1 //===- GlobalsModRef.cpp - Simple Mod/Ref Analysis for Globals ------------===//
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 simple pass provides alias and mod/ref information for global values
10 // that do not have their address taken, and keeps track of whether functions
11 // read or write memory (are "pure"). For this simple (but very common) case,
12 // we can provide pretty accurate and useful information.
14 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
16 #include "llvm/Analysis/GlobalsModRef.h"
17 #include "llvm/ADT/SCCIterator.h"
18 #include "llvm/ADT/SmallPtrSet.h"
19 #include "llvm/ADT/Statistic.h"
20 #include "llvm/Analysis/MemoryBuiltins.h"
21 #include "llvm/Analysis/TargetLibraryInfo.h"
22 #include "llvm/Analysis/ValueTracking.h"
23 #include "llvm/IR/DerivedTypes.h"
24 #include "llvm/IR/InstIterator.h"
25 #include "llvm/IR/Instructions.h"
26 #include "llvm/IR/IntrinsicInst.h"
27 #include "llvm/IR/Module.h"
28 #include "llvm/Pass.h"
29 #include "llvm/Support/CommandLine.h"
32 #define DEBUG_TYPE "globalsmodref-aa"
34 STATISTIC(NumNonAddrTakenGlobalVars
,
35 "Number of global vars without address taken");
36 STATISTIC(NumNonAddrTakenFunctions
,"Number of functions without address taken");
37 STATISTIC(NumNoMemFunctions
, "Number of functions that do not access memory");
38 STATISTIC(NumReadMemFunctions
, "Number of functions that only read memory");
39 STATISTIC(NumIndirectGlobalVars
, "Number of indirect global objects");
41 // An option to enable unsafe alias results from the GlobalsModRef analysis.
42 // When enabled, GlobalsModRef will provide no-alias results which in extremely
43 // rare cases may not be conservatively correct. In particular, in the face of
44 // transforms which cause assymetry between how effective GetUnderlyingObject
45 // is for two pointers, it may produce incorrect results.
47 // These unsafe results have been returned by GMR for many years without
48 // causing significant issues in the wild and so we provide a mechanism to
49 // re-enable them for users of LLVM that have a particular performance
50 // sensitivity and no known issues. The option also makes it easy to evaluate
51 // the performance impact of these results.
52 static cl::opt
<bool> EnableUnsafeGlobalsModRefAliasResults(
53 "enable-unsafe-globalsmodref-alias-results", cl::init(false), cl::Hidden
);
55 /// The mod/ref information collected for a particular function.
57 /// We collect information about mod/ref behavior of a function here, both in
58 /// general and as pertains to specific globals. We only have this detailed
59 /// information when we know *something* useful about the behavior. If we
60 /// saturate to fully general mod/ref, we remove the info for the function.
61 class GlobalsAAResult::FunctionInfo
{
62 typedef SmallDenseMap
<const GlobalValue
*, ModRefInfo
, 16> GlobalInfoMapType
;
64 /// Build a wrapper struct that has 8-byte alignment. All heap allocations
65 /// should provide this much alignment at least, but this makes it clear we
66 /// specifically rely on this amount of alignment.
67 struct alignas(8) AlignedMap
{
69 AlignedMap(const AlignedMap
&Arg
) : Map(Arg
.Map
) {}
70 GlobalInfoMapType Map
;
73 /// Pointer traits for our aligned map.
74 struct AlignedMapPointerTraits
{
75 static inline void *getAsVoidPointer(AlignedMap
*P
) { return P
; }
76 static inline AlignedMap
*getFromVoidPointer(void *P
) {
77 return (AlignedMap
*)P
;
79 enum { NumLowBitsAvailable
= 3 };
80 static_assert(alignof(AlignedMap
) >= (1 << NumLowBitsAvailable
),
81 "AlignedMap insufficiently aligned to have enough low bits.");
84 /// The bit that flags that this function may read any global. This is
85 /// chosen to mix together with ModRefInfo bits.
86 /// FIXME: This assumes ModRefInfo lattice will remain 4 bits!
87 /// It overlaps with ModRefInfo::Must bit!
88 /// FunctionInfo.getModRefInfo() masks out everything except ModRef so
89 /// this remains correct, but the Must info is lost.
90 enum { MayReadAnyGlobal
= 4 };
92 /// Checks to document the invariants of the bit packing here.
93 static_assert((MayReadAnyGlobal
& static_cast<int>(ModRefInfo::MustModRef
)) ==
95 "ModRef and the MayReadAnyGlobal flag bits overlap.");
96 static_assert(((MayReadAnyGlobal
|
97 static_cast<int>(ModRefInfo::MustModRef
)) >>
98 AlignedMapPointerTraits::NumLowBitsAvailable
) == 0,
99 "Insufficient low bits to store our flag and ModRef info.");
102 FunctionInfo() : Info() {}
104 delete Info
.getPointer();
106 // Spell out the copy ond move constructors and assignment operators to get
107 // deep copy semantics and correct move semantics in the face of the
109 FunctionInfo(const FunctionInfo
&Arg
)
110 : Info(nullptr, Arg
.Info
.getInt()) {
111 if (const auto *ArgPtr
= Arg
.Info
.getPointer())
112 Info
.setPointer(new AlignedMap(*ArgPtr
));
114 FunctionInfo(FunctionInfo
&&Arg
)
115 : Info(Arg
.Info
.getPointer(), Arg
.Info
.getInt()) {
116 Arg
.Info
.setPointerAndInt(nullptr, 0);
118 FunctionInfo
&operator=(const FunctionInfo
&RHS
) {
119 delete Info
.getPointer();
120 Info
.setPointerAndInt(nullptr, RHS
.Info
.getInt());
121 if (const auto *RHSPtr
= RHS
.Info
.getPointer())
122 Info
.setPointer(new AlignedMap(*RHSPtr
));
125 FunctionInfo
&operator=(FunctionInfo
&&RHS
) {
126 delete Info
.getPointer();
127 Info
.setPointerAndInt(RHS
.Info
.getPointer(), RHS
.Info
.getInt());
128 RHS
.Info
.setPointerAndInt(nullptr, 0);
132 /// This method clears MayReadAnyGlobal bit added by GlobalsAAResult to return
133 /// the corresponding ModRefInfo. It must align in functionality with
135 ModRefInfo
globalClearMayReadAnyGlobal(int I
) const {
136 return ModRefInfo((I
& static_cast<int>(ModRefInfo::ModRef
)) |
137 static_cast<int>(ModRefInfo::NoModRef
));
140 /// Returns the \c ModRefInfo info for this function.
