//===- LoopDeletion.cpp - Dead Loop Deletion Pass ---------------===// // // Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions. // See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information. // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception // //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// // // This file implements the Dead Loop Deletion Pass. This pass is responsible // for eliminating loops with non-infinite computable trip counts that have no // side effects or volatile instructions, and do not contribute to the // computation of the function's return value. // //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// #include "llvm/Transforms/Scalar/LoopDeletion.h" #include "llvm/ADT/SmallVector.h" #include "llvm/ADT/Statistic.h" #include "llvm/Analysis/CFG.h" #include "llvm/Analysis/InstructionSimplify.h" #include "llvm/Analysis/LoopIterator.h" #include "llvm/Analysis/LoopPass.h" #include "llvm/Analysis/MemorySSA.h" #include "llvm/Analysis/OptimizationRemarkEmitter.h" #include "llvm/Analysis/ScalarEvolution.h" #include "llvm/IR/Dominators.h" #include "llvm/IR/PatternMatch.h" #include "llvm/Transforms/Scalar/LoopPassManager.h" #include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/LoopUtils.h" using namespace llvm; #define DEBUG_TYPE "loop-delete" STATISTIC(NumDeleted, "Number of loops deleted"); STATISTIC(NumBackedgesBroken, "Number of loops for which we managed to break the backedge"); static cl::opt EnableSymbolicExecution( "loop-deletion-enable-symbolic-execution", cl::Hidden, cl::init(true), cl::desc("Break backedge through symbolic execution of 1st iteration " "attempting to prove that the backedge is never taken")); enum class LoopDeletionResult { Unmodified, Modified, Deleted, }; static LoopDeletionResult merge(LoopDeletionResult A, LoopDeletionResult B) { if (A == LoopDeletionResult::Deleted || B == LoopDeletionResult::Deleted) return LoopDeletionResult::Deleted; if (A == LoopDeletionResult::Modified || B == LoopDeletionResult::Modified) return LoopDeletionResult::Modified; return LoopDeletionResult::Unmodified; } /// Determines if a loop is dead. /// /// This assumes that we've already checked for unique exit and exiting blocks, /// and that the code is in LCSSA form. static bool isLoopDead(Loop *L, ScalarEvolution &SE, SmallVectorImpl &ExitingBlocks, BasicBlock *ExitBlock, bool &Changed, BasicBlock *Preheader, LoopInfo &LI) { // Make sure that all PHI entries coming from the loop are loop invariant. // Because the code is in LCSSA form, any values used outside of the loop // must pass through a PHI in the exit block, meaning that this check is // sufficient to guarantee that no loop-variant values are used outside // of the loop. bool AllEntriesInvariant = true; bool AllOutgoingValuesSame = true; if (ExitBlock) { for (PHINode &P : ExitBlock->phis()) { Value *incoming = P.getIncomingValueForBlock(ExitingBlocks[0]); // Make sure all exiting blocks produce the same incoming value for the // block. If there are different incoming values for different exiting // blocks, then it is impossible to statically determine which value // should be used. AllOutgoingValuesSame = all_of(ArrayRef(ExitingBlocks).slice(1), [&](BasicBlock *BB) { return incoming == P.getIncomingValueForBlock(BB); }); if (!AllOutgoingValuesSame) break; if (Instruction *I = dyn_cast(incoming)) { if (!L->makeLoopInvariant(I, Changed, Preheader->getTerminator(), /*MSSAU=*/nullptr, &SE)) { AllEntriesInvariant = false; break; } } } } if (!AllEntriesInvariant || !AllOutgoingValuesSame) return false; // Make sure that no instructions in the block have potential side-effects. // This includes instructions that could write to memory, and