Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm: lib: xor-neon: disable clang vectorization

[Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 2:36 PM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 2:15 PM Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 01:41:17PM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 11:51 AM Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, 06 Nov 2020, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > +#pragma clang loop vectorize(enable)
> > > > >         do {
> > > > >                 p1[0] ^= p2[0] ^ p3[0] ^ p4[0] ^ p5[0]; p1[1] ^=
> > > > >                 p2[1] ^ p3[1] ^ p4[1] ^ p5[1];
> > > > > ``` seems to generate the vectorized code.
> > > > >
> > > > > Why don't we find a way to make those pragma's more toolchain
> > > > > portable, rather than open coding them like I have above rather
> > > > > than this series?
> > > >
> > > > Hi again Nick,
> > > >
> > > > How did you verify the above pragmas generate correct vectorized
> > > > code?  Have you tested this specific use case?
> > >
> > > I read the disassembly before and after my suggested use of pragmas;
> > > look for vld/vstr.  You can also add -Rpass-missed=loop-vectorize to
> > > CFLAGS_xor-neon.o in arch/arm/lib/Makefile and rebuild
> > > arch/arm/lib/xor-neon.o with CONFIG_BTRFS enabled.
> > >
> >
> > https://godbolt.org/z/1oo9M6
> >
> > With the __restrict__ keywords added, clang seems to vectorize the loop,
> > but still reports that vectorization wasn't beneficial -- any idea
> > what's going on?

Anyways, it's not safe to make that change in the kernel unless you
can guarantee that callers of these routines do not alias or overlap.

>
> I suspect that loop-vectorize is a higher level pass that relies on
> slp-vectorizer for the transform.
>
> $ clang -O2 --target=arm-linux-gnueabi -S -o - foo.c -mfpu=neon -mllvm
> -print-after-all
> ...
> *** IR Dump After SLP Vectorizer ***
> (bunch of <4 x i32> types)
>
> If you add -Rpass-missed=slp-vectorizer, observe that the existing
> warnings from -Rpass-missed=loop-vectorize disappear; I suspect
> loop-vectorize will print a "remark" if passes it calls did not, but
> returned some for of error code.
>
> -Rpass=slp-vectorizer shows that it vectorizes two sequences of the
> loop, and warns that some third portion (that's
> non-immediately-obvious to me) was non beneficial.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> ~Nick Desaulniers



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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers