[llvm] [SimplifyCFG] Fix weight calculation for `simplifySwitchOfPowersOfTwo` (PR #165956)
Mircea Trofin via llvm-commits
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Wed Nov 5 08:48:15 PST 2025
https://github.com/mtrofin updated https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/165956
>From 34b8641d59a2ba18fad0ee586f6a23b1379ad11a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mircea Trofin <mtrofin at google.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:47:08 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [SimplifyCFG] Fix weight calculation for
`simplifySwitchOfPowersOfTwo`
---
llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/SimplifyCFG.cpp | 21 ++++++++++++-------
.../X86/switch-of-powers-of-two.ll | 2 +-
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/SimplifyCFG.cpp b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/SimplifyCFG.cpp
index 9a8dbebe5bfba..37c048f421f1a 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/SimplifyCFG.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/SimplifyCFG.cpp
@@ -7731,19 +7731,24 @@ static bool simplifySwitchOfPowersOfTwo(SwitchInst *SI, IRBuilder<> &Builder,
// label. The other is those powers of 2 that don't appear in the case
// statement. We don't know the distribution of the values coming in, so
// the safest is to split 50-50 the original probability to `default`.
- uint64_t OrigDenominator = sum_of(map_range(
- Weights, [](const auto &V) { return static_cast<uint64_t>(V); }));
+ uint64_t OrigDenominator =
+ sum_of(map_range(Weights, StaticCastTo<uint64_t>));
SmallVector<uint64_t> NewWeights(2);
NewWeights[1] = Weights[0] / 2;
NewWeights[0] = OrigDenominator - NewWeights[1];
setFittedBranchWeights(*BI, NewWeights, /*IsExpected=*/false);
-
- // For the original switch, we reduce the weight of the default by the
- // amount by which the previous branch contributes to getting to default,
- // and then make sure the remaining weights have the same relative ratio
- // wrt eachother.
+ // The probability of executing the default block stays constant. It was
+ // p_d = Weights[0] / OrigDenominator
+ // we rewrite as W/D
+ // We want to find the probability of the default branch of the switch
+ // statement. Let's call it X. We have W/D = W/2D + X * (1-W/2D)
+ // i.e. the original probability is the probability we go to the default
+ // branch from the BI branch, or we take the default branch on the SI.
+ // Meaning X = W / (2D - W), or (W/2) / (D - W/2)
+ // This matches using W/2 for the default branch probability numerator and
+ // D-W/2 as the denominator.
+ Weights[0] = NewWeights[1];
uint64_t CasesDenominator = OrigDenominator - Weights[0];
- Weights[0] /= 2;
for (auto &W : drop_begin(Weights))
W = NewWeights[0] * static_cast<double>(W) / CasesDenominator;
diff --git a/llvm/test/Transforms/SimplifyCFG/X86/switch-of-powers-of-two.ll b/llvm/test/Transforms/SimplifyCFG/X86/switch-of-powers-of-two.ll
index d818335f075e5..e48c2b46a138a 100644
--- a/llvm/test/Transforms/SimplifyCFG/X86/switch-of-powers-of-two.ll
+++ b/llvm/test/Transforms/SimplifyCFG/X86/switch-of-powers-of-two.ll
@@ -141,5 +141,5 @@ return:
;.
; CHECK: [[PROF0]] = !{!"function_entry_count", i32 10}
; CHECK: [[PROF1]] = !{!"branch_weights", i32 58, i32 5}
-; CHECK: [[PROF2]] = !{!"branch_weights", i32 56, i32 5}
+; CHECK: [[PROF2]] = !{!"branch_weights", i32 53, i32 5}
;.
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