[llvm-dev] Describing subreg load for vectors without using vector_insert (original) (raw)

Nemanja Ivanovic via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Thu Sep 21 01:44:42 PDT 2017

It would appear that what you're after here is the ability to specify defs and uses of parts of registers. Namely, you'd like to model the fact that loading into one lane of a register redefines only that lane and instructions that use other lanes need not be concerned with that.

I believe that there is no way to model this using subregisters only. A def of a subregister is a def of the super register since it certainly does modify that register. If I'm not mistaken, the only way you'd be able to model such a setup is to have separate register classes for the lanes that can be defined/used separately. The registers in those classes can then be subregisters of the full vector register. In this way, single-lane defs affect users of that lane and users of the full vector register. However, there was some work recently to allow parameterized register classes, so this may be simpler to accomplish now.

I'm not sure there are targets that you can use for examples of how to accomplish this. I work on PPC where our floating point values go into one lane of vector registers. However, there is no way in the ISA to use the other part of the vector register, so we don't model that. But this at least gives you half of the story. You can look at PPC's VSRC/VSFRC register classes. What you would add is register classes for all the lanes. Then instructions that use a single lane would use a register from the appropriate class.

This may not be what you're after at all, in which case I hope at least some of this is helpful in some way.

Nemanja

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Saurabh Verma via llvm-dev < llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

Hi,

We are using a vectorinsert in our target, to describe an instruction performing a lane-load of a vector register as: set dstReg,(vectorinsertdstReg, (vectorinsert dstReg,(vectorinsertdstReg, (load addr)),imm:addr)), imm:addr)),imm:lane) However, this means that the dstReg is also marked as used in the instruction, which we do not want. We can do a direct lane-load to a part of the vector register without disturbing the rest, and hence would like to do a subregister-load. Is there a way to achieve that? Best regards Saurabh

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