[llvm] [X86] Reimplement bundle alignment mode (PR #175830)

Fangrui Song via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Sun Jun 14 19:21:49 PDT 2026


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@@ -852,7 +916,144 @@ bool X86AsmBackend::padInstructionEncoding(MCFragment &RF,
   return Changed;
 }
 
+bool X86AsmBackend::padInstsBackward(SmallVectorImpl<MCFragment *> &Relaxable,
+                                     unsigned &RemainingSize) const {
+  bool Changed = false;
+  while (!Relaxable.empty() && RemainingSize != 0) {
+    auto &RF = *Relaxable.pop_back_val();
+    // Give the backend a chance to play any tricks it wishes to increase
+    // the encoding size of the given instruction.  Target independent code
+    // will try further relaxation, but target's may play further tricks.
+    Changed |= padInstructionEncoding(RF, Asm->getEmitter(), RemainingSize);
+
+    // If we have an instruction which hasn't been fully relaxed, we can't
+    // skip past it and insert bytes before it.  Changing its starting
+    // offset might require a larger negative offset than it can encode.
+    // We don't need to worry about larger positive offsets as none of the
+    // possible offsets between this and our align are visible, and the
+    // ones afterwards aren't changing.
+    if (mayNeedRelaxation(RF.getOpcode(), RF.getOperands(),
+                          *RF.getSubtargetInfo()))
+      break;
+  }
+  Relaxable.clear();
+  return Changed;
+}
+
+// Peephole is a list of Fragments that ends with non-zero-sized
+// BoundaryAlignFragment. Most of the time it will be every instruction within a
+// bundle, but there can be a partial bundle if it has nops in the middle(e.g.,
+// align_to_end).
+bool X86AsmBackend::dividePadInBundle(const MCAssembler &Asm,
+                                      ArrayRef<MCFragment *> Peephole) const {
+  bool Changed = false;
+
+  // Last Fragment is either FT_Align or FT_BoundaryAlign
+  auto *LastF = Peephole.back();
+  unsigned RemainingSize =
+      Asm.computeFragmentSize(*LastF) - LastF->getFixedSize();
+
+  unsigned StartOffset = Asm.getFragmentOffset(*LastF);
+  unsigned EndOffset = StartOffset + RemainingSize;
+  auto BoundaryAlignment = Align(Asm.getBundleAlignSize());
+  bool CrossBoundary = (StartOffset >> Log2(BoundaryAlignment)) !=
+                       ((EndOffset - 1) >> Log2(BoundaryAlignment));
+
+  if (CrossBoundary) {
+    // i.e., this pad is a mix of suffix fragment of one bundle + prefix of the
+    // very next bundle. It prevents overflow of the first bundle when Peephole
+    // contains more than one bundle.
+    //
+    // This design limits the possibly further-optimized code, which might be
+    // achieved by migrating some instructions to the next bundle, but doing
+    // such may cause fixup errors because instructions can shift by more than
+    // a bundle-size and labels may become unreachable. Until we come up with a
+    // better logic, we limits the optimization scope to a single bundle.
+    RemainingSize -= EndOffset % Asm.getBundleAlignSize();
+  }
+  assert(RemainingSize > 0);
+
+  SmallVector<MCFragment *, 4> Relaxable;
+  for (auto *FIB : Peephole) {
+    if (FIB->getKind() == MCFragment::FT_Data) // Skip and ignore
+      continue;
+
+    if (FIB->getKind() == MCFragment::FT_Align) {
+      // p2align within a bundle
+      Relaxable.clear();
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    if (FIB->getKind() == MCFragment::FT_Relaxable) {
+      auto &RF = cast<MCFragment>(*FIB);
+      Relaxable.push_back(&RF);
+      continue;
+    }
+  }
+
+  // First, try padding previous instructions.
+  Changed |= padInstsBackward(Relaxable, RemainingSize);
+
+  // Second, try padding following instructions.
+  auto padInstsForward = [&](unsigned &Size) {
+    auto *BF = cast<MCBoundaryAlignFragment>(LastF);
+    for (auto *F = BF->getNext();; F = F->getNext()) {
+      if (F->getKind() == MCFragment::FT_Relaxable)
+        Changed |= padInstructionEncoding(*F, Asm.getEmitter(), Size);
+      if (F == BF->getLastFragment() || Size == 0)
+        break;
+    }
+  };
+
+  unsigned TailSize = EndOffset % Asm.getBundleAlignSize();
+  if (!CrossBoundary && RemainingSize > 0 && TailSize != 0) {
+    padInstsForward(RemainingSize);
+  } else if (CrossBoundary && TailSize > 0) {
+    unsigned NextRemainingSize = TailSize;
+    padInstsForward(NextRemainingSize);
+    RemainingSize += NextRemainingSize;
+  }
+
+  // FT_Align sizes will be recalculated by layoutSection(),
+  // FT_BoundaryAlign sizes are adjusted here.
+  if (auto *BF = dyn_cast<MCBoundaryAlignFragment>(LastF))
+    BF->setSize(RemainingSize);
+
+  return Changed;
+}
+
+bool X86AsmBackend::optimizeBundleNops(const MCAssembler &Asm) const {
+  bool Changed = false;
+  for (MCSection &Sec : Asm) {
+    if (!Sec.isText())
+      continue;
+
+    SmallVector<MCFragment *, 4> Bundle;
+    for (MCSection::iterator I = Sec.begin(), IE = Sec.end(); I != IE; ++I) {
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MaskRay wrote:

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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/175830


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