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diff --git a/src/intel/compiler/brw_cfg.cpp b/src/intel/compiler/brw_cfg.cpp
index fad12eec588..600b428a492 100644
--- a/src/intel/compiler/brw_cfg.cpp
+++ b/src/intel/compiler/brw_cfg.cpp
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ ends_block(const backend_instruction *inst)
op == BRW_OPCODE_ELSE ||
op == BRW_OPCODE_CONTINUE ||
op == BRW_OPCODE_BREAK ||
+ op == BRW_OPCODE_DO ||
op == BRW_OPCODE_WHILE;
}
@@ -268,13 +269,57 @@ cfg_t::cfg_t(exec_list *instructions)
}
cur->instructions.push_tail(inst);
+
+ /* Represent divergent execution of the loop as a pair of alternative
+ * edges coming out of the DO instruction: For any physical iteration
+ * of the loop a given logical thread can either start off enabled
+ * (which is represented as the "next" successor), or disabled (if it
+ * has reached a non-uniform exit of the loop during a previous
+ * iteration, which is represented as the "cur_while" successor).
+ *
+ * The disabled edge will be taken by the logical thread anytime we
+ * arrive at the DO instruction through a back-edge coming from a
+ * conditional exit of the loop where divergent control flow started.
+ *
+ * This guarantees that there is a control-flow path from any
+ * divergence point of the loop into the convergence point
+ * (immediately past the WHILE instruction) such that it overlaps the
+ * whole IP region of divergent control flow (potentially the whole
+ * loop) *and* doesn't imply the execution of any instructions part
+ * of the loop (since the corresponding execution mask bit will be
+ * disabled for a diverging thread).
+ *
+ * This way we make sure that any variables that are live throughout
+ * the region of divergence for an inactive logical thread are also
+ * considered to interfere with any other variables assigned by
+ * active logical threads within the same physical region of the
+ * program, since otherwise we would risk cross-channel data
+ * corruption.
+ */
+ next = new_block();
+ cur->add_successor(mem_ctx, next);
+ cur->add_successor(mem_ctx, cur_while);
+ set_next_block(&cur, next, ip);
break;
case BRW_OPCODE_CONTINUE:
cur->instructions.push_tail(inst);
+ /* A conditional CONTINUE may start a region of divergent control
+ * flow until the start of the next loop iteration (*not* until the
+ * end of the loop which is why the successor is not the top-level
+ * divergence point at cur_do). The live interval of any variable
+ * extending through a CONTINUE edge is guaranteed to overlap the
+ * whole region of divergent execution, because any variable live-out
+ * at the CONTINUE instruction will also be live-in at the top of the
+ * loop, and therefore also live-out at the bottom-most point of the
+ * loop which is reachable from the top (since a control flow path
+ * exists from a definition of the variable through this CONTINUE
+ * instruction, the top of the loop, the (reachable) bottom of the
+ * loop, the top of the loop again, into a use of the variable).
+ */
assert(cur_do != NULL);
- cur->add_successor(mem_ctx, cur_do);
+ cur->add_successor(mem_ctx, cur_do->next());
next = new_block();
if (inst->predicate)
@@ -286,8 +331,18 @@ cfg_t::cfg_t(exec_list *instructions)
case BRW_OPCODE_BREAK:
cur->instructions.push_tail(inst);
- assert(cur_while != NULL);
- cur->add_successor(mem_ctx, cur_while);
+ /* A conditional BREAK instruction may start a region of divergent
+ * control flow until the end of the loop if the condition is
+ * non-uniform, in which case the loop will execute additional
+ * iterations with the present channel disabled. We model this as a
+ * control flow path from the divergence point to the convergence
+ * point that overlaps the whole IP range of the loop and skips over
+ * the execution of any other instructions part of the loop.
+ *
+ * See the DO case for additional explanation.
+ */
+ assert(cur_do != NULL);
+ cur->add_successor(mem_ctx, cur_do);
next = new_block();
if (inst->predicate)
@@ -300,10 +355,18 @@ cfg_t::cfg_t(exec_list *instructions)
cur->instructions.push_tail(inst);
assert(cur_do != NULL && cur_while != NULL);
- cur->add_successor(mem_ctx, cur_do);
- if (inst->predicate)
- cur->add_successor(mem_ctx, cur_while);
+ /* A conditional WHILE instruction may start a region of divergent
+ * control flow until the end of the loop, just like the BREAK
+ * instruction. See the BREAK case for more details. OTOH an
+ * unconditional WHILE instruction is non-divergent (just like an
+ * unconditional CONTINUE), and will necessarily lead to the
+ * execution of an additional iteration of the loop for all enabled
+ * channels, so we may skip over the divergence point at the top of
+ * the loop to keep the CFG as unambiguous as possible.
+ */
+ cur->add_successor(mem_ctx, inst->predicate ? cur_do :
+ cur_do->next());
set_next_block(&cur, cur_while, ip);