Nikita Popov bf23b4031e [ValueTracking] Take poison-generating metadata into account (PR59888)
In canCreateUndefOrPoison(), take not only poison-generating flags,
but also poison-generating metadata into account. The helpers are
written generically, but I believe the only case that can actually
matter is !range on calls -- !nonnull and !align are only valid on
loads, and those can create undef/poison anyway.

Unfortunately, this negatively impacts logical to bitwise and/or
conversion: For ctpop/ctlz/cttz we always attach !range metadata,
which will now block the transform, because it might introduce
poison. It would be possible to recover this regression by supporting
a ConsiderFlagsAndMetadata=false mode in impliesPoison() and clearing
flags/metadata on visited instructions.

Fixes https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/59888.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D142115
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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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