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      1 //===- llvm/Analysis/TargetTransformInfo.h ----------------------*- C++ -*-===//
      2 //
      3 //                     The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
      4 //
      5 // This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
      6 // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
      7 //
      8 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
      9 //
     10 // This pass exposes codegen information to IR-level passes. Every
     11 // transformation that uses codegen information is broken into three parts:
     12 // 1. The IR-level analysis pass.
     13 // 2. The IR-level transformation interface which provides the needed
     14 //    information.
     15 // 3. Codegen-level implementation which uses target-specific hooks.
     16 //
     17 // This file defines #2, which is the interface that IR-level transformations
     18 // use for querying the codegen.
     19 //
     20 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
     21 
     22 #ifndef LLVM_ANALYSIS_TARGETTRANSFORMINFO_H
     23 #define LLVM_ANALYSIS_TARGETTRANSFORMINFO_H
     24 
     25 #include "llvm/IR/Intrinsics.h"
     26 #include "llvm/Pass.h"
     27 #include "llvm/Support/DataTypes.h"
     28 
     29 namespace llvm {
     30 
     31 class GlobalValue;
     32 class Type;
     33 class User;
     34 class Value;
     35 
     36 /// TargetTransformInfo - This pass provides access to the codegen
     37 /// interfaces that are needed for IR-level transformations.
     38 class TargetTransformInfo {
     39 protected:
     40   /// \brief The TTI instance one level down the stack.
     41   ///
     42   /// This is used to implement the default behavior all of the methods which
     43   /// is to delegate up through the stack of TTIs until one can answer the
     44   /// query.
     45   TargetTransformInfo *PrevTTI;
     46 
     47   /// \brief The top of the stack of TTI analyses available.
     48   ///
     49   /// This is a convenience routine maintained as TTI analyses become available
     50   /// that complements the PrevTTI delegation chain. When one part of an
     51   /// analysis pass wants to query another part of the analysis pass it can use
     52   /// this to start back at the top of the stack.
     53   TargetTransformInfo *TopTTI;
     54 
     55   /// All pass subclasses must in their initializePass routine call
     56   /// pushTTIStack with themselves to update the pointers tracking the previous
     57   /// TTI instance in the analysis group's stack, and the top of the analysis
     58   /// group's stack.
     59   void pushTTIStack(Pass *P);
     60 
     61   /// All pass subclasses must in their finalizePass routine call popTTIStack
     62   /// to update the pointers tracking the previous TTI instance in the analysis
     63   /// group's stack, and the top of the analysis group's stack.
     64   void popTTIStack();
     65 
     66   /// All pass subclasses must call TargetTransformInfo::getAnalysisUsage.
     67   virtual void getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage &AU) const;
     68 
     69 public:
     70   /// This class is intended to be subclassed by real implementations.
     71   virtual ~TargetTransformInfo() = 0;
     72 
     73   /// \name Generic Target Information
     74   /// @{
     75 
     76   /// \brief Underlying constants for 'cost' values in this interface.
     77   ///
     78   /// Many APIs in this interface return a cost. This enum defines the
     79   /// fundamental values that should be used to interpret (and produce) those
     80   /// costs. The costs are returned as an unsigned rather than a member of this
     81   /// enumeration because it is expected that the cost of one IR instruction
     82   /// may have a multiplicative factor to it or otherwise won't fit directly
     83   /// into the enum. Moreover, it is common to sum or average costs which works
     84   /// better as simple integral values. Thus this enum only provides constants.
     85   ///
     86   /// Note that these costs should usually reflect the intersection of code-size
     87   /// cost and execution cost. A free instruction is typically one that folds
     88   /// into another instruction. For example, reg-to-reg moves can often be
     89   /// skipped by renaming the registers in the CPU, but they still are encoded
     90   /// and thus wouldn't be considered 'free' here.
     91   enum TargetCostConstants {
     92     TCC_Free = 0,       ///< Expected to fold away in lowering.
     93     TCC_Basic = 1,      ///< The cost of a typical 'add' instruction.
     94     TCC_Expensive = 4   ///< The cost of a 'div' instruction on x86.
     95   };
     96 
     97   /// \brief Estimate the cost of a specific operation when lowered.
     98   ///
     99   /// Note that this is designed to work on an arbitrary synthetic opcode, and
    100   /// thus work for hypothetical queries before an instruction has even been
    101   /// formed. However, this does *not* work for GEPs, and must not be called
    102   /// for a GEP instruction. Instead, use the dedicated getGEPCost interface as
    103   /// analyzing a GEP's cost required more information.
