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pipeline.rs

1//! One IR function to one machine function, which is every pass in this crate in order.
2//!
3//! Design: `spec/10-backend.md` section 10.1, which is where the order comes from.
4//!
5//! Each pass here is written and tested on its own and each is useful on its own, but there is
6//! exactly one order they run in and until now that order lived in the tests. A caller outside
7//! this crate would have had to know that splitting critical edges comes after lowering and
8//! before allocation, that the frame is worked out after allocation because the spill slots are
9//! the largest thing in it, and that the prologue is written after the frame. None of that is a
10//! decision a driver should be making, so it is written down once, here.
11//!
12//! # What comes out
13//!
14//! A function whose every register is physical, whose every offset into the frame is a constant,
15//! and whose blocks are in the order they run in with the jumps that order needs. That is the
16//! point at which a function is one an encoder could read, and there is nothing left in it that
17//! is not an instruction of the machine it was compiled for.
18//!
19//! # What is still missing from the middle
20//!
21//! The optimizing path, all of it. What runs here is `spec/10-backend.md` section 10.3's fast
22//! path: one rule per term, a linear scan, and a block order from the shape of the CFG rather
23//! than from block frequency. No scheduling and no peepholes, so the redundant moves a coalescer
24//! would take out are still in the output.
25
26use rucc_base::Interner;
27use rucc_ir as ir;
28use rucc_mir as mir;
29use rucc_regalloc::assign::Env;
30use rucc_target::{Arch, BranchInsts, CallRegs, FrameInsts, PhysReg, RegFile, TargetInfo, x86_64};
31
32use crate::expand;
33use crate::finish::finish;
34use crate::frame::{Frame, Layout};
35use crate::layout;
36use crate::lower::{self, Unsupported};
37use crate::split;
38
39/// Everything about a machine that compiling a function for it needs.
40///
41/// The fields are different kinds of fact and they come from different places: where the
42/// convention puts things, what registers the machine has, which instructions build a frame,
43/// which instructions a branch becomes, and which registers the allocator may hand out. The last
44/// one is not a target fact on its own, because holding a register back as scratch is a decision
45/// about the allocator rather than about the machine, which is why it is built here rather than
46/// in [`rucc_target`].
47#[derive(Debug)]
48pub struct Machine {
49    /// Where the convention this function is compiled for puts things.
50    pub conv: &'static CallRegs,
51    /// The registers the machine has, which is what says how wide a spill slot of a class is.
52    pub file: RegFile,
53    /// The instructions that take a frame and give it back.
54    pub insts: &'static FrameInsts,
55    /// The instructions a branch becomes once the blocks are in an order.
56    pub branch: &'static BranchInsts,
57    /// What the allocator may hand out, and what it holds back.
58    pub env: Env,
59}
60
61/// The scratch registers held back from the allocator on x86-64.
62///
63/// Two, because a move on an edge may have to break a cycle and a spilled value has to be read
64/// into something, and those can want a register at the same instruction. Which two does not
65/// matter. These are the last two the convention would reach for, which is what makes holding
66/// them back cost the least.
67const SCRATCH: [PhysReg; 2] = [x86_64::R10, x86_64::R11];
68
69impl Machine {
70    /// The x86-64 machine under that convention.
71    ///
72    /// Only the general purpose registers are offered, because every rule in the set is about an
73    /// integer and no value the selector produces is in any other class. A call still destroys the
74    /// vector registers and still says so, and that costs nothing while nothing is in one.
75    #[must_use]
76    pub fn x86_64(conv: &'static CallRegs) -> Self {
77        let order: Vec<PhysReg> =
78            conv.int_order.iter().copied().filter(|reg| !SCRATCH.contains(reg)).collect();
79        Self {
80            conv,
81            file: x86_64::REGS,
82            insts: &x86_64::FRAME,
83            branch: &x86_64::BRANCH,
84            env: Env::new().with(x86_64::GPR, &order, &SCRATCH),
85        }
86    }
87
88    /// The machine a target describes, or `None` when no backend in this crate covers it.
89    ///
90    /// [`TargetInfo`] already carries the convention, because the front end needs it to lay a
91    /// `va_list` out, so the only thing this decides is which architecture's frame instructions
92    /// and register file go with it. AArch64 and RISC-V are `None` until M6 fills them in, and a
93    /// caller that gets one reports a target it cannot compile for rather than compiling wrongly.
