1//===---- BDCE.cpp - Bit-tracking dead code elimination -------------------===//
2//
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
6//
7//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
8//
9// This file implements the Bit-Tracking Dead Code Elimination pass. Some
10// instructions (shifts, some ands, ors, etc.) kill some of their input bits.
11// We track these dead bits and remove instructions that compute only these
12// dead bits. We also simplify sext that generates unused extension bits,
13// converting it to a zext.
14//
15//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
16
17#include "llvm/Transforms/Scalar/BDCE.h"
18#include "llvm/ADT/SmallPtrSet.h"
19#include "llvm/ADT/SmallVector.h"
20#include "llvm/ADT/Statistic.h"
21#include "llvm/Analysis/DemandedBits.h"
22#include "llvm/Analysis/GlobalsModRef.h"
23#include "llvm/IR/IRBuilder.h"
24#include "llvm/IR/InstIterator.h"
25#include "llvm/IR/Instructions.h"
26#include "llvm/IR/PatternMatch.h"
27#include "llvm/Support/Debug.h"
28#include "llvm/Support/raw_ostream.h"
29#include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/Local.h"
30
31using namespace llvm;
32using namespace PatternMatch;
33
34#define DEBUG_TYPE "bdce"
35
36STATISTIC(NumRemoved, "Number of instructions removed (unused)");
37STATISTIC(NumSimplified, "Number of instructions trivialized (dead bits)");
38STATISTIC(NumSExt2ZExt,
39 "Number of sign extension instructions converted to zero extension");
40
41/// If an instruction is trivialized (dead), then the chain of users of that
42/// instruction may need to be cleared of assumptions that can no longer be
43/// guaranteed correct.
44static void clearAssumptionsOfUsers(Instruction *I, DemandedBits &DB) {
45 assert(I->getType()->isIntOrIntVectorTy() &&
46 "Trivializing a non-integer value?");
47
48 // If all bits of a user are demanded, then we know that nothing below that
49 // in the def-use chain needs to be changed.
50 if (DB.getDemandedBits(I).isAllOnes())
51 return;
52
53 // Initialize the worklist with eligible direct users.
54 SmallPtrSet<Instruction *, 16> Visited;
55 SmallVector<Instruction *, 16> WorkList;
56 for (User *JU : I->users()) {
57 auto *J = cast<Instruction>(Val: JU);
58 if (J->getType()->isIntOrIntVectorTy()) {
59 Visited.insert(Ptr: J);
60 WorkList.push_back(Elt: J);
61 }
62
63 // Note that we need to check for non-int types above before asking for
64 // demanded bits. Normally, the only way to reach an instruction with an
65 // non-int type is via an instruction that has side effects (or otherwise
66 // will demand its input bits). However, if we have a readnone function
67 // that returns an unsized type (e.g., void), we must avoid asking for the
68 // demanded bits of the function call's return value. A void-returning
69 // readnone function is always dead (and so we can stop walking the use/def
70 // chain here), but the check is necessary to avoid asserting.
71 }
72
73 // DFS through subsequent users while tracking visits to avoid cycles.
74 while (!WorkList.empty()) {
75 Instruction *J = WorkList.pop_back_val();
76
77 // NSW, NUW, and exact are based on operands that might have changed.
78 J->dropPoisonGeneratingAnnotations();
79
80 // We do not have to worry about llvm.assume, because it demands its
81 // operand, so trivializing can't change it.
82
83 // If all bits of a user are demanded, then we know that nothing below
84 // that in the def-use chain needs to be changed.
85 if (DB.getDemandedBits(I: J).isAllOnes())
86 continue;
87
88 for (User *KU : J->users()) {
89 auto *K = cast<Instruction>(Val: KU);
90 if (Visited.insert(Ptr: K).second && K->getType()->isIntOrIntVectorTy())
91 WorkList.push_back(Elt: K);
92 }
93 }
94}
95
96static bool bitTrackingDCE(Function &F, DemandedBits &DB) {
97 SmallVector<Instruction*, 128> Worklist;
98 bool Changed = false;
99 for (Instruction &I : instructions(F)) {
100 // If the instruction has side effects and no non-dbg uses,
101 // skip it. This way we avoid computing known bits on an instruction
102 // that will not help us.
