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The pointsToConstantMemory() method returns true only if the memory pointed to by the memory location is globally invariant. However, the LLVM memory model also has the semantic notion of *locally-invariant*: memory that is known to be invariant for the life of the SSA value representing that pointer. The most common example of this is a pointer argument that is marked readonly noalias, which the Rust compiler frequently emits. It'd be desirable for LLVM to treat locally-invariant memory the same way as globally-invariant memory when it's safe to do so. This patch implements that, by introducing the concept of a *ModRefInfo mask*. A ModRefInfo mask is a bound on the Mod/Ref behavior of an instruction that writes to a memory location, based on the knowledge that the memory is globally-constant memory (in which case the mask is NoModRef) or locally-constant memory (in which case the mask is Ref). ModRefInfo values for an instruction can be combined with the ModRefInfo mask by simply using the & operator. Where appropriate, this patch has modified uses of pointsToConstantMemory() to instead examine the mask. The most notable optimization change I noticed with this patch is that now redundant loads from readonly noalias pointers can be eliminated across calls, even when the pointer is captured. Internally, before this patch, AliasAnalysis was assigning Ref to reads from constant memory; now AA can assign NoModRef, which is a tighter bound. Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D136659 |
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