//===- BasicAliasAnalysis.cpp - Local Alias Analysis Impl -----------------===// // // The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure // // This file was developed by the LLVM research group and is distributed under // the University of Illinois Open Source License. See LICENSE.TXT for details. // //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// // // This file defines the default implementation of the Alias Analysis interface // that simply implements a few identities (two different globals cannot alias, // etc), but otherwise does no analysis. // // FIXME: This could be extended for a very simple form of mod/ref information. // If a pointer is locally allocated (either malloc or alloca) and never passed // into a call or stored to memory, then we know that calls will not mod/ref the // memory. This can be important for tailcallelim. // //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// #include "llvm/Analysis/AliasAnalysis.h" #include "llvm/Pass.h" #include "llvm/Argument.h" #include "llvm/iOther.h" #include "llvm/Constants.h" #include "llvm/GlobalValue.h" #include "llvm/DerivedTypes.h" #include "llvm/Target/TargetData.h" #include "llvm/Support/GetElementPtrTypeIterator.h" using namespace llvm; // Make sure that anything that uses AliasAnalysis pulls in this file... void llvm::BasicAAStub() {} namespace { struct BasicAliasAnalysis : public ImmutablePass, public AliasAnalysis { virtual void getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage &AU) const { AliasAnalysis::getAnalysisUsage(AU); } virtual void initializePass(); // alias - This is the only method here that does anything interesting... // AliasResult alias(const Value *V1, unsigned V1Size, const Value *V2, unsigned V2Size); private: // CheckGEPInstructions - Check two GEP instructions with known // must-aliasing base pointers. This checks to see if the index expressions // preclude the pointers from aliasing... AliasResult CheckGEPInstructions(const Type* BasePtr1Ty, std::vector &GEP1Ops, unsigned G1Size, const Type *BasePtr2Ty, std::vector &GEP2Ops, unsigned G2Size); }; // Register this pass... RegisterOpt X("basicaa", "Basic Alias Analysis (default AA impl)"); // Declare that we implement the AliasAnalysis interface RegisterAnalysisGroup Y; } // End of anonymous namespace void BasicAliasAnalysis::initializePass() { InitializeAliasAnalysis(this); } // hasUniqueAddress - Return true if the specified value points to something // with a unique, discernable, address. static inline bool hasUniqueAddress(const Value *V) { return isa(V) || isa(V); } // getUnderlyingObject - This traverses the use chain to figure out what object // the specified value points to. If the value points to, or is derived from, a // unique object or an argument, return it. static const Value *getUnderlyingObject(const Value *V) { if (!isa(V->getType())) return 0; // If we are at some type of object... return it. if (hasUniqueAddress(V) || isa(V)) return V; // Traverse through different addressing mechanisms... if (const Instruction *I = dyn_cast(V)) { if (isa(I) || isa(I)) return getUnderlyingObject(I->getOperand(0)); } else if (const ConstantExpr *CE = dyn_cast(V)) { if (CE->getOpcode() == Instruction::Cast || CE->getOpcode() == Instruction::GetElementPtr) return getUnderlyingObject(CE->getOperand(0)); } else if (const ConstantPointerRef *CPR = dyn_cast(V)) { return CPR->getValue(); } return 0; } static const User *isGEP(const Value *V) { if (isa(V) || (isa(V) && cast(V)->getOpcode() == Instruction::GetElementPtr)) return cast(V); return 0; } static const Value *GetGEPOperands(const Value *V, std::vector &GEPOps){ assert(GEPOps.empty() && "Expect empty list to populate!"); GEPOps.insert(GEPOps.end(), cast(V)->op_begin()+1, cast(V)->op_end()); // Accumulate all of the chained indexes into the operand array V = cast(V)->getOperand(0); while (const User *G = isGEP(V)) { if (!isa(GEPOps[0]) || !cast(GEPOps[0])->isNullValue()) break; // Don't handle folding arbitrary pointer offsets yet... GEPOps.erase(GEPOps.begin()); // Drop the zero index GEPOps.insert(GEPOps.begin(), G->op_begin()+1, G->op_end()); V = G->getOperand(0); } return V; } // alias - Provide a bunch of ad-hoc rules to disambiguate in common cases, such // as array references. Note that this function is heavily tail recursive. // Hopefully we have a smart C++ compiler. :) // AliasAnalysis::AliasResult BasicAliasAnalysis::alias(const Value *V1, unsigned V1Size, const Value *V2, unsigned V2Size) { // Strip off any constant expression casts if they exist if (const ConstantExpr *CE = dyn_cast(V1)) if (CE->getOpcode() == Instruction::Cast) V1 = CE->getOperand(0); if (const ConstantExpr *CE = dyn_cast(V2)) if (CE->getOpcode() == Instruction::Cast) V2 = CE->getOperand(0); // Strip off constant pointer refs if they exist if (const ConstantPointerRef *CPR = dyn_cast(V1)) V1 = CPR->getValue(); if (const ConstantPointerRef *CPR = dyn_cast(V2)) V2 = CPR->getValue(); // Are we checking for alias of the same value? if (V1 == V2) return MustAlias; if ((!isa(V1->getType()) || !isa(V2->getType())) && V1->getType() != Type::LongTy && V2->getType() != Type::LongTy) return NoAlias; // Scalars cannot alias each other // Strip off cast instructions... if (const Instruction *I = dyn_cast(V1)) return alias(I->getOperand(0), V1Size, V2, V2Size); if (const Instruction *I = dyn_cast(V2)) return alias(V1, V1Size, I->getOperand(0), V2Size); // Figure out what objects these things are pointing to if we can... const Value *O1 = getUnderlyingObject(V1); const Value *O2 = getUnderlyingObject(V2); // Pointing at a discernible object? if (O1 && O2) { if (isa(O1)) { // Incoming argument cannot alias locally allocated object! if (isa(O2)) return NoAlias; // Otherwise, nothing is known... } else if (isa(O2)) { // Incoming argument cannot alias locally allocated object! if (isa(O1)) return NoAlias; // Otherwise, nothing is known... } else { // If they are two different objects, we know that we have no alias... if (O1 != O2) return NoAlias; } // If they are the same object, they we can look at the indexes. If they // index off of the object is the same for both pointers, they must alias. // If they are provably different, they must not alias. Otherwise, we can't // tell anything. } else if (O1 && !isa(O1) && isa(V2)) { return NoAlias; // Unique values don't alias null } else if (O2 && !isa(O2) && isa(V1)) { return NoAlias; // Unique values don't alias null } // If we have two gep instructions with must-alias'ing base pointers, figure // out if the indexes to the GEP tell us anything about the derived pointer. // Note that we also handle chains of getelementptr instructions as well as // constant expression getelementptrs here. // if (isGEP(V1) && isGEP(V2)) { // Drill down into the first non-gep value, to test for must-aliasing of // the base pointers. const Value *BasePtr1 = V1, *BasePtr2 = V2; do { BasePtr1 = cast(BasePtr1)->getOperand(0); } while (isGEP(BasePtr1) && cast(BasePtr1)->getOperand(1) == Constant::getNullValue(cast(BasePtr1)->getOperand(1)->getType())); do { BasePtr2 = cast(BasePtr2)->getOperand(0); } while (isGEP(BasePtr2) && cast(BasePtr2)->getOperand(1) == Constant::getNullValue(cast(BasePtr2)->getOperand(1)->getType())); // Do