1 //===- SpeculativeExecution.cpp ---------------------------------*- C++ -*-===//
2 //
3 // The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
4 //
5 // This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
6 // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
7 //
8 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
9 //
10 // This pass hoists instructions to enable speculative execution on
11 // targets where branches are expensive. This is aimed at GPUs. It
12 // currently works on simple if-then and if-then-else
13 // patterns.
14 //
15 // Removing branches is not the only motivation for this
16 // pass. E.g. consider this code and assume that there is no
17 // addressing mode for multiplying by sizeof(*a):
18 //
19 // if (b > 0)
20 // c = a[i + 1]
21 // if (d > 0)
22 // e = a[i + 2]
23 //
24 // turns into
25 //
26 // p = &a[i + 1];
27 // if (b > 0)
28 // c = *p;
29 // q = &a[i + 2];
30 // if (d > 0)
31 // e = *q;
32 //
33 // which could later be optimized to
34 //
35 // r = &a[i];
36 // if (b > 0)
37 // c = r[1];
38 // if (d > 0)
39 // e = r[2];
40 //
41 // Later passes sink back much of the speculated code that did not enable
42 // further optimization.
43 //
44 // This pass is more aggressive than the function SpeculativeyExecuteBB in
45 // SimplifyCFG. SimplifyCFG will not speculate if no selects are introduced and
46 // it will speculate at most one instruction. It also will not speculate if
47 // there is a value defined in the if-block that is only used in the then-block.
48 // These restrictions make sense since the speculation in SimplifyCFG seems
49 // aimed at introducing cheap selects, while this pass is intended to do more
50 // aggressive speculation while counting on later passes to either capitalize on
51 // that or clean it up.
52 //
53 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
54
55 #include "llvm/ADT/SmallSet.h"
56 #include "llvm/Analysis/TargetTransformInfo.h"
57 #include "llvm/Analysis/ValueTracking.h"
58 #include "llvm/IR/Instructions.h"
59 #include "llvm/IR/Module.h"
60 #include "llvm/IR/Operator.h"
61 #include "llvm/Support/CommandLine.h"
62 #include "llvm/Support/Debug.h"
63
64 using namespace llvm;
65
66 #define DEBUG_TYPE "speculative-execution"
67
68 // The risk that speculation will not pay off increases with the
69 // number of instructions speculated, so we put a limit on that.
70 static cl::opt<unsigned> SpecExecMaxSpeculationCost(
71 "spec-exec-max-speculation-cost", cl::init(7), cl::Hidden,
72 cl::desc("Speculative execution is not applied to basic blocks where "
73 "the cost of the instructions to speculatively execute "
74 "exceeds this limit."));
75
76 // Speculating just a few instructions from a larger block tends not
77 // to be profitable and this limit prevents that. A reason for that is
78 // that small basic blocks are more likely to be candidates for
79 // further optimization.
80 static cl::opt<unsigned> SpecExecMaxNotHoisted(
81 "spec-exec-max-not-hoisted", cl::init(5), cl::Hidden,
82 cl::desc("Speculative execution is not applied to basic blocks where the "
83 "number of instructions that would not be speculatively executed "
84 "exceeds this limit."));
85
86 namespace {
87 class SpeculativeExecution : public FunctionPass {
88 public:
89 static char ID;
SpeculativeExecution()90 SpeculativeExecution(): FunctionPass(ID) {}
91
92 void getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage &AU) const override;
93 bool runOnFunction(Function &F) override;
94
95 private:
96 bool runOnBasicBlock(BasicBlock &B);
97 bool considerHoistingFromTo(BasicBlock &FromBlock, BasicBlock &ToBlock);
98
99 const TargetTransformInfo *TTI = nullptr;
100 };
101 } // namespace
102
103 char SpeculativeExecution::ID = 0;
104 INITIALIZE_PASS_BEGIN(SpeculativeExecution, "speculative-execution",
105 "Speculatively execute instructions", false, false)
INITIALIZE_PASS_DEPENDENCY(TargetTransformInfoWrapperPass)106 INITIALIZE_PASS_DEPENDENCY(TargetTransformInfoWrapperPass)
107 INITIALIZE_PASS_END(SpeculativeExecution, "speculative-execution",
108 "Speculatively execute instructions", false, false)
109
110 void SpeculativeExecution::getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage &AU) const {
111 AU.addRequired<TargetTransformInfoWrapperPass>();
112 }
113
runOnFunction(Function & F)114 bool SpeculativeExecution::runOnFunction(Function &F) {
115 if (skipOptnoneFunction(F))
116 return false;
117
118 TTI = &getAnalysis<TargetTransformInfoWrapperPass>().getTTI(F);
119
120 bool Changed = false;
121 for (auto& B : F) {
122 Changed |= runOnBasicBlock(B);
123 }
124 return Changed;
125 }
126
runOnBasicBlock(BasicBlock & B)127 bool SpeculativeExecution::runOnBasicBlock(BasicBlock &B) {
128 BranchInst *BI = dyn_cast<BranchInst>(B.getTerminator());
129 if (BI == nullptr)
130 return false;
131
132 if (BI->getNumSuccessors() != 2)
133 return false;
134 BasicBlock &Succ0 = *BI->getSuccessor(0);
135 BasicBlock &Succ1 = *BI->getSuccessor(1);
136
137 if (&B == &Succ0 || &B == &Succ1 || &Succ0 == &Succ1) {
138 return false;
139 }
140
141 // Hoist from if-then (triangle).
