LoopDeletion.cpp revision 360784
1//===- LoopDeletion.cpp - Dead Loop Deletion Pass ---------------===//
2//
3// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
4// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
5// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
6//
7//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
8//
9// This file implements the Dead Loop Deletion Pass. This pass is responsible
10// for eliminating loops with non-infinite computable trip counts that have no
11// side effects or volatile instructions, and do not contribute to the
12// computation of the function's return value.
13//
14//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
15
16#include "llvm/Transforms/Scalar/LoopDeletion.h"
17#include "llvm/ADT/SmallVector.h"
18#include "llvm/ADT/Statistic.h"
19#include "llvm/Analysis/GlobalsModRef.h"
20#include "llvm/Analysis/LoopPass.h"
21#include "llvm/IR/Dominators.h"
22#include "llvm/IR/PatternMatch.h"
23#include "llvm/InitializePasses.h"
24#include "llvm/Transforms/Scalar.h"
25#include "llvm/Transforms/Scalar/LoopPassManager.h"
26#include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/LoopUtils.h"
27using namespace llvm;
28
29#define DEBUG_TYPE "loop-delete"
30
31STATISTIC(NumDeleted, "Number of loops deleted");
32
33enum class LoopDeletionResult {
34  Unmodified,
35  Modified,
36  Deleted,
37};
38
39/// Determines if a loop is dead.
40///
41/// This assumes that we've already checked for unique exit and exiting blocks,
42/// and that the code is in LCSSA form.
43static bool isLoopDead(Loop *L, ScalarEvolution &SE,
44                       SmallVectorImpl<BasicBlock *> &ExitingBlocks,
45                       BasicBlock *ExitBlock, bool &Changed,
46                       BasicBlock *Preheader) {
47  // Make sure that all PHI entries coming from the loop are loop invariant.
48  // Because the code is in LCSSA form, any values used outside of the loop
49  // must pass through a PHI in the exit block, meaning that this check is
50  // sufficient to guarantee that no loop-variant values are used outside
51  // of the loop.
52  bool AllEntriesInvariant = true;
53  bool AllOutgoingValuesSame = true;
54  for (PHINode &P : ExitBlock->phis()) {
55    Value *incoming = P.getIncomingValueForBlock(ExitingBlocks[0]);
56
57    // Make sure all exiting blocks produce the same incoming value for the exit
58    // block.  If there are different incoming values for different exiting
59    // blocks, then it is impossible to statically determine which value should
60    // be used.
61    AllOutgoingValuesSame =
62        all_of(makeArrayRef(ExitingBlocks).slice(1), [&](BasicBlock *BB) {
63          return incoming == P.getIncomingValueForBlock(BB);
64        });
65
66    if (!AllOutgoingValuesSame)
67      break;
68
69    if (Instruction *I = dyn_cast<Instruction>(incoming))
70      if (!L->makeLoopInvariant(I, Changed, Preheader->getTerminator())) {
71        AllEntriesInvariant = false;
72        break;
73      }
74  }
75
76  if (Changed)
77    SE.forgetLoopDispositions(L);
78
79  if (!AllEntriesInvariant || !AllOutgoingValuesSame)
80    return false;
81
82  // Make sure that no instructions in the block have potential side-effects.
83  // This includes instructions that could write to memory, and loads that are
84  // marked volatile.
85  for (auto &I : L->blocks())
86    if (any_of(*I, [](Instruction &I) { return I.mayHaveSideEffects(); }))
87      return false;
88  return true;
89}
90
91/// This function returns true if there is no viable path from the
92/// entry block to the header of \p L. Right now, it only does
93/// a local search to save compile time.
94static bool isLoopNeverExecuted(Loop *L) {
95  using namespace PatternMatch;
96
97  auto *Preheader = L->getLoopPreheader();
98  // TODO: We can relax this constraint, since we just need a loop
99  // predecessor.
100  assert(Preheader && "Needs preheader!");
101
102  if (Preheader == &Preheader->getParent()->getEntryBlock())
103    return false;
104  // All predecessors of the preheader should have a constant conditional
105  // branch, with the loop's preheader as not-taken.
106  for (auto *Pred: predecessors(Preheader)) {
107    BasicBlock *Taken, *NotTaken;
108    ConstantInt *Cond;
109    if (!match(Pred->getTerminator(),
110               m_Br(m_ConstantInt(Cond), Taken, NotTaken)))
111      return false;
112    if (!Cond->getZExtValue())
113      std::swap(Taken, NotTaken);
114    if (Taken == Preheader)
115      return false;
116  }
117  assert(!pred_empty(Preheader) &&
118         "Preheader should have predecessors at this point!");
119  // All the predecessors have the loop preheader as not-taken target.
120  return true;
121}
122
123/// Remove a loop if it is dead.
124///
125/// A loop is considered dead if it does not impact the observable behavior of
126/// the program other than finite running time. This never removes a loop that
127/// might be infinite (unless it is never executed), as doing so could change
128/// the halting/non-halting nature of a program.
129///
130/// This entire process relies pretty heavily on LoopSimplify form and LCSSA in
131/// order to make various safety checks work.
132///
133/// \returns true if any changes were made. This may mutate the loop even if it
134/// is unable to delete it due to hoisting trivially loop invariant
135/// instructions out of the loop.
136static LoopDeletionResult deleteLoopIfDead(Loop *L, DominatorTree &DT,
137                                           ScalarEvolution &SE, LoopInfo &LI) {
138  assert(L->isLCSSAForm(DT) && "Expected LCSSA!");
139
140  // We can only remove the loop if there is a preheader that we can branch from
141  // after removing it. Also, if LoopSimplify form is not available, stay out
142  // of trouble.
