FastDSE.cpp

//===- DeadStoreElimination.cpp - Dead Store Elimination ------------------===//
//
//                     The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
//
// This file was developed by Owen Anderson and is distributed under
// the University of Illinois Open Source License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
//
// This file implements a trivial dead store elimination that only considers
// basic-block local redundant stores.
//
// FIXME: This should eventually be extended to be a post-dominator tree
// traversal.  Doing so would be pretty trivial.
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//

#define DEBUG_TYPE "fdse"
#include "llvm/Transforms/Scalar.h"
#include "llvm/Function.h"
#include "llvm/Instructions.h"
#include "llvm/Pass.h"
#include "llvm/ADT/SetVector.h"
#include "llvm/ADT/SmallPtrSet.h"
#include "llvm/ADT/Statistic.h"
#include "llvm/Analysis/AliasAnalysis.h"
#include "llvm/Analysis/MemoryDependenceAnalysis.h"
#include "llvm/Target/TargetData.h"
#include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/Local.h"
#include "llvm/Support/Compiler.h"
using namespace llvm;

STATISTIC(NumFastStores, "Number of stores deleted");
STATISTIC(NumFastOther , "Number of other instrs removed");

namespace {
  struct VISIBILITY_HIDDEN FDSE : public FunctionPass {
    static char ID; // Pass identification, replacement for typeid
    FDSE() : FunctionPass((intptr_t)&ID) {}

    virtual bool runOnFunction(Function &F) {
      bool Changed = false;
      for (Function::iterator I = F.begin(), E = F.end(); I != E; ++I)
        Changed |= runOnBasicBlock(*I);
      return Changed;
    }

    bool runOnBasicBlock(BasicBlock &BB);
    bool handleFreeWithNonTrivialDependency(FreeInst* F, StoreInst* dependency,
                                            SetVector<Instruction*>& possiblyDead);
    bool handleEndBlock(BasicBlock& BB, SetVector<Instruction*>& possiblyDead);
    void DeleteDeadInstructionChains(Instruction *I,
                                     SetVector<Instruction*> &DeadInsts);

    // getAnalysisUsage - We require post dominance frontiers (aka Control
    // Dependence Graph)
    virtual void getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage &AU) const {
      AU.setPreservesCFG();
      AU.addRequired<TargetData>();
      AU.addRequired<AliasAnalysis>();
      AU.addRequired<MemoryDependenceAnalysis>();
      AU.addPreserved<AliasAnalysis>();
      AU.addPreserved<MemoryDependenceAnalysis>();
    }
  };
  char FDSE::ID = 0;
  RegisterPass<FDSE> X("fdse", "Fast Dead Store Elimination");
}

FunctionPass *llvm::createFastDeadStoreEliminationPass() { return new FDSE(); }

bool FDSE::runOnBasicBlock(BasicBlock &BB) {
  MemoryDependenceAnalysis& MD = getAnalysis<MemoryDependenceAnalysis>();
  
  // Record the last-seen store to this pointer
  DenseMap<Value*, StoreInst*> lastStore;
  // Record instructions possibly made dead by deleting a store
  SetVector<Instruction*> possiblyDead;
  
  bool MadeChange = false;
  
  // Do a top-down walk on the BB
  for (BasicBlock::iterator BBI = BB.begin(), BBE = BB.end(); BBI != BBE; ++BBI) {
    // If we find a store or a free...
    if (isa<StoreInst>(BBI) || isa<FreeInst>(BBI)) {
      Value* pointer = 0;
      if (StoreInst* S = dyn_cast<StoreInst>(BBI))
        pointer = S->getPointerOperand();
      else if (FreeInst* F = dyn_cast<FreeInst>(BBI))
        pointer = F->getPointerOperand();
      assert(pointer && "Not a free or a store?");
      
      StoreInst*& last = lastStore[pointer];
      
      // ... to a pointer that has been stored to before...
      if (last) {
        
        // ... and no other memory dependencies are between them....
        if (MD.getDependency(BBI) == last) {
          
          // Remove it!
          MD.removeInstruction(last);
          
          // DCE instructions only used to calculate that store
          if (Instruction* D = dyn_cast<Instruction>(last->getOperand(0)))
            possiblyDead.insert(D);
          
          last->eraseFromParent();
          NumFastStores++;
          MadeChange = true;
        
        // If this is a free, check for a non-trivial dependency
        } else if (FreeInst* F = dyn_cast<FreeInst>(BBI))
          MadeChange |= handleFreeWithNonTrivialDependency(F, last, possiblyDead);
      }
      
      // Update our most-recent-store map
      if (StoreInst* S = dyn_cast<StoreInst>(BBI))
        last = S;
      else
        last = 0;
    }
  }
  
