Say we have
%1=min(%a,%b)
%2=min(%b,%c)
%3=min(%2,%a)
The optimization will try to reassociate the later one so that we can rewrite it to %3=min(%1, %c) and remove %2.
But if %2 has another uses outside of %3 then we can't remove %2 and end up with:
%1=min(%a,%b)
%2=min(%b,%c)
%3=min(%1, %c)
This doesn't harm by itself except it is not profitable and changes IR for no good reason.
What is bad it triggers next iteration which finds out that optimization is applicable to %2 and %3 and generates:
%1=min(%a,%b)
%2=min(%b,%c)
%3=min(%1,%c)
%4=min(%2,%a)
and so on...
The solution is to prevent optimization in the first place if intermediate result (%2) has side uses and
known to be not removed.
Reviewed By: mkazantsev
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100170
36b932d6a3