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Chandler Carruth	2f1fd1658f	[PM] Port ScalarEvolution to the new pass manager. This change makes ScalarEvolution a stand-alone object and just produces one from a pass as needed. Making this work well requires making the object movable, using references instead of overwritten pointers in a number of places, and other refactorings. I've also wired it up to the new pass manager and added a RUN line to a test to exercise it under the new pass manager. This includes basic printing support much like with other analyses. But there is a big and somewhat scary change here. Prior to this patch ScalarEvolution was never actually invalidated!!! Re-running the pass just re-wired up the various other analyses and didn't remove any of the existing entries in the SCEV caches or clear out anything at all. This might seem OK as everything in SCEV that can uses ValueHandles to track updates to the values that serve as SCEV keys. However, this still means that as we ran SCEV over each function in the module, we kept accumulating more and more SCEVs into the cache. At the end, we would have a SCEV cache with every value that we ever needed a SCEV for in the entire module!!! Yowzers. The releaseMemory routine would dump all of this, but that isn't realy called during normal runs of the pipeline as far as I can see. To make matters worse, there is actually a key that we don't update with value handles -- there is a map keyed off of Loops. Because LoopInfo does* release its memory from run to run, it is entirely possible to run SCEV over one function, then over another function, and then lookup a Loop* from the second function but find an entry inserted for the first function! Ouch. To make matters still worse, there are plenty of updates that don't trip a value handle. It seems incredibly unlikely that today GVN or another pass that invalidates SCEV can update values in just such a way that a subsequent run of SCEV will incorrectly find lookups in a cache, but it is theoretically possible and would be a nightmare to debug. With this refactoring, I've fixed all this by actually destroying and recreating the ScalarEvolution object from run to run. Technically, this could increase the amount of malloc traffic we see, but then again it is also technically correct. ;] I don't actually think we're suffering from tons of malloc traffic from SCEV because if we were, the fact that we never clear the memory would seem more likely to have come up as an actual problem before now. So, I've made the simple fix here. If in fact there are serious issues with too much allocation and deallocation, I can work on a clever fix that preserves the allocations (while clearing the data) between each run, but I'd prefer to do that kind of optimization with a test case / benchmark that shows why we need such cleverness (and that can test that we actually make it faster). It's possible that this will make some things faster by making the SCEV caches have higher locality (due to being significantly smaller) so until there is a clear benchmark, I think the simple change is best. Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D12063 llvm-svn: 245193	2015-08-17 02:08:17 +00:00
Chandler Carruth	1ff7724da5	[PM] Create a separate library for high-level pass management code. This will provide the analogous replacements for the PassManagerBuilder and other code long term. This code is extracted from the opt tool currently, and I plan to extend it as I build up support for using the new pass manager in Clang and other places. Mailing this out for review in part to let folks comment on the terrible names here. A brief word about why I chose the names I did. The library is called "Passes" to try and make it clear that it is a high-level utility and where all of the passes come together and are registered in a common library. I didn't want it to be limited to a registry though, the registry is just one component. The class is a "PassBuilder" but this name I'm less happy with. It doesn't build passes in any traditional sense and isn't a Builder-style API at all. The class is a PassRegisterer or PassAdder, but neither of those really make a lot of sense. This class is responsible for constructing passes for registry in an analysis manager or for population of a pass pipeline. If anyone has a better name, I would love to hear it. The other candidate I looked at was PassRegistrar, but that doesn't really fit either. There is no register of all the passes in use, and so I think continuing the "registry" analog outside of the registry of pass names and types is a mistake. The objects themselves are just objects with the new pass manager. Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D8054 llvm-svn: 231556	2015-03-07 09:02:36 +00:00

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Chandler Carruth

2f1fd1658f

[PM] Port ScalarEvolution to the new pass manager.

This change makes ScalarEvolution a stand-alone object and just produces
one from a pass as needed. Making this work well requires making the
object movable, using references instead of overwritten pointers in
a number of places, and other refactorings.

I've also wired it up to the new pass manager and added a RUN line to
a test to exercise it under the new pass manager. This includes basic
printing support much like with other analyses.

But there is a big and somewhat scary change here. Prior to this patch
ScalarEvolution was never *actually* invalidated!!! Re-running the pass
just re-wired up the various other analyses and didn't remove any of the
existing entries in the SCEV caches or clear out anything at all. This
might seem OK as everything in SCEV that can uses ValueHandles to track
updates to the values that serve as SCEV keys. However, this still means
that as we ran SCEV over each function in the module, we kept
accumulating more and more SCEVs into the cache. At the end, we would
have a SCEV cache with every value that we ever needed a SCEV for in the
entire module!!! Yowzers. The releaseMemory routine would dump all of
this, but that isn't realy called during normal runs of the pipeline as
far as I can see.

To make matters worse, there *is* actually a key that we don't update
with value handles -- there is a map keyed off of Loop*s. Because
LoopInfo *does* release its memory from run to run, it is entirely
possible to run SCEV over one function, then over another function, and
then lookup a Loop* from the second function but find an entry inserted
for the first function! Ouch.

To make matters still worse, there are plenty of updates that *don't*
trip a value handle. It seems incredibly unlikely that today GVN or
another pass that invalidates SCEV can update values in *just* such
a way that a subsequent run of SCEV will incorrectly find lookups in
a cache, but it is theoretically possible and would be a nightmare to
debug.

With this refactoring, I've fixed all this by actually destroying and
recreating the ScalarEvolution object from run to run. Technically, this
could increase the amount of malloc traffic we see, but then again it is
also technically correct. ;] I don't actually think we're suffering from
tons of malloc traffic from SCEV because if we were, the fact that we
never clear the memory would seem more likely to have come up as an
actual problem before now. So, I've made the simple fix here. If in fact
there are serious issues with too much allocation and deallocation,
I can work on a clever fix that preserves the allocations (while
clearing the data) between each run, but I'd prefer to do that kind of
optimization with a test case / benchmark that shows why we need such
cleverness (and that can test that we actually make it faster). It's
possible that this will make some things faster by making the SCEV
caches have higher locality (due to being significantly smaller) so
until there is a clear benchmark, I think the simple change is best.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D12063

llvm-svn: 245193

2015-08-17 02:08:17 +00:00

Chandler Carruth

1ff7724da5

[PM] Create a separate library for high-level pass management code.

This will provide the analogous replacements for the PassManagerBuilder
and other code long term. This code is extracted from the opt tool
currently, and I plan to extend it as I build up support for using the
new pass manager in Clang and other places.

Mailing this out for review in part to let folks comment on the terrible names
here. A brief word about why I chose the names I did.

The library is called "Passes" to try and make it clear that it is a high-level
utility and where *all* of the passes come together and are registered in
a common library. I didn't want it to be *limited* to a registry though, the
registry is just one component.

The class is a "PassBuilder" but this name I'm less happy with. It doesn't
build passes in any traditional sense and isn't a Builder-style API at all. The
class is a PassRegisterer or PassAdder, but neither of those really make a lot
of sense. This class is responsible for constructing passes for registry in an
analysis manager or for population of a pass pipeline. If anyone has a better
name, I would love to hear it. The other candidate I looked at was
PassRegistrar, but that doesn't really fit either. There is no register of all
the passes in use, and so I think continuing the "registry" analog outside of
the registry of pass *names* and *types* is a mistake. The objects themselves
are just objects with the new pass manager.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D8054

llvm-svn: 231556

2015-03-07 09:02:36 +00:00

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