1 //==- AArch64PromoteConstant.cpp - Promote constant to global for AArch64 --==//
3 // Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
4 // See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
5 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
7 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
9 // This file implements the AArch64PromoteConstant pass which promotes constants
10 // to global variables when this is likely to be more efficient. Currently only
11 // types related to constant vector (i.e., constant vector, array of constant
12 // vectors, constant structure with a constant vector field, etc.) are promoted
13 // to global variables. Constant vectors are likely to be lowered in target
14 // constant pool during instruction selection already; therefore, the access
15 // will remain the same (memory load), but the structure types are not split
16 // into different constant pool accesses for each field. A bonus side effect is
17 // that created globals may be merged by the global merge pass.
19 // FIXME: This pass may be useful for other targets too.
20 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
23 #include "llvm/ADT/DenseMap.h"
24 #include "llvm/ADT/SmallVector.h"
25 #include "llvm/ADT/Statistic.h"
26 #include "llvm/IR/BasicBlock.h"
27 #include "llvm/IR/Constant.h"
28 #include "llvm/IR/Constants.h"
29 #include "llvm/IR/Dominators.h"
30 #include "llvm/IR/Function.h"
31 #include "llvm/IR/GlobalValue.h"
32 #include "llvm/IR/GlobalVariable.h"
33 #include "llvm/IR/IRBuilder.h"
34 #include "llvm/IR/InlineAsm.h"
35 #include "llvm/IR/InstIterator.h"
36 #include "llvm/IR/Instruction.h"
37 #include "llvm/IR/Instructions.h"
38 #include "llvm/IR/IntrinsicInst.h"
39 #include "llvm/IR/Module.h"
40 #include "llvm/IR/Type.h"
41 #include "llvm/Pass.h"
42 #include "llvm/Support/Casting.h"
43 #include "llvm/Support/CommandLine.h"
44 #include "llvm/Support/Debug.h"
45 #include "llvm/Support/raw_ostream.h"
52 #define DEBUG_TYPE "aarch64-promote-const"
54 // Stress testing mode - disable heuristics.
55 static cl::opt
<bool> Stress("aarch64-stress-promote-const", cl::Hidden
,
56 cl::desc("Promote all vector constants"));
58 STATISTIC(NumPromoted
, "Number of promoted constants");
59 STATISTIC(NumPromotedUses
, "Number of promoted constants uses");
61 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
62 // AArch64PromoteConstant
63 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
67 /// Promotes interesting constant into global variables.
68 /// The motivating example is:
69 /// static const uint16_t TableA[32] = {
70 /// 41944, 40330, 38837, 37450, 36158, 34953, 33826, 32768,
71 /// 31776, 30841, 29960, 29128, 28340, 27595, 26887, 26215,
72 /// 25576, 24967, 24386, 23832, 23302, 22796, 22311, 21846,
73 /// 21400, 20972, 20561, 20165, 19785, 19419, 19066, 18725,
76 /// uint8x16x4_t LoadStatic(void) {
78 /// ret.val[0] = vld1q_u16(TableA + 0);
79 /// ret.val[1] = vld1q_u16(TableA + 8);
80 /// ret.val[2] = vld1q_u16(TableA + 16);
81 /// ret.val[3] = vld1q_u16(TableA + 24);
85 /// The constants in this example are folded into the uses. Thus, 4 different
86 /// constants are created.
88 /// As their type is vector the cheapest way to create them is to load them
91 /// Therefore the final assembly final has 4 different loads. With this pass
92 /// enabled, only one load is issued for the constants.
93 class AArch64PromoteConstant
: public ModulePass
{
95 struct PromotedConstant
{
96 bool ShouldConvert
= false;
97 GlobalVariable
*GV
= nullptr;
99 using PromotionCacheTy
= SmallDenseMap
<Constant
*, PromotedConstant
, 16>;
101 struct UpdateRecord
{
106 UpdateRecord(Constant
*C
, Instruction
*User
, unsigned Op
)
107 : C(C
), User(User
), Op(Op
) {}
112 AArch64PromoteConstant() : ModulePass(ID
) {
113 initializeAArch64PromoteConstantPass(*PassRegistry::getPassRegistry());
116 StringRef
getPassName() const override
{ return "AArch64 Promote Constant"; }
118 /// Iterate over the functions and promote the interesting constants into
119 /// global variables with module scope.
120 bool runOnModule(Module
&M
) override
{
121 LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << getPassName() << '\n');
124 bool Changed
= false;
125 PromotionCacheTy PromotionCache
;
127 Changed
|= runOnFunction(MF
, PromotionCache
);
133 /// Look for interesting constants used within the given function.
