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Revision tags: llvmorg-20.1.0, llvmorg-20.1.0-rc3, llvmorg-20.1.0-rc2, llvmorg-20.1.0-rc1, llvmorg-21-init, llvmorg-19.1.7, llvmorg-19.1.6, llvmorg-19.1.5, llvmorg-19.1.4, llvmorg-19.1.3, llvmorg-19.1.2, llvmorg-19.1.1, llvmorg-19.1.0, llvmorg-19.1.0-rc4, llvmorg-19.1.0-rc3, llvmorg-19.1.0-rc2, llvmorg-19.1.0-rc1, llvmorg-20-init, llvmorg-18.1.8, llvmorg-18.1.7, llvmorg-18.1.6, llvmorg-18.1.5, llvmorg-18.1.4, llvmorg-18.1.3, llvmorg-18.1.2, llvmorg-18.1.1, llvmorg-18.1.0, llvmorg-18.1.0-rc4, llvmorg-18.1.0-rc3, llvmorg-18.1.0-rc2, llvmorg-18.1.0-rc1, llvmorg-19-init, llvmorg-17.0.6, llvmorg-17.0.5, llvmorg-17.0.4, llvmorg-17.0.3, llvmorg-17.0.2, llvmorg-17.0.1, llvmorg-17.0.0, llvmorg-17.0.0-rc4, llvmorg-17.0.0-rc3, llvmorg-17.0.0-rc2, llvmorg-17.0.0-rc1, llvmorg-18-init, llvmorg-16.0.6, llvmorg-16.0.5, llvmorg-16.0.4, llvmorg-16.0.3, llvmorg-16.0.2, llvmorg-16.0.1, llvmorg-16.0.0, llvmorg-16.0.0-rc4, llvmorg-16.0.0-rc3, llvmorg-16.0.0-rc2, llvmorg-16.0.0-rc1, llvmorg-17-init, llvmorg-15.0.7, llvmorg-15.0.6, llvmorg-15.0.5, llvmorg-15.0.4, llvmorg-15.0.3, llvmorg-15.0.2, llvmorg-15.0.1, llvmorg-15.0.0, llvmorg-15.0.0-rc3, llvmorg-15.0.0-rc2, llvmorg-15.0.0-rc1, llvmorg-16-init, llvmorg-14.0.6, llvmorg-14.0.5, llvmorg-14.0.4, llvmorg-14.0.3, llvmorg-14.0.2, llvmorg-14.0.1, llvmorg-14.0.0, llvmorg-14.0.0-rc4, llvmorg-14.0.0-rc3, llvmorg-14.0.0-rc2, llvmorg-14.0.0-rc1, llvmorg-15-init, llvmorg-13.0.1, llvmorg-13.0.1-rc3, llvmorg-13.0.1-rc2
# f3a344d2 07-Jan-2022 Kazu Hirata <[email protected]>

[Target] Remove redundant member initialization (NFC)

Identified with readability-redundant-member-init.


# e5947760 03-Jan-2022 Kazu Hirata <[email protected]>

Revert "[llvm] Remove redundant member initialization (NFC)"

This reverts commit fd4808887ee47f3ec8a030e9211169ef4fb094c3.

This patch causes gcc to issue a lot of warnings like:

warning: base cl

Revert "[llvm] Remove redundant member initialization (NFC)"

This reverts commit fd4808887ee47f3ec8a030e9211169ef4fb094c3.

This patch causes gcc to issue a lot of warnings like:

warning: base class ‘class llvm::MCParsedAsmOperand’ should be
explicitly initialized in the copy constructor [-Wextra]

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# fd480888 02-Jan-2022 Kazu Hirata <[email protected]>

[llvm] Remove redundant member initialization (NFC)

Identified with readability-redundant-member-init.


Revision tags: llvmorg-13.0.1-rc1
# 89b57061 08-Oct-2021 Reid Kleckner <[email protected]>

Move TargetRegistry.(h|cpp) from Support to MC

This moves the registry higher in the LLVM library dependency stack.
Every client of the target registry needs to link against MC anyway to
actually us

Move TargetRegistry.(h|cpp) from Support to MC

This moves the registry higher in the LLVM library dependency stack.
Every client of the target registry needs to link against MC anyway to
actually use the target, so we might as well move this out of Support.

