On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 7:36 PM Richard Biener <rguent...@suse.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 25 May 2020, Uros Bizjak wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 8:27 AM Richard Biener <rguent...@suse.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > On May 25, 2020 8:12:12 AM GMT+02:00, Uros Bizjak <ubiz...@gmail.com> 
> > > wrote:
> > > >On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 7:53 AM Hongtao Liu <crazy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> > We have to introduce a new expander, that will have conforming mode
> > > >of
> > > >> > output operand (V2SF) and will produce RTX that will match
> > > >> > *float<floatunssuffix>v2div2sf2. A paradoxical output subreg from
> > > >> > V2SFmode V4SFmode is needed, generated by simplify_gen_subreg as is
> > > >> > the case with paradoxical input subreg.
> > > >>
> > > >> Problem`is simplify_gen_subreg (V4SFmode, operands[0], V2SFmode, 0)
> > > >> will return NULL since
> > > >> ----
> > > >> 948  /* Subregs involving floating point modes are not allowed to
> > > >> 949     change size.  Therefore (subreg:DI (reg:DF) 0) is fine, but
> > > >> 950     (subreg:SI (reg:DF) 0) isn't.  */
> > > >
> > > >But, we are not changing size, we are still operating with SFmode. It
> > > >looks to me that this limitation is too strict, the intention is to
> > > >not expand scalar SFmode to DFmode.
> > >
> > > I guess so. The test probably wants to tes the component mode.
> >
> > There is already some fishy x86 specific workaround in place, which I
> > took the liberty to extend to vector modes. The attached patch that
> > exercises this code works as expected, and produces expected code.
> >
> > Liu, can you please test the attached patch?
> >

Bootstrap is ok, regression test for i386/x86-64 backend is ok.

> > Richi, is the middle end part OK?
>
> +     i.e. (subreg:V4SF (reg:SF) 0) or (subreg:V4SF (reg:V2SF) 0).  This
> +     surely isn't the cleanest way to represent this.  It's questionable
> +     if this ought to be represented at all -- why can't this all be
> hidden
> +     in post-reload splitters that make arbitrarily mode changes to the
> +     registers themselves.  */
> +  else if (VECTOR_MODE_P (omode)
> +          && (GET_MODE_INNER (omode) == imode
> +              || (VECTOR_MODE_P (imode)
> +                  && (GET_MODE_INNER (omode) == GET_MODE_INNER
> (imode)))))
>      ;
>
> I'd formulate this simpler, as
>
>   else if (VECTOR_MODE_P (omode)
>            && GET_MODE_INNER (omode) == GET_MODE_INNER (imode))
>

I think they are functionally the same, so i won't bother to run
another round test.

> since GET_MODE_INNER (DFmode) == DFmode.
>
> We also allow (subreg:V4SF (reg:V2DF) 0) where we effectively
> subref DF with SF but the size check covers the whole vector, so
> the comment on the code with float modes is a bit misleading IMHO.
>
> It also leads to the strange situation that both
> (subreg:V4SF (reg:V2DF) 0) and (subreg:V8SF (reg:V4SF) 0) is valid
> but (subreg:V8SF (reg:V2DF) 0) is not.
>
> Anyway, I think generalizing the existing exception is obvious enough
> thus OK with my suggestion for the simplification if nobody else
> has differing comments.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard.



-- 
BR,
Hongtao

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