359 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Nikita Popov
3fb0621faf [Attributes] Assert correct attribute constructor is used (NFCI)
Assert that enum/int/type attributes go through the constructor
they are supposed to use.

To make sure this can't happen via invalid bitcode, explicitly
verify that the attribute kind if correct there.
2021-07-12 21:11:59 +02:00
Nikita Popov
5d1464cbfe [Attributes] Make type attribute handling more generic (NFCI)
Followup to D105658 to make AttrBuilder automatically work with
new type attributes. TableGen is tweaked to emit First/LastTypeAttr
markers, based on which we can handle type attributes
programmatically.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105763
2021-07-12 20:49:38 +02:00
Nikita Popov
42cc7f3c52 [AttrBuilder] Make handling of type attributes more generic (NFCI)
While working on the elementtype attribute, I felt that the type
attribute handling in AttrBuilder is overly repetitive. This patch
converts the separate Type* members into an std::array<Type*>, so
that all type attribute kinds can be handled generically.

There's more room for improvement here (especially when it comes to
converting the AttrBuilder to an Attribute), but this seems like a
good starting point.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105658
2021-07-09 17:48:09 +02:00
Nikita Popov
e000b848e6 [IR] Simplify Attribute::getAsString() (NFC)
Avoid enumerating all attributes here and instead use
getNameFromAttrKind(), which is based on the tablegen data.

This only leaves us with custom handling for int attributes,
which don't have uniform printing.
2021-07-07 22:43:17 +02:00
Nick Desaulniers
8aee282f57 [IR] remove assert since always_inline can appear on CallBase
I added an assertion in D91816 (documenting behavior added in D93422)
that callers and callees with mismatched fn attr's related to stack
protectors should not occur unless the callee was attributed
always_inline.

This falls apart when a call, invoke, or callbr (any instruction
inheriting from CallBase) itself has an always_inline attribute. Clang
will emit such attributes on Instructions when __attribute__((flatten))
is used to recursively force inlining from a caller.

Since these assertions only had the caller and callee Functions, and not
the call site (CallBase derived classes), we would have to search the
caller for such instructions to reconstruct the call site information.
But at that point, inlining has already occurred; the call site has
already been removed from the caller.

Remove the assertions, add a unit test for always_inline call sites, and
update the LangRef.

Another curiosity is that the always_inline Attribute on Instructions is
only expanded by the inline pass, not the always_inline pass.

Thanks to @pcc on this report when building Android's RunTime (ART)
interpreter.

Reviewed By: pcc, MaskRay

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104944
2021-06-28 13:53:57 -07:00
Marco Elver
280333021e [SanitizeCoverage] Add support for NoSanitizeCoverage function attribute
We really ought to support no_sanitize("coverage") in line with other
sanitizers. This came up again in discussions on the Linux-kernel
mailing lists, because we currently do workarounds using objtool to
remove coverage instrumentation. Since that support is only on x86, to
continue support coverage instrumentation on other architectures, we
must support selectively disabling coverage instrumentation via function
attributes.

Unfortunately, for SanitizeCoverage, it has not been implemented as a
sanitizer via fsanitize= and associated options in Sanitizers.def, but
rolls its own option fsanitize-coverage. This meant that we never got
"automatic" no_sanitize attribute support.

Implement no_sanitize attribute support by special-casing the string
"coverage" in the NoSanitizeAttr implementation. To keep the feature as
unintrusive to existing IR generation as possible, define a new negative
function attribute NoSanitizeCoverage to propagate the information
through to the instrumentation pass.

Fixes: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49035

Reviewed By: vitalybuka, morehouse

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102772
2021-05-25 12:57:14 +02:00
Nikita Popov
05738ffcb8 [IR] Optimize no-op removal from AttributeList (NFC)
When removing an AttrBuilder from an index of an AttributeList,
directly return the original list if no attributes were actually
removed.
2021-05-22 19:03:27 +02:00
Nikita Popov
fd46ed3f39 [IR] Optimize no-op removal from AttributeSet (NFC)
When removing an AttrBuilder from an AttributeSet, first check
whether there is any overlap. If nothing is being removed, we can
directly return the original set.
2021-05-22 18:55:25 +02:00
Tim Northover
ea0eec69f1 IR+AArch64: add a "swiftasync" argument attribute.
This extends any frame record created in the function to include that
parameter, passed in X22.

