Jingyue Wu e4d0a5ec18 [ValueTracking] Extend range metadata to call/invoke
Summary:
With this patch, range metadata can be added to call/invoke including
IntrinsicInst. Previously, it could only be added to load.

Rename computeKnownBitsLoad to computeKnownBitsFromRangeMetadata because
range metadata is not only used by load.

Update the language reference to reflect this change.

Test Plan:
Add several tests in range-2.ll to confirm the verifier is happy with
having range metadata on call/invoke.

Add two tests in AddOverFlow.ll to confirm annotating range metadata to
call/invoke can benefit InstCombine.

Reviewers: meheff, nlewycky, reames, hfinkel, eliben

Reviewed By: eliben

Subscribers: llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4187

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@211281 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2014-06-19 16:50:16 +00:00
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Analysis Opportunities:

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In test/Transforms/LoopStrengthReduce/quadradic-exit-value.ll, the
ScalarEvolution expression for %r is this:

  {1,+,3,+,2}<loop>

Outside the loop, this could be evaluated simply as (%n * %n), however
ScalarEvolution currently evaluates it as

  (-2 + (2 * (trunc i65 (((zext i64 (-2 + %n) to i65) * (zext i64 (-1 + %n) to i65)) /u 2) to i64)) + (3 * %n))

In addition to being much more complicated, it involves i65 arithmetic,
which is very inefficient when expanded into code.

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In formatValue in test/CodeGen/X86/lsr-delayed-fold.ll,

ScalarEvolution is forming this expression:

((trunc i64 (-1 * %arg5) to i32) + (trunc i64 %arg5 to i32) + (-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32)))

This could be folded to

(-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32))

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