1 //===- TailRecursionElimination.cpp - Eliminate Tail Calls ----------------===//
3 // The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
5 // This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
6 // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
8 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
10 // This file transforms calls of the current function (self recursion) followed
11 // by a return instruction with a branch to the entry of the function, creating
12 // a loop. This pass also implements the following extensions to the basic
15 // 1. Trivial instructions between the call and return do not prevent the
16 // transformation from taking place, though currently the analysis cannot
17 // support moving any really useful instructions (only dead ones).
18 // 2. This pass transforms functions that are prevented from being tail
19 // recursive by an associative expression to use an accumulator variable,
20 // thus compiling the typical naive factorial or 'fib' implementation into
22 // 3. TRE is performed if the function returns void, if the return
23 // returns the result returned by the call, or if the function returns a
24 // run-time constant on all exits from the function. It is possible, though
25 // unlikely, that the return returns something else (like constant 0), and
26 // can still be TRE'd. It can be TRE'd if ALL OTHER return instructions in
27 // the function return the exact same value.
28 // 4. If it can prove that callees do not access theier caller stack frame,
29 // they are marked as eligible for tail call elimination (by the code
32 // There are several improvements that could be made:
34 // 1. If the function has any alloca instructions, these instructions will be
35 // moved out of the entry block of the function, causing them to be
36 // evaluated each time through the tail recursion. Safely keeping allocas
37 // in the entry block requires analysis to proves that the tail-called
38 // function does not read or write the stack object.
39 // 2. Tail recursion is only performed if the call immediately preceeds the
40 // return instruction. It's possible that there could be a jump between
41 // the call and the return.
42 // 3. There can be intervening operations between the call and the return that
43 // prevent the TRE from occurring. For example, there could be GEP's and
44 // stores to memory that will not be read or written by the call. This
45 // requires some substantial analysis (such as with DSA) to prove safe to
46 // move ahead of the call, but doing so could allow many more TREs to be
47 // performed, for example in TreeAdd/TreeAlloc from the treeadd benchmark.
48 // 4. The algorithm we use to detect if callees access their caller stack
49 // frames is very primitive.
51 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
53 #define DEBUG_TYPE "tailcallelim"
54 #include "llvm/Transforms/Scalar.h"
55 #include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/Local.h"
56 #include "llvm/Constants.h"
57 #include "llvm/DerivedTypes.h"
58 #include "llvm/Function.h"
59 #include "llvm/Instructions.h"
60 #include "llvm/Pass.h"
61 #include "llvm/Support/CFG.h"
62 #include "llvm/ADT/Statistic.h"
65 STATISTIC(NumEliminated
, "Number of tail calls removed");
66 STATISTIC(NumAccumAdded
, "Number of accumulators introduced");
69 struct TailCallElim
: public FunctionPass
{
70 static char ID
; // Pass identification, replacement for typeid
71 TailCallElim() : FunctionPass(&ID
) {}
73 virtual bool runOnFunction(Function
&F
);
76 bool ProcessReturningBlock(ReturnInst
*RI
, BasicBlock
*&OldEntry
,
77 bool &TailCallsAreMarkedTail
,
78 std::vector
<PHINode
*> &ArgumentPHIs
,
79 bool CannotTailCallElimCallsMarkedTail
);
80 bool CanMoveAboveCall(Instruction
*I
, CallInst
*CI
);
81 Value
*CanTransformAccumulatorRecursion(Instruction
*I
, CallInst
*CI
);
85 char TailCallElim::ID
= 0;
86 static RegisterPass
<TailCallElim
> X("tailcallelim", "Tail Call Elimination");
88 // Public interface to the TailCallElimination pass
89 FunctionPass
*llvm::createTailCallEliminationPass() {
90 return new TailCallElim();
94 /// AllocaMightEscapeToCalls - Return true if this alloca may be accessed by
95 /// callees of this function. We only do very simple analysis right now, this
96 /// could be expanded in the future to use mod/ref information for particular
97 /// call sites if desired.
98 static bool AllocaMightEscapeToCalls(AllocaInst
*AI
) {
99 // FIXME: do simple 'address taken' analysis.
