A few benchmarks with lots of accesses to global variables in the hot
loops regressed a lot since r266399, which added the
SpeculativeExecution pass to the default pipeline. The problem is that
this pass doesn't mark Globals Alias Analysis as preserved. Globals
Alias Analysis is computed in a module pass, whereas
SpeculativeExecution is a function pass, and a lot of passes dependent
on the Globals Alias Analysis to optimize these benchmarks are also
function passes. As such, the Globals Alias Analysis information cannot
be recomputed between SpeculativeExecution and the following function
passes needing that information.
SpeculativeExecution doesn't invalidate Globals Alias Analysis, so mark
it as such to fix those performance regressions.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19806
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This patch implements a optimization bisect feature, which will allow optimizations to be selectively disabled at compile time in order to track down test failures that are caused by incorrect optimizations.
The bisection is enabled using a new command line option (-opt-bisect-limit). Individual passes that may be skipped call the OptBisect object (via an LLVMContext) to see if they should be skipped based on the bisect limit. A finer level of control (disabling individual transformations) can be managed through an addition OptBisect method, but this is not yet used.
The skip checking in this implementation is based on (and replaces) the skipOptnoneFunction check. Where that check was being called, a new call has been inserted in its place which checks the bisect limit and the optnone attribute. A new function call has been added for module and SCC passes that behaves in a similar way.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19172
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Summary:
This lets us add this pass to the IR pass manager unconditionally; it
will simply not do anything on targets without branch divergence.
Reviewers: tra
Subscribers: llvm-commits, jingyue, rnk, chandlerc
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18625
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Remove remaining `ilist_iterator` implicit conversions from
LLVMScalarOpts.
This change exposed some scary behaviour in
lib/Transforms/Scalar/SCCP.cpp around line 1770. This patch changes a
call from `Function::begin()` to `&Function::front()`, since the return
was immediately being passed into another function that takes a
`Function*`. `Function::front()` started to assert, since the function
was empty. Note that `Function::end()` does not point at a legal
`Function*` -- it points at an `ilist_half_node` -- so the other
function was getting garbage before. (I added the missing check for
`Function::isDeclaration()`.)
Otherwise, no functionality change intended.
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Summary:
This is a pass for speculative execution of instructions for simple if-then (triangle) control flow. It's aimed at GPUs, but could perhaps be used in other contexts. Enabling this pass gives us a 1.0% geomean improvement on Google benchmark suites, with one benchmark improving 33%.
Credit goes to Jingyue Wu for writing an earlier version of this pass.
Patched by Bjarke Roune.
Test Plan:
This patch adds a set of tests in test/Transforms/SpeculativeExecution/spec.ll
The pass is controlled by a flag which defaults to having the pass not run.
Reviewers: eliben, dberlin, meheff, jingyue, hfinkel
Reviewed By: jingyue, hfinkel
Subscribers: majnemer, jholewinski, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D9360
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