For each function, the analysis determine which SSA registers are live
at the beginning of each basic block and which one are killed at
the end of the basic block.
It also includes utilities to simulate the register pressure for loop
fusion and fission.
The implementation is based on the paper "A non-iterative data-flow
algorithm for computing liveness sets in strict ssa programs" from
Boissinot et al.
This pass replaces the load/store elimination passes. It implements the
SSA re-writing algorithm proposed in
Simple and Efficient Construction of Static Single Assignment Form.
Braun M., Buchwald S., Hack S., Leißa R., Mallon C., Zwinkau A. (2013)
In: Jhala R., De Bosschere K. (eds)
Compiler Construction. CC 2013.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7791.
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-37051-9_6
In contrast to common eager algorithms based on dominance and dominance
frontier information, this algorithm works backwards from load operations.
When a target variable is loaded, it queries the variable's reaching
definition. If the reaching definition is unknown at the current location,
it searches backwards in the CFG, inserting Phi instructions at join points
in the CFG along the way until it finds the desired store instruction.
The algorithm avoids repeated lookups using memoization.
For reducible CFGs, which are a superset of the structured CFGs in SPIRV,
this algorithm is proven to produce minimal SSA. That is, it inserts the
minimal number of Phi instructions required to ensure the SSA property, but
some Phi instructions may be dead
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single_assignment_form).
We are seeing shaders that have multiple returns in a functions. These
functions must get inlined for legalization purposes; however, the
inliner does not know how to inline functions that have multiple
returns.
The solution we will go with it to improve the merge return pass to
handle structured control flow.
Note that the merge return pass will assume the cfg has been cleanedup
by dead branch elimination.
Fixes#857.
It moves all conditional branching and switch whose conditions are loop
invariant and uniform. Before performing the loop unswitch we check that
the loop does not contain any instruction that would prevent it
(barriers, group instructions etc.).
This patch adds LoopUtils class to handle some loop related transformations. For now it has 2 transformations that simplifies other transformations such as loop unroll or unswitch:
- Dedicate exit blocks: this ensure that all exit basic block
(out-of-loop basic blocks that have a predecessor in the loop)
have all their predecessors in the loop;
- Loop Closed SSA (LCSSA): this ensure that all definitions in a loop are used inside the loop
or in a phi instruction in an exit basic block.
It also adds the following capabilities:
- Loop::IsLCSSA to test if the loop is in a LCSSA form
- Loop::GetOrCreatePreHeaderBlock that can build a loop preheader if required;
- New methods to allow on the fly updates of the loop descriptors.
- New methods to allow on the fly updates of the CFG analysis.
- Instruction::SetOperand to allow expression of the index relative to Instruction::NumOperands (to be compatible with the index returned by DefUseManager::ForEachUse)
* Handles simple cases only
* Identifies phis in blocks with two predecessors and attempts to
convert the phi to an select
* does not perform code motion currently so the converted values must
dominate the join point (e.g. can't be defined in the branches)
* limited for now to two predecessors, but can be extended to handle
more cases
* Adding if conversion to -O and -Os
* Added for Instruction, BasicBlock, Function and Module
* Uses new disassembly functionality that can disassemble individual
instructions
* For debug use only (no caching is done)
* Each output converts module to binary, parses and outputs an
individual instruction
* Added a test for whole module output
* Disabling Microsoft checked iterator warnings
* Updated check_copyright.py to accept 2018
Pass now paints live blocks and fixes constant branches and switches as
it goes. No longer requires structured control flow. It also removes
unreachable blocks as a side effect. It fixes the IR (phis) before doing
any code removal (other than terminator changes).
Added several unit tests for updated/new functionality.
Does not remove dead edge from a phi node:
* Checks that incoming edges are live in order to retain them
* Added BasicBlock::IsSuccessor
* added test
Fixing phi updates in the presence of extra backedge blocks
* Added tests to catch bug
Reworked how phis are updated
* Instead of creating a new Phi and RAUW'ing the old phi with it, I now
replace the phi operands, but maintain the def/use manager correctly.
For unreachable merge:
* When considering unreachable continue blocks the code now properly
checks whether the incoming edge will continue to be live.