103 if (I.mayHaveSideEffects() && I.use_empty())
104 continue;
105
106 // Remove instructions that are dead, either because they were not reached
107 // during analysis or have no demanded bits.
108 if (DB.isInstructionDead(I: &I) ||
109 (I.getType()->isIntOrIntVectorTy() && DB.getDemandedBits(I: &I).isZero() &&
110 wouldInstructionBeTriviallyDead(I: &I))) {
111 Worklist.push_back(Elt: &I);
112 Changed = true;
113 continue;
114 }
115
116 // Convert SExt into ZExt if none of the extension bits is required
117 if (SExtInst *SE = dyn_cast<SExtInst>(Val: &I)) {
118 APInt Demanded = DB.getDemandedBits(I: SE);
119 const uint32_t SrcBitSize = SE->getSrcTy()->getScalarSizeInBits();
120 auto *const DstTy = SE->getDestTy();
121 const uint32_t DestBitSize = DstTy->getScalarSizeInBits();
122 if (Demanded.countl_zero() >= (DestBitSize - SrcBitSize)) {
123 clearAssumptionsOfUsers(I: SE, DB);
124 IRBuilder<> Builder(SE);
125 I.replaceAllUsesWith(
126 V: Builder.CreateZExt(V: SE->getOperand(i_nocapture: 0), DestTy: DstTy, Name: SE->getName()));
127 Worklist.push_back(Elt: SE);
128 Changed = true;
129 NumSExt2ZExt++;
130 continue;
131 }
132 }
133
134 // Simplify and, or, xor when their mask does not affect the demanded bits.
135 if (auto *BO = dyn_cast<BinaryOperator>(Val: &I)) {
136 APInt Demanded = DB.getDemandedBits(I: BO);
137 if (!Demanded.isAllOnes()) {
138 const APInt *Mask;
139 if (match(V: BO->getOperand(i_nocapture: 1), P: m_APInt(Res&: Mask))) {
140 bool CanBeSimplified = false;
141 switch (BO->getOpcode()) {
142 case Instruction::Or:
143 case Instruction::Xor:
144 CanBeSimplified = !Demanded.intersects(RHS: *Mask);
145 break;
146 case Instruction::And:
147 CanBeSimplified = Demanded.isSubsetOf(RHS: *Mask);
148 break;
149 default:
150 // TODO: Handle more cases here.
151 break;
152 }
153
154 if (CanBeSimplified) {
155 clearAssumptionsOfUsers(I: BO, DB);
156 BO->replaceAllUsesWith(V: BO->getOperand(i_nocapture: 0));
157 Worklist.push_back(Elt: BO);
158 ++NumSimplified;
159 Changed = true;
160 continue;
161 }
162 }
163 }
164 }
165
166 for (Use &U : I.operands()) {
167 // DemandedBits only detects dead integer uses.
168 if (!U->getType()->isIntOrIntVectorTy())
169 continue;
170
171 if (!isa<Instruction>(Val: U) && !isa<Argument>(Val: U))
172 continue;
173
174 if (!DB.isUseDead(U: &U))
175 continue;
176
177 LLVM_DEBUG(dbgs() << "BDCE: Trivializing: " << U << " (all bits dead)\n");
178
179 clearAssumptionsOfUsers(I: &I, DB);
180
181 // Substitute all uses with zero. In theory we could use `freeze poison`
182 // instead, but that seems unlikely to be profitable.
183 U.set(ConstantInt::get(Ty: U->getType(), V: 0));
184 ++NumSimplified;
185 Changed = true;
186 }
187 }
188
189 for (Instruction *&I : llvm::reverse(C&: Worklist)) {
190 salvageDebugInfo(I&: *I);
191 I->dropAllReferences();
192 }
193
194 for (Instruction *&I : Worklist) {
195 ++NumRemoved;
196 I->eraseFromParent();
197 }
198
199 return Changed;
200}
201
202PreservedAnalyses BDCEPass::run(Function &F, FunctionAnalysisManager &AM) {
203 auto &DB = AM.getResult<DemandedBitsAnalysis>(IR&: F);
204 if (!bitTrackingDCE(F, DB))
205 return PreservedAnalyses::all();
206
207 PreservedAnalyses PA;
208 PA.preserveSet<CFGAnalyses>();
209 return PA;
210}
211

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