The new record looks like [X22, FP, LR] in memory, and FP is stored with 0b0001
in bits 63:60 (CodeGen assumes they are 0b0000 in normal operation). The effect
of this is that tools walking the stack should expect to see one of three
values there:

  * 0b0000 => a normal, non-extended record with just [FP, LR]
  * 0b0001 => the extended record [X22, FP, LR]
  * 0b1111 => kernel space, and a non-extended record.

All other values are currently reserved.

If compiling for arm64e this context pointer is address-discriminated with the
discriminator 0xc31a and the DB (process-specific) key.

There is also an "i8** @llvm.swift.async.context.addr()" intrinsic providing
front-ends access to this slot (and forcing its creation initialized to nullptr
if necessary).
2021-05-14 11:43:58 +01:00
Nick Lewycky
30bbfda01f Improve error messages for attributes in the wrong context.
verifyFunctionAttrs has a comment that the value V is printed in error messages. The recently added errors for attributes didn't print V. Make them print V.

Change the stringification of AttributeList. Firstly they started with 'PAL[' which stood for ParamAttrsList. Change that to 'AttributeList[' matching its current name AttributeList. Print out semantic meaning of the index instead of the raw index value (i.e. 'return', 'function' or 'arg(n)').

Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101484
2021-04-29 01:44:16 -07:00
Serge Guelton
d6de1e1a71 Normalize interaction with boolean attributes
Such attributes can either be unset, or set to "true" or "false" (as string).
throughout the codebase, this led to inelegant checks ranging from

        if (Fn->getFnAttribute("no-jump-tables").getValueAsString() == "true")

to

        if (Fn->hasAttribute("no-jump-tables") && Fn->getFnAttribute("no-jump-tables").getValueAsString() == "true")

Introduce a getValueAsBool that normalize the check, with the following
behavior:

no attributes or attribute set to "false" => return false
attribute set to "true" => return true

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99299
2021-04-17 08:17:33 +02:00
Nick Lewycky
244d9d6e41 Verify the LLVMContext that an Attribute belongs to.
Attributes don't know their parent Context, adding this would make Attribute larger. Instead, we add hasParentContext that answers whether this Attribute belongs to a particular LLVMContext by checking for itself inside the context's FoldingSet. Same with AttributeSet and AttributeList. The Verifier checks them with the Module context.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99362
2021-04-16 09:44:38 -07:00
Momchil Velikov
f9d932e673 [clang][AArch64] Correctly align HFA arguments when passed on the stack
When we pass a AArch64 Homogeneous Floating-Point
Aggregate (HFA) argument with increased alignment
requirements, for example

    struct S {
      __attribute__ ((__aligned__(16))) double v[4];
    };

Clang uses `[4 x double]` for the parameter, which is passed
on the stack at alignment 8, whereas it should be at
alignment 16, following Rule C.4 in
AAPCS (https://github.com/ARM-software/abi-aa/blob/master/aapcs64/aapcs64.rst#642parameter-passing-rules)

Currently we don't have a way to express in LLVM IR the
alignment requirements of the function arguments. The align
attribute is applicable to pointers only, and only for some
special ways of passing arguments (e..g byval). When
implementing AAPCS32/AAPCS64, clang resorts to dubious hacks
of coercing to types, which naturally have the needed
alignment. We don't have enough types to cover all the
cases, though.

This patch introduces a new use of the stackalign attribute
to control stack slot alignment, when and if an argument is
passed in memory.

The attribute align is left as an optimizer hint - it still
applies to pointer types only and pertains to the content of
the pointer, whereas the alignment of the pointer itself is
determined by the stackalign attribute.

For byval arguments, the stackalign attribute assumes the
role, previously perfomed by align, falling back to align if
stackalign` is absent.

