DeadStoreElimination.cpp revision 3ccbb22eaf3f0deebc15ff7be992f090a6f0ba0b
1//===- DeadStoreElimination.cpp - Fast Dead Store Elimination -------------===// 2// 3// The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure 4// 5// This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source 6// License. See LICENSE.TXT for details. 7// 8//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// 9// 10// This file implements a trivial dead store elimination that only considers 11// basic-block local redundant stores. 12// 13// FIXME: This should eventually be extended to be a post-dominator tree 14// traversal. Doing so would be pretty trivial. 15// 16//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// 17 18#define DEBUG_TYPE "dse" 19#include "llvm/Transforms/Scalar.h" 20#include "llvm/Constants.h" 21#include "llvm/Function.h" 22#include "llvm/Instructions.h" 23#include "llvm/IntrinsicInst.h" 24#include "llvm/Pass.h" 25#include "llvm/ADT/SmallPtrSet.h" 26#include "llvm/ADT/Statistic.h" 27#include "llvm/Analysis/AliasAnalysis.h" 28#include "llvm/Analysis/Dominators.h" 29#include "llvm/Analysis/MemoryBuiltins.h" 30#include "llvm/Analysis/MemoryDependenceAnalysis.h" 31#include "llvm/Target/TargetData.h" 32#include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/Local.h" 33using namespace llvm; 34 35STATISTIC(NumFastStores, "Number of stores deleted"); 36STATISTIC(NumFastOther , "Number of other instrs removed"); 37 38namespace { 39 struct DSE : public FunctionPass { 40 TargetData *TD; 41 42 static char ID; // Pass identification, replacement for typeid 43 DSE() : FunctionPass(&ID) {} 44 45 virtual bool runOnFunction(Function &F) { 46 bool Changed = false; 47 48 DominatorTree &DT = getAnalysis<DominatorTree>(); 49 50 for (Function::iterator I = F.begin(), E = F.end(); I != E; ++I) 51 // Only check non-dead blocks. Dead blocks may have strange pointer 52 // cycles that will confuse alias analysis. 53 if (DT.isReachableFromEntry(I)) 54 Changed |= runOnBasicBlock(*I); 55 return Changed; 56 } 57 58 bool runOnBasicBlock(BasicBlock &BB); 59 bool handleFreeWithNonTrivialDependency(Instruction *F, MemDepResult Dep); 60 bool handleEndBlock(BasicBlock &BB); 61 bool RemoveUndeadPointers(Value *Ptr, uint64_t killPointerSize, 62 BasicBlock::iterator &BBI, 63 SmallPtrSet<Value*, 64> &deadPointers); 64 void DeleteDeadInstruction(Instruction *I, 65 SmallPtrSet<Value*, 64> *deadPointers = 0); 66 67 68 // getAnalysisUsage - We require post dominance frontiers (aka Control 69 // Dependence Graph) 70 virtual void getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage &AU) const { 71 AU.setPreservesCFG(); 72 AU.addRequired<DominatorTree>(); 73 AU.addRequired<AliasAnalysis>(); 74 AU.addRequired<MemoryDependenceAnalysis>(); 75 AU.addPreserved<DominatorTree>(); 76 AU.addPreserved<AliasAnalysis>(); 77 AU.addPreserved<MemoryDependenceAnalysis>(); 78 } 79 80 unsigned getPointerSize(Value *V) const; 81 }; 82} 83 84char DSE::ID = 0; 85static RegisterPass<DSE> X("dse", "Dead Store Elimination"); 86 87FunctionPass *llvm::createDeadStoreEliminationPass() { return new DSE(); } 88 89/// doesClobberMemory - Does this instruction clobber (write without reading) 90/// some memory? 91static bool doesClobberMemory(Instruction *I) { 92 if (isa<StoreInst>(I)) 93 return true; 94 if (IntrinsicInst *II = dyn_cast<IntrinsicInst>(I)) { 95 switch (II->getIntrinsicID()) { 96 default: 97 return false; 98 case Intrinsic::memset: 99 case Intrinsic::memmove: 100 case Intrinsic::memcpy: 101 case Intrinsic::init_trampoline: 102 case Intrinsic::lifetime_end: 103 return true; 104 } 105 } 106 return false; 107} 108 109/// isElidable - If the value of this instruction and the memory it writes to is 110/// unused, may we delete this instrtction? 