This allows us to ensure that Support doesn't have includes from MC/*.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D111454

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Revision tags: llvmorg-13.0.0, llvmorg-13.0.0-rc4, llvmorg-13.0.0-rc3, llvmorg-13.0.0-rc2, llvmorg-13.0.0-rc1, llvmorg-14-init, llvmorg-12.0.1, llvmorg-12.0.1-rc4, llvmorg-12.0.1-rc3, llvmorg-12.0.1-rc2, llvmorg-12.0.1-rc1, llvmorg-12.0.0, llvmorg-12.0.0-rc5, llvmorg-12.0.0-rc4, llvmorg-12.0.0-rc3, llvmorg-12.0.0-rc2, llvmorg-11.1.0, llvmorg-11.1.0-rc3, llvmorg-12.0.0-rc1, llvmorg-13-init, llvmorg-11.1.0-rc2, llvmorg-11.1.0-rc1, llvmorg-11.0.1, llvmorg-11.0.1-rc2, llvmorg-11.0.1-rc1, llvmorg-11.0.0, llvmorg-11.0.0-rc6, llvmorg-11.0.0-rc5, llvmorg-11.0.0-rc4, llvmorg-11.0.0-rc3, llvmorg-11.0.0-rc2
# c7a0b268 14-Aug-2020 Craig Topper <[email protected]>

[X86][MC][Target] Initial backend support a tune CPU to support -mtune

This patch implements initial backend support for a -mtune CPU controlled by a "tune-cpu" function attribute. If the attribute

[X86][MC][Target] Initial backend support a tune CPU to support -mtune

This patch implements initial backend support for a -mtune CPU controlled by a "tune-cpu" function attribute. If the attribute is not present X86 will use the resolved CPU from target-cpu attribute or command line.

This patch adds MC layer support a tune CPU. Each CPU now has two sets of features stored in their GenSubtargetInfo.inc tables . These features lists are passed separately to the Processor and ProcessorModel classes in tablegen. The tune list defaults to an empty list to avoid changes to non-X86. This annoyingly increases the size of static tables on all target as we now store 24 more bytes per CPU. I haven't quantified the overall impact, but I can if we're concerned.

One new test is added to X86 to show a few tuning features with mismatched tune-cpu and target-cpu/target-feature attributes to demonstrate independent control. Another new test is added to demonstrate that the scheduler model follows the tune CPU.

I have not added a -mtune to llc/opt or MC layer command line yet. With no attributes we'll just use the -mcpu for both. MC layer tools will always follow the normal CPU for tuning.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85165

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Revision tags: llvmorg-11.0.0-rc1, llvmorg-12-init, llvmorg-10.0.1, llvmorg-10.0.1-rc4, llvmorg-10.0.1-rc3, llvmorg-10.0.1-rc2, llvmorg-10.0.1-rc1, llvmorg-10.0.0, llvmorg-10.0.0-rc6, llvmorg-10.0.0-rc5, llvmorg-10.0.0-rc4, llvmorg-10.0.0-rc3, llvmorg-10.0.0-rc2, llvmorg-10.0.0-rc1, llvmorg-11-init, llvmorg-9.0.1, llvmorg-9.0.1-rc3, llvmorg-9.0.1-rc2, llvmorg-9.0.1-rc1
# 6b8baf30 07-Nov-2019 Yonghong Song <[email protected]>

[BPF] turn on -mattr=+alu32 for cpu version v3 and later

-mattr=+alu32 has shown good performance vs. without this attribute.
Based on discussion at
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1ec37838-966f-ec0b-

[BPF] turn on -mattr=+alu32 for cpu version v3 and later

-mattr=+alu32 has shown good performance vs. without this attribute.
Based on discussion at
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]/T/#t
cpu version v3 should support -mattr=+alu32.
This patch enabled alu32 if cpu version is v3, either specified by user
or probed by the llvm.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D69957

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Revision tags: llvmorg-9.0.0, llvmorg-9.0.0-rc6, llvmorg-9.0.0-rc5, llvmorg-9.0.0-rc4, llvmorg-9.0.0-rc3, llvmorg-9.0.0-rc2, llvmorg-9.0.0-rc1, llvmorg-10-init, llvmorg-8.0.1, llvmorg-8.0.1-rc4, llvmorg-8.0.1-rc3, llvmorg-8.0.1-rc2, llvmorg-8.0.1-rc1, llvmorg-8.0.0, llvmorg-8.0.0-rc5, llvmorg-8.0.0-rc4, llvmorg-8.0.0-rc3, llvmorg-7.1.0, llvmorg-7.1.0-rc1, llvmorg-8.0.0-rc2
# 66b18e57 07-Feb-2019 Jiong Wang <[email protected]>

[BPF] add code-gen support for JMP32 instructions

JMP32 instructions has been added to eBPF ISA. They are 32-bit variants of
existing BPF conditional jump instructions, but the comparison happens on

[BPF] add code-gen support for JMP32 instructions

JMP32 instructions has been added to eBPF ISA. They are 32-bit variants of
existing BPF conditional jump instructions, but the comparison happens on
low 32-bit sub-register only, therefore some unnecessary extensions could
be saved.