On the clang side, when passing arguments using the "direct"
style (cf. `ABIArgInfo::Kind`), now we can optionally
specify an alignment, which is emitted as the new
`stackalign` attribute.

Patch by Momchil Velikov and Lucas Prates.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98794
2021-04-15 22:58:14 +01:00
Matt Arsenault
9a0c9402fa Reapply "OpaquePtr: Turn inalloca into a type attribute"
This reverts commit 07e46367baeca96d84b03fa215b41775f69d5989.
2021-03-29 08:55:30 -04:00
Oliver Stannard
07e46367ba Revert "Reapply "OpaquePtr: Turn inalloca into a type attribute""
Reverting because test 'Bindings/Go/go.test' is failing on most
buildbots.

This reverts commit fc9df309917e57de704f3ce4372138a8d4a23d7a.
2021-03-29 11:32:22 +01:00
Matt Arsenault
fc9df30991 Reapply "OpaquePtr: Turn inalloca into a type attribute"
This reverts commit 20d5c42e0ef5d252b434bcb610b04f1cb79fe771.
2021-03-28 13:35:21 -04:00
Nico Weber
20d5c42e0e Revert "OpaquePtr: Turn inalloca into a type attribute"
This reverts commit 4fefed65637ec46c8c2edad6b07b5569ac61e9e5.
Broke check-clang everywhere.
2021-03-28 13:02:52 -04:00
Matt Arsenault
4fefed6563 OpaquePtr: Turn inalloca into a type attribute
I think byval/sret and the others are close to being able to rip out
the code to support the missing type case. A lot of this code is
shared with inalloca, so catch this up to the others so that can
happen.
2021-03-28 11:12:23 -04:00
Guozhi Wei
3240910f00 [DAE] Adjust param/arg attributes when changing parameter to undef
In DeadArgumentElimination pass, if a function's argument is never used, corresponding caller's parameter can be changed to undef. If the param/arg has attribute noundef or other related attributes, LLVM LangRef(https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#parameter-attributes) says its behavior is undefined. SimplifyCFG(D97244) takes advantage of this behavior and does bad transformation on valid code.

To avoid this undefined behavior when change caller's parameter to undef, this patch removes noundef attribute and other attributes imply noundef on param/arg.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98899
2021-03-25 14:53:22 -07:00
Bradley Smith
48f5a392cb [IR] Add vscale_range IR function attribute
This attribute represents the minimum and maximum values vscale can
take. For now this attribute is not hooked up to anything during
codegen, this will be added in the future when such codegen is
considered stable.

Additionally hook up the -msve-vector-bits=<x> clang option to emit this
attribute.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98030
2021-03-22 12:05:06 +00:00
serge-sans-paille
b2e78a061c [NFC] Use SmallString instead of std::string for the AttrBuilder
This avoids a few unnecessary conversion from StringRef to std::string, and a
bunch of extra allocation thanks to the SmallString.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98190
2021-03-16 13:34:14 +01:00
Kazu Hirata
6a337f85c8 [IR] Use range-based for loops (NFC) 2021-02-27 10:09:25 -08:00
Petr Hosek
bb9eb19829 Support for instrumenting only selected files or functions
This change implements support for applying profile instrumentation
only to selected files or functions. The implementation uses the
sanitizer special case list format to select which files and functions
to instrument, and relies on the new noprofile IR attribute to exclude
functions from instrumentation.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94820
2021-01-26 17:13:34 -08:00
Petr Hosek
1e634f3952 Revert "Support for instrumenting only selected files or functions"
This reverts commit 4edf35f11a9e20bd5df3cb47283715f0ff38b751 because
the test fails on Windows bots.
2021-01-26 12:25:28 -08:00
Petr Hosek
4edf35f11a Support for instrumenting only selected files or functions
This change implements support for applying profile instrumentation
only to selected files or functions. The implementation uses the
sanitizer special case list format to select which files and functions
to instrument, and relies on the new noprofile IR attribute to exclude
functions from instrumentation.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94820
2021-01-26 11:11:39 -08:00
Nikita Popov
176c7f2217 [IR] Optimize adding attribute to AttributeList (NFC)
When adding an enum attribute to an AttributeList, avoid going
through an AttrBuilder and instead directly add the attribute to
the correct set. Going through AttrBuilder is expensive, because
it requires all string attributes to be reconstructed.