94    #[must_use]
95    pub fn for_target(target: &TargetInfo) -> Option<Self> {
96        let conv = target.call_regs?;
97        match target.triple.arch {
98            Arch::X86_64 => Some(Self::x86_64(conv)),
99            Arch::Aarch64 | Arch::Riscv64 => None,
100        }
101    }
102}
103
104/// What the command line says about a frame, as opposed to what the machine says.
105#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
106pub struct Flags {
107    /// Whether every function keeps a frame pointer, which `-fno-omit-frame-pointer` asks for.
108    pub frame_pointer: bool,
109    /// Whether the red zone may be used, which `-mno-red-zone` and every kernel turns off.
110    pub red_zone: bool,
111}
112
113impl Default for Flags {
114    /// No frame pointer and the red zone allowed, which is what a convention that has one says
115    /// when nobody on the command line has said otherwise.
116    fn default() -> Self {
117        Self { frame_pointer: false, red_zone: true }
118    }
119}
120
121/// Compiles one function, from the IR the middle end produced to machine instructions.
122///
123/// The function is taken by reference that can be written through, because the first pass is an
124/// IR to IR rewrite: a construct whose lowering is a new shape of control flow cannot be a rule,
125/// since a rule replaces a term with a term and has nowhere to put a block. So the IR that reaches
126/// selection is not quite the IR the middle end produced, and this is the only place that is true.
127/// `--emit=ir` prints before any of this runs.
128///
129/// # Errors
130///
131/// The first thing in it this cannot lower, which is what [`lower::func`] reports and is the only
132/// pass here that can refuse a function. Everything after lowering works on machine instructions
133/// that exist, so it either runs or it is a bug in this crate.
134pub fn compile(
135    source: &mut ir::Func,
136    names: &mut Interner,
137    machine: &Machine,
138    flags: Flags,
139) -> Result<mir::Func, Unsupported> {
140    expand::switches(source);
141    let lower::Lowered { mut func, stack } = lower::func(source, names, machine.conv)?;
142    let layout = Layout {
143        frame_pointer: flags.frame_pointer,
144        red_zone: flags.red_zone,
145        ..stack.layout(Layout::new(machine.conv, machine.file))
146    };
147
148    // Before allocation, because an edge that carries values into a block arrived at more than
149    // one way, out of a block that leaves more than one way, has nowhere to put the moves those
150    // values turn into, and the allocator asserts rather than guessing.
151    split::critical(&mut func);
152    let allocation = rucc_regalloc::run(&mut func, &machine.env);
153
154    // After allocation, because the largest area in most frames is the spill slots and nothing
155    // knows how many of those there are until the allocator has finished running out of registers.
156    let frame = Frame::of(&func, &allocation, &layout);
157    finish(&mut func, &allocation, &frame, &stack.addresses, machine.conv, machine.insts, names);
158
159    // Last, because everything before this finds the blocks a function returns from by looking
160    // for the ones that go nowhere, and after this a block that falls through goes nowhere too.
161    layout::blocks(&mut func, machine.branch, names);
162    Ok(func)
163}
164
165#[cfg(test)]
166mod tests {
167    use rucc_ir::{Builder, Flags as IrFlags, Func, Opcode, Signature, Type};
168    use rucc_target::x86_64::{REGS, SYSV, WIN64};
169
170    use super::*;
171
172    /// A function of two integers, and the block to fill.
173    fn blank(params: &[Type]) -> (Interner, Func, ir::Block, Vec<ir::Value>) {
174        let mut names = Interner::new();
175        let mut func = Func::new(names.intern("f"), Signature::new());
176        let block = func.create_block();
177        let values = params.iter().map(|&ty| func.append_param(block, ty)).collect();
178        (names, func, block, values)
179    }
180
181    #[test]
182    fn a_function_comes_out_with_no_virtual_register_left_in_it() {
183        let i32 = Type::int(32);
184        let (mut names, mut source, block, args) = blank(&[i32, i32]);
185        let mut build = Builder::new(&mut source, block);
186        let sum = build.binary(Opcode::Add, args[0], args[1], IrFlags::default());
187        build.ret(&[sum]);
188
189        let machine = Machine::x86_64(&SYSV);
190        let out = compile(&mut source, &mut names, &machine, Flags::default())
191            .expect("every instruction has a rule");
192
193        // `int f(int a, int b) { return a + b; }` end to end. A leaf that spills nothing needs no
194        // frame at all, so there is no prologue to see. The moves in the middle are all copies
195        // between registers that could have been the same register, which is what a coalescer
196        // would take out and there is not one yet, see issue 255.
