Currently LLVM is relying on ValueTracking's `isKnownNonZero` to attach `nonnull`, which can return true when the value is poison.
To make the semantics of `nonnull` consistent with the behavior of `isKnownNonZero`, this makes the semantics of `nonnull` to accept poison, and return poison if the input pointer isn't null.
This makes many transformations like below legal:
```
%p = gep inbounds %x, 1 ; % p is non-null pointer or poison
call void @f(%p) ; instcombine converts this to call void @f(nonnull %p)
```
Instead, this semantics makes propagation of `nonnull` to caller illegal.
The reason is that, passing poison to `nonnull` does not immediately raise UB anymore, so such program is still well defined, if the callee does not use the argument.
Having `noundef` attribute there re-allows this.
```
define void @f(i8* %p) { ; functionattr cannot mark %p nonnull here anymore
call void @g(i8* nonnull %p) ; .. because @g never raises UB if it never uses %p.
ret void
}
```
Another attribute that needs to be updated is `align`. This patch updates the semantics of align to accept poison as well.
Reviewed By: jdoerfert
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D90529
If a call argument has the "returned" attribute, we can simplify
the call to the value of that argument. This was already partially
handled by InstSimplify/InstCombine for the case where the argument
is an integer constant, and the result is thus known via known bits.
The non-constant (or non-int) argument cases weren't handled though.
This previously landed as an InstSimplify transform, but was reverted
due to assertion failures when compiling the Linux kernel. The reason
is that simplifying a call to another call breaks assumptions in
call graph updating during inlining. As the code is not easy to fix,
and there is no particularly strong motivation for having this in
InstSimplify, the transform is only performed in InstCombine instead.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75815
If a call argument has the "returned" attribute, we can simplify
the call to the value of that argument. The "-inst-simplify" pass
already handled this for the constant integer argument case via
known bits, which is invoked in SimplifyInstruction. However,
non-constant (or non-int) arguments are not handled at all right now.
This addresses one of the regressions from D75801.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75815
Summary:
This reverts commit c3b06d0c39.
Reason for revert: Caused miscompiles when inserting assume for undef.
Also adds a test to prevent similar breakage in future.
Fixes PR44154.
Reviewers: rnk, jdoerfert, efriedma, xbolva00
Reviewed By: rnk
Subscribers: thakis, hiraditya, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D70933
Juneyoung Lee