DeadStoreElimination.cpp revision 9ee17208115482441953127615231c59a2f4d052
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->getOperand(1);
127
128  switch (cast<IntrinsicInst>(I)->getIntrinsicID()) {
129  default: assert(false && "Unexpected intrinsic!");
130  case Intrinsic::init_trampoline:
131    return I->getOperand(1);
132  case Intrinsic::lifetime_end:
133    return I->getOperand(2);
134  }
135}
136
137/// getStoreSize - Return the length in bytes of the write by the clobbering
138/// instruction. If variable or unknown, returns -1.
139static unsigned getStoreSize(Instruction *I, const TargetData *TD) {
140  assert(doesClobberMemory(I));
141  if (StoreInst *SI = dyn_cast<StoreInst>(I)) {
142    if (!TD) return -1u;
143    return TD->getTypeStoreSize(SI->getOperand(0)->getType());
144  }
145
146  Value *Len;
147  if (MemIntrinsic *MI = dyn_cast<MemIntrinsic>(I)) {
148    Len = MI->getLength();
149  } else {
150    switch (cast<IntrinsicInst>(I)->getIntrinsicID()) {
151    default: assert(false && "Unexpected intrinsic!");
152    case Intrinsic::init_trampoline:
153      return -1u;
154    case Intrinsic::lifetime_end:
155      Len = I->getOperand(1);
156      break;
157    }
158  }
159  if (ConstantInt *LenCI = dyn_cast<ConstantInt>(Len))
160    if (!LenCI->isAllOnesValue())
161      return LenCI->getZExtValue();
162  return -1u;
163}
164
165/// isStoreAtLeastAsWideAs - Return true if the size of the store in I1 is
166/// greater than or equal to the store in I2.  This returns false if we don't
167/// know.
168///
169static bool isStoreAtLeastAsWideAs(Instruction *I1, Instruction *I2,
170                                   const TargetData *TD) {
171  const Type *I1Ty = getPointerOperand(I1)->getType();
172  const Type *I2Ty = getPointerOperand(I2)->getType();
173
174  // Exactly the same type, must have exactly the same size.
175  if (I1Ty == I2Ty) return true;
176
177  int I1Size = getStoreSize(I1, TD);
178  int I2Size = getStoreSize(I2, TD);
179
180  return I1Size != -1 && I2Size != -1 && I1Size >= I2Size;
181}
182
183bool DSE::runOnBasicBlock(BasicBlock &BB) {
184  MemoryDependenceAnalysis &MD = getAnalysis<MemoryDependenceAnalysis>();
185  TD = getAnalysisIfAvailable<TargetData>();
186
187  bool MadeChange = false;
188
189  // Do a top-down walk on the BB.
190  for (BasicBlock::iterator BBI = BB.begin(), BBE = BB.end(); BBI != BBE; ) {
191    Instruction *Inst = BBI++;
192
193    // If we find a store or a free, get its memory dependence.
194    if (!doesClobberMemory(Inst) && !isFreeCall(Inst))
195      continue;
196
197    MemDepResult InstDep = MD.getDependency(Inst);
198
199    // Ignore non-local stores.
200    // FIXME: cross-block DSE would be fun. :)
201    if (InstDep.isNonLocal()) continue;
202
203    // Handle frees whose dependencies are non-trivial.
204    if (isFreeCall(Inst)) {
205      MadeChange |= handleFreeWithNonTrivialDependency(Inst, InstDep);
206      continue;
207    }
208
209    // If not a definite must-alias dependency, ignore it.
210    if (!InstDep.isDef())
211      continue;
212
213    // If this is a store-store dependence, then the previous store is dead so
214    // long as this store is at least as big as it.
215    if (doesClobberMemory(InstDep.getInst())) {
216      Instruction *DepStore = InstDep.getInst();
217      if (isStoreAtLeastAsWideAs(Inst, DepStore, TD) &&
218          isElidable(DepStore)) {
219        // Delete the store and now-dead instructions that feed it.
220        DeleteDeadInstruction(DepStore);
221        NumFastStores++;
222        MadeChange = true;
223
224        // DeleteDeadInstruction can delete the current instruction in loop
225        // cases, reset BBI.
226        BBI = Inst;
227        if (BBI != BB.begin())
228          --BBI;
229        continue;
230      }
231    }
232
233    if (!isElidable(Inst))
234      continue;
235
236    // If we're storing the same value back to a pointer that we just
237    // loaded from, then the store can be removed.