197        assert_eq!(
198            mir::print_func(&out, &names, &REGS),
199            "mfunc @f {\n\
200             block0:\n    \
201             $rdi($rdi) = x64.arg_val_32\n    \
202             $rax = x64.mov_rr_64 $rdi\n    \
203             $rsi($rsi) = x64.arg_val_32\n    \
204             $rcx = x64.mov_rr_64 $rsi\n    \
205             $rdx = x64.mov_rr_64 $rax\n    \
206             $rdx(reuse 1) = x64.add_rr_32 $rax, $rcx\n    \
207             $rax = x64.mov_rr_64 $rdx\n    \
208             x64.ret_val_32 $rax($rax)\n    \
209             x64.ret\n\
210             }\n"
211        );
212    }
213
214    #[test]
215    fn a_function_that_calls_takes_a_frame_and_gives_it_back() {
216        let i32 = Type::int(32);
217        let (mut names, mut source, block, args) = blank(&[i32]);
218        let sig = source.add_signature(Signature::new().with_params(&[i32]).with_returns(&[i32]));
219        let callee = names.intern("g");
220        let call = Builder::new(&mut source, block).call(callee, sig, &[args[0]]);
221        let got = source[call].first_result.expect("an integer comes back");
222        let mut build = Builder::new(&mut source, block);
223        let sum = build.binary(Opcode::Add, got, args[0], IrFlags::default());
224        build.ret(&[sum]);
225
226        let machine = Machine::x86_64(&SYSV);
227        let out = compile(&mut source, &mut names, &machine, Flags::default())
228            .expect("every instruction has a rule");
229
230        // `int f(int a) { return g(a) + a; }`. Not a leaf, so the stack pointer moves and the
231        // register the value that outlives the call went to is one the prologue saves.
232        let text = mir::print_func(&out, &names, &REGS);
233        assert!(text.contains("x64.push_64 $rbx"), "{text}");
234        assert!(text.contains("$rbx = x64.pop_64"), "{text}");
235        assert!(text.contains("x64.call $rdi($rdi), @g"), "{text}");
236        assert!(!text.contains('%'), "{text}");
237    }
238
239    #[test]
240    fn the_other_convention_is_the_same_function_somewhere_else() {
241        let i32 = Type::int(32);
242        let (mut names, mut source, block, args) = blank(&[i32, i32]);
243        let mut build = Builder::new(&mut source, block);
244        let sum = build.binary(Opcode::Add, args[0], args[1], IrFlags::default());
245        build.ret(&[sum]);
246
247        let machine = Machine::x86_64(&WIN64);
248        let out = compile(&mut source, &mut names, &machine, Flags::default())
249            .expect("every instruction has a rule");
250
251        // The arguments arrive in `rcx` and `rdx` here rather than in `rdi` and `rsi`, which is
252        // the whole of what changed, and it changed because the convention was asked.
253        let text = mir::print_func(&out, &names, &REGS);
254        assert!(text.contains("$rcx($rcx) = x64.arg_val_32"), "{text}");
255        assert!(text.contains("$rdx($rdx) = x64.arg_val_32"), "{text}");
256        assert!(!text.contains("$rdi"), "{text}");
257    }
258
259    #[test]
260    fn a_function_with_a_branch_in_it_goes_through_every_pass() {
261        let i32 = Type::int(32);
262        let (mut names, mut source, entry, args) = blank(&[i32, i32]);
263        let then = source.create_block();
264        let join = source.create_block();
265        let got = source.append_param(join, i32);
266        let mut build = Builder::new(&mut source, entry);
267        let cond = build.icmp(rucc_ir::IntPred::Slt, args[0], args[1]);
268        build.br_if(cond, then, &[], join, &[args[1]]);
269        Builder::new(&mut source, then).jump(join, &[args[0]]);
270        Builder::new(&mut source, join).ret(&[got]);
271
272        let machine = Machine::x86_64(&SYSV);
273        let out = compile(&mut source, &mut names, &machine, Flags::default())
274            .expect("every instruction has a rule");
275
276        // The else arm is a critical edge carrying a value, so a block that nothing lowered is in
277        // there, which is the pass between lowering and allocation doing its job. Without it the
278        // allocator would have asserted rather than compiled this.
279        assert_eq!(out.block_count(), 4);
280
281        // `int f(int a, int b) { return a < b ? a : b; }` end to end, and the last pass is what
282        // this pins. The branch became a test and one jump, and it is the jump taken when the
283        // condition failed, because the arm the condition is true for is the block laid out next
284        // and a block falls into the block laid out next. The other arm is the empty block the
285        // edge splitting left, which is where the move the edge carries ended up, and it falls
286        // into the join as well. What is left is one jump in the whole function.
