rucc_regalloc/assign.rs
1//! Which register each value lives in, and which values live on the stack instead.
2//!
3//! Design: `spec/10-backend.md` section 10.4.
4//!
5//! This is the `-O0` allocator's decision and nothing else. It is linear scan over the line
6//! [`crate::order`] lays the function out in: the values are taken in the order they are written,
7//! each is given a register that nothing else live at the same time is in, and when there is no
8//! such register one of the values in flight goes to the stack instead. There is no splitting and
9//! no coalescing, so a value gets one place for the whole of its range and keeps it. That produces
10//! mediocre code quickly, which is what `-O0` is for, and the allocator that produces good code
11//! slowly is a separate one, in M4.
12//!
13//! Which value is sent to the stack is the one whose range ends last, counting the value being
14//! placed among the candidates. A value wanted for a long time is the cheapest to spill per
15//! instruction it frees a register over, and it is the only heuristic here. What is picked is
16//! really a register and not a value, since two values that are never both wanted share one, and
17//! then every value in that register which is in this one's way goes.
18//!
19//! # Where the line is not the function
20//!
21//! The line is the order the blocks arrived in, and `crate::layout` puts them in a different one
22//! afterwards, so being between two blocks on the line says nothing about being between them in
23//! the code. A value live in one loop and live again in a later one is written down with
24//! everything in between inside the interval around it, and it is not live in any of it.
25//!
26//! Which is why what decides anything here is the area from `crate::live`, and the interval is
27//! only the sweep's bookkeeping: it says which values to compare and the areas say which of them
28//! actually collide. Three loops one after another in a function put a dozen values in flight at
29//! the same instant of the line and never at the same instant of the program, and asking the
30//! interval would spill the one this loop is walking for the sake of eleven values in the other
31//! two. tamnd/rucc#982.
32//!
33//! The same holds for a register an instruction insists on. A call destroys seven registers on
34//! x86-64, and a function whose blocks happen to arrive with a call written between the blocks of
35//! a loop would otherwise lose all seven for every value in that loop, for a call the loop never
36//! reaches, so that question is asked of the area and not of the interval either.
37//!
38//! Allowed is not the same as free, though, so the registers are offered in two passes. First the
39//! ones nothing insists on anywhere the range reaches, then the ones something insists on somewhere
40//! the value never goes. The second kind costs: the instruction that insists has to be handed the
41//! register in the end, and what hands it over is a move. A function that gives a value back has an
42//! operand fixed to `rax` at the end of it, and putting the busiest value in the function in `rax`
43//! because no path reaches the return with it live buys one register and pays a move at every
44//! return. Ordering the two passes is what keeps the register and drops the moves.
45//!
46//! The hint below is asked the first question rather than the second for the same reason. A value
47//! taking the register its own operand asked for saves a move, and taking one somebody else's
48//! operand asked for somewhere it never goes costs one, so a hint is worth following when the
49//! register is clear and not worth following when it is merely allowed.
50//!
51//! # What it does with a register an instruction insists on
52//!
53//! Two things. It stays out of that register for everybody else, and it tries that register first
54//! for the value the operand names. A division wants its dividend in `rax`, so `rax` is
55//! unavailable to every other value that is live where the division reads, and it is the first
56//! register offered to the dividend itself. When the dividend gets it there is no move on the way
57//! in, and when it does not the rewrite writes one and nothing else changes.
58//!
59//! That second half is the hint, and without it the register an instruction insists on is the one
60//! register the value in it can never have, since the value's own operand is what makes the
61//! register look busy. The effect is largest on returns, because a function that gives a value
62//! back has an operand fixed to `rax` at the end of it and most functions give a value back.
63//!
64//! What makes the hint safe is asking about the register at each of the instruction's two points
65//! rather than across the whole of it. An instruction reads at the first and writes at the second,
66//! so a register it insists on is one value's at the first, another value's at the second, and
67//! nobody else's at either. A division reads its dividend from `rax` and writes its quotient to
68//! `rax`, and those are different values that can both live there. A value passed to a call in
69//! `rdi` and wanted again afterwards cannot, because nothing writes `rdi` at the second point and
70//! a register the call does not write is a register the call is assumed to destroy.
71//!
72//! An operand that has to be in memory is the other way round. The value it names goes on the
73//! stack whatever else is true of it, because that is the only place the instruction could read it
74//! from.
75//!
76//! # What it does with a two address instruction
77//!
78//! An `add` on x86-64 writes one of the registers it reads, which the operand says as a reuse of
79//! another operand. The rewrite can always make that true by copying the source into the
80//! destination first, but only if the destination is a register the instruction does not otherwise
81//! read, so a value written by a reuse is treated here as live from where the instruction reads
82//! rather than from where it writes. Then the copy is always safe.
83//!
84//! The copy is also usually unnecessary, and the one place this looks past the interval it is
85//! placing is to see that: if the value being reused is read here for the last time and the value
86//! being written starts here, the second may have the first's register, and the instruction is
87//! already two address without anything being moved anywhere. That is the whole of the coalescing
88//! this allocator does, and it is worth the dozen lines, because otherwise every piece of
89//! arithmetic in the output carries a move in front of it.
90//!
91//! Both halves of that are needed. The second is the one a loop breaks: an instruction at the
92//! bottom of a loop can write a value the top of the loop reads on the next turn, and such a value
93//! is live on the way into the instruction that writes it as well as after. It is then wanted at
94//! the same time as the value it reuses, whatever is true of the reuse, and giving it the same
95//! register makes an addition read the answer to the last one instead of its own operand.
96//!
97//! # What it does not do
98//!
99//! It does not touch the function. What comes out is a table saying where each value went, and the
100//! pass that rewrites the operands and writes the moves reads it. Keeping the decision and the
101//! rewrite apart is what lets the decision be checked by looking at it, and it is the shape
102//! `spec/10-backend.md` section 10.4 asks for: an allocator is a function from a program to an
103//! assignment and the moves that make it true.
104
105use std::cmp::Reverse;
106
107use rucc_mir::{Constraint, Func, Operand, Reg, Role};
108use rucc_target::{PhysReg, RegClass};
109
110use crate::live::{Area, Live, Range};
111use crate::order::{Order, Point};
112
113/// Where a value lives.
