llvm-6502/lib/Analysis
Hal Finkel 6f5c609076 Simplify and improve scoped-noalias metadata semantics
In the process of fixing the noalias parameter -> metadata conversion process
that will take place during inlining (which will be committed soon, but not
turned on by default), I have come to realize that the semantics provided by
yesterday's commit are not really what we want. Here's why:

void foo(noalias a, noalias b, noalias c, bool x) {
  *q = x ? a : b;
  *c = *q;
}

Generically, we know that *c does not alias with *a and with *b (so there is an
'and' in what we know we're not), and we know that *q might be derived from *a
or from *b (so there is an 'or' in what we know that we are). So we do not want
the semantics currently, where any noalias scope matching any alias.scope
causes a NoAlias return. What we want to know is that the noalias scopes form a
superset of the alias.scope list (meaning that all the things we know we're not
is a superset of all of things the other instruction might be).

Making that change, however, introduces a composibility problem. If we inline
once, adding the noalias metadata, and then inline again adding more, and we
append new scopes onto the noalias and alias.scope lists each time. But, this
means that we could change what was a NoAlias result previously into a MayAlias
result because we appended an additional scope onto one of the alias.scope
lists. So, instead of giving scopes the ability to have parents (which I had
borrowed from the TBAA implementation, but seems increasingly unlikely to be
useful in practice), I've given them domains. The subset/superset condition now
applies within each domain independently, and we only need it to hold in one
domain. Each time we inline, we add the new scopes in a new scope domain, and
everything now composes nicely. In addition, this simplifies the
implementation.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@213948 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2014-07-25 15:50:02 +00:00
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IPA Remove uses of the redundant ".reset(nullptr)" of unique_ptr, in favor of ".reset()" 2014-07-19 01:05:11 +00:00
AliasAnalysis.cpp AA metadata refactoring (introduce AAMDNodes) 2014-07-24 12:16:19 +00:00
AliasAnalysisCounter.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
AliasAnalysisEvaluator.cpp AA metadata refactoring (introduce AAMDNodes) 2014-07-24 12:16:19 +00:00
AliasDebugger.cpp [C++11] Add 'override' keyword to virtual methods that override their base class. 2014-03-05 07:30:04 +00:00
AliasSetTracker.cpp AA metadata refactoring (introduce AAMDNodes) 2014-07-24 12:16:19 +00:00
Analysis.cpp Add scoped-noalias metadata 2014-07-24 14:25:39 +00:00
BasicAliasAnalysis.cpp AA metadata refactoring (introduce AAMDNodes) 2014-07-24 12:16:19 +00:00
BlockFrequencyInfo.cpp Revert "Introduce a string_ostream string builder facilty" 2014-06-26 22:52:05 +00:00
BlockFrequencyInfoImpl.cpp BFI: Add constructor for Weight 2014-07-12 00:26:00 +00:00
BranchProbabilityInfo.cpp Revert "[C++11] Add predecessors(BasicBlock *) / successors(BasicBlock *) iterator ranges." 2014-07-21 17:06:51 +00:00
CaptureTracking.cpp Match semantics of PointerMayBeCapturedBefore to its name by default 2014-07-21 21:30:22 +00:00
CFG.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
CFGPrinter.cpp Clean up language and grammar. 2014-05-20 17:11:11 +00:00
CGSCCPassManager.cpp [PM] Add a new-PM-style CGSCC pass manager using the newly added 2014-04-21 11:12:00 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt Add scoped-noalias metadata 2014-07-24 14:25:39 +00:00
CodeMetrics.cpp Consistent use of the noduplicate attribute. 2014-03-17 16:19:07 +00:00
ConstantFolding.cpp Look through addrspacecast in IsConstantOffsetFromGlobal 2014-07-14 22:39:26 +00:00
CostModel.cpp [CostModel][x86] Improved cost model for alternate shuffles. 2014-07-03 22:24:18 +00:00
Delinearization.cpp remove BasePointer before delinearizing 2014-05-27 22:41:51 +00:00
