[LLVMdev] Converting back to SSA form

[Jim Grosbach]

Two options:

1) Do the instrumentation at the MachineInstr level but before register allocation and let normal regalloc handle things for you.
2) Do it late, being careful to use only a very small number of registers, and use the RegisterScavenger to fix up the allocation (ARM does this for materializing stack offset immediates, e.g.)

Option 1 is easier, but may not work well depending on the details of your instrumentation and whether later passes might muck about with them. You might be able to work around that w/ clever pseudo-instructions, though, so I’d definitely encourage experimenting a bit along this route. Option 2 allows doing things much later, but is trickier in general and more likely to expose odd corner cases both in the new code you’ll be inserting and in the rest of the backend.

-Jim
 
> On Sep 23, 2014, at 8:14 AM, Rahman Lavaee <rlavaee at cs.rochester.edu> wrote:
> 
> Thanks John,
> 
> The reason I want to do this is that register allocator works only on SSA form, and if you instrument regallocated code with non-regallocated machine instructions, then you cannot regallocate the result.
> 
> A workaround is to assign physical registers while doing the instrumentation, which I don't think is as easy as the above.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:01 AM, John Criswell <jtcriswel at gmail.com <mailto:jtcriswel at gmail.com>> wrote:
> On 9/23/14, 10:52 AM, Rahman Lavaee wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm wondering how I can convert "register allocated" code back to SSA form. I realized from MachineRegisterInfo.h that a function leaves SSA form only once and cannot be taken back to it.
> 
> Are you wanting to put MachineInstr's into SSA form?  If you want to do that, you'll need to implement the SSA construction algorithm yourself so that it works on MachineInstrs.  Also, such a pass will need to work with virtual registers as you'll need an unlimited supply of temporary variables.  In essence, you'll be undoing register allocation.
> 
> Can you describe why you want to put MachineInstrs into SSA form?  I suspect that putting MachineIntrs back into SSA form is not what you want to do.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John Criswell
> 
> 
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