Description[turbofan]: Support using push instructions for setting up tail call parameters
This optimizes the passing of stack parameters in function calls.
For some architectures (ia32/x64), using pushes when possible instead
of bumping the stack and then storing parameters generates much
smaller code, and in some cases is faster (e.g. when a push of a memory
location can implement a memory-to-memory copy and thus elide an
intermediate load. On others (e.g. ARM), the benefit is smaller, where
it's only possible to elide direct stack pointer adjustment in certain cases
or combine multiple register stores into a single instruction in other limited
situations. On yet other platforms (ARM64, MIPS), there are no push instructions,
and this optimization isn't used at all.
Ideally, this mechanism would be used for both tail calls and normal calls,
but "normal" calls are currently pretty efficient, and tail calls are very
inefficient, so this CL sets the bar low for building a new mechanism to
handle parameter pushing that only needs to raise the bar on tail calls for now.
The key aspect of this change is that adjustment to the stack pointer
for tail calls (and perhaps later real calls) is an explicit step separate from
instruction selection and gap resolution, but aware of both, making it possible
to safely recognize gap moves that are actually pushes.
Committed: https://crrev.com/bd0d9e7d87d418b0c6a84f298e27058645083dad
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#37477}
Patch Set 1 #Patch Set 2 : Remove dead code #Patch Set 3 : Remove stray changes #Patch Set 4 : Simplify #Patch Set 5 : x64 port #Patch Set 6 : MIPS ports #Patch Set 7 : All platforms #Patch Set 8 : Fix 64 bit #Patch Set 9 : More fixes #Patch Set 10 : Latest #Patch Set 11 : Fix stuff #Patch Set 12 : Fix ia32 #Patch Set 13 : Should work better #Patch Set 14 : Tweaks #Patch Set 15 : Fix x64 C calling #Patch Set 16 : Fix memory leak #Patch Set 17 : Fix comment #Patch Set 18 : Remove stray test #Patch Set 19 : Remove stray test change #
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