141 ModRefInfo
getModRefInfo() const {
142 return globalClearMayReadAnyGlobal(Info
.getInt());
145 /// Adds new \c ModRefInfo for this function to its state.
146 void addModRefInfo(ModRefInfo NewMRI
) {
147 Info
.setInt(Info
.getInt() | static_cast<int>(setMust(NewMRI
)));
150 /// Returns whether this function may read any global variable, and we don't
151 /// know which global.
152 bool mayReadAnyGlobal() const { return Info
.getInt() & MayReadAnyGlobal
; }
154 /// Sets this function as potentially reading from any global.
155 void setMayReadAnyGlobal() { Info
.setInt(Info
.getInt() | MayReadAnyGlobal
); }
157 /// Returns the \c ModRefInfo info for this function w.r.t. a particular
158 /// global, which may be more precise than the general information above.
159 ModRefInfo
getModRefInfoForGlobal(const GlobalValue
&GV
) const {
160 ModRefInfo GlobalMRI
=
161 mayReadAnyGlobal() ? ModRefInfo::Ref
: ModRefInfo::NoModRef
;
162 if (AlignedMap
*P
= Info
.getPointer()) {
163 auto I
= P
->Map
.find(&GV
);
164 if (I
!= P
->Map
.end())
165 GlobalMRI
= unionModRef(GlobalMRI
, I
->second
);
170 /// Add mod/ref info from another function into ours, saturating towards
172 void addFunctionInfo(const FunctionInfo
&FI
) {
173 addModRefInfo(FI
.getModRefInfo());
175 if (FI
.mayReadAnyGlobal())
176 setMayReadAnyGlobal();
178 if (AlignedMap
*P
= FI
.Info
.getPointer())
179 for (const auto &G
: P
->Map
)
180 addModRefInfoForGlobal(*G
.first
, G
.second
);
183 void addModRefInfoForGlobal(const GlobalValue
&GV
, ModRefInfo NewMRI
) {
184 AlignedMap
*P
= Info
.getPointer();
186 P
= new AlignedMap();
189 auto &GlobalMRI
= P
->Map
[&GV
];
190 GlobalMRI
= unionModRef(GlobalMRI
, NewMRI
);
193 /// Clear a global's ModRef info. Should be used when a global is being
195 void eraseModRefInfoForGlobal(const GlobalValue
&GV
) {
196 if (AlignedMap
*P
= Info
.getPointer())
201 /// All of the information is encoded into a single pointer, with a three bit
202 /// integer in the low three bits. The high bit provides a flag for when this
203 /// function may read any global. The low two bits are the ModRefInfo. And
204 /// the pointer, when non-null, points to a map from GlobalValue to
205 /// ModRefInfo specific to that GlobalValue.
206 PointerIntPair
<AlignedMap
*, 3, unsigned, AlignedMapPointerTraits
> Info
;
209 void GlobalsAAResult::DeletionCallbackHandle::deleted() {
210 Value
*V
= getValPtr();
211 if (auto *F
= dyn_cast
<Function
>(V
))
212 GAR
->FunctionInfos
.erase(F
);
214 if (GlobalValue
*GV
= dyn_cast
<GlobalValue
>(V
)) {
215 if (GAR
->NonAddressTakenGlobals
.erase(GV
)) {
216 // This global might be an indirect global. If so, remove it and
217 // remove any AllocRelatedValues for it.
218 if (GAR
->IndirectGlobals
.erase(GV
)) {
219 // Remove any entries in AllocsForIndirectGlobals for this global.
220 for (auto I
= GAR
->AllocsForIndirectGlobals
.begin(),
221 E
= GAR
->AllocsForIndirectGlobals
.end();
224 GAR
->AllocsForIndirectGlobals
.erase(I
);
227 // Scan the function info we have collected and remove this global
229 for (auto &FIPair
: GAR
->FunctionInfos
)
230 FIPair
.second
.eraseModRefInfoForGlobal(*GV
);
234 // If this is an allocation related to an indirect global, remove it.
235 GAR
->AllocsForIndirectGlobals
.erase(V
);
237 // And clear out the handle.
239 GAR
->Handles
.erase(I
);
240 // This object is now destroyed!
