Duncan P. N. Exon Smith 846a14340c blockfreq: Skip irreducible backedges inside functions
The branch that skips irreducible backedges was only active when
propagating mass at the top-level.  In particular, when propagating mass
through a loop recognized by `LoopInfo` with irreducible control flow
inside, irreducible backedges would not be skipped.

Not sure where that idea came from, but the result was that mass was
lost until after loop exit.  Added a testcase that covers this case.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@206860 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2014-04-22 03:31:53 +00:00
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Analysis Opportunities:

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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.

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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))

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