<ol>
<li><a href="#introduction">Introduction and Warning</a></li>
- <li><a href="#instruction">Adding a new instruction</a></li>
<li><a href="#intrinsic">Adding a new intrinsic function</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#instruction">Adding a new instruction</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#sdnode">Adding a new SelectionDAG node</a></li>
<li><a href="#type">Adding a new type</a>
<ol>
<li><a href="#fund_type">Adding a new fundamental type</a></li>
</ol></li>
</ol>
-<div class="doc_text">
- <p><b>Written by <a href="http://misha.brukman.net">Misha Brukman</a></b></p>
+<div class="doc_author">
+ <p>Written by <a href="http://misha.brukman.net">Misha Brukman</a>,
+ Brad Jones, Nate Begeman,
+ and <a href="http://nondot.org/sabre">Chris Lattner</a></p>
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<em>many</em> LLVM analyses and transformations, so it may be quite a bit of
work.</p>
-<p>Adding an <a href="#intrinsic">intrinsic function</a> is easier than adding
-an instruction, and is transparent to optimization passes which treat it as an
-unanalyzable function. If your added functionality can be expressed as a
+<p>Adding an <a href="#intrinsic">intrinsic function</a> is far easier than
+adding an instruction, and is transparent to optimization passes. If your added
+functionality can be expressed as a
function call, an intrinsic function is the method of choice for LLVM
extension.</p>
someone else is already working on it. You will save yourself a lot of time and
effort by doing so.</p>
-<p>Finally, these are my notes, and since my extensions are not complete, I may
-be missing steps. If you find some omissions, please let me know <a
-href="http://misha.brukman.net/contact.html">directly</a> or post on <a
-href="http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev">LLVM-dev</a>.</p>
+</div>
+
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+<div class="doc_section">
+ <a name="intrinsic">Adding a new intrinsic function</a>
+</div>
+<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
+
+<div class="doc_text">
+
+<p>Adding a new intrinsic function to LLVM is much easier than adding a new
+instruction. Almost all extensions to LLVM should start as an intrinsic
+function and then be turned into an instruction if warranted.</p>
+
+<ol>
+<li><tt>llvm/docs/LangRef.html</tt>:
+ Document the intrinsic. Decide whether it is code generator specific and
+ what the restrictions are. Talk to other people about it so that you are
+ sure it's a good idea.</li>
+
+<li><tt>llvm/include/llvm/Intrinsics*.td</tt>:
+ Add an entry for your intrinsic. Describe its memory access characteristics
+ for optimization (this controls whether it will be DCE'd, CSE'd, etc). Note
+ that any intrinsic using the <tt>llvm_int_ty</tt> type for an argument will
+ be deemed by <tt>tblgen</tt> as overloaded and the corresponding suffix
+ will be required on the intrinsic's name.</li>
+
+<li><tt>llvm/lib/Analysis/ConstantFolding.cpp</tt>: If it is possible to
+ constant fold your intrinsic, add support to it in the
+ <tt>canConstantFoldCallTo</tt> and <tt>ConstantFoldCall</tt> functions.</li>
+
+<li><tt>llvm/test/Regression/*</tt>: Add test cases for your test cases to the
+ test suite</li>
+</ol>
+
+<p>Once the intrinsic has been added to the system, you must add code generator
+support for it. Generally you must do the following steps:</p>
+
+<dl>
+<dt>Add support to the C backend in <tt>lib/Target/CBackend/</tt></dt>
+
+<dd>Depending on the intrinsic, there are a few ways to implement this. For
+ most intrinsics, it makes sense to add code to lower your intrinsic in
+ <tt>LowerIntrinsicCall</tt> in <tt>lib/CodeGen/IntrinsicLowering.cpp</tt>.
