Don't phrase the semantics in terms of the optimizer. Instead have a
more straightforward execution based semantic.
Reviewed By: ebrevnov
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D63439
This patch clarifies the semantics of the nofree function attribute to make clear that it provides an "as if" semantic. That is, a nofree function is guaranteed not to free memory which existed before the call, but might allocate and then deallocate that same memory within the lifetime of the callee.
This is the result of the discussion on llvm-dev under the thread "Ambiguity in the nofree function attribute".
The most important part of this change is the LangRef wording. The rest is minor comment changes to emphasize the new semantics where code was accidentally consistent, and fix one place which wasn't consistent. That one place is currently narrowly used as it is primarily part of the ongoing (and not yet enabled) deref-at-point semantics work.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100141
This patch clarifies the semantics of nocapture attribute.
A 'Pointer Capture' subsection is added to describe the semantics of pointer capture first.
For the nocapture example with two same pointer arguments, it is consistent with the semantics that Alive2 used to run lit tests.
Reviewed By: nlopes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97924
When we pass a AArch64 Homogeneous Floating-Point
Aggregate (HFA) argument with increased alignment
requirements, for example
struct S {
__attribute__ ((__aligned__(16))) double v[4];
};
Clang uses `[4 x double]` for the parameter, which is passed
on the stack at alignment 8, whereas it should be at
alignment 16, following Rule C.4 in
AAPCS (https://github.com/ARM-software/abi-aa/blob/master/aapcs64/aapcs64.rst#642parameter-passing-rules)
Currently we don't have a way to express in LLVM IR the
alignment requirements of the function arguments. The align
attribute is applicable to pointers only, and only for some
special ways of passing arguments (e..g byval). When
implementing AAPCS32/AAPCS64, clang resorts to dubious hacks
of coercing to types, which naturally have the needed
alignment. We don't have enough types to cover all the
cases, though.
This patch introduces a new use of the stackalign attribute
to control stack slot alignment, when and if an argument is
passed in memory.
The attribute align is left as an optimizer hint - it still
applies to pointer types only and pertains to the content of
the pointer, whereas the alignment of the pointer itself is
determined by the stackalign attribute.
For byval arguments, the stackalign attribute assumes the
role, previously perfomed by align, falling back to align if
stackalign` is absent.
On the clang side, when passing arguments using the "direct"
style (cf. `ABIArgInfo::Kind`), now we can optionally
specify an alignment, which is emitted as the new
`stackalign` attribute.
Patch by Momchil Velikov and Lucas Prates.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98794
I think byval/sret and the others are close to being able to rip out
the code to support the missing type case. A lot of this code is
shared with inalloca, so catch this up to the others so that can
happen.
This patch adds a new llvm.experimental.stepvector intrinsic,
which takes no arguments and returns a linear integer sequence of
values of the form <0, 1, ...>. It is primarily intended for
scalable vectors, although it will work for fixed width vectors
too. It is intended that later patches will make use of this
new intrinsic when vectorising induction variables, currently only
supported for fixed width. I've added a new CreateStepVector
method to the IRBuilder, which will generate a call to this
intrinsic for scalable vectors and fall back on creating a
ConstantVector for fixed width.
For scalable vectors this intrinsic is lowered to a new ISD node
called STEP_VECTOR, which takes a single constant integer argument
as the step. During lowering this argument is set to a value of 1.
The reason for this additional argument at the codegen level is
because in future patches we will introduce various generic DAG
combines such as
mul step_vector(1), 2 -> step_vector(2)
add step_vector(1), step_vector(1) -> step_vector(2)
shl step_vector(1), 1 -> step_vector(2)
etc.
that encourage a canonical format for all targets. This hopefully
means all other targets supporting scalable vectors can benefit
from this too.
I've added cost model tests for both fixed width and scalable
vectors:
llvm/test/Analysis/CostModel/AArch64/neon-stepvector.ll
llvm/test/Analysis/CostModel/AArch64/sve-stepvector.ll
as well as codegen lowering tests for fixed width and scalable
vectors:
llvm/test/CodeGen/AArch64/neon-stepvector.ll
llvm/test/CodeGen/AArch64/sve-stepvector.ll
See this thread for discussion of the intrinsic:
https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2021-January/147943.html
This attribute represents the minimum and maximum values vscale can
take. For now this attribute is not hooked up to anything during
codegen, this will be added in the future when such codegen is
considered stable.
