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Whitney Tsang 8ee361ebe5 [LOOPINFO] Introduce the loop guard API.
Summary:
This is the first patch for the loop guard. We introduced
getLoopGuardBranch() and isGuarded().
This currently only works on simplified loop, as it requires a preheader
and a latch to identify the guard.
It will work on loops of the form:
/// GuardBB:
///   br cond1, Preheader, ExitSucc <== GuardBranch
/// Preheader:
///   br Header
/// Header:
///  ...
///   br Latch
/// Latch:
///   br cond2, Header, ExitBlock
/// ExitBlock:
///   br ExitSucc
/// ExitSucc:
Prior discussions leading upto the decision to introduce the loop guard
API: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-May/132607.html
Reviewer: reames, kbarton, hfinkel, jdoerfert, Meinersbur, dmgreen
Reviewed By: reames
Subscribers: wuzish, hiraditya, jsji, llvm-commits, bmahjour, etiotto
Tag: LLVM
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D63885

llvm-svn: 367033
2019-07-25 16:13:18 +00:00
..
2019-05-31 10:14:04 +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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