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tree-ssa-dce.c File Reference
#include "config.h"
#include "system.h"
#include "coretypes.h"
#include "tm.h"
#include "tree.h"
#include "gimple-pretty-print.h"
#include "basic-block.h"
#include "gimple.h"
#include "gimple-ssa.h"
#include "tree-cfg.h"
#include "tree-phinodes.h"
#include "ssa-iterators.h"
#include "tree-ssanames.h"
#include "tree-ssa-loop-niter.h"
#include "tree-into-ssa.h"
#include "tree-dfa.h"
#include "tree-pass.h"
#include "flags.h"
#include "cfgloop.h"
#include "tree-scalar-evolution.h"
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Data Structures

struct  stmt_stats

Macros

#define STMT_NECESSARY   GF_PLF_1

Functions

static void mark_stmt_necessary ()
static void mark_operand_necessary ()
static void mark_stmt_if_obviously_necessary ()
static void mark_last_stmt_necessary ()
static void mark_control_dependent_edges_necessary ()
static void find_obviously_necessary_stmts ()
static bool ref_may_be_aliased ()
static bool mark_aliased_reaching_defs_necessary_1 ()
static void mark_aliased_reaching_defs_necessary ()
static bool mark_all_reaching_defs_necessary_1 (ao_ref *ref, tree vdef, void *data)
static void mark_all_reaching_defs_necessary ()
static bool degenerate_phi_p ()
static void propagate_necessity ()
static bool remove_dead_phis ()
static edge forward_edge_to_pdom ()
static void remove_dead_stmt ()
static bool eliminate_unnecessary_stmts ()
static void print_stats ()
static void tree_dce_init ()
static void tree_dce_done ()
static unsigned int perform_tree_ssa_dce ()
static unsigned int tree_ssa_dce ()
static unsigned int tree_ssa_dce_loop ()
static unsigned int tree_ssa_cd_dce ()
static bool gate_dce ()
gimple_opt_passmake_pass_dce ()
gimple_opt_passmake_pass_dce_loop ()
gimple_opt_passmake_pass_cd_dce ()

Variables

static struct stmt_stats stats
static vec< gimpleworklist
static sbitmap processed
static sbitmap last_stmt_necessary
static sbitmap bb_contains_live_stmts
static control_dependencescd
static sbitmap visited_control_parents
static bool cfg_altered
static bitmap visited = NULL
static unsigned int longest_chain = 0
static unsigned int total_chain = 0
static unsigned int nr_walks = 0
static bool chain_ovfl = false

Macro Definition Documentation

#define STMT_NECESSARY   GF_PLF_1

Function Documentation

static bool degenerate_phi_p ( )
static

Return true for PHI nodes with one or identical arguments can be removed.

static bool eliminate_unnecessary_stmts ( )
static

Eliminate unnecessary statements. Any instruction not marked as necessary contributes nothing to the program, and can be deleted.

 Walking basic blocks and statements in reverse order avoids
 releasing SSA names before any other DEFs that refer to them are
 released.  This helps avoid loss of debug information, as we get
 a chance to propagate all RHSs of removed SSAs into debug uses,
 rather than only the latest ones.  E.g., consider:

 x_3 = y_1 + z_2;
 a_5 = x_3 - b_4;

DEBUG a => a_5

 If we were to release x_3 before a_5, when we reached a_5 and
 tried to substitute it into the debug stmt, we'd see x_3 there,
 but x_3's DEF, type, etc would have already been disconnected.
 By going backwards, the debug stmt first changes to:

DEBUG a => x_3 - b_4

 and then to:

DEBUG a => y_1 + z_2 - b_4

 as desired.   


     Remove dead statements.   
         We can mark a call to free as not necessary if the
         defining statement of its argument is an allocation
         function and that is not necessary itself.   
         If GSI is not necessary then remove it.   
             When LHS of var = call (); is dead, simplify it into
             call (); saving one operand.   
                 Avoid doing so for allocation calls which we
                 did not mark as necessary, it will confuse the
                 special logic we apply to malloc/free pair removal.   
 Since we don't track liveness of virtual PHI nodes, it is possible that we
 rendered some PHI nodes unreachable while they are still in use.
 Mark them for renaming.   
     Delete all unreachable basic blocks in reverse dominator order.   
                 Speed up the removal of blocks that don't
                 dominate others.  Walking backwards, this should
                 be the common case.  ??? Do we need to recompute
                 dominators because of cfg_altered?   
                         Rearrangements to the CFG may have failed
                         to update the dominators tree, so that
                         formerly-dominated blocks are now
                         otherwise reachable.   
     Remove dead PHI nodes.   
static void find_obviously_necessary_stmts ( )
static

Find obviously necessary statements. These are things like most function calls, and stores to file level variables.