loads that are // marked volatile. for (const auto &I : L->blocks()) if (any_of(*I, [](Instruction &I) { return I.mayHaveSideEffects() && !I.isDroppable(); })) return false; // The loop or any of its sub-loops looping infinitely is legal. The loop can // only be considered dead if either // a. the function is mustprogress. // b. all (sub-)loops are mustprogress or have a known trip-count. if (L->getHeader()->getParent()->mustProgress()) return true; LoopBlocksRPO RPOT(L); RPOT.perform(&LI); // If the loop contains an irreducible cycle, it may loop infinitely. if (containsIrreducibleCFG(RPOT, LI)) return false; SmallVector WorkList; WorkList.push_back(L); while (!WorkList.empty()) { Loop *Current = WorkList.pop_back_val(); if (hasMustProgress(Current)) continue; const SCEV *S = SE.getConstantMaxBackedgeTakenCount(Current); if (isa(S)) { LLVM_DEBUG( dbgs() << "Could not compute SCEV MaxBackedgeTakenCount and was " "not required to make progress.\n"); return false; } WorkList.append(Current->begin(), Current->end()); } return true; } /// This function returns true if there is no viable path from the /// entry block to the header of \p L. Right now, it only does /// a local search to save compile time. static bool isLoopNeverExecuted(Loop *L) { using namespace PatternMatch; auto *Preheader = L->getLoopPreheader(); // TODO: We can relax this constraint, since we just need a loop // predecessor. assert(Preheader && "Needs preheader!"); if (Preheader->isEntryBlock()) return false; // All predecessors of the preheader should have a constant conditional // branch, with the loop's preheader as not-taken. for (auto *Pred: predecessors(Preheader)) { BasicBlock *Taken, *NotTaken; ConstantInt *Cond; if (!match(Pred->getTerminator(), m_Br(m_ConstantInt(Cond), Taken, NotTaken))) return false; if (!Cond->getZExtValue()) std::swap(Taken, NotTaken); if (Taken == Preheader) return false; } assert(!pred_empty(Preheader) && "Preheader should have predecessors at this point!"); // All the predecessors have the loop preheader as not-taken target. return true; } static Value * getValueOnFirstIteration(Value *V, DenseMap &FirstIterValue, const SimplifyQuery &SQ) { // Quick hack: do not flood cache with non-instruction values. if (!isa(V)) return V; // Do we already know cached result? auto Existing = FirstIterValue.find(V); if (Existing != FirstIterValue.end()) return Existing->second; Value *FirstIterV = nullptr; if (auto *BO = dyn_cast(V)) { Value *LHS = getValueOnFirstIteration(BO->getOperand(0), FirstIterValue, SQ); Value *RHS = getValueOnFirstIteration(BO->getOperand(1), FirstIterValue, SQ); FirstIterV = simplifyBinOp(BO->getOpcode(), LHS, RHS, SQ); } else if (auto *Cmp = dyn_cast(V)) { Value *LHS = getValueOnFirstIteration(Cmp->getOperand(0), FirstIterValue, SQ); Value *RHS = getValueOnFirstIteration(Cmp->getOperand(1), FirstIterValue, SQ); FirstIterV = simplifyICmpInst(Cmp->getPredicate(), LHS, RHS, SQ); } else if (auto *Select = dyn_cast(V)) { Value *Cond = getValueOnFirstIteration(Select->getCondition(), FirstIterValue, SQ); if (auto *C = dyn_cast(Cond)) { auto *Selected = C->isAllOnesValue() ? Select->getTrueValue() : Select->getFalseValue(); FirstIterV = getValueOnFirstIteration(Selected, FirstIterValue, SQ); } } if (!FirstIterV) FirstIterV = V; FirstIterValue[V] = FirstIterV; return FirstIterV; } // Try to prove that one of conditions that dominates the latch must exit on 1st // iteration. static bool canProveExitOnFirstIteration(Loop *L, DominatorTree &DT, LoopInfo &LI) { // Disabled by option. if (!EnableSymbolicExecution) return false; BasicBlock *Predecessor = L->getLoopPredecessor(); BasicBlock *Latch = L->getLoopLatch(); if (!Predecessor || !Latch) return