…ntElimination
ArgumentPromotion and DeadArgumentElimination passes could change
function signatures but the function name remains the same as before the
transformation. This makes it hard for tracing with bpf programs where
user tends to use function signature in the source. See discussion [1]
for details.
This patch added suffix to functions whose signatures are changed. The
suffix lets users know that function signature has changed and they need
to impact the IR or binary to find modified signature before tracing
those functions.
The suffix for ArgumentPromotion is ".argprom" and the suffixes for
DeadArgumentElimination are ".argelim" and ".retelim". The suffix also
gives user hints about what kind of transformation has been done.
With this patch, I built a recent linux kernel with full LTO enabled. I
got 4 functions with only argpromotion like
```
set_track_update.argelim.argprom
pmd_trans_huge_lock.argprom
...
```
I got 1058 functions with only deadargelim like
```
process_bit0.argelim
pci_io_ecs_init.argelim
...
```
I got 3 functions with both argpromotion and deadargelim
```
set_track_update.argelim.argprom
zero_pud_populate.argelim.argprom
zero_pmd_populate.argelim.argprom
```
[1] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/104678
Support for the legacy pass manager in ArgPromotion causes
complications in D125485. As the legacy pass manager for middle-end
optimizations is unsupported, drop ArgPromotion from the legacy
pipeline, rather than introducing additional complexity to deal
with it.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128536
If a load with the same offset has already been seen but the load had
a lower alignment, the pass has to check whether the pointer is
dereferenceable and is sufficiently aligned (so, the new alignment must
be taken into account).
This rewrites ArgPromotion to be based on offsets rather than GEP
structure. We inspect all loads at constant offsets and remember
which types are loaded at which offsets. Then we promote based on
those types.
This generalizes ArgPromotion to work with bitcasted loads, and
is compatible with opaque pointers.
This patch also fixes incorrect handling of alignment during
argument promotion. Previously, the implementation only checked
that the pointer is dereferenceable, but was happy to speculate
overaligned loads. (I would have fixed this separately in advance,
but I found this hard to do with the previous implementation
approach).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118685
Before walking all the callers, check whether we have a
dereferenceable attribute directly on the argument.
Also make it clearer that the code currently does not treat
alignment correctly.
