62 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Sanjoy Das
eb5037cadc Allow lowering call sites with both funclets and deopt state
Lowering funclets is a no-op, so we can just go ahead and lower the
deopt state.

llvm-svn: 264078
2016-03-22 18:10:39 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
38bfc22161 Add "first class" lowering for deopt operand bundles
Summary:
After this change, deopt operand bundles can be lowered directly by
SelectionDAG into STATEPOINT instructions (which are then lowered to a
call or sequence of nop, with an associated __llvm_stackmaps entry0.
This obviates the need to round-trip deoptimization state through
gc.statepoint via RewriteStatepointsForGC.

Reviewers: reames, atrick, majnemer, JosephTremoulet, pgavlin

Subscribers: sanjoy, mcrosier, majnemer, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18257

llvm-svn: 264015
2016-03-22 00:59:13 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
3a02019fbc [SelectionDAG] Remove visitStatepoint; NFC
This way we have a single entry point into StatepointLowering.  The
method was a direct dispatch to LowerStatepoint anyway.

llvm-svn: 263682
2016-03-17 00:47:14 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
43e33d61c6 Fix indentation; NFC
llvm-svn: 263672
2016-03-16 23:11:21 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
70697ff74d Extract out a SelectionDAGBuilder::LowerAsStatepoint; NFC
Summary:
This is a step towards implementing "direct" lowering of calls and
invokes with deopt operand bundles into STATEPOINT nodes (as opposed to
having them mandatorily pass through RewriteStatepointsForGC, which is
the case today).

This change extracts out a `SelectionDAGBuilder::LowerAsStatepoint`
helper function that is able to lower a "statepoint like thing", and
uses it to lower `gc.statepoint` calls.  This is an NFC now, but in a
later change we will use `LowerAsStatepoint` to directly lower calls and
invokes with operand bundles without going through an intermediate
`gc.statepoint` IR representation.

FYI: I expect `SelectionDAGBuilder::StatepointInfo` will evolve as I add
support for lowering non gc.statepoints, right now it is fairly tightly
coupled with an IR level `gc.statepoint`.

Reviewers: reames, pgavlin, JosephTremoulet

Subscribers: sanjoy, mcrosier, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18106

llvm-svn: 263671
2016-03-16 23:08:00 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
19c6159833 [SelectionDAG] Extract out populateCallLoweringInfo; NFC
SelectionDAGBuilder::populateCallLoweringInfo is now used instead of
SelectionDAGBuilder::lowerCallOperands.  The populateCallLoweringInfo
interface is more composable in face of design changes like
http://reviews.llvm.org/D18106

llvm-svn: 263663
2016-03-16 20:49:31 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
c11460e051 [StatepointLowering] Move an assertion; NFCI
Instead of running an explicit loop over `gc.relocate` calls hanging off
of a `gc.statepoint`, assert the validity of the type of the value being
relocated in `visitRelocate`.

llvm-svn: 263516
2016-03-15 01:16:31 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
ecf96c9516 Make gc relocates more strongly typed; NFC
Don't use a `Value *` where we can use a stronger `GCRelocateInst *`
type.

llvm-svn: 263327
2016-03-12 02:54:27 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
ffb7bd11f7 [StatepointLowering] Minor non-semantic cleanups
Use auto, bring file up to coding standards etc.

llvm-svn: 261358
2016-02-19 19:37:07 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
f6fee29ceb [StatepointLowering] Update StatepointMaxSlotsRequired correctly
Now that we don't always add an element to AllocatedStackSlots if we
don't find a pre-existing unallocated stack slot, bumping
StatepointMaxSlotsRequired to `NumSlots + 1` is not correct.  Instead
bump the statistic near the push_back, to
Builder.FuncInfo.StatepointStackSlots.size().

llvm-svn: 261348
2016-02-19 18:15:56 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
e8019df552 [StatepointLowering] Fix a mistake in rL261336
The check on MFI->getObjectSize() has to be on the FrameIndex, not on
the index of the FrameIndex in AllocatedStackSlots.  Weirdly, the tests
I added in rL261336 didn't catch this.

llvm-svn: 261347
2016-02-19 18:15:53 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
171313c69a [StatepointLowering] Change AllocatedStackSlots to use SmallBitVector
NFCI.  They key motivation here is that I'd like to use
SmallBitVector::all() in a later change.  Also, using a bit vector here
seemed better in general.

