llvm will look at both
1. the values of "target-features" and
2. the function string attributes.
this removes the redundant function string attribute because it is not needed at all.
rustc sets the `+backchain` attribute through `target_features_attr(...)`
Cleanup offload datatransfer
There are 3 steps to run code on a GPU: Copy data from the host to the device, launch the kernel, and move it back.
At the moment, we have a single variable describing the memory handling to do in each step, but that makes it hard for LLVM's opt pass to understand what's going on. We therefore split it into three variables, each only including the bits relevant for the corresponding stage.
cc @jdoerfert @kevinsala
r? compiler
Stabilize `core::hint::cold_path`
`cold_path` has been around unstably for a while and is a rather useful tool to have. It does what it is supposed to and there are no known remaining issues, so stabilize it here (including const).
Newly stable API:
```rust
// in core::hint
pub const fn cold_path();
```
I have opted to exclude `likely` and `unlikely` for now since they have had some concerns about ease of use that `cold_path` doesn't suffer from. `cold_path` is also significantly more flexible; in addition to working with boolean `if` conditions, it can be used in `match` arms, `if let`, closures, and other control flow blocks. `likely` and `unlikely` are also possible to implement in user code via `cold_path`, if desired.
Closes: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/136873 (tracking issue)
---
There has been some design and implementation work for making `#[cold]` function in more places, such as `if` arms, `match` arms, and closure bodies. Considering a stable `cold_path` will cover all of these usecases, it does not seem worth pursuing a more powerful `#[cold]` as an alternative way to do the same thing. If the lang team agrees, then:
Closes: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/26179
Closes: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/120193
Remove dummy loads on offload codegen
The current logic generates two dummy loads to prevent some globals from being optimized away. This blocks memtransfer loop hoisting optimizations, so it's time to remove them.
r? @ZuseZ4
skip codegen for intrinsics with big fallback bodies if backend does not need them
This hopefully fixes the perf regression from https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/148478. I only added the intrinsics with big fallback bodies to the list; it doesn't seem worth the effort of going through the entire list.
Fixes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/149945
Cc @scottmcm @bjorn3
Fix autodiff codegen tests
Preparing autodiff for release on nightly. Since we haven't been running these tests in CI, they regressed over the last months. These changes fixes this and hopefully make the tests more robust for the future.
r? compiler
Add codegen test for SLP vectorization
close: rust-lang/rust#142519
This PR adds a codegen regression test for rust-lang/rust#142519. A regression in LLVM to fail to auto-vectorize, leading to significant performance loss.
The SLP vectorizer correctly groups the 4-byte operations into <4 x i8> vectors.
The loop state is maintained in SIMD registers (phi <4 x i8>).
The test remains robust across architectures (AArch64 vs x86_64) by allowing flexible store types (i32 or <4 x i8>).
The IR is a bit different (in particular wrt naming) if
debug-assertions-std is enabled. Peculiarly, the issue goes away
if overflow-check-std is also enabled, which is why CI did not
catch this.
offload: move (un)register lib into global_ctors
Right now we initialize the openmp/offload runtime before every single offload call, and tear it down directly afterwards.
What we should rather do is initialize it once in the binary startup code, and tear it down at the end of the binary execution. Here I implement these changes.
Together, our generated IR has a lot less usage of globals, which in turn simplifies the refactoring in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/150683, where I introduce a new variant of our offload intrinsic.
r? oli-obk
slice/ascii: Optimize `eq_ignore_ascii_case` with auto-vectorization
- Refactor the current functionality into a helper function
- Use `as_chunks` to encourage auto-vectorization in the optimized chunk processing function
- Add a codegen test checking for vectorization and no panicking
- Add benches for `eq_ignore_ascii_case`
---
The optimized function is initially only enabled for x86_64 which has `sse2` as part of its baseline, but none of the code is platform specific. Other platforms with SIMD instructions may also benefit from this implementation.
Performance improvements only manifest for slices of 16 bytes or longer, so the optimized path is gated behind a length check for greater than or equal to 16.