114#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
115pub enum Place {
116 /// In a register, for the whole of its range.
117 Reg(PhysReg),
118 /// In a slot of the frame, which is what a value the allocator ran out of registers for gets,
119 /// and what a value an instruction can only read from memory gets.
120 Slot(u32),
121}
122
123/// What the allocator is allowed to use.
124///
125/// The order is the calling convention's, because which register to hand out first follows from
126/// which ones a call destroys, and `rucc-target` is where a convention says so. The scratch
127/// registers are held back out of the order and are what a spilled value is read into at each
128/// instruction that wants it, so a class needs as many of them as one of its instructions has
129/// register operands. Nothing here uses them, since a spilled value is only read once the rewrite
130/// is writing the instruction that reads it, but they are held back here because this is what
131/// decides what everything else may have.
132#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default)]
133pub struct Env {
134 classes: Vec<Class>,
135}
136
137/// What one class of registers offers.
138#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default)]
139struct Class {
140 order: Vec<PhysReg>,
141 scratch: Vec<PhysReg>,
142}
143
144impl Env {
145 /// An environment offering nothing, which is what a target that has said nothing offers.
146 #[must_use]
147 pub fn new() -> Self {
148 Self::default()
149 }
150
151 /// The same environment, with that class described.
152 #[must_use]
153 pub fn with(mut self, class: RegClass, order: &[PhysReg], scratch: &[PhysReg]) -> Self {
154 let index = usize::from(class.number());
155 if self.classes.len() <= index {
156 self.classes.resize(index + 1, Class::default());
157 }
158 self.classes[index] = Class { order: order.to_vec(), scratch: scratch.to_vec() };
159 self
160 }
161
162 /// The registers it may hand out in a class, in the order it prefers them.
163 #[must_use]
164 pub fn order(&self, class: RegClass) -> &[PhysReg] {
165 self.classes.get(usize::from(class.number())).map_or(&[], |class| &class.order)
166 }
167
168 /// The registers held back in a class for reading a spilled value into.
169 #[must_use]
170 pub fn scratch(&self, class: RegClass) -> &[PhysReg] {
171 self.classes.get(usize::from(class.number())).map_or(&[], |class| &class.scratch)
172 }
173}
174
175/// Where every value in a function went.
176#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
177pub struct Assignment {
178 places: Vec<Option<Place>>,
179 slots: Vec<RegClass>,
180}
181
182impl Assignment {
183 /// An assignment that says nothing yet about a function with that many values.
184 ///
185 /// This and [`Assignment::put`] and [`Assignment::take_slot`] are how an allocator says what
186 /// it decided. There will be a second one in M4 and it will not reach its answer this way, so
187 /// what an assignment is has to be separable from how this file arrives at one, and the
188 /// checker in [`crate::check`] reads an assignment without caring which allocator wrote it.
189 #[must_use]
190 pub fn empty(vregs: usize) -> Self {
191 Self { places: vec![None; vregs], slots: Vec::new() }
192 }
193
194 /// Records where a value went.
195 ///
196 /// # Panics
197 ///
198 /// Panics on a physical register, which is somewhere already, and on a virtual one the
199 /// function never handed out.
200 pub fn put(&mut self, reg: Reg, place: Place) {
201 self.places[index(reg)] = Some(place);
202 }
203
204 /// Takes a slot of the frame, of that class, and gives back which one it is.
205 ///
206 /// # Panics
207 ///
208 /// Panics past four billion slots, which is a frame no machine has room for.
209 pub fn take_slot(&mut self, class: RegClass) -> u32 {
210 let slot = u32::try_from(self.slots.len()).expect("too many spilled values");
211 self.slots.push(class);
212 slot
213 }
214
215 /// Where a value lives, or `None` for a virtual register this function never mentions and for
216 /// a physical one, which is already where it is.
217 #[must_use]
218 pub fn place(&self, reg: Reg) -> Option<Place> {
219 self.places.get(usize::try_from(reg.number()?).ok()?).copied().flatten()
220 }
221
222 /// The class of each slot of the frame, which is what says how wide it has to be.
223 #[must_use]
224 pub fn slots(&self) -> &[RegClass] {
225 &self.slots
226 }
227
228 /// How many values went to the stack.
229 #[must_use]
230 pub fn spilled(&self) -> usize {
231 self.slots.len()
232 }
233
234 /// Puts a value on the stack, in a slot of its own.
235 fn spill(&mut self, reg: Reg, class: RegClass) {
236 let slot = self.take_slot(class);
237 self.put(reg, Place::Slot(slot));
238 }
239}
240
241/// One value waiting for a place.
242#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
243struct Interval<'a> {
244 reg: Reg,
245 class: RegClass,
246 /// The interval around the area, which is what the sweep below reads and what says which value
247 /// is wanted for longest when one of them has to go.
248 range: Range,
249 /// Everywhere the value is really live, which is what says whether two of them fit in one
250 /// register.
251 area: Area<'a>,
252}
253
254/// One value that has a register, for as long as it still wants it.
255#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
256struct Held<'a> {
257 reg: Reg,
258 class: RegClass,
259 range: Range,
260 area: Area<'a>,
261 at: PhysReg,
262}
263
264/// A register an instruction insists on, and where it insists on it.
265#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
266struct Blocked {
267 class: RegClass,
268 at: PhysReg,
269 /// One of the instruction's two points. Every register an instruction insists on has an entry
270 /// at each of them, because a register held at one of the two is a register nothing else may
271 /// be in across the instruction.
272 point: Point,
273 /// The one value that may be in it there, which is the value of an operand the instruction
274 /// reads at that point or writes at it. `None` means nothing may: an operand naming a physical
275 /// register outright claims it against everything, and a point no operand covers is a point
276 /// the instruction has the register to itself at.
277 by: Option<Reg>,
278}
279
280/// A value written into the register another operand of the same instruction was read from.
281#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
282struct Reuse {
283 /// The value being read, which is the one whose register would do.
284 source: Reg,
285 /// Where the instruction reads it.
286 at: Point,
287}
288
289/// Decides where every value in a function lives.
290///
291/// # Panics
292///
293/// Panics if a class has no registers to hand out and something in the function is in that class,
294/// since that is a target description that does not describe the target the function is for.