The only interesting change here is that in the failure case of
allocateStackSlot, we no longer (the equivalent of) push_back(true) to
AllocatedStackSlots.  As far as I can tell, this is fine, since we'd
never re-use those slots in the same StatepointLoweringState instance.

Technically there was no need to change the operator[] type accesses to
set() and test(), but I thought it'd be nice to make it obvious that
we're using something other than a std::vector like thing.

llvm-svn: 261337
2016-02-19 17:15:26 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
d2db73ba59 [StatepointLowering] Fix bug in allocateStackSlot
allocateStackSlot did not consider the size of the value to be spilled
before deciding to re-use a spill slot.  This was originally okay (since
originally we'd only ever spill pointers), but it became not okay when
we changed our scheme to directly spill vectors of pointers.

While this change fixes the bug pointed out, it has two performance
caveats:

 - It matches spill slot and spillee size exactly, while in theory we
   can spill, e.g., an 8 byte pointer into a 16 byte slot.  This is
   slightly complicated to fix since in the stackmaps section, we report
   the size of the spill slot as the size of the "indirect value"; and
   if they're no longer equivalent, we'll have to keep track of the
   (indirect) value size separately from the stack slot size.

 - It will "spuriously run out" of reusable slots, since we now have an
   second check in the search loop in addition to the availablity
   check (e.g. you had two free scalar slots, and you first ask for a
   vector slot followed by a scalar slot).  I'll fix this in a later
   commit.

llvm-svn: 261336
2016-02-19 17:15:22 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
7b2e91fb59 [StatepointLowering] Clean up allocateStackSlot
This removes the unusual loop structure in allocateStackSlot in favor of
something more straightforward.  I've also removed the cautionary
comment in the function, which I suspect is historical cruft now, and
confuses more than it enlightens.

llvm-svn: 261335
2016-02-19 17:15:17 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
86d7d83f2a [StatepointLower] Use None instead of Optional<int>()
llvm-svn: 259956
2016-02-05 23:40:04 +00:00
Matthias Braun
b30f2f5141 Avoid overly large SmallPtrSet/SmallSet
These sets perform linear searching in small mode so it is never a good
idea to use SmallSize/N bigger than 32.

llvm-svn: 259283
2016-01-30 01:24:31 +00:00
Philip Reames
afdbcc6a84 [Statepoints] Add test cases around vectors and stablize test
Unlike my comment in 257022 said, it turns out we do handle constant vectors in the statepoint lowering, but only because SelectionDAG doesn't actually produce constants for them.  Add a couple of tests which show this working.

Also, add a triple to the same test file to hopefully fix a failing bot.

It turns out we do han

llvm-svn: 257025
2016-01-07 04:15:31 +00:00
Philip Reames
3e2cf5320c [Statepoints] Initial support for relocating vectors of pointers
Currently, we try to split vectors of pointers back into their component pointer elements during rewrite-statepoints-for-gc. This is less than ideal since presumably the vectorizer chose to vectorize for a reason. :) It's also been a source of bugs - in particular, the relocation logic as currently implemented was recently discovered to be wrong.

The alternate approach is to allow gc.relocates of vector-of-pointer type and update the backend to handle them. That's what this patch tries to do. This won't actually enable vector-of-pointers in practice - there are some RS4GC changes needed - but the lowering is standalone and testable so it makes sense to separate.

Note that there are some known cases around vector constants which this patch does not handle. Once this is in, I'll send another patch with individual fixes and test cases. 

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15632

llvm-svn: 257022
2016-01-07 03:32:11 +00:00
Manuel Jacob
83eefa6d20 [Statepoints] Refactor GCRelocateOperands into an intrinsic wrapper. NFC.
Summary:
This commit renames GCRelocateOperands to GCRelocateInst and makes it an
intrinsic wrapper, similar to e.g. MemCpyInst.  Also, all users of
GCRelocateOperands were changed to use the new intrinsic wrapper instead.

