llvm-project/llvm/lib/Transforms/IPO
Hal Finkel 2bb61ba2fe [BDCE] Add a bit-tracking DCE pass
BDCE is a bit-tracking dead code elimination pass. It is based on ADCE (the
"aggressive DCE" pass), with the added capability to track dead bits of integer
valued instructions and remove those instructions when all of the bits are
dead.

Currently, it does not actually do this all-bits-dead removal, but rather
replaces the instruction's uses with a constant zero, and lets instcombine (and
the later run of ADCE) do the rest. Because we essentially get a run of ADCE
"for free" while tracking the dead bits, we also do what ADCE does and removes
actually-dead instructions as well (this includes instructions newly trivially
dead because all bits were dead, but not all such instructions can be removed).

The motivation for this is a case like:

int __attribute__((const)) foo(int i);
int bar(int x) {
  x |= (4 & foo(5));
  x |= (8 & foo(3));
  x |= (16 & foo(2));
  x |= (32 & foo(1));
  x |= (64 & foo(0));
  x |= (128& foo(4));
  return x >> 4;
}

As it turns out, if you order the bit-field insertions so that all of the dead
ones come last, then instcombine will remove them. However, if you pick some
other order (such as the one above), the fact that some of the calls to foo()
are useless is not locally obvious, and we don't remove them (without this
pass).

I did a quick compile-time overhead check using sqlite from the test suite
(Release+Asserts). BDCE took ~0.4% of the compilation time (making it about
twice as expensive as ADCE).

I've not looked at why yet, but we eliminate instructions due to having
all-dead bits in:
External/SPEC/CFP2006/447.dealII/447.dealII
External/SPEC/CINT2006/400.perlbench/400.perlbench
External/SPEC/CINT2006/403.gcc/403.gcc
MultiSource/Applications/ClamAV/clamscan
MultiSource/Benchmarks/7zip/7zip-benchmark

llvm-svn: 229462
2015-02-17 01:36:59 +00:00
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ArgumentPromotion.cpp Add range adapters predecessors() and successors() for BBs 2015-02-04 19:14:57 +00:00
BarrierNoopPass.cpp [C++11] Add 'override' keyword to virtual methods that override their base class. 2014-03-05 09:10:37 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt Use ADDITIONAL_HEADER_DIRS in all LLVM CMake projects. 2015-02-11 03:28:02 +00:00
ConstantMerge.cpp Repace SmallPtrSet with SmallPtrSetImpl in function arguments to avoid needing to mention the size. 2014-08-21 05:55:13 +00:00
DeadArgumentElimination.cpp DeadArgElim: aggregate Return assessment properly. 2015-02-11 23:13:11 +00:00
ExtractGV.cpp Reformat partially, where I touched for whitespace changes. 2014-10-28 11:54:52 +00:00
FunctionAttrs.cpp [PM] Separate the TargetLibraryInfo object from the immutable pass. 2015-01-15 10:41:28 +00:00
GlobalDCE.cpp Prologue support 2014-12-03 02:08:38 +00:00
GlobalOpt.cpp [PM] Separate the TargetLibraryInfo object from the immutable pass. 2015-01-15 10:41:28 +00:00
IPConstantPropagation.cpp [C++] Use 'nullptr'. Transforms edition. 2014-04-25 05:29:35 +00:00
IPO.cpp [PM] Remove the old 'PassManager.h' header file at the top level of 2015-02-13 10:01:29 +00:00
InlineAlways.cpp [PM] Split the AssumptionTracker immutable pass into two separate APIs: 2015-01-04 12:03:27 +00:00
InlineSimple.cpp [PM] Split the AssumptionTracker immutable pass into two separate APIs: 2015-01-04 12:03:27 +00:00
Inliner.cpp Transforms: Canonicalize access to function attributes, NFC 2015-02-14 01:11:29 +00:00
Internalize.cpp Use range based for loops to avoid needing to re-mention SmallPtrSet size. 2014-08-24 23:23:06 +00:00
LLVMBuild.txt Update libdeps since TLI was moved from Target to Analysis in r226078. 2015-01-15 05:21:00 +00:00
LoopExtractor.cpp [PM] Lift the analyses into the interface for 2015-01-19 03:03:39 +00:00
Makefile
MergeFunctions.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
PartialInlining.cpp Add range adapters predecessors() and successors() for BBs 2015-02-04 19:14:57 +00:00
PassManagerBuilder.cpp [BDCE] Add a bit-tracking DCE pass 2015-02-17 01:36:59 +00:00
PruneEH.cpp Don't promote asynch EH invokes of nounwind functions to calls 2015-02-11 01:23:16 +00:00
StripDeadPrototypes.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:55:47 +00:00
StripSymbols.cpp IR: Split Metadata from Value 2014-12-09 18:38:53 +00:00