With this CL the registers in a register pair get ordered such that the
low word register always has a lower register code than the high word
register. This should allow easier reasoning about the register
allocation, and prevent some register allocation bugs.
Background: for many operations in Liftoff, input registers are reused
as output registers. With register pairs, input register pairs are
reused as output register pairs. Additional reasoning, and sometimes
even additional code is needed when the registers of the output register
pair are swapped, i.e. when the high word register of the input becomes
the low word register of the output. With this CL the additional
reasoning is not necessary anymore, as the high word and low word
registers would get swapped during register allocation.
Additionally this CL fixes the logic of the last_spilled_regs list. This
list stored the last spilled registers, but recorded only one of the two
registers of a register pair. With this CL, both registers get recorded.
This CL does not have a regression test. The regression test was more
than 9000 lines long, and quite slow. I was not able to minimize it
substantially. The test would be fragile by nature, as it has to create
a special register configuration or otherwise does not test anything
meaningful. All in all I think it's better not to add the test.
R=clemensb@chromium.org
Bug: chromium:1074586
Change-Id: I4b2475b0c6537c7ce2e51fee281388cdd85f2953
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/2168875
Reviewed-by: Clemens Backes <clemensb@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Andreas Haas <ahaas@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#67473}
