Uniformity analysis is a generalization of divergence analysis to
include irreducible control flow:
1. The proposed spec presents a notion of "maximal convergence" that
captures the existing convention of converging threads at the
headers of natual loops.
2. Maximal convergence is then extended to irreducible cycles. The
identity of irreducible cycles is determined by the choices made
in a depth-first traversal of the control flow graph. Uniformity
analysis uses criteria that depend only on closed paths and not
cycles, to determine maximal convergence. This makes it a
conservative analysis that is independent of the effect of DFS on
CycleInfo.
3. The analysis is implemented as a template that can be
instantiated for both LLVM IR and Machine IR.
Validation:
- passes existing tests for divergence analysis
- passes new tests with irreducible control flow
- passes equivalent tests in MIR and GMIR
Based on concepts originally outlined by
Nicolai Haehnle <nicolai.haehnle@amd.com>
With contributions from Ruiling Song <ruiling.song@amd.com> and
Jay Foad <jay.foad@amd.com>.
Support for GMIR and lit tests for GMIR/MIR added by
Yashwant Singh <yashwant.singh@amd.com>.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130746
Improve the cycle definition, by avoiding usage of not yet defined
or only vaguely defined terminology inside definitions.
More precisely, the existing definition defined "outermost cycles",
and then proceeded to use the term "cycles" for further definitions,
which in turn were used to actually define "cycles".
Now, instead only define "cycles". This does not change the meaning
of a cycle, which depends on the chosen surrounding (subgraph) of a CFG.
Also mention the function CFG in the first definition, because later
later definitions require it anyways.
Also slightly improve the definition of a closed path, by explicitly
requiring the inner nodes to be distinct.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130891
Reverts 02940d6d2202. Fixes breakage in the modules build.
LLVM loops cannot represent irreducible structures in the CFG. This
change introduce the concept of cycles as a generalization of loops,
along with a CycleInfo analysis that discovers a nested
hierarchy of such cycles. This is based on Havlak (1997), Nesting of
Reducible and Irreducible Loops.
The cycle analysis is implemented as a generic template and then
instatiated for LLVM IR and Machine IR. The template relies on a new
GenericSSAContext template which must be specialized when used for
each IR.
This review is a restart of an older review request:
https://reviews.llvm.org/D83094
Original implementation by Nicolai Hähnle <nicolai.haehnle@amd.com>,
with recent refactoring by Sameer Sahasrabuddhe <sameer.sahasrabuddhe@amd.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112696
LLVM loops cannot represent irreducible structures in the CFG. This
change introduce the concept of cycles as a generalization of loops,
along with a CycleInfo analysis that discovers a nested
hierarchy of such cycles. This is based on Havlak (1997), Nesting of
Reducible and Irreducible Loops.
The cycle analysis is implemented as a generic template and then
instatiated for LLVM IR and Machine IR. The template relies on a new
GenericSSAContext template which must be specialized when used for
each IR.
This review is a restart of an older review request:
https://reviews.llvm.org/D83094
Original implementation by Nicolai Hähnle <nicolai.haehnle@amd.com>,
with recent refactoring by Sameer Sahasrabuddhe <sameer.sahasrabuddhe@amd.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112696
