[llvm-commits] [RFC/PATCH] introduce 'UseSSEx' predicates

[Michael Liao]

On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 18:14 -0700, Eli Friedman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Michael Liao <michael.liao at intel.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > The attached patch adds several new predicates, namely UseSSE1, UseSSE2,
> > UseSSE3, UseSSSE3, UseSSE41, and UseSSE42.
> >
> > As the penalty of inter-mixing SSE and AVX instructions, we need prevent
> > SSE legacy insn from being generated except explicitly specified through
> > some intrinsics. For patterns both supported by both SSE and AVX, so
> > far, we force AVX insn will be tried first relying on AddedComplexity or
> > td location. It's error-prone and introduces bugs accidentally.
> >
> > 'UseSSEx' is disabled when AVX is turned on. For insns both supported by
> > AVX and SSE insns, we need this predicate to force VEX encoding only.
> >
> > For insns not inherited by AVX, we still use the previous predicates,
> > i.e. 'HasSSEx'. So far, these insns fall into the following categories:
> >   * SSE insns with MMX operands
> >   * SSE insns with GPR/mem operands only (xFENCE, PREFETCH, CLFLUSH,
> >     CRC, and etc.)
> >   * SSE4A insns.
> >   * MMX insns.
> >   * x87 insns added by SSE.
> >
> > With this patch, several inter-mixing cases are found and fixed from
> > regression tests.
> 
> --- a/test/ExecutionEngine/MCJIT/test-common-symbols.ll
> +++ b/test/ExecutionEngine/MCJIT/test-common-symbols.ll
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -; RUN: %lli -use-mcjit -O0 -disable-lazy-compilation=false %s
> +; RUN: %lli -use-mcjit -disable-lazy-compilation=false %s
> 
>  ; The intention of this test is to verify that symbols mapped to COMMON in ELF
>  ; work as expected.
> 
> What is the point of this change?

So far, MCJIT cannot support the creation of '.rodata' section. This's
work around. I will file a bug for MCJIT.

Yours
- Michael

> 
> -Eli