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

Erik Eckstein eeckstein at apple.com
Wed Nov 26 11:44:46 PST 2014


This is already the third version of the change. Previous version were discussed per email:

On 25 Nov 2014, at 20:48, Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org> wrote:

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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