//===- TailRecursionElimination.cpp - Eliminate Tail Calls ----------------===// // // The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure // // This file was developed by the LLVM research group and is distributed under // the University of Illinois Open Source License. See LICENSE.TXT for details. // //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// // // This file transforms calls of the current function (self recursion) followed // by a return instruction with a branch to the entry of the function, creating // a loop. This pass also implements the following extensions to the basic // algorithm: // // 1. Trivial instructions between the call and return do not prevent the // transformation from taking place, though currently the analysis cannot // support moving any really useful instructions (only dead ones). // // There are several improvements that could be made: // // 1. If the function has any alloca instructions, these instructions will be // moved out of the entry block of the function, causing them to be // evaluated each time through the tail recursion. Safely keeping allocas // in the entry block requires analysis to proves that the tail-called // function does not read or write the stack object. // 2. Tail recursion is only performed if the call immediately preceeds the // return instruction. It's possible that there could be a jump between // the call and the return. // 3. TRE is only performed if the function returns void or if the return // returns the result returned by the call. It is possible, but unlikely, // that the return returns something else (like constant 0), and can still // be TRE'd. It can be TRE'd if ALL OTHER return instructions in the // function return the exact same value. // 4. There can be intervening operations between the call and the return that // prevent the TRE from occurring. For example, there could be GEP's and // stores to memory that will not be read or written by the call. This // requires some substantial analysis (such as with DSA) to prove safe to // move ahead of the call, but doing so could allow many more TREs to be // performed, for example in TreeAdd/TreeAlloc from the treeadd benchmark. // 5. This pass could transform functions that are prevented from being tail // recursive by a commutative expression to use an accumulator helper // function, thus compiling the typical naive factorial or 'fib' // implementation into efficient code. // //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// #include "llvm/Transforms/Scalar.h" #include "llvm/DerivedTypes.h" #include "llvm/Function.h" #include "llvm/Instructions.h" #include "llvm/Pass.h" #include "Support/Statistic.h" using namespace llvm; namespace { Statistic<> NumEliminated("tailcallelim", "Number of tail calls removed"); struct TailCallElim : public FunctionPass { virtual bool runOnFunction(Function &F); private: bool ProcessReturningBlock(ReturnInst *RI, BasicBlock *&OldEntry, std::vector &ArgumentPHIs); bool CanMoveAboveCall(Instruction *I, CallInst *CI); }; RegisterOpt X("tailcallelim", "Tail Call Elimination"); } // Public interface to the TailCallElimination pass FunctionPass *llvm::createTailCallEliminationPass() { return new TailCallElim(); } bool TailCallElim::runOnFunction(Function &F) { // If this function is a varargs function, we won't be able to PHI the args // right, so don't even try to convert it... if (F.getFunctionType()->isVarArg()) return false; BasicBlock *OldEntry = 0; std::vector ArgumentPHIs; bool MadeChange = false; // Loop over the function, looking for any returning blocks... for (Function::iterator BB = F.begin(), E = F.end(); BB != E; ++BB) if (ReturnInst *Ret = dyn_cast(BB->getTerminator())) MadeChange |= ProcessReturningBlock(Ret, OldEntry, ArgumentPHIs); return MadeChange; } // CanMoveAboveCall - Return true if it is safe to move the specified // instruction from after the call to before the call, assuming that all // instructions between the call and this instruction are movable. // bool TailCallElim::CanMoveAboveCall(Instruction *I, CallInst *CI) { // FIXME: We can move load/store/call/free instructions above the call if the // call does not mod/ref the memory location being processed. if (I->mayWriteToMemory() || isa(I)) return false; // Otherwise, if this is a side-effect free instruction, check to make sure // that it does not use the return value of the call. If it doesn't use the // return value of the call, it must only use things that are defined before // the call, or movable instructions between the call and the instruction // itself. for (unsigned i = 0, e = I->getNumOperands(); i != e; ++i) if (I->getOperand(i) == CI) return false; return true; } bool TailCallElim::ProcessReturningBlock(ReturnInst *Ret, BasicBlock *&OldEntry, std::vector &ArgumentPHIs) { BasicBlock *BB = Ret->getParent(); Function *F = BB->getParent(); if (&BB->front() == Ret) // Make sure there is something before the ret... return false; // Scan backwards from the return, checking to see if there is a tail call in // this block. If so, set CI to it. CallInst *CI; BasicBlock::iterator BBI = Ret; while (1) { CI = dyn_cast(BBI); if (CI && CI->getCalledFunction() == F) break; if (BBI == BB->begin()) return false; // Didn't find a potential tail call. --BBI; } // Ok, we found a potential tail call. We can currently only transform the // tail call if all of the instructions between the call and the return are // movable to above the call itself, leaving the call next to the return. // Check that this is the case now. for (BBI = CI, ++BBI; &*BBI != Ret; ++BBI) if (!CanMoveAboveCall(BBI, CI)) return false; // Cannot move this instruction out of the way. // We can only transform call/return pairs that either ignore the return value // of the call and return void, or return the value returned by the tail call. if (Ret->getNumOperands() != 0 && Ret->getReturnValue() != CI) return false; // OK! We can transform this tail call. If this is the first one found, // create the new entry block, allowing us to branch back to the old entry. if (OldEntry == 0) { OldEntry = &F->getEntryBlock(); std::string OldName = OldEntry->getName(); OldEntry->setName("tailrecurse"); BasicBlock *NewEntry = new BasicBlock(OldName, OldEntry); new BranchInst(OldEntry, NewEntry); // Now that we have created a new block, which jumps to the entry // block, insert a PHI node for each argument of the function. // For now, we initialize each PHI to only have the real arguments // which are passed in. Instruction *InsertPos = OldEntry->begin(); for (Function::aiterator I = F->abegin(), E = F->aend(); I != E; ++I) { PHINode *PN = new PHINode(I->getType(), I->getName()+".tr", InsertPos); I->replaceAllUsesWith(PN); // Everyone use the PHI node now! PN->addIncoming(I, NewEntry); ArgumentPHIs.push_back(PN); } } // Ok, now that we know we have a pseudo-entry block WITH all of the // required PHI nodes, add entries into the PHI node for the actual // parameters passed into the tail-recursive call. for (unsigned i = 0, e = CI->getNumOperands()-1; i != e; ++i) ArgumentPHIs[i]->addIncoming(CI->getOperand(i+1), BB); // Now that all of the PHI nodes are in place, remove the call and // ret instructions, replacing them with an unconditional branch. new BranchInst(OldEntry, Ret); BB->getInstList().erase(Ret); // Remove return. BB->getInstList().erase(CI); // Remove call. NumEliminated++; return true; }