238    if (StoreInst *SI = dyn_cast<StoreInst>(Inst)) {
239      if (LoadInst *DepLoad = dyn_cast<LoadInst>(InstDep.getInst())) {
240        if (SI->getPointerOperand() == DepLoad->getPointerOperand() &&
241            SI->getOperand(0) == DepLoad) {
242          // DeleteDeadInstruction can delete the current instruction.  Save BBI
243          // in case we need it.
244          WeakVH NextInst(BBI);
245
246          DeleteDeadInstruction(SI);
247
248          if (NextInst == 0)  // Next instruction deleted.
249            BBI = BB.begin();
250          else if (BBI != BB.begin())  // Revisit this instruction if possible.
251            --BBI;
252          NumFastStores++;
253          MadeChange = true;
254          continue;
255        }
256      }
257    }
258
259    // If this is a lifetime end marker, we can throw away the store.
260    if (IntrinsicInst *II = dyn_cast<IntrinsicInst>(InstDep.getInst())) {
261      if (II->getIntrinsicID() == Intrinsic::lifetime_end) {
262        // Delete the store and now-dead instructions that feed it.
263        // DeleteDeadInstruction can delete the current instruction.  Save BBI
264        // in case we need it.
265        WeakVH NextInst(BBI);
266
267        DeleteDeadInstruction(Inst);
268
269        if (NextInst == 0)  // Next instruction deleted.
270          BBI = BB.begin();
271        else if (BBI != BB.begin())  // Revisit this instruction if possible.
272          --BBI;
273        NumFastStores++;
274        MadeChange = true;
275        continue;
276      }
277    }
278  }
279
280  // If this block ends in a return, unwind, or unreachable, all allocas are
281  // dead at its end, which means stores to them are also dead.
282  if (BB.getTerminator()->getNumSuccessors() == 0)
283    MadeChange |= handleEndBlock(BB);
284
285  return MadeChange;
286}
287
288/// handleFreeWithNonTrivialDependency - Handle frees of entire structures whose
289/// dependency is a store to a field of that structure.
290bool DSE::handleFreeWithNonTrivialDependency(Instruction *F, MemDepResult Dep) {
291  AliasAnalysis &AA = getAnalysis<AliasAnalysis>();
292
293  Instruction *Dependency = Dep.getInst();
294  if (!Dependency || !doesClobberMemory(Dependency) || !isElidable(Dependency))
295    return false;
296
297  Value *DepPointer = getPointerOperand(Dependency)->getUnderlyingObject();
298
299  // Check for aliasing.
300  if (AA.alias(F->getOperand(1), 1, DepPointer, 1) !=
301         AliasAnalysis::MustAlias)
302    return false;
303
304  // DCE instructions only used to calculate that store
305  DeleteDeadInstruction(Dependency);
306  NumFastStores++;
307  return true;
308}
309
310/// handleEndBlock - Remove dead stores to stack-allocated locations in the
311/// function end block.  Ex:
312/// %A = alloca i32
313/// ...
314/// store i32 1, i32* %A
315/// ret void
316bool DSE::handleEndBlock(BasicBlock &BB) {
317  AliasAnalysis &AA = getAnalysis<AliasAnalysis>();
318
319  bool MadeChange = false;
320
321  // Pointers alloca'd in this function are dead in the end block
322  SmallPtrSet<Value*, 64> deadPointers;
323
324  // Find all of the alloca'd pointers in the entry block.
325  BasicBlock *Entry = BB.getParent()->begin();
326  for (BasicBlock::iterator I = Entry->begin(), E = Entry->end(); I != E; ++I)
327    if (AllocaInst *AI = dyn_cast<AllocaInst>(I))
328      deadPointers.insert(AI);
329
330  // Treat byval arguments the same, stores to them are dead at the end of the
331  // function.
332  for (Function::arg_iterator AI = BB.getParent()->arg_begin(),
333       AE = BB.getParent()->arg_end(); AI != AE; ++AI)
334    if (AI->hasByValAttr())
335      deadPointers.insert(AI);
336
337  // Scan the basic block backwards
338  for (BasicBlock::iterator BBI = BB.end(); BBI != BB.begin(); ){
339    --BBI;
340
341    // If we find a store whose pointer is dead.