295#[must_use]
296pub fn assign(func: &Func, order: &Order, live: &Live, env: &Env) -> Assignment {
297 let blocked = blocked(func, order);
298 let forced = forced(func);
299 let reuses = reuses(func, order);
300 let hints = hints(func);
301
302 let mut intervals = Vec::with_capacity(func.vregs());
303 for (number, reuse) in reuses.iter().enumerate() {
304 let reg = Reg::virtual_reg(u32::try_from(number).expect("a register number"));
305 let (Some(mut area), Some(class)) = (live.area(reg), func.class_of(reg)) else {
306 continue;
307 };
308 if let Some(reuse) = reuse {
309 area = area.with(reuse.at);
310 }
311 intervals.push(Interval { reg, class, range: area.hull(), area });
312 }
313 intervals.sort_by_key(|interval| (interval.range.start, interval.reg));
314
315 let mut assignment = Assignment::empty(func.vregs());
316 let mut active: Vec<Held<'_>> = Vec::new();
317 for interval in intervals {
318 active.retain(|held| held.range.end >= interval.range.start);
319 if forced.contains(&interval.reg) {
320 assignment.spill(interval.reg, interval.class);
321 continue;
322 }
323 // A class with no order is one the target says nothing allocates from, which on x86-64 is
324 // the x87 stack. A value of such a class is a mistake at the point it was made rather than
325 // a value with nowhere to go: what the target means is that the value lives in memory and
326 // that whatever operates on it takes an address. See `ClassInfo::allocatable`.
327 assert!(
328 !env.order(interval.class).is_empty(),
329 "a value in class {}, which the target hands out no registers from",
330 interval.class.number()
331 );
332 let two_address = reuses[index(interval.reg)]
333 .and_then(|reuse| coalesce(&assignment, &active, &blocked, live, interval, reuse));
334 // The reuse comes first, because a two address instruction that has to copy its left
335 // operand in pays for the copy whatever the hint says, and taking the hint here would buy
336 // one move at the cost of another.
337 let hinted = hints[index(interval.reg)].filter(|&at| {
338 env.order(interval.class).contains(&at)
339 && available(&active, &blocked, interval, at, None, Want::Clear)
340 });
341 // A register nobody else wants anywhere near this value first, and one somebody wants
342 // somewhere the value never goes only when there is no other. Both are correct and the
343 // second is the worse buy, since the instruction that wants it has to be handed it and
344 // whatever this value is doing there has to move out of the way first.
345 let scan = |want| {
346 env.order(interval.class)
347 .iter()
348 .copied()
349 .find(|&at| available(&active, &blocked, interval, at, None, want))
350 };
351 let chosen =
352 two_address.or(hinted).or_else(|| scan(Want::Clear)).or_else(|| scan(Want::Allowed));
353 match chosen {
354 Some(at) => {
355 assignment.places[index(interval.reg)] = Some(Place::Reg(at));
356 active.push(Held {
357 reg: interval.reg,
358 class: interval.class,
359 range: interval.range,
360 area: interval.area,
361 at,
362 });
363 }
364 None => spill_one(&mut assignment, &mut active, &blocked, interval),
365 }
366 }
367 assignment
368}
369
370/// How much a register suits an interval.
371#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
372enum Want {
373 /// Nothing insists on it anywhere the range reaches, so taking it costs nobody anything.
374 Clear,
375 /// Something insists on it somewhere the range reaches and nowhere the value is live, so taking
376 /// it is allowed and may still cost: the instruction that insists wants the register for a
377 /// value of its own, and that value now has to be moved into it.
378 Allowed,
379}
380
381/// Every register every instruction in the function insists on, arranged to be asked about.
382///
383/// Built once and never changed afterwards, and there is only one question ever asked of it: of the
384/// constraints naming one register of one class, is there one at a point some interval covers. So
385/// the entries are ordered by the register they name and then by the point, and the question is a
386/// binary search for the start of the interval followed by a walk that stops at its end.
387///
388/// It used to be a flat list walked from one end for every candidate register of every interval,
389/// which is quadratic in the size of a function and is most of the compile on a large one. See
390/// tamnd/rucc#1003 for the profile that found it.
391struct Blocks {
392 /// The constraints, sorted by class, then by register, then by point.
393 all: Vec<Blocked>,
394}
395
396impl Blocks {
397 /// The constraints on one register of one class at the points an interval covers.
398 ///
399 /// Both ends of the walk come from the ordering rather than from a test, so what comes back is
400 /// exactly what the old `covers` call used to keep and in the same order.
401 fn over(
402 &self,
403 class: RegClass,
404 at: PhysReg,
405 range: Range,
406 ) -> impl Iterator<Item = &Blocked> + '_ {
407 let first = self
408 .all
409 .partition_point(|one| (one.class, one.at, one.point) < (class, at, range.start));
410 self.all[first..]
411 .iter()
412 .take_while(move |one| one.class == class && one.at == at && one.point <= range.end)
413 }
414}
415
416/// Whether a register is one this interval could have.
417///
418/// The exception is the value a reuse is coalescing with, which holds the register right up to the
419/// point the new value takes it over and is the one thing that may overlap.
420///
421/// The sweep only keeps a value in `active` while the interval around it reaches this one, so the
422/// areas still have to be compared: two values whose intervals cross can have holes that let them
423/// share a register anyway, which on a function with several loops in it is most of them.
424fn available(
425 active: &[Held<'_>],
426 blocked: &Blocks,
427 interval: Interval<'_>,
428 at: PhysReg,
429 except: Option<Reg>,
430 want: Want,
431) -> bool {
432 let taken = active.iter().any(|held| {
433 held.at == at
434 && held.class == interval.class
435 && Some(held.reg) != except
436 && held.area.overlaps(interval.area)
437 });
438 let insisted = blocked.over(interval.class, at, interval.range).any(|one| {
439 one.by != Some(interval.reg) && (want == Want::Clear || interval.area.covers(one.point))
440 });
441 !taken && !insisted
442}
443
444/// The register the value being reused is in, when this instruction is the last thing that reads
445/// it, the value being written starts here, and the register is otherwise free.
