Johannes Doerfert ce8928f2e4 [Mem2Reg] Teach promote to register about droppable instructions
This is the first of two patches to address PR46753. We basically allow
mem2reg to promote allocas that are used in doppable instructions, for
now that means `llvm.assume`. The uses of the alloca (or a bitcast or
zero offset GEP from there) are replaced by `undef` in the droppable
instructions.

Reviewed By: Tyker

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D83976
2020-07-24 15:15:38 -05:00
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2020-07-14 13:08:49 -07:00
2020-02-18 10:49:13 +08:00

Analysis Opportunities:

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In test/Transforms/LoopStrengthReduce/quadradic-exit-value.ll, the
ScalarEvolution expression for %r is this:

  {1,+,3,+,2}<loop>

Outside the loop, this could be evaluated simply as (%n * %n), however
ScalarEvolution currently evaluates it as

  (-2 + (2 * (trunc i65 (((zext i64 (-2 + %n) to i65) * (zext i64 (-1 + %n) to i65)) /u 2) to i64)) + (3 * %n))

In addition to being much more complicated, it involves i65 arithmetic,
which is very inefficient when expanded into code.

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In formatValue in test/CodeGen/X86/lsr-delayed-fold.ll,

ScalarEvolution is forming this expression:

((trunc i64 (-1 * %arg5) to i32) + (trunc i64 %arg5 to i32) + (-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32)))

This could be folded to

(-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32))

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