1 //===- BuiltinGCs.cpp - Boilerplate for our built in GC types -------------===//
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
7 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
9 // This file contains the boilerplate required to define our various built in
10 // gc lowering strategies.
12 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
14 #include "llvm/CodeGen/BuiltinGCs.h"
15 #include "llvm/CodeGen/GCStrategy.h"
16 #include "llvm/IR/DerivedTypes.h"
17 #include "llvm/Support/Casting.h"
23 /// An example GC which attempts to be compatibile with Erlang/OTP garbage
26 /// The frametable emitter is in ErlangGCPrinter.cpp.
27 class ErlangGC
: public GCStrategy
{
30 NeededSafePoints
= true;
35 /// An example GC which attempts to be compatible with Objective Caml 3.10.0
37 /// The frametable emitter is in OcamlGCPrinter.cpp.
38 class OcamlGC
: public GCStrategy
{
41 NeededSafePoints
= true;
46 /// A GC strategy for uncooperative targets. This implements lowering for the
47 /// llvm.gc* intrinsics for targets that do not natively support them (which
48 /// includes the C backend). Note that the code generated is not quite as
49 /// efficient as algorithms which generate stack maps to identify roots.
51 /// In order to support this particular transformation, all stack roots are
52 /// coallocated in the stack. This allows a fully target-independent stack map
53 /// while introducing only minor runtime overhead.
54 class ShadowStackGC
: public GCStrategy
{
59 /// A GCStrategy which serves as an example for the usage of a statepoint based
60 /// lowering strategy. This GCStrategy is intended to suitable as a default
61 /// implementation usable with any collector which can consume the standard
62 /// stackmap format generated by statepoints, uses the default addrespace to
63 /// distinguish between gc managed and non-gc managed pointers, and has
64 /// reasonable relocation semantics.
65 class StatepointGC
: public GCStrategy
{
68 UseStatepoints
= true;
69 // These options are all gc.root specific, we specify them so that the
70 // gc.root lowering code doesn't run.
71 NeededSafePoints
= false;
75 Optional
<bool> isGCManagedPointer(const Type
*Ty
) const override
{
76 // Method is only valid on pointer typed values.
77 const PointerType
*PT
= cast
<PointerType
>(Ty
);
78 // For the sake of this example GC, we arbitrarily pick addrspace(1) as our
79 // GC managed heap. We know that a pointer into this heap needs to be
80 // updated and that no other pointer does. Note that addrspace(1) is used
81 // only as an example, it has no special meaning, and is not reserved for
83 return (1 == PT
->getAddressSpace());
87 /// A GCStrategy for the CoreCLR Runtime. The strategy is similar to
88 /// Statepoint-example GC, but differs from it in certain aspects, such as:
89 /// 1) Base-pointers need not be explicitly tracked and reported for
91 /// 2) Uses a different format for encoding stack-maps
92 /// 3) Location of Safe-point polls: polls are only needed before loop-back
93 /// edges and before tail-calls (not needed at function-entry)
95 /// The above differences in behavior are to be implemented in upcoming
97 class CoreCLRGC
: public GCStrategy
{
100 UseStatepoints
= true;
101 // These options are all gc.root specific, we specify them so that the
102 // gc.root lowering code doesn't run.
103 NeededSafePoints
= false;
104 UsesMetadata
= false;
107 Optional
<bool> isGCManagedPointer(const Type
*Ty
) const override
{
108 // Method is only valid on pointer typed values.
109 const PointerType
*PT
= cast
<PointerType
>(Ty
);
110 // We pick addrspace(1) as our GC managed heap.
111 return (1 == PT
->getAddressSpace());
115 } // end anonymous namespace
117 // Register all the above so that they can be found at runtime. Note that
118 // these static initializers are important since the registration list is
119 // constructed from their storage.
120 static GCRegistry::Add
<ErlangGC
> A("erlang",
121 "erlang-compatible garbage collector");
122 static GCRegistry::Add
<OcamlGC
> B("ocaml", "ocaml 3.10-compatible GC");
123 static GCRegistry::Add
<ShadowStackGC
>
124 C("shadow-stack", "Very portable GC for uncooperative code generators");
125 static GCRegistry::Add
<StatepointGC
> D("statepoint-example",
126 "an example strategy for statepoint");
127 static GCRegistry::Add
<CoreCLRGC
> E("coreclr", "CoreCLR-compatible GC");
129 // Provide hook to ensure the containing library is fully loaded.
130 void llvm::linkAllBuiltinGCs() {}