Major refactoring for review
* Broke into 4 major functions
* marking live blocks
* marking structured targets
* fixing phis
* deleting blocks
Turn `Linker::Link()` into free functions
As very little information was kept in the Linker class, we can get rid
of the whole class and have the `Link()` as free functions instead; the
environment target as well as the consumer are passed along through an
`spv_context` object.
The resulting linked_binary is passed as a pointer rather than a
reference to follow the Google C++ Style guidelines.
Addresses remaining comments from
https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Tools/pull/693 about the SPIR-V
linker.
Fix variable naming in the linker
Some of the variables were using mixed case, which did not follow the
Google C++ Style guidelines.
Linker: Use EXPECT_EQ when possible and update some test
* Replace occurrences of ASSERT_EQ by EXPECT_EQ when possible;
* Reformulated some of the error messages;
* Added the symbol name in the error message when there is a type or
decoration mismatch between the imported and exported declarations.
Opt: List all duplicates removed by RemoveDuplicatePass in the header
Opt: Make the const version of GetLabelInst() return a pointer
For consistency with the non-const version, as well as other similar
functions.
Opt: Rename function_end to EndInst()
As pointed out by dneto0 the previous name was quite confusing and could
be mistaken with a function returning an end iterator.
Also change the return type of the const version to a pointer rather
than a reference, for consistency.
Opt: Add performance comment to RemoveDuplicateTypes and decorations
This comment was requested during the review of
https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Tools/pull/693.
Opt: Add comments and fix variable naming in RemoveDuplicatePass
* Add missing comments to private functions;
* Rename variables that were using mixed case;
* Add TODO for moving AreTypesEqual out.
Linker: Remove commented out code and add TODOs
Linker: Merged together strings that were too much splitted
Implement a C++ RAII wrapper around spv_context
When deleting branches and blocks, also remove them from
the backedges set, in case they were there.
This prevents us from keeping stale pointers to deleted Instruction
objects. That memory could be used later by another instruction,
incorrectly signaling that something has a backedge reference, and
the dead branch eliminator could end up deleting live blocks.
Adds accessor method ir::BasicBlock::terminator
Fixes https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Tools/issues/1168
Support for dominator and post dominator analysis on ir::Functions. This patch contains a DominatorTree class for building the tree and DominatorAnalysis and DominatorAnalysisPass classes for interfacing and caching the built trees.
The current method of removing an instruction is to call ToNop. The
problem with this is that it leaves around an instruction that later
passes will look at. We should just delete the instruction.
In MemPass there is a utility routine called DCEInst. It can delete
essentially any instruction, which can invalidate pointers now that they
are actually deleted. The interface was changed to add a call back that
can be used to update any local data structures that contain
ir::Intruction*.
This class implements a generic value propagation algorithm based on the
conditional constant propagation algorithm proposed in
Constant propagation with conditional branches,
Wegman and Zadeck, ACM TOPLAS 13(2):181-210.
The implementation is based on
A Propagation Engine for GCC
Diego Novillo, GCC Summit 2005
http://ols.fedoraproject.org/GCC/Reprints-2005/novillo-Reprint.pdf
The purpose of this implementation is to act as a common framework for any
transformation that needs to propagate values from statements producing new
values to statements using those values.
Each instruction is given an unique id that can be used for ordering
purposes. The ids are generated via the IRContext.
Major changes:
* Instructions now contain a uint32_t for unique id and a cached context
pointer
* Most constructors have been modified to take a context as input
* unfortunately I cannot remove the default and copy constructors, but
developers should avoid these
* Added accessors to parents of basic block and function
* Removed the copy constructors for BasicBlock and Function and replaced
them with Clone functions
* Reworked BuildModule to return an IRContext owning the built module
* Since all instructions require a context, the context now becomes the
basic unit for IR
* Added a constructor to context to create an owned module internally
* Replaced uses of Instruction's copy constructor with Clone whereever I
found them
* Reworked the linker functionality to perform clones into a different
context instead of moves
* Updated many tests to be consistent with the above changes
* Still need to add new tests to cover added functionality
* Added comparison operators to Instruction
* Added an internal option to LinkerOptions to verify merged ids are
unique
* Added a test for the linker to verify merged ids are unique
* Updated MergeReturnPass to supply a context
* Updated DecorationManager to supply a context for cloned decorations
* Reworked several portions of the def use tests in anticipation of next
set of changes
This class moves some of the CFG-related functionality into a new
class opt::CFG. There is some other code related to the CFG in the
inliner and in opt::LocalSingleStoreElimPass that should also be moved,
but that require more changes than this pure restructuring.