446fn coalesce(
447 assignment: &Assignment,
448 active: &[Held<'_>],
449 blocked: &Blocks,
450 live: &Live,
451 interval: Interval<'_>,
452 reuse: Reuse,
453) -> Option<PhysReg> {
454 let Some(Place::Reg(at)) = assignment.place(reuse.source) else { return None };
455 let source = active.iter().find(|held| held.reg == reuse.source)?;
456 // A value read again later needs its register after this instruction would have overwritten
457 // it, so the two really do have to be different and the rewrite really does have to copy.
458 let dies = source.range.end == reuse.at;
459 // And the value being written must not be live where the instruction reads already. The area
460 // asked here is the one liveness worked out, without the point the reuse adds, so a value that
461 // covers the reuse point on its own is one that was live on the way into this instruction. That
462 // is what a loop carrying its own result round looks like: the instruction writes it at the
463 // bottom and the top of the loop reads what the last turn wrote. Such a value overlaps the one
464 // it reuses over the whole loop, so the two cannot be the same register no matter that the read
465 // here is the last one.
466 let begins = live.area(interval.reg).is_some_and(|area| !area.covers(reuse.at));
467 let free = available(active, blocked, interval, at, Some(reuse.source), Want::Allowed);
468 (dies && begins && free).then_some(at)
469}
470
471/// Sends values to the stack to free a register: the ones wanted for longest, since a register
472/// held that long pays for itself over the most instructions.
473///
474/// What is chosen is a register rather than a value, because two values whose areas miss each
475/// other share one and taking it means every value in it this one is really on top of has to go.
476/// A register holding two of those costs twice as much to take as one holding a single value, so
477/// the cheap ones are looked at first and the reach only settles ties.
478fn spill_one<'a>(
479 assignment: &mut Assignment,
480 active: &mut Vec<Held<'a>>,
481 blocked: &Blocks,
482 interval: Interval<'a>,
483) {
484 // What each register would cost: how many values would go, and the furthest any of them
485 // reaches. The list is one entry per register of the class, so walking it for each value in
486 // flight is the same shape as everything else here.
487 let mut costs: Vec<(PhysReg, usize, Point)> = Vec::new();
488 for held in active.iter() {
489 if held.class != interval.class || !held.area.overlaps(interval.area) {
490 continue;
491 }
492 match costs.iter_mut().find(|(at, _, _)| *at == held.at) {
493 Some((_, count, reach)) => {
494 *count += 1;
495 *reach = (*reach).max(held.range.end);
496 }
497 None => costs.push((held.at, 1, held.range.end)),
498 }
499 }
500 // A register the instructions in the way insist on for themselves is no use, because taking it
501 // over would put this value in a register it may not have.
502 let chosen = costs
503 .iter()
504 .filter(|&&(at, _, reach)| {
505 reach > interval.range.end && available(&[], blocked, interval, at, None, Want::Allowed)
506 })
507 .min_by_key(|&&(_, count, reach)| (count, Reverse(reach)))
508 .map(|&(at, _, _)| at);
509 match chosen {
510 Some(at) => {
511 active.retain(|held| {
512 let goes = held.at == at
513 && held.class == interval.class
514 && held.area.overlaps(interval.area);
515 if goes {
516 assignment.spill(held.reg, held.class);
517 }
518 !goes
519 });
520 assignment.places[index(interval.reg)] = Some(Place::Reg(at));
521 active.push(Held {
522 reg: interval.reg,
523 class: interval.class,
524 range: interval.range,
525 area: interval.area,
526 at,
527 });
528 }
529 None => assignment.spill(interval.reg, interval.class),
530 }
531}
532
533/// The registers the instructions insist on, and where.
534///
535/// A physical register an operand names outright counts the same way. Nothing before allocation
536/// writes one except an instruction that has to, and it has to for the length of that one
537/// instruction, which is the same statement a fixed constraint makes.
538fn blocked(func: &Func, order: &Order) -> Blocks {
539 let mut blocked = Vec::new();
540 let mut claimed: Vec<(RegClass, PhysReg)> = Vec::new();
541 for block in func.blocks() {
542 for inst in func.insts(block) {
543 let operands = &func[func[inst].operands];
544 claimed.clear();
545 for operand in operands {
546 if let Some(at) = insisted(operand) {
547 let key = (operand.class, at);
548 if !claimed.contains(&key) {
549 claimed.push(key);
550 }
551 }
552 }
553 for &(class, at) in &claimed {
554 // Both points, whether or not an operand is at them. A register an instruction
555 // reads and does not write is destroyed by the time the instruction is done as far
556 // as anything here knows, which is what stops the value a call is passed in `rdi`
557 // from staying in `rdi` over the call.
558 for (point, role) in [(order.early(inst), Role::Use), (order.late(inst), Role::Def)]
559 {
560 let mut named = false;
561 for operand in operands {
562 let mine = insisted(operand) == Some(at) && operand.class == class;
563 if !mine || !(operand.role == role || operand.role == Role::EarlyDef) {
564 continue;
565 }
566 named = true;
567 let by = operand.reg.is_virtual().then_some(operand.reg);
568 blocked.push(Blocked { class, at, point, by });
569 }
570 if !named {
571 blocked.push(Blocked { class, at, point, by: None });
572 }
573 }
574 }
575 }
576 }
577 // Program order already has the points ascending, but the registers one instruction claims are
578 // walked outside the two points rather than inside them, so the list arrives in order by
579 // instruction and not by register. A sort by the key the lookup searches on is what makes it
580 // searchable, and it is stable so two constraints on one register at one point keep the order
581 // the instruction wrote them in.
582 blocked.sort_by_key(|one: &Blocked| (one.class, one.at, one.point));
583 Blocks { all: blocked }
584}
585
586/// The register an operand has to be in, which is the one a constraint asks for or the one the
587/// operand names outright.
588fn insisted(operand: &Operand) -> Option<PhysReg> {
589 match operand.constraint {
590 Constraint::Fixed(at) => Some(at),
591 _ => operand.reg.phys(),
592 }
593}
594
595/// The register each value would rather be in, which is the one an operand naming it insists on.
596///
597/// A value with two of them keeps the first the function writes down, which is the definition when
598/// there is one, since a value written into a fixed register and then moved somewhere else pays
599/// for the move at the top of its life rather than at the bottom. Two different fixed registers on
600/// one value is rare enough that the second is not worth carrying a list for.
