[LangRef] Update shufflevector's semantics to return poison if the mask is undef

This patch changes the shufflevector's semantics to yield poison if the mask is undefined.
This allows the extraction of shufflevectors while also opening the door for more
optimization opportunities due to the fact that poison is more undefined than undef.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D148637

diff --git a/llvm/docs/LangRef.rst b/llvm/docs/LangRef.rst
index 3f7c1ff..a0d012d 100644 (file)
--- a/llvm/docs/LangRef.rst
+++ b/llvm/docs/LangRef.rst
@@ -10075,7 +10075,7 @@ Arguments:
 The first two operands of a '``shufflevector``' instruction are vectors
 with the same type. The third argument is a shuffle mask vector constant
 whose element type is ``i32``. The mask vector elements must be constant
-integers or ``undef`` values. The result of the instruction is a vector
+integers or ``poison`` values. The result of the instruction is a vector
 whose length is the same as the shuffle mask and whose element type is the
 same as the element type of the first two operands.
 
@@ -10088,15 +10088,15 @@ shuffle mask selects an element from one of the input vectors to copy
 to the result. Non-negative elements in the mask represent an index
 into the concatenated pair of input vectors.
 
-If the shuffle mask is undefined, the result vector is undefined. If
-the shuffle mask selects an undefined element from one of the input
-vectors, the resulting element is undefined. An undefined element
-in the mask vector specifies that the resulting element is undefined.
-An undefined element in the mask vector prevents a poisoned vector
-element from propagating.
+A ``poison`` element in the mask vector specifies that the resulting element
+is ``poison``.
+For backwards-compatibility reasons, LLVM temporarily also accepts ``undef``
+mask elements, which will be interpreted the same way as ``poison`` elements.
+If the shuffle mask selects an ``undef`` element from one of the input
+vectors, the resulting element is ``undef``.
 
 For scalable vectors, the only valid mask values at present are
-``zeroinitializer`` and ``undef``, since we cannot write all indices as
+``zeroinitializer``, ``undef`` and ``poison``, since we cannot write all indices as
 literals for a vector with a length unknown at compile time.
 
 Example:
@@ -10106,9 +10106,9 @@ Example:
 
       <result> = shufflevector <4 x i32> %v1, <4 x i32> %v2,
                               <4 x i32> <i32 0, i32 4, i32 1, i32 5>  ; yields <4 x i32>
-      <result> = shufflevector <4 x i32> %v1, <4 x i32> undef,
+      <result> = shufflevector <4 x i32> %v1, <4 x i32> poison,
                               <4 x i32> <i32 0, i32 1, i32 2, i32 3>  ; yields <4 x i32> - Identity shuffle.
-      <result> = shufflevector <8 x i32> %v1, <8 x i32> undef,
+      <result> = shufflevector <8 x i32> %v1, <8 x i32> poison,
                               <4 x i32> <i32 0, i32 1, i32 2, i32 3>  ; yields <4 x i32>
       <result> = shufflevector <4 x i32> %v1, <4 x i32> %v2,
                               <8 x i32> <i32 0, i32 1, i32 2, i32 3, i32 4, i32 5, i32 6, i32 7 >  ; yields <8 x i32>