Reviewers: sanjoy, reames

Subscribers: reames, sanjoy, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15762

llvm-svn: 256811
2016-01-05 04:03:00 +00:00
Philip Reames
cb0f947a2a [Statepoints] Use Indirect operands for spill slots
Teach the statepoint lowering code to emit Indirect stackmap entries for spill inserted by StatepointLowering (i.e. SelectionDAG), but Direct stackmap entries for in-IR allocas which represent manual stack slots. This is what the docs call for (http://llvm.org/docs/StackMaps.html#stack-map-format), but we've been emitting both as Direct. This was pointed out recently on the mailing list as a bug. It also blocks http://reviews.llvm.org/D15632 which extends the lowering to handle vector-of-pointers since only Indirect references can encode a variable sized slot.

To implement this, I introduced a new flag on the StackObject class used to maintian information about stack slots. I original considered (and prototyped in http://reviews.llvm.org/D15632), the idea of using the existing isSpillSlot flag, but end up deciding that was a bit too risky and that the cost of adding a new flag was low. Having the new flag will also allow us - in the future - to emit better comments in verbose assembly which indicate where a particular stack spill around a call comes from. (deopt, gc, regalloc).

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15759

llvm-svn: 256352
2015-12-23 23:44:28 +00:00
Philip Reames
ee8f055327 [GC] Make GCStrategy::isGCManagedPointer a type predicate not a value predicate [NFC]
Reasons:
1) The existing form was a form of false generality.  None of the implemented GCStrategies use anything other than a type.  Its becoming more and more clear we're going to need some type of strong GC pointer in the type system and we shouldn't pretend otherwise at this point.
2) The API was awkward when applied to vectors-of-pointers.  The old one could have been made to work, but calling isGCManagedPointer(Ty->getScalarType()) is much cleaner than the Value alternatives.  
3) The rewriting implementation effectively assumes the type based predicate as well.  We should be consistent.

llvm-svn: 256312
2015-12-23 01:42:15 +00:00
Pat Gavlin
c8ea157811 Lower statepoints with multi-def targets.
Statepoint lowering currently expects that the target method of a
statepoint only defines a single value. This precludes using
statepoints with ABIs that return values in multiple registers
(e.g. the SysV AMD64 ABI). This change adds support for lowering
statepoints with mutli-def targets.

llvm-svn: 253339
2015-11-17 16:04:21 +00:00
Igor Laevsky
35fe692025 [StatepointLowering] Remove distinction between call and invoke safepoints
There is no point in having invoke safepoints handled differently than the
call safepoints. All relevant decisions could be made by looking at whether
or not gc.result and gc.relocate lay in a same basic block. This change will
 allow to lower call safepoints with relocates and results in a different 
basic blocks. See test case for example.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14158

llvm-svn: 252028
2015-11-04 01:16:10 +00:00
Reid Kleckner
51189f0a1d [WinEH] Avoid creating MBBs for LLVM BBs that cannot contain code
Typically these are catchpads, which hold data used to decide whether to
catch the exception or continue unwinding. We also shouldn't create MBBs
for catchendpads, cleanupendpads, or terminatepads, since no real code
can live in them.

This fixes a problem where MI passes (like the register allocator) would
try to put code into catchpad blocks, which are not executed by the
runtime. In the new world, blocks ending in invokes now have many
possible successors.

llvm-svn: 247102
2015-09-08 23:28:38 +00:00
Alex Lorenz
e40c8a2b26 PseudoSourceValue: Replace global manager with a manager in a machine function.
This commit removes the global manager variable which is responsible for
storing and allocating pseudo source values and instead it introduces a new
manager class named 'PseudoSourceValueManager'. Machine functions now own an
instance of the pseudo source value manager class.

This commit also modifies the 'get...' methods in the 'MachinePointerInfo'
class to construct pseudo source values using the instance of the pseudo
source value manager object from the machine function.

This commit updates calls to the 'get...' methods from the 'MachinePointerInfo'
class in a lot of different files because those calls now need to pass in a
reference to a machine function to those methods.

