This is essentially a ground up re-think of the SROA pass in LLVM. It
was initially inspired by a few problems with the existing pass:
- It is subject to the bane of my existence in optimizations: arbitrary
thresholds.
- It is overly conservative about which constructs can be split and
promoted.
- The vector value replacement aspect is separated from the splitting
logic, missing many opportunities where splitting and vector value
formation can work together.
- The splitting is entirely based around the underlying type of the
alloca, despite this type often having little to do with the reality
of how that memory is used. This is especially prevelant with unions
and base classes where we tail-pack derived members.
- When splitting fails (often due to the thresholds), the vector value
replacement (again because it is separate) can kick in for
preposterous cases where we simply should have split the value. This
results in forming i1024 and i2048 integer "bit vectors" that
tremendously slow down subsequnet IR optimizations (due to large
APInts) and impede the backend's lowering.
The new design takes an approach that fundamentally is not susceptible
to many of these problems. It is the result of a discusison between
myself and Duncan Sands over IRC about how to premptively avoid these
types of problems and how to do SROA in a more principled way. Since
then, it has evolved and grown, but this remains an important aspect: it
fixes real world problems with the SROA process today.
First, the transform of SROA actually has little to do with replacement.
It has more to do with splitting. The goal is to take an aggregate
alloca and form a composition of scalar allocas which can replace it and
will be most suitable to the eventual replacement by scalar SSA values.
The actual replacement is performed by mem2reg (and in the future
SSAUpdater).
The splitting is divided into four phases. The first phase is an
analysis of the uses of the alloca. This phase recursively walks uses,
building up a dense datastructure representing the ranges of the
alloca's memory actually used and checking for uses which inhibit any
aspects of the transform such as the escape of a pointer.
Once we have a mapping of the ranges of the alloca used by individual
operations, we compute a partitioning of the used ranges. Some uses are
inherently splittable (such as memcpy and memset), while scalar uses are
not splittable. The goal is to build a partitioning that has the minimum
number of splits while placing each unsplittable use in its own
partition. Overlapping unsplittable uses belong to the same partition.
This is the target split of the aggregate alloca, and it maximizes the
number of scalar accesses which become accesses to their own alloca and
candidates for promotion.
Third, we re-walk the uses of the alloca and assign each specific memory
access to all the partitions touched so that we have dense use-lists for
each partition.
Finally, we build a new, smaller alloca for each partition and rewrite
each use of that partition to use the new alloca. During this phase the
pass will also work very hard to transform uses of an alloca into a form
suitable for promotion, including forming vector operations, speculating
loads throguh PHI nodes and selects, etc.
After splitting is complete, each newly refined alloca that is
a candidate for promotion to a scalar SSA value is run through mem2reg.
There are lots of reasonably detailed comments in the source code about
the design and algorithms, and I'm going to be trying to improve them in
subsequent commits to ensure this is well documented, as the new pass is
in many ways more complex than the old one.
Some of this is still a WIP, but the current state is reasonbly stable.
It has passed bootstrap, the nightly test suite, and Duncan has run it
successfully through the ACATS and DragonEgg test suites. That said, it
remains behind a default-off flag until the last few pieces are in
place, and full testing can be done.
Specific areas I'm looking at next:
- Improved comments and some code cleanup from reviews.
- SSAUpdater and enabling this pass inside the CGSCC pass manager.
- Some datastructure tuning and compile-time measurements.
- More aggressive FCA splitting and vector formation.
Many thanks to Duncan Sands for the thorough final review, as well as
Benjamin Kramer for lots of review during the process of writing this
pass, and Daniel Berlin for reviewing the data structures and algorithms
and general theory of the pass. Also, several other people on IRC, over
lunch tables, etc for lots of feedback and advice.
llvm-svn: 163883
a pair of switch/branch where both depend on the value of the same variable and
the default case of the first switch/branch goes to the second switch/branch.
Code clean up and fixed a few issues:
1> handling the case where some cases of the 2nd switch are invalidated
2> correctly calculate the weight for the 2nd switch when it is a conditional eq
Testing case is modified from Alastair's original patch.
llvm-svn: 163635
The lookup tables did not get built in a deterministic order.
This makes them get built in the order that the corresponding phi nodes
were found.
llvm-svn: 163305
This adds a transformation to SimplifyCFG that attemps to turn switch
instructions into loads from lookup tables. It works on switches that
are only used to initialize one or more phi nodes in a common successor
basic block, for example:
int f(int x) {
switch (x) {
case 0: return 5;
case 1: return 4;
case 2: return -2;
case 5: return 7;
case 6: return 9;
default: return 42;
}
This speeds up the code by removing the hard-to-predict jump, and
reduces code size by removing the code for the jump targets.
llvm-svn: 163302
switch, make sure we include the value for the cases when calculating edge
value from switch to the default destination.
rdar://12241132
llvm-svn: 163270
pointers-to-strong-pointers may be in play. These can lead to retains and
releases happening in unstructured ways, foiling the optimizer. This fixes
rdar://12150909.
llvm-svn: 163180
Scan the body of the loop and find instructions that may trap.
Use this information when deciding if it is safe to hoist or sink instructions.
Notice that we can optimize the search of instructions that may throw in the case of nested loops.
rdar://11518836
llvm-svn: 163132
This code used to only handle malloc-like calls, which do not read memory.
r158919 changed it to check isNoAliasFn(), which includes strdup-like and
realloc-like calls, but it was not checking for dependencies on the memory
read by those calls.
llvm-svn: 163106
We update until we hit a fixpoint. This is probably slow but also
slightly simplifies the code. It should also fix the occasional
invalid domtrees observed when building with expensive checking.
I couldn't find a case where this had a measurable slowdown, but
if someone finds a pathological case where it does we may have
to find a cleverer way of updating dominators here.
Thanks to Duncan for the test case.
llvm-svn: 163091
The old PHI updating code in loop-rotate was replaced with SSAUpdater a while
ago, it has no problems with comples PHIs. What had to be fixed is detecting
whether a loop was already rotated and updating dominators when multiple exits
were present.
This change increases overall code size a bit, mostly due to additional loop
unrolling opportunities. Passes test-suite and selfhost with -verify-dom-info.
Fixes PR7447.
Thanks to Andy for the input on the domtree updating code.
llvm-svn: 162912
This disables malloc-specific optimization when -fno-builtin (or -ffreestanding)
is specified. This has been a problem for a long time but became more severe
with the recent memory builtin improvements.
Since the memory builtin functions are used everywhere, this required passing
TLI in many places. This means that functions that now have an optional TLI
argument, like RecursivelyDeleteTriviallyDeadFunctions, won't remove dead
mallocs anymore if the TLI argument is missing. I've updated most passes to do
the right thing.
Fixes PR13694 and probably others.
llvm-svn: 162841
This optimization is really just replacing allocas wholesale with
globals, there is no scalarization.
The underlying motivation for this patch is to simplify the SROA pass
and focus it on splitting and promoting allocas.
llvm-svn: 162271
The previous fix only checked for simple cycles, use a set to catch longer
cycles too.
Drop the broken check from the ObjectSizeOffsetEvaluator. The BoundsChecking
pass doesn't have to deal with invalid IR like InstCombine does.
llvm-svn: 162120
I really need to find a way to automate this, but I can't come up with a regex
that has no false positives while handling tricky cases like custom check
prefixes.
llvm-svn: 162097
where some fact lake a=b dominates a use in a phi, but doesn't dominate the
basic block itself.
This feature could also be implemented by splitting critical edges, but at least
with the current algorithm reasoning about the dominance directly is faster.
The time for running "opt -O2" in the testcase in pr10584 is 1.003 times slower
and on gcc as a single file it is 1.0007 times faster.
llvm-svn: 162023
- memcpy size is wrongly truncated into 32-bit and treat 8GB memcpy is
0-sized memcpy
- as 0-sized memcpy/memset is already removed before SimplifyMemTransfer
and SimplifyMemSet in visitCallInst, replace 0 checking with
assertions.
- replace getZExtValue() with getLimitedValue() according to
Eli Friedman
llvm-svn: 161923
and allow some optimizations to turn conditional branches into unconditional.
This commit adds a simple control-flow optimization which merges two consecutive
basic blocks which are connected by a single edge. This allows the codegen to
operate on larger basic blocks.
rdar://11973998
llvm-svn: 161852
multiple scalar promotions on a single loop. This also has the effect of
preserving the order of stores sunk out of loops, which is aesthetically
pleasing, and it happens to fix the testcase in PR13542, though it doesn't
fix the underlying problem.
llvm-svn: 161459
An unsigned value converted to floating-point will always be greater than
a negative constant. Unfortunately InstCombine reversed the check so that
unsigned values were being optimized to always be greater than all positive
floating-point constants. <rdar://problem/12029145>
llvm-svn: 161452
We give a bonus for every argument because the argument setup is not needed
anymore when the function is inlined. With this patch we interpret byval
arguments as a compact representation of many arguments. The byval argument
setup is implemented in the backend as an inline memcpy, so to model the
cost as accurately as possible we take the number of pointer-sized elements
in the byval argument and give a bonus of 2 instructions for every one of
those. The bonus is capped at 8 elements, which is the number of stores
at which the x86 backend switches from an expanded inline memcpy to a real
memcpy. It would be better to use the real memcpy threshold from the backend,
but it's not available via TargetData.
This change brings the performance of c-ray in line with gcc 4.7. The included
test case tries to reproduce the c-ray problem to catch regressions for this
benchmark early, its performance is dominated by the inline decision of a
specific call.
This only has a small impact on most code, more on x86 and arm than on x86_64
due to the way the ABI works. When building LLVM for x86 it gives a small
inline cost boost to virtually any function using StringRef or STL allocators,
but only a 0.01% increase in overall binary size. The size of gcc compiled by
clang actually shrunk by a couple bytes with this patch applied, but not
significantly.
llvm-svn: 161413
instsimplify+inline strategy.
The crux of the problem is that instsimplify was reasonably relying on
an invariant that is true within any single function, but is no longer
true mid-inline the way we use it. This invariant is that an argument
pointer != a local (alloca) pointer.
The fix is really light weight though, and allows instsimplify to be
resiliant to these situations: when checking the relation ships to
function arguments, ensure that the argumets come from the same
function. If they come from different functions, then none of these
assumptions hold. All credit to Benjamin Kramer for coming up with this
clever solution to the problem.
llvm-svn: 161410
Previously, MBP essentially aligned every branch target it could. This
bloats code quite a bit, especially non-looping code which has no real
reason to prefer aligned branch targets so heavily.
As Andy said in review, it's still a bit odd to do this without a real
cost model, but this at least has much more plausible heuristics.
Fixes PR13265.
llvm-svn: 161409
This can happen as long as the instruction is not reachable. Instcombine does generate these unreachable malformed selects when doing RAUW
llvm-svn: 160874
Manman Ren