Now that #149310 has restricted lifetime intrinsics to only work on
allocas, we can also drop the explicit size argument. Instead, the size
is implied by the alloca.
This removes the ability to only mark a prefix of an alloca alive/dead.
We never used that capability, so we should remove the need to handle
that possibility everywhere (though many key places, including stack
coloring, did not actually respect this).
lifetime.start and lifetime.end are primarily intended for use on
allocas, to enable stack coloring and other liveness optimizations. This
is necessary because all (static) allocas are hoisted into the entry
block, so lifetime markers are the only way to convey the actual
lifetimes.
However, lifetime.start and lifetime.end are currently *allowed* to be
used on non-alloca pointers. We don't actually do this in practice, but
just the mere fact that this is possible breaks the core purpose of the
lifetime markers, which is stack coloring of allocas. Stack coloring can
only work correctly if all lifetime markers for an alloca are
analyzable.
* If a lifetime marker may operate on multiple allocas via a select/phi,
we don't know which lifetime actually starts/ends and handle it
incorrectly (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/104776).
* Stack coloring operates on the assumption that all lifetime markers
are visible, and not, for example, hidden behind a function call or
escaped pointer. It's not possible to change this, as part of the
purpose of lifetime markers is that they work even in the presence of
escaped pointers, where simple use analysis is insufficient.
I don't think there is any way to have coherent semantics for lifetime
markers on allocas, while also permitting them on arbitrary pointer
values.
This PR restricts lifetimes to operate on allocas only. As a followup, I
will also drop the size argument, which is superfluous if we always
operate on an alloca. (This change also renders various code handling
lifetime markers on non-alloca dead. I plan to clean up that kind of
code after dropping the size argument as well.)
In practice, I've only found a few places that currently produce
lifetimes on non-allocas:
* CoroEarly replaces the promise alloca with the result of an intrinsic,
which will later be replaced back with an alloca. I think this is the
only place where there is some legitimate loss of functionality, but I
don't think this is particularly important (I don't think we'd expect
the promise in a coroutine to admit useful lifetime optimization.)
* SafeStack moves unsafe allocas onto a separate frame. We can safely
drop lifetimes here, as SafeStack performs its own stack coloring.
* Similar for AddressSanitizer, it also moves allocas into separate
memory.
* LSR sometimes replaces the lifetime argument with a GEP chain of the
alloca (where the offsets ultimately cancel out). This is just
unnecessary. (Fixed separately in
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/149492.)
* InferAddrSpaces sometimes makes lifetimes operate on an addrspacecast
of an alloca. I don't think this is necessary.
Fixes#78049
This patch has done:
- Ignore unreachable predecessors when looking for nearest common
dominator.
- Check catchswitch with `getFirstNonPHI`, instead of
`getFirstInsertionPt`. The latter skips EHPad.
Original patch (50b2a113db197a97f60ad2aace8b7382dc9b8c31) ignored the
fact that -ftrivial-auto-var-init could affect function parameters with
the sret attribute.
Just do not move instruction that don't affect alloca.
Also add missing test case for volatile instruction.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D148507
This could also move initialization of sret args, causing actually
initialized parts of such return values to be uninitialized. See
discussion on the code review.
> As a result of -ftrivial-auto-var-init, clang generates instructions to
> set alloca'd memory to a given pattern, right after the allocation site.
> In some cases, this (somehow costly) operation could be delayed, leading
> to conditional execution in some cases.
>
> This is not an uncommon situation: it happens ~500 times on the cPython
> code base, and much more on the LLVM codebase. The benefit greatly
> varies on the execution path, but it should not regress on performance.
>
> This is a recommit of cca01008cc31a891d0ec70aff2201b25d05d8f1b with
> MemorySSA update fixes.
>
> Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D137707
This reverts commit 50b2a113db197a97f60ad2aace8b7382dc9b8c31
and follow-up commit ad9ad3735c4821ff4651fab7537a75b8f0bb60f8.
As a result of -ftrivial-auto-var-init, clang generates instructions to
set alloca'd memory to a given pattern, right after the allocation site.
In some cases, this (somehow costly) operation could be delayed, leading
to conditional execution in some cases.
This is not an uncommon situation: it happens ~500 times on the cPython
code base, and much more on the LLVM codebase. The benefit greatly
varies on the execution path, but it should not regress on performance.
This is a recommit of cca01008cc31a891d0ec70aff2201b25d05d8f1b with
MemorySSA update fixes.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D137707
As a result of -ftrivial-auto-var-init, clang generates instructions to
set alloca'd memory to a given pattern, right after the allocation site.
In some cases, this (somehow costly) operation could be delayed, leading
to conditional execution in some cases.
This is not an uncommon situation: it happens ~500 times on the cPython
code base, and much more on the LLVM codebase. The benefit greatly
varies on the execution path, but it should not regress on performance.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D137707