601fn hints(func: &Func) -> Vec<Option<PhysReg>> {
602 let mut hints = vec![None; func.vregs()];
603 for block in func.blocks() {
604 for inst in func.insts(block) {
605 for operand in &func[func[inst].operands] {
606 let Constraint::Fixed(at) = operand.constraint else { continue };
607 let number = operand.reg.number().and_then(|number| usize::try_from(number).ok());
608 let Some(number) = number else { continue };
609 if func.class_of(operand.reg) == Some(operand.class) && hints[number].is_none() {
610 hints[number] = Some(at);
611 }
612 }
613 }
614 }
615 hints
616}
617
618/// The values that have to be on the stack whatever else is true of them.
619fn forced(func: &Func) -> Vec<Reg> {
620 let mut forced = Vec::new();
621 for block in func.blocks() {
622 for inst in func.insts(block) {
623 for operand in &func[func[inst].operands] {
624 if operand.constraint == Constraint::Stack
625 && operand.reg.is_virtual()
626 && !forced.contains(&operand.reg)
627 {
628 forced.push(operand.reg);
629 }
630 }
631 }
632 }
633 forced
634}
635
636/// The value each two address instruction reuses, by the virtual register it writes.
637fn reuses(func: &Func, order: &Order) -> Vec<Option<Reuse>> {
638 let mut reuses = vec![None; func.vregs()];
639 for block in func.blocks() {
640 for inst in func.insts(block) {
641 let operands = &func[func[inst].operands];
642 for operand in operands {
643 let Constraint::Reuse(other) = operand.constraint else { continue };
644 let number = operand.reg.number().and_then(|number| usize::try_from(number).ok());
645 let Some(number) = number else { continue };
646 let source = operands[usize::from(other)].reg;
647 reuses[number] = Some(Reuse { source, at: order.early(inst) });
648 }
649 }
650 }
651 reuses
652}
653
654/// A virtual register's number as a table index.
655fn index(reg: Reg) -> usize {
656 usize::try_from(reg.number().expect("a virtual register")).expect("a register number")
657}
658
659#[cfg(test)]
660mod tests {
661 use rucc_base::Interner;
662 use rucc_mir::{BlockCall, Opcode, Operand};
663 use rucc_target::x86_64::{GPR, R13, R14, R15, RAX, RCX, RDX, REGS, SYSV};
664
665 use super::*;
666
667 /// The x86-64 environment, with the last three of the allocation order held back as scratch.
668 fn env() -> Env {
669 let (order, scratch) = SYSV.int_order.split_at(SYSV.int_order.len() - 3);
670 Env::new().with(GPR, order, scratch)
671 }
672
673 /// An environment with that many general purpose registers, for putting a function under
674 /// pressure without writing a hundred instructions.
675 fn narrow(count: usize) -> Env {
676 Env::new().with(GPR, &SYSV.int_order[..count], &SYSV.int_order[count..count + 1])
677 }
678
679 /// What a place is called, which is what an assertion reads.
680 fn named(place: Option<Place>) -> String {
681 match place {
682 Some(Place::Reg(reg)) => REGS.name(GPR, reg).expect("a register").to_string(),
683 Some(Place::Slot(slot)) => format!("slot {slot}"),
684 None => "nowhere".to_string(),
685 }
686 }
687
688 /// Where every value in a function went.
689 fn places(func: &Func, env: &Env) -> Vec<String> {
690 let order = Order::of(func);
691 let live = Live::of(func, &order);
692 let assignment = assign(func, &order, &live, env);
693 (0..func.vregs())
694 .map(|number| {
695 let reg = Reg::virtual_reg(u32::try_from(number).expect("a register number"));
696 named(assignment.place(reg))
697 })
698 .collect()
699 }
700
701 #[test]
702 fn two_values_that_are_never_both_wanted_share_a_register() {
703 let mut names = Interner::new();
704 let mut func = Func::new(names.intern("f"));
705 let opcode = Opcode::new(names.intern("x64.nop"));
706 let block = func.create_block();
707 let first = func.new_vreg(GPR);
708 let second = func.new_vreg(GPR);
709 func.build(block, opcode).def(first, GPR).finish();
710 func.build(block, opcode).uses(first, GPR).finish();
711 func.build(block, opcode).def(second, GPR).finish();
712 func.build(block, opcode).uses(second, GPR).finish();
713
714 // The first register in the order, twice, because the first value is finished with before
715 // the second one is written.
716 assert_eq!(places(&func, &env()), ["rax", "rax"]);
717 }
718
719 #[test]
720 fn two_values_that_are_both_wanted_do_not() {
721 let mut names = Interner::new();
722 let mut func = Func::new(names.intern("f"));
723 let opcode = Opcode::new(names.intern("x64.nop"));
724 let block = func.create_block();
725 let first = func.new_vreg(GPR);
726 let second = func.new_vreg(GPR);
727 func.build(block, opcode).def(first, GPR).finish();
728 func.build(block, opcode).def(second, GPR).finish();
729 func.build(block, opcode).uses(first, GPR).finish();
730 func.build(block, opcode).uses(second, GPR).finish();
731
732 assert_eq!(places(&func, &env()), ["rax", "rcx"]);
733 }
734
735 #[test]
736 fn a_value_written_early_that_nothing_reads_still_holds_its_register() {
737 let mut names = Interner::new();
738 let mut func = Func::new(names.intern("f"));
739 let opcode = Opcode::new(names.intern("x64.nop"));
740 let block = func.create_block();
741 let wanted = func.new_vreg(GPR);
742 let spare = func.new_vreg(GPR);
743 // A division: a remainder somebody wants, and a quotient nobody does. Both are written by
744 // the one instruction and the quotient is written before the operands have been read.
745 func.build(block, opcode)
746 .def(wanted, GPR)
747 .operand(Operand::write_early(spare, GPR))
748 .finish();
749 func.build(block, opcode).uses(wanted, GPR).finish();
750
751 // Two registers, not one. A value nothing reads is still somewhere, and the instruction
752 // that wrote it wrote the other one too, so the two cannot be the same place. Handing them
753 // the same register loses the remainder, because the copy that takes the quotient out of
754 // the register the machine insisted on goes on top of it. The quotient gets the first
755 // register because it is written first, which is the whole of what early means.
