rucc_target/regs.rs
1//! The register file: what registers a target has, and what classes they fall into.
2//!
3//! Design: `spec/10-backend.md` section 10.8.
4//!
5//! A register file is data rather than code, which is the same claim the rest of this crate
6//! makes and the one `M10` puts a number on. A class is a set of registers that an operand of
7//! that class may be assigned to, and a physical register is its number inside its class, so
8//! the allocator works in dense small integers and only the printer and the parser ever deal in
9//! names.
10//!
11//! The file lives here rather than in `rucc-mir` because more than one thing reads it. The
12//! machine IR needs it to print, the allocator needs the set it may assign from, and the ABI
13//! description needs to name the registers arguments arrive in. All three are above this crate,
14//! and the alternative is the register file living in whichever of them happens to be lowest,
15//! which is how a layering ends up describing itself as historical.
16//!
17//! Names are unique across the whole file, not merely inside a class. That is what lets a
18//! register be written `$rax` in a dump rather than `$gpr.0`, and it is a real constraint on a
19//! target that gives one register two classes: it has to say which class it is in, or use two
20//! names. [`RegFile::duplicate`] is what a target's own test asks to find out.
21
22use std::fmt;
23
24/// One class of registers, and the registers in it.
25#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
26pub struct ClassInfo {
27 /// What the class is called in a dump, such as `gpr`.
28 pub name: &'static str,
29 /// How wide one of its registers is, in bits.
30 pub bits: u32,
31 /// The registers, in the order their numbers run, without the sigil a dump writes.
32 pub regs: &'static [&'static str],
33}
34
35/// Which class a register or an operand belongs to.
36///
37/// A number into the file's classes rather than a name, because it is on every operand of every
38/// instruction and it is compared far more often than it is printed.
39#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Hash)]
40pub struct RegClass(u8);
41
42impl RegClass {
43 /// The class with that number.
44 #[must_use]
45 pub const fn new(number: u8) -> Self {
46 Self(number)
47 }
48
49 /// Its number, which is what indexes the file.
50 #[must_use]
51 pub const fn number(self) -> u8 {
52 self.0
53 }
54}
55
56/// One physical register, as its number inside its class.
57///
58/// The class is not in here. An operand carries its class already, and a fixed-register
59/// constraint is a constraint on an operand, so repeating the class would be a second copy of
60/// something that can disagree with the first.
61#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Hash)]
62pub struct PhysReg(u8);
63
64impl PhysReg {
65 /// The register with that number in its class.
66 #[must_use]
67 pub const fn new(number: u8) -> Self {
68 Self(number)
69 }
70
71 /// Its number inside its class.
72 #[must_use]
73 pub const fn number(self) -> u8 {
74 self.0
75 }
76}
77
78/// Every register a target has.
79#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
80pub struct RegFile {
81 classes: &'static [ClassInfo],
82}
83
84impl RegFile {
85 /// The file of a target whose registers nothing has described yet.
86 ///
87 /// A target reaches 1.0 with a real one. Until it has one, the honest answer to what
88 /// registers it has is that nobody has written them down, and that is a file with no
89 /// classes in it rather than a panic or a plausible guess.
90 pub const EMPTY: Self = Self::new(&[]);
91
92 /// A file made of those classes, numbered in the order they are given.
93 #[must_use]
94 pub const fn new(classes: &'static [ClassInfo]) -> Self {
95 Self { classes }
96 }
97
98 /// Its classes, each with the number it is known by.
99 pub fn classes(&self) -> impl Iterator<Item = (RegClass, &'static ClassInfo)> + use<> {
100 self.classes.iter().enumerate().map(|(number, info)| (RegClass::new(number as u8), info))
101 }
102
103 /// What is in one class.
104 #[must_use]
105 pub fn class(&self, class: RegClass) -> Option<&'static ClassInfo> {
106 self.classes.get(usize::from(class.number()))
107 }
108
109 /// The class of that name, such as `gpr`.
110 #[must_use]
111 pub fn class_named(&self, name: &str) -> Option<RegClass> {
112 self.classes().find(|(_, info)| info.name == name).map(|(class, _)| class)
113 }
114
115 /// How many registers are in a class, which is one past the largest number in it.
