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[ARM] Fix broken shift patterns

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Andrew Stubbs Oct. 6, 2011, 3:01 p.m. UTC
This patch is a follow-up both to my patches here:

   http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-09/msg00049.html

and Paul Brook's patch here:

   http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-09/msg01076.html

The patch fixes both the original problem, in which negative shift 
constants caused an ICE (pr50193), and the problem introduced by Paul's 
patch, in which "a*64+b" is not properly optimized.

However, it does not attempt to fix Richard Sandiford's observation that 
there may be a latent problem with the 'M' constraint which could lead 
reload to cause a recog ICE.

I believe this patch to be nothing but an improvement over the current 
state, and that a fix to the constraint problem should be a separate patch.

In that basis, am I OK to commit?



Now, let me explain the other problem:

As it stands, all shift-related patterns, for ARM or Thumb2 mode, permit 
a shift to be expressed as either a shift type and amount (register or 
constant), or as a multiply and power-of-two constant.

This is necessary because the canonical form of (plus (ashift x y) z) 
appears to be (plus (mult x 2^y) z), presumably for the benefit of 
multiply-and-accumulate optimizations. (Minus is similarly affected, but 
other shiftable operations are unaffected, and this only applies to left 
shifts, of course.)

The (possible) problem is that the meanings of the constants for mult 
and ashift are very different, but the arm.md file has these unified 
into a single pattern using a single 'M' constraint that must allow both 
types of constant unconditionally. This is safe for the vast majority of 
passes because they check recog before they make a change, and anyway 
don't make changes without understanding the logic. But, reload has a 
feature where it can pull a constant from a register, and convert it to 
an immediate, if the constraints allow, but crucially, it doesn't check 
the predicates; no doubt it shouldn't need to, but the ARM port appears 
to be breaking to rules.

Problem scenario 1:

   Consider pattern (plus (mult r1 r2) r3).

   It so happens that reload knows that r2 contains a constant, say 20,
   so reload checks to see if that could be converted to an immediate.
   Now, 20 is not a power of two, so recog would reject it, but it is in
   the range 0..31 so it does match the 'M' constraint. Oops!

Problem scenario 2:

   Consider pattern (ashiftrt r1 r2).

   Again, it so happens that reload knows that r2 contains a constant, in
   this case let's say 64, so again reload checks to see if that could
   be converted to an immediate. This time, 64 is not in the range
   0..31, so recog would reject it, but it is a power of two, so it does
   match the 'M' constraint. Again, oops!

I see two ways to fix this properly:

  1. Duplicate all the patterns in the machine description, once for the
     mult case, and once for the other cases. This could probably be
     done with a code iterator, if preferred.

  2. Redefine the canonical form of (plus (mult .. 2^n) ..) such that it
     always uses the (presumably cheaper) shift-and-add option. However,
     this would require all other targets where madd really is the best
     option to fix it up. (I'd imagine that two instructions for shift
     and add would be cheaper speed wise, if properly scheduled, on most
     targets? That doesn't help the size optimization though.)

However, it's not obvious to me that this needs fixing:
  * The failure mode would be an ICE, and we've not seen any.
  * There's a comment in arm.c:shift_op that suggests that this can't
    happen, somehow, at least in the mult case.
    - I'm not sure exactly how reload works, but it seems reasonable
      that it will never try to convert a register to an immediate
      because the pattern does not allow registers in the first place.
    - This logic doesn't hold in the opposite case though.

Have I explained all that clearly?

My conclusion after studying all this is that we don't need to do 
anything until somebody reports an ICE, at which point it becomes worth 
the effort of fixing it. Other opinions welcome! :)

Andrew

Comments

Paul Brook Oct. 6, 2011, 5:17 p.m. UTC | #1
> I believe this patch to be nothing but an improvement over the current
> state, and that a fix to the constraint problem should be a separate patch.
> 
> In that basis, am I OK to commit?

One minor nit:

> (define_special_predicate "shift_operator"
>...
>+	(ior (match_test "GET_CODE (XEXP (op, 1)) == CONST_INT
>+			&& ((unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT) INTVAL (XEXP (op, 1))) < 32")
>+		(match_test "REG_P (XEXP (op, 1))"))))
 
We're already enforcing the REG_P elsewhere, and it's only valid in some 
contexts, so I'd change this to:
    (match_test "GET_CODE (XEXP (op, 1)) != CONST_INT
	|| ((unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT) INTVAL (XEXP (op, 1))) < 32")


> Now, let me explain the other problem:
> 
> As it stands, all shift-related patterns, for ARM or Thumb2 mode, permit
> a shift to be expressed as either a shift type and amount (register or
> constant), or as a multiply and power-of-two constant.

