[llvm] [SPIR-V] Add pass to remove spv_ptrcast intrinsics (PR #128896)

[Steven Perron via llvm-commits]

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+//===-- SPIRVLegalizePointerLoad.cpp ----------------------*- C++ -*-===//
+//
+// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
+// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+//
+// The LLVM IR has multiple legal patterns we cannot lower to Logical SPIR-V.
+// This pass modifies such loads to have an IR we can directly lower to valid
+// logical SPIR-V.
+// OpenCL can avoid this because they rely on ptrcast, which is not supported
+// by logical SPIR-V.
+//
+// This pass relies on the assign_ptr_type intrinsic to deduce the type of the
+// pointed values, must replace all occurences of `ptrcast`. This is why
+// unhandled cases are reported as unreachable: we MUST cover all cases.
+//
+// 1. Loading the first element of an array
+//
+//        %array = [10 x i32]
+//        %value = load i32, ptr %array
+//
+//    LLVM can skip the GEP instruction, and only request loading the first 4
+//    bytes. In logical SPIR-V, we need an OpAccessChain to access the first
+//    element. This pass will add a getelementptr instruction before the load.
+//
+//
+// 2. Implicit downcast from load
+//
+//        %1 = getelementptr <4 x i32>, ptr %vec4, i64 0
+//        %2 = load <3 x i32>, ptr %1
+//
+//    The pointer in the GEP instruction is only used for offset computations,
+//    but it doesn't NEED to match the pointed type. OpAccessChain however
+//    requires this. Also, LLVM loads define the bitwidth of the load, not the
+//    pointer. In this example, we can guess %vec4 is a vec4 thanks to the GEP
+//    instruction basetype, but we only want to load the first 3 elements, hence
+//    do a partial load. In logical SPIR-V, this is not legal. What we must do
+//    is load the full vector (basetype), extract 3 elements, and recombine them
+//    to form a 3-element vector.
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+#include "SPIRV.h"
+#include "SPIRVSubtarget.h"
+#include "SPIRVTargetMachine.h"
+#include "SPIRVUtils.h"
+#include "llvm/CodeGen/IntrinsicLowering.h"
+#include "llvm/IR/IRBuilder.h"
+#include "llvm/IR/IntrinsicInst.h"
+#include "llvm/IR/Intrinsics.h"
+#include "llvm/IR/IntrinsicsSPIRV.h"
+#include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/Cloning.h"
+#include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/LowerMemIntrinsics.h"
+
+using namespace llvm;
+
+namespace llvm {
+void initializeSPIRVLegalizePointerLoadPass(PassRegistry &);
+}
+
+class SPIRVLegalizePointerLoad : public FunctionPass {
+
+  // Replace all uses of a |Old| with |New| updates the global registry type
+  // mappings.
+  void replaceAllUsesWith(Value *Old, Value *New) {
+    Old->replaceAllUsesWith(New);
+    GR->updateIfExistDeducedElementType(Old, New, /* deleteOld = */ true);
+    GR->updateIfExistAssignPtrTypeInstr(Old, New, /* deleteOld = */ true);
+  }
+
+  // Builds the `spv_assign_type` assigning |Ty| to |Value| at the current
+  // builder position.
+  void buildAssignType(IRBuilder<> &B, Type *Ty, Value *Arg) {
+    Value *OfType = PoisonValue::get(Ty);
+    CallInst *AssignCI = buildIntrWithMD(Intrinsic::spv_assign_type,
+                                         {Arg->getType()}, OfType, Arg, {}, B);
+    GR->addAssignPtrTypeInstr(Arg, AssignCI);
+  }
+
+  // Loads a single scalar of type |To| from the vector pointed by |Source| of
+  // the type |From|. Returns the loaded value.
+  Value *loadScalarFromVector(IRBuilder<> &B, Value *Source,
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s-perron wrote:

Why do we want to load the whole vector? We could do an access chain on the vector, and loads a single value. Does `spv_gep` not work on vectors?

If it does, we could try to reuse `loadFirstValueFromArray` (maybe rename to `loadFromValueFromAggregate`) for both cases.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/128896