111static bool isElidable(Instruction *I) { 112 assert(doesClobberMemory(I)); 113 if (IntrinsicInst *II = dyn_cast<IntrinsicInst>(I)) 114 return II->getIntrinsicID() != Intrinsic::lifetime_end; 115 if (StoreInst *SI = dyn_cast<StoreInst>(I)) 116 return !SI->isVolatile(); 117 return true; 118} 119 120/// getPointerOperand - Return the pointer that is being clobbered. 121static Value *getPointerOperand(Instruction *I) { 122 assert(doesClobberMemory(I)); 123 if (StoreInst *SI = dyn_cast<StoreInst>(I)) 124 return SI->getPointerOperand(); 125 if (MemIntrinsic *MI = dyn_cast<MemIntrinsic>(I)) 126 return MI->getArgOperand(0); 127 128 IntrinsicInst *II = cast<IntrinsicInst>(I); 129 switch (II->getIntrinsicID()) { 130 default: assert(false && "Unexpected intrinsic!"); 131 case Intrinsic::init_trampoline: 132 return II->getArgOperand(0); 133 case Intrinsic::lifetime_end: 134 return II->getArgOperand(1); 135 } 136} 137 138/// getStoreSize - Return the length in bytes of the write by the clobbering 139/// instruction. If variable or unknown, returns -1. 140static unsigned getStoreSize(Instruction *I, const TargetData *TD) { 141 assert(doesClobberMemory(I)); 142 if (StoreInst *SI = dyn_cast<StoreInst>(I)) { 143 if (!TD) return -1u; 144 return TD->getTypeStoreSize(SI->getOperand(0)->getType()); 145 } 146 147 Value *Len; 148 if (MemIntrinsic *MI = dyn_cast<MemIntrinsic>(I)) { 149 Len = MI->getLength(); 150 } else { 151 IntrinsicInst *II = cast<IntrinsicInst>(I); 152 switch (II->getIntrinsicID()) { 153 default: assert(false && "Unexpected intrinsic!"); 154 case Intrinsic::init_trampoline: 155 return -1u; 156 case Intrinsic::lifetime_end: 157 Len = II->getArgOperand(0); 158 break; 159 } 160 } 161 if (ConstantInt *LenCI = dyn_cast<ConstantInt>(Len)) 162 if (!LenCI->isAllOnesValue()) 163 return LenCI->getZExtValue(); 164 return -1u; 165} 166 167/// isStoreAtLeastAsWideAs - Return true if the size of the store in I1 is 168/// greater than or equal to the store in I2. This returns false if we don't 169/// know. 170/// 171static bool isStoreAtLeastAsWideAs(Instruction *I1, Instruction *I2, 172 const TargetData *TD) { 173 const Type *I1Ty = getPointerOperand(I1)->getType(); 174 const Type *I2Ty = getPointerOperand(I2)->getType(); 175 176 // Exactly the same type, must have exactly the same size. 177 if (I1Ty == I2Ty) return true; 178 179 int I1Size = getStoreSize(I1, TD); 180 int I2Size = getStoreSize(I2, TD); 181 182 return I1Size != -1 && I2Size != -1 && I1Size >= I2Size; 183} 184 185bool DSE::runOnBasicBlock(BasicBlock &BB) { 186 MemoryDependenceAnalysis &MD = getAnalysis<MemoryDependenceAnalysis>(); 187 TD = getAnalysisIfAvailable<TargetData>(); 188 189 bool MadeChange = false; 190 191 // Do a top-down walk on the BB. 192 for (BasicBlock::iterator BBI = BB.begin(), BBE = BB.end(); BBI != BBE; ) { 193 Instruction *Inst = BBI++; 194 195 // If we find a store or a free, get its memory dependence. 196 if (!doesClobberMemory(Inst) && !isFreeCall(Inst)) 197 continue; 198 199 MemDepResult InstDep = MD.getDependency(Inst); 200 201 // Ignore non-local stores. 202 // FIXME: cross-block DSE would be fun. :) 203 if (InstDep.isNonLocal()) continue; 204 205 // Handle frees whose dependencies are non-trivial. 206 if (isFreeCall(Inst)) { 207 MadeChange |= handleFreeWithNonTrivialDependency(Inst, InstDep); 208 continue; 209 } 210 211 // If not a definite must-alias dependency, ignore it. 212 if (!InstDep.isDef()) 213 continue; 214 215 // If this is a store-store dependence, then the previous store is dead so 216 // long as this store is at least as big as it. 217 if (doesClobberMemory(InstDep.getInst())) { 218 Instruction *DepStore = InstDep.getInst(); 219 if (isStoreAtLeastAsWideAs(Inst, DepStore, TD) && 220 isElidable(DepStore)) { 221 // Delete the store and now-dead instructions that feed it. 222 DeleteDeadInstruction(DepStore); 223 ++NumFastStores; 224 MadeChange = true; 225 226 // DeleteDeadInstruction can delete the current instruction in loop 227 // cases, reset BBI. 228 BBI = Inst; 229 if (BBI != BB.begin()) 230 --BBI; 231 continue; 232 } 233 } 234 235 if (!isElidable(Inst)) 236 continue; 237 238 // If we're storing the same value back to a pointer that we just 239 // loaded from, then the store can be removed. 