Right now scalarpre doesn't have phi-translate support, so it will miss some
simple pre opportunities. Like the following testcase, current scalarpre cannot
recognize the last "a * b" is fully redundent because a and b used by the last
"a * b" expr are both defined by phis.
long a[100], b[100], g1, g2, g3;
__attribute__((pure)) long goo();
void foo(long a, long b, long c, long d) {
g1 = a * b;
if (__builtin_expect(g2 > 3, 0)) {
a = c;
b = d;
g2 = a * b;
}
g3 = a * b; // fully redundant.
}
The patch adds phi-translate support in scalarpre. This is only a temporary
solution before the newpre based on newgvn is available.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D32252
llvm-svn: 303923
Summary:
Implements PR889
Removing the virtual table pointer from Value saves 1% of RSS when doing
LTO of llc on Linux. The impact on time was positive, but too noisy to
conclusively say that performance improved. Here is a link to the
spreadsheet with the original data:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F4FHir0qYnV0MEp2sYYp_BuvnJgWlWPhWOwZ6LbW7W4/edit?usp=sharing
This change makes it invalid to directly delete a Value, User, or
Instruction pointer. Instead, such code can be rewritten to a null check
and a call Value::deleteValue(). Value objects tend to have their
lifetimes managed through iplist, so for the most part, this isn't a big
deal. However, there are some places where LLVM deletes values, and
those places had to be migrated to deleteValue. I have also created
llvm::unique_value, which has a custom deleter, so it can be used in
place of std::unique_ptr<Value>.
I had to add the "DerivedUser" Deleter escape hatch for MemorySSA, which
derives from User outside of lib/IR. Code in IR cannot include MemorySSA
headers or call the MemoryAccess object destructors without introducing
a circular dependency, so we need some level of indirection.
Unfortunately, no class derived from User may have any virtual methods,
because adding a virtual method would break User::getHungOffOperands(),
which assumes that it can find the use list immediately prior to the
User object. I've added a static_assert to the appropriate OperandTraits
templates to help people avoid this trap.
Reviewers: chandlerc, mehdi_amini, pete, dberlin, george.burgess.iv
Reviewed By: chandlerc
Subscribers: krytarowski, eraman, george.burgess.iv, mzolotukhin, Prazek, nlewycky, hans, inglorion, pcc, tejohnson, dberlin, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31261
llvm-svn: 303362
and to expose a handle to represent the actual case rather than having
the iterator return a reference to itself.
All of this allows the iterator to be used with common STL facilities,
standard algorithms, etc.
Doing this exposed some missing facilities in the iterator facade that
I've fixed and required some work to the actual iterator to fully
support the necessary API.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31548
llvm-svn: 300032
NFCI.
Summary:
This is ground work for the changes to enable coercion in NewGVN.
GVN doesn't care if they end up constant because it eliminates as it goes.
NewGVN cares.
IRBuilder and ConstantFolder deliberately present the same interface,
so we use this to our advantage to templatize our functions to make
them either constant only or not.
Reviewers: davide
Subscribers: llvm-commits, Prazek
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D30928
llvm-svn: 298262
Summary:
iterateOnFunction creates a ReversePostOrderTraversal object which does a post order traversal in its constructor and stores the results in an internal vector. Iteration over it just reads from the internal vector in reverse order.
The GVN code seems to be unaware of this and iterates over ReversePostOrderTraversal object and makes a copy of the vector into a local vector. (I think at one point in time we used a DFS here instead which would have required the local vector).
The net affect of this is that we have two vectors containing the basic block list. As I didn't want to expose the implementation detail of ReversePostOrderTraversal's constructor to GVN, I've changed the code to do an explicit post order traversal storing into the local vector and then reverse iterate over that.
I've also removed the reserve(256) since the ReversePostOrderTraversal wasn't doing that. I can add it back if we thinks it important. Though it seemed weird that it wasn't based on the size of the function.
Reviewers: davide, anemet, dberlin
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31084
llvm-svn: 298191
Summary:
These are the functions used to determine when values of loads can be
extracted from stores, etc, and to perform the necessary insertions to
do this. There are no changes to the functions themselves except
reformatting, and one case where memdep was informed of a removed load
(which was pushed into the caller).
