With this change ImplicitNullCheck optimization uses alias analysis and
can use load/store memory access for implicit null check if there are other
load/store before but memory accesses do not alias.
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Some comments inline.
lib/CodeGen/ImplicitNullChecks.cpp | ||
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374–385 | s/alias/aliases/ | |
380 | Can we pull the body of this loop out into a static helper? | |
386 | Can we return SR_Impossible here if the MachineInstr that was the store also has no mem operands? | |
393 | The indents are off -- please use clang-format. | |
402 | Maybe move this check up to avoid wasting work if AA isn't available? Btw, given the way you're getting AA, I'd expect it always be present since otherwise getAnalysis<AAResultsWrapperPass>().getAAResults() will have to be a null reference which is undefined behavior. | |
409 | What about multiple memoperands on the same machine instruction? |
Will prepapre an update.
lib/CodeGen/ImplicitNullChecks.cpp | ||
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374–385 | ok | |
380 | will do | |
386 | makes sense. | |
393 | sure | |
402 | we can be in a good shape even if AA is not available. Say if other instruction is a spill. See the previous check: PSV != null and PSV->mayAlias is false. So it is not good to move AA check earlier. WRT AA is not null I will double check your idea. | |
409 | Not sure it is possible but we can iterate over mem operands. |
lib/CodeGen/ImplicitNullChecks.cpp | ||
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409 | I'd also be happy with either of:
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Comments inline.
lib/CodeGen/ImplicitNullChecks.cpp | ||
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347 | Can we name this as a verb, like areMemoryOpsAliased? | |
364 | This clause is a bit odd -- without this clause, the nested loop returns SR_Suitable only if all pairs of mem operands are NoAlias. But this clause returns SR_Suitable even if one of PrevMI mem operands is a PseudoSourceValue with !PSV->mayAlias(MFI). Why do we have this difference? If we have to, I'd prefer checking for PseudoSourceValue in a loop only over PrevMI->memoperands() outside this nested loop. Also: can one of MI.memoperands() be a PseudoSourceValue? If not, please add an assert. | |
373 | Spacing is off here, but I'll run clang-format on the diff before pushing it so don't bother fixing it right now. | |
376 | s/SR_impossible/SR_Impossible/ | |
378 | This layering seems odd to me -- AliasMemoryOp should not return a SuitabilityResult IMO, since it has no idea on why it has been asked to compute aliasing between the two instructions. It almost feels like it should return a tri-stated AliasResult with AR_NoAlias, AR_MayAlias and AR_WillAliasEverything. That would be a bit more code, but I think the intent will be cleaner. |
addressed comments, please review.
Also I've run clang-format against ImplicitNullChecks.cpp and it shows a bit other issues not directly related to my change.
Specifically it does not like one-line enum. If you'd like I can fix it as well.
You can use git clang-format (after installing https://github.com/llvm-mirror/clang/blob/master/tools/clang-format/git-clang-format) to format just code touched by a specific commit. For instance, to format the code touched in the most recent commit, you can do git clang-format HEAD^.
Specifically it does not like one-line enum. If you'd like I can fix it as well.
The ImplicitNullChecks:: is not needed here, is it?
Also, I'd prefer plural here, as areMemoryOpsAliased.