1 //===- CtorUtils.cpp - Helpers for working with global_ctors ----*- C++ -*-===//
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 defines functions that are used to process llvm.global_ctors.
11 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
13 #include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/CtorUtils.h"
14 #include "llvm/ADT/BitVector.h"
15 #include "llvm/IR/Constants.h"
16 #include "llvm/IR/Function.h"
17 #include "llvm/IR/GlobalVariable.h"
18 #include "llvm/IR/Module.h"
19 #include "llvm/Support/Debug.h"
20 #include "llvm/Support/raw_ostream.h"
22 #define DEBUG_TYPE "ctor_utils"
26 /// Given a specified llvm.global_ctors list, remove the listed elements.
27 static void removeGlobalCtors(GlobalVariable
*GCL
, const BitVector
&CtorsToRemove
) {
28 // Filter out the initializer elements to remove.
29 ConstantArray
*OldCA
= cast
<ConstantArray
>(GCL
->getInitializer());
30 SmallVector
<Constant
*, 10> CAList
;
31 for (unsigned I
= 0, E
= OldCA
->getNumOperands(); I
< E
; ++I
)
32 if (!CtorsToRemove
.test(I
))
33 CAList
.push_back(OldCA
->getOperand(I
));
35 // Create the new array initializer.
37 ArrayType::get(OldCA
->getType()->getElementType(), CAList
.size());
38 Constant
*CA
= ConstantArray::get(ATy
, CAList
);
40 // If we didn't change the number of elements, don't create a new GV.
41 if (CA
->getType() == OldCA
->getType()) {
42 GCL
->setInitializer(CA
);
46 // Create the new global and insert it next to the existing list.
48 new GlobalVariable(CA
->getType(), GCL
->isConstant(), GCL
->getLinkage(),
49 CA
, "", GCL
->getThreadLocalMode());
50 GCL
->getParent()->getGlobalList().insert(GCL
->getIterator(), NGV
);
53 // Nuke the old list, replacing any uses with the new one.
54 if (!GCL
->use_empty()) {
56 if (V
->getType() != GCL
->getType())
57 V
= ConstantExpr::getBitCast(V
, GCL
->getType());
58 GCL
->replaceAllUsesWith(V
);
60 GCL
->eraseFromParent();
63 /// Given a llvm.global_ctors list that we can understand,
64 /// return a list of the functions and null terminator as a vector.
65 static std::vector
<Function
*> parseGlobalCtors(GlobalVariable
*GV
) {
66 if (GV
->getInitializer()->isNullValue())
67 return std::vector
<Function
*>();
68 ConstantArray
*CA
= cast
<ConstantArray
>(GV
->getInitializer());
69 std::vector
<Function
*> Result
;
70 Result
.reserve(CA
->getNumOperands());
71 for (auto &V
: CA
->operands()) {
72 ConstantStruct
*CS
= cast
<ConstantStruct
>(V
);
73 Result
.push_back(dyn_cast
<Function
>(CS
->getOperand(1)));
78 /// Find the llvm.global_ctors list, verifying that all initializers have an
79 /// init priority of 65535.
80 static GlobalVariable
*findGlobalCtors(Module
&M
) {
81 GlobalVariable
*GV
= M
.getGlobalVariable("llvm.global_ctors");
85 // Verify that the initializer is simple enough for us to handle. We are
86 // only allowed to optimize the initializer if it is unique.
87 if (!GV
->hasUniqueInitializer())
90 if (isa
<ConstantAggregateZero
>(GV
->getInitializer()))
92 ConstantArray
*CA
= cast
<ConstantArray
>(GV
->getInitializer());
94 for (auto &V
: CA
->operands()) {
95 if (isa
<ConstantAggregateZero
>(V
))
97 ConstantStruct
*CS
= cast
<ConstantStruct
>(V
);
98 if (isa
<ConstantPointerNull
>(CS
->getOperand(1)))
101 // Must have a function or null ptr.
102 if (!isa
<Function
>(CS
->getOperand(1)))
105 // Init priority must be standard.
106 ConstantInt
*CI
= cast
<ConstantInt
>(CS
->getOperand(0));
107 if (CI
->getZExtValue() != 65535)
114 /// Call "ShouldRemove" for every entry in M's global_ctor list and remove the
115 /// entries for which it returns true. Return true if anything changed.
116 bool llvm::optimizeGlobalCtorsList(
117 Module
&M
, function_ref
<bool(Function
*)> ShouldRemove
) {
118 GlobalVariable
*GlobalCtors
= findGlobalCtors(M
);
122 std::vector
<Function
*> Ctors
= parseGlobalCtors(GlobalCtors
);
126 bool MadeChange
= false;
128 // Loop over global ctors, optimizing them when we can.
129 unsigned NumCtors
= Ctors
.size();
130 BitVector
CtorsToRemove(NumCtors
);
131 for (unsigned i
= 0; i
!= Ctors
.size() && NumCtors
> 0; ++i
) {
132 Function
*F
= Ctors
[i
];
133 // Found a null terminator in the middle of the list, prune off the rest of
138 LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "Optimizing Global Constructor: " << *F
<< "\n");
140 // We cannot simplify external ctor functions.
144 // If we can evaluate the ctor at compile time, do.
145 if (ShouldRemove(F
)) {
147 CtorsToRemove
.set(i
);
157 removeGlobalCtors(GlobalCtors
, CtorsToRemove
);