1 //===- TypeBasedAliasAnalysis.cpp - Type-Based Alias Analysis -------------===//
3 // The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
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8 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
10 // This file defines the TypeBasedAliasAnalysis pass, which implements
11 // metadata-based TBAA.
13 // In LLVM IR, memory does not have types, so LLVM's own type system is not
14 // suitable for doing TBAA. Instead, metadata is added to the IR to describe
15 // a type system of a higher level language. This can be used to implement
16 // typical C/C++ TBAA, but it can also be used to implement custom alias
17 // analysis behavior for other languages.
19 // The current metadata format is very simple. TBAA MDNodes have up to
20 // three fields, e.g.:
21 // !0 = metadata !{ metadata !"an example type tree" }
22 // !1 = metadata !{ metadata !"int", metadata !0 }
23 // !2 = metadata !{ metadata !"float", metadata !0 }
24 // !3 = metadata !{ metadata !"const float", metadata !2, i64 1 }
26 // The first field is an identity field. It can be any value, usually
27 // an MDString, which uniquely identifies the type. The most important
28 // name in the tree is the name of the root node. Two trees with
29 // different root node names are entirely disjoint, even if they
30 // have leaves with common names.
32 // The second field identifies the type's parent node in the tree, or
33 // is null or omitted for a root node. A type is considered to alias
34 // all of its decendents and all of its ancestors in the tree. Also,
35 // a type is considered to alias all types in other trees, so that
36 // bitcode produced from multiple front-ends is handled conservatively.
38 // If the third field is present, it's an integer which if equal to 1
39 // indicates that the type is "constant" (meaning pointsToConstantMemory
40 // should return true; see
41 // http://llvm.org/docs/AliasAnalysis.html#OtherItfs).
43 // TODO: The current metadata format doesn't support struct
44 // fields. For example:
49 // void foo(struct X *x, struct X *y, double *p) {
53 // Struct X has a double member, so the store to *x can alias the store to *p.
54 // Currently it's not possible to precisely describe all the things struct X
55 // aliases, so struct assignments must use conservative TBAA nodes. There's
56 // no scheme for attaching metadata to @llvm.memcpy yet either.
58 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
60 #include "llvm/Analysis/AliasAnalysis.h"
61 #include "llvm/Analysis/Passes.h"
62 #include "llvm/LLVMContext.h"
63 #include "llvm/Module.h"
64 #include "llvm/Metadata.h"
65 #include "llvm/Pass.h"
66 #include "llvm/Support/CommandLine.h"
69 // For testing purposes, enable TBAA only via a special option.
70 static cl::opt
<bool> EnableTBAA("enable-tbaa");
73 /// TBAANode - This is a simple wrapper around an MDNode which provides a
74 /// higher-level interface by hiding the details of how alias analysis
75 /// information is encoded in its operands.
80 TBAANode() : Node(0) {}
81 explicit TBAANode(const MDNode
*N
) : Node(N
) {}
83 /// getNode - Get the MDNode for this TBAANode.
84 const MDNode
*getNode() const { return Node
; }
86 /// getParent - Get this TBAANode's Alias tree parent.
87 TBAANode
getParent() const {
88 if (Node
->getNumOperands() < 2)
90 MDNode
*P
= dyn_cast_or_null
<MDNode
>(Node
->getOperand(1));
93 // Ok, this node has a valid parent. Return it.
97 /// TypeIsImmutable - Test if this TBAANode represents a type for objects
98 /// which are not modified (by any means) in the context where this
99 /// AliasAnalysis is relevant.
100 bool TypeIsImmutable() const {
101 if (Node
->getNumOperands() < 3)
103 ConstantInt
*CI
= dyn_cast
<ConstantInt
>(Node
->getOperand(2));
106 return CI
->getValue()[0];
112 /// TypeBasedAliasAnalysis - This is a simple alias analysis
113 /// implementation that uses TypeBased to answer queries.
114 class TypeBasedAliasAnalysis
: public ImmutablePass
,
115 public AliasAnalysis
{
117 static char ID
; // Class identification, replacement for typeinfo
118 TypeBasedAliasAnalysis() : ImmutablePass(ID
) {
119 initializeTypeBasedAliasAnalysisPass(*PassRegistry::getPassRegistry());
122 virtual void initializePass() {
123 InitializeAliasAnalysis(this);
126 /// getAdjustedAnalysisPointer - This method is used when a pass implements
127 /// an analysis interface through multiple inheritance. If needed, it
128 /// should override this to adjust the this pointer as needed for the
129 /// specified pass info.
