llvm-project/llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith 5bf8fef580 IR: Split Metadata from Value
Split `Metadata` away from the `Value` class hierarchy, as part of
PR21532.  Assembly and bitcode changes are in the wings, but this is the
bulk of the change for the IR C++ API.

I have a follow-up patch prepared for `clang`.  If this breaks other
sub-projects, I apologize in advance :(.  Help me compile it on Darwin
I'll try to fix it.  FWIW, the errors should be easy to fix, so it may
be simpler to just fix it yourself.

This breaks the build for all metadata-related code that's out-of-tree.
Rest assured the transition is mechanical and the compiler should catch
almost all of the problems.

Here's a quick guide for updating your code:

  - `Metadata` is the root of a class hierarchy with three main classes:
    `MDNode`, `MDString`, and `ValueAsMetadata`.  It is distinct from
    the `Value` class hierarchy.  It is typeless -- i.e., instances do
    *not* have a `Type`.

  - `MDNode`'s operands are all `Metadata *` (instead of `Value *`).

  - `TrackingVH<MDNode>` and `WeakVH` referring to metadata can be
    replaced with `TrackingMDNodeRef` and `TrackingMDRef`, respectively.

    If you're referring solely to resolved `MDNode`s -- post graph
    construction -- just use `MDNode*`.

  - `MDNode` (and the rest of `Metadata`) have only limited support for
    `replaceAllUsesWith()`.

    As long as an `MDNode` is pointing at a forward declaration -- the
    result of `MDNode::getTemporary()` -- it maintains a side map of its
    uses and can RAUW itself.  Once the forward declarations are fully
    resolved RAUW support is dropped on the ground.  This means that
    uniquing collisions on changing operands cause nodes to become
    "distinct".  (This already happened fairly commonly, whenever an
    operand went to null.)

    If you're constructing complex (non self-reference) `MDNode` cycles,
    you need to call `MDNode::resolveCycles()` on each node (or on a
    top-level node that somehow references all of the nodes).  Also,
    don't do that.  Metadata cycles (and the RAUW machinery needed to
    construct them) are expensive.

  - An `MDNode` can only refer to a `Constant` through a bridge called
    `ConstantAsMetadata` (one of the subclasses of `ValueAsMetadata`).

    As a side effect, accessing an operand of an `MDNode` that is known
    to be, e.g., `ConstantInt`, takes three steps: first, cast from
    `Metadata` to `ConstantAsMetadata`; second, extract the `Constant`;
    third, cast down to `ConstantInt`.

    The eventual goal is to introduce `MDInt`/`MDFloat`/etc. and have
    metadata schema owners transition away from using `Constant`s when
    the type isn't important (and they don't care about referring to
    `GlobalValue`s).

    In the meantime, I've added transitional API to the `mdconst`
    namespace that matches semantics with the old code, in order to
    avoid adding the error-prone three-step equivalent to every call
    site.  If your old code was:

        MDNode *N = foo();
        bar(isa             <ConstantInt>(N->getOperand(0)));
        baz(cast            <ConstantInt>(N->getOperand(1)));
        bak(cast_or_null    <ConstantInt>(N->getOperand(2)));
        bat(dyn_cast        <ConstantInt>(N->getOperand(3)));
        bay(dyn_cast_or_null<ConstantInt>(N->getOperand(4)));

    you can trivially match its semantics with:

        MDNode *N = foo();
        bar(mdconst::hasa               <ConstantInt>(N->getOperand(0)));
        baz(mdconst::extract            <ConstantInt>(N->getOperand(1)));
        bak(mdconst::extract_or_null    <ConstantInt>(N->getOperand(2)));
        bat(mdconst::dyn_extract        <ConstantInt>(N->getOperand(3)));
        bay(mdconst::dyn_extract_or_null<ConstantInt>(N->getOperand(4)));

    and when you transition your metadata schema to `MDInt`:

        MDNode *N = foo();
        bar(isa             <MDInt>(N->getOperand(0)));
        baz(cast            <MDInt>(N->getOperand(1)));
        bak(cast_or_null    <MDInt>(N->getOperand(2)));
        bat(dyn_cast        <MDInt>(N->getOperand(3)));
        bay(dyn_cast_or_null<MDInt>(N->getOperand(4)));

  - A `CallInst` -- specifically, intrinsic instructions -- can refer to
    metadata through a bridge called `MetadataAsValue`.  This is a
    subclass of `Value` where `getType()->isMetadataTy()`.

    `MetadataAsValue` is the *only* class that can legally refer to a
    `LocalAsMetadata`, which is a bridged form of non-`Constant` values
    like `Argument` and `Instruction`.  It can also refer to any other
    `Metadata` subclass.

