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[arm] Prefer LO_REG registers in regrename

Message ID 4CFFB571.9080308@codesourcery.com
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Yao Qi Dec. 8, 2010, 4:42 p.m. UTC
This patch is to implement to targethook preferred_rename_class, in
order to prefer LO_REGS registers over GENERAL_REGS registers in Thumb-2.

EEMBC doesn't show speed improvements, but code size of some benchmarks
in EEMBC is reduced by 0.1% ~ 0.2%.  Regression tested on '2010-11-30'
trunk.  OK for mainline?

Comments

Richard Earnshaw Dec. 8, 2010, 4:58 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 00:42 +0800, Yao Qi wrote:
> This patch is to implement to targethook preferred_rename_class, in
> order to prefer LO_REGS registers over GENERAL_REGS registers in Thumb-2.
> 
> EEMBC doesn't show speed improvements, but code size of some benchmarks
> in EEMBC is reduced by 0.1% ~ 0.2%.  Regression tested on '2010-11-30'
> trunk.  OK for mainline?
> 

This is OK.  However, I don't see any point in calling the default
version of this function when that's defined to just return NO_REGS.
Just do that directly yourself and save the overhead of another branch.

R.
Ramana Radhakrishnan Dec. 8, 2010, 5:28 p.m. UTC | #2
Can't approve or reject your patch but a very minor nit :)

On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 00:42 +0800, Yao Qi wrote:
> +static reg_class_t
> +arm_preferred_rename_class (reg_class_t class)
> +{
> +  /* thumb-2 instructions using LO_REGS may be smaller than
> instructions

s/thumb-2/Thumb-2  or s/thumb-2/Thumb2 though Thumb-2 seems to be the
preferred form in large parts of the source.

Cheers
Ramana
Yao Qi Dec. 9, 2010, 5:51 a.m. UTC | #3
On 12/09/2010 12:58 AM, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 00:42 +0800, Yao Qi wrote:
>> This patch is to implement to targethook preferred_rename_class, in
>> order to prefer LO_REGS registers over GENERAL_REGS registers in Thumb-2.
>>
>> EEMBC doesn't show speed improvements, but code size of some benchmarks
>> in EEMBC is reduced by 0.1% ~ 0.2%.  Regression tested on '2010-11-30'
>> trunk.  OK for mainline?
>>
> 
> This is OK.  However, I don't see any point in calling the default
> version of this function when that's defined to just return NO_REGS.
> Just do that directly yourself and save the overhead of another branch.

OK, return NO_REGS directly in arm_preferred_rename_class, and replace
"thumb-2" with "Thumb-2" in comments as Ramana pointed out.  Committed.
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Patch

gcc/

	* config/arm/arm.c (arm_preferred_rename_class): Implement targethook
	PREFERRED_RENAME_CLASS.

diff --git a/gcc/config/arm/arm.c b/gcc/config/arm/arm.c
index afca3c6..1b27f00 100644
--- a/gcc/config/arm/arm.c
+++ b/gcc/config/arm/arm.c
@@ -246,6 +246,7 @@  static bool arm_builtin_support_vector_misalignment (enum machine_mode mode,
 						     const_tree type,
 						     int misalignment,
 						     bool is_packed);
+static reg_class_t arm_preferred_rename_class (reg_class_t class)
 
 
 /* Table of machine attributes.  */
@@ -578,6 +579,10 @@  static const struct default_options arm_option_optimization_table[] =
 #define TARGET_VECTORIZE_SUPPORT_VECTOR_MISALIGNMENT \
   arm_builtin_support_vector_misalignment
 
+#undef TARGET_PREFERRED_RENAME_CLASS
+#define TARGET_PREFERRED_RENAME_CLASS \
+  arm_preferred_rename_class
+
 struct gcc_target targetm = TARGET_INITIALIZER;
 
 /* Obstack for minipool constant handling.  */
@@ -23264,4 +23269,16 @@  arm_builtin_support_vector_misalignment (enum machine_mode mode,
 						      is_packed);
 }
 
+static reg_class_t
+arm_preferred_rename_class (reg_class_t class)
+{
+  /* thumb-2 instructions using LO_REGS may be smaller than instructions
+     using GENERIC_REGS.  During register rename pass, we prefer LO_REGS,
+     and code size can be reduced.  */
+  if (TARGET_THUMB2 && class == GENERAL_REGS)
+    return LO_REGS;
+  else
+    return default_preferred_rename_class (class);
+}
+
 #include "gt-arm.h"