If EL is NULL, control statements are conservatively marked as necessary. Otherwise it contains the list of edges used by control dependence analysis.

     PHI nodes are never inherently necessary.   
     Check all statements in the block.   
 Pure and const functions are finite and thus have no infinite loops in
 them.   
 Prevent the empty possibly infinite loops from being removed.   
static edge forward_edge_to_pdom ( )
static

Forward edge E to respective POST_DOM_BB and update PHIs.

 If edge was already around, no updating is necessary.   
     We are sure that for every live PHI we are seeing control dependent BB.
     This means that we can pick any edge to duplicate PHI args from.   
         PHIs for virtuals have no control dependency relation on them.
         We are lost here and must force renaming of the symbol.   
         Dead PHI do not imply control dependency.   
         The resulting PHI if not dead can only be degenerate.   

References dump_file, print_gimple_stmt(), and TDF_SLIM.

static bool gate_dce ( )
static

References execute(), and tree_ssa_cd_dce().

gimple_opt_pass* make_pass_cd_dce ( )
gimple_opt_pass* make_pass_dce ( )
gimple_opt_pass* make_pass_dce_loop ( )
static void mark_aliased_reaching_defs_necessary ( )
static
static bool mark_aliased_reaching_defs_necessary_1 ( )
static

Worker for the walker that marks reaching definitions of REF, which is based on a non-aliased decl, necessary. It returns true whenever the defining statement of the current VDEF is a kill for REF, as no dominating may-defs are necessary for REF anymore. DATA points to the basic-block that contains the stmt that refers to REF.

 All stmts we visit are necessary.   
 If the stmt lhs kills ref, then we can stop walking.   
     The assignment is not necessarily carried out if it can throw
     and we can catch it in the current function where we could inspect
     the previous value.
     ???  We only need to care about the RHS throwing.  For aggregate
     assignments or similar calls and non-call exceptions the LHS
     might throw as well.   
     We can get MEM[symbol: sZ, index: D.8862_1] here,
     so base == refd->base does not always hold.   
         For a must-alias check we need to be able to constrain
         the accesses properly.   
         Or they need to be exactly the same.   
                  Make sure there is no induction variable involved
                  in the references (gcc.c-torture/execute/pr42142.c).
                  The simplest way is to check if the kill dominates
                  the use.   
                  But when both are in the same block we cannot
                  easily tell whether we came from a backedge
                  unless we decide to compute stmt UIDs
                  (see PR58246).   
 Otherwise keep walking.   

References ao_ref_s::max_size, and ao_ref_s::offset.

static void mark_all_reaching_defs_necessary ( )
static
static bool mark_all_reaching_defs_necessary_1 ( ao_ref ref,
tree  vdef,
void *  data 
)
static

Worker for the walker that marks reaching definitions of REF, which is not based on a non-aliased decl. For simplicity we need to end up marking all may-defs necessary that are not based on a non-aliased decl. The only job of this walker is to skip may-defs based on a non-aliased decl.

 We have to skip already visited (and thus necessary) statements
 to make the chaining work after we dropped back to simple mode.   
 We want to skip stores to non-aliased variables.   
 We want to skip statments that do not constitute stores but have
 a virtual definition.   
static void mark_control_dependent_edges_necessary ( )
static

Mark control dependent edges of BB as necessary. We have to do this only once for each basic block so we set the appropriate bit after we're done.

When IGNORE_SELF is true, ignore BB in the list of control dependences.

static void mark_last_stmt_necessary ( )
static

Mark the last statement of BB as necessary.

We actually mark the statement only if it is a control statement.

References ENTRY_BLOCK_PTR, EXECUTE_IF_SET_IN_BITMAP, EXIT_BLOCK_PTR, gcc_assert, control_dependences::get_edge(), control_dependences::get_edges_dependent_on(), basic_block_def::index, and edge_def::src.

static void mark_operand_necessary ( )
inlinestatic

Mark the statement defining operand OP as necessary.