DependenceAnalysis.cpp remove BasePointer before delinearizing 2014-05-27 22:41:51 +00:00
DominanceFrontier.cpp Templatify DominanceFrontier. 2014-07-12 21:59:52 +00:00
DomPrinter.cpp [PM] Split DominatorTree into a concrete analysis result object which 2014-01-13 13:07:17 +00:00
InstCount.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:48:03 +00:00
InstructionSimplify.cpp Rectify r213231. Use proper version of 'ComputeNumSignBits'. 2014-07-17 19:07:00 +00:00
Interval.cpp Revert "[C++11] Add predecessors(BasicBlock *) / successors(BasicBlock *) iterator ranges." 2014-07-21 17:06:51 +00:00
IntervalPartition.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
IVUsers.cpp Add back functionality removed in r210497. 2014-06-21 02:43:02 +00:00
JumpInstrTableInfo.cpp Add a new attribute called 'jumptable' that creates jump-instruction tables for functions marked with this attribute. 2014-06-05 19:29:43 +00:00
LazyCallGraph.cpp Fix typos 2014-05-15 01:52:21 +00:00
LazyValueInfo.cpp Revert "[C++11] Add predecessors(BasicBlock *) / successors(BasicBlock *) iterator ranges." 2014-07-21 17:06:51 +00:00
LibCallAliasAnalysis.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
LibCallSemantics.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
Lint.cpp Revert "Introduce a string_ostream string builder facilty" 2014-06-26 22:52:05 +00:00
LLVMBuild.txt
Loads.cpp AA metadata refactoring (introduce AAMDNodes) 2014-07-24 12:16:19 +00:00
LoopInfo.cpp Revert "[C++11] Add predecessors(BasicBlock *) / successors(BasicBlock *) iterator ranges." 2014-07-21 17:06:51 +00:00
LoopPass.cpp Add back functionality removed in r210497. 2014-06-21 02:43:02 +00:00
Makefile
MemDepPrinter.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
MemoryBuiltins.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:48:03 +00:00
MemoryDependenceAnalysis.cpp AA metadata refactoring (introduce AAMDNodes) 2014-07-24 12:16:19 +00:00
ModuleDebugInfoPrinter.cpp [C++11] Change DebugInfoFinder to use range-based loops 2014-03-18 09:41:07 +00:00
NoAliasAnalysis.cpp Improve BasicAA CS-CS queries (redux) 2014-07-17 01:28:25 +00:00
PHITransAddr.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
PostDominators.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:48:03 +00:00
PtrUseVisitor.cpp [C++11] Add range based accessors for the Use-Def chain of a Value. 2014-03-09 03:16:01 +00:00
README.txt
RegionInfo.cpp Fix msc17 build. RegionInfo::RegionInfo::recalculate() doesn't make sense. 2014-07-20 03:57:51 +00:00
RegionPass.cpp Templatify RegionInfo so it works on MachineBasicBlocks 2014-07-19 18:29:29 +00:00
RegionPrinter.cpp Templatify RegionInfo so it works on MachineBasicBlocks 2014-07-19 18:29:29 +00:00
ScalarEvolution.cpp Revert "[C++11] Add predecessors(BasicBlock *) / successors(BasicBlock *) iterator ranges." 2014-07-21 17:06:51 +00:00
ScalarEvolutionAliasAnalysis.cpp AA metadata refactoring (introduce AAMDNodes) 2014-07-24 12:16:19 +00:00
ScalarEvolutionExpander.cpp SCEVExpander: Fold constant PHIs harder. The logic below only understands proper IVs. 2014-06-21 11:47:18 +00:00
ScalarEvolutionNormalization.cpp test check-in: added missing parenthesis in comment 2014-05-28 19:03:33 +00:00
ScopedNoAliasAA.cpp Simplify and improve scoped-noalias metadata semantics 2014-07-25 15:50:02 +00:00
SparsePropagation.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:48:03 +00:00
TargetTransformInfo.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:48:03 +00:00
Trace.cpp Put the functionality for printing a value to a raw_ostream as an 2014-01-09 02:29:41 +00:00
TypeBasedAliasAnalysis.cpp Add scoped-noalias metadata 2014-07-24 14:25:39 +00:00
ValueTracking.cpp Make use of the align parameter attribute for all pointer arguments 2014-07-22 16:58:55 +00:00

Analysis Opportunities:

//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//

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.

//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//

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))

//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//