[PATCH] peephole optimization in switch table lookup: reuse the guarding table comparison if possible

Hans Wennborg hans at chromium.org
Tue Nov 25 11:48:26 PST 2014


On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 6:19 AM, Erik Eckstein <eeckstein at apple.com> wrote:
>> Could jump threading or one of its analyses be taught to handle this?
>> So that we could also handle a case like:
>
> Actually the current jump threading can handle this, but only if the "r == 0" is a compare + branch. E.g. if do_something is a call, it will work.
> It currently does not handle select instructions. So if do_something is a simple variable assignment, then it will not work. I think this could be added easily.
>
> But we have a phase ordering problem: jump threading is obviously done after switch table generation (so it does not work currently for switches which are converted to tables).
> If we would do jump threading before, then it might prevent switch table generation.
>
> I suggest the following:
> 1) Use my patch to do this kind of "jump threading" for switch tables (solves the phase ordering problem).
> 2) Teach the jump threading pass to handle select instructions.
>
> 1) and 2) are unrelated.

Yeah, I guess the phase ordering makes things tricky. Fair enough.

Comments on the actual patch below:

> Index: lib/Transforms/Utils/SimplifyCFG.cpp
> ===================================================================
> --- lib/Transforms/Utils/SimplifyCFG.cpp (revision 222430)
> +++ lib/Transforms/Utils/SimplifyCFG.cpp (working copy)
> @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@
>  STATISTIC(NumLinearMaps, "Number of switch instructions turned into linear mapping");
>  STATISTIC(NumLookupTables, "Number of switch instructions turned into lookup tables");
>  STATISTIC(NumLookupTablesHoles, "Number of switch instructions turned into lookup tables (holes checked)");
> +STATISTIC(NumTableCmpReuses, "Number of reused switch table lookup compares");
>  STATISTIC(NumSinkCommons, "Number of common instructions sunk down to the end block");
>  STATISTIC(NumSpeculations, "Number of speculative executed instructions");
>
> @@ -3963,6 +3964,57 @@
>    return SI->getNumCases() * 10 >= TableSize * 4;
>  }
>
> +/// Try to reuse the result of the compare for guarding the switch table lookup.
> +/// If the value of the resulting phi is used in a compare which yields the same
> +/// result as the guarding compare, we can reuse the guarding compare.

The comment should probably say that the purpose of reusing the
compare is to facilitate jump threading.

> +void reuseTableCompare(ICmpInst *CmpInst, BranchInst *BR,
> +            Value *&InvertedTableCmp,

I'm not sure caching InvertedTableCmp is worth the extra book-keeping.
I assume jump threading also works for the inverted case?

> +            const SmallVectorImpl<std::pair<ConstantInt*, Constant*> >& Values,
> +            Constant *DefaultValue) {
> +
> +  Constant *CmpOp1 = dyn_cast<Constant>(CmpInst->getOperand(1));
> +  if (!CmpOp1)
> +    return;
> +
> +
> +  Constant *TrueConst = ConstantInt::getTrue(CmpInst->getType());
> +  Constant *FalseConst = ConstantInt::getFalse(CmpInst->getType());
> +
> +  // Check if the compare with the default value is constant true or false.
> +  Constant *DefaultConst = ConstantExpr::getICmp(CmpInst->getPredicate(),
> +                                                 DefaultValue, CmpOp1, true);
> +  if (DefaultConst != TrueConst && DefaultConst != FalseConst)
> +    return;
> +
> +  // Check if we have a consistent compare result for all case values.
> +  Constant *CommonCaseConst = nullptr;
> +  for (auto ValuePair : Values) {
> +    Constant *CaseConst = ConstantExpr::getICmp(CmpInst->getPredicate(),
> +                              ValuePair.second, CmpOp1, true);
> +    if (CommonCaseConst && CommonCaseConst != CaseConst)
> +      return;
> +    CommonCaseConst = CaseConst;

I would have written this as:

  if (!CommonCaseConst)
    CommonCaseConst = CaseConst;
  if (CaseConst != CommonCaseConst)
    return;

Actually, instead of checking against CommonCaseConst, couldn't we
just check that CaseConst is always the opposite of DefaultConst? I
think that could simplify the loop a bit, and also the code below?

