1 //===- LoopDeletion.cpp - Dead Loop Deletion Pass ---------------===//
2 //
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4 //
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7 //
8 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
9 //
10 // This file implements the Dead Loop Deletion Pass. This pass is responsible
11 // for eliminating loops with non-infinite computable trip counts that have no
12 // side effects or volatile instructions, and do not contribute to the
13 // computation of the function's return value.
14 //
15 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
16 
17 #include "llvm/Transforms/Scalar/LoopDeletion.h"
18 #include "llvm/ADT/SmallVector.h"
19 #include "llvm/ADT/Statistic.h"
20 #include "llvm/Analysis/GlobalsModRef.h"
21 #include "llvm/Analysis/LoopPass.h"
22 #include "llvm/IR/Dominators.h"
23 #include "llvm/Transforms/Scalar.h"
24 #include "llvm/Transforms/Scalar/LoopPassManager.h"
25 #include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/LoopUtils.h"
26 using namespace llvm;
27 
28 #define DEBUG_TYPE "loop-delete"
29 
30 STATISTIC(NumDeleted, "Number of loops deleted");
31 
32 /// Determines if a loop is dead.
33 ///
34 /// This assumes that we've already checked for unique exit and exiting blocks,
35 /// and that the code is in LCSSA form.
36 static bool isLoopDead(Loop *L, ScalarEvolution &SE,
37                        SmallVectorImpl<BasicBlock *> &ExitingBlocks,
38                        BasicBlock *ExitBlock, bool &Changed,
39                        BasicBlock *Preheader) {
40   // Make sure that all PHI entries coming from the loop are loop invariant.
41   // Because the code is in LCSSA form, any values used outside of the loop
42   // must pass through a PHI in the exit block, meaning that this check is
43   // sufficient to guarantee that no loop-variant values are used outside
44   // of the loop.
45   BasicBlock::iterator BI = ExitBlock->begin();
46   bool AllEntriesInvariant = true;
47   bool AllOutgoingValuesSame = true;
48   while (PHINode *P = dyn_cast<PHINode>(BI)) {
49     Value *incoming = P->getIncomingValueForBlock(ExitingBlocks[0]);
50 
51     // Make sure all exiting blocks produce the same incoming value for the exit
52     // block.  If there are different incoming values for different exiting
53     // blocks, then it is impossible to statically determine which value should
54     // be used.
55     AllOutgoingValuesSame =
56         all_of(makeArrayRef(ExitingBlocks).slice(1), [&](BasicBlock *BB) {
57           return incoming == P->getIncomingValueForBlock(BB);
58         });
59 
60     if (!AllOutgoingValuesSame)
61       break;
62 
63     if (Instruction *I = dyn_cast<Instruction>(incoming))
64       if (!L->makeLoopInvariant(I, Changed, Preheader->getTerminator())) {
65         AllEntriesInvariant = false;
66         break;
67       }
68 
69     ++BI;
70   }
71 
72   if (Changed)
73     SE.forgetLoopDispositions(L);
74 
75   if (!AllEntriesInvariant || !AllOutgoingValuesSame)
76     return false;
77 
78   // Make sure that no instructions in the block have potential side-effects.
79   // This includes instructions that could write to memory, and loads that are
80   // marked volatile.
81   for (Loop::block_iterator LI = L->block_begin(), LE = L->block_end();
82        LI != LE; ++LI) {
83     for (Instruction &I : **LI) {
84       if (I.mayHaveSideEffects())
85         return false;
86     }
87   }
88 
89   return true;
90 }
91 
92 /// Remove a loop if it is dead.
93 ///
94 /// A loop is considered dead if it does not impact the observable behavior of
95 /// the program other than finite running time. This never removes a loop that
96 /// might be infinite, as doing so could change the halting/non-halting nature
97 /// of a program.
98 ///
99 /// This entire process relies pretty heavily on LoopSimplify form and LCSSA in
100 /// order to make various safety checks work.
101 ///
102 /// \returns true if any changes were made. This may mutate the loop even if it
103 /// is unable to delete it due to hoisting trivially loop invariant
104 /// instructions out of the loop.
105 ///
106 /// This also updates the relevant analysis information in \p DT, \p SE, and \p
107 /// LI. It also updates the loop PM if an updater struct is provided.
108 static bool deleteLoopIfDead(Loop *L, DominatorTree &DT, ScalarEvolution &SE,
109                              LoopInfo &LI, LPMUpdater *Updater = nullptr) {
110   assert(L->isLCSSAForm(DT) && "Expected LCSSA!");
111 
112   // We can only remove the loop if there is a preheader that we can
113   // branch from after removing it.
114   BasicBlock *Preheader = L->getLoopPreheader();
115   if (!Preheader)
116     return false;
117 
118   // If LoopSimplify form is not available, stay out of trouble.
119   if (!L->hasDedicatedExits())
120     return false;
121 
122   // We can't remove loops that contain subloops.  If the subloops were dead,
123   // they would already have been removed in earlier executions of this pass.
124   if (L->begin() != L->end())
125     return false;
126 
127   SmallVector<BasicBlock *, 4> ExitingBlocks;
128   L->getExitingBlocks(ExitingBlocks);
129 
130   // We require that the loop only have a single exit block.  Otherwise, we'd
131   // be in the situation of needing to be able to solve statically which exit
132   // block will be branched to, or trying to preserve the branching logic in
133   // a loop invariant manner.
134   BasicBlock *ExitBlock = L->getUniqueExitBlock();
135   if (!ExitBlock)
136     return false;
137 
138   // Finally, we have to check that the loop really is dead.
139   bool Changed = false;
140   if (!isLoopDead(L, SE, ExitingBlocks, ExitBlock, Changed, Preheader))
141     return Changed;
142 
143   // Don't remove loops for which we can't solve the trip count.
