It adds a new constructor, which takes a std::function predicate function that
is run at the beginning of shrink wrapping to determine whether the optimization
should run on the given machine function. The std::function can be overridden by
each target, allowing target-specific decisions to be made on each machine
function.
This is necessary for PowerPC, as the decision to run shrink wrapping is
partially based on the ABI. Futhermore, this operates nicely with the GCC iFunc
capability, which allows option overrides on a per-function basis.
Phabricator: http://reviews.llvm.org/D11421
llvm-svn: 244235
This is the first mechanical step in preparation for making this and all
the other alias analysis passes available to the new pass manager. I'm
factoring out all the totally boring changes I can so I'm moving code
around here with no other changes. I've even minimized the formatting
churn.
I'll reformat and freshen comments on the interface now that its located
in the right place so that the substantive changes don't triger this.
llvm-svn: 244197
Summary:
This change is part of a series of commits dedicated to have a single
DataLayout during compilation by using always the one owned by the
module.
Reviewers: echristo
Subscribers: yaron.keren, rafael, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D11009
From: Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini@apple.com>
llvm-svn: 241654
This commit adds a 'run-pass' option to llc, which instructs the compiler to run
one specific code generation pass only.
Llc already has the 'start-after' and the 'stop-after' options, and this new
option complements the other two by making it easier to write tests that want
to invoke a single pass only.
Reviewers: Duncan P. N. Exon Smith
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10776
llvm-svn: 241476
This patch adds the safe stack instrumentation pass to LLVM, which separates
the program stack into a safe stack, which stores return addresses, register
spills, and local variables that are statically verified to be accessed
in a safe way, and the unsafe stack, which stores everything else. Such
separation makes it much harder for an attacker to corrupt objects on the
safe stack, including function pointers stored in spilled registers and
return addresses. You can find more information about the safe stack, as
well as other parts of or control-flow hijack protection technique in our
OSDI paper on code-pointer integrity (http://dslab.epfl.ch/pubs/cpi.pdf)
and our project website (http://levee.epfl.ch).
The overhead of our implementation of the safe stack is very close to zero
(0.01% on the Phoronix benchmarks). This is lower than the overhead of
stack cookies, which are supported by LLVM and are commonly used today,
yet the security guarantees of the safe stack are strictly stronger than
stack cookies. In some cases, the safe stack improves performance due to
better cache locality.
Our current implementation of the safe stack is stable and robust, we
used it to recompile multiple projects on Linux including Chromium, and
we also recompiled the entire FreeBSD user-space system and more than 100
packages. We ran unit tests on the FreeBSD system and many of the packages
and observed no errors caused by the safe stack. The safe stack is also fully
binary compatible with non-instrumented code and can be applied to parts of
a program selectively.
This patch is our implementation of the safe stack on top of LLVM. The
patches make the following changes:
- Add the safestack function attribute, similar to the ssp, sspstrong and
sspreq attributes.
- Add the SafeStack instrumentation pass that applies the safe stack to all
functions that have the safestack attribute. This pass moves all unsafe local
variables to the unsafe stack with a separate stack pointer, whereas all
safe variables remain on the regular stack that is managed by LLVM as usual.
- Invoke the pass as the last stage before code generation (at the same time
the existing cookie-based stack protector pass is invoked).
- Add unit tests for the safe stack.
Original patch by Volodymyr Kuznetsov and others at the Dependable Systems
Lab at EPFL; updates and upstreaming by myself.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6094
llvm-svn: 239761
the overloaded version of addPass which takes Pass*.
This change enables inserting the machine printer pass when the overloaded
version of addPass that takes Pass* is called to add a pass, instead of the
one which takes AnalysisID. I need this to prevent make-check tests from
failing when I commit another patch later.
llvm-svn: 239192
This patch introduces a new pass that computes the safe point to insert the
prologue and epilogue of the function.
The interest is to find safe points that are cheaper than the entry and exits
blocks.
As an example and to avoid regressions to be introduce, this patch also
implements the required bits to enable the shrink-wrapping pass for AArch64.
** Context **
Currently we insert the prologue and epilogue of the method/function in the
entry and exits blocks. Although this is correct, we can do a better job when
those are not immediately required and insert them at less frequently executed
places.
The job of the shrink-wrapping pass is to identify such places.
