abi: add a rust-preserve-none calling convention

This is the conceptual opposite of the rust-cold calling convention and
is particularly useful in combination with the new `explicit_tail_calls`
feature.

For relatively tight loops implemented with tail calling (`become`) each
of the function with the regular calling convention is still responsible
for restoring the initial value of the preserved registers. So it is not
unusual to end up with a situation where each step in the tail call loop
is spilling and reloading registers, along the lines of:

    foo:
        push r12
        ; do things
        pop r12
        jmp next_step

This adds up quickly, especially when most of the clobberable registers
are already used to pass arguments or other uses.

I was thinking of making the name of this ABI a little less LLVM-derived
and more like a conceptual inverse of `rust-cold`, but could not come
with a great name (`rust-cold` is itself not a great name: cold in what
context? from which perspective? is it supposed to mean that the
function is rarely called?)
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Simonas Kazlauskas 2026-01-13 16:52:02 +02:00
parent 0cba97b3b4
commit 11d0889dc0

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@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ pub(crate) fn conv_to_call_conv(
CanonAbi::Rust | CanonAbi::C => default_call_conv,
CanonAbi::RustCold => CallConv::Cold,
// Cranelift doesn't currently have anything for this.
CanonAbi::RustPreserveNone => default_call_conv,
// Functions with this calling convention can only be called from assembly, but it is
// possible to declare an `extern "custom"` block, so the backend still needs a calling
// convention for declaring foreign functions.