756 assert_eq!(places(&func, &env()), ["rcx", "rax"]);
757 }
758
759 #[test]
760 fn the_value_wanted_longest_is_the_one_that_goes_to_the_stack() {
761 let mut names = Interner::new();
762 let mut func = Func::new(names.intern("f"));
763 let opcode = Opcode::new(names.intern("x64.nop"));
764 let block = func.create_block();
765 let long = func.new_vreg(GPR);
766 let short = func.new_vreg(GPR);
767 let third = func.new_vreg(GPR);
768 func.build(block, opcode).def(long, GPR).finish();
769 func.build(block, opcode).def(short, GPR).finish();
770 func.build(block, opcode).def(third, GPR).finish();
771 func.build(block, opcode).uses(short, GPR).finish();
772 func.build(block, opcode).uses(third, GPR).finish();
773 func.build(block, opcode).uses(long, GPR).finish();
774
775 // Two registers between three values. The one still wanted at the end of the function is
776 // the one whose register is worth the most to everybody else, so it is the one that goes.
777 assert_eq!(places(&func, &narrow(2)), ["slot 0", "rcx", "rax"]);
778 }
779
780 #[test]
781 fn a_register_an_instruction_insists_on_goes_to_the_values_that_asked_for_it() {
782 let mut names = Interner::new();
783 let mut func = Func::new(names.intern("f"));
784 let opcode = Opcode::new(names.intern("x64.nop"));
785 let block = func.create_block();
786 let across = func.new_vreg(GPR);
787 let dividend = func.new_vreg(GPR);
788 let quotient = func.new_vreg(GPR);
789 let remainder = func.new_vreg(GPR);
790 func.build(block, opcode).def(across, GPR).finish();
791 func.build(block, opcode).def(dividend, GPR).finish();
792 func.build(block, opcode)
793 .operand(Operand::write(quotient, GPR).with(Constraint::Fixed(RAX)))
794 .operand(Operand::write_early(remainder, GPR).with(Constraint::Fixed(RDX)))
795 .operand(Operand::read(dividend, GPR).with(Constraint::Fixed(RAX)))
796 .finish();
797 func.build(block, opcode).uses(across, GPR).finish();
798
799 // The value that has to be across the division is nowhere near `rax` or `rdx`, and each of
800 // the three the division names is in the register the division asked for it in. The
801 // dividend and the quotient share `rax` because the first is read where the second is
802 // written, which is what a division does.
803 assert_eq!(places(&func, &env()), ["rcx", "rax", "rax", "rdx"]);
804 }
805
806 #[test]
807 fn a_value_wanted_after_the_instruction_that_insists_does_not_get_that_register() {
808 let mut names = Interner::new();
809 let mut func = Func::new(names.intern("f"));
810 let opcode = Opcode::new(names.intern("x64.nop"));
811 let block = func.create_block();
812 let dividend = func.new_vreg(GPR);
813 let quotient = func.new_vreg(GPR);
814 func.build(block, opcode).def(dividend, GPR).finish();
815 func.build(block, opcode)
816 .operand(Operand::write(quotient, GPR).with(Constraint::Fixed(RAX)))
817 .operand(Operand::read(dividend, GPR).with(Constraint::Fixed(RAX)))
818 .finish();
819 func.build(block, opcode).uses(dividend, GPR).finish();
820
821 // The hint is a preference and not a claim. The dividend would rather be in `rax` and
822 // cannot be, because the division writes `rax` and the dividend is wanted afterwards, so
823 // it takes the next register and the quotient keeps the one it was promised.
824 assert_eq!(places(&func, &env()), ["rcx", "rax"]);
825 }
826
827 #[test]
828 fn a_value_an_instruction_can_only_read_from_memory_is_on_the_stack() {
829 let mut names = Interner::new();
830 let mut func = Func::new(names.intern("f"));
831 let opcode = Opcode::new(names.intern("x64.nop"));
832 let block = func.create_block();
833 let value = func.new_vreg(GPR);
834 func.build(block, opcode).def(value, GPR).finish();
835 func.build(block, opcode)
836 .operand(Operand::read(value, GPR).with(Constraint::Stack))
837 .finish();
838
839 assert_eq!(places(&func, &env()), ["slot 0"]);
840 }
841
842 #[test]
843 fn a_two_address_instruction_writes_the_register_it_read_when_it_can() {
844 let mut names = Interner::new();
845 let mut func = Func::new(names.intern("f"));
846 let opcode = Opcode::new(names.intern("x64.nop"));
847 let block = func.create_block();
848 let left = func.new_vreg(GPR);
849 let right = func.new_vreg(GPR);
850 let sum = func.new_vreg(GPR);
851 func.build(block, opcode).def(left, GPR).finish();
852 func.build(block, opcode).def(right, GPR).finish();
853 func.build(block, opcode)
854 .operand(Operand::write(sum, GPR).with(Constraint::Reuse(1)))
855 .uses(left, GPR)
856 .uses(right, GPR)
857 .finish();
858 func.build(block, opcode).uses(right, GPR).finish();
859
860 // The addition reads the left value for the last time, so the answer goes where that was
861 // and the instruction is two address without a move in front of it.
862 assert_eq!(places(&func, &env()), ["rax", "rcx", "rax"]);
863 }
864
865 #[test]
866 fn a_two_address_instruction_that_cannot_gets_a_register_nothing_it_reads_is_in() {
867 let mut names = Interner::new();
868 let mut func = Func::new(names.intern("f"));
869 let opcode = Opcode::new(names.intern("x64.nop"));
870 let block = func.create_block();
871 let left = func.new_vreg(GPR);
872 let right = func.new_vreg(GPR);
873 let sum = func.new_vreg(GPR);
874 func.build(block, opcode).def(left, GPR).finish();
875 func.build(block, opcode).def(right, GPR).finish();
876 func.build(block, opcode)
877 .operand(Operand::write(sum, GPR).with(Constraint::Reuse(1)))
878 .uses(left, GPR)
879 .uses(right, GPR)
880 .finish();
881 func.build(block, opcode).uses(left, GPR).finish();
882
883 // The left value is wanted afterwards, so the answer cannot have its register. It cannot
884 // have the right one's either, because the rewrite is about to write a move into it before
885 // the addition has read anything.
