[llvm-dev] Live Register Spilling

[jin chuan see via llvm-dev]

Hi Matthias,


Sorry for the late reply.

Yes, you are correct, I do have optnone attribute on my function.

I did pass -O0 to the tools.


For your information, my invocations are as below:


clang  --target=mips-unknown-linux  -mips32  test.c  -emit-llvm  -S

llc  -O0  -march=mips  -mcpu=mips32  test.ll  -o  test.s


Based on the generated .ll file, there is optnone attribute on the function, i am guessing this is due to the default optimization -O0 by clang if not specified.

As for the llc, i tried to invoke it with -O1,-O2,-O3. All of them resulted in failure during the phase "PROCESS IMPLICIT DEFS"

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From: mbraun at apple.com <mbraun at apple.com> on behalf of Matthias Braun <mbraun at apple.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 9, 2017 2:06 AM
To: jin chuan see
Cc: llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] Live Register Spilling

This would be a lot easier to discuss having a concrete example, llc invocations etc.

It sounds like you are using RegAllocFast, have you tried using the optimized register allocators (= make sure you don't have the optnone attribute on your function and are not passing -O0 to the tools).

- Matthias

On Sep 8, 2017, at 12:10 AM, jin chuan see via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org<mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:

Hi All,

I faced some problems while using the BuildMI().
Currently, i am trying to replace specific MI with a series of new MI.
I wrote a routine under the processFunctionAfterISel() to detect the targeted MI and replace it accordingly.
After using BuildMI() to perform my replacement, i realize there are unnecessary spilling and reloading of registers in the assembly generated.
By checking the llc debug output, i am suspecting that the virtual register states have been completely messed up.
This is because the spilling and reloading codes are only inserted at the register allocation phase, especially during the state of "Spilling live registers at the end of block".
These spilling and reloading codes are messing up the assembly generated, and the behavior of the code generated is undetermined.
I would like to know is there anything i can do to fix the virtual register use-def relationship?
Or is there any standard procedure i should follow to handle the MachineOperands while using BuildMI()?
Any opinions or suggestion are welcomed.

Regards,
JC
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