<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Am Mi., 1. Juli 2020 um 09:33 Uhr schrieb Hal Finkel <<a href="mailto:hfinkel@anl.gov">hfinkel@anl.gov</a>>:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
<p>I definitely agree that we should not be trying to do this kind
of checking using textual metadata-node matching in FileCheck. The
alternative already available is to add an analysis pass with some
kind of verifier output. This output, not the raw metadata itself,
can be checked by FileCheck. We also need to check the
verification code, but at least that's something we can keep just
in one place. For parallel annotations, we already have such a
thing (we can run opt -loops -analyze; e.g., in
test/Analysis/LoopInfo/annotated-parallel-complex.ll). We also do
this kind of thing for the cost model (by running with -cost-model
-analyze). To what extent would making more-extensive use of this
technique address the use cases you're trying to address?<br></p></div></blockquote><div>The CHECK lines in annotated-parallel-complex.ll are:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace">; CHECK: Parallel Loop at depth 1</font></div><font face="monospace">; CHECK-NOT: Parallel<br>; CHECK: Loop at depth 2<br>; CHECK: Parallel Loop<br>; CHECK: Parallel Loop</font><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">When adding this test, I had to change LoopInfo to emit the "Parallel" in front of "Loop". For readability, I would have preferred the parallel info as a "tag", such as `Loop (parallel) as depth 1`, but this would break other tests that check "Loop at depth 1". Later I noticed that there are regression tests that check "LoopFullUnrollPass on Loop at depth 3 containing: %l0.0.0<header>", but it seems I got lucky in that none of these loops have parallel annotations.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">"CHECK-NOT" is inherently fragile. It is too easy to make a change in LLVM that changes the text output and oversee that this test does not check what it was supposed to test. For a FileCheck-friendlier output, it could emit "NonParallel" and match this. However, this clutters the output for humans, will actually break the "LoopFullUnrollPass on Loop at depth 3 ..." and "CHECK: Parallel" matches this as well since FileCheck ignores word boundaries.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">The CHECK lines test more than necessary. The first and third CHECK lines also check the "at depth" to make it match the correct loop (and not, e.g. match the next inner loop), although we are not interested in the loop depths themselves. Ironically, is the reason why cannot be tags between "Loop" and "at depth"</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Not all of the loop metadata have passes that print them. For instance, there are loop properties such as llvm.loop.isvectorized. Reading those is usually done using utility functions such as getBooleanLoopAttribute(L, "llvm.loop.isvectorized"). A solution using FileCheck would be to add another pass that prints loop metadata. That pass would only be used for testing, making the release LLVM binaries larger than necessary and still have the other problems.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Processing the IR through a tool can make the output more FileCheck-friendly, but it doesn't make its problems disappear. IMHO it adds to the maintenance burden since it adds more textual interfaces.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Michael</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div>