** Motivating example **
Let us consider the following function that perform a call only in one branch of
a if:
define i32 @f(i32 %a, i32 %b) {
%tmp = alloca i32, align 4
%tmp2 = icmp slt i32 %a, %b
br i1 %tmp2, label %true, label %false
true:
store i32 %a, i32* %tmp, align 4
%tmp4 = call i32 @doSomething(i32 0, i32* %tmp)
br label %false
false:
%tmp.0 = phi i32 [ %tmp4, %true ], [ %a, %0 ]
ret i32 %tmp.0
}
On AArch64 this code generates (removing the cfi directives to ease
readabilities):
_f: ; @f
; BB#0:
stp x29, x30, [sp, #-16]!
mov x29, sp
sub sp, sp, #16 ; =16
cmp w0, w1
b.ge LBB0_2
; BB#1: ; %true
stur w0, [x29, #-4]
sub x1, x29, #4 ; =4
mov w0, wzr
bl _doSomething
LBB0_2: ; %false
mov sp, x29
ldp x29, x30, [sp], #16
ret
With shrink-wrapping we could generate:
_f: ; @f
; BB#0:
cmp w0, w1
b.ge LBB0_2
; BB#1: ; %true
stp x29, x30, [sp, #-16]!
mov x29, sp
sub sp, sp, #16 ; =16
stur w0, [x29, #-4]
sub x1, x29, #4 ; =4
mov w0, wzr
bl _doSomething
add sp, x29, #16 ; =16
ldp x29, x30, [sp], #16
LBB0_2: ; %false
ret
Therefore, we would pay the overhead of setting up/destroying the frame only if
we actually do the call.
** Proposed Solution **
This patch introduces a new machine pass that perform the shrink-wrapping
analysis (See the comments at the beginning of ShrinkWrap.cpp for more details).
It then stores the safe save and restore point into the MachineFrameInfo
attached to the MachineFunction.
This information is then used by the PrologEpilogInserter (PEI) to place the
related code at the right place. This pass runs right before the PEI.
Unlike the original paper of Chow from PLDI’88, this implementation of
shrink-wrapping does not use expensive data-flow analysis and does not need hack
to properly avoid frequently executed point. Instead, it relies on dominance and
loop properties.
The pass is off by default and each target can opt-in by setting the
EnableShrinkWrap boolean to true in their derived class of TargetPassConfig.
This setting can also be overwritten on the command line by using
-enable-shrink-wrap.
Before you try out the pass for your target, make sure you properly fix your
emitProlog/emitEpilog/adjustForXXX method to cope with basic blocks that are not
necessarily the entry block.
** Design Decisions **
1. ShrinkWrap is its own pass right now. It could frankly be merged into PEI but
for debugging and clarity I thought it was best to have its own file.
2. Right now, we only support one save point and one restore point. At some
point we can expand this to several save point and restore point, the impacted
component would then be:
- The pass itself: New algorithm needed.
- MachineFrameInfo: Hold a list or set of Save/Restore point instead of one
pointer.
- PEI: Should loop over the save point and restore point.
Anyhow, at least for this first iteration, I do not believe this is interesting
to support the complex cases. We should revisit that when we motivating
examples.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D9210
<rdar://problem/3201744>
llvm-svn: 236507
Remove `DebugInfoVerifierLegacyPass` and the `-verify-di` pass.
Instead, call into the `DebugInfoVerifier` from inside
`VerifierLegacyPass::finalizeModule()`. This better matches the logic
in `verifyModule()` (used by the new PassManager), avoids requiring two
separate passes to verify the IR, and makes the API for "add a pass to
verify the IR" simple.
Note: the `-verify-debug-info` flag still works (for now, at least;
eventually it might make sense to just remove it).
llvm-svn: 232772
Instead, run both EH preparation passes, and have them both ignore
functions with unrecognized EH personalities. Pass delegation involved
some hacky code for creating an AnalysisResolver that we don't need now.
llvm-svn: 231995
that control, individually, all of the disparate things it was
controlling.
At the same time move a FIXME in the Hexagon port to a new
subtarget function that will enable a user of the machine
scheduler to avoid using the source scheduler for pre-RA-scheduling.
The FIXME would have this removed, but involves either testcase
changes or adding -pre-RA-sched=source to a few testcases.
llvm-svn: 231980
LLVM's include tree and the use of using declarations to hide the
'legacy' namespace for the old pass manager.
