[llvm] [InstCombine] Add CTLZ -> CTTZ simplification (PR #164733)

Mihail Mihov via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Oct 23 09:18:35 PDT 2025


https://github.com/MihailMihov updated https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/164733

>From f4223031001b497b8f77ca722233b593e2231623 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mihail Mihov <mihovmihailp at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 16:47:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] [InstCombine] Add failing test for CTLZ -> CTTZ
 simplification

---
 llvm/test/Transforms/InstCombine/ctlz-cttz.ll | 155 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 155 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 llvm/test/Transforms/InstCombine/ctlz-cttz.ll

diff --git a/llvm/test/Transforms/InstCombine/ctlz-cttz.ll b/llvm/test/Transforms/InstCombine/ctlz-cttz.ll
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..7ff2eac64c0c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/Transforms/InstCombine/ctlz-cttz.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+; NOTE: Assertions have been autogenerated by utils/update_test_checks.py UTC_ARGS: --version 6
+; RUN: opt < %s -S -passes=instcombine | FileCheck %s
+
+; ctpop(~i & (i - 1)) -> bitwidth - cttz(i, false)
+define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz(i8 %a0) {
+; CHECK-LABEL: define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz(
+; CHECK-SAME: i8 [[A0:%.*]]) {
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[DEC:%.*]] = add i8 [[A0]], -1
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[NOT:%.*]] = xor i8 [[A0]], -1
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[AND:%.*]] = and i8 [[DEC]], [[NOT]]
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CLZ:%.*]] = tail call range(i8 0, 9) i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8(i8 [[AND]], i1 false)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    ret i8 [[CLZ]]
+;
+  %dec = add i8 %a0, -1
+  %not = xor i8 %a0, -1
+  %and = and i8 %dec, %not
+  %clz = tail call i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8(i8 %and, i1 false)
+  ret i8 %clz
+}
+
+define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_poison(i8 %a0) {
+; CHECK-LABEL: define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_poison(
+; CHECK-SAME: i8 [[A0:%.*]]) {
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[DEC:%.*]] = add i8 [[A0]], -1
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[NOT:%.*]] = xor i8 [[A0]], -1
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[AND:%.*]] = and i8 [[DEC]], [[NOT]]
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CLZ:%.*]] = tail call range(i8 0, 9) i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8(i8 [[AND]], i1 true)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    ret i8 [[CLZ]]
+;
+  %dec = add i8 %a0, -1
+  %not = xor i8 %a0, -1
+  %and = and i8 %dec, %not
+  %clz = tail call i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8(i8 %and, i1 true)
+  ret i8 %clz
+}
+
+define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_different_add(i8 %a0) {
+; CHECK-LABEL: define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_different_add(
+; CHECK-SAME: i8 [[A0:%.*]]) {
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[DEC:%.*]] = add i8 [[A0]], 1
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[NOT:%.*]] = xor i8 [[A0]], -1
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[AND:%.*]] = and i8 [[DEC]], [[NOT]]
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CLZ:%.*]] = tail call range(i8 0, 9) i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8(i8 [[AND]], i1 false)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    ret i8 [[CLZ]]
+;
+  %dec = add i8 %a0, 1
+  %not = xor i8 %a0, -1
+  %and = and i8 %dec, %not
+  %clz = tail call i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8(i8 %and, i1 false)
+  ret i8 %clz
+}
+
+define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_different_xor(i8 %a0) {
+; CHECK-LABEL: define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_different_xor(
+; CHECK-SAME: i8 [[A0:%.*]]) {
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[DEC:%.*]] = add i8 [[A0]], -1
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[NOT:%.*]] = xor i8 [[A0]], 1
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[AND:%.*]] = and i8 [[DEC]], [[NOT]]
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CLZ:%.*]] = tail call range(i8 0, 9) i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8(i8 [[AND]], i1 false)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    ret i8 [[CLZ]]
+;
+  %dec = add i8 %a0, -1
+  %not = xor i8 %a0, 1
+  %and = and i8 %dec, %not
+  %clz = tail call i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8(i8 %and, i1 false)
