middle-end: Support vectorization of loops with multiple exits.
Hi All,
This patch adds initial support for early break vectorization in GCC. In other
words it implements support for vectorization of loops with multiple exits.
The support is added for any target that implements a vector cbranch optab,
this includes both fully masked and non-masked targets.
Depending on the operation, the vectorizer may also require support for boolean
mask reductions using Inclusive OR/Bitwise AND. This is however only checked
then the comparison would produce multiple statements.
This also fully decouples the vectorizer's notion of exit from the existing loop
infrastructure's exit. Before this patch the vectorizer always picked the
natural loop latch connected exit as the main exit.
After this patch the vectorizer is free to choose any exit it deems appropriate
as the main exit. This means that even if the main exit is not countable (i.e.
the termination condition could not be determined) we might still be able to
vectorize should one of the other exits be countable.
In such situations the loop is reflowed which enabled vectorization of many
other loop forms.
Concretely the kind of loops supported are of the forms:
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
{
<statements1>
if (<condition>)
{
...
<action>;
}
<statements2>
}
where <action> can be:
- break
- return
- goto
Any number of statements can be used before the <action> occurs.
Since this is an initial version for GCC 14 it has the following limitations and
features:
- Only fixed sized iterations and buffers are supported. That is to say any
vectors loaded or stored must be to statically allocated arrays with known
sizes. N must also be known. This limitation is because our primary target
for this optimization is SVE. For VLA SVE we can't easily do cross page
iteraion checks. The result is likely to also not be beneficial. For that
reason we punt support for variable buffers till we have First-Faulting
support in GCC 15.
- any stores in <statements1> should not be to the same objects as in
<condition>. Loads are fine as long as they don't have the possibility to
alias. More concretely, we block RAW dependencies when the intermediate value
can't be separated fromt the store, or the store itself can't be moved.
- Prologue peeling, alignment peelinig and loop versioning are supported.
- Fully masked loops, unmasked loops and partially masked loops are supported
- Any number of loop early exits are supported.
- No support for epilogue vectorization. The only epilogue supported is the
scalar final one. Peeling code supports it but the code motion code cannot
find instructions to make the move in the epilog.
- Early breaks are only supported for inner loop vectorization.
With the help of IPA and LTO this still gets hit quite often. During bootstrap
it hit rather frequently. Additionally TSVC s332, s481 and s482 all pass now
since these are tests for support for early exit vectorization.
This implementation does not support completely handling the early break inside
the vector loop itself but instead supports adding checks such that if we know
that we have to exit in the current iteration then we branch to scalar code to
actually do the final VF iterations which handles all the code in <action>.
For the scalar loop we know that whatever exit you take you have to perform at
most VF iterations. For vector code we only case about the state of fully
performed iteration and reset the scalar code to the (partially) remaining loop.
That is to say, the first vector loop executes so long as the early exit isn't
needed. Once the exit is taken, the scalar code will perform at most VF extra
iterations. The exact number depending on peeling and iteration start and which
exit was taken (natural or early). For this scalar loop, all early exits are
treated the same.
When we vectorize we move any statement not related to the early break itself
and that would be incorrect to execute before the break (i.e. has side effects)
to after the break. If this is not possible we decline to vectorize. The
analysis and code motion also takes into account that it doesn't introduce a RAW
dependency after the move of the stores.
This means that we check at the start of iterations whether we are going to exit
or not. During the analyis phase we check whether we are allowed to do this
moving of statements. Also note that we only move the scalar statements, but
only do so after peeling but just before we start transforming statements.
With this the vector flow no longer necessarily needs to match that of the
scalar code. In addition most of the infrastructure is in place to support
general control flow safely, however we are punting this to GCC 15.
Codegen:
for e.g.
unsigned vect_a[N];
unsigned vect_b[N];
unsigned test4(unsigned x)
{
unsigned ret = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
{
vect_b[i] = x + i;
if (vect_a[i] > x)
break;
vect_a[i] = x;
On the workloads this work is based on we see between 2-3x performance uplift
using this patch.
Follow up plan:
- Boolean vectorization has several shortcomings. I've filed PR110223 with the
bigger ones that cause vectorization to fail with this patch.