This undoes the primary modules-hostile change I made to keep
out-of-tree targets building. I sent an email inquiring about whether
this would be reasonable to do at this phase and people seemed fine with
it, so making it a reality. This should allow us to start bootstrapping
with modules to a certain extent along with making it easier to mix and
match headers in general.
The updates to any code for users of LLVM are very mechanical. Switch
from including "llvm/PassManager.h" to "llvm/IR/LegacyPassManager.h".
Qualify the types which now produce compile errors with "legacy::". The
most common ones are "PassManager", "PassManagerBase", and
"FunctionPassManager".
llvm-svn: 229094
This preserves the handy functionality of force-enabling the MachineVerifier, without the need to embed usage of environment variables in LLVM client applications.
llvm-svn: 228079
If the personality is not a recognized MSVC personality function, this
pass delegates to the dwarf EH preparation pass. This chaining supports
people on *-windows-itanium or *-windows-gnu targets.
Currently this recognizes some personalities used by MSVC and turns
resume instructions into traps to avoid link errors. Even if cleanups
are not used in the source program, LLVM requires the frontend to emit a
code path that resumes unwinding after an exception. Clang does this,
and we get unreachable resume instructions. PR20300 covers cleaning up
these unreachable calls to resume.
Reviewers: majnemer
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D7216
llvm-svn: 227405
This is a refactoring to restructure the single user of performCustomLowering as a specific lowering pass and remove the custom lowering hook entirely.
Before this change, the LowerIntrinsics pass (note to self: rename!) was essentially acting as a pass manager, but without being structured in terms of passes. Instead, it proxied calls to a set of GCStrategies internally. This adds a lot of conceptual complexity (i.e. GCStrategies are stateful!) for very little benefit. Since there's been interest in keeping the ShadowStackGC working, I extracting it's custom lowering pass into a dedicated pass and just added that to the pass order. It will only run for functions which opt-in to that gc.
I wasn't able to find an easy way to preserve the runtime registration of custom lowering functionality. Given that no user of this exists that I'm aware of, I made the choice to just remove that. If someone really cares, we can look at restoring it via dynamic pass registration in the future.
Note that despite the large diff, none of the lowering code actual changes. I added the framing needed to make it a pass and rename the class, but that's it.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D7218
llvm-svn: 227351
This mostly reverts commit r222062 and replaces it with a new enum. At
some point this enum will grow at least for other MSVC EH personalities.
Also beefs up the way we were sniffing the personality function.
Previously we would emit the Itanium LSDA despite using
__C_specific_handler.
Reviewers: majnemer
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6987
llvm-svn: 226920
Note: This change ended up being slightly more controversial than expected. Chandler has tentatively okayed this for the moment, but I may be revisiting this in the near future after we settle some high level questions.
Rather than have the GCStrategy object owned by the GCModuleInfo - which is an immutable analysis pass used mainly by gc.root - have it be owned by the LLVMContext. This simplifies the ownership logic (i.e. can you have two instances of the same strategy at once?), but more importantly, allows us to access the GCStrategy in the middle end optimizer. To this end, I add an accessor through Function which becomes the canonical way to get at a GCStrategy instance.
In the near future, this will allows me to move some of the checks from http://reviews.llvm.org/D6808 into the Verifier itself, and to introduce optimization legality predicates for some of the recent additions to InstCombine. (These will follow as separate changes.)
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6811
llvm-svn: 226311
A pass that adds random noops to X86 binaries to introduce diversity with the goal of increasing security against most return-oriented programming attacks.
Command line options:
-noop-insertion // Enable noop insertion.
-noop-insertion-percentage=X // X% of assembly instructions will have a noop prepended (default: 50%, requires -noop-insertion)
-max-noops-per-instruction=X // Randomly generate X noops per instruction. ie. roll the dice X times with probability set above (default: 1). This doesn't guarantee X noop instructions.
In addition, the following 'quick switch' in clang enables basic diversity using default settings (currently: noop insertion and schedule randomization; it is intended to be extended in the future).
-fdiversify
This is the llvm part of the patch.
clang part: D3393
http://reviews.llvm.org/D3392
Patch by Stephen Crane (@rinon)
llvm-svn: 225908
This adds handling for ExceptionHandling::MSVC, used by the
x86_64-pc-windows-msvc triple. It assumes that filter functions have
already been outlined in either the frontend or the backend. Filter
functions are used in place of the landingpad catch clause type info
operands. In catch clause order, the first filter to return true will
catch the exception.
