[AArch64] Do not promote scalable constants to global variables

[momchil-velikov]

Following 878d359
IREE/MLIR started generating values like

    [<vscale x 4 x float> zeroinitializer, <vscale x 4 x float> poison]

which then LLVM promoted to global variables in AArch64PromoteConstant pass.
This patch prevents it by explicitly checking the type of the promotion candidate.

[llvmbot]

@llvm/pr-subscribers-backend-aarch64

Author: Momchil Velikov (momchil-velikov)

Changes

Following 878d359
IREE/MLIR started generating values like

    [<vscale x 4 x float> zeroinitializer, <vscale x 4 x float> poison]

which then LLVM promoted to global variables in AArch64PromoteConstant pass.
This patch prevents it by explicitly checking the type of the promotion candidate.

---

Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/146926.diff

2 Files Affected:

• (modified) llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64PromoteConstant.cpp (+4)
• (added) llvm/test/CodeGen/AArch64/no-promote-scalabale-const-to-global.ll (+20)

diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64PromoteConstant.cpp b/llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64PromoteConstant.cpp
index 8edf1d0f9296b..3f45d55063b50 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64PromoteConstant.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64PromoteConstant.cpp
@@ -345,6 +345,10 @@ static bool shouldConvertImpl(const Constant *Cst) {
   if (Cst->isZeroValue())
     return false;
 
+  // Globals cannot be or contain scalable vectors.
+  if (Cst->getType()->isScalableTy())
+    return false;
+
   if (Stress)
     return true;
 
diff --git a/llvm/test/CodeGen/AArch64/no-promote-scalabale-const-to-global.ll b/llvm/test/CodeGen/AArch64/no-promote-scalabale-const-to-global.ll
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..db7d26b6ed139
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/CodeGen/AArch64/no-promote-scalabale-const-to-global.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+; RUN: llc -mtriple=aarch64 -mattr=+sve -stop-after=aarch64-promote-const < %s | FileCheck %s
+
+; Test that the constant inside the `phi` is not promoted to a global
+; CHECK-NOT: _PromotedConst
+define void @f(i1 %c, ptr %p, ptr %q) {
+entry:
+  br i1 %c, label %if.then, label %if.else
+
+if.then:
+  %u = load [2 x <vscale x 4 x float> ], ptr %p
+  br label %exit
+
+if.else:
+  br label %exit
+
+exit:
+  %v = phi [2 x <vscale x 4 x float> ]  [ %u, %if.then], [[<vscale x 4 x float> zeroinitializer, <vscale x 4 x float> poison], %if.else]
+  store [2 x <vscale x 4 x float>] %v, ptr %q
+  ret void
+}