[llvm] [NFC][LV]: Differentiate between Pred and Unpred masked operations. (PR #169509)

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Author: Hassnaa Hamdi (hassnaaHamdi)

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<summary>Changes</summary>

- Differentiate between operations that are masked because of conditionally-executed code,
or predicated loops like loops with tail-folded.

- This is needed for future work when we need to support a predicated vector epilogue
in combination with an unpredicated vector body.

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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/169509.diff


3 Files Affected:

- (modified) llvm/include/llvm/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorizationLegality.h (+13-5) 
- (modified) llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorizationLegality.cpp (+3-3) 
- (modified) llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorize.cpp (+11-11) 


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diff --git a/llvm/include/llvm/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorizationLegality.h b/llvm/include/llvm/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorizationLegality.h
index ecbd0ef7df5e5..ae5d872cfacef 100644
--- a/llvm/include/llvm/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorizationLegality.h
+++ b/llvm/include/llvm/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorizationLegality.h
@@ -428,8 +428,10 @@ class LoopVectorizationLegality {
 
   /// Returns true if vector representation of the instruction \p I
   /// requires mask.
-  bool isMaskRequired(const Instruction *I) const {
-    return MaskedOp.contains(I);
+  bool isMaskRequired(const Instruction *I, bool LoopPredicated) const {
+    if (LoopPredicated)
+      return PredMaskedOps.contains(I);
+    return UnpredMaskedOps.contains(I);
   }
 
   /// Returns true if there is at least one function call in the loop which
@@ -705,9 +707,15 @@ class LoopVectorizationLegality {
   AssumptionCache *AC;
 
   /// While vectorizing these instructions we have to generate a
-  /// call to the appropriate masked intrinsic or drop them in case of
-  /// conditional assumes.
-  SmallPtrSet<const Instruction *, 8> MaskedOp;
+  /// call to the appropriate masked intrinsic or drop them.
+  /// To differentiate between needing masked op because there is a conditional
+  /// executed block or because of predicated loop, we keep two lists.
+  /// 1) UnpredMaskedOp - instructions that need masking if we are
+  ///    in conditionally executed block.
+  /// 2) PredMaskedOp - instructions that need masking if we are in a predicated
+  ///    loop.
+  SmallPtrSet<const Instruction *, 8> UnpredMaskedOps;
+  SmallPtrSet<const Instruction *, 8> PredMaskedOps;
 
   /// Contains all identified histogram operations, which are sequences of
   /// load -> update -> store instructions where multiple lanes in a vector
diff --git a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorizationLegality.cpp b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorizationLegality.cpp
index 86e742ca5fec1..e3ed133cc7f1b 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorizationLegality.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorizationLegality.cpp
@@ -1590,7 +1590,7 @@ bool LoopVectorizationLegality::canVectorizeWithIfConvert() {
 
     // We must be able to predicate all blocks that need to be predicated.
     if (blockNeedsPredication(BB) &&
-        !blockCanBePredicated(BB, SafePointers, MaskedOp)) {
+        !blockCanBePredicated(BB, SafePointers, UnpredMaskedOps)) {
       reportVectorizationFailure(
           "Control flow cannot be substituted for a select", "NoCFGForSelect",
           ORE, TheLoop, BB->getTerminator());
@@ -2147,11 +2147,11 @@ bool LoopVectorizationLegality::canFoldTailByMasking() const {
 void LoopVectorizationLegality::prepareToFoldTailByMasking() {
   // The list of pointers that we can safely read and write to remains empty.
   SmallPtrSet<Value *, 8> SafePointers;
-
+  PredMaskedOps = UnpredMaskedOps;
   // Mark all blocks for predication, including those that ordinarily do not
   // need predication such as the header block.
   for (BasicBlock *BB : TheLoop->blocks()) {
-    [[maybe_unused]] bool R = blockCanBePredicated(BB, SafePointers, MaskedOp);
+    [[maybe_unused]] bool R = blockCanBePredicated(BB, SafePointers, PredMaskedOps);
     assert(R && "Must be able to predicate block when tail-folding.");
   }
 }
diff --git a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorize.cpp b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorize.cpp
index 8013c47f53db0..75d772a184f73 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorize.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Vectorize/LoopVectorize.cpp
@@ -2838,7 +2838,7 @@ bool LoopVectorizationCostModel::isPredicatedInst(Instruction *I) const {
   // TODO: We can use the loop-preheader as context point here and get
   // context sensitive reasoning for isSafeToSpeculativelyExecute.
   if (isSafeToSpeculativelyExecute(I) ||
-      (isa<LoadInst, StoreInst, CallInst>(I) && !Legal->isMaskRequired(I)) ||
+      (isa<LoadInst, StoreInst, CallInst>(I) && !Legal->isMaskRequired(I, foldTailByMasking())) ||
       isa<BranchInst, SwitchInst, PHINode, AllocaInst>(I))
     return false;
 
