llvm/lib/Analysis
Haicheng Wu b893afb0a5 Reapply "[LoopUnroll] Use the upper bound of the loop trip count to fullly unroll a loop"
Reappy r284044 after revert in r284051. Krzysztof fixed the error in r284049.

The original summary:

This patch tries to fully unroll loops having break statement like this

for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
    if (a[i] == value) {
        found = true;
        break;
    }
}

GCC can fully unroll such loops, but currently LLVM cannot because LLVM only
supports loops having exact constant trip counts.

The upper bound of the trip count can be obtained from calling
ScalarEvolution::getMaxBackedgeTakenCount(). Part of the patch is the
refactoring work in SCEV to prevent duplicating code.

The feature of using the upper bound is enabled under the same circumstance
when runtime unrolling is enabled since both are used to unroll loops without
knowing the exact constant trip count.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@284053 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2016-10-12 21:29:38 +00:00
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2016-08-25 01:29:55 +00:00
2016-07-28 23:31:12 +00:00
2016-04-18 09:17:29 +00:00
2016-10-02 00:09:57 +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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