Silviu Baranga a420a14276 [LAA] Fix estimation of number of memchecks
Summary:
We need to add a runtime memcheck for pair of accesses (x,y) where at least one of x and y
are writes.
 
Assuming we have w writes and r reads, currently this number is  estimated as being
w* (w+r-1). This estimation will count (write,write) pairs twice and will overestimate
the number of checks required.

This change adds a getNumberOfChecks method to RuntimePointerCheck, which
will count the number of runtime checks needed (similar in implementation to
needsAnyChecking) and uses it to produce the correct number of runtime checks.

Test Plan:
llvm test suite
spec2k
spec2k6

Performance results: no changes observed (not surprising since the formula for 1 writer is basically the same, which would covers most cases - at least with the current check limit).

Reviewers: anemet

Reviewed By: anemet

Subscribers: mzolotukhin, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10217

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@239295 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2015-06-08 10:27:06 +00:00
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2015-03-16 17:49:03 +00:00

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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