[llvm] [NVPTX] Respect FTZ flag when lowering atomicrmw fadd. (PR #200732)

Justin Lebar via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Jun 1 15:48:29 PDT 2026


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@@ -7467,22 +7467,52 @@ NVPTXTargetLowering::AtomicExpansionKind
 NVPTXTargetLowering::shouldExpandAtomicRMWInIR(const AtomicRMWInst *AI) const {
   Type *Ty = AI->getValOperand()->getType();
 
-  if (AI->isFloatingPointOperation()) {
-    if (AI->getOperation() == AtomicRMWInst::BinOp::FAdd) {
-      if (Ty->isHalfTy() && STI.getSmVersion() >= 70 &&
-          STI.getPTXVersion() >= 63)
-        return AtomicExpansionKind::None;
-      if (Ty->isBFloatTy() && STI.getSmVersion() >= 90 &&
-          STI.getPTXVersion() >= 78)
-        return AtomicExpansionKind::None;
-      if (Ty->isFloatTy())
-        return AtomicExpansionKind::None;
-      if (Ty->isDoubleTy() && STI.hasAtomAddF64())
-        return AtomicExpansionKind::None;
+  // Try to lower LLVM atomicrmw fadd to PTX atomic.add.  This is complicated
+  // by the weird FTZ behavior PTX atom.add has:
+  //   - atom.add.f32 on global memory flushes denormals
+  //   - atom.add.f32 on shared memory does not flush denormals
+  //   - atom.add.f16 and atomic.add.bf16 never flush denormals
+  //
+  // We lower to atom.add only if the function's FTZ behavior matches that of
+  // atom.add; otherwise, we lower to a CAS loop. But we always allow
+  // atomic.add.bf16; even though it never flushes denormals, we never flush
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jlebar wrote:

(Or are you saying that atom.add.bf16 will lower to a CAS loop inside the SASS, because it's a 16-bit atom?  I believe you.  As a result do you not want to use the PTX atomic?)

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/200732


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