[PATCH] D11393: Allow X86::COND_NE_OR_P and X86::COND_NP_OR_E to be reversed.

Cong Hou congh at google.com
Tue Jul 21 11:27:57 PDT 2015


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Currently, AnalyzeBranch() fails non-equality comparison between floating points on X86 (see https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=23875). This is because this function can modify the branch by reversing the conditional jump and removing unconditional jump if there is a proper fall-through. However, in the case of non-equality comparison between floating points, this can turn the branch "unanalyzable". Consider the following case:

jne	.BB1
jp	.BB1
jmp	.BB2
.BB1:
 ...
.BB2:
 ...

AnalyzeBranch() will reverse "jp  .BB1" to "jnp  .BB2" and then "jmp .BB2" will be removed:

jne	.BB1
jnp	.BB2
.BB1:
 ...
.BB2:
 ...

However, AnalyzeBranch() cannot analyze this branch anymore as there are two conditional jumps with different targets. This may disable some optimizations like block-placement: in this case the fall-through behavior is enforced even if the fall-through block is very cold, which is suboptimal.

Actually this optimization is also done in block-placement pass, which means we can remove this optimization from AnalyzeBranch(). However, currently X86::COND_NE_OR_P and X86::COND_NP_OR_E are not reversible: there is no defined negation conditions for them. 

In order to reverse them, this patch defines two new CondCode X86::COND_NEG_NE_OR_P and X86::COND_NEG_NP_OR_E. It also defines how to synthesize instructions for them. Here only the second conditional jump is reversed. This is valid as we only need them to do this "unconditional jump removal" optimization.

The test cases haven't been updated accordingly. If this design is OK I will do it later.

http://reviews.llvm.org/D11393

Files:
  lib/Target/X86/X86InstrInfo.cpp
  lib/Target/X86/X86InstrInfo.h

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