[llvm-dev] Specify special cases of delay slots in the back end

[Hal Finkel via llvm-dev]

Hi Alex,

You can program a post-RA scheduler which will return NoopHazard in the 
appropriate circumstances. You can look at the PowerPC target (e.g. 
lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCHazardRecognizers.cpp) as an example.

  -Hal


On 02/02/2017 05:03 PM, Alex Susu via llvm-dev wrote:
>   Hello.
>     I see there is little information on specifying instructions with 
> delay slots.
>     So could you please tell me how can I insert NOPs (BEFORE or after 
> an instruction) or how to make an aware instruction scheduler in order 
> to avoid miscalculations due to the delay slot effect?
>
>     More exactly, I have the following constraints on my (SIMD) 
> processor:
>       - certain stores or loads, must be executed 1 cycle after the 
> instruction generating their input operands ends. For example, if I have:
>          R1 = R2 + R3
>          LS[R10] = R1 // this will not produce the correct result 
> because it does not see the updated value of R1 from the previous 
> instruction
>        To make this code execute correctly we need to insert a NOP:
>          R1 = R2 + R3
>          NOP // or other instruction to fill the delay slot
>          LS[R10] = R1
>
>       - a compare instruction requires to add a NOP after it, before 
> the predicated block (something like a conditional JMP instruction) 
> starts.
>
>
>   Thank you,
>     Alex
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Hal Finkel
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