134 /// Promote them into global variables, load these global variables within
135 /// the related function, so that the number of inserted load is minimal.
136 bool runOnFunction(Function
&F
, PromotionCacheTy
&PromotionCache
);
138 // This transformation requires dominator info
139 void getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage
&AU
) const override
{
140 AU
.setPreservesCFG();
141 AU
.addRequired
<DominatorTreeWrapperPass
>();
142 AU
.addPreserved
<DominatorTreeWrapperPass
>();
145 /// Type to store a list of Uses.
146 using Uses
= SmallVector
<std::pair
<Instruction
*, unsigned>, 4>;
147 /// Map an insertion point to all the uses it dominates.
148 using InsertionPoints
= DenseMap
<Instruction
*, Uses
>;
150 /// Find the closest point that dominates the given Use.
151 Instruction
*findInsertionPoint(Instruction
&User
, unsigned OpNo
);
153 /// Check if the given insertion point is dominated by an existing
155 /// If true, the given use is added to the list of dominated uses for
156 /// the related existing point.
157 /// \param NewPt the insertion point to be checked
158 /// \param User the user of the constant
159 /// \param OpNo the operand number of the use
160 /// \param InsertPts existing insertion points
161 /// \pre NewPt and all instruction in InsertPts belong to the same function
162 /// \return true if one of the insertion point in InsertPts dominates NewPt,
164 bool isDominated(Instruction
*NewPt
, Instruction
*User
, unsigned OpNo
,
165 InsertionPoints
&InsertPts
);
167 /// Check if the given insertion point can be merged with an existing
168 /// insertion point in a common dominator.
169 /// If true, the given use is added to the list of the created insertion
171 /// \param NewPt the insertion point to be checked
172 /// \param User the user of the constant
173 /// \param OpNo the operand number of the use
174 /// \param InsertPts existing insertion points
175 /// \pre NewPt and all instruction in InsertPts belong to the same function
176 /// \pre isDominated returns false for the exact same parameters.
177 /// \return true if it exists an insertion point in InsertPts that could
178 /// have been merged with NewPt in a common dominator,
180 bool tryAndMerge(Instruction
*NewPt
, Instruction
*User
, unsigned OpNo
,
181 InsertionPoints
&InsertPts
);
183 /// Compute the minimal insertion points to dominates all the interesting
185 /// Insertion points are group per function and each insertion point
186 /// contains a list of all the uses it dominates within the related function
187 /// \param User the user of the constant
188 /// \param OpNo the operand number of the constant
189 /// \param[out] InsertPts output storage of the analysis
190 void computeInsertionPoint(Instruction
*User
, unsigned OpNo
,
191 InsertionPoints
&InsertPts
);
193 /// Insert a definition of a new global variable at each point contained in
194 /// InsPtsPerFunc and update the related uses (also contained in
196 void insertDefinitions(Function
&F
, GlobalVariable
&GV
,
197 InsertionPoints
&InsertPts
);
199 /// Do the constant promotion indicated by the Updates records, keeping track
200 /// of globals in PromotionCache.
201 void promoteConstants(Function
&F
, SmallVectorImpl
<UpdateRecord
> &Updates
,
202 PromotionCacheTy
&PromotionCache
);
204 /// Transfer the list of dominated uses of IPI to NewPt in InsertPts.
205 /// Append Use to this list and delete the entry of IPI in InsertPts.
206 static void appendAndTransferDominatedUses(Instruction
*NewPt
,
207 Instruction
*User
, unsigned OpNo
,
208 InsertionPoints::iterator
&IPI
,
209 InsertionPoints
&InsertPts
) {
210 // Record the dominated use.
211 IPI
->second
.emplace_back(User
, OpNo
);
212 // Transfer the dominated uses of IPI to NewPt
213 // Inserting into the DenseMap may invalidate existing iterator.
214 // Keep a copy of the key to find the iterator to erase. Keep a copy of the
215 // value so that we don't have to dereference IPI->second.
216 Instruction
*OldInstr
= IPI
->first
;
217 Uses OldUses
= std::move(IPI
->second
);
218 InsertPts
[NewPt
] = std::move(OldUses
);
220 InsertPts
.erase(OldInstr
);
224 } // end anonymous namespace
226 char AArch64PromoteConstant::ID
= 0;
228 INITIALIZE_PASS_BEGIN(AArch64PromoteConstant
, "aarch64-promote-const",
229 "AArch64 Promote Constant Pass", false, false)
230 INITIALIZE_PASS_DEPENDENCY(DominatorTreeWrapperPass
)
231 INITIALIZE_PASS_END(AArch64PromoteConstant
, "aarch64-promote-const",
232 "AArch64 Promote Constant Pass", false, false)
234 ModulePass
*llvm::createAArch64PromoteConstantPass() {
235 return new AArch64PromoteConstant();
238 /// Check if the given type uses a vector type.
