With opaque pointers, we cannot use the pointer element type to
determine the LocationSize for the AA query. Instead, -aa-eval
tests are now required to have an explicit load or store for any
pointer they want to compute alias results for, and the load/store
types are used to determine the location size.
This may affect ordering of results, and sorting within one result,
as the type is not considered part of the sorted string anymore.
To somewhat minimize the churn, printing still uses faux typed
pointer notation.
The information can be implicit (from `ValueTracking`) or explicit.
This implements the backend part of the following RFC
https://groups.google.com/g/llvm-dev/c/T9o51zB1JY.
We still need to settle on how to best represent the information in the
IR, but this is a separate discussion.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D109746
BasicAA currently handles cases like Scale*V0 + (-Scale)*V1 where
V0 != V1, but does not handle the simpler case of Scale*V with
V != 0. Add it based on an isKnownNonZero() call.
I'm not passing a context instruction for now, because the existing
approach of always using GEP1 for context could result in symmetry
issues.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D93162
BasicAA has some special bit of logic for "same base pointer" GEPs
that performs a structural comparison: It only looks at two GEPs
with the same base (as opposed to two GEP chains with a MustAlias
base) and compares their indexes in a limited way. I generalized
part of this code in D91027, and this patch merges the remainder
into the normal decomposed GEP logic.
What this code ultimately wants to do is to determine that
gep %base, %idx1 and gep %base, %idx2 don't alias if %idx1 != %idx2,
and the access size fits within the stride.
We can express this in terms of a decomposed GEP expression with
two indexes scale*%idx1 + -scale*%idx2 where %idx1 != %idx2, and
some appropriate checks for sizes and offsets.
This makes the reasoning slightly more powerful, and more
importantly brings all the GEP logic under a common umbrella.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D92723
Using various methods, BasicAA tries to determine whether two
GetElementPtr memory locations alias when its base pointers are known
to be equal. When none of its heuristics are applicable, it falls back
to PartialAlias to, according to a comment, protect TBAA making a wrong
decision in case of unions and malloc. PartialAlias is not correct,
because a PartialAlias result implies that some, but not all, bytes
overlap which is not necessarily the case here.
AAResults returns the first analysis result that is not MayAlias.
BasicAA is always the first alias analysis. When it returns
PartialAlias, no other analysis is queried to give a more exact result
(which was the intention of returning PartialAlias instead of MayAlias).
For instance, ScopedAA could return a more accurate result.
The PartialAlias hack was introduced in r131781 (and re-applied in
r132632 after some reverts) to fix llvm.org/PR9971 where TBAA returns a
wrong NoAlias result due to a union. A test case for the malloc case
mentioned in the comment was not provided and I don't think it is
affected since it returns an omnipotent char anyway.
Since r303851 (https://reviews.llvm.org/D33328) clang does emit specific
TBAA for unions anymore (but "omnipotent char" instead). Hence, the
PartialAlias workaround is not required anymore.
This patch passes the test-suite and check-llvm/check-clang of a
self-hoisted build on x64.
Reviewed By: hfinkel
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34318
llvm-svn: 305938
If the loaded type sizes don't match the element type of the sequential type, all bets are off and the addresses may, indeed, overlap.
Surprisingly, this just got caught in one test, on one builder, out of the 30+ builders testing this change. Congratulations go to http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/clang-aarch64-lnt/builds/5205.
llvm-svn: 251112
If the final indices of two GEPs can be proven to not be equal, and
the GEP is of a SequentialType (not a StructType), then the two GEPs
do not alias.
llvm-svn: 251016
Nikita Popov