    104   ///
    105   /// Typically only the result type is required, and the operand type can be
    106   /// omitted. However, if the opcode is one of the cast instructions, the
    107   /// operand type is required.
    108   ///
    109   /// The returned cost is defined in terms of \c TargetCostConstants, see its
    110   /// comments for a detailed explanation of the cost values.
    111   virtual unsigned getOperationCost(unsigned Opcode, Type *Ty,
    112                                     Type *OpTy = 0) const;
    113 
    114   /// \brief Estimate the cost of a GEP operation when lowered.
    115   ///
    116   /// The contract for this function is the same as \c getOperationCost except
    117   /// that it supports an interface that provides extra information specific to
    118   /// the GEP operation.
    119   virtual unsigned getGEPCost(const Value *Ptr,
    120                               ArrayRef<const Value *> Operands) const;
    121 
    122   /// \brief Estimate the cost of a function call when lowered.
    123   ///
    124   /// The contract for this is the same as \c getOperationCost except that it
    125   /// supports an interface that provides extra information specific to call
    126   /// instructions.
    127   ///
    128   /// This is the most basic query for estimating call cost: it only knows the
    129   /// function type and (potentially) the number of arguments at the call site.
    130   /// The latter is only interesting for varargs function types.
    131   virtual unsigned getCallCost(FunctionType *FTy, int NumArgs = -1) const;
    132 
    133   /// \brief Estimate the cost of calling a specific function when lowered.
    134   ///
    135   /// This overload adds the ability to reason about the particular function
    136   /// being called in the event it is a library call with special lowering.
    137   virtual unsigned getCallCost(const Function *F, int NumArgs = -1) const;
    138 
    139   /// \brief Estimate the cost of calling a specific function when lowered.
    140   ///
    141   /// This overload allows specifying a set of candidate argument values.
    142   virtual unsigned getCallCost(const Function *F,
    143                                ArrayRef<const Value *> Arguments) const;
    144 
    145   /// \brief Estimate the cost of an intrinsic when lowered.
    146   ///
    147   /// Mirrors the \c getCallCost method but uses an intrinsic identifier.
    148   virtual unsigned getIntrinsicCost(Intrinsic::ID IID, Type *RetTy,
    149                                     ArrayRef<Type *> ParamTys) const;
    150 
    151   /// \brief Estimate the cost of an intrinsic when lowered.
    152   ///
    153   /// Mirrors the \c getCallCost method but uses an intrinsic identifier.
    154   virtual unsigned getIntrinsicCost(Intrinsic::ID IID, Type *RetTy,
    155                                     ArrayRef<const Value *> Arguments) const;
    156 
    157   /// \brief Estimate the cost of a given IR user when lowered.
    158   ///
    159   /// This can estimate the cost of either a ConstantExpr or Instruction when
    160   /// lowered. It has two primary advantages over the \c getOperationCost and
    161   /// \c getGEPCost above, and one significant disadvantage: it can only be
    162   /// used when the IR construct has already been formed.
    163   ///
    164   /// The advantages are that it can inspect the SSA use graph to reason more
    165   /// accurately about the cost. For example, all-constant-GEPs can often be
    166   /// folded into a load or other instruction, but if they are used in some
    167   /// other context they may not be folded. This routine can distinguish such
    168   /// cases.
    169   ///
    170   /// The returned cost is defined in terms of \c TargetCostConstants, see its
    171   /// comments for a detailed explanation of the cost values.
    172   virtual unsigned getUserCost(const User *U) const;
    173 
    174   /// \brief hasBranchDivergence - Return true if branch divergence exists.
    175   /// Branch divergence has a significantly negative impact on GPU performance
    176   /// when threads in the same wavefront take different paths due to conditional
    177   /// branches.
    178   virtual bool hasBranchDivergence() const;
    179 
    180   /// \brief Test whether calls to a function lower to actual program function
    181   /// calls.
    182   ///
    183   /// The idea is to test whether the program is likely to require a 'call'
    184   /// instruction or equivalent in order to call the given function.
    185   ///
    186   /// FIXME: It's not clear that this is a good or useful query API. Client's
    187   /// should probably move to simpler cost metrics using the above.
    188   /// Alternatively, we could split the cost interface into distinct code-size
    189   /// and execution-speed costs. This would allow modelling the core of this
    190   /// query more accurately as the a call is a single small instruction, but
    191   /// incurs significant execution cost.
