tree 2b82d03aa63dac09d63134690d6ff43c5205904a
parent 8499a501e4381f8afd654eff0001e1ad4dc7bc09
author Andrea Di Biagio <Andrea_DiBiagio@sn.scee.net> 1419764855 +0000
committer Andrea Di Biagio <Andrea_DiBiagio@sn.scee.net> 1419764855 +0000

[CodeGenPrepare] Teach when it is profitable to speculate calls to @llvm.cttz/ctlz.

If the control flow is modelling an if-statement where the only instruction in
the 'then' basic block (excluding the terminator) is a call to cttz/ctlz,
CodeGenPrepare can try to speculate the cttz/ctlz call and simplify the control
flow graph.

Example:
\code
entry:
  %cmp = icmp eq i64 %val, 0
  br i1 %cmp, label %end.bb, label %then.bb

then.bb:
  %c = tail call i64 @llvm.cttz.i64(i64 %val, i1 true)
  br label %end.bb

end.bb:
  %cond = phi i64 [ %c, %then.bb ], [ 64, %entry]
\code

In this example, basic block %then.bb is taken if value %val is not zero.
Also, the phi node in %end.bb would propagate the size-of in bits of %val
only if %val is equal to zero.

With this patch, CodeGenPrepare will try to hoist the call to cttz from %then.bb
into basic block %entry only if cttz is cheap to speculate for the target.

Added two new hooks in TargetLowering.h to let targets customize the behavior
(i.e. decide whether it is cheap or not to speculate calls to cttz/ctlz). The
two new methods are 'isCheapToSpeculateCtlz' and 'isCheapToSpeculateCttz'.
By default, both methods return 'false'.
On X86, method 'isCheapToSpeculateCtlz' returns true only if the target has
LZCNT. Method 'isCheapToSpeculateCttz' only returns true if the target has BMI.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6728


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@224899 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8