This can be further improved by inserting the attribute at the
right position and using the AttributeSetNode::getSorted() API.

This recovers the small compile-time regression from D94633.
2021-01-22 11:30:21 +01:00
Kazu Hirata
1d0bc05551 [llvm] Use llvm::append_range (NFC) 2021-01-06 18:27:33 -08:00
Andrew Litteken
1a9eb19af9 [IROutliner] Adding consistent function attribute merging
When combining extracted functions, they may have different function
attributes. We want to make sure that we do not make any assumptions,
or lose any information. This attempts to make sure that we consolidate
function attributes to their most general case.

Tests:
llvm/test/Transforms/IROutliner/outlining-compatible-and-attribute-transfer.ll
llvm/test/Transforms/IROutliner/outlining-compatible-or-attribute-transfer.ll

Reviewers: jdoefert, paquette

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87301
2020-12-31 12:30:23 -06:00
Rong Xu
3733463dbb [IR][PGO] Add hot func attribute and use hot/cold attribute in func section
Clang FE currently has hot/cold function attribute. But we only have
cold function attribute in LLVM IR.

This patch adds support of hot function attribute to LLVM IR.  This
attribute will be used in setting function section prefix/suffix.
Currently .hot and .unlikely suffix only are added in PGO (Sample PGO)
compilation (through isFunctionHotInCallGraph and
isFunctionColdInCallGraph).

This patch changes the behavior. The new behavior is:
(1) If the user annotates a function as hot or isFunctionHotInCallGraph
    is true, this function will be marked as hot. Otherwise,
(2) If the user annotates a function as cold or
    isFunctionColdInCallGraph is true, this function will be marked as
    cold.

The changes are:
(1) user annotated function attribute will used in setting function
    section prefix/suffix.
(2) hot attribute overwrites profile count based hotness.
(3) profile count based hotness overwrite user annotated cold attribute.

The intention for these changes is to provide the user a way to mark
certain function as hot in cases where training input is hard to cover
all the hot functions.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D92493
2020-12-17 18:41:12 -08:00
Barry Revzin
92310454bf Make LLVM build in C++20 mode
Part of the <=> changes in C++20 make certain patterns of writing equality
operators ambiguous with themselves (sorry!).
This patch goes through and adjusts all the comparison operators such that
they should work in both C++17 and C++20 modes. It also makes two other small
C++20-specific changes (adding a constructor to a type that cases to be an
aggregate, and adding casts from u8 literals which no longer have type
const char*).

There were four categories of errors that this review fixes.
Here are canonical examples of them, ordered from most to least common:

// 1) Missing const
namespace missing_const {
    struct A {
    #ifndef FIXED
        bool operator==(A const&);
    #else
        bool operator==(A const&) const;
    #endif
    };

    bool a = A{} == A{}; // error
}

// 2) Type mismatch on CRTP
namespace crtp_mismatch {
    template <typename Derived>
    struct Base {
    #ifndef FIXED
        bool operator==(Derived const&) const;
    #else
        // in one case changed to taking Base const&
        friend bool operator==(Derived const&, Derived const&);
    #endif
    };

    struct D : Base<D> { };

    bool b = D{} == D{}; // error
}

// 3) iterator/const_iterator with only mixed comparison
namespace iter_const_iter {
    template <bool Const>
    struct iterator {
        using const_iterator = iterator<true>;

        iterator();

        template <bool B, std::enable_if_t<(Const && !B), int> = 0>
        iterator(iterator<B> const&);

    #ifndef FIXED
        bool operator==(const_iterator const&) const;
    #else
        friend bool operator==(iterator const&, iterator const&);
    #endif
    };

    bool c = iterator<false>{} == iterator<false>{} // error
          || iterator<false>{} == iterator<true>{}
          || iterator<true>{} == iterator<false>{}
          || iterator<true>{} == iterator<true>{};
}