This change will make it easier to serialize pseudo source values as it will
enable me to transform the mips specific MipsCallEntry PseudoSourceValue
subclass into two target independent subclasses.

Reviewers: Akira Hatanaka
llvm-svn: 244693
2015-08-11 23:09:45 +00:00
Benjamin Kramer
df005cbe19 Fix some comment typos.
llvm-svn: 244402
2015-08-08 18:27:36 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
cfe41f050c [Statepoints] Let patchable statepoints have a symbolic call target.
Summary:
As added initially, statepoints required their call targets to be a
constant pointer null if ``numPatchBytes`` was non-zero.  This turns out
to be a problem ergonomically, since there is no way to mark patchable
statepoints as calling a (readable) symbolic value.

This change remove the restriction of requiring ``null`` call targets
for patchable statepoints, and changes PlaceSafepoints to maintain the
symbolic call target through its transformation.

Reviewers: reames, swaroop.sridhar

Subscribers: llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D11550

llvm-svn: 243502
2015-07-28 23:50:30 +00:00
Mehdi Amini
56228dabfa Redirect DataLayout from TargetMachine to Module in ComputeValueVTs()
Summary:
Avoid using the TargetMachine owned DataLayout and use the Module owned
one instead. This requires passing the DataLayout up the stack to
ComputeValueVTs().

This change is part of a series of commits dedicated to have a single
DataLayout during compilation by using always the one owned by the
module.

Reviewers: echristo

Subscribers: jholewinski, yaron.keren, rafael, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D11019

From: Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini@apple.com>
llvm-svn: 241773
2015-07-09 01:57:34 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
bbb2e8234c [NFC] Make the Statepoint class more like CallSite
Summary: Rename some methods to make Statepoint look more like CallSite.

Subscribers: llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10756

llvm-svn: 241235
2015-07-02 02:53:45 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
d200893741 [Statepoint] Remove unnecessary argument from Statepoint::getRelocates
NFC.

llvm-svn: 240198
2015-06-20 00:01:03 +00:00
Igor Laevsky
346ff628f7 [StatepointLowering] Reuse stack slots across basic blocks
During statepoint lowering we can sometimes avoid spilling of the value if we know that it was already spilled for previous statepoint.
We were doing this by checking if incoming statepoint value was lowered into load from stack slot. This was working only in boundaries of one basic block.

But instead of looking at the lowered node we can look directly at the llvm-ir value and if it was gc.relocate (or some simple modification of it) look up stack slot for it's derived pointer and reuse stack slot from it. This allows us to look across basic block boundaries.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10251

llvm-svn: 239472
2015-06-10 12:31:53 +00:00
Swaroop Sridhar
70d18df18f Statepoint: Fix handling of Far Immediate calls
gc.statepoint intrinsics with a far immediate call target 
were lowered incorrectly as pc-rel32 calls.

This change fixes the problem, and generates an indirect call 
via a scratch register.

For example: 

Intrinsic:
  %safepoint_token = call i32 (i64, i32, void ()*, i32, i32, ...) @llvm.experimental.gc.statepoint.p0f_isVoidf(i64 0, i32 0, void ()* inttoptr (i64 140727162896504 to void ()*), i32 0, i32 0, i32 0, i32 0)

Old Incorrect Lowering:
  callq 140727162896504

New Correct Lowering:
  movabsq $140727162896504, %rax 
  callq *%rax

In lowerCallFromStatepoint(), the callee-target was modified and 
represented as a "TargetConstant" node, rather than a "Constant" node.
Undoing this modification enabled LowerCall() to generate the 
correct CALL instruction.

llvm-svn: 239114
2015-06-04 23:03:21 +00:00
Igor Laevsky
423bc9ec4c [StatepointLowering] Support of the gc.relocates for invoke statepoints.
This change implements support for lowering of the gc.relocates tied to the invoke statepoint.
This is acomplished by storing frame indices of the lowered values in "StatepointRelocatedValues" map inside FunctionLoweringInfo instead of storing them in per-basic block structure StatepointLowering.
After this change StatepointLowering is used only during "LowerStatepoint" call and it is not necessary to store it as a field in SelectionDAGBuilder anymore.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D7798

llvm-svn: 237786
2015-05-20 11:37:25 +00:00
Philip Reames
7738dd68cf Remove a stale comment
The todo was implemented a while ago; I just forgot to remove the comment.  