JMP32 instructions will only be available for -mcpu=v3. Host probe hook has
been updated accordingly.

JMP32 instructions will only be enabled in code-gen when -mattr=+alu32
enabled, meaning compiling the program using sub-register mode.

For JMP32 encoding, it is a new instruction class, and is using the
reserved eBPF class number 0x6.

This patch has been tested by compiling and running kernel bpf selftests
with JMP32 enabled.

Acked-by: Yonghong Song <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jiong Wang <[email protected]>
llvm-svn: 353384

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Revision tags: llvmorg-8.0.0-rc1
# 2946cd70 19-Jan-2019 Chandler Carruth <[email protected]>

Update the file headers across all of the LLVM projects in the monorepo
to reflect the new license.

We understand that people may be surprised that we're moving the header
entirely to discuss the ne

Update the file headers across all of the LLVM projects in the monorepo
to reflect the new license.

We understand that people may be surprised that we're moving the header
entirely to discuss the new license. We checked this carefully with the
Foundation's lawyer and we believe this is the correct approach.

Essentially, all code in the project is now made available by the LLVM
project under our new license, so you will see that the license headers
include that license only. Some of our contributors have contributed
code under our old license, and accordingly, we have retained a copy of
our old license notice in the top-level files in each project and
repository.

llvm-svn: 351636

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Revision tags: llvmorg-7.0.1, llvmorg-7.0.1-rc3, llvmorg-7.0.1-rc2, llvmorg-7.0.1-rc1, llvmorg-7.0.0, llvmorg-7.0.0-rc3, llvmorg-7.0.0-rc2, llvmorg-7.0.0-rc1, llvmorg-6.0.1, llvmorg-6.0.1-rc3, llvmorg-6.0.1-rc2, llvmorg-6.0.1-rc1, llvmorg-5.0.2, llvmorg-5.0.2-rc2, llvmorg-5.0.2-rc1, llvmorg-6.0.0
# 03e1c8b8 01-Mar-2018 Yonghong Song <[email protected]>

bpf: introduce -mattr=dwarfris to disable DwarfUsesRelocationsAcrossSections

Commit e4507fb8c94b ("bpf: disable DwarfUsesRelocationsAcrossSections")
disables MCAsmInfo DwarfUsesRelocationsAcrossSect

bpf: introduce -mattr=dwarfris to disable DwarfUsesRelocationsAcrossSections

Commit e4507fb8c94b ("bpf: disable DwarfUsesRelocationsAcrossSections")
disables MCAsmInfo DwarfUsesRelocationsAcrossSections unconditionally
so that dwarf will not use cross section (between dwarf and symbol table)
relocations. This new debug format enables pahole to dump structures
correctly as libdwarves.so does not have BPF backend support yet.

This new debug format, however, breaks bcc (https://github.com/iovisor/bcc)
source debug output as llvm in-memory Dwarf support has some issues to
handle it. More specifically, with DwarfUsesRelocationsAcrossSections
disabled, JIT compiler does not generate .debug_abbrev and Dwarf
DIE (debug info entry) processing is not happy about this.

This patch introduces a new flag -mattr=dwarfris
(dwarf relocation in section) to disable DwarfUsesRelocationsAcrossSections.
DwarfUsesRelocationsAcrossSections is true by default.

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <[email protected]>
llvm-svn: 326505

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# 42389377 23-Feb-2018 Yonghong Song <[email protected]>

bpf: New target attribute "alu32" for 32-bit subregister support

This new attribute aims to control the enablement of 32-bit subregister
support on eBPF backend.

Name the interface as "alu32" is be

bpf: New target attribute "alu32" for 32-bit subregister support

This new attribute aims to control the enablement of 32-bit subregister
support on eBPF backend.

Name the interface as "alu32" is because we in particular want to enable
the generation of BPF_ALU32 instructions by enable subregister support.