The C specific handler table expects the landing pad to be split into
one block per handler, but LLVM IR uses a single landing pad for all
possible unwind actions. This patch papers over the mismatch by
synthesizing single instruction BBs for every catch clause to fill in
the EH selector that the landing pad block expects.
Missing functionality:
- Accessing data in the parent frame from outlined filters
- Cleanups (from __finally) are unsupported, as they will require
outlining and parent frame access
- Filter clauses are unsupported, as there's no clear analogue in SEH
In other words, this is the minimal set of changes needed to write IR to
catch arbitrary exceptions and resume normal execution.
Reviewers: majnemer
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6300
llvm-svn: 225904
It is intended to be used for a family of personality functions that
have similar IR preparation requirements. Typically when interoperating
with MSVC personality functions, bits of functionality need to be
outlined from the main function into helper functions. There is also
usually more than one landing pad per invoke, which does not match the
LLVM IR landingpad representation.
None of this is implemented yet. This change just adds a new enum that
is active for *-windows-msvc and delegates to the EH removal preparation
pass. No functionality change for other targets.
llvm-svn: 224625
options.
This commit changes the command line arguments (PassInfo::PassArgument) of two
passes, MachineFunctionPrinter and MachineScheduler, to avoid collisions with
command line options that have the same argument strings.
This bug manifests when the PassList construct (defined in opt.cpp) is used
in a tool that links with codegen passes. To reproduce the bug, paste the
following lines into llc.cpp and run llc.
#include "llvm/IR/LegacyPassNameParser.h"
static llvm:🆑:list<const llvm::PassInfo*, bool, llvm::PassNameParser>
PassList(llvm:🆑:desc("Optimizations available:"));
rdar://problem/19212448
llvm-svn: 224186
Previously print+verify passes were added in a very unsystematic way, which is
annoying when debugging as you miss intermediate steps and allows bugs to stay
unnotice when no verification is performed.
To make this change practical I added the possibility to explicitely disable
verification. I used this option on all places where no verification was
performed previously (because alot of places actually don't pass the
MachineVerifier).
In the long term these problems should be fixed properly and verification
enabled after each pass. I'll enable some more verification in subsequent
commits.
This is the 2nd attempt at this after realizing that PassManager::add() may
actually delete the pass.
llvm-svn: 224059
Previously print+verify passes were added in a very unsystematic way, which is
annoying when debugging as you miss intermediate steps and allows bugs to stay
unnotice when no verification is performed.
To make this change practical I added the possibility to explicitely disable
verification. I used this option on all places where no verification was
performed previously (because alot of places actually don't pass the
MachineVerifier).
In the long term these problems should be fixed properly and verification
enabled after each pass. I'll enable some more verification in subsequent
commits.
llvm-svn: 224042
Summary:
The current "WinEH" exception handling type is more about Itanium-style
LSDA tables layered on top of the Windows native unwind info format
instead of .eh_frame tables or EHABI unwind info. Use the name
"ItaniumWinEH" to better reflect the hybrid nature of the design.
Also rename isExceptionHandlingDWARF to usesItaniumLSDAForExceptions,
since the LSDA is part of the Itanium C++ ABI document, and not the
DWARF standard.
Reviewers: echristo
Subscribers: llvm-commits, compnerd
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6279
llvm-svn: 222062
We already use the llvm namespace. Remove the unnecessary prefix. Use the
StringRef::equals method to compare with C strings rather than instantiating
std::strings.
Addresses late review comments from David Majnemer.
llvm-svn: 221564
This introduces the symbol rewriter. This is an IR->IR transformation that is
implemented as a CodeGenPrepare pass. This allows for the transparent
adjustment of the symbols during compilation.
It provides a clean, simple, elegant solution for symbol inter-positioning. This
technique is often used, such as in the various sanitizers and performance
analysis.
The control of this is via a custom YAML syntax map file that indicates source
to destination mapping, so as to avoid having the compiler to know the exact
details of the source to destination transformations.
llvm-svn: 221548
This enables targets to adapt their pass pipeline to the register
allocator in use. For example, with the AArch64 backend, using PBQP
with the cortex-a57, the FPLoadBalancing pass is no longer necessary.
llvm-svn: 220321
the isRegSequence property.