Additionally hook up the -msve-vector-bits=<x> clang option to emit this
attribute.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98030
There are a couple of caveats when it comes to how vectors are
stored to memory, and thereby also how bitcast between vector
and integer types work, in LLVM IR. Specially in relation to
endianess. This patch is an attempt to document such things.
Reviewed By: nlopes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94964
This patch adds support for intrinsic overloading on unnamed types.
This fixes PR38117 and PR48340 and will also be needed for the Full Restrict Patches (D68484).
The main problem is that the intrinsic overloading name mangling is using 's_s' for unnamed types.
This can result in identical intrinsic mangled names for different function prototypes.
This patch changes this by adding a '.XXXXX' to the intrinsic mangled name when at least one of the types is based on an unnamed type, ensuring that we get a unique name.
Implementation details:
- The mapping is created on demand and kept in Module.
- It also checks for existing clashes and recycles potentially existing prototypes and declarations.
- Because of extra data in Module, Intrinsic::getName needs an extra Module* argument and, for speed, an optional FunctionType* argument.
- I still kept the original two-argument 'Intrinsic::getName' around which keeps the original behavior (providing the base name).
-- Main reason is that I did not want to change the LLVMIntrinsicGetName version, as I don't know how acceptable such a change is
-- The current situation already has a limitation. So that should not get worse with this patch.
- Intrinsic::getDeclaration and the verifier are now using the new version.
Other notes:
- As far as I see, this should not suffer from stability issues. The count is only added for prototypes depending on at least one anonymous struct
- The initial count starts from 0 for each intrinsic mangled name.
- In case of name clashes, existing prototypes are remembered and reused when that makes sense.
Reviewed By: fhahn
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91250
Recently we improved the lowering of low overhead loops and tail
predicated loops, but concentrated first on the DLS do style loops. This
extends those improvements over to the WLS while loops, improving the
chance of lowering them successfully. To do this the lowering has to
change a little as the instructions are terminators that produce a value
- something that needs to be treated carefully.
Lowering starts at the Hardware Loop pass, inserting a new
llvm.test.start.loop.iterations that produces both an i1 to control the
loop entry and an i32 similar to the llvm.start.loop.iterations
intrinsic added for do loops. This feeds into the loop phi, properly
gluing the values together:
%wls = call { i32, i1 } @llvm.test.start.loop.iterations.i32(i32 %div)
%wls0 = extractvalue { i32, i1 } %wls, 0
%wls1 = extractvalue { i32, i1 } %wls, 1
br i1 %wls1, label %loop.ph, label %loop.exit
...
loop:
%lsr.iv = phi i32 [ %wls0, %loop.ph ], [ %iv.next, %loop ]
..
%iv.next = call i32 @llvm.loop.decrement.reg.i32(i32 %lsr.iv, i32 1)
%cmp = icmp ne i32 %iv.next, 0
br i1 %cmp, label %loop, label %loop.exit
The llvm.test.start.loop.iterations need to be lowered through ISel
lowering as a pair of WLS and WLSSETUP nodes, which each get converted
to t2WhileLoopSetup and t2WhileLoopStart Pseudos. This helps prevent
t2WhileLoopStart from being a terminator that produces a value,
something difficult to control at that stage in the pipeline. Instead
the t2WhileLoopSetup produces the value of LR (essentially acting as a
lr = subs rn, 0), t2WhileLoopStart consumes that lr value (the Bcc).
These are then converted into a single t2WhileLoopStartLR at the same
point as t2DoLoopStartTP and t2LoopEndDec. Otherwise we revert the loop
to prevent them from progressing further in the pipeline. The
t2WhileLoopStartLR is a single instruction that takes a GPR and produces
LR, similar to the WLS instruction.
%1:gprlr = t2WhileLoopStartLR %0:rgpr, %bb.3
t2B %bb.1
...
bb.2.loop:
%2:gprlr = PHI %1:gprlr, %bb.1, %3:gprlr, %bb.2
...
%3:gprlr = t2LoopEndDec %2:gprlr, %bb.2
t2B %bb.3
The t2WhileLoopStartLR can then be treated similar to the other low
overhead loop pseudos, eventually being lowered to a WLS providing the
branches are within range.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97729
This patch introduces a new intrinsic @llvm.experimental.vector.splice
that constructs a vector of the same type as the two input vectors,
based on a immediate where the sign of the immediate distinguishes two
variants. A positive immediate specifies an index into the first vector
and a negative immediate specifies the number of trailing elements to
extract from the first vector.