    192   virtual bool isLoweredToCall(const Function *F) const;
    193 
    194   /// @}
    195 
    196   /// \name Scalar Target Information
    197   /// @{
    198 
    199   /// \brief Flags indicating the kind of support for population count.
    200   ///
    201   /// Compared to the SW implementation, HW support is supposed to
    202   /// significantly boost the performance when the population is dense, and it
    203   /// may or may not degrade performance if the population is sparse. A HW
    204   /// support is considered as "Fast" if it can outperform, or is on a par
    205   /// with, SW implementation when the population is sparse; otherwise, it is
    206   /// considered as "Slow".
    207   enum PopcntSupportKind {
    208     PSK_Software,
    209     PSK_SlowHardware,
    210     PSK_FastHardware
    211   };
    212 
    213   /// isLegalAddImmediate - Return true if the specified immediate is legal
    214   /// add immediate, that is the target has add instructions which can add
    215   /// a register with the immediate without having to materialize the
    216   /// immediate into a register.
    217   virtual bool isLegalAddImmediate(int64_t Imm) const;
    218 
    219   /// isLegalICmpImmediate - Return true if the specified immediate is legal
    220   /// icmp immediate, that is the target has icmp instructions which can compare
    221   /// a register against the immediate without having to materialize the
    222   /// immediate into a register.
    223   virtual bool isLegalICmpImmediate(int64_t Imm) const;
    224 
    225   /// isLegalAddressingMode - Return true if the addressing mode represented by
    226   /// AM is legal for this target, for a load/store of the specified type.
    227   /// The type may be VoidTy, in which case only return true if the addressing
    228   /// mode is legal for a load/store of any legal type.
    229   /// TODO: Handle pre/postinc as well.
    230   virtual bool isLegalAddressingMode(Type *Ty, GlobalValue *BaseGV,
    231                                      int64_t BaseOffset, bool HasBaseReg,
    232                                      int64_t Scale) const;
    233 
    234   /// \brief Return the cost of the scaling factor used in the addressing
    235   /// mode represented by AM for this target, for a load/store
    236   /// of the specified type.
    237   /// If the AM is supported, the return value must be >= 0.
    238   /// If the AM is not supported, it returns a negative value.
    239   /// TODO: Handle pre/postinc as well.
    240   virtual int getScalingFactorCost(Type *Ty, GlobalValue *BaseGV,
    241                                    int64_t BaseOffset, bool HasBaseReg,
    242                                    int64_t Scale) const;
    243 
    244   /// isTruncateFree - Return true if it's free to truncate a value of
    245   /// type Ty1 to type Ty2. e.g. On x86 it's free to truncate a i32 value in
    246   /// register EAX to i16 by referencing its sub-register AX.
    247   virtual bool isTruncateFree(Type *Ty1, Type *Ty2) const;
    248 
    249   /// Is this type legal.
    250   virtual bool isTypeLegal(Type *Ty) const;
    251 
    252   /// getJumpBufAlignment - returns the target's jmp_buf alignment in bytes
    253   virtual unsigned getJumpBufAlignment() const;
    254 
    255   /// getJumpBufSize - returns the target's jmp_buf size in bytes.
    256   virtual unsigned getJumpBufSize() const;
    257 
    258   /// shouldBuildLookupTables - Return true if switches should be turned into
    259   /// lookup tables for the target.
    260   virtual bool shouldBuildLookupTables() const;
    261 
    262   /// getPopcntSupport - Return hardware support for population count.
    263   virtual PopcntSupportKind getPopcntSupport(unsigned IntTyWidthInBit) const;
    264 
    265   /// getIntImmCost - Return the expected cost of materializing the given
    266   /// integer immediate of the specified type.
    267   virtual unsigned getIntImmCost(const APInt &Imm, Type *Ty) const;
    268 
    269   /// @}
    270 
    271   /// \name Vector Target Information
    272   /// @{
    273 
    274   /// \brief The various kinds of shuffle patterns for vector queries.
    275   enum ShuffleKind {
    276     SK_Broadcast,       ///< Broadcast element 0 to all other elements.
    277     SK_Reverse,         ///< Reverse the order of the vector.
    278     SK_InsertSubvector, ///< InsertSubvector. Index indicates start offset.
    279     SK_ExtractSubvector ///< ExtractSubvector Index indicates start offset.
    280   };
    281 
    282   /// \brief Additonal information about an operand's possible values.