142 if (Succ0.getSinglePredecessor() != nullptr &&
143 Succ0.getSingleSuccessor() == &Succ1) {
144 return considerHoistingFromTo(Succ0, B);
145 }
146
147 // Hoist from if-else (triangle).
148 if (Succ1.getSinglePredecessor() != nullptr &&
149 Succ1.getSingleSuccessor() == &Succ0) {
150 return considerHoistingFromTo(Succ1, B);
151 }
152
153 // Hoist from if-then-else (diamond), but only if it is equivalent to
154 // an if-else or if-then due to one of the branches doing nothing.
155 if (Succ0.getSinglePredecessor() != nullptr &&
156 Succ1.getSinglePredecessor() != nullptr &&
157 Succ1.getSingleSuccessor() != nullptr &&
158 Succ1.getSingleSuccessor() != &B &&
159 Succ1.getSingleSuccessor() == Succ0.getSingleSuccessor()) {
160 // If a block has only one instruction, then that is a terminator
161 // instruction so that the block does nothing. This does happen.
162 if (Succ1.size() == 1) // equivalent to if-then
163 return considerHoistingFromTo(Succ0, B);
164 if (Succ0.size() == 1) // equivalent to if-else
165 return considerHoistingFromTo(Succ1, B);
166 }
167
168 return false;
169 }
170
ComputeSpeculationCost(const Instruction * I,const TargetTransformInfo & TTI)171 static unsigned ComputeSpeculationCost(const Instruction *I,
172 const TargetTransformInfo &TTI) {
173 switch (Operator::getOpcode(I)) {
174 case Instruction::GetElementPtr:
175 case Instruction::Add:
176 case Instruction::Mul:
177 case Instruction::And:
178 case Instruction::Or:
179 case Instruction::Select:
180 case Instruction::Shl:
181 case Instruction::Sub:
182 case Instruction::LShr:
183 case Instruction::AShr:
184 case Instruction::Xor:
185 case Instruction::ZExt:
186 case Instruction::SExt:
187 return TTI.getUserCost(I);
188
189 default:
190 return UINT_MAX; // Disallow anything not whitelisted.
191 }
192 }
193
considerHoistingFromTo(BasicBlock & FromBlock,BasicBlock & ToBlock)194 bool SpeculativeExecution::considerHoistingFromTo(BasicBlock &FromBlock,
195 BasicBlock &ToBlock) {
196 SmallSet<const Instruction *, 8> NotHoisted;
197 const auto AllPrecedingUsesFromBlockHoisted = [&NotHoisted](User *U) {
198 for (Value* V : U->operand_values()) {
199 if (Instruction *I = dyn_cast<Instruction>(V)) {
200 if (NotHoisted.count(I) > 0)
201 return false;
202 }
203 }
204 return true;
205 };
206
207 unsigned TotalSpeculationCost = 0;
208 for (auto& I : FromBlock) {
209 const unsigned Cost = ComputeSpeculationCost(&I, *TTI);
210 if (Cost != UINT_MAX && isSafeToSpeculativelyExecute(&I) &&
211 AllPrecedingUsesFromBlockHoisted(&I)) {
212 TotalSpeculationCost += Cost;
213 if (TotalSpeculationCost > SpecExecMaxSpeculationCost)
214 return false; // too much to hoist
215 } else {
216 NotHoisted.insert(&I);
217 if (NotHoisted.size() > SpecExecMaxNotHoisted)
218 return false; // too much left behind
219 }
220 }
221
222 if (TotalSpeculationCost == 0)
223 return false; // nothing to hoist
224
225 for (auto I = FromBlock.begin(); I != FromBlock.end();) {
226 // We have to increment I before moving Current as moving Current
227 // changes the list that I is iterating through.
228 auto Current = I;
229 ++I;
230 if (!NotHoisted.count(&*Current)) {
231 Current->moveBefore(ToBlock.getTerminator());
232 }
233 }
234 return true;
235 }
236
237 namespace llvm {
238
createSpeculativeExecutionPass()239 FunctionPass *createSpeculativeExecutionPass() {
240 return new SpeculativeExecution();
241 }
242
243 } // namespace llvm
244