103 /// FunctionContainsAllocas - Scan the specified basic block for alloca
104 /// instructions. If it contains any that might be accessed by calls, return
106 static bool CheckForEscapingAllocas(BasicBlock
*BB
,
107 bool &CannotTCETailMarkedCall
) {
109 for (BasicBlock::iterator I
= BB
->begin(), E
= BB
->end(); I
!= E
; ++I
)
110 if (AllocaInst
*AI
= dyn_cast
<AllocaInst
>(I
)) {
111 RetVal
|= AllocaMightEscapeToCalls(AI
);
113 // If this alloca is in the body of the function, or if it is a variable
114 // sized allocation, we cannot tail call eliminate calls marked 'tail'
115 // with this mechanism.
116 if (BB
!= &BB
->getParent()->getEntryBlock() ||
117 !isa
<ConstantInt
>(AI
->getArraySize()))
118 CannotTCETailMarkedCall
= true;
123 bool TailCallElim::runOnFunction(Function
&F
) {
124 // If this function is a varargs function, we won't be able to PHI the args
125 // right, so don't even try to convert it...
126 if (F
.getFunctionType()->isVarArg()) return false;
128 BasicBlock
*OldEntry
= 0;
129 bool TailCallsAreMarkedTail
= false;
130 std::vector
<PHINode
*> ArgumentPHIs
;
131 bool MadeChange
= false;
133 bool FunctionContainsEscapingAllocas
= false;
135 // CannotTCETailMarkedCall - If true, we cannot perform TCE on tail calls
136 // marked with the 'tail' attribute, because doing so would cause the stack
137 // size to increase (real TCE would deallocate variable sized allocas, TCE
139 bool CannotTCETailMarkedCall
= false;
141 // Loop over the function, looking for any returning blocks, and keeping track
142 // of whether this function has any non-trivially used allocas.
143 for (Function::iterator BB
= F
.begin(), E
= F
.end(); BB
!= E
; ++BB
) {
144 if (FunctionContainsEscapingAllocas
&& CannotTCETailMarkedCall
)
147 FunctionContainsEscapingAllocas
|=
148 CheckForEscapingAllocas(BB
, CannotTCETailMarkedCall
);
151 /// FIXME: The code generator produces really bad code when an 'escaping
152 /// alloca' is changed from being a static alloca to being a dynamic alloca.
153 /// Until this is resolved, disable this transformation if that would ever
154 /// happen. This bug is PR962.
155 if (FunctionContainsEscapingAllocas
)
159 // Second pass, change any tail calls to loops.
160 for (Function::iterator BB
= F
.begin(), E
= F
.end(); BB
!= E
; ++BB
)
161 if (ReturnInst
*Ret
= dyn_cast
<ReturnInst
>(BB
->getTerminator()))
162 MadeChange
|= ProcessReturningBlock(Ret
, OldEntry
, TailCallsAreMarkedTail
,
163 ArgumentPHIs
,CannotTCETailMarkedCall
);
165 // If we eliminated any tail recursions, it's possible that we inserted some
166 // silly PHI nodes which just merge an initial value (the incoming operand)
167 // with themselves. Check to see if we did and clean up our mess if so. This
168 // occurs when a function passes an argument straight through to its tail
170 if (!ArgumentPHIs
.empty()) {
171 for (unsigned i
= 0, e
= ArgumentPHIs
.size(); i
!= e
; ++i
) {
172 PHINode
*PN
= ArgumentPHIs
[i
];
174 // If the PHI Node is a dynamic constant, replace it with the value it is.
175 if (Value
*PNV
= PN
->hasConstantValue()) {
176 PN
->replaceAllUsesWith(PNV
);
177 PN
->eraseFromParent();
182 // Finally, if this function contains no non-escaping allocas, mark all calls
183 // in the function as eligible for tail calls (there is no stack memory for
185 if (!FunctionContainsEscapingAllocas
)
186 for (Function::iterator BB
= F
.begin(), E
= F
.end(); BB
!= E
; ++BB
)
187 for (BasicBlock::iterator I
= BB
->begin(), E
= BB
->end(); I
!= E
; ++I
)
188 if (CallInst
*CI
= dyn_cast
<CallInst
>(I
)) {
197 /// CanMoveAboveCall - Return true if it is safe to move the specified
198 /// instruction from after the call to before the call, assuming that all
199 /// instructions between the call and this instruction are movable.