Reviewers: davide
Subscribers: mgorny, llvm-commits, Prazek
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D30478
llvm-svn: 297438
We had various variants of defining dump() functions in LLVM. Normalize
them (this should just consistently implement the things discussed in
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2014-January/034323.html
For reference:
- Public headers should just declare the dump() method but not use
LLVM_DUMP_METHOD or #if !defined(NDEBUG) || defined(LLVM_ENABLE_DUMP)
- The definition of a dump method should look like this:
#if !defined(NDEBUG) || defined(LLVM_ENABLE_DUMP)
LLVM_DUMP_METHOD void MyClass::dump() {
// print stuff to dbgs()...
}
#endif
llvm-svn: 293359
performing partial redundancy elimination (PRE). Not doing so can cause jumpy line
tables and confusing (though correct) source attributions.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27857
llvm-svn: 291037
After r289755, the AssumptionCache is no longer needed. Variables affected by
assumptions are now found by using the new operand-bundle-based scheme. This
new scheme is more computationally efficient, and also we need much less
code...
llvm-svn: 289756
In the case of a fully redundant load LI dominated by an equivalent load V, GVN
should always preserve the original debug location of V. Otherwise, we risk to
introduce an incorrect stepping.
If V has debug info, then clearly it should not be modified. If V has a null
debugloc, then it is still potentially incorrect to propagate LI's debugloc
because LI may not post-dominate V.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27468
llvm-svn: 288903
[recommitting after the fix in r288307]
This requires some changes to the opt-diag API. Hal and I have
discussed this at the Dev Meeting and came up with a streaming delimiter
(setExtraArgs) to solve this.
Arguments after this delimiter are only included in the optimization
records and not in the remarks printed in the compiler output. (Note,
how in the test the content of the YAML file changes but the remarks on
the compiler output don't.)
This implements the green GVN message with a bug fix at line
http://lab.llvm.org:8080/artifacts/opt-view_test-suite/build/SingleSource/Benchmarks/Dhrystone/CMakeFiles/dry.dir/html/_org_test-suite_SingleSource_Benchmarks_Dhrystone_dry.c.html#L446
The fix is that now we properly include the constant value in the
message: "load of type i32 eliminated in favor of 7"
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26489
llvm-svn: 288380
If LoopInfo is available during GVN, BasicAA will use it. However
MergeBlockIntoPredecessor does not update LI as it merges blocks.
This didn't use to cause problems because LI was freed before
GVN/BasicAA. Now with OptimizationRemarkEmitter, the lifetime of LI is
extended so LI needs to be kept up-to-date during GVN.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27288
llvm-svn: 288307
There's no agreement about this patch. I personally find the
PRE machinery of the current GVN hard enough to reason about
that I'm not sure I'll try to land this again, instead of working
on the rewrite).
llvm-svn: 284796
In theory this could be generalized to move anything where
we prove the operands are available, but that would require
rewriting PRE. As NewGVN will hopefully come soon, and we're
trying to rewrite PRE in terms of NewGVN+MemorySSA, it's probably
not worth spending too much time on it. Fix provided by
Daniel Berlin!
llvm-svn: 284311
Refactor replaceDominatedUsesWith to have a flag to control whether to replace uses in BB itself.
Summary: This is in preparation for LoopSink pass which calls replaceDominatedUsesWith to update after sinking.
llvm-svn: 280949
Summary: This is in preparation for LoopSink pass which calls replaceDominatedUsesWith to update after sinking.
Reviewers: chandlerc, davidxl, danielcdh
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24170
llvm-svn: 280427
Besides a general consistently benefit, the extra layer of indirection
allows the mechanical part of https://reviews.llvm.org/D23256 that
requires touching every transformation and analysis to be factored out
cleanly.
Thanks to David for the suggestion.
llvm-svn: 278077
A ConstantVector can have ConstantExpr operands and vice versa.
However, the folder had no ability to fold ConstantVectors which, in
some cases, was an optimization barrier.
Instead, rephrase the folder in terms of Constants instead of
ConstantExprs and teach callers how to deal with failure.
llvm-svn: 277099
Fix for PR 28418.
opt never finishes compiling a test when -gvn option is passed.
The problem is caused by the fact that GVN fails to fold a constant expression.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22185
llvm-svn: 275483
r273711 was reverted by r273743. The inliner needs to know about any
call sites in the inlined function. These were obscured if we replaced
a call to undef with an undef but kept the call around.