243 FunctionModRefBehavior
GlobalsAAResult::getModRefBehavior(const Function
*F
) {
244 FunctionModRefBehavior Min
= FMRB_UnknownModRefBehavior
;
246 if (FunctionInfo
*FI
= getFunctionInfo(F
)) {
247 if (!isModOrRefSet(FI
->getModRefInfo()))
248 Min
= FMRB_DoesNotAccessMemory
;
249 else if (!isModSet(FI
->getModRefInfo()))
250 Min
= FMRB_OnlyReadsMemory
;
253 return FunctionModRefBehavior(AAResultBase::getModRefBehavior(F
) & Min
);
256 FunctionModRefBehavior
257 GlobalsAAResult::getModRefBehavior(const CallBase
*Call
) {
258 FunctionModRefBehavior Min
= FMRB_UnknownModRefBehavior
;
260 if (!Call
->hasOperandBundles())
261 if (const Function
*F
= Call
->getCalledFunction())
262 if (FunctionInfo
*FI
= getFunctionInfo(F
)) {
263 if (!isModOrRefSet(FI
->getModRefInfo()))
264 Min
= FMRB_DoesNotAccessMemory
;
265 else if (!isModSet(FI
->getModRefInfo()))
266 Min
= FMRB_OnlyReadsMemory
;
269 return FunctionModRefBehavior(AAResultBase::getModRefBehavior(Call
) & Min
);
272 /// Returns the function info for the function, or null if we don't have
273 /// anything useful to say about it.
274 GlobalsAAResult::FunctionInfo
*
275 GlobalsAAResult::getFunctionInfo(const Function
*F
) {
276 auto I
= FunctionInfos
.find(F
);
277 if (I
!= FunctionInfos
.end())
282 /// AnalyzeGlobals - Scan through the users of all of the internal
283 /// GlobalValue's in the program. If none of them have their "address taken"
284 /// (really, their address passed to something nontrivial), record this fact,
285 /// and record the functions that they are used directly in.
286 void GlobalsAAResult::AnalyzeGlobals(Module
&M
) {
287 SmallPtrSet
<Function
*, 32> TrackedFunctions
;
288 for (Function
&F
: M
)
289 if (F
.hasLocalLinkage())
290 if (!AnalyzeUsesOfPointer(&F
)) {
291 // Remember that we are tracking this global.
292 NonAddressTakenGlobals
.insert(&F
);
293 TrackedFunctions
.insert(&F
);
294 Handles
.emplace_front(*this, &F
);
295 Handles
.front().I
= Handles
.begin();
296 ++NumNonAddrTakenFunctions
;
299 SmallPtrSet
<Function
*, 16> Readers
, Writers
;
300 for (GlobalVariable
&GV
: M
.globals())
301 if (GV
.hasLocalLinkage()) {
302 if (!AnalyzeUsesOfPointer(&GV
, &Readers
,
303 GV
.isConstant() ? nullptr : &Writers
)) {
304 // Remember that we are tracking this global, and the mod/ref fns
305 NonAddressTakenGlobals
.insert(&GV
);
306 Handles
.emplace_front(*this, &GV
);
307 Handles
.front().I
= Handles
.begin();
309 for (Function
*Reader
: Readers
) {
310 if (TrackedFunctions
.insert(Reader
).second
) {
311 Handles
.emplace_front(*this, Reader
);
312 Handles
.front().I
= Handles
.begin();
314 FunctionInfos
[Reader
].addModRefInfoForGlobal(GV
, ModRefInfo::Ref
);
317 if (!GV
.isConstant()) // No need to keep track of writers to constants
318 for (Function
*Writer
: Writers
) {
319 if (TrackedFunctions
.insert(Writer
).second
) {
320 Handles
.emplace_front(*this, Writer
);
321 Handles
.front().I
= Handles
.begin();
323 FunctionInfos
[Writer
].addModRefInfoForGlobal(GV
, ModRefInfo::Mod
);
325 ++NumNonAddrTakenGlobalVars
;
327 // If this global holds a pointer type, see if it is an indirect global.
328 if (GV
.getValueType()->isPointerTy() &&
329 AnalyzeIndirectGlobalMemory(&GV
))
330 ++NumIndirectGlobalVars
;
337 /// AnalyzeUsesOfPointer - Look at all of the users of the specified pointer.
338 /// If this is used by anything complex (i.e., the address escapes), return
339 /// true. Also, while we are at it, keep track of those functions that read and
340 /// write to the value.
342 /// If OkayStoreDest is non-null, stores into this global are allowed.
343 bool GlobalsAAResult::AnalyzeUsesOfPointer(Value
*V
,
344 SmallPtrSetImpl
<Function
*> *Readers
,
345 SmallPtrSetImpl
<Function
*> *Writers
,
346 GlobalValue
*OkayStoreDest
) {
347 if (!V
->getType()->isPointerTy())
350 for (Use
&U
: V
->uses()) {
351 User
*I
= U
.getUser();
352 if (LoadInst
*LI
= dyn_cast
<LoadInst
>(I
)) {
354 Readers
->insert(LI
->getParent()->getParent());
355 } else if (StoreInst
*SI
= dyn_cast
<StoreInst
>(I
)) {
356 if (V
== SI
->getOperand(1)) {
358 Writers
->insert(SI
->getParent()->getParent());
359 } else if (SI
->getOperand(1) != OkayStoreDest
) {
360 return true; // Storing the pointer
362 } else if (Operator::getOpcode(I
) == Instruction::GetElementPtr
) {
363 if (AnalyzeUsesOfPointer(I
, Readers
, Writers
))
365 } else if (Operator::getOpcode(I
) == Instruction::BitCast
) {
366 if (AnalyzeUsesOfPointer(I
, Readers
, Writers
, OkayStoreDest
))
368 } else if (auto *Call
= dyn_cast
<CallBase
>(I
)) {
369 // Make sure that this is just the function being called, not that it is
370 // passing into the function.
