[LLVMdev] forcing two instructions to be together

[Micah Villmow]

I used the A9 schedule as an example:
http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/lib/Target/ARM/ARMScheduleA9.td

The documentation could use more clarity, but this is how I was able to do it to always get two specific instructions to be scheduled together.
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From: reed kotler [rkotler at mips.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 8:54 PM
To: Micah Villmow
Cc: Owen Anderson; llvmdev Mailing List
Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] forcing two instructions to be together

On 09/17/2013 04:51 PM, Micah Villmow wrote:
> Reed,
>   Couldn't you also use instruction scheduling classes and specify that the second instruction has a bypass from the first instruction? The scheduler should always schedule them together in that case.
>
> Micah
>
I'm not sure exactly what you mean.

Can you point me to an example of that?

TIA.

Reed

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu] On
>> Behalf Of reed kotler
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 3:59 PM
>> To: Owen Anderson
>> Cc: llvmdev Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] forcing two instructions to be together
>>
>> On 09/17/2013 03:52 PM, Owen Anderson wrote:
>>> +the list again
>>> On Sep 17, 2013, at 3:48 PM, reed kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 09/17/2013 03:46 PM, Owen Anderson wrote:
>>>>> On Sep 17, 2013, at 3:08 PM, reed kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there any way, except for using bundles, to force two instructions to be
>> sequentially executed?
>>>>> What level of codegen are you working at?  There are various mechanisms
>> that can be applied, depending on exactly what the constraints are that you
>> need to preserve.
>>>>> -Owen
>>>> I have two machine instructions that I need to be together.
>>>>
>>>>    BuildMI(MBB, I, DL, TII.get(Mips::LiRxImmAlignX16), V0)
>>>>      .addExternalSymbol("_gp_disp", MipsII::MO_ABS_HI);
>>>>    BuildMI(MBB, I, DL, TII.get(Mips::AddiuRxPcImmX16), V1)
>>>>      .addExternalSymbol("_gp_disp", MipsII::MO_ABS_LO);
>>>>
>>>> It's in Mips16ISelDagToDag.cpp
>>>>
>>>> these two have to be together because they are both part of a complex pc
>> relative calculation.
>>>> I have not used bundles yet and was just looking for an easy way to join
>> these two.
>>> Bundles is one way you can go.  Another is to use a pseudo instruction that is
>> broken up immediately before (or during!) MC emission.
>>> -Owen
>> I just tried this but something is wrong here. Well, I have not used bundles at
>> all.
>> I just know how they work conceptually. This compiled okay but I got some
>> constraint errors.
>>
>>     MIBundleBuilder(MBB, I)
>>       .append(BuildMI(MF, DL, TII.get(Mips::LiRxImmAlignX16), V0)
>>           .addExternalSymbol("_gp_disp", MipsII::MO_ABS_HI))
>>       .append(BuildMI(MF, DL, TII.get(Mips::AddiuRxPcImmX16), V1)
>>           .addExternalSymbol("_gp_disp", MipsII::MO_ABS_LO));
>>
>>
>>
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