This attribute could be used in the following format with llc:

llc -mtriple=bpf -mattr=[+|-]alu32

It is disabled at default.

Signed-off-by: Jiong Wang <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Yonghong Song <[email protected]>
llvm-svn: 325982

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Revision tags: llvmorg-6.0.0-rc3, llvmorg-6.0.0-rc2, llvmorg-6.0.0-rc1, llvmorg-5.0.1, llvmorg-5.0.1-rc3, llvmorg-5.0.1-rc2, llvmorg-5.0.1-rc1, llvmorg-5.0.0, llvmorg-5.0.0-rc5, llvmorg-5.0.0-rc4, llvmorg-5.0.0-rc3
# dc1dbf6e 23-Aug-2017 Yonghong Song <[email protected]>

bpf: add variants of -mcpu=# and support for additional jmp insns

-mcpu=# will support:
. generic: the default insn set
. v1: insn set version 1, the same as generic
. v2: insn set version 2,

bpf: add variants of -mcpu=# and support for additional jmp insns

-mcpu=# will support:
. generic: the default insn set
. v1: insn set version 1, the same as generic
. v2: insn set version 2, version 1 + additional jmp insns
. probe: the compiler will probe the underlying kernel to
decide proper version of insn set.

We did not not use -mcpu=native since llc/llvm will interpret -mcpu=native
as the underlying hardware architecture regardless of -march value.

Currently, only x86_64 supports -mcpu=probe. Other architecture will
silently revert to "generic".

Also added -mcpu=help to print available cpu parameters.
llvm will print out the information only if there are at least one
cpu and at least one feature. Add an unused dummy feature to
enable the printout.

Examples for usage:
$ llc -march=bpf -mcpu=v1 -filetype=asm t.ll
$ llc -march=bpf -mcpu=v2 -filetype=asm t.ll
$ llc -march=bpf -mcpu=generic -filetype=asm t.ll
$ llc -march=bpf -mcpu=probe -filetype=asm t.ll
$ llc -march=bpf -mcpu=v3 -filetype=asm t.ll
'v3' is not a recognized processor for this target (ignoring processor)
...
$ llc -march=bpf -mcpu=help -filetype=asm t.ll
Available CPUs for this target:

generic - Select the generic processor.
probe - Select the probe processor.
v1 - Select the v1 processor.
v2 - Select the v2 processor.

Available features for this target:

dummy - unused feature.

Use +feature to enable a feature, or -feature to disable it.
For example, llc -mcpu=mycpu -mattr=+feature1,-feature2
...

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
llvm-svn: 311522

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Revision tags: llvmorg-5.0.0-rc2, llvmorg-5.0.0-rc1, llvmorg-4.0.1, llvmorg-4.0.1-rc3, llvmorg-4.0.1-rc2, llvmorg-4.0.1-rc1, llvmorg-4.0.0, llvmorg-4.0.0-rc4, llvmorg-4.0.0-rc3, llvmorg-4.0.0-rc2, llvmorg-4.0.0-rc1, llvmorg-3.9.1, llvmorg-3.9.1-rc3, llvmorg-3.9.1-rc2, llvmorg-3.9.1-rc1, llvmorg-3.9.0, llvmorg-3.9.0-rc3, llvmorg-3.9.0-rc2, llvmorg-3.9.0-rc1, llvmorg-3.8.1, llvmorg-3.8.1-rc1, llvmorg-3.8.0, llvmorg-3.8.0-rc3, llvmorg-3.8.0-rc2, llvmorg-3.8.0-rc1, llvmorg-3.7.1, llvmorg-3.7.1-rc2, llvmorg-3.7.1-rc1
# 50f17235 15-Sep-2015 Daniel Sanders <[email protected]>

Revert r247692: Replace Triple with a new TargetTuple in MCTargetDesc/* and related. NFC.

Eric has replied and has demanded the patch be reverted.

llvm-svn: 247702


# 153010c5 15-Sep-2015 Daniel Sanders <[email protected]>

Re-commit r247683: Replace Triple with a new TargetTuple in MCTargetDesc/* and related. NFC.

Summary:
This is the first patch in the series to migrate Triple's (which are ambiguous)
to TargetTuple's

Re-commit r247683: Replace Triple with a new TargetTuple in MCTargetDesc/* and related. NFC.

Summary:
This is the first patch in the series to migrate Triple's (which are ambiguous)
to TargetTuple's (which aren't).