886 assert_eq!(places(&func, &env()), ["rax", "rcx", "rdx"]);
887 }
888
889 #[test]
890 fn a_value_live_across_a_whole_loop_holds_its_register_over_all_of_it() {
891 let mut names = Interner::new();
892 let mut func = Func::new(names.intern("f"));
893 let opcode = Opcode::new(names.intern("x64.nop"));
894 let head = func.create_block();
895 let body = func.create_block();
896 let carried = func.new_vreg(GPR);
897 let inside = func.new_vreg(GPR);
898 func.build(head, opcode).def(carried, GPR).finish();
899 *func.succs_mut(head) = vec![BlockCall::to(body)];
900 func.build(body, opcode).def(inside, GPR).finish();
901 func.build(body, opcode).uses(inside, GPR).uses(carried, GPR).finish();
902 *func.succs_mut(body) = vec![BlockCall::to(body)];
903
904 // The value inside the loop cannot have the carried one's register, even though nothing
905 // between the two definitions says so.
906 assert_eq!(places(&func, &env()), ["rax", "rcx"]);
907 }
908
909 #[test]
910 fn a_two_address_answer_already_live_does_not_take_the_register_it_read() {
911 let mut names = Interner::new();
912 let mut func = Func::new(names.intern("f"));
913 let opcode = Opcode::new(names.intern("x64.nop"));
914 let head = func.create_block();
915 let latch = func.create_block();
916 let out = func.create_block();
917 let source = func.new_vreg(GPR);
918 let carried = func.new_vreg(GPR);
919 func.build(head, opcode).def(source, GPR).finish();
920 func.build(head, opcode).def(carried, GPR).finish();
921 *func.succs_mut(head) = vec![BlockCall::to(latch)];
922 // The bottom of the loop adds the source to the carried value and writes the answer back
923 // over it, reusing the register the source is in. The next turn round redefines both.
924 func.build(latch, opcode)
925 .operand(Operand::write(carried, GPR).with(Constraint::Reuse(1)))
926 .uses(source, GPR)
927 .uses(carried, GPR)
928 .finish();
929 *func.succs_mut(latch) = vec![BlockCall::to(head), BlockCall::to(out)];
930 func.build(out, opcode).uses(carried, GPR).finish();
931
932 // The source is read here for the last time, which on its own is the shape the two address
933 // shortcut is for, and taking it would be wrong. The carried value was written by the same
934 // instruction on the last turn and is read by this one, so the two are both wanted where
935 // the instruction reads and one register cannot hold both.
936 assert_eq!(places(&func, &env()), ["rax", "rcx"]);
937
938 // And the checker has to agree, since it excused this pair on the same reasoning and so
939 // would have let the answer through.
940 let order = Order::of(&func);
941 let live = Live::of(&func, &order);
942 let assignment = assign(&func, &order, &live, &env());
943 assert!(crate::check::check(&func, &order, &live, &assignment).is_empty());
944 }
945
946 #[test]
947 fn a_two_address_answer_with_a_hole_in_front_of_it_does_not_take_its_other_operand() {
948 let mut names = Interner::new();
949 let mut func = Func::new(names.intern("f"));
950 let nop = Opcode::new(names.intern("x64.nop"));
951 let add = Opcode::new(names.intern("x64.add"));
952 let entry = func.create_block();
953 let head = func.create_block();
954 let arm = func.create_block();
955 let latch = func.create_block();
956 let out = func.create_block();
957 let seed = func.new_vreg(GPR);
958 let sum = func.new_vreg(GPR);
959 let inside = func.new_vreg(GPR);
960 let loaded = func.new_vreg(GPR);
961 func.build(entry, nop).def(seed, GPR).finish();
962 func.build(entry, nop).def(sum, GPR).finish();
963 *func.succs_mut(entry) = vec![BlockCall::to(head)];
964 func.build(head, nop).uses(sum, GPR).finish();
965 *func.succs_mut(head) = vec![BlockCall::to(arm), BlockCall::to(latch)];
966 func.build(arm, nop).def(inside, GPR).finish();
967 func.build(arm, nop).uses(inside, GPR).finish();
968 *func.succs_mut(arm) = vec![BlockCall::to(out)];
969 func.build(latch, nop).def(loaded, GPR).finish();
970 func.build(latch, add)
971 .operand(Operand::write(sum, GPR).with(Constraint::Reuse(1)))
972 .uses(seed, GPR)
973 .uses(loaded, GPR)
974 .finish();
975 *func.succs_mut(latch) = vec![BlockCall::to(head), BlockCall::to(out)];
976
977 // The answer is live in the entry and the head as well, and the arm between them is a hole
978 // in it, so the piece the addition writes is not the first one. The value the addition reads
979 // out of memory is still wanted where the addition reads, so it may not be in the register
980 // the answer is about to be copied into, holes or no holes. tamnd/rucc#982.
981 let places = places(&func, &env());
982 assert_ne!(places[index(sum)], places[index(loaded)]);
983
984 let order = Order::of(&func);
985 let live = Live::of(&func, &order);
986 let assignment = assign(&func, &order, &live, &env());
987 assert!(crate::check::check(&func, &order, &live, &assignment).is_empty());
988 }
989
990 /// Two blocks the entry chooses between, with the one the clobber is in written first. The two
991 /// values written in the entry block are read in the other one, so their ranges cover the
992 /// clobber whether or not either of them ever reaches it.
993 fn arms(reaches: bool) -> Func {
994 let mut names = Interner::new();
995 let mut func = Func::new(names.intern("f"));
996 let opcode = Opcode::new(names.intern("x64.nop"));
997 let entry = func.create_block();
998 let arm = func.create_block();
999 let tail = func.create_block();
1000 let first = func.new_vreg(GPR);
1001 let second = func.new_vreg(GPR);
1002 func.build(entry, opcode).def(first, GPR).finish();
1003 func.build(entry, opcode).def(second, GPR).finish();
1004 *func.succs_mut(entry) = vec![BlockCall::to(arm), BlockCall::to(tail)];
1005 // What a call looks like here: an instruction writing the registers the convention says it
1006 // destroys, named outright so that nothing else may be in them.
