Jakub asked to have a closer look at the problem, and I found we could do somewhat better. The first thing I noticed was that the problem was that, in each block that computed a (base+const), we created a new VALUE for the expression (with the same const and global base), and a new reverse operation.
This was wrong. Clearly we should reuse the same expression. I had to arrange for the expression to be retained across basic blocks, for it was function invariant. I split out the code to detect invariants from the function that removes entries from the cselib hash table across blocks, and made it recursive so that a VALUE equivalent to (plus (value) (const_int)) will be retained, if the base value fits (maybe recursively) the definition of invariant. An earlier attempt to address this issue remained in cselib: using the canonical value to build the reverse expression. I believe it has a potential of avoiding the creation of redundant reverse expressions, for expressions involving equivalent but different VALUEs will evaluate to different hashes. I haven't observed effects WRT the given testcase, before or after the change that actually fixed the problem, because we now find the same base expression and thus reuse the reverse_op as well, but I figured I'd keep it in for it is very cheap and possibly useful. Regstrapped on x86_64-linux-gnu and i686-pc-linux-gnu. Ok to install?
for gcc/ChangeLog from Alexandre Oliva <aol...@redhat.com> PR debug/52001 * cselib.c (invariant_p): Split out of... (preserve_only_constants): ... this. Preserve plus expressions of invariant values and constants. * var-tracking.c (reverse_op): Don't drop equivs of constants. Use canonical value to build reverse operation. Index: gcc/cselib.c =================================================================== --- gcc/cselib.c.orig 2012-02-12 06:13:40.676385499 -0200 +++ gcc/cselib.c 2012-02-12 09:07:00.653579375 -0200 @@ -383,22 +383,29 @@ cselib_clear_table (void) cselib_reset_table (1); } -/* Remove from hash table all VALUEs except constants - and function invariants. */ +/* Return TRUE if V is a constant or a function invariant, FALSE + otherwise. */ -static int -preserve_only_constants (void **x, void *info ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED) +static bool +invariant_p (cselib_val *v) { - cselib_val *v = (cselib_val *)*x; struct elt_loc_list *l; + if (v == cfa_base_preserved_val) + return true; + + /* Keep VALUE equivalences around. */ + for (l = v->locs; l; l = l->next) + if (GET_CODE (l->loc) == VALUE) + return true; + if (v->locs != NULL && v->locs->next == NULL) { if (CONSTANT_P (v->locs->loc) && (GET_CODE (v->locs->loc) != CONST || !references_value_p (v->locs->loc, 0))) - return 1; + return true; /* Although a debug expr may be bound to different expressions, we can preserve it as if it was constant, to get unification and proper merging within var-tracking. */ @@ -406,24 +413,29 @@ preserve_only_constants (void **x, void || GET_CODE (v->locs->loc) == DEBUG_IMPLICIT_PTR || GET_CODE (v->locs->loc) == ENTRY_VALUE || GET_CODE (v->locs->loc) == DEBUG_PARAMETER_REF) - return 1; - if (cfa_base_preserved_val) - { - if (v == cfa_base_preserved_val) - return 1; - if (GET_CODE (v->locs->loc) == PLUS - && CONST_INT_P (XEXP (v->locs->loc, 1)) - && XEXP (v->locs->loc, 0) == cfa_base_preserved_val->val_rtx) - return 1; - } + return true; + + /* (plus (value V) (const_int C)) is invariant iff V is invariant. */ + if (GET_CODE (v->locs->loc) == PLUS + && CONST_INT_P (XEXP (v->locs->loc, 1)) + && GET_CODE (XEXP (v->locs->loc, 0)) == VALUE + && invariant_p (CSELIB_VAL_PTR (XEXP (v->locs->loc, 0)))) + return true; } - /* Keep VALUE equivalences around. */ - for (l = v->locs; l; l = l->next) - if (GET_CODE (l->loc) == VALUE) - return 1; + return false; +} + +/* Remove from hash table all VALUEs except constants + and function invariants. */ + +static int +preserve_only_constants (void **x, void *info ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED) +{ + cselib_val *v = (cselib_val *)*x; - htab_clear_slot (cselib_hash_table, x); + if (!invariant_p (v)) + htab_clear_slot (cselib_hash_table, x); return 1; } Index: gcc/var-tracking.c =================================================================== --- gcc/var-tracking.c.orig 2012-02-12 06:13:38.633412886 -0200 +++ gcc/var-tracking.c 2012-02-12 10:09:49.000000000 -0200 @@ -5298,7 +5298,6 @@ reverse_op (rtx val, const_rtx expr, rtx { rtx src, arg, ret; cselib_val *v; - struct elt_loc_list *l; enum rtx_code code; if (GET_CODE (expr) != SET) @@ -5334,13 +5333,9 @@ reverse_op (rtx val, const_rtx expr, rtx if (!v || !cselib_preserved_value_p (v)) return; - /* Adding a reverse op isn't useful if V already has an always valid - location. Ignore ENTRY_VALUE, while it is always constant, we should - prefer non-ENTRY_VALUE locations whenever possible. */ - for (l = v->locs; l; l = l->next) - if (CONSTANT_P (l->loc) - && (GET_CODE (l->loc) != CONST || !references_value_p (l->loc, 0))) - return; + /* Use canonical V to avoid creating multiple redundant expressions + for different VALUES equivalent to V. */ + v = canonical_cselib_val (v); switch (GET_CODE (src)) {
-- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer