[MCA] Add flag -show-encoding to llvm-mca.
authorAndrea Di Biagio <Andrea_DiBiagio@sn.scee.net>
Fri, 9 Aug 2019 11:26:27 +0000 (11:26 +0000)
committerAndrea Di Biagio <Andrea_DiBiagio@sn.scee.net>
Fri, 9 Aug 2019 11:26:27 +0000 (11:26 +0000)
commitcbec9af6bfb0df5ff19e914f83cc744e0ff5e466
tree21a5ce71bcf3492cfc89fe6c7c4449554568ddbb
parent3cdd586be28f7dfe400f1186d1e3d8c31c625fb8
[MCA] Add flag -show-encoding to llvm-mca.

Flag -show-encoding enables the printing of instruction encodings as part of the
the instruction info view.

Example (with flags -mtriple=x86_64--  -mcpu=btver2):

Instruction Info:
[1]: #uOps
[2]: Latency
[3]: RThroughput
[4]: MayLoad
[5]: MayStore
[6]: HasSideEffects (U)
[7]: Encoding Size

[1]    [2]    [3]    [4]    [5]    [6]    [7]    Encodings:     Instructions:
 1      2     1.00                         4     c5 f0 59 d0    vmulps   %xmm0, %xmm1, %xmm2
 1      4     1.00                         4     c5 eb 7c da    vhaddps  %xmm2, %xmm2, %xmm3
 1      4     1.00                         4     c5 e3 7c e3    vhaddps  %xmm3, %xmm3, %xmm4

In this example, column Encoding Size is the size in bytes of the instruction
encoding. Column Encodings reports the actual instruction encodings as byte
sequences in hex (objdump style).

The computation of encodings is done by a utility class named mca::CodeEmitter.

In future, I plan to expose the CodeEmitter to the instruction builder, so that
information about instruction encoding sizes can be used by the simulator. That
would be a first step towards simulating the throughput from the decoders in the
hardware frontend.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D65948

llvm-svn: 368432
llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-mca.rst
llvm/include/llvm/MCA/CodeEmitter.h [new file with mode: 0644]
llvm/lib/MCA/CMakeLists.txt
llvm/lib/MCA/CodeEmitter.cpp [new file with mode: 0644]
llvm/test/tools/llvm-mca/X86/show-encoding.s [new file with mode: 0644]
llvm/tools/llvm-mca/Views/InstructionInfoView.cpp
llvm/tools/llvm-mca/Views/InstructionInfoView.h
llvm/tools/llvm-mca/llvm-mca.cpp