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      1 //===- PtrUseVisitor.h - InstVisitors over a pointers uses ------*- C++ -*-===//
      2 //
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      4 //
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      7 //
      8 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
      9 /// \file
     10 /// This file provides a collection of visitors which walk the (instruction)
     11 /// uses of a pointer. These visitors all provide the same essential behavior
     12 /// as an InstVisitor with similar template-based flexibility and
     13 /// implementation strategies.
     14 ///
     15 /// These can be used, for example, to quickly analyze the uses of an alloca,
     16 /// global variable, or function argument.
     17 ///
     18 /// FIXME: Provide a variant which doesn't track offsets and is cheaper.
     19 ///
     20 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
     21 
     22 #ifndef LLVM_ANALYSIS_PTRUSEVISITOR_H
     23 #define LLVM_ANALYSIS_PTRUSEVISITOR_H
     24 
     25 #include "llvm/ADT/APInt.h"
     26 #include "llvm/ADT/SmallPtrSet.h"
     27 #include "llvm/ADT/SmallVector.h"
     28 #include "llvm/IR/DataLayout.h"
     29 #include "llvm/IR/IntrinsicInst.h"
     30 #include "llvm/InstVisitor.h"
     31 #include "llvm/Support/Compiler.h"
     32 
     33 namespace llvm {
     34 
     35 namespace detail {
     36 /// \brief Implementation of non-dependent functionality for \c PtrUseVisitor.
     37 ///
     38 /// See \c PtrUseVisitor for the public interface and detailed comments about
     39 /// usage. This class is just a helper base class which is not templated and
     40 /// contains all common code to be shared between different instantiations of
     41 /// PtrUseVisitor.
     42 class PtrUseVisitorBase {
     43 public:
     44   /// \brief This class provides information about the result of a visit.
     45   ///
     46   /// After walking all the users (recursively) of a pointer, the basic
     47   /// infrastructure records some commonly useful information such as escape
     48   /// analysis and whether the visit completed or aborted early.
     49   class PtrInfo {
     50   public:
     51     PtrInfo() : AbortedInfo(0, false), EscapedInfo(0, false) {}
     52 
     53     /// \brief Reset the pointer info, clearing all state.
     54     void reset() {
     55       AbortedInfo.setPointer(0);
     56       AbortedInfo.setInt(false);
     57       EscapedInfo.setPointer(0);
     58       EscapedInfo.setInt(false);
     59     }
     60 
     61     /// \brief Did we abort the visit early?
     62     bool isAborted() const { return AbortedInfo.getInt(); }
     63 
     64     /// \brief Is the pointer escaped at some point?
     65     bool isEscaped() const { return EscapedInfo.getInt(); }
     66 
     67     /// \brief Get the instruction causing the visit to abort.
     68     /// \returns a pointer to the instruction causing the abort if one is
     69     /// available; otherwise returns null.
     70     Instruction *getAbortingInst() const { return AbortedInfo.getPointer(); }
     71 
     72     /// \brief Get the instruction causing the pointer to escape.
     73     /// \returns a pointer to the instruction which escapes the pointer if one
     74     /// is available; otherwise returns null.
     75     Instruction *getEscapingInst() const { return EscapedInfo.getPointer(); }
     76 
     77     /// \brief Mark the visit as aborted. Intended for use in a void return.
     78     /// \param I The instruction which caused the visit to abort, if available.
     79     void setAborted(Instruction *I = 0) {
     80       AbortedInfo.setInt(true);
     81       AbortedInfo.setPointer(I);
     82     }
     83 
     84     /// \brief Mark the pointer as escaped. Intended for use in a void return.
     85     /// \param I The instruction which escapes the pointer, if available.
     86     void setEscaped(Instruction *I = 0) {
     87       EscapedInfo.setInt(true);
     88       EscapedInfo.setPointer(I);
     89     }
     90 
     91     /// \brief Mark the pointer as escaped, and the visit as aborted. Intended
     92     /// for use in a void return.
