[SROA] enable splitting for non-whole-alloca loads and stores
Currently, SROA splits loads and stores only when they are accessing the whole alloca. This patch relaxes this limitation to allow splitting a load/store if all other loads and stores to the alloca are disjoint to or fully included in the current load/store. If there is no other load or store that crosses the boundary of the current load/store, the current splitting implementation works as is. The whole-alloca loads and stores meet this new condition and so they are still splittable. Here is a simplified motivating example. struct record { long long a; int b; int c; }; int func(struct record r) { for (int i = 0; i < r.c; i++) r.b++; return r.b; } When updating r.b (or r.c as well), LLVM generates redundant instructions on some platforms (such as x86_64, ppc64); here, r.b and r.c are packed into one 64-bit GPR when the struct is passed as a method argument. With this patch, the above example is compiled into only few instructions without loop. Without the patch, unnecessary loop-carried dependency is introduced by SROA and the loop cannot be eliminated by the later optimizers. Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D32998 llvm-svn: 319407
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