342    if (doesClobberMemory(BBI)) {
343      if (isElidable(BBI)) {
344        // See through pointer-to-pointer bitcasts
345        Value *pointerOperand = getPointerOperand(BBI)->getUnderlyingObject();
346
347        // Alloca'd pointers or byval arguments (which are functionally like
348        // alloca's) are valid candidates for removal.
349        if (deadPointers.count(pointerOperand)) {
350          // DCE instructions only used to calculate that store.
351          Instruction *Dead = BBI;
352          BBI++;
353          DeleteDeadInstruction(Dead, &deadPointers);
354          NumFastStores++;
355          MadeChange = true;
356          continue;
357        }
358      }
359
360      // Because a memcpy or memmove is also a load, we can't skip it if we
361      // didn't remove it.
362      if (!isa<MemTransferInst>(BBI))
363        continue;
364    }
365
366    Value *killPointer = 0;
367    uint64_t killPointerSize = ~0UL;
368
369    // If we encounter a use of the pointer, it is no longer considered dead
370    if (LoadInst *L = dyn_cast<LoadInst>(BBI)) {
371      // However, if this load is unused and not volatile, we can go ahead and
372      // remove it, and not have to worry about it making our pointer undead!
373      if (L->use_empty() && !L->isVolatile()) {
374        BBI++;
375        DeleteDeadInstruction(L, &deadPointers);
376        NumFastOther++;
377        MadeChange = true;
378        continue;
379      }
380
381      killPointer = L->getPointerOperand();
382    } else if (VAArgInst *V = dyn_cast<VAArgInst>(BBI)) {
383      killPointer = V->getOperand(0);
384    } else if (isa<MemTransferInst>(BBI) &&
385               isa<ConstantInt>(cast<MemTransferInst>(BBI)->getLength())) {
386      killPointer = cast<MemTransferInst>(BBI)->getSource();
387      killPointerSize = cast<ConstantInt>(
388                       cast<MemTransferInst>(BBI)->getLength())->getZExtValue();
389    } else if (AllocaInst *A = dyn_cast<AllocaInst>(BBI)) {
390      deadPointers.erase(A);
391
392      // Dead alloca's can be DCE'd when we reach them
393      if (A->use_empty()) {
394        BBI++;
395        DeleteDeadInstruction(A, &deadPointers);
396        NumFastOther++;
397        MadeChange = true;
398      }
399
400      continue;
401    } else if (CallSite::get(BBI).getInstruction() != 0) {
402      // If this call does not access memory, it can't
403      // be undeadifying any of our pointers.
404      CallSite CS = CallSite::get(BBI);
405      if (AA.doesNotAccessMemory(CS))
406        continue;
407
408      unsigned modRef = 0;
409      unsigned other = 0;
410
411      // Remove any pointers made undead by the call from the dead set
412      std::vector<Value*> dead;
413      for (SmallPtrSet<Value*, 64>::iterator I = deadPointers.begin(),
414           E = deadPointers.end(); I != E; ++I) {
415        // HACK: if we detect that our AA is imprecise, it's not
416        // worth it to scan the rest of the deadPointers set.  Just
417        // assume that the AA will return ModRef for everything, and
418        // go ahead and bail.
419        if (modRef >= 16 && other == 0) {
420          deadPointers.clear();
421          return MadeChange;
422        }
423
424        // See if the call site touches it
425        AliasAnalysis::ModRefResult A = AA.getModRefInfo(CS, *I,
426                                                         getPointerSize(*I));
427
428        if (A == AliasAnalysis::ModRef)
429          modRef++;
430        else
431          other++;
432
433        if (A == AliasAnalysis::ModRef || A == AliasAnalysis::Ref)
434          dead.push_back(*I);
435      }
436
437      for (std::vector<Value*>::iterator I = dead.begin(), E = dead.end();
438           I != E; ++I)
439        deadPointers.erase(*I);
440
441      continue;
442    } else if (isInstructionTriviallyDead(BBI)) {
443      // For any non-memory-affecting non-terminators, DCE them as we reach them
444      Instruction *Inst = BBI;
445      BBI++;
446      DeleteDeadInstruction(Inst, &deadPointers);
447      NumFastOther++;
448      MadeChange = true;
449      continue;
450    }
451
452    if (!killPointer)
453      continue;
454
455    killPointer = killPointer->getUnderlyingObject();
456
457    // Deal with undead pointers
458    MadeChange |= RemoveUndeadPointers(killPointer, killPointerSize, BBI,
459                                       deadPointers);
460  }
461
462  return MadeChange;
463}
464
465/// RemoveUndeadPointers - check for uses of a pointer that make it
466/// undead when scanning for dead stores to alloca's.