287        let text = mir::print_func(&out, &names, &REGS);
288        assert_eq!(
289            text,
290            "mfunc @f {\n\
291             block0:\n    \
292             $rdi($rdi) = x64.arg_val_32\n    \
293             $rax = x64.mov_rr_64 $rdi\n    \
294             $rsi($rsi) = x64.arg_val_32\n    \
295             $rcx = x64.mov_rr_64 $rsi\n    \
296             $rdx = x64.cmp_set_l_32 $rax, $rcx\n    \
297             x64.test_rr_8 $rdx\n    \
298             x64.jcc_e block2, block1\n\
299             \nblock1:\n    \
300             $rdx = x64.mov_rr_64 $rax\n    \
301             x64.jmp block3\n\
302             \nblock2:\n    \
303             $rdx = x64.mov_rr_64 $rcx, block3\n\
304             \nblock3:\n    \
305             $rax = x64.mov_rr_64 $rdx\n    \
306             x64.ret_val_32 $rax($rax)\n    \
307             x64.ret\n\
308             }\n"
309        );
310    }
311
312    /// A loop that swaps its two values round every time it goes, which is `gcd`, and which is
313    /// the smallest program that caught two ways of losing a value. Both were found by running
314    /// what came out rather than by reading it, and both are pinned here rather than only where
315    /// they were fixed, because what is wrong with either of them is only visible in the whole
316    /// function.
317    #[test]
318    fn a_loop_that_carries_its_values_round_keeps_all_of_them() {
319        let i32 = Type::int(32);
320        let (mut names, mut source, entry, args) = blank(&[i32, i32]);
321        let head = source.create_block();
322        let body = source.create_block();
323        let exit = source.create_block();
324        let left = source.append_param(head, i32);
325        let right = source.append_param(head, i32);
326        Builder::new(&mut source, entry).jump(head, &[args[0], args[1]]);
327        let mut build = Builder::new(&mut source, head);
328        let zero = build.iconst(i32, 0);
329        let more = build.icmp(rucc_ir::IntPred::Ne, right, zero);
330        build.br_if(more, body, &[], exit, &[left]);
331        let mut build = Builder::new(&mut source, body);
332        let rest = build.binary(Opcode::SRem, left, right, IrFlags::default());
333        build.jump(head, &[right, rest]);
334        let result = source.append_param(exit, i32);
335        Builder::new(&mut source, exit).ret(&[result]);
336
337        let machine = Machine::x86_64(&SYSV);
338        let out = compile(&mut source, &mut names, &machine, Flags::default())
339            .expect("every instruction has a rule");
340
341        // `int gcd(int a, int b) { while (b) { int t = a % b; a = b; b = t; } return a; }`. Two
342        // things in here were wrong and each of them returned three from a program that gcc
343        // returns forty two from.
344        //
345        // The first is in the entry block. The move the edge into the loop asks for writes `rsi`,
346        // and the second argument has to be taken out of `rsi` before it does. An edit at the end
347        // of a block used to go in front of the last instruction, on the reasoning that the last
348        // instruction is the branch, and the block's jump is not an instruction until the layout
349        // has run, so it went in front of the `arg_val` whose own move had not been made yet.
350        //
351        // The second is in the loop body. A division writes both a quotient and a remainder, and
352        // only the remainder is wanted here, so the quotient is a value nothing reads. It used to
353        // be given the same register as the remainder, because a value written early was live at
354        // one point and that point is in front of where the remainder is written. The copy that
355        // takes the quotient nowhere then landed on top of the remainder.
