[PATCH] D125335: Pass lamba to MachineCopyProp to determine which MI is treated as Copy instruction.

[Craig Topper via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

craig.topper added inline comments.


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Comment at: llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64TargetMachine.cpp:781
+    addPass(createMachineCopyPropagationPass([](const MachineInstr &MI) {
+      const TargetInstrInfo *TII = MI.getMF()->getSubtarget().getInstrInfo();
+      return TII->isCopyInstr(MI);
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adriantong1024 wrote:
> craig.topper wrote:
> > This feels a bit heavy to do for each instruction. The subtarget lookup has to query a hash table. MachineCopyProp already has TII. Why can't it call a virtual method on TII that AArch64 implements and have a default implementation that does whatever the previous behavior was.
> > 
> > Or you could pass a bool to the MachineCopyPropagation that tells it to use TII->isCopyInstr() and default the bool to false for other targets.
> It seems getting subtarget is returning a pointer to STI. 
> 
> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/llvm/include/llvm/CodeGen/MachineFunction.h#L640
So it does. I guess we call getSubtargetImpl and cache it earlier. Guess I forgot how that works.

It's still very unusual to pass a lamba to a pass constructor. Are there other examples? We usually use TII to implement target behavior.


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