467bool DSE::RemoveUndeadPointers(Value *killPointer, uint64_t killPointerSize,
468                               BasicBlock::iterator &BBI,
469                               SmallPtrSet<Value*, 64> &deadPointers) {
470  AliasAnalysis &AA = getAnalysis<AliasAnalysis>();
471
472  // If the kill pointer can be easily reduced to an alloca,
473  // don't bother doing extraneous AA queries.
474  if (deadPointers.count(killPointer)) {
475    deadPointers.erase(killPointer);
476    return false;
477  }
478
479  // A global can't be in the dead pointer set.
480  if (isa<GlobalValue>(killPointer))
481    return false;
482
483  bool MadeChange = false;
484
485  SmallVector<Value*, 16> undead;
486
487  for (SmallPtrSet<Value*, 64>::iterator I = deadPointers.begin(),
488       E = deadPointers.end(); I != E; ++I) {
489    // See if this pointer could alias it
490    AliasAnalysis::AliasResult A = AA.alias(*I, getPointerSize(*I),
491                                            killPointer, killPointerSize);
492
493    // If it must-alias and a store, we can delete it
494    if (isa<StoreInst>(BBI) && A == AliasAnalysis::MustAlias) {
495      StoreInst *S = cast<StoreInst>(BBI);
496
497      // Remove it!
498      ++BBI;
499      DeleteDeadInstruction(S, &deadPointers);
500      NumFastStores++;
501      MadeChange = true;
502
503      continue;
504
505      // Otherwise, it is undead
506    } else if (A != AliasAnalysis::NoAlias)
507      undead.push_back(*I);
508  }
509
510  for (SmallVector<Value*, 16>::iterator I = undead.begin(), E = undead.end();
511       I != E; ++I)
512      deadPointers.erase(*I);
513
514  return MadeChange;
515}
516
517/// DeleteDeadInstruction - Delete this instruction.  Before we do, go through
518/// and zero out all the operands of this instruction.  If any of them become
519/// dead, delete them and the computation tree that feeds them.
520///
521/// If ValueSet is non-null, remove any deleted instructions from it as well.
522///
523void DSE::DeleteDeadInstruction(Instruction *I,
524                                SmallPtrSet<Value*, 64> *ValueSet) {
525  SmallVector<Instruction*, 32> NowDeadInsts;
526
527  NowDeadInsts.push_back(I);
528  --NumFastOther;
529
530  // Before we touch this instruction, remove it from memdep!
531  MemoryDependenceAnalysis &MDA = getAnalysis<MemoryDependenceAnalysis>();
532  do {
533    Instruction *DeadInst = NowDeadInsts.pop_back_val();
534
535    ++NumFastOther;
536
537    // This instruction is dead, zap it, in stages.  Start by removing it from
538    // MemDep, which needs to know the operands and needs it to be in the
539    // function.
540    MDA.removeInstruction(DeadInst);
541
542    for (unsigned op = 0, e = DeadInst->getNumOperands(); op != e; ++op) {
543      Value *Op = DeadInst->getOperand(op);
544      DeadInst->setOperand(op, 0);
545
546      // If this operand just became dead, add it to the NowDeadInsts list.
547      if (!Op->use_empty()) continue;
548
549      if (Instruction *OpI = dyn_cast<Instruction>(Op))
550        if (isInstructionTriviallyDead(OpI))
551          NowDeadInsts.push_back(OpI);
552    }
553
554    DeadInst->eraseFromParent();
555
556    if (ValueSet) ValueSet->erase(DeadInst);
557  } while (!NowDeadInsts.empty());
558}
559
560unsigned DSE::getPointerSize(Value *V) const {
561  if (TD) {
562    if (AllocaInst *A = dyn_cast<AllocaInst>(V)) {
563      // Get size information for the alloca
564      if (ConstantInt *C = dyn_cast<ConstantInt>(A->getArraySize()))
565        return C->getZExtValue() * TD->getTypeAllocSize(A->getAllocatedType());
566    } else {
567      assert(isa<Argument>(V) && "Expected AllocaInst or Argument!");
568      const PointerType *PT = cast<PointerType>(V->getType());
569      return TD->getTypeAllocSize(PT->getElementType());
570    }
571  }
572  return ~0U;
573}
574