This is a follow-up of r215394 and r215404, which respectively introduces the
isRegSequence property and uses it for ARM.
Thanks to the property introduced by the previous commits, this patch is able
to optimize the following sequence:
vmov d0, r2, r3
vmov d1, r0, r1
vmov r0, s0
vmov r1, s2
udiv r0, r1, r0
vmov r1, s1
vmov r2, s3
udiv r1, r2, r1
vmov.32 d16[0], r0
vmov.32 d16[1], r1
vmov r0, r1, d16
bx lr
into:
udiv r0, r0, r2
udiv r1, r1, r3
vmov.32 d16[0], r0
vmov.32 d16[1], r1
vmov r0, r1, d16
bx lr
This patch refactors how the copy optimizations are done in the peephole
optimizer. Prior to this patch, we had one copy-related optimization that
replaced a copy or bitcast by a generic, more suitable (in terms of register
file), copy.
With this patch, the peephole optimizer features two copy-related optimizations:
1. One for rewriting generic copies to generic copies:
PeepholeOptimizer::optimizeCoalescableCopy.
2. One for replacing non-generic copies with generic copies:
PeepholeOptimizer::optimizeUncoalescableCopy.
The goals of these two optimizations are slightly different: one rewrite the
operand of the instruction (#1), the other kills off the non-generic instruction
and replace it by a (sequence of) generic instruction(s).
Both optimizations rely on the ValueTracker introduced in r212100.
The ValueTracker has been refactored to use the information from the
TargetInstrInfo for non-generic instruction. As part of the refactoring, we
switched the tracking from the index of the definition to the actual register
(virtual or physical). This one change is to provide better consistency with
register related APIs and to ease the use of the TargetInstrInfo.
Moreover, this patch introduces a new helper class CopyRewriter used to ease the
rewriting of generic copies (i.e., #1).
Finally, this patch adds a dead code elimination pass right after the peephole
optimizer to get rid of dead code that may appear after rewriting.
This is related to <rdar://problem/12702965>.
Review: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4874
llvm-svn: 216088
This commit adds scoped noalias metadata. The primary motivations for this
feature are:
1. To preserve noalias function attribute information when inlining
2. To provide the ability to model block-scope C99 restrict pointers
Neither of these two abilities are added here, only the necessary
infrastructure. In fact, there should be no change to existing functionality,
only the addition of new features. The logic that converts noalias function
parameters into this metadata during inlining will come in a follow-up commit.
What is added here is the ability to generally specify noalias memory-access
sets. Regarding the metadata, alias-analysis scopes are defined similar to TBAA
nodes:
!scope0 = metadata !{ metadata !"scope of foo()" }
!scope1 = metadata !{ metadata !"scope 1", metadata !scope0 }
!scope2 = metadata !{ metadata !"scope 2", metadata !scope0 }
!scope3 = metadata !{ metadata !"scope 2.1", metadata !scope2 }
!scope4 = metadata !{ metadata !"scope 2.2", metadata !scope2 }
Loads and stores can be tagged with an alias-analysis scope, and also, with a
noalias tag for a specific scope:
... = load %ptr1, !alias.scope !{ !scope1 }
... = load %ptr2, !alias.scope !{ !scope1, !scope2 }, !noalias !{ !scope1 }
When evaluating an aliasing query, if one of the instructions is associated
with an alias.scope id that is identical to the noalias scope associated with
the other instruction, or is a descendant (in the scope hierarchy) of the
noalias scope associated with the other instruction, then the two memory
accesses are assumed not to alias.
Note that is the first element of the scope metadata is a string, then it can
be combined accross functions and translation units. The string can be replaced
by a self-reference to create globally unqiue scope identifiers.
[Note: This overview is slightly stylized, since the metadata nodes really need
to just be numbers (!0 instead of !scope0), and the scope lists are also global
unnamed metadata.]
Existing noalias metadata in a callee is "cloned" for use by the inlined code.
This is necessary because the aliasing scopes are unique to each call site
(because of possible control dependencies on the aliasing properties). For
example, consider a function: foo(noalias a, noalias b) { *a = *b; } that gets
inlined into bar() { ... if (...) foo(a1, b1); ... if (...) foo(a2, b2); } --
now just because we know that a1 does not alias with b1 at the first call site,
and a2 does not alias with b2 at the second call site, we cannot let inlining
these functons have the metadata imply that a1 does not alias with b2.
llvm-svn: 213864
This pass attempts to speculatively use a sqrt instruction if one exists on the target, falling back to a libcall if the target instruction returned NaN.