the base pointers alias? AliasResult BaseAlias = alias(BasePtr1, V1Size, BasePtr2, V2Size); if (BaseAlias == NoAlias) return NoAlias; if (BaseAlias == MustAlias) { // If the base pointers alias each other exactly, check to see if we can // figure out anything about the resultant pointers, to try to prove // non-aliasing. // Collect all of the chained GEP operands together into one simple place std::vector GEP1Ops, GEP2Ops; BasePtr1 = GetGEPOperands(V1, GEP1Ops); BasePtr2 = GetGEPOperands(V2, GEP2Ops); AliasResult GAlias = CheckGEPInstructions(BasePtr1->getType(), GEP1Ops, V1Size, BasePtr2->getType(), GEP2Ops, V2Size); if (GAlias != MayAlias) return GAlias; } } // Check to see if these two pointers are related by a getelementptr // instruction. If one pointer is a GEP with a non-zero index of the other // pointer, we know they cannot alias. // if (isGEP(V2)) { std::swap(V1, V2); std::swap(V1Size, V2Size); } if (V1Size != ~0U && V2Size != ~0U) if (const User *GEP = isGEP(V1)) { std::vector GEPOperands; const Value *BasePtr = GetGEPOperands(V1, GEPOperands); AliasResult R = alias(BasePtr, V1Size, V2, V2Size); if (R == MustAlias) { // If there is at least one non-zero constant index, we know they cannot // alias. bool ConstantFound = false; bool AllZerosFound = true; for (unsigned i = 0, e = GEPOperands.size(); i != e; ++i) if (const Constant *C = dyn_cast(GEPOperands[i])) { if (!C->isNullValue()) { ConstantFound = true; AllZerosFound = false; break; } } else { AllZerosFound = false; } // If we have getelementptr , 0, 0, 0, 0, ... and V2 must aliases // the ptr, the end result is a must alias also. if (AllZerosFound) return MustAlias; if (ConstantFound) { if (V2Size <= 1 && V1Size <= 1) // Just pointer check? return NoAlias; // Otherwise we have to check to see that the distance is more than // the size of the argument... build an index vector that is equal to // the arguments provided, except substitute 0's for any variable // indexes we find... for (unsigned i = 0; i != GEPOperands.size(); ++i) if (!isa(GEPOperands[i]) || isa(GEPOperands[i])) GEPOperands[i] =Constant::getNullValue(GEPOperands[i]->getType()); int64_t Offset = getTargetData().getIndexedOffset(BasePtr->getType(), GEPOperands); if (Offset >= (int64_t)V2Size || Offset <= -(int64_t)V1Size) return NoAlias; } } } return MayAlias; } /// CheckGEPInstructions - Check two GEP instructions with known must-aliasing /// base pointers. This checks to see if the index expressions preclude the /// pointers from aliasing... AliasAnalysis::AliasResult BasicAliasAnalysis:: CheckGEPInstructions(const Type* BasePtr1Ty, std::vector &GEP1Ops, unsigned G1S, const Type *BasePtr2Ty, std::vector &GEP2Ops, unsigned G2S) { // We currently can't handle the case when the base pointers have different // primitive types. Since this is uncommon anyway, we are happy being // extremely conservative. if (BasePtr1Ty != BasePtr2Ty) return MayAlias; const Type *GEPPointerTy = BasePtr1Ty; // Find the (possibly empty) initial sequence of equal values... which are not // necessarily constants. unsigned NumGEP1Operands = GEP1Ops.size(), NumGEP2Operands = GEP2Ops.size(); unsigned MinOperands = std::min(NumGEP1Operands, NumGEP2Operands); unsigned MaxOperands = std::max(NumGEP1Operands, NumGEP2Operands); unsigned UnequalOper = 0; while (UnequalOper != MinOperands && GEP1Ops[UnequalOper] == GEP2Ops[UnequalOper]) { // Advance through the type as we go... ++UnequalOper; if (const CompositeType *CT = dyn_cast(BasePtr1Ty)) BasePtr1Ty = CT->getTypeAtIndex(GEP1Ops[UnequalOper-1]); else { // If all operands equal each other, then the derived pointers must // alias each other... BasePtr1Ty = 0; assert(UnequalOper == NumGEP1Operands && UnequalOper == NumGEP2Operands && "Ran out of type nesting, but not out of operands?"); return MustAlias; } } // If we have seen all constant operands, and run out of indexes on one of the // getelementptrs, check to see if the tail of the leftover one is all zeros. // If so, return mustalias. if (UnequalOper == MinOperands) { if (GEP1Ops.size() < GEP2Ops.size()) std::swap(GEP1Ops, GEP2Ops); bool AllAreZeros = true; for (unsigned i = UnequalOper; i != MaxOperands; ++i) if (!isa(GEP1Ops[i]) || !cast(GEP1Ops[i])->isNullValue()) { AllAreZeros = false; break; } if (AllAreZeros) return MustAlias; } // So now we know that the indexes derived from the base pointers, // which are known to alias, are different. We can still determine a // no-alias result if there are differing constant pairs in the index // chain. For example: // A[i][0] != A[j][1] iff (&A[0][1]-&A[0][0] >= std::max(G1S, G2S)) // unsigned SizeMax = std::max(G1S, G2S); if (SizeMax == ~0U) return MayAlias; // Avoid frivolous work... // Scan for the first operand that is constant and unequal in the // two getelemenptrs... unsigned FirstConstantOper = UnequalOper; for (; FirstConstantOper != MinOperands; ++FirstConstantOper) { const Value *G1Oper = GEP1Ops[FirstConstantOper]; const Value *G2Oper = GEP2Ops[FirstConstantOper]; if (G1Oper != G2Oper) // Found non-equal constant indexes... if (Constant *G1OC = dyn_cast(const_cast(G1Oper))) if (Constant *G2OC = dyn_cast(const_cast(G2Oper))) { // Make sure they are comparable (ie, not constant expressions)... // and make sure the GEP with the smaller leading constant is GEP1. Constant *Compare = ConstantExpr::get(Instruction::SetGT, G1OC, G2OC); if (ConstantBool *CV = dyn_cast(Compare)) { if (CV->getValue()) // If they are comparable and G2 > G1 std::swap(GEP1Ops, GEP2Ops); // Make GEP1 < GEP2 break; } } BasePtr1Ty = cast(BasePtr1Ty)->getTypeAtIndex(G1Oper); } // No shared constant operands, and we ran out of common operands. At this // point, the GEP instructions have run through all of their operands, and we // haven't found evidence that there are any deltas between the GEP's. // However, one GEP may have more operands than the other. If this is the // case, there may still be hope. This this now. if (FirstConstantOper == MinOperands) { // Make GEP1Ops be the longer one if there is a longer one. if (GEP1Ops.size() < GEP2Ops.size()) std::swap(GEP1Ops, GEP2Ops); // Is there anything to check? if (GEP1Ops.size() > MinOperands) { for (unsigned i = FirstConstantOper; i != MaxOperands; ++i) if (isa(GEP1Ops[i]) && !isa(GEP1Ops[i]) && !cast(GEP1Ops[i])->isNullValue()) { // Yup, there's a constant in the tail. Set all variables to // constants in the GEP instruction to make it suiteable for // TargetData::getIndexedOffset. for (i = 0; i != MaxOperands; ++i) if (!isa(GEP1Ops[i]) || isa(GEP1Ops[i])) GEP1Ops[i] = Constant::getNullValue(GEP1Ops[i]->getType()); // Okay, now get the offset. This is the relative offset for the full // instruction. const TargetData &TD = getTargetData(); int64_t Offset1 = TD.getIndexedOffset(GEPPointerTy, GEP1Ops); // Now crop off any constants from the end... GEP1Ops.resize(MinOperands); int64_t Offset2 = TD.getIndexedOffset(GEPPointerTy, GEP1Ops); // If the tail provided a bit enough offset, return noalias! if ((uint64_t)(Offset2-Offset1) >= SizeMax) return NoAlias; } } // Couldn't find anything useful. return MayAlias; } // If there are non-equal constants