130 virtual void *getAdjustedAnalysisPointer(const void *PI
) {
131 if (PI
== &AliasAnalysis::ID
)
132 return (AliasAnalysis
*)this;
136 bool Aliases(const MDNode
*A
, const MDNode
*B
) const;
139 virtual void getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage
&AU
) const;
140 virtual AliasResult
alias(const Location
&LocA
, const Location
&LocB
);
141 virtual bool pointsToConstantMemory(const Location
&Loc
);
142 virtual ModRefResult
getModRefInfo(ImmutableCallSite CS
,
143 const Location
&Loc
);
144 virtual ModRefResult
getModRefInfo(ImmutableCallSite CS1
,
145 ImmutableCallSite CS2
);
147 } // End of anonymous namespace
149 // Register this pass...
150 char TypeBasedAliasAnalysis::ID
= 0;
151 INITIALIZE_AG_PASS(TypeBasedAliasAnalysis
, AliasAnalysis
, "tbaa",
152 "Type-Based Alias Analysis", false, true, false)
154 ImmutablePass
*llvm::createTypeBasedAliasAnalysisPass() {
155 return new TypeBasedAliasAnalysis();
159 TypeBasedAliasAnalysis::getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage
&AU
) const {
160 AU
.setPreservesAll();
161 AliasAnalysis::getAnalysisUsage(AU
);
164 /// Aliases - Test whether the type represented by A may alias the
165 /// type represented by B.
167 TypeBasedAliasAnalysis::Aliases(const MDNode
*A
,
168 const MDNode
*B
) const {
169 // Keep track of the root node for A and B.
170 TBAANode RootA
, RootB
;
172 // Climb the tree from A to see if we reach B.
173 for (TBAANode
T(A
); ; ) {
174 if (T
.getNode() == B
)
175 // B is an ancestor of A.
184 // Climb the tree from B to see if we reach A.
185 for (TBAANode
T(B
); ; ) {
186 if (T
.getNode() == A
)
187 // A is an ancestor of B.
196 // Neither node is an ancestor of the other.
198 // If they have different roots, they're part of different potentially
199 // unrelated type systems, so we must be conservative.
200 if (RootA
.getNode() != RootB
.getNode())
203 // If they have the same root, then we've proved there's no alias.
207 AliasAnalysis::AliasResult
208 TypeBasedAliasAnalysis::alias(const Location
&LocA
,
209 const Location
&LocB
) {
211 return AliasAnalysis::alias(LocA
, LocB
);
213 // Get the attached MDNodes. If either value lacks a tbaa MDNode, we must
215 const MDNode
*AM
= LocA
.TBAATag
;
216 if (!AM
) return AliasAnalysis::alias(LocA
, LocB
);
217 const MDNode
*BM
= LocB
.TBAATag
;
218 if (!BM
) return AliasAnalysis::alias(LocA
, LocB
);
220 // If they may alias, chain to the next AliasAnalysis.
222 return AliasAnalysis::alias(LocA
, LocB
);
224 // Otherwise return a definitive result.
228 bool TypeBasedAliasAnalysis::pointsToConstantMemory(const Location
&Loc
) {
230 return AliasAnalysis::pointsToConstantMemory(Loc
);
232 const MDNode
*M
= Loc
.TBAATag
;
233 if (!M
) return AliasAnalysis::pointsToConstantMemory(Loc
);
235 // If this is an "immutable" type, we can assume the pointer is pointing
236 // to constant memory.
237 if (TBAANode(M
).TypeIsImmutable())
240 return AliasAnalysis::pointsToConstantMemory(Loc
);
243 AliasAnalysis::ModRefResult
244 TypeBasedAliasAnalysis::getModRefInfo(ImmutableCallSite CS
,
245 const Location
&Loc
) {
247 return AliasAnalysis::getModRefInfo(CS
, Loc
);
249 if (const MDNode
*L
= Loc
.TBAATag
)
250 if (const MDNode
*M
=
251 CS
.getInstruction()->getMetadata(LLVMContext::MD_tbaa
))
255 return AliasAnalysis::getModRefInfo(CS
, Loc
);
258 AliasAnalysis::ModRefResult
259 TypeBasedAliasAnalysis::getModRefInfo(ImmutableCallSite CS1
,
260 ImmutableCallSite CS2
) {
262 return AliasAnalysis::getModRefInfo(CS1
, CS2
);
264 if (const MDNode
*M1
=
265 CS1
.getInstruction()->getMetadata(LLVMContext::MD_tbaa
))
266 if (const MDNode
*M2
=
267 CS2
.getInstruction()->getMetadata(LLVMContext::MD_tbaa
))
268 if (!Aliases(M1
, M2
))
271 return AliasAnalysis::getModRefInfo(CS1
, CS2
);