For the moment, TargetTuple simply passes all requests to the Triple object it
holds. Once it has replaced Triple, it will start to implement the interface in
a more suitable way.

This change makes some changes to the public C++ API. In particular,
InitMCSubtargetInfo(), createMCRelocationInfo(), and createMCSymbolizer()
now take TargetTuples instead of Triples. The other public C++ API's have
been left as-is for the moment to reduce patch size.

This commit also contains a trivial patch to clang to account for the C++ API
change. Thanks go to Pavel Labath for fixing LLDB for me.

Reviewers: rengolin

Subscribers: jyknight, dschuff, arsenm, rampitec, danalbert, srhines, javed.absar, dsanders, echristo, emaste, jholewinski, tberghammer, ted, jfb, llvm-commits, rengolin

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10969

llvm-svn: 247692

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# c40de480 15-Sep-2015 Daniel Sanders <[email protected]>

Revert r247684 - Replace Triple with a new TargetTuple ...

LLDB needs to be updated in the same commit.

llvm-svn: 247686


# 18d4b0da 15-Sep-2015 Daniel Sanders <[email protected]>

Replace Triple with a new TargetTuple in MCTargetDesc/* and related. NFC.

Summary:
This is the first patch in the series to migrate Triple's (which are ambiguous)
to TargetTuple's (which aren't).

F

Replace Triple with a new TargetTuple in MCTargetDesc/* and related. NFC.

Summary:
This is the first patch in the series to migrate Triple's (which are ambiguous)
to TargetTuple's (which aren't).

For the moment, TargetTuple simply passes all requests to the Triple object it
holds. Once it has replaced Triple, it will start to implement the interface in
a more suitable way.

This change makes some changes to the public C++ API. In particular,
InitMCSubtargetInfo(), createMCRelocationInfo(), and createMCSymbolizer()
now take TargetTuples instead of Triples. The other public C++ API's have
been left as-is for the moment to reduce patch size.

This commit also contains a trivial patch to clang to account for the C++ API
change.

Reviewers: rengolin

Subscribers: jyknight, dschuff, arsenm, rampitec, danalbert, srhines, javed.absar, dsanders, echristo, emaste, jholewinski, tberghammer, ted, jfb, llvm-commits, rengolin

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10969

llvm-svn: 247683

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Revision tags: llvmorg-3.7.0, llvmorg-3.7.0-rc4, llvmorg-3.7.0-rc3, llvmorg-3.7.0-rc2, llvmorg-3.7.0-rc1
# 157e5a6d 09-Jul-2015 Mehdi Amini <[email protected]>

Remove getDataLayout() from TargetSelectionDAGInfo (had no users)

Summary:
Remove empty subclass in the process.

This change is part of a series of commits dedicated to have a single
DataLayout dur

Remove getDataLayout() from TargetSelectionDAGInfo (had no users)

Summary:
Remove empty subclass in the process.

This change is part of a series of commits dedicated to have a single
DataLayout during compilation by using always the one owned by the
module.

Reviewers: echristo

Subscribers: jholewinski, llvm-commits, rafael, yaron.keren, ted

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D11045

From: Mehdi Amini <[email protected]>
llvm-svn: 241780

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Revision tags: llvmorg-3.6.2, llvmorg-3.6.2-rc1
# a73f1fdb 10-Jun-2015 Daniel Sanders <[email protected]>

Replace string GNU Triples with llvm::Triple in MCSubtargetInfo and create*MCSubtargetInfo(). NFC.

Summary:
This continues the patch series to eliminate StringRef forms of GNU triples
from the inter

Replace string GNU Triples with llvm::Triple in MCSubtargetInfo and create*MCSubtargetInfo(). NFC.

Summary:
This continues the patch series to eliminate StringRef forms of GNU triples
from the internals of LLVM that began in r239036.

Reviewers: rafael

Reviewed By: rafael

Subscribers: rafael, ted, jfb, llvm-commits, rengolin, jholewinski

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10311

llvm-svn: 239467

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Revision tags: llvmorg-3.6.1, llvmorg-3.6.1-rc1, llvmorg-3.5.2, llvmorg-3.5.2-rc1
# 23a3a7c8 26-Feb-2015 Eric Christopher <[email protected]>

Remove an argument-less call to getSubtargetImpl from TargetLoweringBase.
This required plumbing a TargetRegisterInfo through computeRegisterProperties
and into findRepresentativeClass which uses it

