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Do not propagate DebugLoc across basic blocks
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Authored by twoh on Jan 28 2017, 3:50 PM.

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Summary

DebugLoc shouldn't be propagated across basic blocks to prevent incorrect stepping and imprecise sample profile result. rL288903 addressed the wrong DebugLoc propagation issue by limiting the copy of DebugLoc when GVN removes a fully redundant load that is dominated by some other load. However, DebugLoc is still incorrectly propagated in the following example:

1:  extern int g;
2: 
3:  void foo(int x, int y, int z) {
4:    if (x)
5:      g = 0;
6:    else
7:      g = 1;
8:
9:    int i = 0;
10:   for ( ; i < y ; i++)
11:     if (i > z)
12:       g++;
13: }

Below is LLVM IR representation of the program before GVN:

@g = external local_unnamed_addr global i32, align 4

; Function Attrs: nounwind uwtable
define void @foo(i32 %x, i32 %y, i32 %z) local_unnamed_addr #0 !dbg !4 {
entry:
  %not.tobool = icmp eq i32 %x, 0, !dbg !8
  %.sink = zext i1 %not.tobool to i32, !dbg !8
  store i32 %.sink, i32* @g, align 4, !tbaa !9
  %cmp8 = icmp sgt i32 %y, 0, !dbg !13
  br i1 %cmp8, label %for.body.preheader, label %for.end, !dbg !17

for.body.preheader:                               ; preds = %entry
  br label %for.body, !dbg !19

for.body:                                         ; preds = %for.body.preheader, %for.inc
  %i.09 = phi i32 [ %inc4, %for.inc ], [ 0, %for.body.preheader ]
  %cmp1 = icmp sgt i32 %i.09, %z, !dbg !19
  br i1 %cmp1, label %if.then2, label %for.inc, !dbg !21

if.then2:                                         ; preds = %for.body
  %0 = load i32, i32* @g, align 4, !dbg !22, !tbaa !9
  %inc = add nsw i32 %0, 1, !dbg !22
  store i32 %inc, i32* @g, align 4, !dbg !22, !tbaa !9
  br label %for.inc, !dbg !23

for.inc:                                          ; preds = %for.body, %if.then2
  %inc4 = add nuw nsw i32 %i.09, 1, !dbg !24
  %exitcond = icmp ne i32 %inc4, %y, !dbg !13
  br i1 %exitcond, label %for.body, label %for.end.loopexit, !dbg !17

for.end.loopexit:                                 ; preds = %for.inc
  br label %for.end, !dbg !26

for.end:                                          ; preds = %for.end.loopexit, %entry
  ret void, !dbg !26
}

where

!21 = !DILocation(line: 11, column: 9, scope: !15)
!22 = !DILocation(line: 12, column: 8, scope: !20)
!23 = !DILocation(line: 12, column: 7, scope: !20)
!24 = !DILocation(line: 10, column: 20, scope: !25)

And below is after GVN:

@g = external local_unnamed_addr global i32, align 4

define void @foo(i32 %x, i32 %y, i32 %z) local_unnamed_addr !dbg !4 {
entry:
  %not.tobool = icmp eq i32 %x, 0, !dbg !8
  %.sink = zext i1 %not.tobool to i32, !dbg !8
  store i32 %.sink, i32* @g, align 4, !tbaa !9
  %cmp8 = icmp sgt i32 %y, 0, !dbg !13
  br i1 %cmp8, label %for.body.preheader, label %for.end, !dbg !17

for.body.preheader:                               ; preds = %entry
  br label %for.body, !dbg !19

for.body:                                         ; preds = %for.inc, %for.body.preheader
  %0 = phi i32 [ %1, %for.inc ], [ %.sink, %for.body.preheader ], !dbg !21
  %i.09 = phi i32 [ %inc4, %for.inc ], [ 0, %for.body.preheader ]
  %cmp1 = icmp sgt i32 %i.09, %z, !dbg !19
  br i1 %cmp1, label %if.then2, label %for.inc, !dbg !22

if.then2:                                         ; preds = %for.body
  %inc = add nsw i32 %0, 1, !dbg !21
  store i32 %inc, i32* @g, align 4, !dbg !21, !tbaa !9
  br label %for.inc, !dbg !23

for.inc:                                          ; preds = %if.then2, %for.body
  %1 = phi i32 [ %inc, %if.then2 ], [ %0, %for.body ]
  %inc4 = add nuw nsw i32 %i.09, 1, !dbg !24
  %exitcond = icmp ne i32 %inc4, %y, !dbg !13
  br i1 %exitcond, label %for.body, label %for.end.loopexit, !dbg !17

for.end.loopexit:                                 ; preds = %for.inc
  br label %for.end, !dbg !26

for.end:                                          ; preds = %for.end.loopexit, %entry
  ret void, !dbg !26
}

As you see, GVN removes the load in if.then2 block and creates a phi instruction in for.body for it. The problem is that DebugLoc of remove load instruction is propagated to the newly created phi instruction, which is wrong. rL288903 cannot handle this case because ValuesPerBlock.size() is not 1 in this example when the load is removed.

Event Timeline

twoh created this revision.Jan 28 2017, 3:50 PM
twoh edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)Jan 28 2017, 3:51 PM
twoh edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)
davide added a subscriber: davide.Jan 28 2017, 3:54 PM
davide added inline comments.
test/Transforms/GVN/debugloc.ll
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Can you please add the same test to NewGVN (and XFAIL for now)

twoh updated this revision to Diff 86199.Jan 28 2017, 10:33 PM

Improve the test and added to NewGVN as well (with XFAIL).

wolfgangp edited edge metadata.Jan 31 2017, 11:30 AM

This looks good to me, but I'd like Andrea to take a look as well.

andreadb accepted this revision.Jan 31 2017, 12:38 PM

This patch looks good to me.

We shouldn't propagate the debugloc from the load to the newly created phi node. Otherwise, we risk to introduce an incorrect stepping. When leaving the SSA form, all the phi nodes are replaced by COPY instructions. Luckily, most copies become redundant after regalloc; however, some copies may survive register allocation.
In the example, if the COPY obtained from %0 = phi i32 [ %1, %for.inc ], [ %.sink, %for.body.preheader ], !dbg !21 survives regalloc, then we would have an incorrect stepping.

Thanks for fixing it.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jan 31 2017, 12:38 PM
twoh closed this revision.Jan 31 2017, 1:08 PM