[RISCV] Transform unaligned RVV vector loads/stores to aligned ones
authorFraser Cormack <fraser@codeplay.com>
Wed, 9 Jun 2021 14:17:21 +0000 (15:17 +0100)
committerFraser Cormack <fraser@codeplay.com>
Mon, 14 Jun 2021 17:12:18 +0000 (18:12 +0100)
commitc75e454cb93206833f8cedde1ed5d12ef161e357
treef53117975d97f2d90a50273f51733da95b3e65b0
parentc58cf692f4197bf1f8ea7e0efb95c1afd2d6d81f
[RISCV] Transform unaligned RVV vector loads/stores to aligned ones

This patch adds support for loading and storing unaligned vectors via an
equivalently-sized i8 vector type, which has support in the RVV
specification for byte-aligned access.

This offers a more optimal path for handling of unaligned fixed-length
vector accesses, which are currently scalarized. It also prevents
crashing when `LegalizeDAG` sees an unaligned scalable-vector load/store
operation.

Future work could be to investigate loading/storing via the largest
vector element type for the given alignment, in case that would be more
optimal on hardware. For instance, a 4-byte-aligned nxv2i64 vector load
could loaded as nxv4i32 instead of as nxv16i8.

Reviewed By: craig.topper

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104032
llvm/lib/Target/RISCV/RISCVISelLowering.cpp
llvm/lib/Target/RISCV/RISCVISelLowering.h
llvm/test/CodeGen/RISCV/rvv/fixed-vectors-unaligned.ll
llvm/test/CodeGen/RISCV/rvv/unaligned-loads-stores.ll [new file with mode: 0644]