201 bool TailCallElim::CanMoveAboveCall(Instruction
*I
, CallInst
*CI
) {
202 // FIXME: We can move load/store/call/free instructions above the call if the
203 // call does not mod/ref the memory location being processed.
204 if (I
->mayHaveSideEffects()) // This also handles volatile loads.
207 if (LoadInst
* L
= dyn_cast
<LoadInst
>(I
)) {
208 // Loads may always be moved above calls without side effects.
209 if (CI
->mayHaveSideEffects()) {
210 // Non-volatile loads may be moved above a call with side effects if it
211 // does not write to memory and the load provably won't trap.
212 // FIXME: Writes to memory only matter if they may alias the pointer
213 // being loaded from.
214 if (CI
->mayWriteToMemory() ||
215 !isSafeToLoadUnconditionally(L
->getPointerOperand(), L
))
220 // Otherwise, if this is a side-effect free instruction, check to make sure
221 // that it does not use the return value of the call. If it doesn't use the
222 // return value of the call, it must only use things that are defined before
223 // the call, or movable instructions between the call and the instruction
225 for (unsigned i
= 0, e
= I
->getNumOperands(); i
!= e
; ++i
)
226 if (I
->getOperand(i
) == CI
)
231 // isDynamicConstant - Return true if the specified value is the same when the
232 // return would exit as it was when the initial iteration of the recursive
233 // function was executed.
235 // We currently handle static constants and arguments that are not modified as
236 // part of the recursion.
238 static bool isDynamicConstant(Value
*V
, CallInst
*CI
) {
239 if (isa
<Constant
>(V
)) return true; // Static constants are always dyn consts
241 // Check to see if this is an immutable argument, if so, the value
242 // will be available to initialize the accumulator.
243 if (Argument
*Arg
= dyn_cast
<Argument
>(V
)) {
244 // Figure out which argument number this is...
246 Function
*F
= CI
->getParent()->getParent();
247 for (Function::arg_iterator AI
= F
->arg_begin(); &*AI
!= Arg
; ++AI
)
250 // If we are passing this argument into call as the corresponding
251 // argument operand, then the argument is dynamically constant.
252 // Otherwise, we cannot transform this function safely.
253 if (CI
->getOperand(ArgNo
+1) == Arg
)
256 // Not a constant or immutable argument, we can't safely transform.
260 // getCommonReturnValue - Check to see if the function containing the specified
261 // return instruction and tail call consistently returns the same
262 // runtime-constant value at all exit points. If so, return the returned value.
264 static Value
*getCommonReturnValue(ReturnInst
*TheRI
, CallInst
*CI
) {
265 Function
*F
= TheRI
->getParent()->getParent();
266 Value
*ReturnedValue
= 0;
268 // TODO: Handle multiple value ret instructions;
269 if (isa
<StructType
>(F
->getReturnType()))
272 for (Function::iterator BBI
= F
->begin(), E
= F
->end(); BBI
!= E
; ++BBI
)
273 if (ReturnInst
*RI
= dyn_cast
<ReturnInst
>(BBI
->getTerminator()))
275 Value
*RetOp
= RI
->getOperand(0);
277 // We can only perform this transformation if the value returned is
278 // evaluatable at the start of the initial invocation of the function,
279 // instead of at the end of the evaluation.
281 if (!isDynamicConstant(RetOp
, CI
))
284 if (ReturnedValue
&& RetOp
!= ReturnedValue
)
285 return 0; // Cannot transform if differing values are returned.
286 ReturnedValue
= RetOp
;
288 return ReturnedValue
;
291 /// CanTransformAccumulatorRecursion - If the specified instruction can be
292 /// transformed using accumulator recursion elimination, return the constant
293 /// which is the start of the accumulator value. Otherwise return null.
295 Value
*TailCallElim::CanTransformAccumulatorRecursion(Instruction
*I
,
297 if (!I
->isAssociative()) return 0;
298 assert(I
->getNumOperands() == 2 &&
299 "Associative operations should have 2 args!");
301 // Exactly one operand should be the result of the call instruction...
302 if ((I
->getOperand(0) == CI
&& I
->getOperand(1) == CI
) ||
303 (I
->getOperand(0) != CI
&& I
->getOperand(1) != CI
))
306 // The only user of this instruction we allow is a single return instruction.