     93     /// \param I The instruction which both escapes the pointer and aborts the
     94     /// visit, if available.
     95     void setEscapedAndAborted(Instruction *I = 0) {
     96       setEscaped(I);
     97       setAborted(I);
     98     }
     99 
    100   private:
    101     PointerIntPair<Instruction *, 1, bool> AbortedInfo, EscapedInfo;
    102   };
    103 
    104 protected:
    105   const DataLayout &DL;
    106 
    107   /// \name Visitation infrastructure
    108   /// @{
    109 
    110   /// \brief The info collected about the pointer being visited thus far.
    111   PtrInfo PI;
    112 
    113   /// \brief A struct of the data needed to visit a particular use.
    114   ///
    115   /// This is used to maintain a worklist fo to-visit uses. This is used to
    116   /// make the visit be iterative rather than recursive.
    117   struct UseToVisit {
    118     typedef PointerIntPair<Use *, 1, bool> UseAndIsOffsetKnownPair;
    119     UseAndIsOffsetKnownPair UseAndIsOffsetKnown;
    120     APInt Offset;
    121   };
    122 
    123   /// \brief The worklist of to-visit uses.
    124   SmallVector<UseToVisit, 8> Worklist;
    125 
    126   /// \brief A set of visited uses to break cycles in unreachable code.
    127   SmallPtrSet<Use *, 8> VisitedUses;
    128 
    129   /// @}
    130 
    131 
    132   /// \name Per-visit state
    133   /// This state is reset for each instruction visited.
    134   /// @{
    135 
    136   /// \brief The use currently being visited.
    137   Use *U;
    138 
    139   /// \brief True if we have a known constant offset for the use currently
    140   /// being visited.
    141   bool IsOffsetKnown;
    142 
    143   /// \brief The constant offset of the use if that is known.
    144   APInt Offset;
    145 
    146   /// @}
    147 
    148 
    149   /// Note that the constructor is protected because this class must be a base
    150   /// class, we can't create instances directly of this class.
    151   PtrUseVisitorBase(const DataLayout &DL) : DL(DL) {}
    152 
    153   /// \brief Enqueue the users of this instruction in the visit worklist.
    154   ///
    155   /// This will visit the users with the same offset of the current visit
    156   /// (including an unknown offset if that is the current state).
    157   void enqueueUsers(Instruction &I);
    158 
    159   /// \brief Walk the operands of a GEP and adjust the offset as appropriate.
    160   ///
    161   /// This routine does the heavy lifting of the pointer walk by computing
    162   /// offsets and looking through GEPs.
    163   bool adjustOffsetForGEP(GetElementPtrInst &GEPI);
    164 };
    165 } // end namespace detail
    166 
    167 /// \brief A base class for visitors over the uses of a pointer value.
    168 ///
    169 /// Once constructed, a user can call \c visit on a pointer value, and this
    170 /// will walk its uses and visit each instruction using an InstVisitor. It also
    171 /// provides visit methods which will recurse through any pointer-to-pointer
    172 /// transformations such as GEPs and bitcasts.
    173 ///
    174 /// During the visit, the current Use* being visited is available to the
    175 /// subclass, as well as the current offset from the original base pointer if
    176 /// known.
    177 ///
    178 /// The recursive visit of uses is accomplished with a worklist, so the only
    179 /// ordering guarantee is that an instruction is visited before any uses of it
    180 /// are visited. Note that this does *not* mean before any of its users are
    181 /// visited! This is because users can be visited multiple times due to
    182 /// multiple, different uses of pointers derived from the same base.
    183 ///
    184 /// A particular Use will only be visited once, but a User may be visited
    185 /// multiple times, once per Use. This visits may notably have different
    186 /// offsets.
    187 ///
    188 /// All visit methods on the underlying InstVisitor return a boolean. This
    189 /// return short-circuits the visit, stopping it immediately.