Benchmarks - Cases below 16 bytes are unaffected, cases above all show sizeable improvements.
```
before:
str::eq_ignore_ascii_case::bench_large_str_eq 4942.30ns/iter +/- 48.20
str::eq_ignore_ascii_case::bench_medium_str_eq 632.01ns/iter +/- 16.87
str::eq_ignore_ascii_case::bench_str_17_bytes_eq 16.28ns/iter +/- 0.45
str::eq_ignore_ascii_case::bench_str_31_bytes_eq 35.23ns/iter +/- 2.28
str::eq_ignore_ascii_case::bench_str_of_8_bytes_eq 7.56ns/iter +/- 0.22
str::eq_ignore_ascii_case::bench_str_under_8_bytes_eq 2.64ns/iter +/- 0.06
after:
str::eq_ignore_ascii_case::bench_large_str_eq 611.63ns/iter +/- 28.29
str::eq_ignore_ascii_case::bench_medium_str_eq 77.10ns/iter +/- 19.76
str::eq_ignore_ascii_case::bench_str_17_bytes_eq 3.49ns/iter +/- 0.39
str::eq_ignore_ascii_case::bench_str_31_bytes_eq 3.50ns/iter +/- 0.27
str::eq_ignore_ascii_case::bench_str_of_8_bytes_eq 7.27ns/iter +/- 0.09
str::eq_ignore_ascii_case::bench_str_under_8_bytes_eq 2.60ns/iter +/- 0.05
```
`cold_path` has been around unstably for a while and is a rather useful
tool to have. It does what it is supposed to and there are no known
remaining issues, so stabilize it here (including const).
Newly stable API:
// in core::hint
pub const fn cold_path();
I have opted to exclude `likely` and `unlikely` for now since they have
had some concerns about ease of use that `cold_path` doesn't suffer
from. `cold_path` is also significantly more flexible; in addition to
working with boolean `if` conditions, it can be used in `match` arms,
`if let`, closures, and other control flow blocks. `likely` and
`unlikely` are also possible to implement in user code via `cold_path`,
if desired.
The existing `aarch64-unknown-none` target assumes Armv8.0-A as a baseline. However, Arm recently released the Arm Cortex-R82 processor which is the first to implement the Armv8-R AArch64 mode architecture. This architecture is similar to Armv8-A AArch64, however it has a different set of mandatory features, and is based off of Armv8.4. It is largely unrelated to the existing Armv8-R architecture target (`armv8r-none-eabihf`), which only operates in AArch32 mode.
The second `aarch64v8r-unknown-none-softfloat` target allows for possible Armv8-R AArch64 CPUs with no FPU, or for use-cases where FPU register stacking is not desired. As with the existing `aarch64-unknown-none` target we have coupled FPU support and Neon support together - there is no 'has FPU but does not have NEON' target proposed even though the architecture technically allows for it.
This PR was developed by Ferrous Systems on behalf of Arm. Arm is the owner of these changes.
LoongArch: Fix direct-access-external-data test
On LoongArch targets, `-Cdirect-access-external-data` defaults to `no`. Since copy relocations are not supported, `dso_local` is not emitted under `-Crelocation-model=static`, unlike on other targets.
add CSE optimization tests for iterating over slice
This PR is regression test for issue rust-lang/rust#119573.
This PR introduces a new regression test to verify a critical optimization known as Common Subexpression Elimination (CSE) is correctly applied during various slice iteration patterns.
abi: add a rust-preserve-none calling convention
This is the conceptual opposite of the rust-cold calling convention and is particularly useful in combination with the new `explicit_tail_calls` feature.
For relatively tight loops implemented with tail calling (`become`) each of the function with the regular calling convention is still responsible for restoring the initial value of the preserved registers. So it is not unusual to end up with a situation where each step in the tail call loop is spilling and reloading registers, along the lines of:
foo:
push r12
; do things
pop r12
jmp next_step
This adds up quickly, especially when most of the clobberable registers are already used to pass arguments or other uses.
