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authorMaciej W. Rozycki <macro@embecosm.com>2021-11-14 21:01:51 +0000
committerMaciej W. Rozycki <macro@embecosm.com>2021-11-14 21:01:51 +0000
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VAX: Add the `setmemhi' instruction
The MOVC5 machine instruction has `memset' semantics if encoded with a zero source length[1]: "4. MOVC5 with a zero source length operand is the preferred way to fill a block of memory with the fill character." Use that instruction to implement the `setmemhi' instruction then. Use the AP register in the register deferred mode for the source address to yield the shortest possible encoding of the otherwise unused operand, observing that the address is never dereferenced if the source length is zero. The use of this instruction yields steadily better performance, at least with the Mariah VAX implementation, for a variable-length `memset' call expanded inline as a single MOVC5 operation compared to an equivalent libcall invocation: Length: 1, time elapsed: 0.971789 (builtin), 2.847303 (libcall) Length: 2, time elapsed: 0.907904 (builtin), 2.728259 (libcall) Length: 3, time elapsed: 1.038311 (builtin), 2.917245 (libcall) Length: 4, time elapsed: 0.775305 (builtin), 2.686088 (libcall) Length: 7, time elapsed: 1.112331 (builtin), 2.992968 (libcall) Length: 8, time elapsed: 0.856882 (builtin), 2.764885 (libcall) Length: 15, time elapsed: 1.256086 (builtin), 3.096660 (libcall) Length: 16, time elapsed: 1.001962 (builtin), 2.888131 (libcall) Length: 31, time elapsed: 1.590456 (builtin), 3.774164 (libcall) Length: 32, time elapsed: 1.288909 (builtin), 3.629622 (libcall) Length: 63, time elapsed: 3.430285 (builtin), 5.269789 (libcall) Length: 64, time elapsed: 3.265147 (builtin), 5.113156 (libcall) Length: 127, time elapsed: 6.438772 (builtin), 8.268305 (libcall) Length: 128, time elapsed: 6.268991 (builtin), 8.114557 (libcall) Length: 255, time elapsed: 12.417338 (builtin), 14.259678 (libcall) (times given in seconds per 1000000 `memset' invocations for the given length made in a loop). It is clear from these figures that hardware does data coalescence for consecutive bytes rather than naively copying them one by one, as for lengths that are powers of 2 the figures are consistently lower than ones for their respective next lower lengths. The use of MOVC5 also requires at least 4 bytes less in terms of machine code as it avoids encoding the address of `memset' needed for the CALLS instruction used to make a libcall, as well as extra PUSHL instructions needed to pass arguments to the call as those can be encoded directly as the respective operands of the MOVC5 instruction. It is perhaps worth noting too that for constant lengths we prefer to emit up to 5 individual MOVx instructions rather than a single MOVC5 instruction to clear memory and for consistency we copy this behavior here for filling memory with another value too, even though there may be a performance advantage with a string copy in comparison to a piecemeal copy, e.g.: Length: 40, time elapsed: 2.183192 (string), 2.638878 (piecemeal) But this is something for another change as it will have to be carefully evaluated. [1] DEC STD 032-0 "VAX Architecture Standard", Digital Equipment Corporation, A-DS-EL-00032-00-0 Rev J, December 15, 1989, Section 3.10 "Character-String Instructions", p. 3-163 gcc/ * config/vax/vax.h (SET_RATIO): New macro. * config/vax/vax.md (UNSPEC_SETMEM_FILL): New constant. (setmemhi): New expander. (setmemhi1): New insn and splitter. (*setmemhi1): New insn. gcc/testsuite/ * gcc.target/vax/setmem.c: New test.
-rw-r--r--gcc/config/vax/vax.h1
-rw-r--r--gcc/config/vax/vax.md64
-rw-r--r--gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/vax/setmem.c22
3 files changed, 87 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/config/vax/vax.h b/gcc/config/vax/vax.h
index b67d668..006c0ab 100644
--- a/gcc/config/vax/vax.h
+++ b/gcc/config/vax/vax.h
@@ -433,6 +433,7 @@ enum reg_class { NO_REGS, ALL_REGS, LIM_REG_CLASSES };
move-instruction pairs, we will do a cpymem or libcall instead. */
#define MOVE_RATIO(speed) ((speed) ? 6 : 3)
#define CLEAR_RATIO(speed) ((speed) ? 6 : 2)
+#define SET_RATIO(speed) ((speed) ? 6 : 2)
/* Nonzero if access to memory by bytes is slow and undesirable. */
#define SLOW_BYTE_ACCESS 0
diff --git a/gcc/config/vax/vax.md b/gcc/config/vax/vax.md
index 5b1b392..977dc80 100644
--- a/gcc/config/vax/vax.md
+++ b/gcc/config/vax/vax.md
@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@
VUNSPEC_PEM ; 'procedure_entry_mask' insn.