false; LoopBlocksRPO RPOT(L); RPOT.perform(&LI); // For the optimization to be correct, we need RPOT to have a property that // each block is processed after all its predecessors, which may only be // violated for headers of the current loop and all nested loops. Irreducible // CFG provides multiple ways to break this assumption, so we do not want to // deal with it. if (containsIrreducibleCFG(RPOT, LI)) return false; BasicBlock *Header = L->getHeader(); // Blocks that are reachable on the 1st iteration. SmallPtrSet LiveBlocks; // Edges that are reachable on the 1st iteration. DenseSet LiveEdges; LiveBlocks.insert(Header); SmallPtrSet Visited; auto MarkLiveEdge = [&](BasicBlock *From, BasicBlock *To) { assert(LiveBlocks.count(From) && "Must be live!"); assert((LI.isLoopHeader(To) || !Visited.count(To)) && "Only canonical backedges are allowed. Irreducible CFG?"); assert((LiveBlocks.count(To) || !Visited.count(To)) && "We already discarded this block as dead!"); LiveBlocks.insert(To); LiveEdges.insert({ From, To }); }; auto MarkAllSuccessorsLive = [&](BasicBlock *BB) { for (auto *Succ : successors(BB)) MarkLiveEdge(BB, Succ); }; // Check if there is only one value coming from all live predecessor blocks. // Note that because we iterate in RPOT, we have already visited all its // (non-latch) predecessors. auto GetSoleInputOnFirstIteration = [&](PHINode & PN)->Value * { BasicBlock *BB = PN.getParent(); bool HasLivePreds = false; (void)HasLivePreds; if (BB == Header) return PN.getIncomingValueForBlock(Predecessor); Value *OnlyInput = nullptr; for (auto *Pred : predecessors(BB)) if (LiveEdges.count({ Pred, BB })) { HasLivePreds = true; Value *Incoming = PN.getIncomingValueForBlock(Pred); // Skip undefs. If they are present, we can assume they are equal to // the non-undef input. if (isa(Incoming)) continue; // Two inputs. if (OnlyInput && OnlyInput != Incoming) return nullptr; OnlyInput = Incoming; } assert(HasLivePreds && "No live predecessors?"); // If all incoming live value were undefs, return undef. return OnlyInput ? OnlyInput : UndefValue::get(PN.getType()); }; DenseMap FirstIterValue; // Use the following algorithm to prove we never take the latch on the 1st // iteration: // 1. Traverse in topological order, so that whenever we visit a block, all // its predecessors are already visited. // 2. If we can prove that the block may have only 1 predecessor on the 1st // iteration, map all its phis onto input from this predecessor. // 3a. If we can prove which successor of out block is taken on the 1st // iteration, mark this successor live. // 3b. If we cannot prove it, conservatively assume that all successors are // live. auto &DL = Header->getModule()->getDataLayout(); const SimplifyQuery SQ(DL); for (auto *BB : RPOT) { Visited.insert(BB); // This block is not reachable on the 1st iterations. if (!LiveBlocks.count(BB)) continue; // Skip inner loops. if (LI.getLoopFor(BB) != L) { MarkAllSuccessorsLive(BB); continue; } // If Phi has only one input from all live input blocks, use it. for (auto &PN : BB->phis()) { if (!PN.getType()->isIntegerTy()) continue; auto *Incoming = GetSoleInputOnFirstIteration(PN); if (Incoming && DT.dominates(Incoming, BB->getTerminator())) { Value *FirstIterV = getValueOnFirstIteration(Incoming, FirstIterValue, SQ); FirstIterValue[&PN] = FirstIterV; } } using namespace PatternMatch; Value *Cond; BasicBlock *IfTrue, *IfFalse; auto *Term = BB->getTerminator(); if (match(Term, m_Br(m_Value(Cond), m_BasicBlock(IfTrue), m_BasicBlock(IfFalse)))) { auto *ICmp = dyn_cast(Cond); if (!ICmp || !ICmp->getType()->isIntegerTy()) { MarkAllSuccessorsLive(BB); continue; } // Can we prove constant true or false for this condition? auto *KnownCondition = getValueOnFirstIteration(ICmp, FirstIterValue, SQ); if (KnownCondition == ICmp) { // Failed to simplify. MarkAllSuccessorsLive(BB); continue; } if (isa(KnownCondition)) { // TODO: According to langref, branching by undef is undefined behavior. // It means that, theoretically, we should be able to just continue // without marking any successors as live. However, we are not certain // how correct our compiler is at handling such cases. So we are being // very conservative here. // // If there is a non-loop successor, always assume this branch leaves the // loop. Otherwise, arbitrarily take IfTrue. // // Once we are certain that branching by undef is handled correctly by // other transforms, we should not mark any successors live here. if (L->contains(IfTrue) && L->contains(IfFalse)) MarkLiveEdge(BB, IfTrue); continue; } auto *ConstCondition = dyn_cast(KnownCondition); if (!ConstCondition) { // Non-constant condition, cannot analyze any further. MarkAllSuccessorsLive(BB); continue; } if (ConstCondition->isAllOnesValue()) MarkLiveEdge(BB, IfTrue); else MarkLiveEdge(BB, IfFalse); } else if (SwitchInst *SI = dyn_cast(Term)) { auto *SwitchValue = SI->getCondition(); auto *SwitchValueOnFirstIter = getValueOnFirstIteration(SwitchValue, FirstIterValue, SQ); auto *ConstSwitchValue = dyn_cast(SwitchValueOnFirstIter); if (!ConstSwitchValue) { MarkAllSuccessorsLive(BB); continue; } auto CaseIterator = SI->findCaseValue(ConstSwitchValue); MarkLiveEdge(BB, CaseIterator->getCaseSuccessor()); } else { MarkAllSuccessorsLive(BB); continue; } } // We can break the latch if it wasn't live. return !LiveEdges.count({ Latch, Header }); } /// If we can prove the backedge is untaken, remove it. This destroys the /// loop, but leaves the (now trivially loop invariant) control flow and /// side effects (if any) in place. static LoopDeletionResult breakBackedgeIfNotTaken(Loop *L, DominatorTree &DT, ScalarEvolution &SE, LoopInfo &LI, MemorySSA *MSSA, OptimizationRemarkEmitter &ORE) { assert(L->isLCSSAForm(DT) && "Expected LCSSA!"); if (!L->getLoopLatch()) return LoopDeletionResult::Unmodified; auto *BTCMax = SE.getConstantMaxBackedgeTakenCount(L); if (!BTCMax->isZero()) { auto *BTC = SE.getBackedgeTakenCount(L); if (!BTC->isZero()) { if (!isa(BTC) && SE.isKnownNonZero(BTC)) return LoopDeletionResult::Unmodified; if (!canProveExitOnFirstIteration(L, DT, LI)) return LoopDeletionResult::Unmodified; } } ++NumBackedgesBroken; breakLoopBackedge(L, DT, SE, LI, MSSA); return LoopDeletionResult::Deleted; } /// Remove a loop if it is dead. /// /// A loop is considered dead either if it does not impact the observable /// behavior of the program other than finite running time, or if it is /// required to make progress by an attribute such as 'mustprogress' or /// 'llvm.loop.mustprogress' and does not make any. This may remove /// infinite loops that have been required to make progress. /// /// This entire process relies pretty heavily on LoopSimplify form and LCSSA in /// order to make various safety checks work. /// /// \returns true if any changes were made. This may mutate the loop even if it /// is unable to delete it due to hoisting trivially loop invariant /// instructions out of the loop. static LoopDeletionResult deleteLoopIfDead(Loop *L, DominatorTree &DT, ScalarEvolution &SE, LoopInfo &LI, MemorySSA *MSSA, OptimizationRemarkEmitter &ORE) { assert(L->isLCSSAForm(DT) && "Expected LCSSA!"); // We can only remove the loop if there is a preheader that we can branch from // after removing it. Also, if LoopSimplify form is not available, stay out // of trouble. BasicBlock *Preheader = L->getLoopPreheader(); if (!Preheader || !L->hasDedicatedExits()) { LLVM_DEBUG( dbgs() << "Deletion requires Loop with preheader and dedicated exits.