Referenced by ref_may_be_aliased().

static void mark_stmt_if_obviously_necessary ( )
static

Mark STMT as necessary if it obviously is. Add it to the worklist if it can make other statements necessary.

If AGGRESSIVE is false, control statements are conservatively marked as necessary.

 With non-call exceptions, we have to assume that all statements could
 throw.  If a statement could throw, it can be deemed necessary.   
 Statements that are implicitly live.  Most function calls, asm
 and return statements are required.  Labels and GIMPLE_BIND nodes
 are kept because they are control flow, and we have no way of
 knowing whether they can be removed.  DCE can eliminate all the
 other statements in a block, and CFG can then remove the block
 and labels.   
       Most, but not all function calls are required.  Function calls that
       produce no result and have no side effects (i.e. const pure
       functions) are unnecessary.   
     Debug temps without a value are not useful.  ??? If we could
     easily locate the debug temp bind stmt for a use thereof,
     would could refrain from marking all debug temps here, and
     mark them only if they're used.   
     Fall through.   
 If the statement has volatile operands, it needs to be preserved.
 Same for statements that can alter control flow in unpredictable
 ways.   

References BUILT_IN_NORMAL, DECL_BUILT_IN_CLASS, DECL_FUNCTION_CODE, EDGE_COUNT, gcc_assert, gimple_assign_lhs(), gimple_assign_rhs1(), gimple_call_fndecl(), gimple_call_lhs(), gimple_debug_bind_get_var(), gimple_debug_bind_has_value_p(), gimple_debug_bind_p(), gimple_has_side_effects(), mark_stmt_necessary(), NULL_TREE, simple_goto_p(), TREE_CLOBBER_P, and TREE_CODE.

static void mark_stmt_necessary ( )
inlinestatic

If STMT is not already marked necessary, mark it, and add it to the worklist if ADD_TO_WORKLIST is true.

Referenced by mark_stmt_if_obviously_necessary().

static unsigned int perform_tree_ssa_dce ( )
static

Main routine to eliminate dead code.

AGGRESSIVE controls the aggressiveness of the algorithm. In conservative mode, we ignore control dependence and simply declare all but the most trivially dead branches necessary. This mode is fast. In aggressive mode, control dependences are taken into account, which results in more dead code elimination, but at the cost of some time.

FIXME: Aggressive mode before PRE doesn't work currently because the dominance info is not invalidated after DCE1. This is not an issue right now because we only run aggressive DCE as the last tree SSA pass, but keep this in mind when you start experimenting with pass ordering.

 Preheaders are needed for SCEV to work.
 Simple lateches and recorded exits improve chances that loop will
 proved to be finite in testcases such as in loop-15.c and loop-24.c   
     Compute control dependence.   
 We do not update postdominators, so free them unconditionally.   
 If we removed paths in the CFG, then we need to update
 dominators as well.  I haven't investigated the possibility
 of incrementally updating dominators.   
 Debugging dumps.   
static void print_stats ( )
static

Print out removed statement statistics.

static void propagate_necessity ( )
static

Propagate necessity using the operands of necessary statements. Process the uses on each statement in the worklist, and add all feeding statements which contribute to the calculation of this value to the worklist.

In conservative mode, EL is NULL.

     Take STMT from worklist.   
         Mark the last statement of the basic blocks on which the block
         containing STMT is control dependent, but only if we haven't
         already done so.   
         We do not process virtual PHI nodes nor do we track their
         necessity.   
         PHI nodes are somewhat special in that each PHI alternative has
         data and control dependencies.  All the statements feeding the
         PHI node's arguments are always necessary.  In aggressive mode,
         we also consider the control dependent edges leading to the
         predecessor block associated with each PHI alternative as
         necessary.   
         For PHI operands it matters from where the control flow arrives
         to the BB.  Consider the following example:

         a=exp1;
         b=exp2;
         if (test)
            ;
         else
            ;
         c=PHI(a,b)

         We need to mark control dependence of the empty basic blocks, since they
         contains computation of PHI operands.

