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Benjamin Kramer
5b55a47e94 GlobalDCE: Delete available_externally initializers if it allows removing the value the initializer is referring to.
This is useful for functions that are not actually available externally but
referenced by a vtable of some kind. Clang emits functions like this for the MS
ABI.

PR20182.

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2014-07-04 12:36:05 +00:00
Benjamin Kramer
9c1df9164c InstCombine: Strength reduce sadd.with.overflow into a regular nsw add if we can prove that it cannot overflow.
PR20194

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2014-07-04 10:22:21 +00:00
David Majnemer
00428878bb InstSimplify: Fix a bug when INT_MIN is in a sdiv
When INT_MIN is the numerator in a sdiv, we would not properly handle
overflow when calculating the bounds of possible values; abs(INT_MIN) is
not a meaningful number.

Instead, check and handle INT_MIN by reasoning that the largest value is
INT_MIN/-2 and the smallest value is INT_MIN.

This fixes PR20199.

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2014-07-04 00:23:39 +00:00
Richard Trieu
fa9ca85bc6 Add new lines to debugging information.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4262


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2014-07-03 02:11:49 +00:00
David Majnemer
3e01ae9f8f InstCombine: Optimize x/INT_MIN to x==INT_MIN
The result of x/INT_MIN is either 0 or 1, we can just use an icmp
instead.

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2014-07-02 06:42:13 +00:00
David Majnemer
35f5448c52 InstCombine: Add a vector variant test for PR20186
No functional change, just adding more test coverage that was meant to
go in with r212164.

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2014-07-02 06:14:13 +00:00
David Majnemer
5f5939c14c InstCombine: Don't turn -(x/INT_MIN) -> x/INT_MIN
It is not safe to negate the smallest signed integer, doing so yields
the same number back.

This fixes PR20186.

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2014-07-02 06:07:09 +00:00
David Blaikie
49ec6e933f DebugInfo: Keep track of subprograms who's arguments have been promoted.
Matching behavior with DeadArgumentElimination (and leveraging some
now-common infrastructure), keep track of the function from debug info
metadata if arguments are promoted.

This may produce interesting debug info - since the arguments may be
missing or of different types... but at least backtraces, inlining, etc,
will be correct.

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2014-07-01 21:13:37 +00:00
David Majnemer
f44809c898 GlobalOpt: Don't swap private for internal linkage
There were transforms whose *intent* was to downgrade the linkage of
external objects to have internal linkage.

However, it fired on things with private linkage as well.

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2014-07-01 15:26:50 +00:00
David Majnemer
553b2c9435 GlobalOpt: FileCheck-ize test
No functionality change.

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2014-07-01 15:26:47 +00:00
David Majnemer
fd6fc71b44 GlobalOpt: Handle non-zero offsets for aliases
An alias with an aliasee of a non-zero GEP is not trivially replacable
with it's aliasee.

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2014-07-01 00:30:56 +00:00
Gerolf Hoflehner
049a087d3f Suppress inlining when the block address is taken
Inlining functions with block addresses can cause many problem and requires a
rich infrastructure to support including escape analysis.  At this point the
safest approach to address these problems is by blocking inlining from
happening.

Background:
There have been reports on Ruby segmentation faults triggered by inlining
functions with block addresses like

//Ruby code snippet
vm_exec_core() {
    finish_insn_seq_0 = &&INSN_LABEL_finish;
    INSN_LABEL_finish:
      ;
}

This kind of scenario can also happen when LLVM picks a subset of blocks for
inlining, which is the case with the actual code in the Ruby environment.

LLVM suppresses inlining for such functions when there is an indirect branch.
The attached patch does so even when there is no indirect branch.  Note that
user code like above would not make much sense: using the global for jumping
across function boundaries would be illegal.

Why was there a segfault:

In the snipped above the block with the label is recognized as dead So it is
eliminated. Instead of a block address the cloner stores a constant (sic!) into
the global resulting in the segfault (when the global is used in a goto).

Why had it worked in the past then:

By luck. In older versions vm_exec_core was also inlined but the label address
used was the block label address in vm_exec_core.  So the global jump ended up
in the original function rather than in the caller which accidentally happened
to work.

Test case ./tools/clang/test/CodeGen/indirect-goto.c will fail as a result
of this commit.

rdar://17245966



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2014-07-01 00:19:34 +00:00
Reid Kleckner
53da3faab8 Convert some byval argpromotion grep tests to FileCheck
Surprisingly, the i32* byval parameter is not transformed by
argpromotion.