371 if (Call
->isDataOperand(&U
)) {
372 // Detect calls to free.
373 if (Call
->isArgOperand(&U
) && isFreeCall(I
, &TLI
)) {
375 Writers
->insert(Call
->getParent()->getParent());
377 return true; // Argument of an unknown call.
380 } else if (ICmpInst
*ICI
= dyn_cast
<ICmpInst
>(I
)) {
381 if (!isa
<ConstantPointerNull
>(ICI
->getOperand(1)))
382 return true; // Allow comparison against null.
383 } else if (Constant
*C
= dyn_cast
<Constant
>(I
)) {
384 // Ignore constants which don't have any live uses.
385 if (isa
<GlobalValue
>(C
) || C
->isConstantUsed())
395 /// AnalyzeIndirectGlobalMemory - We found an non-address-taken global variable
396 /// which holds a pointer type. See if the global always points to non-aliased
397 /// heap memory: that is, all initializers of the globals are allocations, and
398 /// those allocations have no use other than initialization of the global.
399 /// Further, all loads out of GV must directly use the memory, not store the
400 /// pointer somewhere. If this is true, we consider the memory pointed to by
401 /// GV to be owned by GV and can disambiguate other pointers from it.
402 bool GlobalsAAResult::AnalyzeIndirectGlobalMemory(GlobalVariable
*GV
) {
403 // Keep track of values related to the allocation of the memory, f.e. the
404 // value produced by the malloc call and any casts.
405 std::vector
<Value
*> AllocRelatedValues
;
407 // If the initializer is a valid pointer, bail.
408 if (Constant
*C
= GV
->getInitializer())
409 if (!C
->isNullValue())
412 // Walk the user list of the global. If we find anything other than a direct
413 // load or store, bail out.
414 for (User
*U
: GV
->users()) {
415 if (LoadInst
*LI
= dyn_cast
<LoadInst
>(U
)) {
416 // The pointer loaded from the global can only be used in simple ways:
417 // we allow addressing of it and loading storing to it. We do *not* allow
418 // storing the loaded pointer somewhere else or passing to a function.
419 if (AnalyzeUsesOfPointer(LI
))
420 return false; // Loaded pointer escapes.
421 // TODO: Could try some IP mod/ref of the loaded pointer.
422 } else if (StoreInst
*SI
= dyn_cast
<StoreInst
>(U
)) {
423 // Storing the global itself.
424 if (SI
->getOperand(0) == GV
)
427 // If storing the null pointer, ignore it.
428 if (isa
<ConstantPointerNull
>(SI
->getOperand(0)))
431 // Check the value being stored.
432 Value
*Ptr
= GetUnderlyingObject(SI
->getOperand(0),
433 GV
->getParent()->getDataLayout());
435 if (!isAllocLikeFn(Ptr
, &TLI
))
436 return false; // Too hard to analyze.
438 // Analyze all uses of the allocation. If any of them are used in a
439 // non-simple way (e.g. stored to another global) bail out.
440 if (AnalyzeUsesOfPointer(Ptr
, /*Readers*/ nullptr, /*Writers*/ nullptr,
442 return false; // Loaded pointer escapes.
444 // Remember that this allocation is related to the indirect global.
445 AllocRelatedValues
.push_back(Ptr
);
447 // Something complex, bail out.
452 // Okay, this is an indirect global. Remember all of the allocations for
453 // this global in AllocsForIndirectGlobals.
454 while (!AllocRelatedValues
.empty()) {
455 AllocsForIndirectGlobals
[AllocRelatedValues
.back()] = GV
;
456 Handles
.emplace_front(*this, AllocRelatedValues
.back());
457 Handles
.front().I
= Handles
.begin();
458 AllocRelatedValues
.pop_back();
460 IndirectGlobals
.insert(GV
);
461 Handles
.emplace_front(*this, GV
);
462 Handles
.front().I
= Handles
.begin();
466 void GlobalsAAResult::CollectSCCMembership(CallGraph
&CG
) {
467 // We do a bottom-up SCC traversal of the call graph. In other words, we
468 // visit all callees before callers (leaf-first).
470 for (scc_iterator
<CallGraph
*> I
= scc_begin(&CG
); !I
.isAtEnd(); ++I
) {
471 const std::vector
<CallGraphNode
*> &SCC
= *I
;
472 assert(!SCC
.empty() && "SCC with no functions?");
474 for (auto *CGN
: SCC
)
475 if (Function
*F
= CGN
->getFunction())
476 FunctionToSCCMap
[F
] = SCCID
;
481 /// AnalyzeCallGraph - At this point, we know the functions where globals are
482 /// immediately stored to and read from. Propagate this information up the call
483 /// graph to all callers and compute the mod/ref info for all memory for each
485 void GlobalsAAResult::AnalyzeCallGraph(CallGraph
&CG
, Module
&M
) {
486 // We do a bottom-up SCC traversal of the call graph. In other words, we
487 // visit all callees before callers (leaf-first).