\n"); return LoopDeletionResult::Unmodified; } BasicBlock *ExitBlock = L->getUniqueExitBlock(); if (ExitBlock && isLoopNeverExecuted(L)) { LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Loop is proven to never execute, delete it!\n"); // We need to forget the loop before setting the incoming values of the exit // phis to poison, so we properly invalidate the SCEV expressions for those // phis. SE.forgetLoop(L); // Set incoming value to poison for phi nodes in the exit block. for (PHINode &P : ExitBlock->phis()) { std::fill(P.incoming_values().begin(), P.incoming_values().end(), PoisonValue::get(P.getType())); } ORE.emit([&]() { return OptimizationRemark(DEBUG_TYPE, "NeverExecutes", L->getStartLoc(), L->getHeader()) << "Loop deleted because it never executes"; }); deleteDeadLoop(L, &DT, &SE, &LI, MSSA); ++NumDeleted; return LoopDeletionResult::Deleted; } // The remaining checks below are for a loop being dead because all statements // in the loop are invariant. SmallVector ExitingBlocks; L->getExitingBlocks(ExitingBlocks); // We require that the loop has at most one exit block. Otherwise, we'd be in // the situation of needing to be able to solve statically which exit block // will be branched to, or trying to preserve the branching logic in a loop // invariant manner. if (!ExitBlock && !L->hasNoExitBlocks()) { LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Deletion requires at most one exit block.\n"); return LoopDeletionResult::Unmodified; } // We can't directly branch to an EH pad. Don't bother handling this edge // case. if (ExitBlock && ExitBlock->isEHPad()) { LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Cannot delete loop exiting to EH pad.\n"); return LoopDeletionResult::Unmodified; } // Finally, we have to check that the loop really is dead. bool Changed = false; if (!isLoopDead(L, SE, ExitingBlocks, ExitBlock, Changed, Preheader, LI)) { LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Loop is not invariant, cannot delete.\n"); return Changed ? LoopDeletionResult::Modified : LoopDeletionResult::Unmodified; } LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Loop is invariant, delete it!\n"); ORE.emit([&]() { return OptimizationRemark(DEBUG_TYPE, "Invariant", L->getStartLoc(), L->getHeader()) << "Loop deleted because it is invariant"; }); deleteDeadLoop(L, &DT, &SE, &LI, MSSA); ++NumDeleted; return LoopDeletionResult::Deleted; } PreservedAnalyses LoopDeletionPass::run(Loop &L, LoopAnalysisManager &AM, LoopStandardAnalysisResults &AR, LPMUpdater &Updater) { LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Analyzing Loop for deletion: "); LLVM_DEBUG(L.dump()); std::string LoopName = std::string(L.getName()); // For the new PM, we can't use OptimizationRemarkEmitter as an analysis // pass. Function analyses need to be preserved across loop transformations // but ORE cannot be preserved (see comment before the pass definition). OptimizationRemarkEmitter ORE(L.getHeader()->getParent()); auto Result = deleteLoopIfDead(&L, AR.DT, AR.SE, AR.LI, AR.MSSA, ORE); // If we can prove the backedge isn't taken, just break it and be done. This // leaves the loop structure in place which means it can handle dispatching // to the right exit based on whatever loop invariant structure remains. if (Result != LoopDeletionResult::Deleted) Result = merge(Result, breakBackedgeIfNotTaken(&L, AR.DT, AR.SE, AR.LI, AR.MSSA, ORE)); if (Result == LoopDeletionResult::Unmodified) return PreservedAnalyses::all(); if (Result == LoopDeletionResult::Deleted) Updater.markLoopAsDeleted(L, LoopName); auto PA = getLoopPassPreservedAnalyses(); if (AR.MSSA) PA.preserve(); return PA; }