> +  }
> +  if (CommonCaseConst != TrueConst && CommonCaseConst != FalseConst)
> +    return;
> +
> +  Value *TableCmp = BR->getCondition();
> +  if (DefaultConst == FalseConst && CommonCaseConst == TrueConst) {
> +    // The compare yields the same result. We can replace it.
> +    CmpInst->replaceAllUsesWith(TableCmp);
> +    ++NumTableCmpReuses;
> +  } else if (DefaultConst == TrueConst && CommonCaseConst == FalseConst) {
> +    // The compare yields the same result, just inverted. We can replace it.
> +    if (!InvertedTableCmp) {
> +      // Create a boolean invert, if we don't have it yet.
> +      InvertedTableCmp = BinaryOperator::CreateXor(TableCmp,
> +                ConstantInt::get(TableCmp->getType(), 1), "inverted.cmp", BR);
> +    }
> +    CmpInst->replaceAllUsesWith(InvertedTableCmp);
> +    ++NumTableCmpReuses;
> +  }
> +}
> +
>  /// SwitchToLookupTable - If the switch is only used to initialize one or more
>  /// phi nodes in a common successor block with different constant values,
>  /// replace the switch with lookup tables.
> @@ -4039,11 +4091,8 @@
>    // If the table has holes, we need a constant result for the default case
>    // or a bitmask that fits in a register.
>    SmallVector<std::pair<PHINode*, Constant*>, 4> DefaultResultsList;
> -  bool HasDefaultResults = false;
> -  if (TableHasHoles) {
> -    HasDefaultResults = GetCaseResults(SI, nullptr, SI->getDefaultDest(),
> +  bool HasDefaultResults = GetCaseResults(SI, nullptr, SI->getDefaultDest(),
>                                         &CommonDest, DefaultResultsList, DL);
> -  }
>
>    bool NeedMask = (TableHasHoles && !HasDefaultResults);
>    if (NeedMask) {
> @@ -4087,6 +4136,8 @@
>    // lookup table BB. Otherwise, check if the condition value is within the case
>    // range. If it is so, branch to the new BB. Otherwise branch to SI's default
>    // destination.
> +  BranchInst *BranchInst = nullptr;

Since we create a branch also for "covered" lookup tables, maybe this
should be called CondBranchInst or something? Or actually, could we
keep track of the comparison instruction instead, e.g. "Value
*TableRangeCheck"? Or maybe the conditional branch could be called
TableRangeCheck.

> +
>    const bool GeneratingCoveredLookupTable = MaxTableSize == TableSize;
>    if (GeneratingCoveredLookupTable) {
>      Builder.CreateBr(LookupBB);
> @@ -4097,7 +4148,7 @@
>    } else {
>      Value *Cmp = Builder.CreateICmpULT(TableIndex, ConstantInt::get(
>                                         MinCaseVal->getType(), TableSize));
> -    Builder.CreateCondBr(Cmp, LookupBB, SI->getDefaultDest());
> +    BranchInst = Builder.CreateCondBr(Cmp, LookupBB, SI->getDefaultDest());
>    }
>
>    // Populate the BB that does the lookups.
> @@ -4148,11 +4199,11 @@
>    bool ReturnedEarly = false;
>    for (size_t I = 0, E = PHIs.size(); I != E; ++I) {
>      PHINode *PHI = PHIs[I];
> +    const ResultListTy &ResultList = ResultLists[PHI];
>
>      // If using a bitmask, use any value to fill the lookup table holes.
>      Constant *DV = NeedMask ? ResultLists[PHI][0].second : DefaultResults[PHI];
> -    SwitchLookupTable Table(Mod, TableSize, MinCaseVal, ResultLists[PHI],
> -                            DV, DL);
> +    SwitchLookupTable Table(Mod, TableSize, MinCaseVal, ResultList, DV, DL);
>
>      Value *Result = Table.BuildLookup(TableIndex, Builder);
>
> @@ -4164,6 +4215,22 @@
>        ReturnedEarly = true;
>        break;
>      }
> +
> +    // Do a small peephole optimization: re-use the switch table compare if
> +    // possible.
> +    // This is similiar to InstCombiner::FoldOpIntoPhi. FoldOpIntoPhi can't
> +    // handle switch tables so we do it explicitly here.
> +    if (!TableHasHoles && HasDefaultResults && BranchInst) {

I wish the body of this if statement could be extracted to a separate
utility function to keep the code here a little simpler. I feel if it
was just something like:

  if (BranchInst && HasDefaultResults && !TableHasHoles)
    reuseTableRangeCheck(...)

It would feel less intrusive. Maybe just move the search for the Cmp
instruction into reuseTableCompare.

> +      Value *InvertedTableCmp = nullptr;
> +      for (auto UI = PHI->user_begin(), E = PHI->user_end(); UI != E; ++UI) {

Could probably use a range-based for loop over PHI->users() instead.

> +        // Check if we have an icmp in the same block.
> +        ICmpInst *CmpInst = dyn_cast<ICmpInst>(*UI);
> +        if (CmpInst && CmpInst->getParent() == PHI->getParent()) {
> +          reuseTableCompare(CmpInst, BranchInst, InvertedTableCmp, ResultList,
> +                            DV);
> +        }
> +      }
> +    }
>
>      PHI->addIncoming(Result, LookupBB);
>    }
> Index: test/Transforms/SimplifyCFG/X86/switch_to_lookup_table.ll
> ===================================================================
> --- test/Transforms/SimplifyCFG/X86/switch_to_lookup_table.ll (revision 222430)
> +++ test/Transforms/SimplifyCFG/X86/switch_to_lookup_table.ll (working copy)
> @@ -1078,3 +1078,93 @@
>  ; CHECK-NEXT: ret i8 %switch.idx.cast
>  }

Please add a comment for each test to make it easier for a casual
reader to see what they're doing.

