https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102139
Bug ID: 102139 Summary: -O3 miscompile due to slp-vectorize on strict align target Product: gcc Version: 11.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: tree-optimization Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: wilson at gcc dot gnu.org Target Milestone: --- This was originally reported here. https://github.com/riscv/riscv-gcc/issues/289 This testcase is miscompiled at -O3 for a riscv64 target, though this is not a bug in the riscv64 port. I think it will fail for any strict align target. typedef unsigned short uint16_t; void zero_two_uint16(uint16_t* ptr) { ptr[0] = 0; ptr[1] = 0; } void zero(uint16_t* ptr) { for (int i = 0; i < 16; ++i) { zero_two_uint16(ptr); ptr += 2; } } The output is zero: sd zero,0(a0) sd zero,8(a0) sd zero,16(a0) sd zero,24(a0) sd zero,32(a0) sd zero,40(a0) sd zero,48(a0) sd zero,56(a0) ret which fails due to unaligned accesses as a0 only has 2 byte alignment. A git bisect tracked the problem down to this commit. commit f5e18dd Author: Kewen Lin li...@gcc.gnu.org Date: Tue Nov 3 02:51:47 2020 +0000 pass: Run cleanup passes before SLP [PR96789] ... I get correct code if I disable the fre4 pass, which is the fre pass inside pre_slp_scalar_cleanup which was added by this patch. The 169t.vectorize pass adds an address alignment check, and then emits a loop with double-word stores if aligned, and a loop with half-word stores if unaligned. 172t.cunroll fully unrolls both loops. The 173t.fre4 pass deletes a phi node before the half-word stores. The 172t output has <bb 13> [local count: 12627204]: # ptr_3 = PHI <ptr_4(D)(2)> # ivtmp_15 = PHI <16(2)> *ptr_3 = 0; and the 173t.fre4 output has <bb 13> [local count: 12627204]: *ptr_4(D) = 0; In the 175t.slp1 pass, the block of half-word stores gets vectorized which is wrong. Then later 207t.dce7 notices duplicate code and deletes the second block of stores. Comparing the full slp1 dump with fre4 disabled versus the unmodified slp1 dump, I see that the first significant difference is when computing pointer alignment. With fre4 disabled, I get tmp.c:4:10: note: recording new base alignment for vectp_ptr.8_125 alignment: 8 misalignment: 0 based on: MEM <vector(4) short unsigned int> [(uint16_t *)vectp_ptr.8_125] = { 0, 0, 0, 0 }; tmp.c:4:10: note: recording new base alignment for ptr_3 alignment: 2 misalignment: 0 based on: *ptr_3 = 0; tmp.c:4:10: note: === vect_slp_analyze_instance_alignment === tmp.c:4:10: note: vect_compute_data_ref_alignment: tmp.c:4:10: note: can't force alignment of ref: *ptr_3 It then refuses to vectorize. With the unmodified compiler I get tmp.c:4:10: note: recording new base alignment for ptr_4(D) alignment: 8 misalignment: 0 based on: MEM <vector(4) short unsigned int> [(uint16_t *)ptr_4(D)] = { 0, 0, 0, 0 }; tmp.c:4:10: note: === vect_slp_analyze_instance_alignment === tmp.c:4:10: note: vect_compute_data_ref_alignment: tmp.c:4:10: missed: misalign = 0 bytes of ref *ptr_4(D) and then goes ahead and vectorizes which is wrong. Maybe fre4 shouldn't optimize away a phi node when the pointers have different alignment? I noticed that before slp1 runs, the double-word store block has # ALIGN = 8, MISALIGN = 0 but the half-word store block does not. After slp1 runs, both the double-word store and the half-word store block have these notes.