<div dir="ltr">I doubt you needed to add cfe-dev here. Sorry I hadn't seen this, this seems like an easy and simple deficiency in the IR intrinsic for memcpy. See below.<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Arnaud de Grandmaison <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arnaud.allarddegrandmaison@parrot.com" target="_blank" class="cremed">arnaud.allarddegrandmaison@parrot.com</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">define void @test(i16 zeroext %a) nounwind uwtable {<br>
%r.sroa.0 = alloca i16, align 2<br>
%r.sroa.1 = alloca i16, align 2<br>
store i16 %a, i16* %r.sroa.0, align 2<br>
store i16 1, i16* %r.sroa.1, align 2<br>
%r.sroa.0.0.load3 = load volatile i16* %r.sroa.0, align 2<br>
store volatile i16 %r.sroa.0.0.load3, i16* inttoptr (i64 416 to i16*), align 32<br>
%r.sroa.1.0.load2 = load volatile i16* %r.sroa.1, align 2<br>
store volatile i16 %r.sroa.1.0.load2, i16* inttoptr (i64 418 to i16*), align 2<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>Just so we're on the same page, the "regression" (which I claim is actually a bug-fix) are the loads here being volatile in addition to the stores. The stores require it, but the loads get it.</div>
</div><div><br></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">The problem is in how clang codegen aggregate copies when the source or<br>
the destination are volatile : it uses the memcpy intrinsic, setting the<br>
volatile parameter. However, the LLVM IR reference manual specifies that<br>
"The detailed access behavior is not very cleanly specified and it is<br>
unwise to depend on it". The new SROA implementation is conservatively<br>
correct, but behaves differently.<br>
<br>
I believe we should either :<br>
- rework methods AggExprEmitter::EmitCopy and<br>
CodeGenFunction::EmitAggregateCopy (from<br>
clang/lib/CodeGen/CGExprAgg.cpp) to codegen differently the copy when<br>
either the source or the destination is volatile,<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I think this is bad...</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">
- specify cleanly the memcpy intrinsic with respect to volatile behaviour<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I agree that this is what we should do.</div><div style><br></div><div style>I took a conservative approach when implementing SROA w.r.t. volatile memcpy, and I think we should codify those semantics: with a single is-volatile bit both the loads and stores which the memcpy decomposes into will have volatile semantics.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>I think we should extend the memcpy intrinsic to support two volatile flags and have that overload have the flags refer to the loads and stores respectively. We should then auto-upgrade the existing memcpy intrinsics into the more precise form by replicating the single volatile flag. This will conservatively preserve semantics. As part of adding the new intrinsic, everywhere in LLVM that examines the two flags should be audited and should use the individual flag for load vs. store volatility. This will change SROA so that it can emit the loads as non-volatile, and only the stores will be volatile. Finally we switch Clang over to emit the new intrinsic structure with more precise information, and your test case should go back to normal.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>As part of this, we should also clarify that a volatile memcpy guarantees that each byte loaded is loaded exactly once, and each byte stored is stored exactly once, but that these operations are free to be batched into 4-byte, 8-byte, or any other width of loads and stores, and there is no guarantee about the interleaving of these loads and stores even when both are volatile.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>-Chandler</div></div></div></div>