On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 11:07 AM Jeff Law <jeffreya...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 5/31/2021 6:04 AM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 11:49 AM Jeff Law <jeffreya...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> On 5/11/2021 5:35 PM, H.J. Lu via Gcc-patches wrote:
> >>> Add TARGET_READ_MEMSET_VALUE and TARGET_GEN_MEMSET_VALUE to support
> >>> target instructions to duplicate QImode value to TImode/OImode/XImode
> >>> value for memmset.  Define SCRATCH_SSE_REG as a scratch register for
> >>> ix86_gen_memset_value.
> >>>
> >>> gcc/
> >>>
> >>>        PR middle-end/90773
> >>>        * builtins.c (builtin_memset_read_str): Call
> >>>        targetm.read_memset_value.
> >>>        (builtin_memset_gen_str): Call targetm.gen_memset_value.
> >>>        * target.def (read_memset_value): New hook.
> >>>        (gen_memset_value): Likewise.
> >>>        * targhooks.c: Inclue "builtins.h".
> >>>        (default_read_memset_value): New function.
> >>>        (default_gen_memset_value): Likewise.
> >>>        * targhooks.h (default_read_memset_value): New prototype.
> >>>        (default_gen_memset_value): Likewise.
> >>>        * config/i386/i386-expand.c (ix86_expand_vector_init_duplicate):
> >>>        Make it global.
> >>>        * config/i386/i386-protos.h (ix86_minimum_incoming_stack_boundary):
> >>>        New.
> >>>        (ix86_expand_vector_init_duplicate): Likewise.
> >>>        * config/i386/i386.c (ix86_minimum_incoming_stack_boundary): Add
> >>>        an argument to ignore stack_alignment_estimated.  It is passed
> >>>        as false by default.
> >>>        (ix86_gen_memset_value_from_prev): New function.
> >>>        (ix86_gen_memset_value): Likewise.
> >>>        (ix86_read_memset_value): Likewise.
> >>>        (TARGET_GEN_MEMSET_VALUE): New.
> >>>        (TARGET_READ_MEMSET_VALUE): Likewise.
> >>>        * config/i386/i386.h (SCRATCH_SSE_REG): New.
> >>>        * doc/tm.texi.in: Add TARGET_READ_MEMSET_VALUE and
> >>>        TARGET_GEN_MEMSET_VALUE hooks.
> >>>        * doc/tm.texi: Regenerated.
> >>>
> >>> gcc/testsuite/
> >>>
> >>>        PR middle-end/90773
> >>>        * gcc.target/i386/pr90773-15.c: New test.
> >>>        * gcc.target/i386/pr90773-16.c: Likewise.
> >>>        * gcc.target/i386/pr90773-17.c: Likewise.
> >>>        * gcc.target/i386/pr90773-18.c: Likewise.
> >>>        * gcc.target/i386/pr90773-19.c: Likewise.
> >> Why does this need target hooks?  ISTM the right way to go here is to
> >> just emit the constant load to the target register and let the target
> >> figure out how best to construct the constant into the register.  If
> >> that means load it via QImode and broadcast, that's fine, but I'm not
> >> sure why that's not all implemented in the target files.
> >>
> > I will submit a patch to add optabs instead.
> I may be missing something, but I'm not even sure why we need special
> optabs.
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> Aren't you just trying to efficiently get a constant element broadcast
> across an entire vector?

Since vec_duplicate must not fail and for broadcast from a constant QImode
value, vec_duplicate may not be faster than a compile-time constant, I am
adding vec_const_duplicate.   If vec_duplicate can fail, I don't need
vec_const_duplicate.

-- 
H.J.

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