+  ret i8 %clz
+}
+
+declare void @use(i8)
+
+define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_multi_use_dec(i8 %a0) {
+; CHECK-LABEL: define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_multi_use_dec(
+; CHECK-SAME: i8 [[A0:%.*]]) {
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[DEC:%.*]] = add i8 [[A0]], -1
+; CHECK-NEXT:    call void @use(i8 [[DEC]])
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[NOT:%.*]] = xor i8 [[A0]], -1
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[AND:%.*]] = and i8 [[DEC]], [[NOT]]
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CLZ:%.*]] = tail call range(i8 0, 9) i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8(i8 [[AND]], i1 false)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    ret i8 [[CLZ]]
+;
+  %dec = add i8 %a0, -1
+  call void @use(i8 %dec)
+  %not = xor i8 %a0, -1
+  %and = and i8 %dec, %not
+  %clz = tail call i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8(i8 %and, i1 false)
+  ret i8 %clz
+}
+
+define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_multi_use_not(i8 %a0) {
+; CHECK-LABEL: define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_multi_use_not(
+; CHECK-SAME: i8 [[A0:%.*]]) {
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[DEC:%.*]] = add i8 [[A0]], -1
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[NOT:%.*]] = xor i8 [[A0]], -1
+; CHECK-NEXT:    call void @use(i8 [[NOT]])
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[AND:%.*]] = and i8 [[DEC]], [[NOT]]
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CLZ:%.*]] = tail call range(i8 0, 9) i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8(i8 [[AND]], i1 false)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    ret i8 [[CLZ]]
+;
+  %dec = add i8 %a0, -1
+  %not = xor i8 %a0, -1
+  call void @use(i8 %not)
+  %and = and i8 %dec, %not
+  %clz = tail call i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8(i8 %and, i1 false)
+  ret i8 %clz
+}
+
+define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_multi_use_and(i8 %a0) {
+; CHECK-LABEL: define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_multi_use_and(
+; CHECK-SAME: i8 [[A0:%.*]]) {
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[DEC:%.*]] = add i8 [[A0]], -1
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[NOT:%.*]] = xor i8 [[A0]], -1
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[AND:%.*]] = and i8 [[DEC]], [[NOT]]
+; CHECK-NEXT:    call void @use(i8 [[AND]])
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CLZ:%.*]] = tail call range(i8 0, 9) i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8(i8 [[AND]], i1 false)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    ret i8 [[CLZ]]
+;
+  %dec = add i8 %a0, -1
+  %not = xor i8 %a0, -1
+  %and = and i8 %dec, %not
+  call void @use(i8 %and)
+  %clz = tail call i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8(i8 %and, i1 false)
+  ret i8 %clz
+}
+
+define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_commute_and(i8 %a0) {
+; CHECK-LABEL: define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_commute_and(
+; CHECK-SAME: i8 [[A0:%.*]]) {
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[DEC:%.*]] = add i8 [[A0]], -1
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[NOT:%.*]] = xor i8 [[A0]], -1
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[AND:%.*]] = and i8 [[DEC]], [[NOT]]
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CLZ:%.*]] = tail call range(i8 0, 9) i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8(i8 [[AND]], i1 false)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    ret i8 [[CLZ]]
+;
+  %dec = add i8 %a0, -1
+  %not = xor i8 %a0, -1
+  %and = and i8 %not, %dec
+  %clz = tail call i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8(i8 %and, i1 false)
+  ret i8 %clz
+}
+
+define <2 x i8> @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_vec_splat(<2 x i8> %a0) {
+; CHECK-LABEL: define <2 x i8> @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_vec_splat(
+; CHECK-SAME: <2 x i8> [[A0:%.*]]) {
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[DEC:%.*]] = add <2 x i8> [[A0]], splat (i8 -1)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[NOT:%.*]] = xor <2 x i8> [[A0]], splat (i8 -1)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[AND:%.*]] = and <2 x i8> [[DEC]], [[NOT]]
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CLZ:%.*]] = tail call range(i8 0, 9) <2 x i8> @llvm.ctlz.v2i8(<2 x i8> [[AND]], i1 false)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    ret <2 x i8> [[CLZ]]
+;
+  %dec = add <2 x i8> %a0, <i8 -1, i8 -1>
+  %not = xor <2 x i8> %a0, <i8 -1, i8 -1>
+  %and = and <2 x i8> %dec, %not
+  %clz = tail call <2 x i8>@llvm.ctlz.v2i8(<2 x i8> %and, i1 false)
+  ret <2 x i8> %clz
+}

