Summary:
Fence instructions are currently marked as `ModRef` for all memory locations.
We can improve this for constant memory locations (such as constant globals),
since fence instructions cannot modify these locations.
This helps us to forward constant loads across fences (added test case in GVN).
There were no changes in behaviour for similar test cases in early-cse and licm.
Reviewers: dberlin, sanjoy, reames
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D28914
llvm-svn: 292546
The code have been developed by Daniel Berlin over the years, and
the new implementation goal is that of addressing shortcomings of
the current GVN infrastructure, i.e. long compile time for large
testcases, lack of phi predication, no load/store value numbering
etc...
The current code just implements the "core" GVN algorithm, although
other pieces (load coercion, phi handling, predicate system) are
already implemented in a branch out of tree. Once the core is stable,
we'll start adding pieces on top of the base framework.
The test currently living in test/Transform/NewGVN are a copy
of the ones in GVN, with proper `XFAIL` (missing features in NewGVN).
A flag will be added in a future commit to enable NewGVN, so that
interested parties can exercise this code easily.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26224
llvm-svn: 290346
Anna Thomas