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diff --git a/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-mca.rst b/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-mca.rst index bea1931..1daae5d 100644 --- a/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-mca.rst +++ b/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-mca.rst @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ option specifies "``-``", then the output will also be sent to standard output. .. option:: -disable-cb Force usage of the generic CustomBehaviour and InstrPostProcess classes rather - than using the target specific implementation. The generic classes never + than using the target-specific implementation. The generic classes never detect any custom hazards or make any post processing modifications to instructions. @@ -1125,9 +1125,9 @@ CustomBehaviour class can be used in these cases to enforce proper instruction modeling (often by customizing data dependencies and detecting hazards that :program:`llvm-mca` has no way of knowing about). -:program:`llvm-mca` comes with one generic and multiple target specific +:program:`llvm-mca` comes with one generic and multiple target-specific CustomBehaviour classes. The generic class will be used if the ``-disable-cb`` -flag is used or if a target specific CustomBehaviour class doesn't exist for +flag is used or if a target-specific CustomBehaviour class doesn't exist for that target. (The generic class does nothing.) Currently, the CustomBehaviour class is only a part of the in-order pipeline, but there are plans to add it to the out-of-order pipeline in the future. @@ -1141,7 +1141,7 @@ if you don't know the exact number and a value of 0 represents no stall). If you'd like to add a CustomBehaviour class for a target that doesn't already have one, refer to an existing implementation to see how to set it -up. The classes are implemented within the target specific backend (for +up. The classes are implemented within the target-specific backend (for example `/llvm/lib/Target/AMDGPU/MCA/`) so that they can access backend symbols. Instrument Manager @@ -1177,12 +1177,12 @@ classes (MCSubtargetInfo, MCInstrInfo, etc.), please add it to the AND requires unexposed backend symbols or functionality, you can define it in the `/lib/Target/<TargetName>/MCA/` directory. -To enable this target specific View, you will have to use this target's +To enable this target-specific View, you will have to use this target's CustomBehaviour class to override the `CustomBehaviour::getViews()` methods. There are 3 variations of these methods based on where you want your View to appear in the output: `getStartViews()`, `getPostInstrInfoViews()`, and `getEndViews()`. These methods returns a vector of Views so you will want to -return a vector containing all of the target specific Views for the target in +return a vector containing all of the target-specific Views for the target in question. Because these target specific (and backend dependent) Views require the |