I was thinking of making the name of this ABI a little less LLVM-derived and more like a conceptual inverse of `rust-cold`, but could not come with a great name (`rust-cold` is itself not a great name: cold in what context? from which perspective? is it supposed to mean that the function is rarely called?)
add `simd_splat` intrinsic
Add `simd_splat` which lowers to the LLVM canonical splat sequence.
```llvm
insertelement <N x elem> poison, elem %x, i32 0
shufflevector <N x elem> v0, <N x elem> poison, <N x i32> zeroinitializer
```
Right now we try to fake it using one of
```rust
fn splat(x: u32) -> u32x8 {
u32x8::from_array([x; 8])
}
```
or (in `stdarch`)
```rust
fn splat(value: $elem_type) -> $name {
#[derive(Copy, Clone)]
#[repr(simd)]
struct JustOne([$elem_type; 1]);
let one = JustOne([value]);
// SAFETY: 0 is always in-bounds because we're shuffling
// a simd type with exactly one element.
unsafe { simd_shuffle!(one, one, [0; $len]) }
}
```
Both of these can confuse the LLVM optimizer, producing sub-par code. Some examples:
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/60637
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/137407
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/122623
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/97804
---
As far as I can tell there is no way to provide a fallback implementation for this intrinsic, because there is no `const` way of evaluating the number of elements (there might be issues beyond that, too). So, I added implementations for all 4 backends.
Both GCC and const-eval appear to have some issues with simd vectors containing pointers. I have a workaround for GCC, but haven't yet been able to make const-eval work. See the comments below.
Currently this just adds the intrinsic, it does not actually use it anywhere yet.
This is the conceptual opposite of the rust-cold calling convention and
is particularly useful in combination with the new `explicit_tail_calls`
feature.
For relatively tight loops implemented with tail calling (`become`) each
of the function with the regular calling convention is still responsible
for restoring the initial value of the preserved registers. So it is not
unusual to end up with a situation where each step in the tail call loop
is spilling and reloading registers, along the lines of:
foo:
push r12
; do things
pop r12
jmp next_step
This adds up quickly, especially when most of the clobberable registers
are already used to pass arguments or other uses.
I was thinking of making the name of this ABI a little less LLVM-derived
and more like a conceptual inverse of `rust-cold`, but could not come
with a great name (`rust-cold` is itself not a great name: cold in what
context? from which perspective? is it supposed to mean that the
function is rarely called?)
Fix is_ascii performance regression on AVX-512 CPUs when compiling with -C target-cpu=native
## Summary
This PR fixes a severe performance regression in `slice::is_ascii` on AVX-512 CPUs when compiling with `-C target-cpu=native`.
On affected systems, the current implementation achieves only ~3 GB/s for large inputs, compared to ~60–70 GB/s previously (≈20–24× regression). This PR restores the original performance characteristics.
This change is intended as a **temporary workaround** for upstream LLVM poor codegen. Once the underlying LLVM issue is fixed and Rust is able to consume that fix, this workaround should be reverted.
## Problem
When `is_ascii` is compiled with AVX-512 enabled, LLVM's auto-vectorization generates ~31 `kshiftrd` instructions to extract mask bits one-by-one, instead of using the efficient `pmovmskb`
instruction. This causes a **~22x performance regression**.
Because `is_ascii` is marked `#[inline]`, it gets inlined and recompiled with the user's target settings, affecting anyone using `-C target-cpu=native` on AVX-512 CPUs.
## Root cause (upstream)
The underlying issue appears to be an LLVM vectorizer/backend bug affecting certain AVX-512 patterns.
An upstream issue has been filed by @folkertdev to track the root cause: llvm/llvm-project#176906
Until this is resolved in LLVM and picked up by rustc, this PR avoids triggering the problematic codegen pattern.
## Solution
Replace the counting loop with explicit SSE2 intrinsics (`_mm_movemask_epi8`) that force `pmovmskb` codegen regardless of CPU features.