I will move those bits in a follow-up PR.
Currently, the CFG is computed every time a pass is instantiated, but
this should be later moved to the new IRContext class that @s-perron is
working on.
Other re-factoring:
- Add BasicBlock::ContinueBlockIdIfAny. Re-factored out of MergeBlockIdIfAny
- Rewrite IsLoopHeader in terms of GetLoopMergeInst.
- Run clang-format on some files.
This change will replace a number of the
std::vector<std::unique_ptr<Instruction>> member of the module to
InstructionList. This is for consistency and to make it easier to
delete instructions that are no longer needed.
This is the first step in replacing the std::vector of Instruction
pointers to using and intrusive linked list.
To this end, we created the InstructionList class. It inherites from
the IntrusiveList class, but add the extra concept of ownership. An
InstructionList owns the instruction that are in it. This is to be
consistent with the current ownership rules where the vector owns the
instruction that are in it.
The other larger change is that the inst_ member of the BasicBlock class
was changed to using the InstructionList class.
Added test for the InsertBefore functions, and making sure that the
InstructionList destructor will delete the elements that it contains.
I've also add extra comments to explain ownership a little better.
Add extra iterators for ir::Module's sections
Add extra getters to ir::Function
Add a const version of BasicBlock::GetLabelInst()
Use the max of all inputs' version as version
Split debug in debug1 and debug2
- Debug1 instructions have to be placed before debug2 instructions.
Error out if different addressing or memory models are found
Exit early if no binaries were given
Error out if entry points are redeclared
Implement copy ctors for Function and BasicBlock
- Visual Studio ends up generating copy constructors that call deleted
functions while compiling the linker code, while GCC and clang do not.
So explicitly write those functions to avoid Visual Studio messing up.
Move removing duplicate capabilities to its own pass
Add functions running on all IDs present in an instruction
Remove duplicate SpvOpExtInstImport
Give default options value for link functions
Remove linkage capability if not making a library
Check types before allowing to link
Detect if two types/variables/functions have different decorations
Remove decorations of imported variables/functions and their types
Add a DecorationManager
Add a method for removing all decorations of id
Add methods for removing operands from instructions
Error out if one of the modules has a non-zero schema
Update README.md to talk about the linker
Do not freak out if an imported built-in variable has no export
- DeadBranchElim: Make sure to mark orphan'd merge blocks and continue
targets as live.
- Add test with loop in dead branch
- Add test that orphan'd merge block is handled.
Fixes https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Tools/issues/776
This lets us write smaller test cases with the IrLoader, avoiding
boilerplate for function begin/end, and basic block begin/end.
Also ForEachInst is more forgiving of cases where a basic block
doesn't have a label, and when a function doesn't have a defining
or end instruction.
Also:
- Add const forms of ForEachInst
- Rewrite Module::ToBinary in terms of ForEachInst
- Add Instruction::ToBinaryWithoutAttachedDebugInsts
- Delete the ToBinary method on Function, BasicBlock, and Instruction
since it can now be implemented with ForEachInst in a less confusing
way, e.g. without recursion.
- Preserve debug line instructions on OpFunctionEnd (and store that
instruction as a unique-pointer, for regularity).
Previously we use vectors of objects and move semantics to handle
ownership. That approach has the flaw that inserting an object into
the middle of a vector, which may trigger a vector reallocation,
can invalidate some addresses taken from instructions.
Now the in-memory representation internally uses vector of unique
pointers to handle ownership. Since objects are explicitly heap-
allocated now, pointers to them won't be invalidated by vector
resizing anymore.
