[LLVMdev] Use of llvm.prefetch intrinsic for basicblock prefetching

[Hal Finkel]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "usha shau" <ushashau1 at gmail.com>
> To: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 7:01:20 AM
> Subject: [LLVMdev] Use of llvm.prefetch intrinsic for basicblock prefetching
>
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I am new to LLVM and using it for my project where I want to perform
> software prefetching of code blocks.
> I am not able to use the llvm.prefetch instruction to fetch a block
> of code in instruction cache. The LangRef manual mentions that
> giving last argument as '0' performs prefetch on instruction cache.
> However, I get the following error when I do that.
> 
> LLVM ERROR: Cannot select: 0x2a39348: ch = Prefetch 0x2a39030,
> 0x2a39138, 0x2a38c10, 0x2a39240, 0x2a38c10<LD1[%x1]> [ORD=9] [ID=15]
> 0x2a39138: i64 = FrameIndex<1> [ID=4]
> 0x2a38c10: i32 = Constant<0> [ID=1]
> 0x2a39240: i32 = Constant<1> [ID=5]
> 0x2a38c10: i32 = Constant<0> [ID=1]
> In function: main
> 
> 
> What does this error mean?
> Can anyone please tell me if I can inform the processor to prefetch
> code to instruction cache?

It means that the target backend does not implement that prefetch variant and that it does not provide the appropriate fall-back behavior. What architecture are you targeting?

Generally speaking, please file a bug report.

 -Hal

> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Usha
> 
> _______________________________________________
> LLVM Developers mailing list
> LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu         http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev
> 

-- 
Hal Finkel
Assistant Computational Scientist
Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne National Laboratory