For example:
@llvm.experimental.vector.splice(<A,B,C,D>, <E,F,G,H>, 1) ==> <B, C, D, E> ; index
@llvm.experimental.vector.splice(<A,B,C,D>, <E,F,G,H>, -3) ==> <B, C, D, E> ; trailing element count
These intrinsics support both fixed and scalable vectors, where the
former is lowered to a shufflevector to maintain existing behaviour,
although while marked as experimental the recommended way to express
this operation for fixed-width vectors is to use shufflevector. For
scalable vectors where it is not possible to express a shufflevector
mask for this operation, a new ISD node has been implemented.
This is one of the named shufflevector intrinsics proposed on the
mailing-list in the RFC at [1].
Patch by Paul Walker and Cullen Rhodes.
[1] https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-November/146864.html
Reviewed By: sdesmalen
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94708
This is a minor patch that addresses concerns about lifetime in D94002.
We need to mention that what's written in LangRef isn't everything about lifetime.start/end
and its semantics depends on the stack coloring algorithm's pattern matching of a stack pointer.
If the stack coloring algorithm cannot conclude that a pointer is a stack-allocated object, the pointer is conservatively
considered as a non-stack one because stack coloring won't take this lifetime into account while assigning addresses.
A reference from alloca to lifetime.start/end is added as well.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98112
This patch adds a new metadata node, DIArgList, which contains a list of SSA
values. This node is in many ways similar in function to the existing
ValueAsMetadata node, with the difference being that it tracks a list instead of
a single value. Internally, it uses ValueAsMetadata to track the individual
values, but there is also a reasonable amount of DIArgList-specific
value-tracking logic on top of that. Similar to ValueAsMetadata, it is a special
case in parsing and printing due to the fact that it requires a function state
(as it may reference function-local values).
This patch should not result in any immediate functional change; it allows for
DIArgLists to be parsed and printed, but debug variable intrinsics do not yet
recognize them as a valid argument (outside of parsing).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D88175
Rewrites test to use correct architecture triple; fixes incorrect
reference in SourceLevelDebugging doc; simplifies `spillReg` behaviour
so as to not be dependent on changes elsewhere in the patch stack.
This reverts commit d2000b45d033c06dc7973f59909a0ad12887ff51.
explicitly emitting retainRV or claimRV calls in the IR
This reapplies ed4718eccb12bd42214ca4fb17d196d49561c0c7, which was reverted
because it was causing a miscompile. The bug that was causing the miscompile
has been fixed in 75805dce5ff874676f3559c069fcd6737838f5c0.
Original commit message:
Background:
This fixes a longstanding problem where llvm breaks ARC's autorelease
optimization (see the link below) by separating calls from the marker
instructions or retainRV/claimRV calls. The backend changes are in
https://reviews.llvm.org/D92569.
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AutomaticReferenceCounting.html#arc-runtime-objc-autoreleasereturnvalue
What this patch does to fix the problem:
- The front-end adds operand bundle "clang.arc.attachedcall" to calls,
which indicates the call is implicitly followed by a marker
instruction and an implicit retainRV/claimRV call that consumes the
call result. In addition, it emits a call to
@llvm.objc.clang.arc.noop.use, which consumes the call result, to
prevent the middle-end passes from changing the return type of the
called function. This is currently done only when the target is arm64
and the optimization level is higher than -O0.
- ARC optimizer temporarily emits retainRV/claimRV calls after the calls
with the operand bundle in the IR and removes the inserted calls after
processing the function.
- ARC contract pass emits retainRV/claimRV calls after the call with the
operand bundle. It doesn't remove the operand bundle on the call since
the backend needs it to emit the marker instruction. The retainRV and
claimRV calls are emitted late in the pipeline to prevent optimization
passes from transforming the IR in a way that makes it harder for the
ARC middle-end passes to figure out the def-use relationship between
the call and the retainRV/claimRV calls (which is the cause of
PR31925).
- The function inliner removes an autoreleaseRV call in the callee if
nothing in the callee prevents it from being paired up with the
retainRV/claimRV call in the caller. It then inserts a release call if
claimRV is attached to the call since autoreleaseRV+claimRV is
equivalent to a release. If it cannot find an autoreleaseRV call, it
tries to transfer the operand bundle to a function call in the callee.
