[llvm] [X86] Allow speculative BSR/BSF instructions on targets with CMOV (PR #102885)
Simon Pilgrim via llvm-commits
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Wed Aug 21 08:15:39 PDT 2024
RKSimon wrote:
> > Hmm, we already have TuningLZCNTFalseDeps - would it be worth a separate PR adding TuningBitScanFalseDeps and zeroing out the destination register?
>
> FalseDep is somewhat incorrect, it preserves the destination so its an actual dep. Also FWIW Intel is going to change the documentation on BSF/BSR soon to state that it leaves the destination unchanged as opposed to undefined (i.e same as AMD).
In case Intel do make this change - I've started a patch that would allow us to support this behaviour pretty easily: https://github.com/RKSimon/llvm-project/tree/x86-bitscan-fallthrough
I'd like to get this PR in first though as long as nobody has any outstanding concerns.
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/102885
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