488 for (scc_iterator
<CallGraph
*> I
= scc_begin(&CG
); !I
.isAtEnd(); ++I
) {
489 const std::vector
<CallGraphNode
*> &SCC
= *I
;
490 assert(!SCC
.empty() && "SCC with no functions?");
492 Function
*F
= SCC
[0]->getFunction();
494 if (!F
|| !F
->isDefinitionExact()) {
495 // Calls externally or not exact - can't say anything useful. Remove any
496 // existing function records (may have been created when scanning
498 for (auto *Node
: SCC
)
499 FunctionInfos
.erase(Node
->getFunction());
503 FunctionInfo
&FI
= FunctionInfos
[F
];
504 Handles
.emplace_front(*this, F
);
505 Handles
.front().I
= Handles
.begin();
506 bool KnowNothing
= false;
508 // Collect the mod/ref properties due to called functions. We only compute
510 for (unsigned i
= 0, e
= SCC
.size(); i
!= e
&& !KnowNothing
; ++i
) {
516 if (F
->isDeclaration() || F
->hasOptNone()) {
517 // Try to get mod/ref behaviour from function attributes.
518 if (F
->doesNotAccessMemory()) {
519 // Can't do better than that!
520 } else if (F
->onlyReadsMemory()) {
521 FI
.addModRefInfo(ModRefInfo::Ref
);
522 if (!F
->isIntrinsic() && !F
->onlyAccessesArgMemory())
523 // This function might call back into the module and read a global -
524 // consider every global as possibly being read by this function.
525 FI
.setMayReadAnyGlobal();
527 FI
.addModRefInfo(ModRefInfo::ModRef
);
528 // Can't say anything useful unless it's an intrinsic - they don't
529 // read or write global variables of the kind considered here.
530 KnowNothing
= !F
->isIntrinsic();
535 for (CallGraphNode::iterator CI
= SCC
[i
]->begin(), E
= SCC
[i
]->end();
536 CI
!= E
&& !KnowNothing
; ++CI
)
537 if (Function
*Callee
= CI
->second
->getFunction()) {
538 if (FunctionInfo
*CalleeFI
= getFunctionInfo(Callee
)) {
539 // Propagate function effect up.
540 FI
.addFunctionInfo(*CalleeFI
);
542 // Can't say anything about it. However, if it is inside our SCC,
543 // then nothing needs to be done.
544 CallGraphNode
*CalleeNode
= CG
[Callee
];
545 if (!is_contained(SCC
, CalleeNode
))
553 // If we can't say anything useful about this SCC, remove all SCC functions
554 // from the FunctionInfos map.
556 for (auto *Node
: SCC
)
557 FunctionInfos
.erase(Node
->getFunction());
561 // Scan the function bodies for explicit loads or stores.
562 for (auto *Node
: SCC
) {
563 if (isModAndRefSet(FI
.getModRefInfo()))
564 break; // The mod/ref lattice saturates here.
566 // Don't prove any properties based on the implementation of an optnone
567 // function. Function attributes were already used as a best approximation
569 if (Node
->getFunction()->hasOptNone())
572 for (Instruction
&I
: instructions(Node
->getFunction())) {
573 if (isModAndRefSet(FI
.getModRefInfo()))
574 break; // The mod/ref lattice saturates here.
576 // We handle calls specially because the graph-relevant aspects are
578 if (auto *Call
= dyn_cast
<CallBase
>(&I
)) {
579 if (isAllocationFn(Call
, &TLI
) || isFreeCall(Call
, &TLI
)) {
580 // FIXME: It is completely unclear why this is necessary and not
581 // handled by the above graph code.
582 FI
.addModRefInfo(ModRefInfo::ModRef
);
583 } else if (Function
*Callee
= Call
->getCalledFunction()) {
584 // The callgraph doesn't include intrinsic calls.
585 if (Callee
->isIntrinsic()) {
586 if (isa
<DbgInfoIntrinsic
>(Call
))
587 // Don't let dbg intrinsics affect alias info.
590 FunctionModRefBehavior Behaviour
=
591 AAResultBase::getModRefBehavior(Callee
);
592 FI
.addModRefInfo(createModRefInfo(Behaviour
));
598 // All non-call instructions we use the primary predicates for whether
599 // they read or write memory.
600 if (I
.mayReadFromMemory())
601 FI
.addModRefInfo(ModRefInfo::Ref
);
602 if (I
.mayWriteToMemory())
603 FI
.addModRefInfo(ModRefInfo::Mod
);
607 if (!isModSet(FI
.getModRefInfo()))
608 ++NumReadMemFunctions
;
609 if (!isModOrRefSet(FI
.getModRefInfo()))
612 // Finally, now that we know the full effect on this SCC, clone the
613 // information to each function in the SCC.
614 // FI is a reference into FunctionInfos, so copy it now so that it doesn't
615 // get invalidated if DenseMap decides to re-hash.
616 FunctionInfo CachedFI
= FI
;
617 for (unsigned i
= 1, e
= SCC
.size(); i
!= e
; ++i
)
618 FunctionInfos
[SCC
[i
]->getFunction()] = CachedFI
;
622 // GV is a non-escaping global. V is a pointer address that has been loaded from.
623 // If we can prove that V must escape, we can conclude that a load from V cannot
625 static bool isNonEscapingGlobalNoAliasWithLoad(const GlobalValue
*GV
,
628 const DataLayout
&DL
) {
629 SmallPtrSet
<const Value
*, 8> Visited
;
630 SmallVector
<const Value
*, 8> Inputs
;
634 const Value
*Input
= Inputs
.pop_back_val();
636 if (isa
<GlobalValue
>(Input
) || isa
<Argument
>(Input
) || isa
<CallInst
>(Input
) ||
637 isa
<InvokeInst
>(Input
))
638 // Arguments to functions or returns from functions are inherently
639 // escaping, so we can immediately classify those as not aliasing any
640 // non-addr-taken globals.