This fixes PR28298.
llvm-svn: 273753
Again, fairly simple. Only change is ensuring that we actually copy the property of the load correctly. The aliasing legality constraints were already handled by the FRE patches. There's nothing special about unorder atomics from the perspective of the PRE algorithm itself.
llvm-svn: 268804
You'll note there are essentially no code changes here. Cross block FRE heavily reuses code from the block local FRE. All of the tricky parts were done as part of the previous patch and the refactoring that removed the original code duplication.
llvm-svn: 268775
This patch is the first in a small series teaching GVN to optimize unordered loads aggressively. This change just handles block local FRE because that's the simplest thing which lets me test MDA, and the AvailableValue pieces. Somewhat suprisingly, MDA appears fine and only a couple of small changes are needed in GVN.
Once this is in, I'll tackle non-local FRE and PRE. The former looks like a natural extension of this, the later will require a couple of minor changes.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19440
llvm-svn: 268770
The original commit was reverted because of a buildbot problem with LazyCallGraph::SCC handling (not related to the OptBisect handling).
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19172
llvm-svn: 267231
This patch implements a optimization bisect feature, which will allow optimizations to be selectively disabled at compile time in order to track down test failures that are caused by incorrect optimizations.
The bisection is enabled using a new command line option (-opt-bisect-limit). Individual passes that may be skipped call the OptBisect object (via an LLVMContext) to see if they should be skipped based on the bisect limit. A finer level of control (disabling individual transformations) can be managed through an addition OptBisect method, but this is not yet used.
The skip checking in this implementation is based on (and replaces) the skipOptnoneFunction check. Where that check was being called, a new call has been inserted in its place which checks the bisect limit and the optnone attribute. A new function call has been added for module and SCC passes that behaves in a similar way.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19172
llvm-svn: 267022
Removed some unused headers, replaced some headers with forward class declarations.
Found using simple scripts like this one:
clear && ack --cpp -l '#include "llvm/ADT/IndexedMap.h"' | xargs grep -L 'IndexedMap[<]' | xargs grep -n --color=auto 'IndexedMap'
Patch by Eugene Kosov <claprix@yandex.ru>
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19219
From: Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini@apple.com>
llvm-svn: 266595
As suggested by Chandler in his review comments for D18662, this
follow-on patch renames some variables in GetLoadValueForLoad and
CoerceAvailableValueToLoadType to hopefully make it more obvious
which variables hold value sizes and which hold load/store sizes.
No functional change intended.
llvm-svn: 265687
When GVN wants to re-interpret an already available value in a smaller
type, it needs to right-shift the value on big-endian systems to ensure
the correct bytes are accessed. The shift value is the difference of
the sizes of the two types.
This is correct as long as both types occupy multiples of full bytes.
However, when one of them is a sub-byte type like i1, this no longer
holds true: we still need to shift, but only to access the correct
*byte*. Accessing bits within the byte requires no shift in either
endianness; e.g. an i1 resides in the least-significant bit of its
containing byte on both big- and little-endian systems.
Therefore, the appropriate shift value to be used is the difference of
the *storage* sizes of the two types. This is already handled correctly
in one place where such a shift takes place (GetStoreValueForLoad), but
is incorrect in two other places: GetLoadValueForLoad and
CoerceAvailableValueToLoadType.
This patch changes both places to use the storage size as well.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18662
llvm-svn: 265684
member type.
Because of how this type is used by the ValueTable, it cannot actually
have hidden visibility. GCC actually nicely warns about this but Clang
just silently ... I don't even know. =/ We should do a better job either
way though.
This should resolve a bunch of the GCC warnings about visibility that
the port of GVN triggered and make the visibility story a bit more
correct.
llvm-svn: 263250
much to my horror, so use variables to fix it in place.
This terrifies me. Both basic-aa and memdep will provide more precise
information when the domtree and/or the loop info is available. Because
of this, if your pass (like GVN) requires domtree, and then queries
memdep or basic-aa, it will get more precise results. If it does this in
the other order, it gets less precise results.