(I'll break all your testcases in a follow-up commit, when I propagate
this change to assembly.)

llvm-svn: 223802
2014-12-09 18:38:53 +00:00
..
ASanStackFrameLayout.cpp Revert "Introduce a string_ostream string builder facilty" 2014-06-26 22:52:05 +00:00
AddDiscriminators.cpp IR: Split Metadata from Value 2014-12-09 18:38:53 +00:00
BasicBlockUtils.cpp Introduce llvm::SplitAllCriticalEdges 2014-11-19 00:17:31 +00:00
BreakCriticalEdges.cpp Introduce llvm::SplitAllCriticalEdges 2014-11-19 00:17:31 +00:00
BuildLibCalls.cpp Use nullptr instead of NULL for variadic sentinels 2014-11-13 22:55:19 +00:00
BypassSlowDivision.cpp [C++] Use 'nullptr'. Transforms edition. 2014-04-25 05:29:35 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt Transforms: sort source files in build 2014-11-08 00:00:47 +00:00
CloneFunction.cpp IR: Split Metadata from Value 2014-12-09 18:38:53 +00:00
CloneModule.cpp C API: Add LLVMCloneModule() 2014-10-01 17:14:57 +00:00
CmpInstAnalysis.cpp [C++] Use 'nullptr'. Transforms edition. 2014-04-25 05:29:35 +00:00
CodeExtractor.cpp Revert "[C++11] Add predecessors(BasicBlock *) / successors(BasicBlock *) iterator ranges." 2014-07-21 17:06:51 +00:00
CtorUtils.cpp GlobalOpt: Preserve comdats of unoptimized initializers 2014-09-23 22:33:01 +00:00
DemoteRegToStack.cpp [C++] Use 'nullptr'. Transforms edition. 2014-04-25 05:29:35 +00:00
FlattenCFG.cpp utils: Fix segfault in flattencfg 2014-08-13 20:31:53 +00:00
GlobalStatus.cpp Update SetVector to rely on the underlying set's insert to return a pair<iterator, bool> 2014-11-19 07:49:26 +00:00
InlineFunction.cpp IR: Split Metadata from Value 2014-12-09 18:38:53 +00:00
InstructionNamer.cpp [C++11] Add 'override' keyword to virtual methods that override their base class. 2014-03-05 09:10:37 +00:00
IntegerDivision.cpp Fix heap-use-after-free bug in expandSDiv when the operands are 2014-11-05 21:28:24 +00:00
LCSSA.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:55:47 +00:00
LLVMBuild.txt
Local.cpp IR: Split Metadata from Value 2014-12-09 18:38:53 +00:00
LoopSimplify.cpp Revert earlier change removing setPreservesCFG from instcombine (r221223) and 2014-11-04 23:02:09 +00:00
LoopUnroll.cpp Update SetVector to rely on the underlying set's insert to return a pair<iterator, bool> 2014-11-19 07:49:26 +00:00
LoopUnrollRuntime.cpp IR: Split Metadata from Value 2014-12-09 18:38:53 +00:00
LowerExpectIntrinsic.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:55:47 +00:00
LowerInvoke.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:55:47 +00:00
LowerSwitch.cpp [SwitchLowering] Handle destinations on multiple phi instructions 2014-12-02 18:31:53 +00:00
Makefile
Mem2Reg.cpp Make use of @llvm.assume in ValueTracking (computeKnownBits, etc.) 2014-09-07 18:57:58 +00:00
MetaRenamer.cpp [C++11] Add 'override' keyword to virtual methods that override their base class. 2014-03-05 09:10:37 +00:00
ModuleUtils.cpp Repace SmallPtrSet with SmallPtrSetImpl in function arguments to avoid needing to mention the size. 2014-08-21 05:55:13 +00:00
PromoteMemoryToRegister.cpp IR: Split Metadata from Value 2014-12-09 18:38:53 +00:00
SSAUpdater.cpp Revert "[C++11] Add predecessors(BasicBlock *) / successors(BasicBlock *) iterator ranges." 2014-07-21 17:06:51 +00:00
SimplifyCFG.cpp IR: Split Metadata from Value 2014-12-09 18:38:53 +00:00
SimplifyIndVar.cpp Update SetVector to rely on the underlying set's insert to return a pair<iterator, bool> 2014-11-19 07:49:26 +00:00
SimplifyInstructions.cpp Make use of @llvm.assume in ValueTracking (computeKnownBits, etc.) 2014-09-07 18:57:58 +00:00
SimplifyLibCalls.cpp correct spelling, NFC 2014-12-03 22:10:39 +00:00
SymbolRewriter.cpp Remove redundant virtual on overriden functions. 2014-11-14 19:06:36 +00:00
UnifyFunctionExitNodes.cpp [C++] Use 'nullptr'. Transforms edition. 2014-04-25 05:29:35 +00:00
Utils.cpp Pass to emit DWARF path discriminators. 2014-03-03 20:06:11 +00:00
ValueMapper.cpp IR: Split Metadata from Value 2014-12-09 18:38:53 +00:00