>
> +define i32 @reuse_cmp1(i32 %x) {
> +entry:
> +  switch i32 %x, label %sw.default [
> +    i32 0, label %sw.bb
> +    i32 1, label %sw.bb1
> +    i32 2, label %sw.bb2
> +    i32 3, label %sw.bb3
> +  ]
> +sw.bb: br label %sw.epilog
> +sw.bb1: br label %sw.epilog
> +sw.bb2: br label %sw.epilog
> +sw.bb3: br label %sw.epilog
> +sw.default: br label %sw.epilog
> +sw.epilog:
> +  %r.0 = phi i32 [ 0, %sw.default ], [ 13, %sw.bb3 ], [ 12, %sw.bb2 ], [ 11, %sw.bb1 ], [ 10, %sw.bb ]
> +  %cmp = icmp eq i32 %r.0, 0
> +  br i1 %cmp, label %if.then, label %if.end
> +if.then: br label %return
> +if.end: br label %return
> +return:
> +  %retval.0 = phi i32 [ 100, %if.then ], [ %r.0, %if.end ]
> +  ret i32 %retval.0
> +; CHECK-LABEL: @reuse_cmp1(
> +; CHECK: entry:
> +; CHECK-NEXT: %switch.tableidx = sub i32 %x, 0
> +; CHECK-NEXT: [[C:%.+]] = icmp ult i32 %switch.tableidx, 4
> +; CHECK-NEXT: %inverted.cmp = xor i1 [[C]], true
> +; CHECK:      [[R:%.+]] = select i1 %inverted.cmp, i32 100, i32 {{.*}}
> +; CHECK-NEXT: ret i32 [[R]]
> +}
> +
> +define i32 @reuse_cmp2(i32 %x) {
> +entry:
> +  switch i32 %x, label %sw.default [
> +    i32 0, label %sw.bb
> +    i32 1, label %sw.bb1
> +    i32 2, label %sw.bb2
> +    i32 3, label %sw.bb3
> +  ]
> +sw.bb: br label %sw.epilog
> +sw.bb1: br label %sw.epilog
> +sw.bb2: br label %sw.epilog
> +sw.bb3: br label %sw.epilog
> +sw.default: br label %sw.epilog
> +sw.epilog:
> +  %r.0 = phi i32 [ 4, %sw.default ], [ 3, %sw.bb3 ], [ 2, %sw.bb2 ], [ 1, %sw.bb1 ], [ 0, %sw.bb ]
> +  %cmp = icmp ne i32 %r.0, 4
> +  br i1 %cmp, label %if.then, label %if.end
> +if.then: br label %return
> +if.end: br label %return
> +return:
> +  %retval.0 = phi i32 [ %r.0, %if.then ], [ 100, %if.end ]
> +  ret i32 %retval.0
> +; CHECK-LABEL: @reuse_cmp2(
> +; CHECK: entry:
> +; CHECK-NEXT: %switch.tableidx = sub i32 %x, 0
> +; CHECK-NEXT: [[C:%.+]] = icmp ult i32 %switch.tableidx, 4
> +; CHECK:      [[R:%.+]] = select i1 [[C]], i32 {{.*}}, i32 100
> +; CHECK-NEXT: ret i32 [[R]]
> +}
> +
> +define i32 @no_reuse_cmp(i32 %x) {
> +entry:
> +  switch i32 %x, label %sw.default [
> +    i32 0, label %sw.bb
> +    i32 1, label %sw.bb1
> +    i32 2, label %sw.bb2
> +    i32 3, label %sw.bb3
> +  ]
> +sw.bb: br label %sw.epilog
> +sw.bb1: br label %sw.epilog
> +sw.bb2: br label %sw.epilog
> +sw.bb3: br label %sw.epilog
> +sw.default: br label %sw.epilog
> +sw.epilog:
> +  %r.0 = phi i32 [ 12, %sw.default ], [ 13, %sw.bb3 ], [ 12, %sw.bb2 ], [ 11, %sw.bb1 ], [ 10, %sw.bb ]
> +  %cmp = icmp ne i32 %r.0, 0
> +  br i1 %cmp, label %if.then, label %if.end
> +if.then: br label %return
> +if.end: br label %return
> +return:
> +  %retval.0 = phi i32 [ %r.0, %if.then ], [ 100, %if.end ]
> +  ret i32 %retval.0
> +; CHECK-LABEL: @no_reuse_cmp(
> +; CHECK:  [[S:%.+]] = select
> +; CHECK-NEXT:  %cmp = icmp ne i32 [[S]], 0
> +; CHECK-NEXT:  [[R:%.+]] = select i1 %cmp, i32 [[S]], i32 100
> +; CHECK-NEXT:  ret i32 [[R]]
> +}
> +



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