240 if (StoreInst *SI = dyn_cast<StoreInst>(Inst)) { 241 if (LoadInst *DepLoad = dyn_cast<LoadInst>(InstDep.getInst())) { 242 if (SI->getPointerOperand() == DepLoad->getPointerOperand() && 243 SI->getOperand(0) == DepLoad) { 244 // DeleteDeadInstruction can delete the current instruction. Save BBI 245 // in case we need it. 246 WeakVH NextInst(BBI); 247 248 DeleteDeadInstruction(SI); 249 250 if (NextInst == 0) // Next instruction deleted. 251 BBI = BB.begin(); 252 else if (BBI != BB.begin()) // Revisit this instruction if possible. 253 --BBI; 254 ++NumFastStores; 255 MadeChange = true; 256 continue; 257 } 258 } 259 } 260 261 // If this is a lifetime end marker, we can throw away the store. 262 if (IntrinsicInst *II = dyn_cast<IntrinsicInst>(InstDep.getInst())) { 263 if (II->getIntrinsicID() == Intrinsic::lifetime_end) { 264 // Delete the store and now-dead instructions that feed it. 265 // DeleteDeadInstruction can delete the current instruction. Save BBI 266 // in case we need it. 267 WeakVH NextInst(BBI); 268 269 DeleteDeadInstruction(Inst); 270 271 if (NextInst == 0) // Next instruction deleted. 272 BBI = BB.begin(); 273 else if (BBI != BB.begin()) // Revisit this instruction if possible. 274 --BBI; 275 ++NumFastStores; 276 MadeChange = true; 277 continue; 278 } 279 } 280 } 281 282 // If this block ends in a return, unwind, or unreachable, all allocas are 283 // dead at its end, which means stores to them are also dead. 284 if (BB.getTerminator()->getNumSuccessors() == 0) 285 MadeChange |= handleEndBlock(BB); 286 287 return MadeChange; 288} 289 290/// handleFreeWithNonTrivialDependency - Handle frees of entire structures whose 291/// dependency is a store to a field of that structure. 292bool DSE::handleFreeWithNonTrivialDependency(Instruction *F, MemDepResult Dep) { 293 AliasAnalysis &AA = getAnalysis<AliasAnalysis>(); 294 295 Instruction *Dependency = Dep.getInst(); 296 if (!Dependency || !doesClobberMemory(Dependency) || !isElidable(Dependency)) 297 return false; 298 299 Value *DepPointer = getPointerOperand(Dependency)->getUnderlyingObject(); 300 301 // Check for aliasing. 302 if (AA.alias(F->getOperand(1), 1, DepPointer, 1) != 303 AliasAnalysis::MustAlias) 304 return false; 305 306 // DCE instructions only used to calculate that store 307 DeleteDeadInstruction(Dependency); 308 ++NumFastStores; 309 return true; 310} 311 312/// handleEndBlock - Remove dead stores to stack-allocated locations in the 313/// function end block. Ex: 314/// %A = alloca i32 315/// ... 316/// store i32 1, i32* %A 317/// ret void 318bool DSE::handleEndBlock(BasicBlock &BB) { 319 AliasAnalysis &AA = getAnalysis<AliasAnalysis>(); 320 321 bool MadeChange = false; 322 323 // Pointers alloca'd in this function are dead in the end block 324 SmallPtrSet<Value*, 64> deadPointers; 325 326 // Find all of the alloca'd pointers in the entry block. 327 BasicBlock *Entry = BB.getParent()->begin(); 328 for (BasicBlock::iterator I = Entry->begin(), E = Entry->end(); I != E; ++I) 329 if (AllocaInst *AI = dyn_cast<AllocaInst>(I)) 330 deadPointers.insert(AI); 331 332 // Treat byval arguments the same, stores to them are dead at the end of the 333 // function. 