All of the ideas I have for fixing this are, essentially, terrible. Here
I've just caused us to stop having unspecified behavior as different
implementations evaluate the order of these arguments differently. I'm
actually rather glad that they do, or the fragility of memdep and
basic-aa would have gone on unnoticed. I've left comments so we don't
immediately break this again. This should fix bots whose host compilers
evaluate the order of arguments differently from Clang.
llvm-svn: 263231
This was originally a pointer to support pass managers which didn't use
AnalysisManagers. However, that doesn't realistically come up much and
the complexity of supporting it doesn't really make sense.
In fact, *many* parts of the pass manager were just assuming the pointer
was never null already. This at least makes it much more explicit and
clear.
llvm-svn: 263219
tests to run GVN in both modes.
This is mostly the boring refactoring just like SROA and other complex
transformation passes. There is some trickiness in that GVN's
ValueNumber class requires hand holding to get to compile cleanly. I'm
open to suggestions about a better pattern there, but I tried several
before settling on this. I was trying to balance my desire to sink as
much implementation detail into the source file as possible without
introducing overly many layers of abstraction.
Much like with SROA, the design of this system is made somewhat more
cumbersome by the need to support both pass managers without duplicating
the significant state and logic of the pass. The same compromise is
struck here.
I've also left a FIXME in a doxygen comment as the GVN pass seems to
have pretty woeful documentation within it. I'd like to submit this with
the FIXME and let those more deeply familiar backfill the information
here now that we have a nice place in an interface to put that kind of
documentaiton.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18019
llvm-svn: 263208
need to be changed for porting to the new pass manager.
Also sink the comment on the ValueTable class back to that class instead
of it dangling on an anonymous namespace.
No functionality changed.
llvm-svn: 263084
This is a fairly straightforward port to the new pass manager with one
exception. It removes a very questionable use of releaseMemory() in
the old pass to invalidate its caches between runs on a function.
I don't think this is really guaranteed to be safe. I've just used the
more direct port to the new PM to address this by nuking the results
object each time the pass runs. While this could cause some minor malloc
traffic increase, I don't expect the compile time performance hit to be
noticable, and it makes the correctness and other aspects of the pass
much easier to reason about. In some cases, it may make things faster by
making the sets and maps smaller with better locality. Indeed, the
measurements collected by Bruno (thanks!!!) show mostly compile time
improvements.
There is sadly very limited testing at this point as there are only two
tests of memdep, and both rely on GVN. I'll be porting GVN next and that
will exercise this heavily though.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17962
llvm-svn: 263082
The attached patch removes all of the block local code for performing X-load forwarding by reusing the code used in the non-local case.
The motivation here is to remove duplication and in the process increase our test coverage of some fairly tricky code. I have some upcoming changes I'll be proposing in this area and wanted to have the code cleaned up a bit first.
Note: The review for this mostly happened in email which didn't make it to phabricator on the 258882 commit thread.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D16608
llvm-svn: 260711
AvailableValue is the part that represents the potential rematerialization. AvailableValueInBlock is simply a pair of an AvailableValue and a BB which we might materialize it in.
This is motivated by http://reviews.llvm.org/D16608. The intent is that we'll have a single function which handles the local case which both local and non-local will use to identify available values. Once that's done, the local case can rematerialize at the use site and the non-local case can do the SSA construction as it does currently.
llvm-svn: 258882
We had the same code duplicated for each type of Def. We also have the entire block duplicated between the local and non-local case, but let's start with local cleanup.
llvm-svn: 258740
Optimizations like LoadPRE in GVN will insert new instructions.
If the insertion point is in a already processed BB, they should
get a value number explicitly. If the insertion point is after
current instruction, then just leave it. However, current GVN framework
has no support for it.
In this patch, we just bail out if a VN can't be found.
Dfferential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14670
A test/Transforms/GVN/pr25440.ll
M lib/Transforms/Scalar/GVN.cpp
llvm-svn: 253536
This bug would manifest in some very specific cases where all the following
conditions are fullfilled:
- GVN didn't remove block
- The regular GVN iteration didn't change the IR
- PRE is enabled
- PRE will not split critical edge
- The last instruction processed by PRE didn't change the IR
Because the CallGraph PassManager relies on this returned value to decide
if it needs to recompute a node after the execution of Function passes,
not returning the right value can lead to unexpected results.