This is important since the ARC optimizer can remove the autoreleaseRV
returning the callee result, which makes it impossible to pair it up
with the retainRV/claimRV call in the caller. If that fails, it simply
emits a retain call in the IR if retainRV is attached to the call and
does nothing if claimRV is attached to it.
- SCCP refrains from replacing the return value of a call with a
constant value if the call has the operand bundle. This ensures the
call always has at least one user (the call to
@llvm.objc.clang.arc.noop.use).
- This patch also fixes a bug in replaceUsesOfNonProtoConstant where
multiple operand bundles of the same kind were being added to a call.
Future work:
- Use the operand bundle on x86-64.
- Fix the auto upgrader to convert call+retainRV/claimRV pairs into
calls with the operand bundles.
rdar://71443534
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D92808
This patch adds a new instruction that can represent variadic debug values,
DBG_VALUE_VAR. This patch alone covers the addition of the instruction and a set
of basic code changes in MachineInstr and a few adjacent areas, but does not
correctly handle variadic debug values outside of these areas, nor does it
generate them at any point.
The new instruction is similar to the existing DBG_VALUE instruction, with the
following differences: the operands are in a different order, any number of
values may be used in the instruction following the Variable and Expression
operands (these are referred to in code as “debug operands”) and are indexed
from 0 so that getDebugOperand(X) == getOperand(X+2), and the Expression in a
DBG_VALUE_VAR must use the DW_OP_LLVM_arg operator to pass arguments into the
expression.
The new DW_OP_LLVM_arg operator is only valid in expressions appearing in a
DBG_VALUE_VAR; it takes a single argument and pushes the debug operand at the
index given by the argument onto the Expression stack. For example the
sub-expression `DW_OP_LLVM_arg, 0` has the meaning “Push the debug operand at
index 0 onto the expression stack.”
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D82363
This patch is an update to LangRef by describing lifetime intrinsics' behavior
by following the description of MIR's LIFETIME_START/LIFETIME_END markers
at StackColoring.cpp (eb44682d67/llvm/lib/CodeGen/StackColoring.cpp (L163)) and the discussion in llvm-dev.
In order to explicitly define the meaning of an object lifetime, I added 'Object Lifetime' subsection.
Reviewed By: nlopes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94002
This caused miscompiles of Chromium tests for iOS due clobbering of live
registers. See discussion on the code review for details.
> Background:
>
> This fixes a longstanding problem where llvm breaks ARC's autorelease
> optimization (see the link below) by separating calls from the marker
> instructions or retainRV/claimRV calls. The backend changes are in
> https://reviews.llvm.org/D92569.
>
> https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AutomaticReferenceCounting.html#arc-runtime-objc-autoreleasereturnvalue
>
> What this patch does to fix the problem:
>
> - The front-end adds operand bundle "clang.arc.attachedcall" to calls,
> which indicates the call is implicitly followed by a marker
> instruction and an implicit retainRV/claimRV call that consumes the
> call result. In addition, it emits a call to
> @llvm.objc.clang.arc.noop.use, which consumes the call result, to
> prevent the middle-end passes from changing the return type of the
> called function. This is currently done only when the target is arm64
> and the optimization level is higher than -O0.
>
> - ARC optimizer temporarily emits retainRV/claimRV calls after the calls
> with the operand bundle in the IR and removes the inserted calls after
> processing the function.
>
> - ARC contract pass emits retainRV/claimRV calls after the call with the
> operand bundle. It doesn't remove the operand bundle on the call since
> the backend needs it to emit the marker instruction. The retainRV and
> claimRV calls are emitted late in the pipeline to prevent optimization
> passes from transforming the IR in a way that makes it harder for the
> ARC middle-end passes to figure out the def-use relationship between
> the call and the retainRV/claimRV calls (which is the cause of
> PR31925).
>
> - The function inliner removes an autoreleaseRV call in the callee if
> nothing in the callee prevents it from being paired up with the
> retainRV/claimRV call in the caller. It then inserts a release call if
> claimRV is attached to the call since autoreleaseRV+claimRV is
> equivalent to a release. If it cannot find an autoreleaseRV call, it
> tries to transfer the operand bundle to a function call in the callee.
> This is important since the ARC optimizer can remove the autoreleaseRV
> returning the callee result, which makes it impossible to pair it up
> with the retainRV/claimRV call in the caller. If that fails, it simply
> emits a retain call in the IR if retainRV is attached to the call and
> does nothing if claimRV is attached to it.