@@ -2863,7 +2863,7 @@ bool LoopVectorizationCostModel::isPredicatedInst(Instruction *I) const {
   case Instruction::Call:
     // Side-effects of a Call are assumed to be non-invariant, needing a
     // (fold-tail) mask.
-    assert(Legal->isMaskRequired(I) &&
+    assert(Legal->isMaskRequired(I, foldTailByMasking()) &&
            "should have returned earlier for calls not needing a mask");
     return true;
   case Instruction::Load:
@@ -2991,7 +2991,7 @@ bool LoopVectorizationCostModel::interleavedAccessCanBeWidened(
   // load, or any gaps in a store-access).
   bool PredicatedAccessRequiresMasking =
       blockNeedsPredicationForAnyReason(I->getParent()) &&
-      Legal->isMaskRequired(I);
+      Legal->isMaskRequired(I, foldTailByMasking());
   bool LoadAccessWithGapsRequiresEpilogMasking =
       isa<LoadInst>(I) && Group->requiresScalarEpilogue() &&
       !isScalarEpilogueAllowed();
@@ -5250,7 +5250,7 @@ LoopVectorizationCostModel::getConsecutiveMemOpCost(Instruction *I,
          "Stride should be 1 or -1 for consecutive memory access");
   const Align Alignment = getLoadStoreAlignment(I);
   InstructionCost Cost = 0;
-  if (Legal->isMaskRequired(I)) {
+  if (Legal->isMaskRequired(I, foldTailByMasking())) {
     unsigned IID = I->getOpcode() == Instruction::Load
                        ? Intrinsic::masked_load
                        : Intrinsic::masked_store;
@@ -5315,7 +5315,7 @@ LoopVectorizationCostModel::getGatherScatterCost(Instruction *I,
 
   return TTI.getAddressComputationCost(PtrTy, nullptr, nullptr, CostKind) +
          TTI.getGatherScatterOpCost(I->getOpcode(), VectorTy, Ptr,
-                                    Legal->isMaskRequired(I), Alignment,
+                                    Legal->isMaskRequired(I, foldTailByMasking()), Alignment,
                                     CostKind, I);
 }
 
@@ -5345,12 +5345,12 @@ LoopVectorizationCostModel::getInterleaveGroupCost(Instruction *I,
       (isa<StoreInst>(I) && !Group->isFull());
   InstructionCost Cost = TTI.getInterleavedMemoryOpCost(
       InsertPos->getOpcode(), WideVecTy, Group->getFactor(), Indices,
-      Group->getAlign(), AS, CostKind, Legal->isMaskRequired(I),
+      Group->getAlign(), AS, CostKind, Legal->isMaskRequired(I, foldTailByMasking()),
       UseMaskForGaps);
 
   if (Group->isReverse()) {
     // TODO: Add support for reversed masked interleaved access.
-    assert(!Legal->isMaskRequired(I) &&
+    assert(!Legal->isMaskRequired(I, foldTailByMasking()) &&
            "Reverse masked interleaved access not supported.");
     Cost += Group->getNumMembers() *
             TTI.getShuffleCost(TargetTransformInfo::SK_Reverse, VectorTy,
@@ -5888,7 +5888,7 @@ void LoopVectorizationCostModel::setVectorizedCallDecision(ElementCount VF) {
         continue;
       }
 
-      bool MaskRequired = Legal->isMaskRequired(CI);
+      bool MaskRequired = Legal->isMaskRequired(CI, foldTailByMasking());
       // Compute corresponding vector type for return value and arguments.
       Type *RetTy = toVectorizedTy(ScalarRetTy, VF);
       for (Type *ScalarTy : ScalarTys)
@@ -7578,7 +7578,7 @@ VPWidenMemoryRecipe *VPRecipeBuilder::tryToWidenMemory(VPInstruction *VPI,
     return nullptr;
 
   VPValue *Mask = nullptr;
-  if (Legal->isMaskRequired(I))
+  if (Legal->isMaskRequired(I, CM.foldTailByMasking()))
     Mask = getBlockInMask(Builder.getInsertBlock());
 
   // Determine if the pointer operand of the access is either consecutive or
@@ -7796,7 +7796,7 @@ VPSingleDefRecipe *VPRecipeBuilder::tryToWidenCall(VPInstruction *VPI,
       //      vector variant at this VF requires a mask, so we synthesize an
       //      all-true mask.
       VPValue *Mask = nullptr;
-      if (Legal->isMaskRequired(CI))
+      if (Legal->isMaskRequired(CI, CM.foldTailByMasking()))
         Mask = getBlockInMask(Builder.getInsertBlock());
       else
         Mask = Plan.getOrAddLiveIn(
@@ -7919,7 +7919,7 @@ VPHistogramRecipe *VPRecipeBuilder::tryToWidenHistogram(const HistogramInfo *HI,
 
   // In case of predicated execution (due to tail-folding, or conditional
   // execution, or both), pass the relevant mask.
-  if (Legal->isMaskRequired(HI->Store))
+  if (Legal->isMaskRequired(HI->Store, CM.foldTailByMasking()))
     HGramOps.push_back(getBlockInMask(Builder.getInsertBlock()));
 
   return new VPHistogramRecipe(Opcode, HGramOps, VPI->getDebugLoc());

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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/169509


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