Eli Friedman 9f4509ce02 [SCEV] Make howFarToZero max backedge-taken count check for precondition.
Refines max backedge-taken count if a loop like
"for (int i = 0; i != n; ++i) { /* body */ }" is rotated.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D28536

llvm-svn: 291704
2017-01-11 21:07:15 +00:00
..
2016-08-25 01:29:55 +00:00
2016-04-18 09:17:29 +00:00

Analysis Opportunities:

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In test/Transforms/LoopStrengthReduce/quadradic-exit-value.ll, the
ScalarEvolution expression for %r is this:

  {1,+,3,+,2}<loop>

Outside the loop, this could be evaluated simply as (%n * %n), however
ScalarEvolution currently evaluates it as

  (-2 + (2 * (trunc i65 (((zext i64 (-2 + %n) to i65) * (zext i64 (-1 + %n) to i65)) /u 2) to i64)) + (3 * %n))

In addition to being much more complicated, it involves i65 arithmetic,
which is very inefficient when expanded into code.

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In formatValue in test/CodeGen/X86/lsr-delayed-fold.ll,

ScalarEvolution is forming this expression:

((trunc i64 (-1 * %arg5) to i32) + (trunc i64 %arg5 to i32) + (-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32)))

This could be folded to

(-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32))

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