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Comment at: clang/lib/CodeGen/CGCUDANV.cpp:491
new llvm::LoadInst(Var->getType(), ManagedVar, "ld.managed", false,
- llvm::Align(Var->getAlignment()), I);
+ Var->getAlign().valueOrOne(), I);
WorkItem.pop_back();
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gchatelet wrote:
> barannikov88 wrote:
> > barannikov88 wrote:
> > > tra wrote:
> > > > gchatelet wrote:
> > > > > tra wrote:
> > > > > > This appears to be a change in behavior. AFAICT, previously used
> > > > > > Var->getAlignment() could return alignment value or 0. Now it's
> > > > > > value or 1.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is it intentional?
> > > > > The previous statement was constructing an `llvm::Align` from a
> > > > > value, and `llvm::Align` [asserts when the provided value is
> > > > > 0](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/4ab2246d486ba30c4b2d654323a0c0b97565c0f1/llvm/include/llvm/Support/Alignment.h#L76-L81).
> > > > > This means that it is undefined to pass the value `0`.
> > > > >
> > > > > As far as `LoadInst` is concerned it can only accept valid alignments
> > > > > (i.e., powers of two => non zero).
> > > > >
> > > > > So you're right that it is not strictly NFC and that
> > > > > `*Var->getAlign()`would be a more rigorous transformation but I
> > > > > //think// that converting the `0` value to `1` moves us from UB to
> > > > > semantically valid code.
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't feel strongly about it though and I'm fine changing this to
> > > > > `*Var->getAlign()` to keep this patch NFC. WDYT?
> > > > Enforcing alignment of 1 would potentially force us to generate overly
> > > > conservative one byte at a time loads/stores.
> > > > I agree that passing 0 is a wrong choice here, but 1 does not seem to
> > > > be correct, either.
> > > > Unfortunately LoadInst does not have overloads accepting MaybeAlign so
> > > > we need to use different `LoadInst` overload depending on whether
> > > > alignment is specified.
> > > >
> > > > ```
> > > > NewV = Var->getAlign().isAligned()
> > > > ? llvm::LoadInst(Var->getType(), ManagedVar, "ld.managed", false,
> > > > Var->getAlign().value(), I)
> > > > : llvm::LoadInst(Var->getType(), ManagedVar, "ld.managed", false, I);
> > > > ```
> > > >
> > > > @yaxunl -- Sam, does it make sense? This seems to be largely
> > > > HIP-specific.
> > > I think it should be just `Var->getAlign()` to allow propagating absent
> > > alignment.
> > > Curiously, the old code didn't assert because `GlobalVariable` seem to
> > > always(?) have non-empty alignment if the global had an associated
> > > `VarDecl` (set [[
> > > https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/6ad0788c332bb2043142954d300c49ac3e537f34/clang/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenModule.cpp#L4442
> > > | here ]], changed(?) by [[
> > > https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/c79099e0f44d0f85515fd30c83923d9d9dc1679b
> > > | this patch ]]).
> > >
> > > Unfortunately LoadInst does not have overloads accepting MaybeAlign so we
> > > need to use different `LoadInst` overload depending on whether alignment
> > > is specified.
> >
> > That's interesting, because `SelectionDAG::getLoad` has many variants with
> > `MaybeAlign`, but only one with `Align`.
> >
> [The documentation](https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#load-instruction) says
> that `LoadInst` alignment is optional so indeed it should accept a
> `MaybeAlign` instead of an `Align`.
> I'll send a patch to fix this.
>
> Then we can indeed simply use `Var->getAlign()`.
Alignment is "optional" in textual IR for backward-compatibility/ease of use...
but it's just a shortcut for specifying "use the ABI alignment of the value
type". It isn't optional in memory. Maybe LangRef could be updated to make
that a bit more clear. (See D77454.)
We should consider doing something similar for globals, but at the time, I ran
out of energy to try to deal with that; backend handling for globals with
unspecified alignment is weird.
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