143  BasicBlock *Preheader = L->getLoopPreheader();
144  if (!Preheader || !L->hasDedicatedExits()) {
145    LLVM_DEBUG(
146        dbgs()
147        << "Deletion requires Loop with preheader and dedicated exits.\n");
148    return LoopDeletionResult::Unmodified;
149  }
150  // We can't remove loops that contain subloops.  If the subloops were dead,
151  // they would already have been removed in earlier executions of this pass.
152  if (L->begin() != L->end()) {
153    LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Loop contains subloops.\n");
154    return LoopDeletionResult::Unmodified;
155  }
156
157
158  BasicBlock *ExitBlock = L->getUniqueExitBlock();
159
160  if (ExitBlock && isLoopNeverExecuted(L)) {
161    LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Loop is proven to never execute, delete it!");
162    // Set incoming value to undef for phi nodes in the exit block.
163    for (PHINode &P : ExitBlock->phis()) {
164      std::fill(P.incoming_values().begin(), P.incoming_values().end(),
165                UndefValue::get(P.getType()));
166    }
167    deleteDeadLoop(L, &DT, &SE, &LI);
168    ++NumDeleted;
169    return LoopDeletionResult::Deleted;
170  }
171
172  // The remaining checks below are for a loop being dead because all statements
173  // in the loop are invariant.
174  SmallVector<BasicBlock *, 4> ExitingBlocks;
175  L->getExitingBlocks(ExitingBlocks);
176
177  // We require that the loop only have a single exit block.  Otherwise, we'd
178  // be in the situation of needing to be able to solve statically which exit
179  // block will be branched to, or trying to preserve the branching logic in
180  // a loop invariant manner.
181  if (!ExitBlock) {
182    LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Deletion requires single exit block\n");
183    return LoopDeletionResult::Unmodified;
184  }
185  // Finally, we have to check that the loop really is dead.
186  bool Changed = false;
187  if (!isLoopDead(L, SE, ExitingBlocks, ExitBlock, Changed, Preheader)) {
188    LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Loop is not invariant, cannot delete.\n");
189    return Changed ? LoopDeletionResult::Modified
190                   : LoopDeletionResult::Unmodified;
191  }
192
193  // Don't remove loops for which we can't solve the trip count.
194  // They could be infinite, in which case we'd be changing program behavior.
195  const SCEV *S = SE.getConstantMaxBackedgeTakenCount(L);
196  if (isa<SCEVCouldNotCompute>(S)) {
197    LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Could not compute SCEV MaxBackedgeTakenCount.\n");
198    return Changed ? LoopDeletionResult::Modified
199                   : LoopDeletionResult::Unmodified;
200  }
201
202  LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Loop is invariant, delete it!");
203  deleteDeadLoop(L, &DT, &SE, &LI);
204  ++NumDeleted;
205
206  return LoopDeletionResult::Deleted;
207}
208
209PreservedAnalyses LoopDeletionPass::run(Loop &L, LoopAnalysisManager &AM,
210                                        LoopStandardAnalysisResults &AR,
211                                        LPMUpdater &Updater) {
212
213  LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Analyzing Loop for deletion: ");
214  LLVM_DEBUG(L.dump());
215  std::string LoopName = L.getName();
216  auto Result = deleteLoopIfDead(&L, AR.DT, AR.SE, AR.LI);
217  if (Result == LoopDeletionResult::Unmodified)
218    return PreservedAnalyses::all();
219
220  if (Result == LoopDeletionResult::Deleted)
221    Updater.markLoopAsDeleted(L, LoopName);
222
223  return getLoopPassPreservedAnalyses();
224}
225
226namespace {
227class LoopDeletionLegacyPass : public LoopPass {
228public:
229  static char ID; // Pass ID, replacement for typeid
230  LoopDeletionLegacyPass() : LoopPass(ID) {
231    initializeLoopDeletionLegacyPassPass(*PassRegistry::getPassRegistry());
232  }
233
234  // Possibly eliminate loop L if it is dead.
235  bool runOnLoop(Loop *L, LPPassManager &) override;
236
237  void getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage &AU) const override {
238    getLoopAnalysisUsage(AU);
239  }
240};
241}
242
243char LoopDeletionLegacyPass::ID = 0;
244INITIALIZE_PASS_BEGIN(LoopDeletionLegacyPass, "loop-deletion",
245                      "Delete dead loops", false, false)
246INITIALIZE_PASS_DEPENDENCY(LoopPass)
247INITIALIZE_PASS_END(LoopDeletionLegacyPass, "loop-deletion",
248                    "Delete dead loops", false, false)
249
250Pass *llvm::createLoopDeletionPass() { return new LoopDeletionLegacyPass(); }
251
252bool LoopDeletionLegacyPass::runOnLoop(Loop *L, LPPassManager &LPM) {
253  if (skipLoop(L))
254    return false;
255  DominatorTree &DT = getAnalysis<DominatorTreeWrapperPass>().getDomTree();
256  ScalarEvolution &SE = getAnalysis<ScalarEvolutionWrapperPass>().getSE();
257  LoopInfo &LI = getAnalysis<LoopInfoWrapperPass>().getLoopInfo();
258
259  LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Analyzing Loop for deletion: ");
260  LLVM_DEBUG(L->dump());
261
262  LoopDeletionResult Result = deleteLoopIfDead(L, DT, SE, LI);
263
264  if (Result == LoopDeletionResult::Deleted)
265    LPM.markLoopAsDeleted(*L);
266
267  return Result != LoopDeletionResult::Unmodified;
268}
269