[LLVMdev] Masked vector intrinsics and name mangling

Pete Cooper peter_cooper at apple.com
Tue Oct 28 10:28:18 PDT 2014


> On Oct 27, 2014, at 2:45 AM, Demikhovsky, Elena <elena.demikhovsky at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Thank you. I'll reopen the question when I will have the intrinsics completed.
I think we can actually handle this with only a minor improvement to the existing intrinsic code.  For example, fabs is defined as 

def int_fabs : Intrinsic<[llvm_anyfloat_ty], [LLVMMatchType<0>]>;

and so you can just write one type, not two: @llvm.fabs.f64(double %Val)

Similarly, you gave this definition

def int_masked_load :
      Intrinsic<[llvm_anyvector_ty], [llvm_anyptr_ty, llvm_anyvector_ty, llvm_anyint_ty, llvm_anyvector_ty],
                [IntrReadArgMem, NoNameMangling]>; // new property

but we could add some new types (and force alignment to i32 which matches memcpy) to make it

def int_masked_load :
      Intrinsic<[llvm_anyvector_ty], [LLVMPointerToType<0>, LLVMMatchType<0>, llvm_i32_ty, LLVMVectorWithSameWidth<0, llvm_i1_ty>],
                [IntrReadArgMem]>;

Now LLVM can infer everything from the return type and so the whole name here is

%res = call <16 x i32> @llvm.masked.load.v16i32(<16 x i32>* %addr, <16 x i32>%passthru, i32 4, <16 x i1> %mask)

Note that i’ve defined 'LLVMPointerToType<0>’ here which would make the first argument a vector pointer.  If you prefer the scalar as you originally gave then i’m sure we can define something even more complicated like ‘LLVMPointerToType<LLVMGetScalarType<0>>'

Thanks,
Pete
> 
> -  Elena
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Reames [mailto:listmail at philipreames.com <mailto:listmail at philipreames.com>] 
> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 17:55
> To: Hal Finkel
> Cc: Demikhovsky, Elena; llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu <mailto:llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Masked vector intrinsics and name mangling
> 
> 
> 
>> On Oct 26, 2014, at 8:22 AM, Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov> wrote:
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Elena Demikhovsky" <elena.demikhovsky at intel.com>
>>> To: "Hal Finkel" <hfinkel at anl.gov>
>>> Cc: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
>>> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 10:17:49 AM
>>> Subject: RE: [LLVMdev] Masked vector intrinsics and name mangling
>>> 
>>> Hal, thank you for your opinion.
>>> I just was confused when I saw so long name "
>>> llvm.masked.load.v16i32.p0i32.v16i32.i32.v16i1" .
>>> If we stay with a short name, we do a step towards instruction form.
>> 
>> I completely understand, I just don't think it matters all that much, and the logic necessary to handle it will just become a source of bugs (and thus a distraction). You don't need to worry about the exact mangled name when working with the intrinsic at the IR level. Let's get the intrinsic in first, we can always shorten the name later in a backward-compatible fashion if we decide it is worthwhile. I think one could make an argument that the mangling is really unnecessary on all of the intrinsics, and maybe this is an improvement worth making, but I think we should deal with it as a separate matter.
> I agree with Hal on both points here.  It's worth discussing how to remove mangling for all intrinsics, but that should be a separate discussion. 
> 
> +1 for the proposed intrinsics
> 
> Philip
> 
>> 
>> Thanks again,
>> Hal
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -  Elena
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Hal Finkel [mailto:hfinkel at anl.gov]
>>> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 17:06
>>> To: Demikhovsky, Elena
>>> Cc: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
>>> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Masked vector intrinsics and name mangling
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Elena Demikhovsky" <elena.demikhovsky at intel.com>
>>>> To: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
>>>> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 5:34:46 AM
>>>> Subject: [LLVMdev] Masked vector intrinsics and name mangling
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> The proposed masked vector intrinsics are overloaded - one intrinsic 
>>>> ID for multiple types.
>>>> After name mangling it will look like:
>>>> 
>>>> %res = call <16 x i32>
>>>> @llvm.masked.load.v16i32.p0i32.v16i32.i32.v16i1(i32* %addr, <16 x
>>>> i32>%passthru, i32 4, <16 x i1> %mask)
>>>> 6 types x 3 vector sizes = 18 names for one operation
>>>> 
>>>> I propose to remove name mangling from these intrinsics:
>>>> %res = call <16 x i32> @llvm.masked.load (i32* %addr, <16 x
>>>> i32>%passthru, i32 4, <16 x i1> %mask)
>>>> 
>>>> def int_masked_load :
>>>> Intrinsic<[llvm_anyvector_ty], [llvm_anyptr_ty, llvm_anyvector_ty, 
>>>> llvm_anyint_ty, llvm_anyvector_ty], [IntrReadArgMem, 
>>>> NoNameMangling]>; // new property
>>>> 
>>>> It will significantly simplify reading and manual writing.
>>>> What do you think?
>>> 
>>> We already have this kind of situation for @llvm.memcpy and friends, 
>>> and while it can make the IR look verbose at times, we have 
>>> reasonable interfaces for creating and manipulating these at the C++ 
>>> level, so I don't think it is worthwhile to further complicate the 
>>> system.
>>> 
>>> -Hal
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>   * Elena
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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