llvm/lib/IR
Hal Finkel 16fd27b2c3 Add scoped-noalias metadata
This commit adds scoped noalias metadata. The primary motivations for this
feature are:
  1. To preserve noalias function attribute information when inlining
  2. To provide the ability to model block-scope C99 restrict pointers

Neither of these two abilities are added here, only the necessary
infrastructure. In fact, there should be no change to existing functionality,
only the addition of new features. The logic that converts noalias function
parameters into this metadata during inlining will come in a follow-up commit.

What is added here is the ability to generally specify noalias memory-access
sets. Regarding the metadata, alias-analysis scopes are defined similar to TBAA
nodes:

!scope0 = metadata !{ metadata !"scope of foo()" }
!scope1 = metadata !{ metadata !"scope 1", metadata !scope0 }
!scope2 = metadata !{ metadata !"scope 2", metadata !scope0 }
!scope3 = metadata !{ metadata !"scope 2.1", metadata !scope2 }
!scope4 = metadata !{ metadata !"scope 2.2", metadata !scope2 }

Loads and stores can be tagged with an alias-analysis scope, and also, with a
noalias tag for a specific scope:

... = load %ptr1, !alias.scope !{ !scope1 }
... = load %ptr2, !alias.scope !{ !scope1, !scope2 }, !noalias !{ !scope1 }

When evaluating an aliasing query, if one of the instructions is associated
with an alias.scope id that is identical to the noalias scope associated with
the other instruction, or is a descendant (in the scope hierarchy) of the
noalias scope associated with the other instruction, then the two memory
accesses are assumed not to alias.

Note that is the first element of the scope metadata is a string, then it can
be combined accross functions and translation units. The string can be replaced
by a self-reference to create globally unqiue scope identifiers.

[Note: This overview is slightly stylized, since the metadata nodes really need
to just be numbers (!0 instead of !scope0), and the scope lists are also global
unnamed metadata.]

