<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Matthias Braun <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matze@braunis.de" target="_blank">matze@braunis.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Interesting,</div><div><br></div><div>I don't think the document is in a shape for documentation that ships with llvm. Just some points:</div><div><br></div><div>- The document keeps jumping between general register allocation concepts, general llvm concepts and code snippets of llvms register allocators. It's hard to follow which is which.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>- The basic concepts would need better and more in-depth descriptions, just to give some topics:</div><div> - How does the basic program representation work, MachineInstr, MachineOperand (esp. the register kind with the undef, dead and kill flags), subregisters, subregisterindexes, register classes, how we express most constraints with register classes, virtual registers how register are encoded in unsigneds, a proper description of register units, what't does it mean if a register is reserved or allocatable, pristine registers, lanemasks, ...</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, there needs to be some acknowledgement of the MI representation.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div> - How does the liveness representation work: What is a Segment, a VNInfo, a SlotIndex, how can we maintain SSA form in the liveness info (and why do we do that)</div><div> - How do all the regalloc related passes in llvm play together: PhiElimination, TwoAddress, RegisterCoalescer, RegAllocXXX, VirtRegRewriter</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do you think all this needs to be covered in a HowTo? That seems like an awful lot. Which do you think are the essential content for a HowTo? The goal isn't becoming an expert, but just wiring up the boilerplate and getting an end-to-end experience writing something simple (here's an example of another howto for reference: <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/HowToSetUpLLVMStyleRTTI.html">http://llvm.org/docs/HowToSetUpLLVMStyleRTTI.html</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>We might be able to punt on a lot of the MI stuff for this document (just state it as a prerequisite) and eventually link to a "How to write a MachineFunctionPass" or something which can explain the MI basics.</div><div><br></div><div>-- Sean Silva</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div>On the other hand I applaud going through the work and actually writing something down, this will surely help other people who just want to get started with the matter. Maybe there is a way to get this up onto the llvm blog (who maintains that)?</div><span class=""><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>- Matthias</div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 9, 2016, at 6:18 PM, Sean Silva via llvm-commits <<a href="mailto:llvm-commits@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">llvm-commits@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">Matthias, it's rare that we get a substantial piece of documentation like this. Can you take a look at the content?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Natanael Ramos via llvm-commits <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:llvm-commits@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">llvm-commits@lists.llvm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hello<br><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">My name is Natanael Ramos, I'm a student of bachelor degree on Computer Science Course, here on Brazil.<br><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Recently I have worked with LLVM for my undergraduate thesis (I don't really know how is called in other countries, here is called <span lang="en"><span>Completion of course work</span></span>), in my work I have implemented an register allocator using LLVM and have tested him with the built-in allocators in LLVM (Probably I'll publish a paper soon, if all goes as expected).<br><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">As another product of my work, I have created a tutorial of how to write an LLVM register allocator, extending the RegAllocBase interface, this tutorial is based on my understanding of the LLVM framework for working with the register allocation pass.<br><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The tutorial have been written in reStructuredText following the LLVM instructions and orientations (<a href="http://www.llvm.org/docs/SphinxQuickstartTemplate.html" target="_blank">http://www.llvm.org/docs/SphinxQuickstartTemplate.html</a>). As it's suggested, I'm sending the tutorial to this mailing list<span lang="en"><span> in order to</span> <span>contribute to the community</span> <span>of</span> <span>developers,</span> <span>which</span> <span>use</span> <span>LLLVM.<br><br></span></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="en"><span>Any suggestions, please let me know.<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></span></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="en"><span></span></span></div><br>-- <br><div>Natanael Ramos <br>Membro do corpo discente de Ciência da Computação pelo Instituto Federal de <br>Minas Gerais - Campus Formiga<br><br></div>
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