BasicAA currently has an optional dependency on the PhiValues
analysis. However, at least with our current pipeline setup, we
never actually make use of it. It's possible that this used to work
with the legacy pass manager, but I'm not sure of that either.
Given that this analysis has not actually been in use for a long
time, and nobody noticed or complained, I think we should drop
support for it and focus on one code path. It is worth noting that
analysis quality for the non-PhiValues case has significantly
improved in the meantime.
If we really wanted to make use of PhiValues, the right way would
probably be to pass it in via AAQI in places we want to use it,
rather than using an optional pass manager dependency (which are
an unpredictable PITA and should really only ever be used for
analyses that are only preserved and not used).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D139719
With opaque pointers, we cannot use the pointer element type to
determine the LocationSize for the AA query. Instead, -aa-eval
tests are now required to have an explicit load or store for any
pointer they want to compute alias results for, and the load/store
types are used to determine the location size.
This may affect ordering of results, and sorting within one result,
as the type is not considered part of the sorted string anymore.
To somewhat minimize the churn, printing still uses faux typed
pointer notation.
BasicAA knows how to analyze phis, but to control compile time, we're fairly limited in doing so. This patch loosens that restriction just slightly when there is exactly one phi input (after discounting induction variable increments). The result of this is that we can handle more cases around nested and sibling loops with pointer induction variables.
A few points to note.
* This is deliberately extremely restrictive about recursing through at most one input of the phi. There's a known general problem with BasicAA sometimes hitting exponential compile time already, and this patch makes every effort not to compound the problem. Once the root issue is fixed, we can probably loosen the restrictions here a bit.
* As seen in the test file, we're still missing cases which aren't *directly* based on phis (e.g. using the indvar increment). I believe this to be a separate problem and am going to explore this in another patch once this one lands.
* As seen in the test file, this results in the unfortunate fact that using phivalues sometimes results in worse quality results. I believe this comes down to an oversight in how recursive phi detection was implemented for phivalues. I'm happy to tackle this in a follow up change.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97401
This reverts commit 43a569faeb332ae8b355fffc33eec1ef6e33052e.
Unhelpfully, the tool just added the header and didn't actually update any of the tests. I didn't notice until after pushing.
Temporarily revert commit 8b1c4e310c2f9686cad925ad81d8e2be10a1ef3c.
After 8b1c4e310c2f the compile-time for `MultiSource/Benchmarks/MiBench/consumer-lame`
dramatically increases with -O3 & LTO, causing issues for builders with
that configuration.
I filed PR48553 with a smallish reproducer that shows a 10-100x compile
time increase.
If we have two unknown sizes and one GEP operand and one non-GEP
operand, then we currently simply return MayAlias. The comment says
we can't do anything useful ... but we can! We can still check that
the underlying objects are different (and do so for the GEP-GEP case).
To reduce the compile-time impact, this a) checks this early, before
doing the relatively expensive GEP decomposition that will not be
used and b) doesn't do the check if the other operand is a phi or
select. In that case, the phi/select will already recurse, so this
would just do two slightly different recursive walks that arrive at
the same roots.
Compile-time is still a bit of a mixed bag: https://llvm-compile-time-tracker.com/compare.php?from=624af932a808b363a888139beca49f57313d9a3b&to=845356e14adbe651a553ed11318ddb5e79a24bcd&stat=instructions
On average this is a small improvement, but sqlite with ThinLTO has
a 0.5% regression (lencod has a 1% improvement).
The BasicAA test case checks this by using two memsets with unknown
size. However, the more interesting case where this is useful is
the LoopVectorize test case, as analysis of accesses in loops tends
to always us unknown sizes.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D92401
For recursive phis, we skip the recursive operands and check that
the remaining operands are NoAlias with an unknown size. Currently,
this is limited to inbounds GEPs with positive offsets, to
guarantee that the recursion only ever increases the pointer.
Make this more general by only requiring that the underlying object
of the phi operand is the phi itself, i.e. it it based on itself in
some way. To compensate, we need to use a beforeOrAfterPointer()
location size, as we no longer have the guarantee that the pointer
is strictly increasing.
This allows us to handle some additional cases like negative geps,
geps with dynamic offsets or geps that aren't inbounds.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91914
This option was added a while back, to help improve AA around pointer
phi loops. It looks for phi(gep(phi, const), x) loops, checking if x can
then prove more precise aliasing info.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D82998
As shown in D82998, the basic-aa-recphi option can cause miscompiles for
gep's with negative constants. The option checks for recursive phi, that
recurse through a contant gep. If it finds one, it performs aliasing
calculations using the other phi operands with an unknown size, to
specify that an unknown number of elements after the initial value are
potentially accessed. This works fine expect where the constant is
negative, as the size is still considered to be positive. So this patch
expands the check to make sure that the constant is also positive.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D83576
This option was added a while back, to help improve AA around pointer
phi loops. It looks for phi(gep(phi, const), x) loops, checking if x can
then prove more precise aliasing info.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D82998
With the option -basic-aa-recphi we can detect recursive phis that loop
through constant geps, which allows us to detect more no-alias case for
pointer IV's. If the other phi operand and the other alias value are
MustAlias though, we cannot presume that every element in the loop is
also MustAlias. We need to instead be conservative and return MayAlias.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D82987