>
> - SCCP refrains from replacing the return value of a call with a
> constant value if the call has the operand bundle. This ensures the
> call always has at least one user (the call to
> @llvm.objc.clang.arc.noop.use).
>
> - This patch also fixes a bug in replaceUsesOfNonProtoConstant where
> multiple operand bundles of the same kind were being added to a call.
>
> Future work:
>
> - Use the operand bundle on x86-64.
>
> - Fix the auto upgrader to convert call+retainRV/claimRV pairs into
> calls with the operand bundles.
>
> rdar://71443534
>
> Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D92808
This reverts commit ed4718eccb12bd42214ca4fb17d196d49561c0c7.
This patch adds a new intrinsic experimental.vector.reduce that takes a single
vector and returns a vector of matching type but with the original lane order
reversed. For example:
```
vector.reverse(<A,B,C,D>) ==> <D,C,B,A>
```
The new intrinsic supports fixed and scalable vectors types.
The fixed-width vector relies on shufflevector to maintain existing behaviour.
Scalable vector uses the new ISD node - VECTOR_REVERSE.
This new intrinsic is one of the named shufflevector intrinsics proposed on the
mailing-list in the RFC at [1].
Patch by Paul Walker (@paulwalker-arm).
[1] https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-November/146864.html
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94883
In the past, it was stated in D87994 that it is allowed to dereference a pointer that is partially undefined
if all of its possible representations fit into a dereferenceable range.
The motivation of the direction was to make a range analysis helpful for assuring dereferenceability.
Even if a range analysis concludes that its offset is within bounds, the offset could still be partially undefined; to utilize the range analysis, this relaxation was necessary.
https://groups.google.com/g/llvm-dev/c/2Qk4fOHUoAE/m/KcvYMEgOAgAJ has more context about this.
However, this is currently blocking another optimization, which is annotating the noundef attribute for library functions' arguments. D95122 is the patch.
Currently, there are quite a few library functions which cannot have noundef attached to its pointer argument because it can be transformed from load/store.
For example, MemCpyOpt can convert stores into memset:
```
store p, i32 0
store (p+1), i32 0 // Since currently it is allowed for store to have partially undefined pointer..
->
memset(p, 0, 8) // memset cannot guarantee that its ptr argument is noundef.
```
A bigger problem is that this makes unclear which library functions are allowed to have 'noundef' and which functions aren't (e.g., strlen).
This makes annotating noundef almost impossible for this kind of functions.
This patch proposes that all memory operations should have well-defined pointers.
For memset/memcpy, it is semantically equivalent to running a loop until the size is met (and branching on undef is UB), so the size is also updated to be well-defined.
Strictly speaking, this again violates the implication of dereferenceability from range analysis result.
However, I think this is okay for the following reasons:
1. It seems the existing analyses in the LLVM main repo does not have conflicting implementation with the new proposal.
`isDereferenceableAndAlignedPointer` works only when the GEP offset is constant, and `isDereferenceableAndAlignedInLoop` is also fine.
2. A possible miscompilation happens only when the source has a pointer with a *partially* undefined offset (it's okay with poison because there is no 'partially poison' value).
But, at least I'm not aware of a language using LLVM as backend that has a well-defined program while allowing partially undefined pointers.
There might be such a language that I'm not aware of, but improving the performance of the mainstream languages like C and Rust is more important IMHO.
Reviewed By: jdoerfert
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D95238
explicitly emitting retainRV or claimRV calls in the IR
Background:
This fixes a longstanding problem where llvm breaks ARC's autorelease
optimization (see the link below) by separating calls from the marker
instructions or retainRV/claimRV calls. The backend changes are in
https://reviews.llvm.org/D92569.
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AutomaticReferenceCounting.html#arc-runtime-objc-autoreleasereturnvalue
What this patch does to fix the problem:
- The front-end adds operand bundle "clang.arc.attachedcall" to calls,
which indicates the call is implicitly followed by a marker
instruction and an implicit retainRV/claimRV call that consumes the
call result. In addition, it emits a call to
@llvm.objc.clang.arc.noop.use, which consumes the call result, to
prevent the middle-end passes from changing the return type of the
called function. This is currently done only when the target is arm64
and the optimization level is higher than -O0.
- ARC optimizer temporarily emits retainRV/claimRV calls after the calls
with the operand bundle in the IR and removes the inserted calls after
processing the function.