239 static bool isConstantUsingVectorTy(const Type
*CstTy
) {
240 if (CstTy
->isVectorTy())
242 if (CstTy
->isStructTy()) {
243 for (unsigned EltIdx
= 0, EndEltIdx
= CstTy
->getStructNumElements();
244 EltIdx
< EndEltIdx
; ++EltIdx
)
245 if (isConstantUsingVectorTy(CstTy
->getStructElementType(EltIdx
)))
247 } else if (CstTy
->isArrayTy())
248 return isConstantUsingVectorTy(CstTy
->getArrayElementType());
252 /// Check if the given use (Instruction + OpIdx) of Cst should be converted into
253 /// a load of a global variable initialized with Cst.
254 /// A use should be converted if it is legal to do so.
255 /// For instance, it is not legal to turn the mask operand of a shuffle vector
256 /// into a load of a global variable.
257 static bool shouldConvertUse(const Constant
*Cst
, const Instruction
*Instr
,
259 // shufflevector instruction expects a const for the mask argument, i.e., the
260 // third argument. Do not promote this use in that case.
261 if (isa
<const ShuffleVectorInst
>(Instr
) && OpIdx
== 2)
264 // extractvalue instruction expects a const idx.
265 if (isa
<const ExtractValueInst
>(Instr
) && OpIdx
> 0)
268 // extractvalue instruction expects a const idx.
269 if (isa
<const InsertValueInst
>(Instr
) && OpIdx
> 1)
272 if (isa
<const AllocaInst
>(Instr
) && OpIdx
> 0)
275 // Alignment argument must be constant.
276 if (isa
<const LoadInst
>(Instr
) && OpIdx
> 0)
279 // Alignment argument must be constant.
280 if (isa
<const StoreInst
>(Instr
) && OpIdx
> 1)
283 // Index must be constant.
284 if (isa
<const GetElementPtrInst
>(Instr
) && OpIdx
> 0)
287 // Personality function and filters must be constant.
288 // Give up on that instruction.
289 if (isa
<const LandingPadInst
>(Instr
))
292 // Switch instruction expects constants to compare to.
293 if (isa
<const SwitchInst
>(Instr
))
296 // Expected address must be a constant.
297 if (isa
<const IndirectBrInst
>(Instr
))
300 // Do not mess with intrinsics.
301 if (isa
<const IntrinsicInst
>(Instr
))
304 // Do not mess with inline asm.
305 const CallInst
*CI
= dyn_cast
<const CallInst
>(Instr
);
306 return !(CI
&& isa
<const InlineAsm
>(CI
->getCalledValue()));
309 /// Check if the given Cst should be converted into
310 /// a load of a global variable initialized with Cst.
311 /// A constant should be converted if it is likely that the materialization of
312 /// the constant will be tricky. Thus, we give up on zero or undef values.
314 /// \todo Currently, accept only vector related types.
315 /// Also we give up on all simple vector type to keep the existing
316 /// behavior. Otherwise, we should push here all the check of the lowering of
317 /// BUILD_VECTOR. By giving up, we lose the potential benefit of merging
318 /// constant via global merge and the fact that the same constant is stored
319 /// only once with this method (versus, as many function that uses the constant
320 /// for the regular approach, even for float).
321 /// Again, the simplest solution would be to promote every
322 /// constant and rematerialize them when they are actually cheap to create.
323 static bool shouldConvertImpl(const Constant
*Cst
) {
324 if (isa
<const UndefValue
>(Cst
))
327 // FIXME: In some cases, it may be interesting to promote in memory
328 // a zero initialized constant.
329 // E.g., when the type of Cst require more instructions than the
330 // adrp/add/load sequence or when this sequence can be shared by several
332 // Ideally, we could promote this into a global and rematerialize the constant
333 // when it was a bad idea.
334 if (Cst
->isZeroValue())
340 // FIXME: see function \todo
341 if (Cst
->getType()->isVectorTy())
343 return isConstantUsingVectorTy(Cst
->getType());
347 shouldConvert(Constant
&C
,
348 AArch64PromoteConstant::PromotionCacheTy
&PromotionCache
) {
349 auto Converted
= PromotionCache
.insert(
350 std::make_pair(&C
, AArch64PromoteConstant::PromotedConstant()));
351 if (Converted
.second
)
352 Converted
.first
->second
.ShouldConvert
= shouldConvertImpl(&C
);
353 return Converted
.first
->second
.ShouldConvert
;
356 Instruction
*AArch64PromoteConstant::findInsertionPoint(Instruction
&User
,
358 // If this user is a phi, the insertion point is in the related
359 // incoming basic block.
