llvm-6502/lib/IR
Hal Finkel 16fd27b2c3 Add scoped-noalias metadata
This commit adds scoped noalias metadata. The primary motivations for this
feature are:
  1. To preserve noalias function attribute information when inlining
  2. To provide the ability to model block-scope C99 restrict pointers

Neither of these two abilities are added here, only the necessary
infrastructure. In fact, there should be no change to existing functionality,
only the addition of new features. The logic that converts noalias function
parameters into this metadata during inlining will come in a follow-up commit.

What is added here is the ability to generally specify noalias memory-access
sets. Regarding the metadata, alias-analysis scopes are defined similar to TBAA
nodes:

!scope0 = metadata !{ metadata !"scope of foo()" }
!scope1 = metadata !{ metadata !"scope 1", metadata !scope0 }
!scope2 = metadata !{ metadata !"scope 2", metadata !scope0 }
!scope3 = metadata !{ metadata !"scope 2.1", metadata !scope2 }
!scope4 = metadata !{ metadata !"scope 2.2", metadata !scope2 }

Loads and stores can be tagged with an alias-analysis scope, and also, with a
noalias tag for a specific scope:

... = load %ptr1, !alias.scope !{ !scope1 }
... = load %ptr2, !alias.scope !{ !scope1, !scope2 }, !noalias !{ !scope1 }

When evaluating an aliasing query, if one of the instructions is associated
with an alias.scope id that is identical to the noalias scope associated with
the other instruction, or is a descendant (in the scope hierarchy) of the
noalias scope associated with the other instruction, then the two memory
accesses are assumed not to alias.

Note that is the first element of the scope metadata is a string, then it can
be combined accross functions and translation units. The string can be replaced
by a self-reference to create globally unqiue scope identifiers.

[Note: This overview is slightly stylized, since the metadata nodes really need
to just be numbers (!0 instead of !scope0), and the scope lists are also global
unnamed metadata.]

Existing noalias metadata in a callee is "cloned" for use by the inlined code.
This is necessary because the aliasing scopes are unique to each call site
(because of possible control dependencies on the aliasing properties). For
example, consider a function: foo(noalias a, noalias b) { *a = *b; } that gets
inlined into bar() { ... if (...) foo(a1, b1); ... if (...) foo(a2, b2); } --
now just because we know that a1 does not alias with b1 at the first call site,
and a2 does not alias with b2 at the second call site, we cannot let inlining
these functons have the metadata imply that a1 does not alias with b2.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@213864 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2014-07-24 14:25:39 +00:00
..
AsmWriter.cpp IR: Aliases don't belong to an explicit comdat 2014-07-10 16:26:10 +00:00
AsmWriter.h
AttributeImpl.h Add a dereferenceable attribute 2014-07-18 15:51:28 +00:00
Attributes.cpp Add a dereferenceable attribute 2014-07-18 15:51:28 +00:00
AutoUpgrade.cpp Rename metadata llvm.loop.vectorize.unroll to llvm.loop.vectorize.interleave. 2014-07-21 23:11:03 +00:00
BasicBlock.cpp Revert "[C++11] Add predecessors(BasicBlock *) / successors(BasicBlock *) iterator ranges." 2014-07-21 17:06:51 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt
Comdat.cpp
ConstantFold.cpp IR: Fold away compares between GV GEPs and GVs 2014-07-04 22:05:26 +00:00
ConstantFold.h
ConstantRange.cpp
Constants.cpp InstCombine: Don't turn -(x/INT_MIN) -> x/INT_MIN 2014-07-02 06:07:09 +00:00
ConstantsContext.h
Core.cpp Update the MemoryBuffer API to use ErrorOr. 2014-07-06 17:43:13 +00:00
DataLayout.cpp
DebugInfo.cpp Revert "Reapply "DebugInfo: Ensure that all debug location scope chains from instructions within a function, lead to the function itself."""" 2014-07-18 23:57:20 +00:00
DebugLoc.cpp
DiagnosticInfo.cpp Rename DiagnosticInfoOptimizationWarning to DiagnosticInfoOptimizationFailure 2014-07-18 19:36:04 +00:00
DiagnosticPrinter.cpp
DIBuilder.cpp
Dominators.cpp Revert "[C++11] Add predecessors(BasicBlock *) / successors(BasicBlock *) iterator ranges." 2014-07-21 17:06:51 +00:00
Function.cpp Add a dereferenceable attribute 2014-07-18 15:51:28 +00:00
GCOV.cpp Update the MemoryBuffer API to use ErrorOr. 2014-07-06 17:43:13 +00:00
Globals.cpp
GVMaterializer.cpp
InlineAsm.cpp
Instruction.cpp
Instructions.cpp Add CreatePointerBitCastOrAddrSpaceCast to IRBuilder and co. 2014-07-14 17:24:35 +00:00
IntrinsicInst.cpp
IRBuilder.cpp Add scoped-noalias metadata 2014-07-24 14:25:39 +00:00
IRPrintingPasses.cpp
LeakDetector.cpp
LeaksContext.h
LegacyPassManager.cpp
LLVMBuild.txt
LLVMContext.cpp Add scoped-noalias metadata 2014-07-24 14:25:39 +00:00
LLVMContextImpl.cpp
LLVMContextImpl.h
Makefile
Mangler.cpp
MDBuilder.cpp Add scoped-noalias metadata 2014-07-24 14:25:39 +00:00
Metadata.cpp Add scoped-noalias metadata 2014-07-24 14:25:39 +00:00
Module.cpp IR: cleanup Module::dropReferences 2014-07-03 16:12:55 +00:00
module.modulemap
Pass.cpp
PassManager.cpp Remove unnecessary/redundant std::move 2014-07-16 17:09:21 +00:00
PassRegistry.cpp
SymbolTableListTraitsImpl.h
Type.cpp
TypeFinder.cpp
Use.cpp
User.cpp
Value.cpp Handle AddrSpaceCast in stripAndAccumulateInBoundsConstantOffsets 2014-07-19 03:32:02 +00:00
ValueSymbolTable.cpp
ValueTypes.cpp
Verifier.cpp Revert "[C++11] Add predecessors(BasicBlock *) / successors(BasicBlock *) iterator ranges." 2014-07-21 17:06:51 +00:00