This patch aims to implement the option of allocating new arrays created
by polly on heap instead of stack. To enable this option, a key named
'allocation' must be written in the imported json file with the value
'heap'.
We need such a feature because in a next iteration, we will implement a
mechanism of maximal static expansion which will need a way to allocate
arrays on heap. Indeed, the expansion is very costly in terms of memory
and doing the allocation on stack is not worth considering.
The malloc and the free are added respectively at polly.start and
polly.exiting such that there is no use-after-free (for instance in case
of Scop in a loop) and such that all memory cells allocated with a
malloc are free'd when we don't need them anymore.
We also add :
- In the class ScopArrayInfo, we add a boolean as member called IsOnHeap
which represents the fact that the array in allocated on heap or not.
- A new branch in the method allocateNewArrays in the ISLNodeBuilder for
the case of heap allocation. allocateNewArrays now takes a BBPair
containing polly.start and polly.exiting. allocateNewArrays takes this
two blocks and add the malloc and free calls respectively to
polly.start and polly.exiting.
- As IntPtrTy for the malloc call, we use the DataLayout one.
To do that, we have modified :
- createScopArrayInfo and getOrCreateScopArrayInfo such that it returns
a non-const SAI, in order to be able to call setIsOnHeap in the
JSONImporter.
- executeScopConditionnaly such that it return both start block and end
block of the scop, because we need this two blocs to be able to add
the malloc and the free calls at the right position.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D33688
llvm-svn: 306540
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