116 #[must_use]
117 pub fn len(&self, class: RegClass) -> usize {
118 self.class(class).map_or(0, |info| info.regs.len())
119 }
120
121 /// Whether the file has no classes at all, which is a target that has not described one.
122 #[must_use]
123 pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
124 self.classes.is_empty()
125 }
126
127 /// What one register is called.
128 #[must_use]
129 pub fn name(&self, class: RegClass, reg: PhysReg) -> Option<&'static str> {
130 self.class(class)?.regs.get(usize::from(reg.number())).copied()
131 }
132
133 /// The register of that name, and the class it is in.
134 ///
135 /// The name is written without the sigil, so `rax` rather than `$rax`.
136 #[must_use]
137 pub fn reg_named(&self, name: &str) -> Option<(RegClass, PhysReg)> {
138 for (class, info) in self.classes() {
139 if let Some(number) = info.regs.iter().position(|®| reg == name) {
140 return Some((class, PhysReg::new(number as u8)));
141 }
142 }
143 None
144 }
145
146 /// A name this file gives to two registers, if it gives one to two.
147 ///
148 /// Reading a dump back needs every name to say which register it means, and a target that
149 /// breaks that produces text that cannot be parsed rather than an error at the point of the
150 /// mistake. So every target's own test asks this, which is why it is here and public.
151 #[must_use]
152 pub fn duplicate(&self) -> Option<&'static str> {
153 let mut seen: Vec<&'static str> = Vec::new();
154 for (_, info) in self.classes() {
155 for ® in info.regs {
156 if seen.contains(®) {
157 return Some(reg);
158 }
159 seen.push(reg);
160 }
161 }
162 None
163 }
164}
165
166/// Which registers a calling convention gives which job.
167///
168/// This is the second half of a target description and it is separate from [`RegFile`] because
169/// the two do not vary together. x86-64 has one register file and two conventions over it, and
170/// they disagree about nearly everything below: `rdi` is where the first argument arrives on
171/// SysV and a register a callee has to preserve on Windows, and a Windows caller reserves
172/// thirty two bytes below the call that a SysV caller does not.
173///
174/// The allocation order is here rather than on a class because it is a consequence of what a
175/// call clobbers. A value that does not live across a call belongs in a register the callee is
176/// free to destroy, because putting it in a preserved one costs a push and a pop in the
177/// prologue of whichever function ends up owning it.
178///
179/// Every register named here is a register of the file the same target describes, and each list
180/// is in the order the convention uses them, so the fourth integer argument is `int_args[3]` and
181/// nothing has to count.
182#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
183pub struct CallRegs {
184 /// The class the general purpose registers named here are in.
185 ///
186 /// A register is a number inside its class, so a list of them says nothing about which
187 /// registers they are without this. Everything else could get the class from the operand it
188 /// came off, and a frame cannot, because a saved register is not an operand of anything.
189 pub int_class: RegClass,
190 /// The class the vector registers named here are in.
191 pub sse_class: RegClass,
192 /// The general purpose registers integer arguments arrive in, in order.
193 pub int_args: &'static [PhysReg],
194 /// The vector registers floating point arguments arrive in, in order.
195 ///
196 /// Whether an argument's position counts against both lists or only against its own is
197 /// [`CallRegs::shared_positions`].
198 pub sse_args: &'static [PhysReg],
199 /// Whether an argument's position counts against both argument lists or only against its own.
200 ///
201 /// False on SysV, which counts each separately, so a `double` after six integers is still in
202 /// `xmm0`. True on Windows, which counts one position for both, so a `double` in the third
203 /// position is in `xmm2` and `r8` is skipped.
204 pub shared_positions: bool,
205 /// The general purpose registers an integer return value comes back in.
206 pub int_returns: &'static [PhysReg],
207 /// The vector registers a floating point return value comes back in.
208 pub sse_returns: &'static [PhysReg],
209 /// The x87 registers a `long double` comes back in, which is empty on a target whose
210 /// `long double` is a `double`.
211 pub x87_returns: &'static [PhysReg],
212 /// The general purpose registers a call leaves alone, so a value in one survives it.
