Hi, Sergey!

thanks for the patch! LGTM

Sergey

On 7/24/25 12:03, Sergey Kaplun wrote:
> From: Mike Pall <mike>
>
> (cherry picked from commit ebc4919affbc0f9e8adfb5dede378017c7dd1fdd)
>
> This patch improves the generation of immediates, which are used in the
> cdata alignment or arguments to the function calls. Before this patch,
> these immediates are rematerialized to the registers like the following
> (if they may be encoded in K13 format for logical data processing
> instructions):
> | orr w1, wzr, 0x3
>
> Instead of recommended [1][2]:
> | mov x1, 0x3
>
> Since for the case when a constant may be placed in the register with
> the single `mov` [3] instruction, it is preferable to encode the `mov`
> instruction instead (which is an alias to `orr`, in most cases).
>
> For the cases when the constant needs at least `mov` and `mov[kn]`
> instructions, it is still preferable to try short emitting via `orr` if
> possible.
>
> Sergey Kaplun:
> * added the description for the patch
>
> [1]:https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0602/2025-06/Shared-Pseudocode/aarch64-functions-movwpreferred
> [2]:https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0602/2025-06/Base-Instructions/ORR--immediate---Bitwise-OR--immediate--
> [3]:https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0602/2025-06/Base-Instructions/MOV--register---Move-register-value--an-alias-of-ORR--shifted-register--
>
> Part of tarantool/tarantool#11691
> ---
>   src/lj_emit_arm64.h | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>   1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/lj_emit_arm64.h b/src/lj_emit_arm64.h
> index 5c1bc372..2bb93dd9 100644
> --- a/src/lj_emit_arm64.h
> +++ b/src/lj_emit_arm64.h
> @@ -194,39 +194,41 @@ static int emit_kdelta(ASMState *as, Reg rd, uint64_t k, int lim)
>   
>   static void emit_loadk(ASMState *as, Reg rd, uint64_t u64, int is64)
>   {
> -  uint32_t k13 = emit_isk13(u64, is64);
> -  if (k13) {  /* Can the constant be represented as a bitmask immediate? */
> -    emit_dn(as, (is64|A64I_ORRw)^k13, rd, RID_ZERO);
> -  } else {
> -    int i, zeros = 0, ones = 0, neg;
> -    if (!is64) u64 = (int64_t)(int32_t)u64;  /* Sign-extend. */
> -    /* Count homogeneous 16 bit fragments. */
> -    for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
> -      uint64_t frag = (u64 >> i*16) & 0xffff;
> -      zeros += (frag == 0);
> -      ones += (frag == 0xffff);
> +  int i, zeros = 0, ones = 0, neg;
> +  if (!is64) u64 = (int64_t)(int32_t)u64;  /* Sign-extend. */
> +  /* Count homogeneous 16 bit fragments. */
> +  for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
> +    uint64_t frag = (u64 >> i*16) & 0xffff;
> +    zeros += (frag == 0);
> +    ones += (frag == 0xffff);
> +  }
> +  neg = ones > zeros;  /* Use MOVN if it pays off. */
> +  if ((neg ? ones : zeros) < 3) {  /* Need 2+ ins. Try shorter K13 encoding. */
> +    uint32_t k13 = emit_isk13(u64, is64);
> +    if (k13) {
> +      emit_dn(as, (is64|A64I_ORRw)^k13, rd, RID_ZERO);
> +      return;
>       }
> -    neg = ones > zeros;  /* Use MOVN if it pays off. */
> -    if (!emit_kdelta(as, rd, u64, 4 - (neg ? ones : zeros))) {
> -      int shift = 0, lshift = 0;
> -      uint64_t n64 = neg ? ~u64 : u64;
> -      if (n64 != 0) {
> -	/* Find first/last fragment to be filled. */
> -	shift = (63-emit_clz64(n64)) & ~15;
> -	lshift = emit_ctz64(n64) & ~15;
> -      }
> -      /* MOVK requires the original value (u64). */
> -      while (shift > lshift) {
> -	uint32_t u16 = (u64 >> shift) & 0xffff;
> -	/* Skip fragments that are correctly filled by MOVN/MOVZ. */
> -	if (u16 != (neg ? 0xffff : 0))
> -	  emit_d(as, is64 | A64I_MOVKw | A64F_U16(u16) | A64F_LSL16(shift), rd);
> -	shift -= 16;
> -      }
> -      /* But MOVN needs an inverted value (n64). */
> -      emit_d(as, (neg ? A64I_MOVNx : A64I_MOVZx) |
> -		 A64F_U16((n64 >> lshift) & 0xffff) | A64F_LSL16(lshift), rd);
> +  }
> +  if (!emit_kdelta(as, rd, u64, 4 - (neg ? ones : zeros))) {
> +    int shift = 0, lshift = 0;
> +    uint64_t n64 = neg ? ~u64 : u64;
> +    if (n64 != 0) {
> +      /* Find first/last fragment to be filled. */
> +      shift = (63-emit_clz64(n64)) & ~15;
> +      lshift = emit_ctz64(n64) & ~15;
> +    }
> +    /* MOVK requires the original value (u64). */
> +    while (shift > lshift) {
> +      uint32_t u16 = (u64 >> shift) & 0xffff;
> +      /* Skip fragments that are correctly filled by MOVN/MOVZ. */
> +      if (u16 != (neg ? 0xffff : 0))
> +	emit_d(as, is64 | A64I_MOVKw | A64F_U16(u16) | A64F_LSL16(shift), rd);
> +      shift -= 16;
>       }
> +    /* But MOVN needs an inverted value (n64). */
> +    emit_d(as, (neg ? A64I_MOVNx : A64I_MOVZx) |
> +	       A64F_U16((n64 >> lshift) & 0xffff) | A64F_LSL16(lshift), rd);
>     }
>   }
>