360 if (PHINode
*PhiInst
= dyn_cast
<PHINode
>(&User
))
361 return PhiInst
->getIncomingBlock(OpNo
)->getTerminator();
366 bool AArch64PromoteConstant::isDominated(Instruction
*NewPt
, Instruction
*User
,
368 InsertionPoints
&InsertPts
) {
369 DominatorTree
&DT
= getAnalysis
<DominatorTreeWrapperPass
>(
370 *NewPt
->getParent()->getParent()).getDomTree();
372 // Traverse all the existing insertion points and check if one is dominating
373 // NewPt. If it is, remember that.
374 for (auto &IPI
: InsertPts
) {
375 if (NewPt
== IPI
.first
|| DT
.dominates(IPI
.first
, NewPt
) ||
376 // When IPI.first is a terminator instruction, DT may think that
377 // the result is defined on the edge.
378 // Here we are testing the insertion point, not the definition.
379 (IPI
.first
->getParent() != NewPt
->getParent() &&
380 DT
.dominates(IPI
.first
->getParent(), NewPt
->getParent()))) {
381 // No need to insert this point. Just record the dominated use.
382 LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Insertion point dominated by:\n");
383 LLVM_DEBUG(IPI
.first
->print(dbgs()));
384 LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << '\n');
385 IPI
.second
.emplace_back(User
, OpNo
);
392 bool AArch64PromoteConstant::tryAndMerge(Instruction
*NewPt
, Instruction
*User
,
394 InsertionPoints
&InsertPts
) {
395 DominatorTree
&DT
= getAnalysis
<DominatorTreeWrapperPass
>(
396 *NewPt
->getParent()->getParent()).getDomTree();
397 BasicBlock
*NewBB
= NewPt
->getParent();
399 // Traverse all the existing insertion point and check if one is dominated by
400 // NewPt and thus useless or can be combined with NewPt into a common
402 for (InsertionPoints::iterator IPI
= InsertPts
.begin(),
403 EndIPI
= InsertPts
.end();
404 IPI
!= EndIPI
; ++IPI
) {
405 BasicBlock
*CurBB
= IPI
->first
->getParent();
406 if (NewBB
== CurBB
) {
407 // Instructions are in the same block.
408 // By construction, NewPt is dominating the other.
409 // Indeed, isDominated returned false with the exact same arguments.
410 LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Merge insertion point with:\n");
411 LLVM_DEBUG(IPI
->first
->print(dbgs()));
412 LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "\nat considered insertion point.\n");
413 appendAndTransferDominatedUses(NewPt
, User
, OpNo
, IPI
, InsertPts
);
417 // Look for a common dominator
418 BasicBlock
*CommonDominator
= DT
.findNearestCommonDominator(NewBB
, CurBB
);
419 // If none exists, we cannot merge these two points.
420 if (!CommonDominator
)
423 if (CommonDominator
!= NewBB
) {
424 // By construction, the CommonDominator cannot be CurBB.
425 assert(CommonDominator
!= CurBB
&&
426 "Instruction has not been rejected during isDominated check!");
427 // Take the last instruction of the CommonDominator as insertion point
428 NewPt
= CommonDominator
->getTerminator();
430 // else, CommonDominator is the block of NewBB, hence NewBB is the last
431 // possible insertion point in that block.
432 LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Merge insertion point with:\n");
433 LLVM_DEBUG(IPI
->first
->print(dbgs()));
434 LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << '\n');
435 LLVM_DEBUG(NewPt
->print(dbgs()));
436 LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << '\n');
437 appendAndTransferDominatedUses(NewPt
, User
, OpNo
, IPI
, InsertPts
);
443 void AArch64PromoteConstant::computeInsertionPoint(
444 Instruction
*User
, unsigned OpNo
, InsertionPoints
&InsertPts
) {
445 LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Considered use, opidx " << OpNo
<< ":\n");
446 LLVM_DEBUG(User
->print(dbgs()));
447 LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << '\n');
449 Instruction
*InsertionPoint
= findInsertionPoint(*User
, OpNo
);
451 LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Considered insertion point:\n");
452 LLVM_DEBUG(InsertionPoint
->print(dbgs()));
453 LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << '\n');
455 if (isDominated(InsertionPoint
, User
, OpNo
, InsertPts
))
457 // This insertion point is useful, check if we can merge some insertion
458 // point in a common dominator or if NewPt dominates an existing one.