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2014-06-30 20:44:28 +00:00
David Blaikie
6408a8b836 DebugInfo: Preserve debug location information when transforming a call into an invoke during inlining.
This both improves basic debug info quality, but also fixes a larger
hole whenever we inline a call/invoke without a location (debug info for
the entire inlining is lost and other badness that the debug info
emission code is currently working around but shouldn't have to).

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2014-06-30 20:30:39 +00:00
David Blaikie
0e2313c1c8 Remove unnecessary datalayout string from a test case.
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2014-06-30 20:26:12 +00:00
Erik Eckstein
85f56baca8 test commit: add a comment line in GVN test file
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2014-06-30 07:19:02 +00:00
Dinesh Dwivedi
22e371c74e Added instruction combine to transform few more negative values addition to subtraction (Part 3)
This patch enables transforms for

(x + (~(y | c) + 1) --> x - (y | c) if c is odd

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4210



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2014-06-27 07:47:35 +00:00
David Majnemer
d023a353c1 GlobalOpt: Fix constantfold-initializers.ll test
The test added in r211762 was sloppy, the correct initializer wasn't
added to @llvm.global_ctors

Spotted by Pasi Parviainen!

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2014-06-27 07:36:26 +00:00
David Blaikie
effea626e2 ArgumentPromotion: Propagate debug locations on calls for which arguments are promoted.
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2014-06-27 05:32:09 +00:00
Arnold Schwaighofer
c2d93c4048 GVN: Preserve invariant.load metadata
If both instructions to be replaced are marked invariant the resulting
instruction is invariant.

rdar://13358910

Fix by Erik Eckstein!

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2014-06-26 19:51:19 +00:00
Dinesh Dwivedi
c2b11baf5f This patch removed duplicate code for matching patterns
which are now handled in SimplifyUsingDistributiveLaws() 
(after r211261)

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4253



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2014-06-26 08:57:33 +00:00
Dinesh Dwivedi
0bf7c06b63 Added instruction combine to transform few more negative values addition to subtraction (Part 2)
This patch enables transforms for

(x + (~(y | c) + 1)   -->   x - (y | c) if c is even

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4209



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2014-06-26 05:40:22 +00:00
David Majnemer
29640bcb7d GlobalOpt: Don't optimize thread_local for initializers
Folding a reference to a thread_local variable into another global
variable's initializer is very problematic, there is no relocation that
exists to represent such an access.

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2014-06-26 03:02:19 +00:00
Hans Wennborg
0545f16700 Don't build switch tables for dllimport and TLS variables in GEPs
This is a follow-up to r211331, which failed to notice that we were
returning early from ValidLookupTableConstant for GEPs.

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2014-06-26 00:30:52 +00:00
Tyler Nowicki
d5a8fa72bb Add Rpass-missed and Rpass-analysis reports to the loop vectorizer. The remarks give the vector width of vectorized loops and a brief analysis of loops that fail to be vectorized. For example, an analysis will be generated for loops containing control flow that cannot be simplified to a select. The optimization remarks also give the debug location of expressions that cannot be vectorized, for example the location of an unvectorizable call.
Reviewed by: Arnold Schwaighofer


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2014-06-25 17:50:15 +00:00
Eli Bendersky
bb167336b3 Rename loop unrolling and loop vectorizer metadata to have a common prefix.
[LLVM part]

These patches rename the loop unrolling and loop vectorizer metadata
such that they have a common 'llvm.loop.' prefix.  Metadata name
changes:

llvm.vectorizer.* => llvm.loop.vectorizer.*
llvm.loopunroll.* => llvm.loop.unroll.*

This was a suggestion from an earlier review
(http://reviews.llvm.org/D4090) which added the loop unrolling
metadata. 

Patch by Mark Heffernan.



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2014-06-25 15:41:00 +00:00
Evgeniy Stepanov
98726c311b [LICM] Don't create more than one copy of an instruction per loop exit block when sinking.
Fixes exponential compilation complexity in PR19835, caused by
LICM::sink not handling the following pattern well:

f = op g
e = op f, g
d = op e
c = op d, e
b = op c
a = op b, c

When an instruction with N uses is sunk, each of its operands gets N
new uses (all of them - phi nodes). In the example above, if a had 1
use, c would have 2, e would have 4, and g would have 8.


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2014-06-25 07:54:58 +00:00
Diego Novillo
10ec44d87a Add new debug kind LocTrackingOnly.
Summary:
This new debug emission kind supports emitting line location
information in all instructions, but stops code generation
from emitting debug info to the final output.