+ Second, if it makes sense to lower the intrinsic to an expanded sequence of
+ C code in all cases, just emit the expansion in <tt>visitCallInst</tt> in
+ <tt>Writer.cpp</tt>. If the intrinsic has some way to express it with GCC
+ (or any other compiler) extensions, it can be conditionally supported based
+ on the compiler compiling the CBE output (see <tt>llvm.prefetch</tt> for an
+ example). Third, if the intrinsic really has no way to be lowered, just
+ have the code generator emit code that prints an error message and calls
+ abort if executed.</dd>
+
+<dt>Add support to the .td file for the target(s) of your choice in
+ <tt>lib/Target/*/*.td</tt>.</dt>
+
+<dd>This is usually a matter of adding a pattern to the .td file that matches
+ the intrinsic, though it may obviously require adding the instructions you
+ want to generate as well. There are lots of examples in the PowerPC and X86
+ backend to follow.</dd>
+</dl>
+
+</div>
+
+<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
+<div class="doc_section">
+ <a name="sdnode">Adding a new SelectionDAG node</a>
+</div>
+<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
+
+<div class="doc_text">
+
+<p>As with intrinsics, adding a new SelectionDAG node to LLVM is much easier
+than adding a new instruction. New nodes are often added to help represent
+instructions common to many targets. These nodes often map to an LLVM
+instruction (add, sub) or intrinsic (byteswap, population count). In other
+cases, new nodes have been added to allow many targets to perform a common task
+(converting between floating point and integer representation) or capture more
+complicated behavior in a single node (rotate).</p>
+
+<ol>
+<li><tt>include/llvm/CodeGen/SelectionDAGNodes.h</tt>:
+ Add an enum value for the new SelectionDAG node.</li>
+<li><tt>lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/SelectionDAG.cpp</tt>:
+ Add code to print the node to <tt>getOperationName</tt>. If your new node
+ can be evaluated at compile time when given constant arguments (such as an
+ add of a constant with another constant), find the <tt>getNode</tt> method
+ that takes the appropriate number of arguments, and add a case for your node
+ to the switch statement that performs constant folding for nodes that take
+ the same number of arguments as your new node.</li>
+<li><tt>lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/LegalizeDAG.cpp</tt>:
+ Add code to <a href="CodeGenerator.html#selectiondag_legalize">legalize,
+ promote, and expand</a> the node as necessary. At a minimum, you will need
+ to add a case statement for your node in <tt>LegalizeOp</tt> which calls
+ LegalizeOp on the node's operands, and returns a new node if any of the
+ operands changed as a result of being legalized. It is likely that not all
+ targets supported by the SelectionDAG framework will natively support the
+ new node. In this case, you must also add code in your node's case
+ statement in <tt>LegalizeOp</tt> to Expand your node into simpler, legal
+ operations. The case for <tt>ISD::UREM</tt> for expanding a remainder into
+ a divide, multiply, and a subtract is a good example.</li>
+<li><tt>lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/LegalizeDAG.cpp</tt>:
+ If targets may support the new node being added only at certain sizes, you
+ will also need to add code to your node's case statement in
+ <tt>LegalizeOp</tt> to Promote your node's operands to a larger size, and
+ perform the correct operation. You will also need to add code to
+ <tt>PromoteOp</tt> to do this as well. For a good example, see
+ <tt>ISD::BSWAP</tt>,
+ which promotes its operand to a wider size, performs the byteswap, and then
+ shifts the correct bytes right to emulate the narrower byteswap in the
+ wider type.</li>
+<li><tt>lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/LegalizeDAG.cpp</tt>:
+ Add a case for your node in <tt>ExpandOp</tt> to teach the legalizer how to
+ perform the action represented by the new node on a value that has been
+ split into high and low halves. This case will be used to support your
+ node with a 64 bit operand on a 32 bit target.</li>
+<li><tt>lib/CodeGen/SelectionDAG/DAGCombiner.cpp</tt>:
+ If your node can be combined with itself, or other existing nodes in a
+ peephole-like fashion, add a visit function for it, and call that function
+ from <tt></tt>. There are several good examples for simple combines you
+ can do; <tt>visitFABS</tt> and <tt>visitSRL</tt> are good starting places.
+ </li>
+<li><tt>lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCISelLowering.cpp</tt>:
+ Each target has an implementation of the <tt>TargetLowering</tt> class,
+ usually in its own file (although some targets include it in the same
+ file as the DAGToDAGISel). The default behavior for a target is to
+ assume that your new node is legal for all types that are legal for
+ that target. If this target does not natively support your node, then
+ tell the target to either Promote it (if it is supported at a larger
+ type) or Expand it. This will cause the code you wrote in
+ <tt>LegalizeOp</tt> above to decompose your new node into other legal
+ nodes for this target.</li>
+<li><tt>lib/Target/TargetSelectionDAG.td</tt>:
+ Most current targets supported by LLVM generate code using the DAGToDAG
+ method, where SelectionDAG nodes are pattern matched to target-specific
+ nodes, which represent individual instructions. In order for the targets
+ to match an instruction to your new node, you must add a def for that node
+ to the list in this file, with the appropriate type constraints. Look at
+ <tt>add</tt>, <tt>bswap</tt>, and <tt>fadd</tt> for examples.</li>
+<li><tt>lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCInstrInfo.td</tt>:
+ Each target has a tablegen file that describes the target's instruction
+ set. For targets that use the DAGToDAG instruction selection framework,
+ add a pattern for your new node that uses one or more target nodes.