>From 171ee2bb70984bd8d8ccbb00035629ddd5137383 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mihail Mihov <mihovmihailp at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:11:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] [InstCombine] Add CTLZ -> CTTZ simplification

---
 .../InstCombine/InstCombineCalls.cpp          | 12 +++++++
 llvm/test/Transforms/InstCombine/ctlz-cttz.ll | 34 +++++++------------
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/llvm/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineCalls.cpp b/llvm/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineCalls.cpp
index e1e24a99d0474..3ce16b40d6cb6 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineCalls.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Transforms/InstCombine/InstCombineCalls.cpp
@@ -585,6 +585,18 @@ static Instruction *foldCttzCtlz(IntrinsicInst &II, InstCombinerImpl &IC) {
           IC.Builder.CreateBinaryIntrinsic(Intrinsic::ctlz, C, Op1);
       return BinaryOperator::CreateSub(ConstCtlz, X);
     }
+
+    // ctlz(~x & (x - 1)) -> bitwidth - cttz(x, false)
+    if (Op0->hasOneUse() &&
+        match(Op0,
+              m_c_And(m_Not(m_Value(X)), m_Add(m_Deferred(X), m_AllOnes())))) {
+      Type *Ty = II.getType();
+      unsigned BitWidth = Ty->getScalarSizeInBits();
+      auto *Cttz = IC.Builder.CreateIntrinsic(Intrinsic::cttz, Ty,
+                                              {X, IC.Builder.getFalse()});
+      auto *Bw = ConstantInt::get(Ty, APInt(BitWidth, BitWidth));
+      return IC.replaceInstUsesWith(II, IC.Builder.CreateSub(Bw, Cttz));
+    }
   }
 
