1 //===- LoopDeletion.cpp - Dead Loop Deletion Pass ---------------===//
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 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.
15 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
17 #define DEBUG_TYPE "loop-delete"
19 #include "llvm/Transforms/Scalar.h"
20 #include "llvm/Analysis/LoopPass.h"
21 #include "llvm/Analysis/ScalarEvolution.h"
22 #include "llvm/ADT/Statistic.h"
23 #include "llvm/ADT/SmallVector.h"
27 STATISTIC(NumDeleted
, "Number of loops deleted");
30 class VISIBILITY_HIDDEN LoopDeletion
: public LoopPass
{
32 static char ID
; // Pass ID, replacement for typeid
33 LoopDeletion() : LoopPass(&ID
) {}
35 // Possibly eliminate loop L if it is dead.
36 bool runOnLoop(Loop
* L
, LPPassManager
& LPM
);
38 bool SingleDominatingExit(Loop
* L
,
39 SmallVector
<BasicBlock
*, 4>& exitingBlocks
);
40 bool IsLoopDead(Loop
* L
, SmallVector
<BasicBlock
*, 4>& exitingBlocks
,
41 SmallVector
<BasicBlock
*, 4>& exitBlocks
);
42 bool IsLoopInvariantInst(Instruction
*I
, Loop
* L
);
44 virtual void getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage
& AU
) const {
45 AU
.addRequired
<ScalarEvolution
>();
46 AU
.addRequired
<DominatorTree
>();
47 AU
.addRequired
<LoopInfo
>();
48 AU
.addRequiredID(LoopSimplifyID
);
49 AU
.addRequiredID(LCSSAID
);
51 AU
.addPreserved
<ScalarEvolution
>();
52 AU
.addPreserved
<DominatorTree
>();
53 AU
.addPreserved
<LoopInfo
>();
54 AU
.addPreservedID(LoopSimplifyID
);
55 AU
.addPreservedID(LCSSAID
);
56 AU
.addPreserved
<DominanceFrontier
>();
61 char LoopDeletion::ID
= 0;
62 static RegisterPass
<LoopDeletion
> X("loop-deletion", "Delete dead loops");
64 Pass
* llvm::createLoopDeletionPass() {
65 return new LoopDeletion();
68 /// SingleDominatingExit - Checks that there is only a single blocks that
69 /// branches out of the loop, and that it also g the latch block. Loops
70 /// with multiple or non-latch-dominating exiting blocks could be dead, but we'd
71 /// have to do more extensive analysis to make sure, for instance, that the
72 /// control flow logic involved was or could be made loop-invariant.
73 bool LoopDeletion::SingleDominatingExit(Loop
* L
,
74 SmallVector
<BasicBlock
*, 4>& exitingBlocks
) {
76 if (exitingBlocks
.size() != 1)
79 BasicBlock
* latch
= L
->getLoopLatch();
83 DominatorTree
& DT
= getAnalysis
<DominatorTree
>();
84 return DT
.dominates(exitingBlocks
[0], latch
);
87 /// IsLoopInvariantInst - Checks if an instruction is invariant with respect to
88 /// a loop, which is defined as being true if all of its operands are defined
89 /// outside of the loop. These instructions can be hoisted out of the loop
90 /// if their results are needed. This could be made more aggressive by
91 /// recursively checking the operands for invariance, but it's not clear that
93 bool LoopDeletion::IsLoopInvariantInst(Instruction
*I
, Loop
* L
) {
94 // PHI nodes are not loop invariant if defined in the loop.
95 if (isa
<PHINode
>(I
) && L
->contains(I
->getParent()))
98 // The instruction is loop invariant if all of its operands are loop-invariant
99 for (unsigned i
= 0, e
= I
->getNumOperands(); i
!= e
; ++i
)
100 if (!L
->isLoopInvariant(I
->getOperand(i
)))
103 // If we got this far, the instruction is loop invariant!