llvm-svn: 237736
2015-05-19 22:26:33 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
a1d39ba940 [Statepoints] Support for "patchable" statepoints.
Summary:
This change adds two new parameters to the statepoint intrinsic, `i64 id`
and `i32 num_patch_bytes`.  `id` gets propagated to the ID field
in the generated StackMap section.  If the `num_patch_bytes` is
non-zero then the statepoint is lowered to `num_patch_bytes` bytes of
nops instead of a call (the spill and reload code remains unchanged).
A non-zero `num_patch_bytes` is useful in situations where a language
runtime requires complete control over how a call is lowered.

This change brings statepoints one step closer to patchpoints.  With
some additional work (that is not part of this patch) it should be
possible to get rid of `TargetOpcode::STATEPOINT` altogether.

PlaceSafepoints generates `statepoint` wrappers with `id` set to
`0xABCDEF00` (the old default value for the ID reported in the stackmap)
and `num_patch_bytes` set to `0`.  This can be made more sophisticated
later.

Reviewers: reames, pgavlin, swaroop.sridhar, AndyAyers

Subscribers: llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D9546

llvm-svn: 237214
2015-05-12 23:52:24 +00:00
Pat Gavlin
08d7027cc1 [Statepoints] Clean up statepoint argument accessors.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D9622

llvm-svn: 237191
2015-05-12 21:33:48 +00:00
Pat Gavlin
c7dc6d6ee7 [Statepoints] Split the calling convention and statepoint flags operand to STATEPOINT into two separate operands.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D9623

llvm-svn: 237166
2015-05-12 19:50:19 +00:00
Igor Laevsky
87ef5eaf46 Reverse ordering of base and derived pointer during safepoint lowering.
According to the documentation in StackMap section for the safepoint we should have:
"The first Location in each pair describes the base pointer for the object. The second is the derived pointer actually being relocated."
But before this change we emitted them in reverse order - derived pointer first, base pointer second.

llvm-svn: 237126
2015-05-12 13:12:14 +00:00
Pat Gavlin
cc0431d1c0 Extend the statepoint intrinsic to allow statepoints to be marked as transitions from GC-aware code to code that is not GC-aware.
This changes the shape of the statepoint intrinsic from:

  @llvm.experimental.gc.statepoint(anyptr target, i32 # call args, i32 unused, ...call args, i32 # deopt args, ...deopt args, ...gc args)

to:

  @llvm.experimental.gc.statepoint(anyptr target, i32 # call args, i32 flags, ...call args, i32 # transition args, ...transition args, i32 # deopt args, ...deopt args, ...gc args)

This extension offers the backend the opportunity to insert (somewhat) arbitrary code to manage the transition from GC-aware code to code that is not GC-aware and back.

In order to support the injection of transition code, this extension wraps the STATEPOINT ISD node generated by the usual lowering lowering with two additional nodes: GC_TRANSITION_START and GC_TRANSITION_END. The transition arguments that were passed passed to the intrinsic (if any) are lowered and provided as operands to these nodes and may be used by the backend during code generation.

Eventually, the lowering of the GC_TRANSITION_{START,END} nodes should be informed by the GC strategy in use for the function containing the intrinsic call; for now, these nodes are instead replaced with no-ops.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D9501

llvm-svn: 236888
2015-05-08 18:07:42 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
4bfb472072 [Statepoint] Clean up StatepointLowering: symbolic constants.
For accessors in the `Statepoint` class, use symbolic constants for
offsets into the argument vector instead of literals.  This makes the
code intent clearer and simpler to change.

llvm-svn: 236566
2015-05-06 02:36:31 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
499d703f52 [Statepoint] Clean up Statepoint.h: accessor names.
Use getFoo() as accessors consistently and some other naming changes.

llvm-svn: 236564
2015-05-06 02:36:26 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
c6bf3e9f12 [StatepointLowering] Don't create temporary instructions. NFCI.
Summary:
Instead of creating a temporary call instruction and lowering that, use
SelectionDAGBuilder::lowerCallOperands.

