Add @llvm.assume, lowering, and some basic properties

This is the first commit in a series that add an @llvm.assume intrinsic which
can be used to provide the optimizer with a condition it may assume to be true
(when the control flow would hit the intrinsic call). Some basic properties are added here:

 - llvm.invariant(true) is dead.
 - llvm.invariant(false) is unreachable (this directly corresponds to the
   documented behavior of MSVC's __assume(0)), so is llvm.invariant(undef).

The intrinsic is tagged as writing arbitrarily, in order to maintain control
dependencies. BasicAA has been updated, however, to return NoModRef for any
particular location-based query so that we don't unnecessarily block code
motion.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@213973 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
This commit is contained in:
Hal Finkel
2014-07-25 21:13:35 +00:00
parent 9c5f6b8c65
commit 8ef7b17dfc
12 changed files with 174 additions and 7 deletions

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@ -471,10 +471,7 @@ namespace {
const Location &Loc) override;
ModRefResult getModRefInfo(ImmutableCallSite CS1,
ImmutableCallSite CS2) override {
// The AliasAnalysis base class has some smarts, lets use them.
return AliasAnalysis::getModRefInfo(CS1, CS2);
}
ImmutableCallSite CS2) override;
/// pointsToConstantMemory - Chase pointers until we find a (constant
/// global) or not.
@ -788,6 +785,14 @@ BasicAliasAnalysis::getArgLocation(ImmutableCallSite CS, unsigned ArgIdx,
return Loc;
}
static bool isAssumeIntrinsic(ImmutableCallSite CS) {
const IntrinsicInst *II = dyn_cast<IntrinsicInst>(CS.getInstruction());
if (II && II->getIntrinsicID() == Intrinsic::assume)
return true;
return false;
}
/// getModRefInfo - Check to see if the specified callsite can clobber the
/// specified memory object. Since we only look at local properties of this
/// function, we really can't say much about this query. We do, however, use
@ -840,10 +845,29 @@ BasicAliasAnalysis::getModRefInfo(ImmutableCallSite CS,
return NoModRef;
}
// While the assume intrinsic is marked as arbitrarily writing so that
// proper control dependencies will be maintained, it never aliases any
// particular memory location.
if (isAssumeIntrinsic(CS))
return NoModRef;
// The AliasAnalysis base class has some smarts, lets use them.
return AliasAnalysis::getModRefInfo(CS, Loc);
}
AliasAnalysis::ModRefResult
BasicAliasAnalysis::getModRefInfo(ImmutableCallSite CS1,
ImmutableCallSite CS2) {
// While the assume intrinsic is marked as arbitrarily writing so that
// proper control dependencies will be maintained, it never aliases any
// particular memory location.
if (isAssumeIntrinsic(CS1) || isAssumeIntrinsic(CS2))
return NoModRef;
// The AliasAnalysis base class has some smarts, lets use them.
return AliasAnalysis::getModRefInfo(CS1, CS2);
}
/// aliasGEP - Provide a bunch of ad-hoc rules to disambiguate a GEP instruction
/// against another pointer. We know that V1 is a GEP, but we don't know
/// anything about V2. UnderlyingV1 is GetUnderlyingObject(GEP1, DL),