107 /// IsLoopDead - Determined if a loop is dead. This assumes that we've already
108 /// checked for unique exit and exiting blocks, and that the code is in LCSSA
110 bool LoopDeletion::IsLoopDead(Loop
* L
,
111 SmallVector
<BasicBlock
*, 4>& exitingBlocks
,
112 SmallVector
<BasicBlock
*, 4>& exitBlocks
) {
113 BasicBlock
* exitingBlock
= exitingBlocks
[0];
114 BasicBlock
* exitBlock
= exitBlocks
[0];
116 // Make sure that all PHI entries coming from the loop are loop invariant.
117 // Because the code is in LCSSA form, any values used outside of the loop
118 // must pass through a PHI in the exit block, meaning that this check is
119 // sufficient to guarantee that no loop-variant values are used outside
121 BasicBlock::iterator BI
= exitBlock
->begin();
122 while (PHINode
* P
= dyn_cast
<PHINode
>(BI
)) {
123 Value
* incoming
= P
->getIncomingValueForBlock(exitingBlock
);
124 if (Instruction
* I
= dyn_cast
<Instruction
>(incoming
))
125 if (!IsLoopInvariantInst(I
, L
))
131 // Make sure that no instructions in the block have potential side-effects.
132 // This includes instructions that could write to memory, and loads that are
133 // marked volatile. This could be made more aggressive by using aliasing
134 // information to identify readonly and readnone calls.
135 for (Loop::block_iterator LI
= L
->block_begin(), LE
= L
->block_end();
137 for (BasicBlock::iterator BI
= (*LI
)->begin(), BE
= (*LI
)->end();
139 if (BI
->mayHaveSideEffects())
147 /// runOnLoop - Remove dead loops, by which we mean loops that do not impact the
148 /// observable behavior of the program other than finite running time. Note
149 /// we do ensure that this never remove a loop that might be infinite, as doing
150 /// so could change the halting/non-halting nature of a program.
151 /// NOTE: This entire process relies pretty heavily on LoopSimplify and LCSSA
152 /// in order to make various safety checks work.
153 bool LoopDeletion::runOnLoop(Loop
* L
, LPPassManager
& LPM
) {
154 // We can only remove the loop if there is a preheader that we can
155 // branch from after removing it.
156 BasicBlock
* preheader
= L
->getLoopPreheader();
160 // We can't remove loops that contain subloops. If the subloops were dead,
161 // they would already have been removed in earlier executions of this pass.
162 if (L
->begin() != L
->end())
165 SmallVector
<BasicBlock
*, 4> exitingBlocks
;
166 L
->getExitingBlocks(exitingBlocks
);
168 SmallVector
<BasicBlock
*, 4> exitBlocks
;
169 L
->getUniqueExitBlocks(exitBlocks
);
171 // We require that the loop only have a single exit block. Otherwise, we'd
172 // be in the situation of needing to be able to solve statically which exit
173 // block will be branched to, or trying to preserve the branching logic in
174 // a loop invariant manner.
175 if (exitBlocks
.size() != 1)
178 // Loops with multiple exits or exits that don't dominate the latch
179 // are too complicated to handle correctly.
180 if (!SingleDominatingExit(L
, exitingBlocks
))
183 // Finally, we have to check that the loop really is dead.
184 if (!IsLoopDead(L
, exitingBlocks
, exitBlocks
))
187 // Don't remove loops for which we can't solve the trip count.
188 // They could be infinite, in which case we'd be changing program behavior.
189 ScalarEvolution
& SE
= getAnalysis
<ScalarEvolution
>();
190 SCEVHandle S
= SE
.getBackedgeTakenCount(L
);
191 if (isa
<SCEVCouldNotCompute
>(S
))
194 // Now that we know the removal is safe, remove the loop by changing the
195 // branch from the preheader to go to the single exit block.