307 if (!I
->hasOneUse() || !isa
<ReturnInst
>(I
->use_back()))
310 // Ok, now we have to check all of the other return instructions in this
311 // function. If they return non-constants or differing values, then we cannot
312 // transform the function safely.
313 return getCommonReturnValue(cast
<ReturnInst
>(I
->use_back()), CI
);
316 bool TailCallElim::ProcessReturningBlock(ReturnInst
*Ret
, BasicBlock
*&OldEntry
,
317 bool &TailCallsAreMarkedTail
,
318 std::vector
<PHINode
*> &ArgumentPHIs
,
319 bool CannotTailCallElimCallsMarkedTail
) {
320 BasicBlock
*BB
= Ret
->getParent();
321 Function
*F
= BB
->getParent();
323 if (&BB
->front() == Ret
) // Make sure there is something before the ret...
326 // If the return is in the entry block, then making this transformation would
327 // turn infinite recursion into an infinite loop. This transformation is ok
328 // in theory, but breaks some code like:
329 // double fabs(double f) { return __builtin_fabs(f); } // a 'fabs' call
330 // disable this xform in this case, because the code generator will lower the
331 // call to fabs into inline code.
332 if (BB
== &F
->getEntryBlock())
335 // Scan backwards from the return, checking to see if there is a tail call in
336 // this block. If so, set CI to it.
338 BasicBlock::iterator BBI
= Ret
;
340 CI
= dyn_cast
<CallInst
>(BBI
);
341 if (CI
&& CI
->getCalledFunction() == F
)
344 if (BBI
== BB
->begin())
345 return false; // Didn't find a potential tail call.
349 // If this call is marked as a tail call, and if there are dynamic allocas in
350 // the function, we cannot perform this optimization.
351 if (CI
->isTailCall() && CannotTailCallElimCallsMarkedTail
)
354 // If we are introducing accumulator recursion to eliminate associative
355 // operations after the call instruction, this variable contains the initial
356 // value for the accumulator. If this value is set, we actually perform
357 // accumulator recursion elimination instead of simple tail recursion
359 Value
*AccumulatorRecursionEliminationInitVal
= 0;
360 Instruction
*AccumulatorRecursionInstr
= 0;
362 // Ok, we found a potential tail call. We can currently only transform the
363 // tail call if all of the instructions between the call and the return are
364 // movable to above the call itself, leaving the call next to the return.
365 // Check that this is the case now.
366 for (BBI
= CI
, ++BBI
; &*BBI
!= Ret
; ++BBI
)
367 if (!CanMoveAboveCall(BBI
, CI
)) {
368 // If we can't move the instruction above the call, it might be because it
369 // is an associative operation that could be tranformed using accumulator
370 // recursion elimination. Check to see if this is the case, and if so,
371 // remember the initial accumulator value for later.
372 if ((AccumulatorRecursionEliminationInitVal
=
373 CanTransformAccumulatorRecursion(BBI
, CI
))) {
374 // Yes, this is accumulator recursion. Remember which instruction
376 AccumulatorRecursionInstr
= BBI
;
378 return false; // Otherwise, we cannot eliminate the tail recursion!
382 // We can only transform call/return pairs that either ignore the return value
383 // of the call and return void, ignore the value of the call and return a
384 // constant, return the value returned by the tail call, or that are being
385 // accumulator recursion variable eliminated.
386 if (Ret
->getNumOperands() == 1 && Ret
->getReturnValue() != CI
&&
387 !isa
<UndefValue
>(Ret
->getReturnValue()) &&
388 AccumulatorRecursionEliminationInitVal
== 0 &&
389 !getCommonReturnValue(Ret
, CI
))
392 // OK! We can transform this tail call. If this is the first one found,
393 // create the new entry block, allowing us to branch back to the old entry.
395 OldEntry
= &F
->getEntryBlock();
396 BasicBlock
*NewEntry
= BasicBlock::Create(F
->getContext(), "", F
, OldEntry
);
397 NewEntry
->takeName(OldEntry
);
398 OldEntry
->setName("tailrecurse");
399 BranchInst::Create(OldEntry
, NewEntry
);
401 // If this tail call is marked 'tail' and if there are any allocas in the
402 // entry block, move them up to the new entry block.
403 TailCallsAreMarkedTail
= CI
->isTailCall();
404 if (TailCallsAreMarkedTail
)
405 // Move all fixed sized allocas from OldEntry to NewEntry.