356        assert_eq!(
357            mir::print_func(&out, &names, &REGS),
358            "mfunc @f {\n\
359             block0:\n    \
360             $rdi($rdi) = x64.arg_val_32\n    \
361             $rax = x64.mov_rr_64 $rdi\n    \
362             $rsi($rsi) = x64.arg_val_32\n    \
363             $rcx = x64.mov_rr_64 $rsi\n    \
364             $rsi = x64.mov_rr_64 $rcx\n    \
365             $rcx = x64.mov_rr_64 $rax, block1\n\
366             \nblock1:\n    \
367             $rax = x64.mov_ri_32 0\n    \
368             $rax = x64.cmp_set_ne_32 $rsi, $rax\n    \
369             x64.test_rr_8 $rax\n    \
370             x64.jcc_e block3, block2\n\
371             \nblock2:\n    \
372             $rax = x64.mov_rr_64 $rcx\n    \
373             $rdx($rdx), early $rax($rax) = x64.idiv_rem_32 $rax($rax), $rsi\n    \
374             $rcx = x64.mov_rr_64 $rdx\n    \
375             $rdi = x64.mov_rr_64 $rax\n    \
376             $r10 = x64.mov_rr_64 $rsi\n    \
377             $rsi = x64.mov_rr_64 $rcx\n    \
378             $rcx = x64.mov_rr_64 $r10\n    \
379             x64.jmp block1\n\
380             \nblock3:\n    \
381             $rax = x64.mov_rr_64 $rcx\n    \
382             x64.ret_val_32 $rax($rax)\n    \
383             x64.ret\n\
384             }\n"
385        );
386    }
387
388    /// `spec/10-backend.md` section 10.1 says `--emit=mir-final` round-trips, and a function with
389    /// a branch in it is the one where that is worth checking: after the layout has run, where a
390    /// jump goes is nowhere in the instruction, so the text has to carry it on the block and the
391    /// parser has to put it back on the block it came off.
392    #[test]
393    fn a_function_that_has_been_laid_out_reads_back_as_the_same_function() {
394        let i32 = Type::int(32);
395        let (mut names, mut source, entry, args) = blank(&[i32, i32]);
396        let then = source.create_block();
397        let join = source.create_block();
398        let got = source.append_param(join, i32);
399        let mut build = Builder::new(&mut source, entry);
400        let cond = build.icmp(rucc_ir::IntPred::Slt, args[0], args[1]);
401        build.br_if(cond, then, &[], join, &[args[1]]);
402        Builder::new(&mut source, then).jump(join, &[args[0]]);
403        Builder::new(&mut source, join).ret(&[got]);
404
405        let machine = Machine::x86_64(&SYSV);
406        let out = compile(&mut source, &mut names, &machine, Flags::default())
407            .expect("every instruction has a rule");
408
409        let text = mir::print_func(&out, &names, &REGS);
410        let read = rucc_mir::parse(&text, &mut names, &REGS).expect("what the printer wrote");
411        assert_eq!(mir::print(&read, &names, &REGS), text);
412    }
413
414    #[test]
415    fn a_function_this_cannot_lower_is_reported_rather_than_compiled() {
416        let f64 = Type::float(rucc_ir::Float::F64);
417        let (mut names, mut source, block, args) = blank(&[f64]);
418        Builder::new(&mut source, block).ret(&[args[0]]);
419
420        let machine = Machine::x86_64(&SYSV);
421        let failed = compile(&mut source, &mut names, &machine, Flags::default())
422            .expect_err("a double arrives in a vector register");
423        assert_eq!(failed.to_string(), "parameter 0 is in a vector register");
424    }
425
426    #[test]
427    fn the_flags_reach_the_frame() {
428        let i32 = Type::int(32);
429        let (mut names, mut source, block, args) = blank(&[i32]);
430        Builder::new(&mut source, block).ret(&[args[0]]);
431
432        let machine = Machine::x86_64(&SYSV);
433        let flags = Flags { frame_pointer: true, red_zone: true };
434        let out = compile(&mut source, &mut names, &machine, flags)
435            .expect("every instruction has a rule");
436
437        // A function that keeps a frame pointer keeps it whether it needed one or not, which is
438        // what `-fno-omit-frame-pointer` is for and is the only thing this test is about.
439        let text = mir::print_func(&out, &names, &REGS);
440        assert!(text.contains("x64.push_64 $rbp"), "{text}");
441        assert!(text.contains("$rbp = x64.mov_rr_64 $rsp"), "{text}");
442    }
443
444    #[test]
445    fn a_target_says_which_machine_it_is_and_which_convention_it_uses() {
446        let triple = |text: &str| text.parse::<rucc_target::Triple>().expect("a triple");
447        let info = TargetInfo::new(triple("x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"));
448        let machine = Machine::for_target(&info).expect("x86-64 is the target this crate covers");
449        assert!(std::ptr::eq(machine.conv, &SYSV));
450
451        let info = TargetInfo::new(triple("x86_64-pc-windows-msvc"));
452        let machine = Machine::for_target(&info).expect("x86-64 is the target this crate covers");
453        assert!(std::ptr::eq(machine.conv, &WIN64));
454
455        // Not a target this crate has a backend for, and saying so is the whole point: a caller
456        // that got a machine here would compile x86-64 instructions for an AArch64 program.
457        let info = TargetInfo::new(triple("aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu"));
458        assert!(Machine::for_target(&info).is_none());
459    }
460}