @@ -134,6 +149,10 @@ std::string sys::getHostCPUName() {
>    DetectX86FamilyModel(EAX, Family, Model);
>
>    bool HasSSE3 = (ECX & 0x1);
> +  // If CPUID indicates support for XSAVE, XRESTORE and AVX, and XGETBV
> +  // indicates that the AVX registers will be saved and restored on
> context
> +  // switch, then we have full AVX support.
> +  bool HasAVX = (ECX & ((1 << 28) | (1 << 27))) != 0 && OSHasAVXSupport();
>    GetX86CpuIDAndInfo(0x80000001, &EAX, &EBX, &ECX, &EDX);
>    bool Em64T = (EDX >> 29) & 0x1;
>
> @@ -243,11 +262,15 @@ std::string sys::getHostCPUName() {
>        case 42: // Intel Core i7 processor. All processors are manufactured
>                 // using the 32 nm process.
>        case 45:
> -        return "corei7-avx";
> +        // Not all Sandy Bridge processors support AVX (such as the
> Pentium
> +        // versions instead of the i7 versions).
> +        return HasAVX ? "corei7-avx" : "corei7";
>
>        // Ivy Bridge:
>        case 58:
> -        return "core-avx-i";
> +        // Not all Ivy Bridge processors support AVX (such as the Pentium
> +        // versions instead of the i7 versions).
> +        return HasAVX ? "core-avx-i" : "corei7";
>
>        case 28: // Most 45 nm Intel Atom processors
>        case 38: // 45 nm Atom Lincroft
>
>
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~Craig
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