406 for (BasicBlock::iterator OEBI
= OldEntry
->begin(), E
= OldEntry
->end(),
407 NEBI
= NewEntry
->begin(); OEBI
!= E
; )
408 if (AllocaInst
*AI
= dyn_cast
<AllocaInst
>(OEBI
++))
409 if (isa
<ConstantInt
>(AI
->getArraySize()))
410 AI
->moveBefore(NEBI
);
412 // Now that we have created a new block, which jumps to the entry
413 // block, insert a PHI node for each argument of the function.
414 // For now, we initialize each PHI to only have the real arguments
415 // which are passed in.
416 Instruction
*InsertPos
= OldEntry
->begin();
417 for (Function::arg_iterator I
= F
->arg_begin(), E
= F
->arg_end();
419 PHINode
*PN
= PHINode::Create(I
->getType(),
420 I
->getName() + ".tr", InsertPos
);
421 I
->replaceAllUsesWith(PN
); // Everyone use the PHI node now!
422 PN
->addIncoming(I
, NewEntry
);
423 ArgumentPHIs
.push_back(PN
);
427 // If this function has self recursive calls in the tail position where some
428 // are marked tail and some are not, only transform one flavor or another. We
429 // have to choose whether we move allocas in the entry block to the new entry
430 // block or not, so we can't make a good choice for both. NOTE: We could do
431 // slightly better here in the case that the function has no entry block
433 if (TailCallsAreMarkedTail
&& !CI
->isTailCall())
436 // Ok, now that we know we have a pseudo-entry block WITH all of the
437 // required PHI nodes, add entries into the PHI node for the actual
438 // parameters passed into the tail-recursive call.
439 for (unsigned i
= 0, e
= CI
->getNumOperands()-1; i
!= e
; ++i
)
440 ArgumentPHIs
[i
]->addIncoming(CI
->getOperand(i
+1), BB
);
442 // If we are introducing an accumulator variable to eliminate the recursion,
443 // do so now. Note that we _know_ that no subsequent tail recursion
444 // eliminations will happen on this function because of the way the
445 // accumulator recursion predicate is set up.
447 if (AccumulatorRecursionEliminationInitVal
) {
448 Instruction
*AccRecInstr
= AccumulatorRecursionInstr
;
449 // Start by inserting a new PHI node for the accumulator.
450 PHINode
*AccPN
= PHINode::Create(AccRecInstr
->getType(), "accumulator.tr",
453 // Loop over all of the predecessors of the tail recursion block. For the
454 // real entry into the function we seed the PHI with the initial value,
455 // computed earlier. For any other existing branches to this block (due to
456 // other tail recursions eliminated) the accumulator is not modified.
457 // Because we haven't added the branch in the current block to OldEntry yet,
458 // it will not show up as a predecessor.
459 for (pred_iterator PI
= pred_begin(OldEntry
), PE
= pred_end(OldEntry
);
461 if (*PI
== &F
->getEntryBlock())
462 AccPN
->addIncoming(AccumulatorRecursionEliminationInitVal
, *PI
);
464 AccPN
->addIncoming(AccPN
, *PI
);
467 // Add an incoming argument for the current block, which is computed by our
468 // associative accumulator instruction.
469 AccPN
->addIncoming(AccRecInstr
, BB
);
471 // Next, rewrite the accumulator recursion instruction so that it does not
472 // use the result of the call anymore, instead, use the PHI node we just
474 AccRecInstr
->setOperand(AccRecInstr
->getOperand(0) != CI
, AccPN
);
476 // Finally, rewrite any return instructions in the program to return the PHI
477 // node instead of the "initval" that they do currently. This loop will
478 // actually rewrite the return value we are destroying, but that's ok.
479 for (Function::iterator BBI
= F
->begin(), E
= F
->end(); BBI
!= E
; ++BBI
)
480 if (ReturnInst
*RI
= dyn_cast
<ReturnInst
>(BBI
->getTerminator()))
481 RI
->setOperand(0, AccPN
);
485 // Now that all of the PHI nodes are in place, remove the call and
486 // ret instructions, replacing them with an unconditional branch.
487 BranchInst::Create(OldEntry
, Ret
);
488 BB
->getInstList().erase(Ret
); // Remove return.
489 BB
->getInstList().erase(CI
); // Remove call.