From fdf40bea4fc416643210790fff4345be98d97245 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hans Wennborg <hans@hanshq.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 21:28:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Merging r261365:
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 r261365 | hans | 2016-02-19 13:26:31 -0800 (Fri, 19 Feb 2016) | 3 lines

Revert r253557 "Alternative to long nops for X86 CPUs, by Andrey Turetsky"

Turns out the new nop sequences aren't actually nops on x86_64 (PR26554).
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git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/branches/release_38@261366 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
---
 lib/Target/X86/MCTargetDesc/X86AsmBackend.cpp | 46 ++++++-------------
 test/MC/X86/x86_nop.s                         |  8 +++-
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/Target/X86/MCTargetDesc/X86AsmBackend.cpp b/lib/Target/X86/MCTargetDesc/X86AsmBackend.cpp
index 133bd0e1772..135c32bf8c3 100644
--- a/lib/Target/X86/MCTargetDesc/X86AsmBackend.cpp
+++ b/lib/Target/X86/MCTargetDesc/X86AsmBackend.cpp
@@ -69,19 +69,15 @@ public:
 class X86AsmBackend : public MCAsmBackend {
   const StringRef CPU;
   bool HasNopl;
-  uint64_t MaxNopLength;
+  const uint64_t MaxNopLength;
 public:
-  X86AsmBackend(const Target &T, StringRef CPU) : MCAsmBackend(), CPU(CPU) {
+  X86AsmBackend(const Target &T, StringRef CPU)
+      : MCAsmBackend(), CPU(CPU), MaxNopLength(CPU == "slm" ? 7 : 15) {
     HasNopl = CPU != "generic" && CPU != "i386" && CPU != "i486" &&
               CPU != "i586" && CPU != "pentium" && CPU != "pentium-mmx" &&
               CPU != "i686" && CPU != "k6" && CPU != "k6-2" && CPU != "k6-3" &&
               CPU != "geode" && CPU != "winchip-c6" && CPU != "winchip2" &&
               CPU != "c3" && CPU != "c3-2";
-    // Max length of true long nop instruction is 15 bytes.
-    // Max length of long nop replacement instruction is 7 bytes.
-    // Taking into account SilverMont architecture features max length of nops
-    // is reduced for it to achieve better performance.
-    MaxNopLength = (!HasNopl || CPU == "slm") ? 7 : 15;
   }
 
   unsigned getNumFixupKinds() const override {
@@ -299,7 +295,7 @@ void X86AsmBackend::relaxInstruction(const MCInst &Inst, MCInst &Res) const {
 /// bytes.
 /// \return - true on success, false on failure
 bool X86AsmBackend::writeNopData(uint64_t Count, MCObjectWriter *OW) const {
-  static const uint8_t TrueNops[10][10] = {
+  static const uint8_t Nops[10][10] = {
     // nop
     {0x90},
     // xchg %ax,%ax
@@ -322,31 +318,17 @@ bool X86AsmBackend::writeNopData(uint64_t Count, MCObjectWriter *OW) const {
     {0x66, 0x2e, 0x0f, 0x1f, 0x84, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00},
   };
 
-  // Alternative nop instructions for CPUs which don't support long nops.
-  static const uint8_t AltNops[7][10] = {
-      // nop
-      {0x90},
-      // xchg %ax,%ax
-      {0x66, 0x90},
-      // lea 0x0(%esi),%esi
-      {0x8d, 0x76, 0x00},
-      // lea 0x0(%esi),%esi
-      {0x8d, 0x74, 0x26, 0x00},
-      // nop + lea 0x0(%esi),%esi
-      {0x90, 0x8d, 0x74, 0x26, 0x00},
-      // lea 0x0(%esi),%esi
-      {0x8d, 0xb6, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 },
-      // lea 0x0(%esi),%esi
-      {0x8d, 0xb4, 0x26, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00},
-  };
-
-  // Select the right NOP table.
-  // FIXME: Can we get if CPU supports long nops from the subtarget somehow?
-  const uint8_t (*Nops)[10] = HasNopl ? TrueNops : AltNops;
-  assert(HasNopl || MaxNopLength <= 7);
+  // This CPU doesn't support long nops. If needed add more.
+  // FIXME: Can we get this from the subtarget somehow?
+  // FIXME: We could generated something better than plain 0x90.
+  if (!HasNopl) {
+    for (uint64_t i = 0; i < Count; ++i)
+      OW->write8(0x90);
+    return true;
+  }
 
-  // Emit as many largest nops as needed, then emit a nop of the remaining
-  // length.
+  // 15 is the longest single nop instruction.  Emit as many 15-byte nops as
+  // needed, then emit a nop of the remaining length.
   do {
     const uint8_t ThisNopLength = (uint8_t) std::min(Count, MaxNopLength);
     const uint8_t Prefixes = ThisNopLength <= 10 ? 0 : ThisNopLength - 10;
diff --git a/test/MC/X86/x86_nop.s b/test/MC/X86/x86_nop.s
index feac4e4cf03..572487bfdac 100644
--- a/test/MC/X86/x86_nop.s
+++ b/test/MC/X86/x86_nop.s
@@ -22,7 +22,13 @@ inc %eax
 inc %eax
 
 // CHECK: 0:	40                                           	incl	%eax
-// CHECK: 1:	8d b4 26 00 00 00 00                            leal (%esi), %esi
+// CHECK: 1:	90                                           	nop
+// CHECK: 2:	90                                           	nop
+// CHECK: 3:	90                                           	nop
+// CHECK: 4:	90                                           	nop
+// CHECK: 5:	90                                           	nop
+// CHECK: 6:	90                                           	nop
+// CHECK: 7:	90                                           	nop
 // CHECK: 8:	40                                           	incl	%eax
 
 
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