This mode is useful when the backend wants to track source
locations during code generation, but it does not want to
produce debug info. This is currently used by optimization
remarks (-pass-remarks, -pass-remarks-missed and
-pass-remarks-analysis).

To prevent debug info emission, DIBuilder never inserts the
annotation 'llvm.dbg.cu' when LocTrackingOnly is enabled.

Reviewers: echristo, dblaikie

Subscribers: llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4234

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2014-06-24 17:02:03 +00:00
Benjamin Kramer
0e6156a1a2 InstCombine: Disable umul.with.overflow recognition for vectors.
It doesn't make a lot on most targets and the code isn't ready for it. PR20113.

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2014-06-24 10:47:52 +00:00
Benjamin Kramer
9c88403625 InstCombine: Don't try to reorder shuffles where the mask is a ConstantExpr.
We can't analyze the individual values of a vector expression. PR20114.

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2014-06-24 10:38:10 +00:00
David Majnemer
f396732d9b GlobalOpt: Don't optimize dllimport for initializers
Referencing a dllimport variable requires actually instructions, not
just a relocation.  This fixes PR19955.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4249

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2014-06-24 06:53:45 +00:00
Benjamin Kramer
84dd75d8d2 Add a description to the test from r211433 explaining why it's written that way.
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2014-06-22 12:22:04 +00:00
Arnold Schwaighofer
78f173a22d LoopVectorizer: Fix a dominance issue
The induction variables start value needs to be defined before we branch
(overflow check) to the scalar preheader where we used it.

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2014-06-22 03:38:59 +00:00
Benjamin Kramer
6b7ff6be9c LoopUnrollRuntime: Check for overflow in the trip count calculation.
Fixes PR19823.

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2014-06-21 13:46:25 +00:00
Benjamin Kramer
b7f1fb47e6 SCEVExpander: Fold constant PHIs harder. The logic below only understands proper IVs.
PR20093.

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2014-06-21 11:47:18 +00:00
Stepan Dyatkovskiy
81ed09a1d1 Commited patch from Björn Steinbrink:
Summary:
Different range metadata can lead to different optimizations in later
passes, possibly breaking the semantics of the merged function. So range
metadata must be taken into consideration when comparing Load
instructions.

Thanks!



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2014-06-20 19:11:56 +00:00
Karthik Bhat
d2ce9392dc Add Support to Recognize and Vectorize NON SIMD instructions in SLPVectorizer.
This patch adds support to recognize patterns such as fadd,fsub,fadd,fsub.../add,sub,add,sub... and
vectorizes them as vector shuffles if they are profitable.
These patterns of vector shuffle can later be converted to instructions such as addsubpd etc on X86.
Thanks to Arnold and Hal for the reviews. http://reviews.llvm.org/D4015 


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2014-06-20 04:32:48 +00:00
Hans Wennborg
160dcf5b61 Don't build switch lookup tables for dllimport or TLS variables
We would previously put dllimport variables in switch lookup tables, which
doesn't work because the address cannot be used in a constant initializer.
This is basically the same problem that we have in PR19955.

Putting TLS variables in switch tables also desn't work, because the
address of such a variable is not constant.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4220

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2014-06-20 00:38:12 +00:00
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

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2014-06-19 16:50:16 +00:00
Dinesh Dwivedi
85386a3de9 Added instruction combine to transform few more negative values addition to subtraction (Part 1)
This patch enables transforms for following patterns.
  (x + (~(y & c) + 1)   -->   x - (y & c)
  (x + (~((y >> z) & c) + 1)   -->   x - ((y>>z) & c)

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D3733



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2014-06-19 10:36:52 +00:00
Dinesh Dwivedi
8317509052 Refactored and updated SimplifyUsingDistributiveLaws() to
* Find factorization opportunities using identity values.
 * Find factorization opportunities by treating shl(X, C) as mul (X, shl(C))
 * Keep NSW flag while simplifying instruction using factorization.

This fixes PR19263.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D3799



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2014-06-19 08:29:18 +00:00
David Majnemer
6c2e8874b0 InstCombine: Stop two transforms dueling
InstCombineMulDivRem has:
// Canonicalize (X+C1)*CI -> X*CI+C1*CI.

InstCombineAddSub has:
// W*X + Y*Z --> W * (X+Z)  iff W == Y

These two transforms could fight with each other if C1*CI would not fold
away to something simpler than a ConstantExpr mul.

The InstCombineMulDivRem transform only acted on ConstantInts until
r199602 when it was changed to operate on all Constants in order to
let it fire on ConstantVectors.

To fix this, make this transform more careful by checking to see if we
actually folded away C1*CI.