Added complication is that only ARM mode accepts a register.
 
> Problem scenario 1:
> 
>    Consider pattern (plus (mult r1 r2) r3).
> 
>    It so happens that reload knows that r2 contains a constant, say 20,
>    so reload checks to see if that could be converted to an immediate.
>    Now, 20 is not a power of two, so recog would reject it, but it is in
>    the range 0..31 so it does match the 'M' constraint. Oops!

Though as you mention below we the predicate don't allow the second operand to 
be a register, so this can never happen.  Reload may do unexpected things, but 
if it starts randomly changing valid const_int values then we have much bigger 
problems.
 
> Problem scenario 2:
> 
>    Consider pattern (ashiftrt r1 r2).
> 
>    Again, it so happens that reload knows that r2 contains a constant, in
>    this case let's say 64, so again reload checks to see if that could
>    be converted to an immediate. This time, 64 is not in the range
>    0..31, so recog would reject it, but it is a power of two, so it does
>    match the 'M' constraint. Again, oops!
> 
> I see two ways to fix this properly:
> 
>   1. Duplicate all the patterns in the machine description, once for the
>      mult case, and once for the other cases. This could probably be
>      done with a code iterator, if preferred.
> 
>   2. Redefine the canonical form of (plus (mult .. 2^n) ..) such that it
>      always uses the (presumably cheaper) shift-and-add option. However,
>      this would require all other targets where madd really is the best
>      option to fix it up. (I'd imagine that two instructions for shift
>      and add would be cheaper speed wise, if properly scheduled, on most
>      targets? That doesn't help the size optimization though.)

3. Consistently accept both power-of-two and 0..31 for shifts.  Large shift 
counts give undefined results[1], so replace them with an arbitrary value
(e.g. 0) during assembly output.  Argualy not an entirely "proper" fix, but I 
think it'll keep everything happy.
 
> However, it's not obvious to me that this needs fixing:
>   * The failure mode would be an ICE, and we've not seen any.

Then again noone noticed the negative-shift ICE until recently :-/

>   * There's a comment in arm.c:shift_op that suggests that this can't
>     happen, somehow, at least in the mult case.
>     - I'm not sure exactly how reload works, but it seems reasonable
>       that it will never try to convert a register to an immediate
>       because the pattern does not allow registers in the first place.
>     - This logic doesn't hold in the opposite case though.
> Have I explained all that clearly?

I think you've convered most of it.

For bonus points we should probably disallow MULT in the arm_shiftsi3 pattern, 
stop it interacting with the regulat mulsi3 pattern in undesirable ways.

Paul

[1] Or at least not any result gcc will be expecting.
Andrew Stubbs Oct. 7, 2011, 11:35 a.m. UTC | #2
On 06/10/11 16:01, Andrew Stubbs wrote:
>   (define_special_predicate "shift_operator"
>     (and (ior (ior (and (match_code "mult")
>   		      (match_test "power_of_two_operand (XEXP (op, 1), mode)"))
>   		 (and (match_code "rotate")
>   		      (match_test "GET_CODE (XEXP (op, 1)) == CONST_INT
>   				&&  ((unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT) INTVAL (XEXP (op, 1)))<  32")))
> -	    (match_code "ashift,ashiftrt,lshiftrt,rotatert"))
> +	    (and (match_code "ashift,ashiftrt,lshiftrt,rotatert")
> +		 (ior (match_test "GET_CODE (XEXP (op, 1)) == CONST_INT
> +				&&  ((unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT) INTVAL (XEXP (op, 1)))<  32")
> +		      (match_test "REG_P (XEXP (op, 1))"))))
>          (match_test "mode == GET_MODE (op)")))

Oh, I forgot to say, I don't understand why the "rotate" operator is 
special cased?

If I understand it correctly, the effect of the (existing) rotate is 
both to check the constant range, AND to disallow registers as the shift 
amount. This difference has no effect on Thumb, but might cause ARM mode 
some troubles?

Is this likely to be deliberate, or an oversight? I can't see any reason 
in the ARM ARM why this should be the case.

Andrew
Paul Brook Oct. 7, 2011, 12:12 p.m. UTC | #3
> Oh, I forgot to say, I don't understand why the "rotate" operator is
> special cased?
> 
> If I understand it correctly, the effect of the (existing) rotate is
> both to check the constant range, AND to disallow registers as the shift
> amount. This difference has no effect on Thumb, but might cause ARM mode
> some troubles?
> 
> Is this likely to be deliberate, or an oversight? I can't see any reason
> in the ARM ARM why this should be the case.

Deliberate. ARM only has rotatert (which for immediate operands can be 
substituted at assembly generation time).