1007 func.build(arm, opcode).operand(Operand::write(Reg::physical(RAX), GPR)).finish();
1008 *func.succs_mut(arm) = if reaches { vec![BlockCall::to(tail)] } else { Vec::new() };
1009 func.build(tail, opcode).uses(first, GPR).uses(second, GPR).finish();
1010 func
1011 }
1012
1013 #[test]
1014 fn a_register_a_clobber_takes_beats_the_stack_for_a_value_not_live_in_that_block() {
1015 let func = arms(false);
1016
1017 // Two registers between two values, and a clobber in the arm that takes the first of them.
1018 // The intervals around both values cover the clobber, since the arm is written between the
1019 // two blocks they are live in, and the arm is a hole in both of their areas. So the second
1020 // value has `rax` rather than a stack slot: the arm is a block its own path never goes
1021 // through. tamnd/rucc#982.
1022 assert_eq!(places(&func, &narrow(2)), ["rcx", "rax"]);
1023
1024 let order = Order::of(&func);
1025 let live = Live::of(&func, &order);
1026 let assignment = assign(&func, &order, &live, &narrow(2));
1027 assert!(crate::check::check(&func, &order, &live, &assignment).is_empty());
1028 }
1029
1030 #[test]
1031 fn a_register_a_clobber_takes_is_not_free_to_a_value_that_is_live_there() {
1032 let func = arms(true);
1033
1034 // The same blocks with an edge from the arm to the tail, which is all it takes: both values
1035 // now arrive at the read either way, so the clobber is on a path they are live over and the
1036 // one register left has to do for both of them.
1037 assert_eq!(places(&func, &narrow(2)), ["rcx", "slot 0"]);
1038 }
1039
1040 #[test]
1041 fn a_hint_is_followed_when_the_register_is_clear_and_not_when_it_is_merely_allowed() {
1042 let mut names = Interner::new();
1043 let mut func = Func::new(names.intern("f"));
1044 let opcode = Opcode::new(names.intern("x64.nop"));
1045 let entry = func.create_block();
1046 let mid = func.create_block();
1047 let tail = func.create_block();
1048 let first = func.new_vreg(GPR);
1049 let second = func.new_vreg(GPR);
1050 func.build(entry, opcode).def(first, GPR).finish();
1051 func.build(entry, opcode).def(second, GPR).finish();
1052 *func.succs_mut(entry) = vec![BlockCall::to(mid), BlockCall::to(tail)];
1053 // Two arms, each ending in an instruction that wants its own value in `rax`, which is what
1054 // a return out of either side of a branch looks like.
1055 func.build(mid, opcode)
1056 .operand(Operand::read(second, GPR).with(Constraint::Fixed(RAX)))
1057 .finish();
1058 func.build(tail, opcode)
1059 .operand(Operand::read(first, GPR).with(Constraint::Fixed(RAX)))
1060 .finish();
1061
1062 // The first value is hinted at `rax` and does not get it, because the other arm wants `rax`
1063 // for the other value and the first value's range reaches that far. Following the hint here
1064 // would save a move in the tail and cost one in the middle, and the second value gets `rax`
1065 // with nothing moved anywhere instead.
1066 assert_eq!(places(&func, &env()), ["rcx", "rax"]);
1067 }
1068
1069 #[test]
1070 fn a_value_living_in_a_hole_of_another_gets_the_same_register() {
1071 let mut names = Interner::new();
1072 let mut func = Func::new(names.intern("f"));
1073 let opcode = Opcode::new(names.intern("x64.nop"));
1074 let entry = func.create_block();
1075 let arm = func.create_block();
1076 let tail = func.create_block();
1077 let across = func.new_vreg(GPR);
1078 let inside = func.new_vreg(GPR);
1079 func.build(entry, opcode).def(across, GPR).finish();
1080 *func.succs_mut(entry) = vec![BlockCall::to(arm), BlockCall::to(tail)];
1081 func.build(arm, opcode).def(inside, GPR).finish();
1082 func.build(arm, opcode).uses(inside, GPR).finish();
1083 func.build(tail, opcode).uses(across, GPR).finish();
1084
1085 // One register between the two of them, and one register is enough. Nothing in the arm can
1086 // reach the read in the tail, so the value the arm makes is welcome to the register the
1087 // value crossing the function is in. The interval around that value covers the arm and the
1088 // value is nowhere near it, which is what used to send one of the two to the stack.
1089 // tamnd/rucc#982.
1090 assert_eq!(places(&func, &narrow(1)), ["rax", "rax"]);
1091
1092 let order = Order::of(&func);
1093 let live = Live::of(&func, &order);
1094 let assignment = assign(&func, &order, &live, &narrow(1));
1095 assert_eq!(assignment.spilled(), 0);
1096 assert!(crate::check::check(&func, &order, &live, &assignment).is_empty());
1097 }
1098
1099 #[test]
1100 fn a_register_a_clobber_takes_is_the_last_one_offered_rather_than_the_first() {
1101 let func = arms(false);
1102
1103 // With a register to spare the value takes the spare one. Being allowed a register some
1104 // instruction insists on is not the same as it being free: the instruction has to be handed
1105 // it in the end, and what hands it over is a move.
1106 assert_eq!(places(&func, &narrow(3)), ["rcx", "rdx"]);
1107 }
1108
1109 #[test]
1110 fn a_frame_says_what_each_of_its_slots_is_for() {
1111 let mut names = Interner::new();
1112 let mut func = Func::new(names.intern("f"));
1113 let opcode = Opcode::new(names.intern("x64.nop"));
1114 let block = func.create_block();
1115 let first = func.new_vreg(GPR);
1116 let second = func.new_vreg(GPR);
1117 func.build(block, opcode).def(first, GPR).finish();
1118 func.build(block, opcode).def(second, GPR).finish();
1119 func.build(block, opcode).uses(first, GPR).uses(second, GPR).finish();
1120
1121 let order = Order::of(&func);
1122 let live = Live::of(&func, &order);
1123 let assignment = assign(&func, &order, &live, &narrow(1));
1124 assert_eq!(assignment.spilled(), 1);
1125 assert_eq!(assignment.slots(), [GPR]);
1126 // A register that is already a register is where it is, and this has nothing to say about
1127 // it.
1128 assert_eq!(assignment.place(Reg::physical(RCX)), None);
1129 assert_eq!(env().scratch(GPR), [R13, R14, R15]);
1130 }
1131}