This fixes PR20079.

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2014-06-19 07:14:33 +00:00
Nick Lewycky
fe3a219355 Move optimization of some cases of (A & C1)|(B & C2) from instcombine to instsimplify. Patch by Rahul Jain, plus some last minute changes by me -- you can blame me for any bugs.
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2014-06-19 03:51:46 +00:00
Nick Lewycky
650b6ea893 Make instsimplify's analysis of icmp eq/ne use computeKnownBits to determine whether the icmp is always true or false. Patch by Suyog Sarda!
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2014-06-19 03:35:49 +00:00
Matt Arsenault
d9b35435b8 R600/SI: Add intrinsics for various math instructions.
These will be used for custom lowering and for library
implementations of various math functions, so it's useful
to expose these as builtins.

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2014-06-19 01:19:19 +00:00
Dinesh Dwivedi
199da600f3 Fixed jump threading going to infinite loop.
This patch add code to remove unreachable blocks from function
as they may cause jump threading to stuck in infinite loop.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D3991



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2014-06-17 14:34:19 +00:00
Jingyue Wu
dcc9291851 [InstCombine] mark ADD with nuw if no unsigned overflow
Summary:
As a starting step, we only use one simple heuristic: if the sign bits
of both a and b are zero, we can prove "add a, b" do not unsigned
overflow, and thus convert it to "add nuw a, b".

Updated all affected tests and added two new tests (@zero_sign_bit and
@zero_sign_bit2) in AddOverflow.ll

Test Plan: make check-all

Reviewers: eliben, rafael, meheff, chandlerc

Reviewed By: chandlerc

Subscribers: chandlerc, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4144

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2014-06-17 00:42:07 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith
0dee67560f SROA: Only split loads on byte boundaries
r199771 accidently broke the logic that makes sure that SROA only splits
load on byte boundaries.  If such a split happens, some bits get lost
when reassembling loads of wider types, causing data corruption.

Move the width check up to reject such splits early, avoiding the
corruption.  Fixes PR19250.

Patch by: Björn Steinbrink <bsteinbr@gmail.com>

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2014-06-17 00:19:35 +00:00
Eli Bendersky
4046db0cdb Teach LoopUnrollPass to respect loop unrolling hints in metadata.
[This is resubmitting r210721, which was reverted due to suspected breakage
which turned out to be unrelated].

Some extra review comments were addressed. See D4090 and D4147 for more details.

The Clang change that produces this metadata was committed in r210667

Patch by Mark Heffernan.



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2014-06-16 23:53:02 +00:00
Jim Grosbach
dc2dc390f6 LowerSwitch: track bounding range for the condition tree.
When LowerSwitch transforms a switch instruction into a tree of ifs it
is actually performing a binary search into the various case ranges, to
see if the current value falls into one cases range of values.

So, if we have a program with something like this:

switch (a) {
case 0:
  do0();
  break;
case 1:
  do1();
  break;
case 2:
  do2();
  break;
default:
  break;
}

the code produced is something like this:

  if (a < 1) {
    if (a == 0) {
      do0();
    }
  } else {
    if (a < 2) {
      if (a == 1) {
        do1();
      }
    } else {
      if (a == 2) {
        do2();
      }
    }
  }

This code is inefficient because the check (a == 1) to execute do1() is
not needed.

The reason is that because we already checked that (a >= 1) initially by
checking that also  (a < 2) we basically already inferred that (a == 1)
without the need of an extra basic block spawned to check if actually (a
== 1).

The patch addresses this problem by keeping track of already
checked bounds in the LowerSwitch algorithm, so that when the time
arrives to produce a Leaf Block that checks the equality with the case
value / range the algorithm can decide if that block is really needed
depending on the already checked bounds .

For example, the above with "a = 1" would work like this:

the bounds start as LB: NONE , UB: NONE
as (a < 1) is emitted the bounds for the else path become LB: 1 UB:
NONE. This happens because by failing the test (a < 1) we know that the
value "a" cannot be smaller than 1 if we enter the else branch.
After the emitting the check (a < 2) the bounds in the if branch become
LB: 1 UB: 1. This is because by checking that "a" is smaller than 2 then
the upper bound becomes 2 - 1 = 1.

When it is time to emit the leaf block for "case 1:" we notice that 1
can be squeezed exactly in between the LB and UB, which means that if we
arrived to that block there is no need to emit a block that checks if (a
== 1).

Patch by: Marcello Maggioni <hayarms@gmail.com>

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@211038 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2014-06-16 16:55:20 +00:00