https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113178
--- Comment #7 from GCC Commits <cvs-commit at gcc dot gnu.org> --- The master branch has been updated by Tamar Christina <tnfch...@gcc.gnu.org>: https://gcc.gnu.org/g:411de96dbf2bdafc7a90ebbfc63e68afd6388d29 commit r14-7195-g411de96dbf2bdafc7a90ebbfc63e68afd6388d29 Author: Tamar Christina <tamar.christ...@arm.com> Date: Fri Jan 12 15:25:34 2024 +0000 middle-end: maintain LCSSA form when peeled vector iterations have virtual operands This patch fixes several interconnected issues. 1. When picking an exit we wanted to check for niter_desc.may_be_zero not true. i.e. we want to pick an exit which we know will iterate at least once. However niter_desc.may_be_zero is not a boolean. It is a tree that encodes a boolean value. !niter_desc.may_be_zero is just checking if we have some information, not what the information is. This leads us to pick a more difficult to vectorize exit more often than we should. 2. Because we had this bug, we used to pick an alternative exit much more ofthen which showed one issue, when the loop accesses memory and we "invert it" we would corrupt the VUSE chain. This is because on an peeled vector iteration every exit restarts the loop (i.e. they're all early) BUT since we may have performed a store, the vUSE would need to be updated. This version maintains virtual PHIs correctly in these cases. Note that we can't simply remove all of them and recreate them because we need the PHI nodes still in the right order for if skip_vector. 3. Since we're moving the stores to a safe location I don't think we actually need to analyze whether the store is in range of the memref, because if we ever get there, we know that the loads must be in range, and if the loads are in range and we get to the store we know the early breaks were not taken and so the scalar loop would have done the VF stores too. 4. Instead of searching for where to move stores to, they should always be in exit belonging to the latch. We can only ever delay stores and even if we pick a different exit than the latch one as the main one, effects still happen in program order when vectorized. If we don't move the stores to the latch exit but instead to whever we pick as the "main" exit then we can perform incorrect memory accesses (luckily these are trapped by verify_ssa). 5. We only used to analyze loads inside the same BB as an early break, and also we'd never analyze the ones inside the block where we'd be moving memory references to. This is obviously bogus and to fix it this patch splits apart the two constraints. We first validate that all load memory references are in bounds and only after that do we perform the alias checks for the writes. This makes the code simpler to understand and more trivially correct. gcc/ChangeLog: PR tree-optimization/113137 PR tree-optimization/113136 PR tree-optimization/113172 PR tree-optimization/113178 * tree-vect-loop-manip.cc (slpeel_tree_duplicate_loop_to_edge_cfg): Maintain PHIs on inverted loops. (vect_do_peeling): Maintain virtual PHIs on inverted loops. * tree-vect-loop.cc (vec_init_loop_exit_info): Pick exit closes to latch. (vect_create_loop_vinfo): Record all conds instead of only alt ones. gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog: PR tree-optimization/113137 PR tree-optimization/113136 PR tree-optimization/113172 PR tree-optimization/113178 * g++.dg/vect/vect-early-break_4-pr113137.cc: New test. * g++.dg/vect/vect-early-break_5-pr113137.cc: New test. * gcc.dg/vect/vect-early-break_95-pr113137.c: New test. * gcc.dg/vect/vect-early-break_96-pr113136.c: New test. * gcc.dg/vect/vect-early-break_97-pr113172.c: New test.