CreateControlFlowHub is a method that redirects control flow edges from a set of
incoming blocks to a set of outgoing blocks through a new set of "guard" blocks.
This is now refactored into a separate file with one enhancement: The input to
the method is now a set of branches rather than two sets of blocks.
The original implementation reroutes every edge from incoming blocks to outgoing
blocks. But it is possible that for some incoming block InBB, some successor S
might be in the set of outgoing blocks, but that particular edge should not be
rerouted. The new implementation makes this possible by allowing the user to
specify the targets of each branch that need to be rerouted.
This is needed when improving the implementation of FixIrreducible #101386.
Current use in FixIrreducible does not demonstrate this finer control over the
edges being rerouted. But in UnifyLoopExits, when only one successor of an
exiting block is an exit block, this refinement now reroutes only the relevant
control-flow through the edge; the non-exit successor is not rerouted. This
results in fewer branches and PHI nodes in the hub.
I'd reverted this in 6c7805d5d1 after a bad stage. Original commit
messsage follows:
[NFC][RemoveDIs] Bulk update utilities to insert with iterators
As part of the RemoveDIs project we need LLVM to insert instructions using
iterators wherever possible, so that the iterators can carry a bit of
debug-info. This commit implements some of that by updating the contents of
llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils to always use iterator-versions of instruction
constructors.
There are two general flavours of update:
* Almost all call-sites just call getIterator on an instruction
* Several make use of an existing iterator (scenarios where the code is
actually significant for debug-info)
The underlying logic is that any call to getFirstInsertionPt or similar
APIs that identify the start of a block need to have that iterator passed
directly to the insertion function, without being converted to a bare
Instruction pointer along the way.
I've also switched DemotePHIToStack to take an optional iterator: it needs
to take an iterator, and having a no-insert-location behaviour appears to
be important. The constructors for ICmpInst and FCmpInst have been updated
too. They're the only instructions that take block _references_ rather than
pointers for certain calls, and a future patch is going to make use of
default-null block insertion locations.
All of this should be NFC.
As part of the RemoveDIs project we need LLVM to insert instructions using
iterators wherever possible, so that the iterators can carry a bit of
debug-info. This commit implements some of that by updating the contents of
llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils to always use iterator-versions of instruction
constructors.
There are two general flavours of update:
* Almost all call-sites just call getIterator on an instruction
* Several make use of an existing iterator (scenarios where the code is
actually significant for debug-info)
The underlying logic is that any call to getFirstInsertionPt or similar
APIs that identify the start of a block need to have that iterator passed
directly to the insertion function, without being converted to a bare
Instruction pointer along the way.
I've also switched DemotePHIToStack to take an optional iterator: it needs
to take an iterator, and having a no-insert-location behaviour appears to
be important. The constructors for ICmpInst and FCmpInst have been updated
too. They're the only instructions that take block _references_ rather than
pointers for certain calls, and a future patch is going to make use of
default-null block insertion locations.
All of this should be NFC.
Some passes has limitation that only support simple terminators:
branch/unreachable/return. Right now, they ask the pass manager to add
LowerSwitch pass to eliminate `switch`. Let's manage such kind of pass
dependency by ourselves. Also add the assertion in the related passes.
The existing way of creating the predicate in the guard blocks uses
a boolean value per outgoing block. This increases the number of live
booleans as the number of outgoing blocks increases. The new way added
in this change is to store one integer to represent the outgoing block
we want to branch to, then at each guard block, an integer equality
check is performed to decide which a specific outgoing block is taken.
Using an integer reduces the number of live values and decreases
register pressure especially in cases where there are a large number
of outgoing blocks. The integer based approach is used when the
number of outgoing blocks crosses a threshold, which is currently set
to 32.
Patch by Ruiling Song.
Differential review: https://reviews.llvm.org/D127831
This reverts commit e13248ab0e79b59d5e5ac73e2fe57d82ce485ce1.
Need to revert because the transformation cannot occur for basic
blocks that contain convergent instructions.
UnifyLoopExits creates a single exit, a control flow hub, for
loops with multiple exits. There is an input to the block for
each loop exiting block and an output from the block for each
loop exit block. Multiple checks, or guard blocks, are needed
to branch to the correct exit block.
For large loops with lots of exit blocks, all the extra guard
blocks cause problems for StructurizeCFG and subsequent passes.
This patch reduces the number of guard blocks needed when the
exit blocks branch to a common block (e.g., an unreachable
block). The guard blocks are reduced by changing the inputs
and outputs of the control flow hub. The inputs are the exit
blocks and the outputs are the common block.
Reducing the guard blocks enables StructurizeCFG to reorder the
basic blocks in the CFG to reduce the values that exit a loop
with multiple exits. This reduces the compile-time of
StructurizeCFG and also reduces register pressure.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123230
This fixes warnings raised by Clang's new -Wsuggest-override, in preparation for enabling that warning in the LLVM build. This patch also removes the virtual keyword where redundant, but only in places where doing so improves consistency within a given file. It also removes a couple unnecessary virtual destructor declarations in derived classes where the destructor inherited from the base class is already virtual.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D83709
For each natural loop with multiple exit blocks, this pass creates a
new block N such that all exiting blocks now branch to N, and then
control flow is redistributed to all the original exit blocks.
The bulk of the tranformation is a new function introduced in
BasicBlockUtils that an redirect control flow from a set of incoming
blocks to a set of outgoing blocks via a common "hub".
This is a useful workaround for a limitation in the structurizer which
incorrectly orders blocks when processing a nest of loops. This pass
bypasses that issue by ensuring that each natural loop is recognized
as a separate region. Since the structurizer is a region pass, it no
longer sees a nest of loops in a single region, and instead processes
each "level" in the nesting as a separate region.
The AMDGPU backend provides a new option to enable this pass before
the structurizer, which may eventually be enabled by default.
Reviewers: madhur13490, arsenm, nhaehnle
Reviewed By: nhaehnle
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75865
