X86-64: Add -mskip-rax-setup

The Linux kernel never passes floating point arguments around, vararg
functions or not. Hence no vector registers are ever used when calling a
vararg function.  But gcc still dutifully emits an "xor %eax,%eax" before
each and every call of a vararg function.  Since no callee use that for
anything, these instructions are redundant.

This patch adds the -mskip-rax-setup option to skip setting up RAX
register when SSE is disabled and there are no variable arguments passed
in vector registers.  Since RAX register is used to avoid unnecessarily
saving vector registers on stack when passing variable arguments, the
impacts of this option are callees may waste some stack space, misbehave
or jump to a random location.  GCC 4.4 or newer don't those issues,
regardless the RAX register value since they don't check the RAX register
value when SSE is disabled.

gcc/

	* config/i386/i386.c (ix86_expand_call): Skip setting up RAX
	register for -mskip-rax-setup when there are no parameters
	passed in vector registers.
	* config/i386/i386.opt (mskip-rax-setup): New option.
	* doc/invoke.texi: Document -mskip-rax-setup.

gcc/testsuite/

	* gcc.target/i386/amd64-abi-7.c: New tests.
	* gcc.target/i386/amd64-abi-8.c: Likwise.
	* gcc.target/i386/amd64-abi-9.c: Likwise.

From-SVN: r218870

8 files changed, 119 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 1fd5b4f..6e7cfeb 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2014-12-18  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
+
+	* config/i386/i386.c (ix86_expand_call): Skip setting up RAX
+	register for -mskip-rax-setup when there are no parameters
+	passed in vector registers.
+	* config/i386/i386.opt (mskip-rax-setup): New option.
+	* doc/invoke.texi: Document -mskip-rax-setup.
+
 2014-12-18  Alan Lawrence  <alan.lawrence@arm.com>
 
 	* config/aarch64/aarch64-simd.md (aarch64_lshr_simddi): Handle shift
diff --git a/gcc/config/i386/i386.c b/gcc/config/i386/i386.c
index 17ef751..122a350 100644
--- a/gcc/config/i386/i386.c
+++ b/gcc/config/i386/i386.c
@@ -25461,7 +25461,12 @@ ix86_expand_call (rtx retval, rtx fnaddr, rtx callarg1,
 	}
     }
 
-  if (TARGET_64BIT && INTVAL (callarg2) >= 0)
+  /* Skip setting up RAX register for -mskip-rax-setup when there are no
+     parameters passed in vector registers.  */
+  if (TARGET_64BIT
+      && (INTVAL (callarg2) > 0
+	  || (INTVAL (callarg2) == 0
+	      && (TARGET_SSE || !flag_skip_rax_setup))))
     {
       rtx al = gen_rtx_REG (QImode, AX_REG);
       emit_move_insn (al, callarg2);
diff --git a/gcc/config/i386/i386.opt b/gcc/config/i386/i386.opt
index 3d54bfa..6dc4da2 100644
--- a/gcc/config/i386/i386.opt
+++ b/gcc/config/i386/i386.opt
@@ -831,6 +831,10 @@ Target Report Var(flag_nop_mcount) Init(0)
 Generate mcount/__fentry__ calls as nops. To activate they need to be
 patched in.
 
+mskip-rax-setup
+Target Report Var(flag_skip_rax_setup) Init(0)
+Skip setting up RAX register when passing variable arguments.
+
 m8bit-idiv
 Target Report Mask(USE_8BIT_IDIV) Save
 Expand 32bit/64bit integer divide into 8bit unsigned integer divide with run-time check
diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
index 15068da..33a7ed2 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
@@ -16256,6 +16256,19 @@ the profiling functions as nops. This is useful when they
 should be patched in later dynamically. This is likely only
 useful together with @option{-mrecord-mcount}.
 
+@item -mskip-rax-setup
+@itemx -mno-skip-rax-setup
+@opindex mskip-rax-setup
+When generating code for the x86-64 architecture with SSE extensions
+disabled, @option{-skip-rax-setup} can be used to skip setting up RAX
+register when there are no variable arguments passed in vector registers.
+
+@strong{Warning:} Since RAX register is used to avoid unnecessarily
+saving vector registers on stack when passing variable arguments, the
+impacts of this option are callees may waste some stack space,
+misbehave or jump to a random location.  GCC 4.4 or newer don't have
+those issues, regardless the RAX register value.
+
 @item -m8bit-idiv
 @itemx -mno-8bit-idiv
 @opindex 8bit-idiv
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
index f7e72ed..4d75d0e 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2014-12-18  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
+
+	* gcc.target/i386/amd64-abi-7.c: New tests.
+	* gcc.target/i386/amd64-abi-8.c: Likwise.
+	* gcc.target/i386/amd64-abi-9.c: Likwise.
+
 2014-12-18  Alan Lawrence  <alan.lawrence@arm.com>
 
 	* gcc.target/aarch64/ushr64_1.c: Remove scan-assembler "ushr...64".
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/i386/amd64-abi-7.c b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/i386/amd64-abi-7.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fcca680
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/i386/amd64-abi-7.c
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+/* { dg-do run { target { ! { ia32 } } } } */
+/* { dg-options "-O2 -mno-sse" } */
+
+#include <stdarg.h>
+#include <assert.h>
+
+int n1 = 30;
+int n2 = 324;
+void *n3 = (void *) &n2;
+int n4 = 407;
+
+int e1;
+int e2;
+void *e3;
+int e4;
+
+static void
+__attribute__((noinline))
+foo (va_list va_arglist)
+{
+  e2 = va_arg (va_arglist, int);
+  e3 = va_arg (va_arglist, void *);
+  e4 = va_arg (va_arglist, int);
+}
+
+static void
+__attribute__((noinline))
+test (int a1, ...)
+{
+  va_list va_arglist;
+  e1 = a1;
+  va_start (va_arglist, a1);
+  foo (va_arglist);
+  va_end (va_arglist);
+}
+
+int
+main ()
+{
+  test (n1, n2, n3, n4);
+  assert (n1 == e1);
+  assert (n2 == e2);
+  assert (n3 == e3);
+  assert (n4 == e4);
+  return 0;
+}
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/i386/amd64-abi-8.c b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/i386/amd64-abi-8.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b25ceec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/i386/amd64-abi-8.c
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/* { dg-do compile { target { ! { ia32 } } } } */
+/* { dg-options "-O2 -mno-sse -mskip-rax-setup" } */
+/* { dg-final { scan-assembler-not "xorl\[\\t \]*\\\%eax,\[\\t \]*%eax" } } */
+
+void foo (const char *, ...);
+
+void
+test1 (void)
+{
+  foo ("%d", 20);
+}
+
+int
+test2 (void)
+{
+  foo ("%d", 20);
+  return 3;
+}
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/i386/amd64-abi-9.c b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/i386/amd64-abi-9.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4707eb7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/i386/amd64-abi-9.c
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/* { dg-do compile { target { ! { ia32 } } } } */
+/* { dg-options "-O2 -mno-sse -mno-skip-rax-setup" } */
+/* { dg-final { scan-assembler-times "xorl\[\\t \]*\\\%eax,\[\\t \]*%eax" 2 } } */
+
+void foo (const char *, ...);
+
+void
+test1 (void)
+{
+  foo ("%d", 20);
+}
+
+int
+test2 (void)
+{
+  foo ("%d", 20);
+  return 3;
+}