// 4) Same-type comparison but only have mixed-type operator
namespace ambiguous_choice {
    enum Color { Red };

    struct C {
        C();
        C(Color);
        operator Color() const;
        bool operator==(Color) const;
        friend bool operator==(C, C);
    };

    bool c = C{} == C{}; // error
    bool d = C{} == Red;
}

Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D78938
2020-12-17 10:44:10 +00:00
Gulfem Savrun Yeniceri
7c0e3a77bc [clang][IR] Add support for leaf attribute
This patch adds support for leaf attribute as an optimization hint
in Clang/LLVM.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D90275
2020-12-14 14:48:17 -08:00
Nick Desaulniers
bc044a88ee [Inline] prevent inlining on stack protector mismatch
It's common for code that manipulates the stack via inline assembly or
that has to set up its own stack canary (such as the Linux kernel) would
like to avoid stack protectors in certain functions. In this case, we've
been bitten by numerous bugs where a callee with a stack protector is
inlined into an attribute((no_stack_protector)) caller, which
generally breaks the caller's assumptions about not having a stack
protector. LTO exacerbates the issue.

While developers can avoid this by putting all no_stack_protector
functions in one translation unit together and compiling those with
-fno-stack-protector, it's generally not very ergonomic or as
ergonomic as a function attribute, and still doesn't work for LTO. See also:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20200915172658.1432732-1-rkir@google.com/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200918201436.2932360-30-samitolvanen@google.com/T/#u

SSP attributes can be ordered by strength. Weakest to strongest, they
are: ssp, sspstrong, sspreq.  Callees with differing SSP attributes may be
inlined into each other, and the strongest attribute will be applied to the
caller. (No change)

After this change:
* A callee with no SSP attributes will no longer be inlined into a
  caller with SSP attributes.
* The reverse is also true: a callee with an SSP attribute will not be
  inlined into a caller with no SSP attributes.
* The alwaysinline attribute overrides these rules.

Functions that get synthesized by the compiler may not get inlined as a
result if they are not created with the same stack protector function
attribute as their callers.

Alternative approach to https://reviews.llvm.org/D87956.

Fixes pr/47479.

Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

Reviewed By: rnk, MaskRay

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91816
2020-12-02 11:00:16 -08:00
Nick Desaulniers
f4c6080ab8 Revert "[IR] add fn attr for no_stack_protector; prevent inlining on mismatch"
This reverts commit b7926ce6d7a83cdf70c68d82bc3389c04009b841.

Going with a simpler approach.
2020-11-17 17:27:14 -08:00
Nick Desaulniers
b7926ce6d7 [IR] add fn attr for no_stack_protector; prevent inlining on mismatch
It's currently ambiguous in IR whether the source language explicitly
did not want a stack a stack protector (in C, via function attribute
no_stack_protector) or doesn't care for any given function.

It's common for code that manipulates the stack via inline assembly or
that has to set up its own stack canary (such as the Linux kernel) would
like to avoid stack protectors in certain functions. In this case, we've
been bitten by numerous bugs where a callee with a stack protector is
inlined into an __attribute__((__no_stack_protector__)) caller, which
generally breaks the caller's assumptions about not having a stack
protector. LTO exacerbates the issue.

While developers can avoid this by putting all no_stack_protector
functions in one translation unit together and compiling those with
-fno-stack-protector, it's generally not very ergonomic or as
ergonomic as a function attribute, and still doesn't work for LTO. See also:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20200915172658.1432732-1-rkir@google.com/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200918201436.2932360-30-samitolvanen@google.com/T/#u

Typically, when inlining a callee into a caller, the caller will be
upgraded in its level of stack protection (see adjustCallerSSPLevel()).
By adding an explicit attribute in the IR when the function attribute is
used in the source language, we can now identify such cases and prevent
inlining.  Block inlining when the callee and caller differ in the case that one
contains `nossp` when the other has `ssp`, `sspstrong`, or `sspreq`.

Fixes pr/47479.

Reviewed By: void

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87956
2020-10-23 11:55:39 -07:00
Atmn Patel
595c615606 [IR] Adds mustprogress as a LLVM IR attribute
This adds the LLVM IR attribute `mustprogress` as defined in LangRef through D86233. This attribute will be applied to functions with in languages like C++ where forward progress is guaranteed. Functions without this attribute are not required to make progress.