334 for (Function::arg_iterator AI = BB.getParent()->arg_begin(), 335 AE = BB.getParent()->arg_end(); AI != AE; ++AI) 336 if (AI->hasByValAttr()) 337 deadPointers.insert(AI); 338 339 // Scan the basic block backwards 340 for (BasicBlock::iterator BBI = BB.end(); BBI != BB.begin(); ){ 341 --BBI; 342 343 // If we find a store whose pointer is dead. 344 if (doesClobberMemory(BBI)) { 345 if (isElidable(BBI)) { 346 // See through pointer-to-pointer bitcasts 347 Value *pointerOperand = getPointerOperand(BBI)->getUnderlyingObject(); 348 349 // Alloca'd pointers or byval arguments (which are functionally like 350 // alloca's) are valid candidates for removal. 351 if (deadPointers.count(pointerOperand)) { 352 // DCE instructions only used to calculate that store. 353 Instruction *Dead = BBI; 354 ++BBI; 355 DeleteDeadInstruction(Dead, &deadPointers); 356 ++NumFastStores; 357 MadeChange = true; 358 continue; 359 } 360 } 361 362 // Because a memcpy or memmove is also a load, we can't skip it if we 363 // didn't remove it. 364 if (!isa<MemTransferInst>(BBI)) 365 continue; 366 } 367 368 Value *killPointer = 0; 369 uint64_t killPointerSize = ~0UL; 370 371 // If we encounter a use of the pointer, it is no longer considered dead 372 if (LoadInst *L = dyn_cast<LoadInst>(BBI)) { 373 // However, if this load is unused and not volatile, we can go ahead and 374 // remove it, and not have to worry about it making our pointer undead! 375 if (L->use_empty() && !L->isVolatile()) { 376 ++BBI; 377 DeleteDeadInstruction(L, &deadPointers); 378 ++NumFastOther; 379 MadeChange = true; 380 continue; 381 } 382 383 killPointer = L->getPointerOperand(); 384 } else if (VAArgInst *V = dyn_cast<VAArgInst>(BBI)) { 385 killPointer = V->getOperand(0); 386 } else if (isa<MemTransferInst>(BBI) && 387 isa<ConstantInt>(cast<MemTransferInst>(BBI)->getLength())) { 388 killPointer = cast<MemTransferInst>(BBI)->getSource(); 389 killPointerSize = cast<ConstantInt>( 390 cast<MemTransferInst>(BBI)->getLength())->getZExtValue(); 391 } else if (AllocaInst *A = dyn_cast<AllocaInst>(BBI)) { 392 deadPointers.erase(A); 393 394 // Dead alloca's can be DCE'd when we reach them 395 if (A->use_empty()) { 396 ++BBI; 397 DeleteDeadInstruction(A, &deadPointers); 398 ++NumFastOther; 399 MadeChange = true; 400 } 401 402 continue; 403 } else if (CallSite::get(BBI).getInstruction() != 0) { 404 // If this call does not access memory, it can't 405 // be undeadifying any of our pointers. 406 CallSite CS = CallSite::get(BBI); 407 if (AA.doesNotAccessMemory(CS)) 408 continue; 409 410 unsigned modRef = 0; 411 unsigned other = 0; 412 413 // Remove any pointers made undead by the call from the dead set 414 std::vector<Value*> dead; 415 for (SmallPtrSet<Value*, 64>::iterator I = deadPointers.begin(), 416 E = deadPointers.end(); I != E; ++I) { 417 // HACK: if we detect that our AA is imprecise, it's not 418 // worth it to scan the rest of the deadPointers set. Just 419 // assume that the AA will return ModRef for everything, and 420 // go ahead and bail. 421 if (modRef >= 16 && other == 0) { 422 deadPointers.clear(); 423 return MadeChange; 424 } 425 426 // See if the call site touches it 427 AliasAnalysis::ModRefResult A = AA.getModRefInfo(CS, *I, 428 getPointerSize(*I)); 429 430 if (A == AliasAnalysis::ModRef) 431 ++modRef; 432 else 433 ++other; 434 435 if (A == AliasAnalysis::ModRef || A == AliasAnalysis::Ref) 436 dead.push_back(*I); 437 } 438 439 for (std::vector<Value*>::iterator I = dead.begin(), E = dead.end(); 440 I != E; ++I) 441 deadPointers.erase(*I); 442 443 continue; 444 } else if (isInstructionTriviallyDead(BBI)) { 445 // For any non-memory-affecting non-terminators, DCE them as we reach them 446 Instruction *Inst = BBI; 447 ++BBI; 448 DeleteDeadInstruction(Inst, &deadPointers); 449 ++NumFastOther; 450 MadeChange = true; 451 continue; 452 } 453 454 if (!killPointer) 455 continue; 456 457 killPointer = killPointer->getUnderlyingObject(); 