    283   enum OperandValueKind {
    284     OK_AnyValue,            // Operand can have any value.
    285     OK_UniformValue,        // Operand is uniform (splat of a value).
    286     OK_UniformConstantValue // Operand is uniform constant.
    287   };
    288 
    289   /// \return The number of scalar or vector registers that the target has.
    290   /// If 'Vectors' is true, it returns the number of vector registers. If it is
    291   /// set to false, it returns the number of scalar registers.
    292   virtual unsigned getNumberOfRegisters(bool Vector) const;
    293 
    294   /// \return The width of the largest scalar or vector register type.
    295   virtual unsigned getRegisterBitWidth(bool Vector) const;
    296 
    297   /// \return The maximum unroll factor that the vectorizer should try to
    298   /// perform for this target. This number depends on the level of parallelism
    299   /// and the number of execution units in the CPU.
    300   virtual unsigned getMaximumUnrollFactor() const;
    301 
    302   /// \return The expected cost of arithmetic ops, such as mul, xor, fsub, etc.
    303   virtual unsigned getArithmeticInstrCost(unsigned Opcode, Type *Ty,
    304                                   OperandValueKind Opd1Info = OK_AnyValue,
    305                                   OperandValueKind Opd2Info = OK_AnyValue) const;
    306 
    307   /// \return The cost of a shuffle instruction of kind Kind and of type Tp.
    308   /// The index and subtype parameters are used by the subvector insertion and
    309   /// extraction shuffle kinds.
    310   virtual unsigned getShuffleCost(ShuffleKind Kind, Type *Tp, int Index = 0,
    311                                   Type *SubTp = 0) const;
    312 
    313   /// \return The expected cost of cast instructions, such as bitcast, trunc,
    314   /// zext, etc.
    315   virtual unsigned getCastInstrCost(unsigned Opcode, Type *Dst,
    316                                     Type *Src) const;
    317 
    318   /// \return The expected cost of control-flow related instructions such as
    319   /// Phi, Ret, Br.
    320   virtual unsigned getCFInstrCost(unsigned Opcode) const;
    321 
    322   /// \returns The expected cost of compare and select instructions.
    323   virtual unsigned getCmpSelInstrCost(unsigned Opcode, Type *ValTy,
    324                                       Type *CondTy = 0) const;
    325 
    326   /// \return The expected cost of vector Insert and Extract.
    327   /// Use -1 to indicate that there is no information on the index value.
    328   virtual unsigned getVectorInstrCost(unsigned Opcode, Type *Val,
    329                                       unsigned Index = -1) const;
    330 
    331   /// \return The cost of Load and Store instructions.
    332   virtual unsigned getMemoryOpCost(unsigned Opcode, Type *Src,
    333                                    unsigned Alignment,
    334                                    unsigned AddressSpace) const;
    335 
    336   /// \returns The cost of Intrinsic instructions.
    337   virtual unsigned getIntrinsicInstrCost(Intrinsic::ID ID, Type *RetTy,
    338                                          ArrayRef<Type *> Tys) const;
    339 
    340   /// \returns The number of pieces into which the provided type must be
    341   /// split during legalization. Zero is returned when the answer is unknown.
    342   virtual unsigned getNumberOfParts(Type *Tp) const;
    343 
    344   /// \returns The cost of the address computation. For most targets this can be
    345   /// merged into the instruction indexing mode. Some targets might want to
    346   /// distinguish between address computation for memory operations on vector
    347   /// types and scalar types. Such targets should override this function.
    348   /// The 'IsComplex' parameter is a hint that the address computation is likely
    349   /// to involve multiple instructions and as such unlikely to be merged into
    350   /// the address indexing mode.
    351   virtual unsigned getAddressComputationCost(Type *Ty,
    352                                              bool IsComplex = false) const;
    353 
    354   /// @}
    355 
    356   /// Analysis group identification.
    357   static char ID;
    358 };
    359 
    360 /// \brief Create the base case instance of a pass in the TTI analysis group.
    361 ///
    362 /// This class provides the base case for the stack of TTI analyzes. It doesn't
    363 /// delegate to anything and uses the STTI and VTTI objects passed in to
    364 /// satisfy the queries.
    365 ImmutablePass *createNoTargetTransformInfoPass();
    366 
    367 } // End llvm namespace
    368 
    369 #endif
    370