Reviewed By: nikic

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85393
2020-10-20 03:09:57 -04:00
Matt Arsenault
0a7cd99a70 Reapply "OpaquePtr: Add type to sret attribute"
This reverts commit eb9f7c28e5fe6d75fed3587023e17f2997c8024b.

Previously this was incorrectly handling linking of the contained
type, so this merges the fixes from D88973.
2020-10-16 11:05:02 -04:00
Johannes Doerfert
ef48436e62 [AttributeFuncs] Consider noundef in typeIncompatible
Drop `noundef` for return values that are replaced by void and make it
illegal to put `noundef` on a void value.

Reviewed By: fhahn

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87306
2020-10-05 23:23:06 -05:00
Johannes Doerfert
2a078c3072 [AttributeFuncs] Consider align in typeIncompatible
Alignment attributes need to be dropped for non-pointer values.
This also introduces a check into the verifier to ensure you don't use
`align` on anything but a pointer. Test needed to be adjusted
accordingly.

Reviewed By: fhahn

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87304
2020-10-05 23:23:05 -05:00
Tres Popp
eb9f7c28e5 Revert "OpaquePtr: Add type to sret attribute"
This reverts commit 55c4ff91bd820d72014f63dcf7f3d5a0d3397986.

Issues were introduced as discussed in https://reviews.llvm.org/D88241
where this change made previous bugs in the linker and BitCodeWriter
visible.
2020-09-29 10:31:04 +02:00
Matt Arsenault
55c4ff91bd OpaquePtr: Add type to sret attribute
Make the corresponding change that was made for byval in
b7141207a483d39b99c2b4da4eb3bb591eca9e1a. Like byval, this requires a
bulk update of the test IR tests to include the type before this can
be mandatory.
2020-09-25 14:07:30 -04:00
Benjamin Kramer
8e5b1557e5 [IR] Inline AttrBuilder::addAttribute. It just sets 1 bit. NFC. 2020-08-29 19:13:49 +02:00
Craig Topper
6dcd9f517e [Attributes] Merge calls to getFnAttribute/hasFnAttribute using Attribute::isValid. NFC
Rather than calling hasFnAttribute and then calling getFnAttribute
if the attribute exists, its better to just call getFnAttribute and
then check if we got a valid attribute back.
2020-08-29 00:23:13 -07:00
Craig Topper
aab90384a3 [Attributes] Add a method to check if an Attribute has AttrKind None. Use instead of hasAttribute(Attribute::None)
There's a special case in hasAttribute for None when pImpl is null. If pImpl is not null we dispatch to pImpl->hasAttribute which will always return false for Attribute::None.

So if we just want to check for None its sufficient to just check that pImpl is null. Which can even be done inline.

This patch adds a helper for that case which I hope will speed up our getSubtargetImpl implementations.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D86744
2020-08-28 13:23:45 -07:00
Matt Arsenault
5e999cbe8d IR: Define byref parameter attribute
This allows tracking the in-memory type of a pointer argument to a
function for ABI purposes. This is essentially a stripped down version
of byval to remove some of the stack-copy implications in its
definition.

This includes the base IR changes, and some tests for places where it
should be treated similarly to byval. Codegen support will be in a
future patch.

My original attempt at solving some of these problems was to repurpose
byval with a different address space from the stack. However, it is
technically permitted for the callee to introduce a write to the
argument, although nothing does this in reality. There is also talk of
removing and replacing the byval attribute, so a new attribute would
need to take its place anyway.

This is intended avoid some optimization issues with the current
handling of aggregate arguments, as well as fixes inflexibilty in how
frontends can specify the kernel ABI. The most honest representation
of the amdgpu_kernel convention is to expose all kernel arguments as
loads from constant memory. Today, these are raw, SSA Argument values
and codegen is responsible for turning these into loads.

