aarch64 AD-file / matching rule

[Benedikt Wedenik]

Hi!

I’m writing compiler-optimisations for the aarch64 port at the moment and I am using specjbb2005 for benchmarking.
One of the patterns I want to optimise is the following:

  0x0000007f8c2961b4: and	w2, w2, #0x7ffff8
  0x0000007f8c2961b8: cmp	w2, #0x0
  0x0000007f8c2961bc: b.eq	0x0000007f8c2968f4


Here I see an opportunity for ands, b.eq.

I created a new rule in the cpu/aarch64/vm/aarch64.ad file.
My matching looks like this:

instruct and_cmp_branch(cmpOp cmp, immI0 zero, iRegIorL2I src1, immILog src2, label lbl, rFlagsReg cr) %{
  match(If cmp (CmpI (AndI src1 src2) zero) );

  effect(USE lbl);
  ins_cost(0); // is zero at the moment to be sure the rule is triggered.

  ins_encode %{
    Label* L = $lbl$$label;
    Assembler::Condition cond = (Assembler::Condition)$cmp$$cmpcode;
    __ andsw(as_Register($src1$$reg),
        as_Register($src1$$reg),
        (unsigned long)($src2$$constant));
    __ br ((Assembler::Condition)$cmp$$cmpcode, *L);
  %}  

  ins_pipe(pipe_cmp_branch); //TODO but not relevant yet
%}


As I don’t know whether my matching-rule is wrong or something else stops the rule from getting emitted I wanted to find out which “and”-rule is triggered for this pattern.
I inserted some nop’s to locate the according rule and I found out, that most of the emitted “and”s were surrounded by nop’s except for my pattern and some few other ones like this one:

0x0000007f984bf568: eor   x1, x0, x1
0x0000007f984bf56c: and   x1, x1, #0xffffffffffffff87
0x0000007f984bf570: cbz   x1, 0x0000007f984bf664
0x0000007f984bf574: and   xscratch1, x1, #0x7
0x0000007f984bf578: cbnz  xscratch1, 0x0000007f984bf5f0
0x0000007f984bf57c: and   xscratch1, x1, #0x300
0x0000007f984bf580: cbnz  xscratch1, 0x0000007f984bf5b8
0x0000007f984bf584: mov   xscratch1, #0x37f                   // #895
0x0000007f984bf588: and   x0, x0, xscratch1
0x0000007f984bf58c: orr   x1, x0, xthread
0x0000007f984bf590: ldaxr xscratch1, [x3]
0x0000007f984bf594: cmp   xscratch1, x0
0x0000007f984bf598: b.ne  0x0000007f984bf5a8


Usually I call the program like this:

————
JAVA=/root/bwedenik/jdk8/jdk8/build/linux-aarch64-normal-server-release/jdk/bin/java

$JAVA -fullversion
$JAVA -server -XX:+AggressiveOpts -XX:+UseFastAccessorMethods -XX:+OptimizeStringConcat -XX:+UseBiasedLocking -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:ParallelGCThreads=10 -XX:+UseParallelOldGC -XX:SurvivorRatio=8 -XX:TargetSurvivorRatio=90 -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=15  -Xms10g -Xmx10g -Xmn4g -Xss64m -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:CompileCommand='print,*DeliveryTransaction.preprocess' spec.jbb.JBBmain -propfile SPECjbb.props
————


I tried to figure out if this problem only occurs with c1, c2 or pure interpretation mode and these are the results (calling java as usual including the given arguments):

* [-Xint] : This gives me neither the inserted nop’s nor the pattern I am searching for (as expected due to no compilation).
* [-client -Xcomp -XX:-TieredCompilation] : Here the cmp for #0x0 only occurs about 3 times in the whole disassembly, instead of about 200 times without these flags. In addition there are no of my inserted nop’s in the disass.
* [-server -Xcomp -XX:-TieredCompilation] : Same as -client.


My question is now how to find out why the rule does not match / if the rule is correct and how to find the actual rule which emits the code of my desired pattern.

Thanks in advance,
Benedikt Wedenik, Theobroma-Systems.com
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