642 // (Transitive) loads from a global are also safe - if this aliased
643 // another global, its address would escape, so no alias.
646 // Recurse through a limited number of selects, loads and PHIs. This is an
647 // arbitrary depth of 4, lower numbers could be used to fix compile time
648 // issues if needed, but this is generally expected to be only be important
653 if (auto *LI
= dyn_cast
<LoadInst
>(Input
)) {
654 Inputs
.push_back(GetUnderlyingObject(LI
->getPointerOperand(), DL
));
657 if (auto *SI
= dyn_cast
<SelectInst
>(Input
)) {
658 const Value
*LHS
= GetUnderlyingObject(SI
->getTrueValue(), DL
);
659 const Value
*RHS
= GetUnderlyingObject(SI
->getFalseValue(), DL
);
660 if (Visited
.insert(LHS
).second
)
661 Inputs
.push_back(LHS
);
662 if (Visited
.insert(RHS
).second
)
663 Inputs
.push_back(RHS
);
666 if (auto *PN
= dyn_cast
<PHINode
>(Input
)) {
667 for (const Value
*Op
: PN
->incoming_values()) {
668 Op
= GetUnderlyingObject(Op
, DL
);
669 if (Visited
.insert(Op
).second
)
670 Inputs
.push_back(Op
);
676 } while (!Inputs
.empty());
678 // All inputs were known to be no-alias.
682 // There are particular cases where we can conclude no-alias between
683 // a non-addr-taken global and some other underlying object. Specifically,
684 // a non-addr-taken global is known to not be escaped from any function. It is
685 // also incorrect for a transformation to introduce an escape of a global in
686 // a way that is observable when it was not there previously. One function
687 // being transformed to introduce an escape which could possibly be observed
688 // (via loading from a global or the return value for example) within another
689 // function is never safe. If the observation is made through non-atomic
690 // operations on different threads, it is a data-race and UB. If the
691 // observation is well defined, by being observed the transformation would have
692 // changed program behavior by introducing the observed escape, making it an
693 // invalid transform.
695 // This property does require that transformations which *temporarily* escape
696 // a global that was not previously escaped, prior to restoring it, cannot rely
697 // on the results of GMR::alias. This seems a reasonable restriction, although
698 // currently there is no way to enforce it. There is also no realistic
699 // optimization pass that would make this mistake. The closest example is
700 // a transformation pass which does reg2mem of SSA values but stores them into
701 // global variables temporarily before restoring the global variable's value.
702 // This could be useful to expose "benign" races for example. However, it seems
703 // reasonable to require that a pass which introduces escapes of global
704 // variables in this way to either not trust AA results while the escape is
705 // active, or to be forced to operate as a module pass that cannot co-exist
706 // with an alias analysis such as GMR.
707 bool GlobalsAAResult::isNonEscapingGlobalNoAlias(const GlobalValue
*GV
,
709 // In order to know that the underlying object cannot alias the
710 // non-addr-taken global, we must know that it would have to be an escape.
711 // Thus if the underlying object is a function argument, a load from
712 // a global, or the return of a function, it cannot alias. We can also
713 // recurse through PHI nodes and select nodes provided all of their inputs
714 // resolve to one of these known-escaping roots.
715 SmallPtrSet
<const Value
*, 8> Visited
;
716 SmallVector
<const Value
*, 8> Inputs
;
721 const Value
*Input
= Inputs
.pop_back_val();
723 if (auto *InputGV
= dyn_cast
<GlobalValue
>(Input
)) {
724 // If one input is the very global we're querying against, then we can't
725 // conclude no-alias.
729 // Distinct GlobalVariables never alias, unless overriden or zero-sized.
730 // FIXME: The condition can be refined, but be conservative for now.
731 auto *GVar
= dyn_cast
<GlobalVariable
>(GV
);
732 auto *InputGVar
= dyn_cast
<GlobalVariable
>(InputGV
);
733 if (GVar
&& InputGVar
&&
734 !GVar
->isDeclaration() && !InputGVar
->isDeclaration() &&
735 !GVar
->isInterposable() && !InputGVar
->isInterposable()) {
736 Type
*GVType
= GVar
->getInitializer()->getType();
737 Type
*InputGVType
= InputGVar
->getInitializer()->getType();
738 if (GVType
->isSized() && InputGVType
->isSized() &&
739 (DL
.getTypeAllocSize(GVType
) > 0) &&
740 (DL
.getTypeAllocSize(InputGVType
) > 0))
744 // Conservatively return false, even though we could be smarter
745 // (e.g. look through GlobalAliases).
749 if (isa
<Argument
>(Input
) || isa
<CallInst
>(Input
) ||
750 isa
<InvokeInst
>(Input
)) {
751 // Arguments to functions or returns from functions are inherently
752 // escaping, so we can immediately classify those as not aliasing any
753 // non-addr-taken globals.
757 // Recurse through a limited number of selects, loads and PHIs. This is an
758 // arbitrary depth of 4, lower numbers could be used to fix compile time
759 // issues if needed, but this is generally expected to be only be important
764 if (auto *LI
= dyn_cast
<LoadInst
>(Input
)) {
765 // A pointer loaded from a global would have been captured, and we know
766 // that the global is non-escaping, so no alias.
