[llvm-dev] scratch register for spill/reload
Peter Bergner via llvm-dev
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Mon Oct 11 10:42:50 PDT 2021
On 10/9/21 11:00 AM, David Callahan via llvm-dev wrote:
> I have a target architecture with a register class that requires a GPR as a scratch register to implement spill and reload operations. I have experimented with just using a pseudo instruction then scavenging a GPR on demand when that pseudo is lowered but that is not robust. Is there a protocol to allow a point GPR to be allocated when a spill or reload is generated?
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> I tried to add a suitable virtual register as an implicit def, but this failed, at least in the fast register allocator, because the generated instruction is apparently not visited.
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> My fall back was to add an implicit definition of an ABI defined scratch physical register. That generated incorrect code for some tests with the default allocator.
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> How have other targets managed this problem?
I can't answer how the ppc backend solves this, but the condition registers and link
register on ppc/ppc64 have no load and store registers, so to spill them, you first
have to copy them to/from a GPR and spill them that way. If this is similar to your
register class limitation, you could see how the ppc backend does this.
Peter
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