196 BasicBlock
* exitBlock
= exitBlocks
[0];
197 BasicBlock
* exitingBlock
= exitingBlocks
[0];
199 // Because we're deleting a large chunk of code at once, the sequence in which
200 // we remove things is very important to avoid invalidation issues. Don't
201 // mess with this unless you have good reason and know what you're doing.
203 // Move simple loop-invariant expressions out of the loop, since they
204 // might be needed by the exit phis.
205 for (Loop::block_iterator LI
= L
->block_begin(), LE
= L
->block_end();
207 for (BasicBlock::iterator BI
= (*LI
)->begin(), BE
= (*LI
)->end();
209 Instruction
* I
= BI
++;
210 if (!I
->use_empty() && IsLoopInvariantInst(I
, L
))
211 I
->moveBefore(preheader
->getTerminator());
214 // Connect the preheader directly to the exit block.
215 TerminatorInst
* TI
= preheader
->getTerminator();
216 TI
->replaceUsesOfWith(L
->getHeader(), exitBlock
);
218 // Rewrite phis in the exit block to get their inputs from
219 // the preheader instead of the exiting block.
220 BasicBlock::iterator BI
= exitBlock
->begin();
221 while (PHINode
* P
= dyn_cast
<PHINode
>(BI
)) {
222 P
->replaceUsesOfWith(exitingBlock
, preheader
);
226 // Update the dominator tree and remove the instructions and blocks that will
227 // be deleted from the reference counting scheme.
228 DominatorTree
& DT
= getAnalysis
<DominatorTree
>();
229 DominanceFrontier
* DF
= getAnalysisIfAvailable
<DominanceFrontier
>();
230 SmallPtrSet
<DomTreeNode
*, 8> ChildNodes
;
231 for (Loop::block_iterator LI
= L
->block_begin(), LE
= L
->block_end();
233 // Move all of the block's children to be children of the preheader, which
234 // allows us to remove the domtree entry for the block.
235 ChildNodes
.insert(DT
[*LI
]->begin(), DT
[*LI
]->end());
236 for (SmallPtrSet
<DomTreeNode
*, 8>::iterator DI
= ChildNodes
.begin(),
237 DE
= ChildNodes
.end(); DI
!= DE
; ++DI
) {
238 DT
.changeImmediateDominator(*DI
, DT
[preheader
]);
239 if (DF
) DF
->changeImmediateDominator((*DI
)->getBlock(), preheader
, &DT
);
244 if (DF
) DF
->removeBlock(*LI
);
246 // Remove the block from the reference counting scheme, so that we can
247 // delete it freely later.
248 (*LI
)->dropAllReferences();
251 // Tell ScalarEvolution that the loop is deleted. Do this before
252 // deleting the loop so that ScalarEvolution can look at the loop
253 // to determine what it needs to clean up.
254 SE
.forgetLoopBackedgeTakenCount(L
);
256 // Erase the instructions and the blocks without having to worry
257 // about ordering because we already dropped the references.
258 // NOTE: This iteration is safe because erasing the block does not remove its
259 // entry from the loop's block list. We do that in the next section.
260 for (Loop::block_iterator LI
= L
->block_begin(), LE
= L
->block_end();
262 (*LI
)->eraseFromParent();
264 // Finally, the blocks from loopinfo. This has to happen late because
265 // otherwise our loop iterators won't work.
266 LoopInfo
& loopInfo
= getAnalysis
<LoopInfo
>();
267 SmallPtrSet
<BasicBlock
*, 8> blocks
;
268 blocks
.insert(L
->block_begin(), L
->block_end());
269 for (SmallPtrSet
<BasicBlock
*,8>::iterator I
= blocks
.begin(),
270 E
= blocks
.end(); I
!= E
; ++I
)
271 loopInfo
.removeBlock(*I
);
273 // The last step is to inform the loop pass manager that we've
274 // eliminated this loop.
275 LPM
.deleteLoopFromQueue(L
);