Remove an argument-less call to getSubtargetImpl from TargetLoweringBase.
This required plumbing a TargetRegisterInfo through computeRegisterProperties
and into findRepresentativeClass which uses it for register class
iteration. This required passing a subtarget into a few target specific
initializations of TargetLowering.

llvm-svn: 230583

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Revision tags: llvmorg-3.6.0, llvmorg-3.6.0-rc4, llvmorg-3.6.0-rc3, llvmorg-3.6.0-rc2
# 3c8465ac 26-Jan-2015 Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>

bpf: fix build due to 'Move DataLayout back to the TargetMachine'

commit r227113 moved DataLayout

llvm-svn: 227133


# e4c8c807 24-Jan-2015 Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>

BPF backend

Summary:
V8->V9:
- cleanup tests

V7->V8:
- addressed feedback from David:
- switched to range-based 'for' loops
- fixed formatting of tests

V6->V7:
- rebased and adjusted AsmPrinter ar

BPF backend

Summary:
V8->V9:
- cleanup tests

V7->V8:
- addressed feedback from David:
- switched to range-based 'for' loops
- fixed formatting of tests

V6->V7:
- rebased and adjusted AsmPrinter args
- CamelCased .td, fixed formatting, cleaned up names, removed unused patterns
- diffstat: 3 files changed, 203 insertions(+), 227 deletions(-)

V5->V6:
- addressed feedback from Chandler:
- reinstated full verbose standard banner in all files
- fixed variables that were not in CamelCase
- fixed names of #ifdef in header files
- removed redundant braces in if/else chains with single statements
- fixed comments
- removed trailing empty line
- dropped debug annotations from tests
- diffstat of these changes:
46 files changed, 456 insertions(+), 469 deletions(-)

V4->V5:
- fix setLoadExtAction() interface
- clang-formated all where it made sense

V3->V4:
- added CODE_OWNERS entry for BPF backend

V2->V3:
- fix metadata in tests

V1->V2:
- addressed feedback from Tom and Matt
- removed top level change to configure (now everything via 'experimental-backend')
- reworked error reporting via DiagnosticInfo (similar to R600)
- added few more tests
- added cmake build
- added Triple::bpf
- tested on linux and darwin

V1 cover letter:
---------------------
recently linux gained "universal in-kernel virtual machine" which is called
eBPF or extended BPF. The name comes from "Berkeley Packet Filter", since
new instruction set is based on it.
This patch adds a new backend that emits extended BPF instruction set.

The concept and development are covered by the following articles:
http://lwn.net/Articles/599755/
http://lwn.net/Articles/575531/
http://lwn.net/Articles/603983/
http://lwn.net/Articles/606089/
http://lwn.net/Articles/612878/

One of use cases: dtrace/systemtap alternative.

bpf syscall manpage:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b4fc1a460f3017e958e6a8ea560ea0afd91bf6fe

instruction set description and differences vs classic BPF:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/networking/filter.txt

Short summary of instruction set:
- 64-bit registers
R0 - return value from in-kernel function, and exit value for BPF program
R1 - R5 - arguments from BPF program to in-kernel function
R6 - R9 - callee saved registers that in-kernel function will preserve
R10 - read-only frame pointer to access stack
- two-operand instructions like +, -, *, mov, load/store
- implicit prologue/epilogue (invisible stack pointer)
- no floating point, no simd

Short history of extended BPF in kernel:
interpreter in 3.15, x64 JIT in 3.16, arm64 JIT, verifier, bpf syscall in 3.18, more to come in the future.

It's a very small and simple backend.
There is no support for global variables, arbitrary function calls, floating point, varargs,
exceptions, indirect jumps, arbitrary pointer arithmetic, alloca, etc.
From C front-end point of view it's very restricted. It's done on purpose, since kernel
rejects all programs that it cannot prove safe. It rejects programs with loops
and with memory accesses via arbitrary pointers. When kernel accepts the program it is
guaranteed that program will terminate and will not crash the kernel.

This patch implements all 'must have' bits. There are several things on TODO list,
so this is not the end of development.
Most of the code is a boiler plate code, copy-pasted from other backends.
Only odd things are lack or < and <= instructions, specialized load_byte intrinsics
and 'compare and goto' as single instruction.
Current instruction set is fixed, but more instructions can be added in the future.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>

Subscribers: majnemer, chandlerc, echristo, joerg, pete, rengolin, kristof.beyls, arsenm, t.p.northover, tstellarAMD, aemerson, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6494

llvm-svn: 227008

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