213 pub int_saved: &'static [PhysReg],
214 /// The vector registers a call leaves alone, which is none of them on SysV.
215 pub sse_saved: &'static [PhysReg],
216 /// The general purpose registers the allocator may hand out, in the order it prefers them.
217 ///
218 /// The stack pointer is never in this list, and neither is the frame pointer, which a
219 /// target could allocate when nothing needs a frame and which nothing here does yet.
220 pub int_order: &'static [PhysReg],
221 /// The vector registers the allocator may hand out, in the order it prefers them.
222 pub sse_order: &'static [PhysReg],
223 /// The stack pointer.
224 pub stack_pointer: PhysReg,
225 /// The frame pointer, which is the register a prologue puts the old stack pointer in.
226 pub frame_pointer: PhysReg,
227 /// Where a variadic call says how many vector registers it passed arguments in, when the
228 /// convention makes it say.
229 ///
230 /// SysV puts the count in `al` and a variadic callee reads it to decide whether to save the
231 /// vector argument registers at all, which is what makes a call to `printf` with no
232 /// floating point argument cheap.
233 pub vector_count: Option<PhysReg>,
234 /// How many bytes below the stack pointer a leaf function may use without moving it.
235 ///
236 /// A hundred and twenty eight on SysV and nothing on Windows. It is nothing in kernel code
237 /// on either, because an interrupt handler runs on the interrupted stack and writes over
238 /// exactly this, which is what `-mno-red-zone` is for.
239 pub red_zone: u32,
240 /// How many bytes a caller reserves below the call for the callee to spill its register
241 /// arguments into, which is thirty two on Windows and nothing on SysV.
242 pub shadow: u32,
243 /// What the stack pointer has to be a multiple of at the instruction that makes a call.
244 ///
245 /// Sixteen on every convention here, and it is a real obligation rather than a preference,
246 /// because a callee is entitled to use an aligned vector store on its own frame and gets a
247 /// fault rather than a wrong answer when a caller got this wrong.
248 pub stack_align: u32,
249 /// How many bytes the call instruction itself pushes before the callee starts running.
250 ///
251 /// Eight on x86-64, where the return address is on the stack, and nothing on a machine that
252 /// leaves it in a register. It is what makes the stack pointer misaligned on entry by
253 /// exactly one word, which every frame layout has to undo.
254 pub return_address: u32,
255 /// How many bytes one general purpose register takes when it is saved on the stack.
256 pub word: u32,
257}
258
259impl CallRegs {
260 /// Whether a call preserves that general purpose register.
261 #[must_use]
262 pub fn preserves_int(&self, reg: PhysReg) -> bool {
263 self.int_saved.contains(®)
264 }
265
266 /// Whether a call preserves that vector register.
267 #[must_use]
268 pub fn preserves_sse(&self, reg: PhysReg) -> bool {
269 self.sse_saved.contains(®)
270 }
271}
272
273/// Where one of the values a call passes is.
274#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
275pub enum Where {
276 /// In that register.
277 Reg(PhysReg),
278 /// That many bytes up the argument area, which is where the stack pointer points at the
279 /// instruction that makes the call and is one word above the return address in the callee.
280 Stack(u32),
281}
282
283/// Where the values a call passes are, worked out one after another.
284///
285/// [`crate::abi::Call`] answers a different question: whether a value travels in registers at all
286/// and in how many, which is what decides the shape of a signature and is settled before the IR
287/// for a function exists. This answers the question after it. Given values in the order the
288/// signature holds them, it says which register each one is in and how far up the argument area
289/// the ones that got no register are. Both count registers, and they agree about how many fit
290/// because they read the same lists, but they run at opposite ends of the compiler and neither
291/// can be the other.
292///
293/// Ask about each value in the order the signature holds them. Asking out of order answers about
294/// a different signature, because where a value is depends on every value before it.
295#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
296pub struct Places<'a> {
297 regs: &'a CallRegs,
298 int: usize,
299 sse: usize,
300 stack: u32,
301}
302
303impl<'a> Places<'a> {
304 /// Where the first value is, for a call under that convention.
