[llvm] r181230 - Rotate multi-exit loops even if the latch was simplified.

Andrew Trick atrick at apple.com
Mon May 6 10:58:18 PDT 2013


Author: atrick
Date: Mon May  6 12:58:18 2013
New Revision: 181230

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=181230&view=rev
Log:
Rotate multi-exit loops even if the latch was simplified.

Test case by Michele Scandale!

Fixes PR10293: Load not hoisted out of loop with multiple exits.

There are few regressions with this patch, now tracked by
rdar:13817079, and a roughly equal number of improvements. The
regressions are almost certainly back luck because LoopRotate has very
little idea of whether rotation is profitable. Doing better requires a
more comprehensive solution.

This checkin is a quick fix that lacks generality (PR10293 has
a counter-example). But it trivially fixes the case in PR10293 without
interfering with other cases, and it does satify the criteria that
LoopRotate is a loop canonicalization pass that should avoid
heuristics and special cases.

I can think of two approaches that would probably be better in
the long run. Ultimately they may both make sense.

(1) LoopRotate should check that the current header would make a good
loop guard, and that the loop does not already has a sufficient
guard. The artifical SimplifiedLoopLatch check would be unnecessary,
and the design would be more general and canonical. Two difficulties:

- We need a strong guarantee that we won't endlessly rotate, so the
  analysis would need to be precise in order to avoid the
  SimplifiedLoopLatch precondition.

- Analysis like this are usually based on SCEV, which we don't want to
  rely on.

(2) Rotate on-demand in late loop passes. This could even be done by
shoving the loop back on the queue after the optimization that needs
it. This could work well when we find LICM opportunities in
multi-branch loops. This requires some work, and it doesn't really
solve the problem of SCEV wanting a loop guard before the analysis.

Modified:
    llvm/trunk/lib/Transforms/Scalar/LoopRotation.cpp
    llvm/trunk/test/Transforms/LoopRotate/simplifylatch.ll

Modified: llvm/trunk/lib/Transforms/Scalar/LoopRotation.cpp
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/lib/Transforms/Scalar/LoopRotation.cpp?rev=181230&r1=181229&r2=181230&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- llvm/trunk/lib/Transforms/Scalar/LoopRotation.cpp (original)
+++ llvm/trunk/lib/Transforms/Scalar/LoopRotation.cpp Mon May  6 12:58:18 2013
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ namespace {
     }
 
     bool runOnLoop(Loop *L, LPPassManager &LPM);
-    void simplifyLoopLatch(Loop *L);
-    bool rotateLoop(Loop *L);
+    bool simplifyLoopLatch(Loop *L);
+    bool rotateLoop(Loop *L, bool SimplifiedLatch);
 
   private:
     LoopInfo *LI;
@@ -84,13 +84,14 @@ bool LoopRotate::runOnLoop(Loop *L, LPPa
   // Simplify the loop latch before attempting to rotate the header
   // upward. Rotation may not be needed if the loop tail can be folded into the
   // loop exit.
-  simplifyLoopLatch(L);
+  bool SimplifiedLatch = simplifyLoopLatch(L);
 
   // One loop can be rotated multiple times.
   bool MadeChange = false;
-  while (rotateLoop(L))
+  while (rotateLoop(L, SimplifiedLatch)) {
     MadeChange = true;
-
+    SimplifiedLatch = false;
+  }
   return MadeChange;
 }
 
@@ -212,25 +213,25 @@ static bool shouldSpeculateInstrs(BasicB
 /// canonical form so downstream passes can handle it.
 ///
 /// I don't believe this invalidates SCEV.
-void LoopRotate::simplifyLoopLatch(Loop *L) {
+bool LoopRotate::simplifyLoopLatch(Loop *L) {
   BasicBlock *Latch = L->getLoopLatch();
   if (!Latch || Latch->hasAddressTaken())
-    return;
+    return false;
 
   BranchInst *Jmp = dyn_cast<BranchInst>(Latch->getTerminator());
   if (!Jmp || !Jmp->isUnconditional())
-    return;
+    return false;
 
   BasicBlock *LastExit = Latch->getSinglePredecessor();
   if (!LastExit || !L->isLoopExiting(LastExit))
-    return;
+    return false;
 
   BranchInst *BI = dyn_cast<BranchInst>(LastExit->getTerminator());
   if (!BI)
-    return;
+    return false;
 
   if (!shouldSpeculateInstrs(Latch->begin(), Jmp))
-    return;
+    return false;
 