arguments, then we can figure // out a minimum known delta between the two index expressions... at // this point we know that the first constant index of GEP1 is less // than the first constant index of GEP2. // Advance BasePtr[12]Ty over this first differing constant operand. BasePtr2Ty = cast(BasePtr1Ty)->getTypeAtIndex(GEP2Ops[FirstConstantOper]); BasePtr1Ty = cast(BasePtr1Ty)->getTypeAtIndex(GEP1Ops[FirstConstantOper]); // We are going to be using TargetData::getIndexedOffset to determine the // offset that each of the GEP's is reaching. To do this, we have to convert // all variable references to constant references. To do this, we convert the // initial equal sequence of variables into constant zeros to start with. for (unsigned i = 0; i != FirstConstantOper; ++i) { if (!isa(GEP1Ops[i]) || isa(GEP1Ops[i]) || !isa(GEP2Ops[i]) || isa(GEP2Ops[i])) { GEP1Ops[i] = Constant::getNullValue(GEP1Ops[i]->getType()); GEP2Ops[i] = Constant::getNullValue(GEP2Ops[i]->getType()); } } // We know that GEP1Ops[FirstConstantOper] & GEP2Ops[FirstConstantOper] are ok // Loop over the rest of the operands... for (unsigned i = FirstConstantOper+1; i != MaxOperands; ++i) { const Value *Op1 = i < GEP1Ops.size() ? GEP1Ops[i] : 0; const Value *Op2 = i < GEP2Ops.size() ? GEP2Ops[i] : 0; // If they are equal, use a zero index... if (Op1 == Op2 && BasePtr1Ty == BasePtr2Ty) { if (!isa(Op1) || isa(Op1)) GEP1Ops[i] = GEP2Ops[i] = Constant::getNullValue(Op1->getType()); // Otherwise, just keep the constants we have. } else { if (Op1) { if (const ConstantInt *Op1C = dyn_cast(Op1)) { // If this is an array index, make sure the array element is in range. if (const ArrayType *AT = dyn_cast(BasePtr1Ty)) if (Op1C->getRawValue() >= AT->getNumElements()) return MayAlias; // Be conservative with out-of-range accesses } else { // GEP1 is known to produce a value less than GEP2. To be // conservatively correct, we must assume the largest possible // constant is used in this position. This cannot be the initial // index to the GEP instructions (because we know we have at least one // element before this one with the different constant arguments), so // we know that the current index must be into either a struct or // array. Because we know it's not constant, this cannot be a // structure index. Because of this, we can calculate the maximum // value possible. // if (const ArrayType *AT = dyn_cast(BasePtr1Ty)) GEP1Ops[i] = ConstantSInt::get(Type::LongTy,AT->getNumElements()-1); } } if (Op2) { if (const ConstantInt *Op2C = dyn_cast(Op2)) { // If this is an array index, make sure the array element is in range. if (const ArrayType *AT = dyn_cast(BasePtr1Ty)) if (Op2C->getRawValue() >= AT->getNumElements()) return MayAlias; // Be conservative with out-of-range accesses } else { // Conservatively assume the minimum value for this index GEP2Ops[i] = Constant::getNullValue(Op2->getType()); } } } if (BasePtr1Ty && Op1) { if (const CompositeType *CT = dyn_cast(BasePtr1Ty)) BasePtr1Ty = CT->getTypeAtIndex(GEP1Ops[i]); else BasePtr1Ty = 0; } if (BasePtr2Ty && Op2) { if (const CompositeType *CT = dyn_cast(BasePtr2Ty)) BasePtr2Ty = CT->getTypeAtIndex(GEP2Ops[i]); else BasePtr2Ty = 0; } } int64_t Offset1 = getTargetData().getIndexedOffset(GEPPointerTy, GEP1Ops); int64_t Offset2 = getTargetData().getIndexedOffset(GEPPointerTy, GEP2Ops); assert(Offset1 < Offset2 &&"There is at least one different constant here!"); if ((uint64_t)(Offset2-Offset1) >= SizeMax) { //std::cerr << "Determined that these two GEP's don't alias [" // << SizeMax << " bytes]: \n" << *GEP1 << *GEP2; return NoAlias; } return MayAlias; }