458 459 // Deal with undead pointers 460 MadeChange |= RemoveUndeadPointers(killPointer, killPointerSize, BBI, 461 deadPointers); 462 } 463 464 return MadeChange; 465} 466 467/// RemoveUndeadPointers - check for uses of a pointer that make it 468/// undead when scanning for dead stores to alloca's. 469bool DSE::RemoveUndeadPointers(Value *killPointer, uint64_t killPointerSize, 470 BasicBlock::iterator &BBI, 471 SmallPtrSet<Value*, 64> &deadPointers) { 472 AliasAnalysis &AA = getAnalysis<AliasAnalysis>(); 473 474 // If the kill pointer can be easily reduced to an alloca, 475 // don't bother doing extraneous AA queries. 476 if (deadPointers.count(killPointer)) { 477 deadPointers.erase(killPointer); 478 return false; 479 } 480 481 // A global can't be in the dead pointer set. 482 if (isa<GlobalValue>(killPointer)) 483 return false; 484 485 bool MadeChange = false; 486 487 SmallVector<Value*, 16> undead; 488 489 for (SmallPtrSet<Value*, 64>::iterator I = deadPointers.begin(), 490 E = deadPointers.end(); I != E; ++I) { 491 // See if this pointer could alias it 492 AliasAnalysis::AliasResult A = AA.alias(*I, getPointerSize(*I), 493 killPointer, killPointerSize); 494 495 // If it must-alias and a store, we can delete it 496 if (isa<StoreInst>(BBI) && A == AliasAnalysis::MustAlias) { 497 StoreInst *S = cast<StoreInst>(BBI); 498 499 // Remove it! 500 ++BBI; 501 DeleteDeadInstruction(S, &deadPointers); 502 ++NumFastStores; 503 MadeChange = true; 504 505 continue; 506 507 // Otherwise, it is undead 508 } else if (A != AliasAnalysis::NoAlias) 509 undead.push_back(*I); 510 } 511 512 for (SmallVector<Value*, 16>::iterator I = undead.begin(), E = undead.end(); 513 I != E; ++I) 514 deadPointers.erase(*I); 515 516 return MadeChange; 517} 518 519/// DeleteDeadInstruction - Delete this instruction. Before we do, go through 520/// and zero out all the operands of this instruction. If any of them become 521/// dead, delete them and the computation tree that feeds them. 522/// 523/// If ValueSet is non-null, remove any deleted instructions from it as well. 524/// 525void DSE::DeleteDeadInstruction(Instruction *I, 526 SmallPtrSet<Value*, 64> *ValueSet) { 527 SmallVector<Instruction*, 32> NowDeadInsts; 528 529 NowDeadInsts.push_back(I); 530 --NumFastOther; 531 532 // Before we touch this instruction, remove it from memdep! 533 MemoryDependenceAnalysis &MDA = getAnalysis<MemoryDependenceAnalysis>(); 534 do { 535 Instruction *DeadInst = NowDeadInsts.pop_back_val(); 536 537 ++NumFastOther; 538 539 // This instruction is dead, zap it, in stages. Start by removing it from 540 // MemDep, which needs to know the operands and needs it to be in the 541 // function. 542 MDA.removeInstruction(DeadInst); 543 544 for (unsigned op = 0, e = DeadInst->getNumOperands(); op != e; ++op) { 545 Value *Op = DeadInst->getOperand(op); 546 DeadInst->setOperand(op, 0); 547 548 // If this operand just became dead, add it to the NowDeadInsts list. 549 if (!Op->use_empty()) continue; 550 551 if (Instruction *OpI = dyn_cast<Instruction>(Op)) 552 if (isInstructionTriviallyDead(OpI)) 553 NowDeadInsts.push_back(OpI); 554 } 555 556 DeadInst->eraseFromParent(); 557 558 if (ValueSet) ValueSet->erase(DeadInst); 559 } while (!NowDeadInsts.empty()); 560} 561 562unsigned DSE::getPointerSize(Value *V) const { 563 if (TD) { 564 if (AllocaInst *A = dyn_cast<AllocaInst>(V)) { 565 // Get size information for the alloca 566 if (ConstantInt *C = dyn_cast<ConstantInt>(A->getArraySize())) 567 return C->getZExtValue() * TD->getTypeAllocSize(A->getAllocatedType()); 568 } else { 569 assert(isa<Argument>(V) && "Expected AllocaInst or Argument!"); 570 const PointerType *PT = cast<PointerType>(V->getType()); 571 return TD->getTypeAllocSize(PT->getElementType()); 572 } 573 } 574 return ~0U; 575} 576