+ Documentation for this is a bit sparse right now, but there are several
+ decent examples. See the patterns for <tt>rotl</tt> in
+ <tt>PPCInstrInfo.td</tt>.</li>
+<li>TODO: document complex patterns.</li>
+<li><tt>llvm/test/Regression/CodeGen/*</tt>: Add test cases for your new node
+ to the test suite. <tt>llvm/test/Regression/CodeGen/X86/bswap.ll</tt> is
+ a good example.</li>
+</ol>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
-<p><span class="doc_warning">WARNING: adding instructions changes the bytecode
+<p><span class="doc_warning">WARNING: adding instructions changes the bitcode
format, and it will take some effort to maintain compatibility with
the previous version.</span> Only add an instruction if it is absolutely
necessary.</p>
<li><tt>llvm/include/llvm/Instruction.def</tt>:
add a number for your instruction and an enum name</li>
-<li><tt>llvm/include/llvm/i*.h</tt>:
+<li><tt>llvm/include/llvm/Instructions.h</tt>:
add a definition for the class that will represent your instruction</li>
<li><tt>llvm/include/llvm/Support/InstVisitor.h</tt>:
add the grammar on how your instruction can be read and what it will
construct as a result</li>
-<li><tt>llvm/lib/Bytecode/Reader/InstructionReader.cpp</tt>:
- add a case for your instruction and how it will be parsed from bytecode</li>
+<li><tt>llvm/lib/Bitcode/Reader/Reader.cpp</tt>:
+ add a case for your instruction and how it will be parsed from bitcode</li>
<li><tt>llvm/lib/VMCore/Instruction.cpp</tt>:
add a case for how your instruction will be printed out to assembly</li>
-<li><tt>llvm/lib/VMCore/i*.cpp</tt>:
- implement the class you defined in <tt>llvm/include/llvm/i*.h</tt></li>
+<li><tt>llvm/lib/VMCore/Instructions.cpp</tt>:
+ implement the class you defined in
+ <tt>llvm/include/llvm/Instructions.h</tt></li>
+
+<li>Test your instruction</li>
+
+<li><tt>llvm/lib/Target/*</tt>:
+ Add support for your instruction to code generators, or add a lowering
+ pass.</li>
+
+<li><tt>llvm/test/Regression/*</tt>: add your test cases to the test suite.</li>
</ol>
</div>
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-<div class="doc_section">
- <a name="intrinsic">Adding a new intrinsic function</a>
-</div>
-<!-- *********************************************************************** -->
-
-<div class="doc_text">
-
-<ol>
-
-<li><tt>llvm/include/llvm/Intrinsics.h</tt>:
- add an enum in the <tt>llvm::Intrinsic</tt> namespace</li>
-
-<li><tt>llvm/lib/VMCore/IntrinsicLowering.cpp</tt>:
- implement the lowering for this intrinsic</li>
-
-<li><tt>llvm/lib/VMCore/Verifier.cpp</tt>:
- handle the new intrinsic</li>
-
-<li><tt>llvm/lib/VMCore/Function.cpp</tt>:
- handle the new intrinsic</li>
-
-</ol>
-
-</div>
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<div class="doc_section">
<div class="doc_text">
-<p><span class="doc_warning">WARNING: adding new types changes the bytecode
+<p><span class="doc_warning">WARNING: adding new types changes the bitcode
format, and will break compatibility with currently-existing LLVM
installations.</span> Only add new types if it is absolutely necessary.</p>
<ol>
-<li><tt>llvm/include/llvm/Type.def</tt>:
- add enum for the type</li>
-
<li><tt>llvm/include/llvm/Type.h</tt>:
- add ID number for the new type; add static <tt>Type*</tt> for this type</li>
+ add enum for the new type; add static <tt>Type*</tt> for this type</li>
<li><tt>llvm/lib/VMCore/Type.cpp</tt>:
add mapping from <tt>TypeID</tt> => <tt>Type*</tt>;
<div class="doc_text">
-<p>TODO</p>
+<ol>
+<li><tt>llvm/include/llvm/Type.h</tt>:
+ add enum for the new type; add a forward declaration of the type
+ also</li>
+
+<li><tt>llvm/include/llvm/DerivedTypes.h</tt>:
+ add new class to represent new class in the hierarchy; add forward
+ declaration to the TypeMap value type</li>
+
+<li><tt>llvm/lib/VMCore/Type.cpp</tt>:
+ add support for derived type to:
+<div class="doc_code">
+<pre>
+std::string getTypeDescription(const Type &Ty,
+ std::vector<const Type*> &TypeStack)
+bool TypesEqual(const Type *Ty, const Type *Ty2,
+ std::map<const Type*, const Type*> & EqTypes)
+</pre>
+</div>
+ add necessary member functions for type, and factory methods</li>
+
+<li><tt>llvm/lib/AsmReader/Lexer.l</tt>:
+ add ability to parse in the type from text assembly</li>
+
+<li><tt>llvm/lib/BitCode/Writer/Writer.cpp</tt>:
+ modify <tt>void BitcodeWriter::outputType(const Type *T)</tt> to serialize
+ your type</li>
+
+<li><tt>llvm/lib/BitCode/Reader/Reader.cpp</tt>:
+ modify <tt>const Type *BitcodeReader::ParseType()</tt> to read your data
+ type</li>
+
+<li><tt>llvm/lib/VMCore/AsmWriter.cpp</tt>:
+ modify
+<div class="doc_code">
+<pre>
+void calcTypeName(const Type *Ty,
+ std::vector<const Type*> &TypeStack,
+ std::map<const Type*,std::string> &TypeNames,
+ std::string & Result)
+</pre>
+</div>
+ to output the new derived type
+</li>
+
+
+</ol>
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