- SLP support. This is planned for GCC 15 as for majority of the cases build
SLP itself fails. This means I'll need to spend time in making this more
robust first. Additionally it requires:
* Adding support for vectorizing CFG (gconds)
* Support for CFG to differ between vector and scalar loops.
Both of which would be disruptive to the tree and I suspect I'll be handling
fallouts from this patch for a while. So I plan to work on the surrounding
building blocks first for the remainder of the year.
Additionally it also contains reduced cases from issues found running over
various codebases.
Bootstrapped Regtested on aarch64-none-linux-gnu and no issues.
Also regtested with:
-march=armv8.3-a+sve
-march=armv8.3-a+nosve
-march=armv9-a
-mcpu=neoverse-v1
-mcpu=neoverse-n2
Bootstrapped Regtested x86_64-pc-linux-gnu and no issues.
Bootstrap and Regtest on arm-none-linux-gnueabihf and no issues.
gcc/ChangeLog:
* tree-if-conv.cc (idx_within_array_bound): Expose.
* tree-vect-data-refs.cc (vect_analyze_early_break_dependences): New.
(vect_analyze_data_ref_dependences): Use it.
* tree-vect-loop-manip.cc (vect_iv_increment_position): New.
(vect_set_loop_controls_directly,
vect_set_loop_condition_partial_vectors,
vect_set_loop_condition_partial_vectors_avx512,
vect_set_loop_condition_normal): Support multiple exits.
(slpeel_tree_duplicate_loop_to_edge_cfg): Support LCSAA peeling for
multiple exits.
(slpeel_can_duplicate_loop_p): Change vectorizer from looking at BB
count and instead look at loop shape.
(vect_update_ivs_after_vectorizer): Drop asserts.
(vect_gen_vector_loop_niters_mult_vf): Support peeled vector iterations.
(vect_do_peeling): Support multiple exits.
(vect_loop_versioning): Likewise.
* tree-vect-loop.cc (_loop_vec_info::_loop_vec_info): Initialise
early_breaks.
(vect_analyze_loop_form): Support loop flows with more than single BB
loop body.
(vect_create_loop_vinfo): Support niters analysis for multiple exits.
(vect_analyze_loop): Likewise.
(vect_get_vect_def): New.
(vect_create_epilog_for_reduction): Support early exit reductions.
(vectorizable_live_operation_1): New.
(find_connected_edge): New.
(vectorizable_live_operation): Support early exit live operations.
(move_early_exit_stmts): New.
(vect_transform_loop): Use it.
* tree-vect-patterns.cc (vect_init_pattern_stmt): Support gcond.
(vect_recog_bitfield_ref_pattern): Support gconds and bools.
(vect_recog_gcond_pattern): New.
(possible_vector_mask_operation_p): Support gcond masks.
(vect_determine_mask_precision): Likewise.
(vect_mark_pattern_stmts): Set gcond def type.
(can_vectorize_live_stmts): Force early break inductions to be live.
* tree-vect-stmts.cc (vect_stmt_relevant_p): Add relevancy analysis for
early breaks.
(vect_mark_stmts_to_be_vectorized): Process gcond usage.
(perm_mask_for_reverse): Expose.
(vectorizable_comparison_1): New.
(vectorizable_early_exit): New.
(vect_analyze_stmt): Support early break and gcond.
(vect_transform_stmt): Likewise.
(vect_is_simple_use): Likewise.
(vect_get_vector_types_for_stmt): Likewise.
* tree-vectorizer.cc (pass_vectorize::execute): Update exits for value
numbering.
* tree-vectorizer.h (enum vect_def_type): Add vect_condition_def.
(LOOP_VINFO_EARLY_BREAKS, LOOP_VINFO_EARLY_BRK_STORES,
LOOP_VINFO_EARLY_BREAKS_VECT_PEELED, LOOP_VINFO_EARLY_BRK_DEST_BB,
LOOP_VINFO_EARLY_BRK_VUSES): New.
(is_loop_header_bb_p): Drop assert.
(class loop): Add early_breaks, early_break_stores, early_break_dest_bb,
early_break_vuses.
(vect_iv_increment_position, perm_mask_for_reverse,
ref_within_array_bound): New.
(slpeel_tree_duplicate_loop_to_edge_cfg): Update for early breaks.