305 #[must_use]
306 pub fn new(regs: &'a CallRegs) -> Self {
307 Self { regs, int: 0, sse: 0, stack: regs.shadow }
308 }
309
310 /// Where the next value is, when it travels in a general purpose register.
311 pub fn integer(&mut self) -> Where {
312 match self.regs.int_args.get(self.position(false)) {
313 Some(®) => {
314 self.int += 1;
315 Where::Reg(reg)
316 }
317 None => self.on_stack(self.regs.word, self.regs.word),
318 }
319 }
320
321 /// Where the next value is, when it travels in a vector register.
322 pub fn float(&mut self) -> Where {
323 match self.regs.sse_args.get(self.position(true)) {
324 Some(®) => {
325 self.sse += 1;
326 Where::Reg(reg)
327 }
328 None => self.on_stack(self.regs.word, self.regs.word),
329 }
330 }
331
332 /// Where the next value is, when it travels in memory whatever is left.
333 ///
334 /// Every argument area is a run of whole words, so a value narrower than one still takes one
335 /// and a value that is not a whole number of them is rounded up. An alignment wider than a
336 /// word is respected, which is what a sixteen byte aligned structure passed by value needs.
337 pub fn on_stack(&mut self, size: u32, align: u32) -> Where {
338 let word = self.regs.word;
339 let at = self.stack.next_multiple_of(align.max(word));
340 self.stack = at.saturating_add(size.max(word).next_multiple_of(word));
341 Where::Stack(at)
342 }
343
344 /// How many bytes of argument area the values so far need, shadow space included.
345 #[must_use]
346 pub fn size(&self) -> u32 {
347 self.stack
348 }
349
350 /// The position the next value of a kind is at.
351 fn position(&self, sse: bool) -> usize {
352 if self.regs.shared_positions {
353 self.int + self.sse
354 } else if sse {
355 self.sse
356 } else {
357 self.int
358 }
359 }
360}
361
362impl fmt::Display for RegFile {
363 /// The file as a dump reads it, one class to a line.
364 fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
365 for (_, info) in self.classes() {
366 writeln!(f, "class {} : i{} = {}", info.name, info.bits, info.regs.join(", "))?;
367 }
368 Ok(())
369 }
370}
371
372#[cfg(test)]
373mod tests {
374 use super::*;
375
376 static GPR: [&str; 3] = ["rax", "rcx", "rdx"];
377 static XMM: [&str; 2] = ["xmm0", "xmm1"];
378 static CLASSES: [ClassInfo; 2] = [
379 ClassInfo { name: "gpr", bits: 64, regs: &GPR },
380 ClassInfo { name: "xmm", bits: 128, regs: &XMM },
381 ];
382 static FILE: RegFile = RegFile::new(&CLASSES);
383
384 #[test]
385 fn a_class_is_found_by_its_name() {
386 let gpr = FILE.class_named("gpr").expect("the file has a gpr class");
387 assert_eq!(FILE.len(gpr), 3);
388 assert_eq!(FILE.class(gpr).map(|info| info.bits), Some(64));
389 assert_eq!(FILE.class_named("vec"), None);
390 }
391
392 #[test]
393 fn a_register_is_found_by_its_name_and_names_itself_back() {
394 let (class, reg) = FILE.reg_named("xmm1").expect("the file has xmm1");
395 assert_eq!(FILE.class(class).map(|info| info.name), Some("xmm"));
396 assert_eq!(reg.number(), 1);
397 assert_eq!(FILE.name(class, reg), Some("xmm1"));
398 assert_eq!(FILE.reg_named("r15"), None);
399 }
400
401 #[test]
402 fn a_number_past_the_end_of_a_class_has_no_name() {
403 let gpr = FILE.class_named("gpr").expect("the file has a gpr class");
404 assert_eq!(FILE.name(gpr, PhysReg::new(3)), None);
405 assert_eq!(FILE.name(RegClass::new(7), PhysReg::new(0)), None);
406 }
407
408 #[test]
409 fn a_file_that_names_two_registers_alike_says_so() {
410 assert_eq!(FILE.duplicate(), None);
411 static BOTH: [ClassInfo; 2] = [
412 ClassInfo { name: "gpr", bits: 64, regs: &GPR },
413 ClassInfo { name: "shadow", bits: 64, regs: &GPR },
414 ];
415 assert_eq!(RegFile::new(&BOTH).duplicate(), Some("rax"));
416 }
417
418 #[test]
419 fn the_file_prints_one_class_to_a_line() {
420 assert_eq!(
421 FILE.to_string(),
422 "class gpr : i64 = rax, rcx, rdx\nclass xmm : i128 = xmm0, xmm1\n"
423 );
424 }
425
426 /// Two integer registers, two vector registers and nothing else, so running out of them takes
427 /// three arguments rather than seven and the interesting case is the one being tested.