767 const Value
*Ptr
= GetUnderlyingObject(LI
->getPointerOperand(), DL
);
768 if (isNonEscapingGlobalNoAliasWithLoad(GV
, Ptr
, Depth
, DL
))
769 // The load does not alias with GV.
771 // Otherwise, a load could come from anywhere, so bail.
774 if (auto *SI
= dyn_cast
<SelectInst
>(Input
)) {
775 const Value
*LHS
= GetUnderlyingObject(SI
->getTrueValue(), DL
);
776 const Value
*RHS
= GetUnderlyingObject(SI
->getFalseValue(), DL
);
777 if (Visited
.insert(LHS
).second
)
778 Inputs
.push_back(LHS
);
779 if (Visited
.insert(RHS
).second
)
780 Inputs
.push_back(RHS
);
783 if (auto *PN
= dyn_cast
<PHINode
>(Input
)) {
784 for (const Value
*Op
: PN
->incoming_values()) {
785 Op
= GetUnderlyingObject(Op
, DL
);
786 if (Visited
.insert(Op
).second
)
787 Inputs
.push_back(Op
);
792 // FIXME: It would be good to handle other obvious no-alias cases here, but
793 // it isn't clear how to do so reasonably without building a small version
794 // of BasicAA into this code. We could recurse into AAResultBase::alias
795 // here but that seems likely to go poorly as we're inside the
796 // implementation of such a query. Until then, just conservatively return
799 } while (!Inputs
.empty());
801 // If all the inputs to V were definitively no-alias, then V is no-alias.
805 /// alias - If one of the pointers is to a global that we are tracking, and the
806 /// other is some random pointer, we know there cannot be an alias, because the
807 /// address of the global isn't taken.
808 AliasResult
GlobalsAAResult::alias(const MemoryLocation
&LocA
,
809 const MemoryLocation
&LocB
,
811 // Get the base object these pointers point to.
812 const Value
*UV1
= GetUnderlyingObject(LocA
.Ptr
, DL
);
813 const Value
*UV2
= GetUnderlyingObject(LocB
.Ptr
, DL
);
815 // If either of the underlying values is a global, they may be non-addr-taken
816 // globals, which we can answer queries about.
817 const GlobalValue
*GV1
= dyn_cast
<GlobalValue
>(UV1
);
818 const GlobalValue
*GV2
= dyn_cast
<GlobalValue
>(UV2
);
820 // If the global's address is taken, pretend we don't know it's a pointer to
822 if (GV1
&& !NonAddressTakenGlobals
.count(GV1
))
824 if (GV2
&& !NonAddressTakenGlobals
.count(GV2
))
827 // If the two pointers are derived from two different non-addr-taken
828 // globals we know these can't alias.
829 if (GV1
&& GV2
&& GV1
!= GV2
)
832 // If one is and the other isn't, it isn't strictly safe but we can fake
833 // this result if necessary for performance. This does not appear to be
834 // a common problem in practice.
835 if (EnableUnsafeGlobalsModRefAliasResults
)
836 if ((GV1
|| GV2
) && GV1
!= GV2
)
839 // Check for a special case where a non-escaping global can be used to
840 // conclude no-alias.
841 if ((GV1
|| GV2
) && GV1
!= GV2
) {
842 const GlobalValue
*GV
= GV1
? GV1
: GV2
;
843 const Value
*UV
= GV1
? UV2
: UV1
;
844 if (isNonEscapingGlobalNoAlias(GV
, UV
))
848 // Otherwise if they are both derived from the same addr-taken global, we
849 // can't know the two accesses don't overlap.
852 // These pointers may be based on the memory owned by an indirect global. If
853 // so, we may be able to handle this. First check to see if the base pointer
854 // is a direct load from an indirect global.
856 if (const LoadInst
*LI
= dyn_cast
<LoadInst
>(UV1
))
857 if (GlobalVariable
*GV
= dyn_cast
<GlobalVariable
>(LI
->getOperand(0)))
858 if (IndirectGlobals
.count(GV
))
860 if (const LoadInst
*LI
= dyn_cast
<LoadInst
>(UV2
))
861 if (const GlobalVariable
*GV
= dyn_cast
<GlobalVariable
>(LI
->getOperand(0)))
862 if (IndirectGlobals
.count(GV
))
865 // These pointers may also be from an allocation for the indirect global. If
866 // so, also handle them.
868 GV1
= AllocsForIndirectGlobals
.lookup(UV1
);
870 GV2
= AllocsForIndirectGlobals
.lookup(UV2
);
872 // Now that we know whether the two pointers are related to indirect globals,
873 // use this to disambiguate the pointers. If the pointers are based on
874 // different indirect globals they cannot alias.
875 if (GV1
&& GV2
&& GV1
!= GV2
)
878 // If one is based on an indirect global and the other isn't, it isn't
879 // strictly safe but we can fake this result if necessary for performance.
880 // This does not appear to be a common problem in practice.
881 if (EnableUnsafeGlobalsModRefAliasResults
)
882 if ((GV1
|| GV2
) && GV1
!= GV2
)
885 return AAResultBase::alias(LocA
, LocB
, AAQI
);
888 ModRefInfo
GlobalsAAResult::getModRefInfoForArgument(const CallBase
*Call
,
889 const GlobalValue
*GV
,
891 if (Call
->doesNotAccessMemory())
892 return ModRefInfo::NoModRef
;
893 ModRefInfo ConservativeResult
=
894 Call
->onlyReadsMemory() ? ModRefInfo::Ref
: ModRefInfo::ModRef
;
896 // Iterate through all the arguments to the called function. If any argument
897 // is based on GV, return the conservative result.