Existing noalias metadata in a callee is "cloned" for use by the inlined code.
This is necessary because the aliasing scopes are unique to each call site
(because of possible control dependencies on the aliasing properties). For
example, consider a function: foo(noalias a, noalias b) { *a = *b; } that gets
inlined into bar() { ... if (...) foo(a1, b1); ... if (...) foo(a2, b2); } --
now just because we know that a1 does not alias with b1 at the first call site,
and a2 does not alias with b2 at the second call site, we cannot let inlining
these functons have the metadata imply that a1 does not alias with b2.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@213864 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2014-07-24 14:25:39 +00:00
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AsmWriter.cpp IR: Aliases don't belong to an explicit comdat 2014-07-10 16:26:10 +00:00
AsmWriter.h IR: Add COMDATs to the IR 2014-06-27 18:19:56 +00:00
AttributeImpl.h Add a dereferenceable attribute 2014-07-18 15:51:28 +00:00
Attributes.cpp Add a dereferenceable attribute 2014-07-18 15:51:28 +00:00
AutoUpgrade.cpp Rename metadata llvm.loop.vectorize.unroll to llvm.loop.vectorize.interleave. 2014-07-21 23:11:03 +00:00
BasicBlock.cpp Revert "[C++11] Add predecessors(BasicBlock *) / successors(BasicBlock *) iterator ranges." 2014-07-21 17:06:51 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt IR: Add COMDATs to the IR 2014-06-27 18:19:56 +00:00
Comdat.cpp IR: Add COMDATs to the IR 2014-06-27 18:19:56 +00:00
ConstantFold.cpp IR: Fold away compares between GV GEPs and GVs 2014-07-04 22:05:26 +00:00
ConstantFold.h
ConstantRange.cpp [Modules] Move the ConstantRange class into the IR library. This is 2014-03-04 12:24:34 +00:00
Constants.cpp InstCombine: Don't turn -(x/INT_MIN) -> x/INT_MIN 2014-07-02 06:07:09 +00:00
ConstantsContext.h Try to fix the msvc build. 2014-04-29 23:37:02 +00:00
Core.cpp Update the MemoryBuffer API to use ErrorOr. 2014-07-06 17:43:13 +00:00
DataLayout.cpp Revert "Introduce a string_ostream string builder facilty" 2014-06-26 22:52:05 +00:00
DebugInfo.cpp Revert "Reapply "DebugInfo: Ensure that all debug location scope chains from instructions within a function, lead to the function itself."""" 2014-07-18 23:57:20 +00:00
DebugLoc.cpp Add missing const specifier to a const method. 2014-06-05 14:32:15 +00:00
DiagnosticInfo.cpp Rename DiagnosticInfoOptimizationWarning to DiagnosticInfoOptimizationFailure 2014-07-18 19:36:04 +00:00
DiagnosticPrinter.cpp Report a warning when dropping outdated debug info metadata. 2014-01-16 01:51:12 +00:00
DIBuilder.cpp Debug info: split out complex DIVariable address expressions into a 2014-06-30 17:17:35 +00:00
Dominators.cpp Revert "[C++11] Add predecessors(BasicBlock *) / successors(BasicBlock *) iterator ranges." 2014-07-21 17:06:51 +00:00
Function.cpp Add a dereferenceable attribute 2014-07-18 15:51:28 +00:00
GCOV.cpp Update the MemoryBuffer API to use ErrorOr. 2014-07-06 17:43:13 +00:00
Globals.cpp IR: Add COMDATs to the IR 2014-06-27 18:19:56 +00:00
GVMaterializer.cpp [Layering] Move GVMaterializer.h into the IR library where its 2014-03-06 03:50:29 +00:00
InlineAsm.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion or in some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-09 06:08:46 +00:00
Instruction.cpp IR: add "cmpxchg weak" variant to support permitted failure. 2014-06-13 14:24:07 +00:00
Instructions.cpp Add CreatePointerBitCastOrAddrSpaceCast to IRBuilder and co. 2014-07-14 17:24:35 +00:00
IntrinsicInst.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion or in some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-09 06:08:46 +00:00
IRBuilder.cpp Add scoped-noalias metadata 2014-07-24 14:25:39 +00:00
IRPrintingPasses.cpp Fix some misplaced spaces around 'override' 2014-05-24 20:19:40 +00:00
LeakDetector.cpp [Modules] Move the LeakDetector header into the IR library where the 2014-03-04 12:46:06 +00:00
LeaksContext.h [C++] Use 'nullptr'. 2014-04-28 04:05:08 +00:00
LegacyPassManager.cpp Add C API for thread yielding callback. 2014-05-16 02:33:15 +00:00
LLVMBuild.txt
LLVMContext.cpp Add scoped-noalias metadata 2014-07-24 14:25:39 +00:00
LLVMContextImpl.cpp Remove LLVMContextImpl::optimizationRemarkEnabledFor. 2014-05-22 17:19:01 +00:00
LLVMContextImpl.h Remove LLVMContextImpl::optimizationRemarkEnabledFor. 2014-05-22 17:19:01 +00:00
Makefile Actually update the CMake and Makefile builds correctly, and update the 2013-01-02 12:09:16 +00:00
Mangler.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion or in some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-09 06:08:46 +00:00
MDBuilder.cpp Add scoped-noalias metadata 2014-07-24 14:25:39 +00:00
Metadata.cpp Add scoped-noalias metadata 2014-07-24 14:25:39 +00:00
Module.cpp IR: cleanup Module::dropReferences 2014-07-03 16:12:55 +00:00
module.modulemap [modules] Add module maps for LLVM. These are not quite ready for prime-time 2014-05-21 02:46:14 +00:00
Pass.cpp Remove pimpl class from PassRegistry. 2014-06-12 16:06:51 +00:00
PassManager.cpp Remove unnecessary/redundant std::move 2014-07-16 17:09:21 +00:00
PassRegistry.cpp Remove pimpl class from PassRegistry. 2014-06-12 16:06:51 +00:00
SymbolTableListTraitsImpl.h [C++] Use 'nullptr'. 2014-04-28 04:05:08 +00:00
Type.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 06:32:26 +00:00
TypeFinder.cpp TypeFinder: prefer iterative algorithm to keep stack usage low. 2013-10-16 04:10:06 +00:00
Use.cpp Fix some doc and comment typos 2014-04-09 14:47:27 +00:00
User.cpp Disable Visual C++ warning 4722 about aborting a destructor, 2014-03-25 08:42:49 +00:00
Value.cpp Handle AddrSpaceCast in stripAndAccumulateInBoundsConstantOffsets 2014-07-19 03:32:02 +00:00
ValueSymbolTable.cpp [Modules] Remove potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:02:50 +00:00
ValueTypes.cpp Add v4f16 to supported value types. 2013-10-03 03:29:21 +00:00
Verifier.cpp Revert "[C++11] Add predecessors(BasicBlock *) / successors(BasicBlock *) iterator ranges." 2014-07-21 17:06:51 +00:00