The first version of origin tracking tracks only memory stores. Although
this is sufficient for understanding correct flows, it is hard to figure
out where an undefined value is read from. To find reading undefined values,
we still have to do a reverse binary search from the last store in the chain
with printing and logging at possible code paths. This is
quite inefficient.
Tracking memory load instructions can help this case. The main issues of
tracking loads are performance and code size overheads.
With tracking only stores, the code size overhead is 38%,
memory overhead is 1x, and cpu overhead is 3x. In practice #load is much
larger than #store, so both code size and cpu overhead increases. The
first blocker is code size overhead: link fails if we inline tracking
loads. The workaround is using external function calls to propagate
metadata. This is also the workaround ASan uses. The cpu overhead
is ~10x. This is a trade off between debuggability and performance,
and will be used only when debugging cases that tracking only stores
is not enough.
Reviewed By: gbalats
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100967
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