459 if (tryAndMerge(InsertionPoint
, User
, OpNo
, InsertPts
))
462 LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Keep considered insertion point\n");
464 // It is definitely useful by its own
465 InsertPts
[InsertionPoint
].emplace_back(User
, OpNo
);
468 static void ensurePromotedGV(Function
&F
, Constant
&C
,
469 AArch64PromoteConstant::PromotedConstant
&PC
) {
470 assert(PC
.ShouldConvert
&&
471 "Expected that we should convert this to a global");
474 PC
.GV
= new GlobalVariable(
475 *F
.getParent(), C
.getType(), true, GlobalValue::InternalLinkage
, nullptr,
476 "_PromotedConst", nullptr, GlobalVariable::NotThreadLocal
);
477 PC
.GV
->setInitializer(&C
);
478 LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Global replacement: ");
479 LLVM_DEBUG(PC
.GV
->print(dbgs()));
480 LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << '\n');
484 void AArch64PromoteConstant::insertDefinitions(Function
&F
,
485 GlobalVariable
&PromotedGV
,
486 InsertionPoints
&InsertPts
) {
488 // Do more checking for debug purposes.
489 DominatorTree
&DT
= getAnalysis
<DominatorTreeWrapperPass
>(F
).getDomTree();
491 assert(!InsertPts
.empty() && "Empty uses does not need a definition");
493 for (const auto &IPI
: InsertPts
) {
494 // Create the load of the global variable.
495 IRBuilder
<> Builder(IPI
.first
);
496 LoadInst
*LoadedCst
=
497 Builder
.CreateLoad(PromotedGV
.getValueType(), &PromotedGV
);
498 LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "**********\n");
499 LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "New def: ");
500 LLVM_DEBUG(LoadedCst
->print(dbgs()));
501 LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << '\n');
503 // Update the dominated uses.
504 for (auto Use
: IPI
.second
) {
506 assert(DT
.dominates(LoadedCst
,
507 findInsertionPoint(*Use
.first
, Use
.second
)) &&
508 "Inserted definition does not dominate all its uses!");
511 dbgs() << "Use to update " << Use
.second
<< ":";
512 Use
.first
->print(dbgs());
515 Use
.first
->setOperand(Use
.second
, LoadedCst
);
521 void AArch64PromoteConstant::promoteConstants(
522 Function
&F
, SmallVectorImpl
<UpdateRecord
> &Updates
,
523 PromotionCacheTy
&PromotionCache
) {
524 // Promote the constants.
525 for (auto U
= Updates
.begin(), E
= Updates
.end(); U
!= E
;) {
526 LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "** Compute insertion points **\n");
528 Constant
*C
= First
->C
;
529 InsertionPoints InsertPts
;
531 computeInsertionPoint(U
->User
, U
->Op
, InsertPts
);
532 } while (++U
!= E
&& U
->C
== C
);
534 auto &Promotion
= PromotionCache
[C
];
535 ensurePromotedGV(F
, *C
, Promotion
);
536 insertDefinitions(F
, *Promotion
.GV
, InsertPts
);
540 bool AArch64PromoteConstant::runOnFunction(Function
&F
,
541 PromotionCacheTy
&PromotionCache
) {
542 // Look for instructions using constant vector. Promote that constant to a
543 // global variable. Create as few loads of this variable as possible and
544 // update the uses accordingly.
545 SmallVector
<UpdateRecord
, 64> Updates
;
546 for (Instruction
&I
: instructions(&F
)) {
547 // Traverse the operand, looking for constant vectors. Replace them by a
548 // load of a global variable of constant vector type.
549 for (Use
&U
: I
.operands()) {
550 Constant
*Cst
= dyn_cast
<Constant
>(U
);
551 // There is no point in promoting global values as they are already
552 // global. Do not promote constant expressions either, as they may
553 // require some code expansion.
554 if (!Cst
|| isa
<GlobalValue
>(Cst
) || isa
<ConstantExpr
>(Cst
))
557 // Check if this constant is worth promoting.
558 if (!shouldConvert(*Cst
, PromotionCache
))
561 // Check if this use should be promoted.
562 unsigned OpNo
= &U
- I
.op_begin();
563 if (!shouldConvertUse(Cst
, &I
, OpNo
))
566 Updates
.emplace_back(Cst
, &I
, OpNo
);
573 promoteConstants(F
, Updates
, PromotionCache
);