Paul
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Patch

2011-10-06  Andrew Stubbs  <ams@codesourcery.com>

	gcc/
	* config/arm/predicates.md (shift_amount_operand): Remove constant
	range check.
	(shift_operator): Check range of constants for all shift operators.

	gcc/testsuite/
	* gcc.dg/pr50193-1.c: New file.
	* gcc.target/arm/shiftable.c: New file.

---
 src/gcc-mainline/gcc/config/arm/predicates.md      |   15 ++++++-
 src/gcc-mainline/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/pr50193-1.c  |   10 +++++
 .../gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/arm/shiftable.c       |   43 ++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 src/gcc-mainline/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/pr50193-1.c
 create mode 100644 src/gcc-mainline/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/arm/shiftable.c

diff --git a/src/gcc-mainline/gcc/config/arm/predicates.md b/src/gcc-mainline/gcc/config/arm/predicates.md
index 27ba603..7307fd5 100644
--- a/src/gcc-mainline/gcc/config/arm/predicates.md
+++ b/src/gcc-mainline/gcc/config/arm/predicates.md
@@ -129,11 +129,12 @@ 
   (ior (match_operand 0 "arm_rhs_operand")
        (match_operand 0 "memory_operand")))
 
+;; This doesn't have to do much because the constant is already checked
+;; in the shift_operator predicate.
 (define_predicate "shift_amount_operand"
   (ior (and (match_test "TARGET_ARM")
 	    (match_operand 0 "s_register_operand"))
-       (and (match_code "const_int")
-	    (match_test "((unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT) INTVAL (op)) < 32"))))
+       (match_operand 0 "const_int_operand")))
 
 (define_predicate "arm_add_operand"
   (ior (match_operand 0 "arm_rhs_operand")
@@ -219,13 +220,21 @@ 
        (match_test "mode == GET_MODE (op)")))
 
 ;; True for shift operators.
+;; Notes:
+;;  * mult is only permitted with a constant shift amount
+;;  * patterns that permit register shift amounts only in ARM mode use
+;;    shift_amount_operand, patterns that always allow registers do not,
+;;    so we don't have to worry about that sort of thing here.
 (define_special_predicate "shift_operator"
   (and (ior (ior (and (match_code "mult")
 		      (match_test "power_of_two_operand (XEXP (op, 1), mode)"))
 		 (and (match_code "rotate")
 		      (match_test "GET_CODE (XEXP (op, 1)) == CONST_INT
 				   && ((unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT) INTVAL (XEXP (op, 1))) < 32")))
-	    (match_code "ashift,ashiftrt,lshiftrt,rotatert"))
+	    (and (match_code "ashift,ashiftrt,lshiftrt,rotatert")
+		 (ior (match_test "GET_CODE (XEXP (op, 1)) == CONST_INT
+				   && ((unsigned HOST_WIDE_INT) INTVAL (XEXP (op, 1))) < 32")
+		      (match_test "REG_P (XEXP (op, 1))"))))
        (match_test "mode == GET_MODE (op)")))
 
 ;; True for shift operators which can be used with saturation instructions.
diff --git a/src/gcc-mainline/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/pr50193-1.c b/src/gcc-mainline/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/pr50193-1.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6abc9c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/gcc-mainline/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/pr50193-1.c
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ 
+/* PR 50193: ARM: ICE on a | (b << negative-constant) */
+/* Ensure that the compiler doesn't ICE.  */
+
+/* { dg-options "-O2" } */
+
+int
+foo(int a, int b)
+{
+  return a | (b << -3); /* { dg-warning "left shift count is negative" } */
+}
diff --git a/src/gcc-mainline/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/arm/shiftable.c b/src/gcc-mainline/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/arm/shiftable.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2d72bcc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/gcc-mainline/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/arm/shiftable.c
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ 
+/* { dg-do compile } */
+/* { dg-options "-O2" } */
+/* { dg-require-effective-target arm32 } */
+
+int
+plus (int a, int b)
+{
+  return (a * 64) + b;
+}
+
+/* { dg-final { scan-assembler "add.*\[al]sl #6" } } */
+
+int
+minus (int a, int b)
+{
+  return a - (b * 64);
+}
+
+/* { dg-final { scan-assembler "sub.*\[al]sl #6" } } */
+
+int
+ior (int a, int b)
+{
+  return (a * 64) | b;
+}
+
+/* { dg-final { scan-assembler "orr.*\[al]sl #6" } } */
+
+int
+xor (int a, int b)
+{
+  return (a * 64) ^ b;
+}
+
+/* { dg-final { scan-assembler "eor.*\[al]sl #6" } } */
+
+int
+and (int a, int b)
+{
+  return (a * 64) & b;
+}
+
+/* { dg-final { scan-assembler "and.*\[al]sl #6" } } */