Background:

There currently isn't a satisfactory way to represent how arguments
for the amdgpu_kernel calling convention are passed. In reality,
arguments are passed in a single, flat, constant memory buffer
implicitly passed to the function. It is also illegal to call this
function in the IR, and this is only ever invoked by a driver of some
kind.

It does not make sense to have a stack passed parameter in this
context as is implied by byval. It is never valid to write to the
kernel arguments, as this would corrupt the inputs seen by other
dispatches of the kernel. These argumets are also not in the same
address space as the stack, so a copy is needed to an alloca. From a
source C-like language, the kernel parameters are invisible.
Semantically, a copy is always required from the constant argument
memory to a mutable variable.

The current clang calling convention lowering emits raw values,
including aggregates into the function argument list, since using
byval would not make sense. This has some unfortunate consequences for
the optimizer. In the aggregate case, we end up with an aggregate
store to alloca, which both SROA and instcombine turn into a store of
each aggregate field. The optimizer never pieces this back together to
see that this is really just a copy from constant memory, so we end up
stuck with expensive stack usage.

This also means the backend dictates the alignment of arguments, and
arbitrarily picks the LLVM IR ABI type alignment. By allowing an
explicit alignment, frontends can make better decisions. For example,
there's real no advantage to an aligment higher than 4, so a frontend
could choose to compact the argument layout. Similarly, there is a
high penalty to using an alignment lower than 4, so a frontend could
opt into more padding for small arguments.

Another design consideration is when it is appropriate to expose the
fact that these arguments are all really passed in adjacent
memory. Currently we have a late IR optimization pass in codegen to
rewrite the kernel argument values into explicit loads to enable
vectorization. In most programs, unrelated argument loads can be
merged together. However, exposing this property directly from the
frontend has some disadvantages. We still need a way to track the
original argument sizes and alignments to report to the driver. I find
using some side-channel, metadata mechanism to track this
unappealing. If the kernel arguments were exposed as a single buffer
to begin with, alias analysis would be unaware that the padding bits
betewen arguments are meaningless. Another family of problems is there
are still some gaps in replacing all of the available parameter
attributes with metadata equivalents once lowered to loads.

The immediate plan is to start using this new attribute to handle all
aggregate argumets for kernels. Long term, it makes sense to migrate
all kernel arguments, including scalars, to be passed indirectly in
the same manner.

Additional context is in D79744.
2020-07-20 10:23:09 -04:00
Nikita Popov
f7dce88915 [IR] Fix MSVC warning (NFC)
As requested by Andrew Kaylor, rewrite this code in a way that does
not warn on old MSVC versions.

Avoid the buggy constexpr warning by just not using constexpr and
removing the static_assert that depends on it.
2020-07-17 18:27:39 +02:00
Matt Arsenault
d909764cc7 Use findEnumAttribute helper for preallocated 2020-07-16 13:50:49 -04:00
Gui Andrade
ff7900d5de [LLVM] Accept noundef attribute in function definitions/calls
The `noundef` attribute indicates an argument or return value which
may never have an undef value representation.

This patch allows LLVM to parse the attribute.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D83412
2020-07-08 19:02:04 +00:00
Danila Malyutin
38909f31bd [IR] Short-circuit comparison with itself for Attributes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D82295
2020-07-03 16:07:14 +03:00
Simon Pilgrim
0144f501a6 AttrBuilder::merge/remove - use const& for iterator values in for-range loops.
Noticed by clang-tidy performance-for-range-copy warning.
2020-07-01 12:01:18 +01:00
Nikita Popov
9a334a4d20 [IR] Store attributes that are available "somewhere" (NFC)
I noticed that for some benchmarks we spend quite a bit of time
inside AttributeList::hasAttrSomewhere(), mainly when checking
for the "returned" attribute. Most of the time the attribute will
not be present, in which case this function has to walk through
the whole attribute list and check for the attribute at each index.

This patch adds a cache of all "available somewhere" attributes
inside AttributeListImpl. This makes the structure 12 bytes larger,
but I don't think that's problematic, as attribute lists are uniqued.
Compile-time in terms of instructions retired improves by 0.4% on
average, but >1% for sqlite.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D81867
2020-06-27 10:44:59 +02:00