    190 ///
    191 /// FIXME: Generalize this for all values rather than just instructions.
    192 template <typename DerivedT>
    193 class PtrUseVisitor : protected InstVisitor<DerivedT>,
    194                       public detail::PtrUseVisitorBase {
    195   friend class InstVisitor<DerivedT>;
    196   typedef InstVisitor<DerivedT> Base;
    197 
    198 public:
    199   PtrUseVisitor(const DataLayout &DL) : PtrUseVisitorBase(DL) {}
    200 
    201   /// \brief Recursively visit the uses of the given pointer.
    202   /// \returns An info struct about the pointer. See \c PtrInfo for details.
    203   PtrInfo visitPtr(Instruction &I) {
    204     // This must be a pointer type. Get an integer type suitable to hold
    205     // offsets on this pointer.
    206     // FIXME: Support a vector of pointers.
    207     assert(I.getType()->isPointerTy());
    208     IntegerType *IntPtrTy = cast<IntegerType>(DL.getIntPtrType(I.getType()));
    209     IsOffsetKnown = true;
    210     Offset = APInt(IntPtrTy->getBitWidth(), 0);
    211     PI.reset();
    212 
    213     // Enqueue the uses of this pointer.
    214     enqueueUsers(I);
    215 
    216     // Visit all the uses off the worklist until it is empty.
    217     while (!Worklist.empty()) {
    218       UseToVisit ToVisit = Worklist.pop_back_val();
    219       U = ToVisit.UseAndIsOffsetKnown.getPointer();
    220       IsOffsetKnown = ToVisit.UseAndIsOffsetKnown.getInt();
    221       if (IsOffsetKnown)
    222         Offset = llvm_move(ToVisit.Offset);
    223 
    224       Instruction *I = cast<Instruction>(U->getUser());
    225       static_cast<DerivedT*>(this)->visit(I);
    226       if (PI.isAborted())
    227         break;
    228     }
    229     return PI;
    230   }
    231 
    232 protected:
    233   void visitStoreInst(StoreInst &SI) {
    234     if (SI.getValueOperand() == U->get())
    235       PI.setEscaped(&SI);
    236   }
    237 
    238   void visitBitCastInst(BitCastInst &BC) {
    239     enqueueUsers(BC);
    240   }
    241 
    242   void visitPtrToIntInst(PtrToIntInst &I) {
    243     PI.setEscaped(&I);
    244   }
    245 
    246   void visitGetElementPtrInst(GetElementPtrInst &GEPI) {
    247     if (GEPI.use_empty())
    248       return;
    249 
    250     // If we can't walk the GEP, clear the offset.
    251     if (!adjustOffsetForGEP(GEPI)) {
    252       IsOffsetKnown = false;
    253       Offset = APInt();
    254     }
    255 
    256     // Enqueue the users now that the offset has been adjusted.
    257     enqueueUsers(GEPI);
    258   }
    259 
    260   // No-op intrinsics which we know don't escape the pointer to to logic in
    261   // some other function.
    262   void visitDbgInfoIntrinsic(DbgInfoIntrinsic &I) {}
    263   void visitMemIntrinsic(MemIntrinsic &I) {}
    264   void visitIntrinsicInst(IntrinsicInst &II) {
    265     switch (II.getIntrinsicID()) {
    266     default:
    267       return Base::visitIntrinsicInst(II);
    268 
    269     case Intrinsic::lifetime_start:
    270     case Intrinsic::lifetime_end:
    271       return; // No-op intrinsics.
    272     }
    273   }
    274 
    275   // Generically, arguments to calls and invokes escape the pointer to some
    276   // other function. Mark that.
    277   void visitCallSite(CallSite CS) {
    278     PI.setEscaped(CS.getInstruction());
    279     Base::visitCallSite(CS);
    280   }
    281 };
    282 
    283 }
    284 
    285 #endif
    286