[PATCH] [X86] Limit maximum nop length on Silvermont

[Alexey Volkov]

Closed by commit rL212321 (authored by volkalex).

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http://reviews.llvm.org/D4374

Files:
  llvm/trunk/lib/Target/X86/MCTargetDesc/X86AsmBackend.cpp
  llvm/trunk/test/MC/X86/x86_long_nop.s
  llvm/trunk/test/MC/X86/x86_nop.s

Index: llvm/trunk/lib/Target/X86/MCTargetDesc/X86AsmBackend.cpp
===================================================================
--- llvm/trunk/lib/Target/X86/MCTargetDesc/X86AsmBackend.cpp
+++ llvm/trunk/lib/Target/X86/MCTargetDesc/X86AsmBackend.cpp
@@ -73,11 +73,12 @@
 };
 
 class X86AsmBackend : public MCAsmBackend {
-  StringRef CPU;
+  const StringRef CPU;
   bool HasNopl;
+  const uint64_t MaxNopLength;
 public:
   X86AsmBackend(const Target &T, StringRef _CPU)
-    : MCAsmBackend(), CPU(_CPU) {
+    : MCAsmBackend(), CPU(_CPU), MaxNopLength(_CPU == "slm" ? 7 : 15) {
     HasNopl = CPU != "generic" && CPU != "i386" && CPU != "i486" &&
               CPU != "i586" && CPU != "pentium" && CPU != "pentium-mmx" &&
               CPU != "i686" && CPU != "k6" && CPU != "k6-2" && CPU != "k6-3" &&
@@ -331,7 +332,7 @@
   // 15 is the longest single nop instruction.  Emit as many 15-byte nops as
   // needed, then emit a nop of the remaining length.
   do {
-    const uint8_t ThisNopLength = (uint8_t) std::min(Count, (uint64_t) 15);
+    const uint8_t ThisNopLength = (uint8_t) std::min(Count, MaxNopLength);
     const uint8_t Prefixes = ThisNopLength <= 10 ? 0 : ThisNopLength - 10;
     for (uint8_t i = 0; i < Prefixes; i++)
       OW->Write8(0x66);
Index: llvm/trunk/test/MC/X86/x86_nop.s
===================================================================
--- llvm/trunk/test/MC/X86/x86_nop.s
+++ llvm/trunk/test/MC/X86/x86_nop.s
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 # RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=i686-pc-linux -mcpu=c3 %s | llvm-objdump -d - | FileCheck %s
 # RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=i686-pc-linux -mcpu=c3-2 %s | llvm-objdump -d - | FileCheck %s
 # RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=i686-pc-linux -mcpu=core2 %s | llvm-objdump -d - | FileCheck --check-prefix=NOPL %s
+# RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=i686-pc-linux -mcpu=slm %s | llvm-objdump -d - | FileCheck --check-prefix=NOPL %s
 
 
 inc %eax
Index: llvm/trunk/test/MC/X86/x86_long_nop.s
===================================================================
--- llvm/trunk/test/MC/X86/x86_long_nop.s
+++ llvm/trunk/test/MC/X86/x86_long_nop.s
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -arch=x86 -triple=i686-pc-linux-gnu %s | llvm-objdump -d -no-show-raw-insn - | FileCheck %s
 # RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -arch=x86 -triple=x86_64-apple-darwin10.0 %s | llvm-objdump -d -no-show-raw-insn - | FileCheck %s
 # RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -arch=x86 -triple=i686-apple-darwin8 %s | llvm-objdump -d -no-show-raw-insn - | FileCheck %s
+# RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -arch=x86 -triple=i686-pc-linux-gnu -mcpu=slm %s | llvm-objdump -d -no-show-raw-insn - | FileCheck --check-prefix=SLM %s
 
 # Ensure alignment directives also emit sequences of 15-byte NOPs on processors
 # capable of using long NOPs.
@@ -13,3 +14,12 @@
 # CHECK-NEXT: 10:  nop
 # CHECK-NEXT: 1f:  nop
 # CHECK-NEXT: 20:  inc
+
+# On Silvermont we emit only 7 byte NOPs since longer NOPs are not profitable
+# SLM: 0:  inc
+# SLM-NEXT: 1:  nop
+# SLM-NEXT: 8:  nop
+# SLM-NEXT: f:  nop
+# SLM-NEXT: 16:  nop
+# SLM-NEXT: 1d:  nop
+# SLM-NEXT: 20:  inc
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