898 for (auto &A
: Call
->args()) {
899 SmallVector
<const Value
*, 4> Objects
;
900 GetUnderlyingObjects(A
, Objects
, DL
);
902 // All objects must be identified.
903 if (!all_of(Objects
, isIdentifiedObject
) &&
904 // Try ::alias to see if all objects are known not to alias GV.
905 !all_of(Objects
, [&](const Value
*V
) {
906 return this->alias(MemoryLocation(V
), MemoryLocation(GV
), AAQI
) ==
909 return ConservativeResult
;
911 if (is_contained(Objects
, GV
))
912 return ConservativeResult
;
915 // We identified all objects in the argument list, and none of them were GV.
916 return ModRefInfo::NoModRef
;
919 ModRefInfo
GlobalsAAResult::getModRefInfo(const CallBase
*Call
,
920 const MemoryLocation
&Loc
,
922 ModRefInfo Known
= ModRefInfo::ModRef
;
924 // If we are asking for mod/ref info of a direct call with a pointer to a
925 // global we are tracking, return information if we have it.
926 if (const GlobalValue
*GV
=
927 dyn_cast
<GlobalValue
>(GetUnderlyingObject(Loc
.Ptr
, DL
)))
928 if (GV
->hasLocalLinkage())
929 if (const Function
*F
= Call
->getCalledFunction())
930 if (NonAddressTakenGlobals
.count(GV
))
931 if (const FunctionInfo
*FI
= getFunctionInfo(F
))
932 Known
= unionModRef(FI
->getModRefInfoForGlobal(*GV
),
933 getModRefInfoForArgument(Call
, GV
, AAQI
));
935 if (!isModOrRefSet(Known
))
936 return ModRefInfo::NoModRef
; // No need to query other mod/ref analyses
937 return intersectModRef(Known
, AAResultBase::getModRefInfo(Call
, Loc
, AAQI
));
940 GlobalsAAResult::GlobalsAAResult(const DataLayout
&DL
,
941 const TargetLibraryInfo
&TLI
)
942 : AAResultBase(), DL(DL
), TLI(TLI
) {}
944 GlobalsAAResult::GlobalsAAResult(GlobalsAAResult
&&Arg
)
945 : AAResultBase(std::move(Arg
)), DL(Arg
.DL
), TLI(Arg
.TLI
),
946 NonAddressTakenGlobals(std::move(Arg
.NonAddressTakenGlobals
)),
947 IndirectGlobals(std::move(Arg
.IndirectGlobals
)),
948 AllocsForIndirectGlobals(std::move(Arg
.AllocsForIndirectGlobals
)),
949 FunctionInfos(std::move(Arg
.FunctionInfos
)),
950 Handles(std::move(Arg
.Handles
)) {
951 // Update the parent for each DeletionCallbackHandle.
952 for (auto &H
: Handles
) {
953 assert(H
.GAR
== &Arg
);
958 GlobalsAAResult::~GlobalsAAResult() {}
960 /*static*/ GlobalsAAResult
961 GlobalsAAResult::analyzeModule(Module
&M
, const TargetLibraryInfo
&TLI
,
963 GlobalsAAResult
Result(M
.getDataLayout(), TLI
);
965 // Discover which functions aren't recursive, to feed into AnalyzeGlobals.
966 Result
.CollectSCCMembership(CG
);
968 // Find non-addr taken globals.
969 Result
.AnalyzeGlobals(M
);
972 Result
.AnalyzeCallGraph(CG
, M
);
977 AnalysisKey
GlobalsAA::Key
;
979 GlobalsAAResult
GlobalsAA::run(Module
&M
, ModuleAnalysisManager
&AM
) {
980 return GlobalsAAResult::analyzeModule(M
,
981 AM
.getResult
<TargetLibraryAnalysis
>(M
),
982 AM
.getResult
<CallGraphAnalysis
>(M
));
985 char GlobalsAAWrapperPass::ID
= 0;
986 INITIALIZE_PASS_BEGIN(GlobalsAAWrapperPass
, "globals-aa",
987 "Globals Alias Analysis", false, true)
988 INITIALIZE_PASS_DEPENDENCY(CallGraphWrapperPass
)
989 INITIALIZE_PASS_DEPENDENCY(TargetLibraryInfoWrapperPass
)
990 INITIALIZE_PASS_END(GlobalsAAWrapperPass
, "globals-aa",
991 "Globals Alias Analysis", false, true)
993 ModulePass
*llvm::createGlobalsAAWrapperPass() {
994 return new GlobalsAAWrapperPass();
997 GlobalsAAWrapperPass::GlobalsAAWrapperPass() : ModulePass(ID
) {
998 initializeGlobalsAAWrapperPassPass(*PassRegistry::getPassRegistry());
1001 bool GlobalsAAWrapperPass::runOnModule(Module
&M
) {
1002 Result
.reset(new GlobalsAAResult(GlobalsAAResult::analyzeModule(
1003 M
, getAnalysis
<TargetLibraryInfoWrapperPass
>().getTLI(),
1004 getAnalysis
<CallGraphWrapperPass
>().getCallGraph())));
1008 bool GlobalsAAWrapperPass::doFinalization(Module
&M
) {
1013 void GlobalsAAWrapperPass::getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage
&AU
) const {
1014 AU
.setPreservesAll();
1015 AU
.addRequired
<CallGraphWrapperPass
>();
1016 AU
.addRequired
<TargetLibraryInfoWrapperPass
>();