  // If this block ends in a return, unwind, unreachable, and eventually
  // tailcall, then all allocas are dead at its end.
  if (BB.getTerminator()->getNumSuccessors() == 0)
    MadeChange |= handleEndBlock(BB, possiblyDead);
  
  // Do a trivial DCE
  while (!possiblyDead.empty()) {
    Instruction *I = possiblyDead.back();
    possiblyDead.pop_back();
    DeleteDeadInstructionChains(I, possiblyDead);
  }
  
  return MadeChange;
}

/// handleFreeWithNonTrivialDependency - Handle frees of entire structures whose
/// dependency is a store to a field of that structure
bool FDSE::handleFreeWithNonTrivialDependency(FreeInst* F, StoreInst* dependency,
                                              SetVector<Instruction*>& possiblyDead) {
  TargetData &TD = getAnalysis<TargetData>();
  AliasAnalysis &AA = getAnalysis<AliasAnalysis>();
  MemoryDependenceAnalysis& MD = getAnalysis<MemoryDependenceAnalysis>();
  
  Value* depPointer = dependency->getPointerOperand();
  unsigned depPointerSize = TD.getTypeSize(dependency->getOperand(0)->getType());
    
  // Check for aliasing
  AliasAnalysis::AliasResult A = AA.alias(F->getPointerOperand(), ~0UL,
                                          depPointer, depPointerSize);
    
  if (A == AliasAnalysis::MustAlias) {
    // Remove it!
    MD.removeInstruction(dependency);

    // DCE instructions only used to calculate that store
    if (Instruction* D = dyn_cast<Instruction>(dependency->getOperand(0)))
      possiblyDead.insert(D);

    dependency->eraseFromParent();
    NumFastStores++;
    return true;
  }
  
  return false;
}

/// handleEndBlock - Remove dead stores to stack-allocated locations in the function
/// end block
bool FDSE::handleEndBlock(BasicBlock& BB, SetVector<Instruction*>& possiblyDead) {
  AliasAnalysis &AA = getAnalysis<AliasAnalysis>();
  MemoryDependenceAnalysis &MD = getAnalysis<MemoryDependenceAnalysis>();
  
  bool MadeChange = false;
  
  // Pointers alloca'd in this function are dead in the end block
  SmallPtrSet<AllocaInst*, 4> deadPointers;
  
  // Find all of the alloca'd pointers in the entry block
  BasicBlock *Entry = BB.getParent()->begin();
  for (BasicBlock::iterator I = Entry->begin(), E = Entry->end(); I != E; ++I)
    if (AllocaInst *AI = dyn_cast<AllocaInst>(I))
      deadPointers.insert(AI);
  
  // Scan the basic block backwards
  for (BasicBlock::iterator BBI = BB.end(); BBI != BB.begin(); ){
    --BBI;
    
    if (deadPointers.empty())
      break;
    
    // If we find a store whose pointer is dead...
    if (StoreInst* S = dyn_cast<StoreInst>(BBI)) {
      if (deadPointers.count(S->getPointerOperand())){
        // Remove it!
        MD.removeInstruction(S);
        
        // DCE instructions only used to calculate that store
        if (Instruction* D = dyn_cast<Instruction>(S->getOperand(0)))
          possiblyDead.insert(D);
        
        BBI++;
        S->eraseFromParent();
        NumFastStores++;
        MadeChange = true;
      }
    
    // If we encounter a use of the pointer, it is no longer considered dead
    } else if (LoadInst* L = dyn_cast<LoadInst>(BBI)) {
      deadPointers.erase(L->getPointerOperand());
    } else if (VAArgInst* V = dyn_cast<VAArgInst>(BBI)) {
      deadPointers.erase(V->getOperand(0));
    }
  }
  
  return MadeChange;
}

void FDSE::DeleteDeadInstructionChains(Instruction *I,
                                      SetVector<Instruction*> &DeadInsts) {
  // Instruction must be dead.
  if (!I->use_empty() || !isInstructionTriviallyDead(I)) return;

  // Let the memory dependence know
  getAnalysis<MemoryDependenceAnalysis>().removeInstruction(I);

  // See if this made any operands dead.  We do it this way in case the
  // instruction uses the same operand twice.  We don't want to delete a
  // value then reference it.
  for (unsigned i = 0, e = I->getNumOperands(); i != e; ++i) {
    if (I->getOperand(i)->hasOneUse())
      if (Instruction* Op = dyn_cast<Instruction>(I->getOperand(i)))
        DeadInsts.insert(Op);      // Attempt to nuke it later.
    
    I->setOperand(i, 0);         // Drop from the operand list.
  }

  I->eraseFromParent();
  ++NumFastOther;
}