   // cttz(Pow2) -> Log2(Pow2)
diff --git a/llvm/test/Transforms/InstCombine/ctlz-cttz.ll b/llvm/test/Transforms/InstCombine/ctlz-cttz.ll
index 7ff2eac64c0c4..871fb342360fd 100644
--- a/llvm/test/Transforms/InstCombine/ctlz-cttz.ll
+++ b/llvm/test/Transforms/InstCombine/ctlz-cttz.ll
@@ -5,10 +5,8 @@
 define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz(i8 %a0) {
 ; CHECK-LABEL: define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz(
 ; CHECK-SAME: i8 [[A0:%.*]]) {
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[DEC:%.*]] = add i8 [[A0]], -1
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[NOT:%.*]] = xor i8 [[A0]], -1
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[AND:%.*]] = and i8 [[DEC]], [[NOT]]
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CLZ:%.*]] = tail call range(i8 0, 9) i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8(i8 [[AND]], i1 false)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[TMP1:%.*]] = call range(i8 0, 9) i8 @llvm.cttz.i8(i8 [[A0]], i1 false)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CLZ:%.*]] = sub nuw nsw i8 8, [[TMP1]]
 ; CHECK-NEXT:    ret i8 [[CLZ]]
 ;
   %dec = add i8 %a0, -1
@@ -21,10 +19,8 @@ define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz(i8 %a0) {
 define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_poison(i8 %a0) {
 ; CHECK-LABEL: define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_poison(
 ; CHECK-SAME: i8 [[A0:%.*]]) {
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[DEC:%.*]] = add i8 [[A0]], -1
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[NOT:%.*]] = xor i8 [[A0]], -1
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[AND:%.*]] = and i8 [[DEC]], [[NOT]]
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CLZ:%.*]] = tail call range(i8 0, 9) i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8(i8 [[AND]], i1 true)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[TMP1:%.*]] = call range(i8 0, 9) i8 @llvm.cttz.i8(i8 [[A0]], i1 false)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CLZ:%.*]] = sub nuw nsw i8 8, [[TMP1]]
 ; CHECK-NEXT:    ret i8 [[CLZ]]
 ;
   %dec = add i8 %a0, -1
@@ -73,9 +69,8 @@ define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_multi_use_dec(i8 %a0) {
 ; CHECK-SAME: i8 [[A0:%.*]]) {
 ; CHECK-NEXT:    [[DEC:%.*]] = add i8 [[A0]], -1
 ; CHECK-NEXT:    call void @use(i8 [[DEC]])
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[NOT:%.*]] = xor i8 [[A0]], -1
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[AND:%.*]] = and i8 [[DEC]], [[NOT]]
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CLZ:%.*]] = tail call range(i8 0, 9) i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8(i8 [[AND]], i1 false)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[TMP1:%.*]] = call range(i8 0, 9) i8 @llvm.cttz.i8(i8 [[A0]], i1 false)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CLZ:%.*]] = sub nuw nsw i8 8, [[TMP1]]
 ; CHECK-NEXT:    ret i8 [[CLZ]]
 ;
   %dec = add i8 %a0, -1
@@ -89,11 +84,10 @@ define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_multi_use_dec(i8 %a0) {
 define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_multi_use_not(i8 %a0) {
 ; CHECK-LABEL: define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_multi_use_not(
 ; CHECK-SAME: i8 [[A0:%.*]]) {
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[DEC:%.*]] = add i8 [[A0]], -1
 ; CHECK-NEXT:    [[NOT:%.*]] = xor i8 [[A0]], -1
 ; CHECK-NEXT:    call void @use(i8 [[NOT]])
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[AND:%.*]] = and i8 [[DEC]], [[NOT]]
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CLZ:%.*]] = tail call range(i8 0, 9) i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8(i8 [[AND]], i1 false)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[TMP1:%.*]] = call range(i8 0, 9) i8 @llvm.cttz.i8(i8 [[A0]], i1 false)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CLZ:%.*]] = sub nuw nsw i8 8, [[TMP1]]
 ; CHECK-NEXT:    ret i8 [[CLZ]]
 ;
   %dec = add i8 %a0, -1
@@ -125,10 +119,8 @@ define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_multi_use_and(i8 %a0) {
 define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_commute_and(i8 %a0) {
 ; CHECK-LABEL: define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_commute_and(
 ; CHECK-SAME: i8 [[A0:%.*]]) {
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[DEC:%.*]] = add i8 [[A0]], -1
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[NOT:%.*]] = xor i8 [[A0]], -1
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[AND:%.*]] = and i8 [[DEC]], [[NOT]]
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CLZ:%.*]] = tail call range(i8 0, 9) i8 @llvm.ctlz.i8(i8 [[AND]], i1 false)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[TMP1:%.*]] = call range(i8 0, 9) i8 @llvm.cttz.i8(i8 [[A0]], i1 false)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CLZ:%.*]] = sub nuw nsw i8 8, [[TMP1]]
 ; CHECK-NEXT:    ret i8 [[CLZ]]
 ;
   %dec = add i8 %a0, -1
@@ -141,10 +133,8 @@ define i8 @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_commute_and(i8 %a0) {
 define <2 x i8> @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_vec_splat(<2 x i8> %a0) {
 ; CHECK-LABEL: define <2 x i8> @ctlz_to_sub_bw_cttz_vec_splat(
 ; CHECK-SAME: <2 x i8> [[A0:%.*]]) {
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[DEC:%.*]] = add <2 x i8> [[A0]], splat (i8 -1)
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[NOT:%.*]] = xor <2 x i8> [[A0]], splat (i8 -1)
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[AND:%.*]] = and <2 x i8> [[DEC]], [[NOT]]
-; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CLZ:%.*]] = tail call range(i8 0, 9) <2 x i8> @llvm.ctlz.v2i8(<2 x i8> [[AND]], i1 false)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[TMP1:%.*]] = call range(i8 0, 9) <2 x i8> @llvm.cttz.v2i8(<2 x i8> [[A0]], i1 false)
+; CHECK-NEXT:    [[CLZ:%.*]] = sub nuw nsw <2 x i8> splat (i8 8), [[TMP1]]
 ; CHECK-NEXT:    ret <2 x i8> [[CLZ]]
 ;
   %dec = add <2 x i8> %a0, <i8 -1, i8 -1>



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