Reviewers: reames

Subscribers: llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D9480

llvm-svn: 236563
2015-05-06 02:36:20 +00:00
Sanjoy Das
3fb91c0a0d [StatepointLowering] Rename variable, NFC.
Rename LoweredArgs to LoweredMetaArgs to clarify intent.

llvm-svn: 236552
2015-05-05 23:06:49 +00:00
Pat Gavlin
022c5acad8 Run StatepointLowering.{cpp,h} through clang-format.
llvm-svn: 236166
2015-04-29 21:52:45 +00:00
Sergey Dmitrouk
842a51bad8 Reapply r235977 "[DebugInfo] Add debug locations to constant SD nodes"
[DebugInfo] Add debug locations to constant SD nodes

This adds debug location to constant nodes of Selection DAG and updates
all places that create constants to pass debug locations
(see PR13269).

Can't guarantee that all locations are correct, but in a lot of cases choice
is obvious, so most of them should be. At least all tests pass.

Tests for these changes do not cover everything, instead just check it for
SDNodes, ARM and AArch64 where it's easy to get incorrect locations on
constants.

This is not complete fix as FastISel contains workaround for wrong debug
locations, which drops locations from instructions on processing constants,
but there isn't currently a way to use debug locations from constants there
as llvm::Constant doesn't cache it (yet). Although this is a bit different
issue, not directly related to these changes.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D9084

llvm-svn: 235989
2015-04-28 14:05:47 +00:00
Daniel Jasper
48e93f7181 Revert "[DebugInfo] Add debug locations to constant SD nodes"
This breaks a test:
http://bb.pgr.jp/builders/cmake-llvm-x86_64-linux/builds/23870

llvm-svn: 235987
2015-04-28 13:38:35 +00:00
Sergey Dmitrouk
adb4c69d5c [DebugInfo] Add debug locations to constant SD nodes
This adds debug location to constant nodes of Selection DAG and updates
all places that create constants to pass debug locations
(see PR13269).

Can't guarantee that all locations are correct, but in a lot of cases choice
is obvious, so most of them should be. At least all tests pass.

Tests for these changes do not cover everything, instead just check it for
SDNodes, ARM and AArch64 where it's easy to get incorrect locations on
constants.

This is not complete fix as FastISel contains workaround for wrong debug
locations, which drops locations from instructions on processing constants,
but there isn't currently a way to use debug locations from constants there
as llvm::Constant doesn't cache it (yet). Although this is a bit different
issue, not directly related to these changes.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D9084

llvm-svn: 235977
2015-04-28 11:56:37 +00:00
Benjamin Kramer
619c4e57ba Reduce dyn_cast<> to isa<> or cast<> where possible.
No functional change intended.

llvm-svn: 234586
2015-04-10 11:24:51 +00:00
Philip Reames
e1bf27045d Require a GC strategy be specified for functions which use gc.statepoint
This was discussed a while back and I left it optional for migration.  Since it's been far more than the 'week or two' that was discussed, time to actually make this manditory.  

llvm-svn: 233357
2015-03-27 05:09:33 +00:00
Philip Reames
f8f0933b48 Allow explicit spill slots to be specified for a gc.statepoint
This patch adds support for explicitly provided spill slots in the GC arguments of a gc.statepoint.  This is somewhat analogous to gcroot, but leverages the STATEPOINT MI node and StackMap infrastructure.  The motivation for this is:
1) The stack spilling code for gc.statepoints hasn't advanced as fast as I'd like.  One major option is to give up on doing spilling in the backend and do it at the IR level instead.  We'd give up the ability to have gc values in registers, but that's a minor cost in practice.  We are not neccessarily moving in that direction, but having the ability to prototype such a thing cheaply is interesting.
2) I want to port the gcroot lowering to use the statepoint infastructure.  Given the metadata printers for gcroot expect a fixed set of stack roots, it's easiest to just reuse the explicit stack slots and pass them directly to the underlying statepoint.  

I'm holding off on the documentation for the new feature until I'm reasonable sure this is going to stick around.

llvm-svn: 233356
2015-03-27 04:52:48 +00:00