[ARM] Promote small global constants to constant pools

If a constant is unamed_addr and is only used within one function, we can save
on the code size and runtime cost of an indirection by changing the global's storage
to inside the constant pool. For example, instead of:

      ldr r0, .CPI0
      bl printf
      bx lr
    .CPI0: &format_string
    format_string: .asciz "hello, world!\n"

We can emit:

      adr r0, .CPI0
      bl printf
      bx lr
    .CPI0: .asciz "hello, world!\n"

This can cause significant code size savings when many small strings are used in one
function (4 bytes per string).

This recommit contains fixes for a nasty bug related to fast-isel fallback - because
fast-isel doesn't know about this optimization, if it runs and emits references to
a string that we inline (because fast-isel fell back to SDAG) we will end up
with an inlined string and also an out-of-line string, and we won't emit the
out-of-line string, causing backend failures.

llvm-svn: 281604

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMAsmPrinter.cpp b/llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMAsmPrinter.cpp
index 186c6431481..8d44a26b1db 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMAsmPrinter.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMAsmPrinter.cpp
@@ -97,6 +97,13 @@ void ARMAsmPrinter::EmitXXStructor(const DataLayout &DL, const Constant *CV) {
   OutStreamer->EmitValue(E, Size);
 }
 
+void ARMAsmPrinter::EmitGlobalVariable(const GlobalVariable *GV) {
+  if (PromotedGlobals.count(GV))
+    // The global was promoted into a constant pool. It should not be emitted.
+    return;
+  AsmPrinter::EmitGlobalVariable(GV);
+}
+
 /// runOnMachineFunction - This uses the EmitInstruction()
 /// method to print assembly for each instruction.
 ///
@@ -109,6 +116,12 @@ bool ARMAsmPrinter::runOnMachineFunction(MachineFunction &MF) {
   const Function* F = MF.getFunction();
   const TargetMachine& TM = MF.getTarget();
 
+  // Collect all globals that had their storage promoted to a constant pool.
+  // Functions are emitted before variables, so this accumulates promoted
+  // globals from all functions in PromotedGlobals.
+  for (auto *GV : AFI->getGlobalsPromotedToConstantPool())
+    PromotedGlobals.insert(GV);
+  
   // Calculate this function's optimization goal.
   unsigned OptimizationGoal;
   if (F->hasFnAttribute(Attribute::OptimizeNone))