## Godbolt Links (Rust 1.92)
| Pattern | Target | Link | Result |
|---------|--------|------|--------|
| Counting loop (old) | Default SSE2 | https://godbolt.org/z/sE86xz4fY | `pmovmskb` |
| Counting loop (old) | AVX-512 (znver4) | https://godbolt.org/z/b3jvMhGd3 | 31x `kshiftrd` (broken) |
| SSE2 intrinsics (fix) | Default SSE2 | https://godbolt.org/z/hMeGfeaPv | `pmovmskb` |
| SSE2 intrinsics (fix) | AVX-512 (znver4) | https://godbolt.org/z/Tdvdqjohn | `vpmovmskb` (fixed) |
## Benchmark Results
**CPU:** AMD Ryzen 5 7500F (Zen 4 with AVX-512)
### Default Target (SSE2) — Mixed
| Size | Before | After | Change |
|------|--------|-------|--------|
| 4 B | 1.8 GB/s | 2.0 GB/s | **+11%** |
| 8 B | 3.2 GB/s | 5.8 GB/s | **+81%** |
| 16 B | 5.3 GB/s | 8.5 GB/s | **+60%** |
| 32 B | 17.7 GB/s | 15.8 GB/s | -11% |
| 64 B | 28.6 GB/s | 25.1 GB/s | -12% |
| 256 B | 51.5 GB/s | 48.6 GB/s | ~same |
| 1 KB | 64.9 GB/s | 60.7 GB/s | ~same |
| 4 KB+ | ~68-70 GB/s | ~68-72 GB/s | ~same |
### Native Target (AVX-512) — Up to 24x Faster
| Size | Before | After | Speedup |
|------|--------|-------|---------|
| 4 B | 1.2 GB/s | 2.0 GB/s | **1.7x** |
| 8 B | 1.6 GB/s | 5.0 GB/s | **3.3x** |
| 16 B | ~7 GB/s | ~7 GB/s | ~same |
| 32 B | 2.9 GB/s | 14.2 GB/s | **4.9x** |
| 64 B | 2.9 GB/s | 23.2 GB/s | **8x** |
| 256 B | 2.9 GB/s | 47.2 GB/s | **16x** |
| 1 KB | 2.8 GB/s | 60.0 GB/s | **21x** |
| 4 KB+ | 2.9 GB/s | ~68-70 GB/s | **23-24x** |
### Summary
- **SSE2 (default):** Small inputs (4-16 B) 11-81% faster; 32-64 B ~11% slower; large inputs unchanged
- **AVX-512 (native):** 21-24x faster for inputs ≥1 KB, peak ~70 GB/s (was ~3 GB/s)
Note: this is the pure ascii path, but the story is similar for the others.
See linked bench project.
## Test Plan
- [x] Assembly test (`slice-is-ascii-avx512.rs`) verifies no `kshiftrd` with AVX-512
- [x] Existing codegen test updated to `loongarch64`-only (auto-vectorization still used there)
- [x] Fuzz testing confirms old/new implementations produce identical results (~53M iterations)
- [x] Benchmarks confirm performance improvement
- [x] Tidy checks pass
## Reproduction / Test Projects
Standalone validation tools: https://github.com/bonega/is-ascii-fix-validation
- `bench/` - Criterion benchmarks for SSE2 vs AVX-512 comparison
- `fuzz/` - Compares old/new implementations with libfuzzer
## Related Issues
- issue opened by @folkertdev llvm/llvm-project#176906
- Regression introduced in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/130733
Combine the x86_64 and loongarch64 is_ascii tests into a single file
using compiletest revisions. Both now test assembly output:
- X86_64: Verifies no broken kshiftrd/kshiftrq instructions (AVX-512 fix)
- LA64: Verifies vmskltz.b instruction is used (auto-vectorization)
The attribute now has a size parameter and sorts differently:
* Explicitly omit size parameter during construction on 23+
* Tolerate alternate sorting in tests
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/171712
Stuart Cook