])
+;; UNSPEC usage:
+
+(define_c_enum "unspec" [
+ UNSPEC_SETMEM_FILL ; 'fill' operand to 'setmem' insn.
+])
+
(define_constants
[(VAX_AP_REGNUM 12) ; Register 12 contains the argument pointer
(VAX_FP_REGNUM 13) ; Register 13 contains the frame pointer
@@ -438,6 +444,64 @@
(clobber (reg:CC VAX_PSL_REGNUM))]
"reload_completed"
"movc3 %2,%1,%0")
+
+;; This is here to accept 4 arguments and pass the first 3 along
+;; to the setmemhi1 pattern that really does the work.
+(define_expand "setmemhi"
+ [(set (match_operand:BLK 0 "memory_operand" "")
+ (match_operand:QI 2 "general_operand" ""))
+ (use (match_operand:HI 1 "general_operand" ""))
+ (match_operand 3 "" "")]
+ ""
+ "
+{
+ emit_insn (gen_setmemhi1 (operands[0], operands[1], operands[2]));
+ DONE;
+}")
+
+;; The srcaddr operand of MOVC5 is not dereferenced if srclen is zero, so we
+;; set it to (%ap) somewhat arbitrarily chosen for the shortest encoding.
+(define_insn_and_split "setmemhi1"
+ [(set (match_operand:BLK 0 "memory_operand" "=o")
+ (unspec:BLK [(use (match_operand:QI 2 "general_operand" "g"))]
+ UNSPEC_SETMEM_FILL))
+ (use (match_operand:HI 1 "general_operand" "g"))
+ (clobber (reg:SI 0))
+ (clobber (reg:SI 1))
+ (clobber (reg:SI 2))
+ (clobber (reg:SI 3))
+ (clobber (reg:SI 4))
+ (clobber (reg:SI 5))]
+ ""
+ "#"
+ "reload_completed"
+ [(parallel
+ [(set (match_dup 0)
+ (unspec:BLK [(use (match_dup 2))] UNSPEC_SETMEM_FILL))
+ (use (match_dup 1))
+ (clobber (reg:SI 0))
+ (clobber (reg:SI 1))
+ (clobber (reg:SI 2))
+ (clobber (reg:SI 3))
+ (clobber (reg:SI 4))
+ (clobber (reg:SI 5))
+ (clobber (reg:CC VAX_PSL_REGNUM))])]
+ "")
+
+(define_insn "*setmemhi1"
+ [(set (match_operand:BLK 0 "memory_operand" "=o")
+ (unspec:BLK [(use (match_operand:QI 2 "general_operand" "g"))]
+ UNSPEC_SETMEM_FILL))
+ (use (match_operand:HI 1 "general_operand" "g"))
+ (clobber (reg:SI 0))
+ (clobber (reg:SI 1))
+ (clobber (reg:SI 2))
+ (clobber (reg:SI 3))
+ (clobber (reg:SI 4))
+ (clobber (reg:SI 5))
+ (clobber (reg:CC VAX_PSL_REGNUM))]
+ "reload_completed"
+ "movc5 $0,(%%ap),%2,%1,%0")
;; Extension and truncation insns.
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/vax/setmem.c b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/vax/setmem.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6c60cfc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/vax/setmem.c
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+/* { dg-do compile } */
+/* { dg-skip-if "code quality test" { *-*-* } { "-O0" } { "" } } */
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+
+void *
+memset8 (void *block, int c, size_t size)
+{
+ unsigned char s8 = size;
+ return __builtin_memset (block, c, s8);
+}
+
+/* Expect assembly like:
+
+ movl 4(%ap),%r6
+ movzbl 12(%ap),%r7
+ movc5 $0,(%ap),8(%ap),%r7,(%r6)
+ movl %r6,%r0
+
+ */
+
+/* { dg-final { scan-assembler "\tmovc5 \\\$0,\\\(%ap\\\)," } } */