llvm-6502/include/llvm/Analysis/Loads.h
Hal Finkel 2c7c54c86c AA metadata refactoring (introduce AAMDNodes)
In order to enable the preservation of noalias function parameter information
after inlining, and the representation of block-level __restrict__ pointer
information (etc.), additional kinds of aliasing metadata will be introduced.
This metadata needs to be carried around in AliasAnalysis::Location objects
(and MMOs at the SDAG level), and so we need to generalize the current scheme
(which is hard-coded to just one TBAA MDNode*).

This commit introduces only the necessary refactoring to allow for the
introduction of other aliasing metadata types, but does not actually introduce
any (that will come in a follow-up commit). What it does introduce is a new
AAMDNodes structure to hold all of the aliasing metadata nodes associated with
a particular memory-accessing instruction, and uses that structure instead of
the raw MDNode* in AliasAnalysis::Location, etc.

No functionality change intended.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@213859 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2014-07-24 12:16:19 +00:00

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//===- Loads.h - Local load analysis --------------------------------------===//
//
// The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
//
// This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
// License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
//
// This file declares simple local analyses for load instructions.
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
#ifndef LLVM_ANALYSIS_LOADS_H
#define LLVM_ANALYSIS_LOADS_H
#include "llvm/IR/BasicBlock.h"
namespace llvm {
class AliasAnalysis;
class DataLayout;
class MDNode;
/// isSafeToLoadUnconditionally - Return true if we know that executing a load
/// from this value cannot trap. If it is not obviously safe to load from the
/// specified pointer, we do a quick local scan of the basic block containing
/// ScanFrom, to determine if the address is already accessed.
bool isSafeToLoadUnconditionally(Value *V, Instruction *ScanFrom,
unsigned Align,
const DataLayout *TD = nullptr);
/// FindAvailableLoadedValue - Scan the ScanBB block backwards (starting at
/// the instruction before ScanFrom) checking to see if we have the value at
/// the memory address *Ptr locally available within a small number of
/// instructions. If the value is available, return it.
///
/// If not, return the iterator for the last validated instruction that the
/// value would be live through. If we scanned the entire block and didn't
/// find something that invalidates *Ptr or provides it, ScanFrom would be
/// left at begin() and this returns null. ScanFrom could also be left
///
/// MaxInstsToScan specifies the maximum instructions to scan in the block.
/// If it is set to 0, it will scan the whole block. You can also optionally
/// specify an alias analysis implementation, which makes this more precise.
///
/// If AATags is non-null and a load or store is found, the AA tags from the
/// load or store are recorded there. If there are no AA tags or if no access
/// is found, it is left unmodified.
Value *FindAvailableLoadedValue(Value *Ptr, BasicBlock *ScanBB,
BasicBlock::iterator &ScanFrom,
unsigned MaxInstsToScan = 6,
AliasAnalysis *AA = nullptr,
AAMDNodes *AATags = nullptr);
}
#endif