428 fn convention(shared: bool, shadow: u32) -> CallRegs {
429 static INT: [PhysReg; 2] = [PhysReg::new(0), PhysReg::new(1)];
430 static SSE: [PhysReg; 2] = [PhysReg::new(10), PhysReg::new(11)];
431 static NONE: [PhysReg; 0] = [];
432 CallRegs {
433 int_class: RegClass::new(0),
434 sse_class: RegClass::new(1),
435 int_args: &INT,
436 sse_args: &SSE,
437 shared_positions: shared,
438 int_returns: &INT,
439 sse_returns: &SSE,
440 x87_returns: &NONE,
441 int_saved: &NONE,
442 sse_saved: &NONE,
443 int_order: &INT,
444 sse_order: &SSE,
445 stack_pointer: PhysReg::new(4),
446 frame_pointer: PhysReg::new(5),
447 vector_count: None,
448 red_zone: 0,
449 shadow,
450 stack_align: 16,
451 return_address: 8,
452 word: 8,
453 }
454 }
455
456 #[test]
457 fn counting_each_kind_separately_leaves_the_first_vector_register_to_the_first_float() {
458 let regs = convention(false, 0);
459 let mut places = Places::new(®s);
460 assert_eq!(places.integer(), Where::Reg(PhysReg::new(0)));
461 assert_eq!(places.integer(), Where::Reg(PhysReg::new(1)));
462 // Two integers went past, and a convention that counts separately has not spent a vector
463 // register on either of them.
464 assert_eq!(places.float(), Where::Reg(PhysReg::new(10)));
465 assert_eq!(places.size(), 0);
466 }
467
468 #[test]
469 fn counting_one_position_for_both_skips_the_register_the_other_kind_would_have_used() {
470 let regs = convention(true, 0);
471 let mut places = Places::new(®s);
472 assert_eq!(places.integer(), Where::Reg(PhysReg::new(0)));
473 // The second position, so the second vector register, and the second integer register is
474 // spent whether anything is in it or not.
475 assert_eq!(places.float(), Where::Reg(PhysReg::new(11)));
476 assert_eq!(places.integer(), Where::Stack(0));
477 }
478
479 #[test]
480 fn running_out_of_one_kind_of_register_does_not_touch_the_other() {
481 let regs = convention(false, 0);
482 let mut places = Places::new(®s);
483 assert_eq!(places.integer(), Where::Reg(PhysReg::new(0)));
484 assert_eq!(places.integer(), Where::Reg(PhysReg::new(1)));
485 assert_eq!(places.integer(), Where::Stack(0));
486 assert_eq!(places.float(), Where::Reg(PhysReg::new(10)));
487 assert_eq!(places.size(), 8);
488 }
489
490 #[test]
491 fn the_argument_area_starts_above_the_shadow_space_and_keeps_every_value_aligned() {
492 let regs = convention(false, 32);
493 let mut places = Places::new(®s);
494 // A Windows caller reserves this whether it passes anything on the stack or not, which is
495 // why an empty area is thirty two bytes rather than none.
496 assert_eq!(places.size(), 32);
497 assert_eq!(places.on_stack(4, 4), Where::Stack(32));
498 // Sixteen byte alignment skips the word at 40, which is what a vector or an over-aligned
499 // structure passed by value asks for. The four byte value before it still took a whole
500 // word, which is why the skipped word is there to skip.
501 assert_eq!(places.on_stack(16, 16), Where::Stack(48));
502 assert_eq!(places.on_stack(8, 8), Where::Stack(64));
503 assert_eq!(places.size(), 72);
504 }
505}