- ARC contract pass emits retainRV/claimRV calls after the call with the
operand bundle. It doesn't remove the operand bundle on the call since
the backend needs it to emit the marker instruction. The retainRV and
claimRV calls are emitted late in the pipeline to prevent optimization
passes from transforming the IR in a way that makes it harder for the
ARC middle-end passes to figure out the def-use relationship between
the call and the retainRV/claimRV calls (which is the cause of
PR31925).
- The function inliner removes an autoreleaseRV call in the callee if
nothing in the callee prevents it from being paired up with the
retainRV/claimRV call in the caller. It then inserts a release call if
claimRV is attached to the call since autoreleaseRV+claimRV is
equivalent to a release. If it cannot find an autoreleaseRV call, it
tries to transfer the operand bundle to a function call in the callee.
This is important since the ARC optimizer can remove the autoreleaseRV
returning the callee result, which makes it impossible to pair it up
with the retainRV/claimRV call in the caller. If that fails, it simply
emits a retain call in the IR if retainRV is attached to the call and
does nothing if claimRV is attached to it.
- SCCP refrains from replacing the return value of a call with a
constant value if the call has the operand bundle. This ensures the
call always has at least one user (the call to
@llvm.objc.clang.arc.noop.use).
- This patch also fixes a bug in replaceUsesOfNonProtoConstant where
multiple operand bundles of the same kind were being added to a call.
Future work:
- Use the operand bundle on x86-64.
- Fix the auto upgrader to convert call+retainRV/claimRV pairs into
calls with the operand bundles.
rdar://71443534
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D92808
This is a follow up patch to D83136 adding the align attribute to `cmpxchg`.
See also D83465 for `atomicrmw`.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87443
This reverts commit 4a64d8fe392449b205e59031aad5424968cf7446.
Makes clang crash when buildling trivial iOS programs, see comment
after https://reviews.llvm.org/D92808#2551401
emitting retainRV or claimRV calls in the IR
This reapplies 3fe3946d9a958b7af6130241996d9cfcecf559d4 without the
changes made to lib/IR/AutoUpgrade.cpp, which was violating layering.
Original commit message:
Background:
This patch makes changes to the front-end and middle-end that are
needed to fix a longstanding problem where llvm breaks ARC's autorelease
optimization (see the link below) by separating calls from the marker
instructions or retainRV/claimRV calls. The backend changes are in
https://reviews.llvm.org/D92569.
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AutomaticReferenceCounting.html#arc-runtime-objc-autoreleasereturnvalue
What this patch does to fix the problem:
- The front-end adds operand bundle "clang.arc.rv" to calls, which
indicates the call is implicitly followed by a marker instruction and
an implicit retainRV/claimRV call that consumes the call result. In
addition, it emits a call to @llvm.objc.clang.arc.noop.use, which
consumes the call result, to prevent the middle-end passes from changing
the return type of the called function. This is currently done only when
the target is arm64 and the optimization level is higher than -O0.
- ARC optimizer temporarily emits retainRV/claimRV calls after the calls
with the operand bundle in the IR and removes the inserted calls after
processing the function.
- ARC contract pass emits retainRV/claimRV calls after the call with the
operand bundle. It doesn't remove the operand bundle on the call since
the backend needs it to emit the marker instruction. The retainRV and
claimRV calls are emitted late in the pipeline to prevent optimization
passes from transforming the IR in a way that makes it harder for the
ARC middle-end passes to figure out the def-use relationship between
the call and the retainRV/claimRV calls (which is the cause of
PR31925).
- The function inliner removes an autoreleaseRV call in the callee if
nothing in the callee prevents it from being paired up with the
retainRV/claimRV call in the caller. It then inserts a release call if
the call is annotated with claimRV since autoreleaseRV+claimRV is
equivalent to a release. If it cannot find an autoreleaseRV call, it
tries to transfer the operand bundle to a function call in the callee.
This is important since ARC optimizer can remove the autoreleaseRV
returning the callee result, which makes it impossible to pair it up
with the retainRV/claimRV call in the caller. If that fails, it simply
emits a retain call in the IR if the implicit call is a call to
retainRV and does nothing if it's a call to claimRV.
Future work:
- Use the operand bundle on x86-64.
- Fix the auto upgrader to convert call+retainRV/claimRV pairs into
calls annotated with the operand bundles.
rdar://71443534
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D92808
This reverts commit 3fe3946d9a958b7af6130241996d9cfcecf559d4.
The commit violates layering by including a header from Analysis in
lib/IR/AutoUpgrade.cpp.