This was enabled for MIPS and System-Z, but is well guarded and is good for most targets - GCC does this for (that I've checked) X86, ARM and AArch64.
llvm-svn: 213752
This exception format is not specific to Windows x64. A similar approach is
taken on nearly all architectures. Generalise the name to reflect reality.
This will eventually be used for Windows on ARM data emission as well.
Switch the enum and namespace into an enum class.
llvm-svn: 212000
There is no need to calculate the liveness information for stackmaps. The
liveness information is still available for the patchpoint intrinsic and
that is also the intended usage model.
Related to <rdar://problem/17473725>
llvm-svn: 211816
As requested by AArch64 subtargets.
Note that this will have no effect until the
AArch64 target actually enables the pass like this:
substitutePass(&PostRASchedulerID, &PostMachineSchedulerID);
As soon as armv7 switches over, PostMachineScheduler will become the
default postRA scheduler, so this won't be necessary any more.
Targets using the old postRA schedule would then do:
substitutePass(&PostMachineSchedulerID, &PostRASchedulerID);
llvm-svn: 210167
Implement DebugInfoVerifier, which steals verification relying on
DebugInfoFinder from Verifier.
- Adds LegacyDebugInfoVerifierPassPass, a ModulePass which wraps
DebugInfoVerifier. Uses -verify-di command-line flag.
- Change verifyModule() to invoke DebugInfoVerifier as well as
Verifier.
- Add a call to createDebugInfoVerifierPass() wherever there was a
call to createVerifierPass().
This implementation as a module pass should sidestep efficiency issues,
allowing us to turn debug info verification back on.
<rdar://problem/15500563>
llvm-svn: 206300
This option caused LowerInvoke to generate code using SJLJ-based
exception handling, but there is no code left that interprets the
jmp_buf stack that the resulting code maintained (llvm.sjljeh.jblist).
This option has been obsolete for a while, and replaced by
SjLjEHPrepare.
This leaves the default behaviour of LowerInvoke, which is to convert
invokes to calls.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D3136
llvm-svn: 204388
This commit caused -Woverloaded-virtual warnings. The two new
TargetTransformInfo::getIntImmCost functions were only added to the superclass,
and to the X86 subclass. The other targets were not updated, and the
warning highlighted this by pointing out that e.g. ARMTTI::getIntImmCost was
hiding the two new getIntImmCost variants.
We could pacify the warning by adding "using TargetTransformInfo::getIntImmCost"
to the various subclasses, or turning it off, but I suspect that it's wrong to
leave the functions unimplemnted in those targets. The default implementations
return TCC_Free, which I don't think is right e.g. for ARM.
llvm-svn: 200058
Retry commit r200022 with a fix for the build bot errors. Constant expressions
have (unlike instructions) module scope use lists and therefore may have users
in different functions. The fix is to simply ignore these out-of-function uses.
llvm-svn: 200034
This pass identifies expensive constants to hoist and coalesces them to
better prepare it for SelectionDAG-based code generation. This works around the
limitations of the basic-block-at-a-time approach.
First it scans all instructions for integer constants and calculates its
cost. If the constant can be folded into the instruction (the cost is
TCC_Free) or the cost is just a simple operation (TCC_BASIC), then we don't
consider it expensive and leave it alone. This is the default behavior and
the default implementation of getIntImmCost will always return TCC_Free.
If the cost is more than TCC_BASIC, then the integer constant can't be folded
into the instruction and it might be beneficial to hoist the constant.
Similar constants are coalesced to reduce register pressure and
materialization code.
When a constant is hoisted, it is also hidden behind a bitcast to force it to
be live-out of the basic block. Otherwise the constant would be just
duplicated and each basic block would have its own copy in the SelectionDAG.
The SelectionDAG recognizes such constants as opaque and doesn't perform
certain transformations on them, which would create a new expensive constant.
This optimization is only applied to integer constants in instructions and
simple (this means not nested) constant cast experessions. For example:
%0 = load i64* inttoptr (i64 big_constant to i64*)
Reviewed by Eric
llvm-svn: 200022
Kit Barton