Fix for: https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=24715
Patch by Wenxiang Qiu <vincentqiuuu@gmail.com>
From: Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini@apple.com>
llvm-svn: 253518
After some look-ahead PRE was added for GEPs, an instruction could end
up in the table of candidates before it was actually inspected. When
this happened the pass might decide it was the best candidate to
replace itself. This didn't go well.
Should fix PR25291
llvm-svn: 251145
The most important part required to make clang
devirtualization works ( ͡°͜ʖ ͡°).
The code is able to find non local dependencies, but unfortunatelly
because the caller can only handle local dependencies, I had to add
some restrictions to look for dependencies only in the same BB.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D12992
llvm-svn: 249196
with the new pass manager, and no longer relying on analysis groups.
This builds essentially a ground-up new AA infrastructure stack for
LLVM. The core ideas are the same that are used throughout the new pass
manager: type erased polymorphism and direct composition. The design is
as follows:
- FunctionAAResults is a type-erasing alias analysis results aggregation
interface to walk a single query across a range of results from
different alias analyses. Currently this is function-specific as we
always assume that aliasing queries are *within* a function.
- AAResultBase is a CRTP utility providing stub implementations of
various parts of the alias analysis result concept, notably in several
cases in terms of other more general parts of the interface. This can
be used to implement only a narrow part of the interface rather than
the entire interface. This isn't really ideal, this logic should be
hoisted into FunctionAAResults as currently it will cause
a significant amount of redundant work, but it faithfully models the
behavior of the prior infrastructure.
- All the alias analysis passes are ported to be wrapper passes for the
legacy PM and new-style analysis passes for the new PM with a shared
result object. In some cases (most notably CFL), this is an extremely
naive approach that we should revisit when we can specialize for the
new pass manager.
- BasicAA has been restructured to reflect that it is much more
fundamentally a function analysis because it uses dominator trees and
loop info that need to be constructed for each function.
All of the references to getting alias analysis results have been
updated to use the new aggregation interface. All the preservation and
other pass management code has been updated accordingly.
The way the FunctionAAResultsWrapperPass works is to detect the
available alias analyses when run, and add them to the results object.
This means that we should be able to continue to respect when various
passes are added to the pipeline, for example adding CFL or adding TBAA
passes should just cause their results to be available and to get folded
into this. The exception to this rule is BasicAA which really needs to
be a function pass due to using dominator trees and loop info. As
a consequence, the FunctionAAResultsWrapperPass directly depends on
BasicAA and always includes it in the aggregation.
This has significant implications for preserving analyses. Generally,
most passes shouldn't bother preserving FunctionAAResultsWrapperPass
because rebuilding the results just updates the set of known AA passes.
The exception to this rule are LoopPass instances which need to preserve
all the function analyses that the loop pass manager will end up
needing. This means preserving both BasicAAWrapperPass and the
aggregating FunctionAAResultsWrapperPass.
Now, when preserving an alias analysis, you do so by directly preserving
that analysis. This is only necessary for non-immutable-pass-provided
alias analyses though, and there are only three of interest: BasicAA,
GlobalsAA (formerly GlobalsModRef), and SCEVAA. Usually BasicAA is
preserved when needed because it (like DominatorTree and LoopInfo) is
marked as a CFG-only pass. I've expanded GlobalsAA into the preserved
set everywhere we previously were preserving all of AliasAnalysis, and
I've added SCEVAA in the intersection of that with where we preserve
SCEV itself.
One significant challenge to all of this is that the CGSCC passes were
actually using the alias analysis implementations by taking advantage of
a pretty amazing set of loop holes in the old pass manager's analysis
management code which allowed analysis groups to slide through in many
cases. Moving away from analysis groups makes this problem much more
obvious. To fix it, I've leveraged the flexibility the design of the new
PM components provides to just directly construct the relevant alias
analyses for the relevant functions in the IPO passes that need them.
This is a bit hacky, but should go away with the new pass manager, and
is already in many ways cleaner than the prior state.
Another significant challenge is that various facilities of the old
alias analysis infrastructure just don't fit any more. The most
significant of these is the alias analysis 'counter' pass. That pass
relied on the ability to snoop on AA queries at different points in the
analysis group chain. Instead, I'm planning to build printing
functionality directly into the aggregation layer. I've not included
that in this patch merely to keep it smaller.
