Improve the cycle definition, by avoiding usage of not yet defined
or only vaguely defined terminology inside definitions.
More precisely, the existing definition defined "outermost cycles",
and then proceeded to use the term "cycles" for further definitions,
which in turn were used to actually define "cycles".
Now, instead only define "cycles". This does not change the meaning
of a cycle, which depends on the chosen surrounding (subgraph) of a CFG.
Also mention the function CFG in the first definition, because later
later definitions require it anyways.
Also slightly improve the definition of a closed path, by explicitly
requiring the inner nodes to be distinct.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130891
Reverts 02940d6d22. Fixes breakage in the modules build.
LLVM loops cannot represent irreducible structures in the CFG. This
change introduce the concept of cycles as a generalization of loops,
along with a CycleInfo analysis that discovers a nested
hierarchy of such cycles. This is based on Havlak (1997), Nesting of
Reducible and Irreducible Loops.
The cycle analysis is implemented as a generic template and then
instatiated for LLVM IR and Machine IR. The template relies on a new
GenericSSAContext template which must be specialized when used for
each IR.
This review is a restart of an older review request:
https://reviews.llvm.org/D83094
Original implementation by Nicolai Hähnle <nicolai.haehnle@amd.com>,
with recent refactoring by Sameer Sahasrabuddhe <sameer.sahasrabuddhe@amd.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112696
LLVM loops cannot represent irreducible structures in the CFG. This
change introduce the concept of cycles as a generalization of loops,
along with a CycleInfo analysis that discovers a nested
hierarchy of such cycles. This is based on Havlak (1997), Nesting of
Reducible and Irreducible Loops.
The cycle analysis is implemented as a generic template and then
instatiated for LLVM IR and Machine IR. The template relies on a new
GenericSSAContext template which must be specialized when used for
each IR.
This review is a restart of an older review request:
https://reviews.llvm.org/D83094
Original implementation by Nicolai Hähnle <nicolai.haehnle@amd.com>,
with recent refactoring by Sameer Sahasrabuddhe <sameer.sahasrabuddhe@amd.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112696
Jannik Silvanus