144   // They could be infinite, in which case we'd be changing program behavior.
145   const SCEV *S = SE.getMaxBackedgeTakenCount(L);
146   if (isa<SCEVCouldNotCompute>(S))
147     return Changed;
148 
149   // Now that we know the removal is safe, remove the loop by changing the
150   // branch from the preheader to go to the single exit block.
151   //
152   // Because we're deleting a large chunk of code at once, the sequence in which
153   // we remove things is very important to avoid invalidation issues.
154 
155   // If we have an LPM updater, tell it about the loop being removed.
156   if (Updater)
157     Updater->markLoopAsDeleted(*L);
158 
159   // Tell ScalarEvolution that the loop is deleted. Do this before
160   // deleting the loop so that ScalarEvolution can look at the loop
161   // to determine what it needs to clean up.
162   SE.forgetLoop(L);
163 
164   // Connect the preheader directly to the exit block.
165   TerminatorInst *TI = Preheader->getTerminator();
166   TI->replaceUsesOfWith(L->getHeader(), ExitBlock);
167 
168   // Rewrite phis in the exit block to get their inputs from
169   // the preheader instead of the exiting block.
170   BasicBlock *ExitingBlock = ExitingBlocks[0];
171   BasicBlock::iterator BI = ExitBlock->begin();
172   while (PHINode *P = dyn_cast<PHINode>(BI)) {
173     int j = P->getBasicBlockIndex(ExitingBlock);
174     assert(j >= 0 && "Can't find exiting block in exit block's phi node!");
175     P->setIncomingBlock(j, Preheader);
176     for (unsigned i = 1; i < ExitingBlocks.size(); ++i)
177       P->removeIncomingValue(ExitingBlocks[i]);
178     ++BI;
179   }
180 
181   // Update the dominator tree and remove the instructions and blocks that will
182   // be deleted from the reference counting scheme.
183   SmallVector<DomTreeNode*, 8> ChildNodes;
184   for (Loop::block_iterator LI = L->block_begin(), LE = L->block_end();
185        LI != LE; ++LI) {
186     // Move all of the block's children to be children of the Preheader, which
187     // allows us to remove the domtree entry for the block.
188     ChildNodes.insert(ChildNodes.begin(), DT[*LI]->begin(), DT[*LI]->end());
189     for (DomTreeNode *ChildNode : ChildNodes) {
190       DT.changeImmediateDominator(ChildNode, DT[Preheader]);
191     }
192 
193     ChildNodes.clear();
194     DT.eraseNode(*LI);
195 
196     // Remove the block from the reference counting scheme, so that we can
197     // delete it freely later.
198     (*LI)->dropAllReferences();
199   }
200 
201   // Erase the instructions and the blocks without having to worry
202   // about ordering because we already dropped the references.
203   // NOTE: This iteration is safe because erasing the block does not remove its
204   // entry from the loop's block list.  We do that in the next section.
205   for (Loop::block_iterator LI = L->block_begin(), LE = L->block_end();
206        LI != LE; ++LI)
207     (*LI)->eraseFromParent();
208 
209   // Finally, the blocks from loopinfo.  This has to happen late because
210   // otherwise our loop iterators won't work.
211 
212   SmallPtrSet<BasicBlock *, 8> blocks;
213   blocks.insert(L->block_begin(), L->block_end());
214   for (BasicBlock *BB : blocks)
215     LI.removeBlock(BB);
216 
217   // The last step is to update LoopInfo now that we've eliminated this loop.
218   LI.markAsRemoved(L);
219   ++NumDeleted;
220 
221   return true;
222 }
223 
224 PreservedAnalyses LoopDeletionPass::run(Loop &L, LoopAnalysisManager &AM,
225                                         LoopStandardAnalysisResults &AR,
226                                         LPMUpdater &Updater) {
227   if (!deleteLoopIfDead(&L, AR.DT, AR.SE, AR.LI, &Updater))
228     return PreservedAnalyses::all();
229 
230   return getLoopPassPreservedAnalyses();
231 }
232 
233 namespace {
234 class LoopDeletionLegacyPass : public LoopPass {
235 public:
236   static char ID; // Pass ID, replacement for typeid
237   LoopDeletionLegacyPass() : LoopPass(ID) {
238     initializeLoopDeletionLegacyPassPass(*PassRegistry::getPassRegistry());
239   }
240 
241   // Possibly eliminate loop L if it is dead.
242   bool runOnLoop(Loop *L, LPPassManager &) override;
243 
244   void getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage &AU) const override {
245     getLoopAnalysisUsage(AU);
246   }
247 };
248 }
249 
250 char LoopDeletionLegacyPass::ID = 0;
251 INITIALIZE_PASS_BEGIN(LoopDeletionLegacyPass, "loop-deletion",
252                       "Delete dead loops", false, false)
253 INITIALIZE_PASS_DEPENDENCY(LoopPass)
254 INITIALIZE_PASS_END(LoopDeletionLegacyPass, "loop-deletion",
255                     "Delete dead loops", false, false)
256 
257 Pass *llvm::createLoopDeletionPass() { return new LoopDeletionLegacyPass(); }
258 
259 bool LoopDeletionLegacyPass::runOnLoop(Loop *L, LPPassManager &) {
260   if (skipLoop(L))
261     return false;
262 
263   DominatorTree &DT = getAnalysis<DominatorTreeWrapperPass>().getDomTree();
264   ScalarEvolution &SE = getAnalysis<ScalarEvolutionWrapperPass>().getSE();
265   LoopInfo &LI = getAnalysis<LoopInfoWrapperPass>().getLoopInfo();
266 
267   return deleteLoopIfDead(L, DT, SE, LI);
268 }
269