Note that all of this needs a nearly complete rewrite of the AA
documentation. I'm planning to do that, but I'd like to make sure the
new design settles, and to flesh out a bit more of what it looks like in
the new pass manager first.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D12080
llvm-svn: 247167
There was infinite loop because it was trying to change assume(true) into
assume(true)
Also added handling when assume(false) appear
http://reviews.llvm.org/D12516
llvm-svn: 246697
After hitting @llvm.assume(X) we can:
- propagate equality that X == true
- if X is icmp/fcmp (with eq operation), and one of operand
is constant we can change all variables with constants in the same BasicBlock
http://reviews.llvm.org/D11918
llvm-svn: 246695
After hitting @llvm.assume(X) we can:
- propagate equality that X == true
- if X is icmp/fcmp (with eq operation), and one of operand
is constant we can change all variables with constants in the same BasicBlock
http://reviews.llvm.org/D11918
llvm-svn: 246243
and make it always preserve debug locations, since all callers wanted this
behavior anyway.
This is addressing a post-commit review feedback for r245589.
NFC (inside the LLVM tree).
llvm-svn: 245622
Instruction::dropUnknownMetadata(KnownSet) is supposed to preserve all
metadata in KnownSet, but the condition for DebugLocs was inverted.
Most users of dropUnknownMetadata() actually worked around this by not
adding LLVMContext::MD_dbg to their list of KnowIDs.
This is now made explicit.
llvm-svn: 245589
Caught by the famous "DebugLoc describes the currect SubProgram" assertion.
When GVN is removing a nonlocal load it updates the debug location of the
SSA value it replaced the load with with the one of the load. In the
testcase this actually overwrites a valid debug location with an empty one.
In reality GVN has to make an arbitrary choice between two equally valid
debug locations. This patch changes to behavior to only update the
location if the value doesn't already have a debug location.
llvm-svn: 245588
After hitting @llvm.assume(X) we can:
- propagate equality that X == true
- if X is icmp/fcmp (with eq operation), and one of operand
is constant we can change all variables with constants in the same BasicBlock
http://reviews.llvm.org/D11918
llvm-svn: 245265
This change was done as an audit and is by inspection. The new EH
system is still very much a work in progress. NFC for the landingpad
case.
llvm-svn: 243965
Bonus change to remove emacs major mode marker from SystemZMachineFunctionInfo.cpp because emacs already knows it's C++ from the extension. Also fix typo "appeary" in AMDGPUMCAsmInfo.h.
llvm-svn: 243585
through APIs that are no longer necessary now that the update API has
been removed.
This will make changes to the AA interfaces significantly less
disruptive (I hope). Either way, it seems like a really nice cleanup.
llvm-svn: 242882
directly model in the new PM.
This also was an incredibly brittle and expensive update API that was
never fully utilized by all the passes that claimed to preserve AA, nor
could it reasonably have been extended to all of them. Any number of
places add uses of values. If we ever wanted to reliably instrument
this, we would want a callback hook much like we have with ValueHandles,
but doing this for every use addition seems *extremely* expensive in
terms of compile time.
The only user of this update mechanism is GlobalsModRef. The idea of
using this to keep it up to date doesn't really work anyways as its
analysis requires a symmetric analysis of two different memory
locations. It would be very hard to make updates be sufficiently
rigorous to *guarantee* symmetric analysis in this way, and it pretty
certainly isn't true today.
However, folks have been using GMR with this update for a long time and
seem to not be hitting the issues. The reported issue that the update
hook fixes isn't even a problem any more as other changes to
GetUnderlyingObject worked around it, and that issue stemmed from *many*
years ago. As a consequence, a prior patch provided a flag to control
the unsafe behavior of GMR, and this patch removes the update mechanism
that has questionable compile-time tradeoffs and is causing problems
with moving to the new pass manager. Note the lack of test updates --
not one test in tree actually requires this update, even for a contrived
case.
All of this was extensively discussed on the dev list, this patch will
just enact what that discussion decides on. I'm sending it for review in
part to show what I'm planning, and in part to show the *amazing* amount
of work this avoids. Every call to the AA here is something like three
to six indirect function calls, which in the non-LTO pipeline never do
any work! =[
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D11214
llvm-svn: 242605
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