llvm/lib/Analysis
Andrew Trick 37aa33bc11 A new algorithm for computing LoopInfo. Temporarily disabled.
-stable-loops enables a new algorithm for generating the Loop
forest. It differs from the original algorithm in a few respects:

- Not determined by use-list order.
- Initially guarantees RPO order of block and subloops.
- Linear in the number of CFG edges.
- Nonrecursive.

I didn't want to change the LoopInfo API yet, so the block lists are
still inclusive. This seems strange to me, and it means that building
LoopInfo is not strictly linear, but it may not be a problem in
practice. At least the block lists start out in RPO order now. In the
future we may add an attribute or wrapper analysis that allows other
passes to assume RPO order.

The primary motivation of this work was not to optimize LoopInfo, but
to allow reproducing performance issues by decomposing the compilation
stages. I'm often unable to do this with the current LoopInfo, because
the loop tree order determines Loop pass order. Serializing the IR
tends to invert the order, which reverses the optimization order. This
makes it nearly impossible to debug interdependent loop optimizations
such as LSR.

I also believe this will provide more stable performance results across time.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@158790 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2012-06-20 05:23:33 +00:00
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IPA
AliasAnalysis.cpp Move the capture analysis from MemoryDependencyAnalysis to a more general place 2012-05-14 20:35:04 +00:00
AliasAnalysisCounter.cpp
AliasAnalysisEvaluator.cpp
AliasDebugger.cpp
AliasSetTracker.cpp
Analysis.cpp
BasicAliasAnalysis.cpp
BlockFrequencyInfo.cpp
BranchProbabilityInfo.cpp
CaptureTracking.cpp Fix intendation. 2012-05-10 23:38:07 +00:00
CFGPrinter.cpp
CMakeLists.txt
CodeMetrics.cpp A pile of long over-due refactorings here. There are some very, *very* 2012-05-04 00:58:03 +00:00
ConstantFolding.cpp Reapply r155682, making constant folding more consistent, with a fix to work 2012-04-27 17:50:22 +00:00
DbgInfoPrinter.cpp
DebugInfo.cpp Actually support DW_TAG_rvalue_reference_type that we were trying 2012-05-19 01:36:37 +00:00
DIBuilder.cpp Add support for enum forward declarations. 2012-06-01 00:22:32 +00:00
DominanceFrontier.cpp
DomPrinter.cpp
InlineCost.cpp Fix typos found by http://github.com/lyda/misspell-check 2012-06-02 10:20:22 +00:00
InstCount.cpp
InstructionSimplify.cpp Remove extraneous ';'. 2012-05-17 20:27:58 +00:00
Interval.cpp
IntervalPartition.cpp
IVUsers.cpp
LazyValueInfo.cpp allow LazyValueInfo::getEdgeValue() to reason about multiple edges from the same switch instruction by doing union of ranges (which may still be conservative, but it's more aggressive than before) 2012-05-18 21:02:10 +00:00
LibCallAliasAnalysis.cpp
LibCallSemantics.cpp
Lint.cpp
LLVMBuild.txt
Loads.cpp
LoopDependenceAnalysis.cpp
LoopInfo.cpp A new algorithm for computing LoopInfo. Temporarily disabled. 2012-06-20 05:23:33 +00:00
LoopPass.cpp
Makefile
MemDepPrinter.cpp Mark some static arrays as const. 2012-05-24 06:35:32 +00:00
MemoryBuiltins.cpp remove calls to calloc if the allocated memory is not used (it was already being done for malloc) 2012-05-03 22:08:19 +00:00
MemoryDependenceAnalysis.cpp Fix typos found by http://github.com/lyda/misspell-check 2012-06-02 10:20:22 +00:00
ModuleDebugInfoPrinter.cpp
NoAliasAnalysis.cpp
PathNumbering.cpp
PathProfileInfo.cpp
PathProfileVerifier.cpp
PHITransAddr.cpp
PostDominators.cpp
ProfileEstimatorPass.cpp
ProfileInfo.cpp
ProfileInfoLoader.cpp Round 2 of dead private variable removal. 2012-06-06 19:47:08 +00:00
ProfileInfoLoaderPass.cpp Round 2 of dead private variable removal. 2012-06-06 19:47:08 +00:00
ProfileVerifierPass.cpp
README.txt
RegionInfo.cpp Rename the Region::block_iterator to Region::block_node_iterator, and 2012-05-04 20:55:23 +00:00
RegionPass.cpp Rename the Region::block_iterator to Region::block_node_iterator, and 2012-05-04 20:55:23 +00:00
RegionPrinter.cpp Rename the Region::block_iterator to Region::block_node_iterator, and 2012-05-04 20:55:23 +00:00
ScalarEvolution.cpp Fix typos found by http://github.com/lyda/misspell-check 2012-06-02 10:20:22 +00:00
ScalarEvolutionAliasAnalysis.cpp
ScalarEvolutionExpander.cpp LSR fix: add a missing phi check during IV hoisting. 2012-05-22 17:39:59 +00:00
ScalarEvolutionNormalization.cpp
SparsePropagation.cpp
Trace.cpp
TypeBasedAliasAnalysis.cpp
ValueTracking.cpp Teach DeadStoreElimination to eliminate exit-block stores with phi addresses. 2012-05-10 18:57:38 +00:00

Analysis Opportunities:

//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//

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.

//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//

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))

//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//