   DEBUG(dbgs() << "Folding loop latch " << Latch->getName() << " into "
         << LastExit->getName() << "\n");
@@ -253,10 +254,20 @@ void LoopRotate::simplifyLoopLatch(Loop
   if (DominatorTree *DT = getAnalysisIfAvailable<DominatorTree>())
     DT->eraseNode(Latch);
   Latch->eraseFromParent();
+  return true;
 }
 
 /// Rotate loop LP. Return true if the loop is rotated.
-bool LoopRotate::rotateLoop(Loop *L) {
+///
+/// \param SimplifiedLatch is true if the latch was just folded into the final
+/// loop exit. In this case we may want to rotate even though the new latch is
+/// now an exiting branch. This rotation would have happened had the latch not
+/// been simplified. However, if SimplifiedLatch is false, then we avoid
+/// rotating loops in which the latch exits to avoid excessive or endless
+/// rotation. LoopRotate should be repeatable and converge to a canonical
+/// form. This property is satisfied because simplifying the loop latch can only
+/// happen once across multiple invocations of the LoopRotate pass.
+bool LoopRotate::rotateLoop(Loop *L, bool SimplifiedLatch) {
   // If the loop has only one block then there is not much to rotate.
   if (L->getBlocks().size() == 1)
     return false;
@@ -276,7 +287,12 @@ bool LoopRotate::rotateLoop(Loop *L) {
 
   // If the loop latch already contains a branch that leaves the loop then the
   // loop is already rotated.
-  if (OrigLatch == 0 || L->isLoopExiting(OrigLatch))
+  if (OrigLatch == 0)
+    return false;
+
+  // Rotate if either the loop latch does *not* exit the loop, or if the loop
+  // latch was just simplified.
+  if (L->isLoopExiting(OrigLatch) && !SimplifiedLatch)
     return false;
 
   // Check size of original header and reject loop if it is very big or we can't
@@ -505,4 +521,3 @@ bool LoopRotate::rotateLoop(Loop *L) {
   ++NumRotated;
   return true;
 }
-

Modified: llvm/trunk/test/Transforms/LoopRotate/simplifylatch.ll
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/test/Transforms/LoopRotate/simplifylatch.ll?rev=181230&r1=181229&r2=181230&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- llvm/trunk/test/Transforms/LoopRotate/simplifylatch.ll (original)
+++ llvm/trunk/test/Transforms/LoopRotate/simplifylatch.ll Mon May  6 12:58:18 2013
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-; RUN: opt -S < %s -loop-rotate -verify-dom-info -verify-loop-info | FileCheck %s
+; RUN: opt -S < %s -loop-rotate -licm -verify-dom-info -verify-loop-info | FileCheck %s
 ; PR2624 unroll multiple exits
 
 @mode_table = global [4 x i32] zeroinitializer		; <[4 x i32]*> [#uses=1]
@@ -37,3 +37,40 @@ bb5:		; preds = %bb2
 declare i32 @fegetround()
 
 declare void @raise_exception() noreturn
+
+;CHECK: for.body.lr.ph:
+;CHECK-NEXT:  %arrayidx1 = getelementptr inbounds i8* %CurPtr, i64 0
+;CHECK-NEXT:  %0 = load i8* %arrayidx1, align 1
+;CHECK-NEXT:  %conv2 = sext i8 %0 to i32
+;CHECK-NEXT:  br label %for.body
+
+define i32 @foo(i8* %CurPtr, i32 %a) #0 {
+entry:
+  br label %for.cond
+
+for.cond:					  ; preds = %for.inc, %entry
+  %i.0 = phi i32 [ 1, %entry ], [ %inc, %for.inc ]
+  %cmp = icmp ne i32 %i.0, %a
+  br i1 %cmp, label %for.body, label %return
+
+for.body:					  ; preds = %for.cond
+  %idxprom = zext i32 %i.0 to i64
+  %arrayidx = getelementptr inbounds i8* %CurPtr, i64 %idxprom
+  %0 = load i8* %arrayidx, align 1
+  %conv = sext i8 %0 to i32
+  %arrayidx1 = getelementptr inbounds i8* %CurPtr, i64 0
+  %1 = load i8* %arrayidx1, align 1
+  %conv2 = sext i8 %1 to i32
+  %cmp3 = icmp ne i32 %conv, %conv2
+  br i1 %cmp3, label %return, label %for.inc
+
+for.inc:					  ; preds = %for.body
+  %inc = add i32 %i.0, 1
+  br label %for.cond
+
+return:						  ; preds = %for.cond, %for.body
+  %retval.0 = phi i32 [ 0, %for.body ], [ 1, %for.cond ]
+  ret i32 %retval.0
+}
+
+attributes #0 = { nounwind uwtable }





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