         Doing so is too restrictive in the case the predecestor block is in
         the loop. Consider:

          if (b)
            {
              int i;
              for (i = 0; i<1000; ++i)
                ;
              j = 0;
            }
          return j;

         There is PHI for J in the BB containing return statement.
         In this case the control dependence of predecestor block (that is
         within the empty loop) also contains the block determining number
         of iterations of the block that would prevent removing of empty
         loop in this case.

         This scenario can be avoided by splitting critical edges.
         To save the critical edge splitting pass we identify how the control
         dependence would look like if the edge was split.

         Consider the modified CFG created from current CFG by splitting
         edge B->C.  In the postdominance tree of modified CFG, C' is
         always child of C.  There are two cases how chlids of C' can look
         like:

            1) C' is leaf

               In this case the only basic block C' is control dependent on is B.

            2) C' has single child that is B

               In this case control dependence of C' is same as control
               dependence of B in original CFG except for block B itself.
               (since C' postdominate B in modified CFG)

         Now how to decide what case happens?  There are two basic options:

            a) C postdominate B.  Then C immediately postdominate B and
               case 2 happens iff there is no other way from B to C except
               the edge B->C.

               There is other way from B to C iff there is succesor of B that
               is not postdominated by B.  Testing this condition is somewhat
               expensive, because we need to iterate all succesors of B.
               We are safe to assume that this does not happen: we will mark B
               as needed when processing the other path from B to C that is
               conrol dependent on B and marking control dependencies of B
               itself is harmless because they will be processed anyway after
               processing control statement in B.

            b) C does not postdominate B.  Always case 1 happens since there is
               path from C to exit that does not go through B and thus also C'.   
         Propagate through the operands.  Examine all the USE, VUSE and
         VDEF operands in this statement.  Mark all the statements
         which feed this statement's uses as necessary.   
         If this is a call to free which is directly fed by an
         allocation function do not mark that necessary through
         processing the argument.   
             If the pointer we free is defined by an allocation
             function do not add the call to the worklist.   
         If we dropped to simple mode make all immediately
         reachable definitions necessary.   
         For statements that may load from memory (have a VUSE) we
         have to mark all reaching (may-)definitions as necessary.
         We partition this task into two cases:
          1) explicit loads based on decls that are not aliased
          2) implicit loads (like calls) and explicit loads not
             based on decls that are not aliased (like indirect
             references or loads from globals)
         For 1) we mark all reaching may-defs as necessary, stopping
         at dominating kills.  For 2) we want to mark all dominating
         references necessary, but non-aliased ones which we handle
         in 1).  By keeping a global visited bitmap for references
         we walk for 2) we avoid quadratic behavior for those.   
             Calls to functions that are merely acting as barriers
             or that only store to memory do not make any previous
             stores necessary.   
             Calls implicitly load from memory, their arguments
             in addition may explicitly perform memory loads.   
             If this is a load mark things necessary.   
             A return statement may perform a load.   
             Inputs may perform loads.   
             The beginning of a transaction is a memory barrier.   
             ??? If we were really cool, we'd only be a barrier
             for the memories touched within the transaction.   
         If we over-used our alias oracle budget drop to simple
         mode.  The cost metric allows quadratic behavior
         (number of uses times number of may-defs queries) up to
         a constant maximal number of queries and after that falls back to
         super-linear complexity.   
             Linear in the number of may-defs.   
             Linear in the number of uses.   
static bool ref_may_be_aliased ( )
static

Return true if REF is based on an aliased base, otherwise false.

References gimple_get_lhs(), gimple_has_lhs(), mark_operand_necessary(), SSA_NAME_DEF_STMT, and TREE_CODE.

Referenced by mark_aliased_reaching_defs_necessary().

static bool remove_dead_phis ( )
static

Remove dead PHI nodes from block BB.

We do not track necessity of virtual PHI nodes. Instead do very simple dead PHI removal here.

         Virtual PHI nodes with one or identical arguments
         can be removed.   
static void remove_dead_stmt ( )
static

Remove dead statement pointed to by iterator I. Receives the basic block BB containing I so that we don't have to look it up.

 If we have determined that a conditional branch statement contributes
 nothing to the program, then we not only remove it, but we also change
 the flow graph so that the current block will simply fall-thru to its
 immediate post-dominator.  The blocks we are circumventing will be
 removed by cleanup_tree_cfg if this change in the flow graph makes them
 unreachable.   
     If edge is already there, try to use it.  This avoids need to update
     PHI nodes.  Also watch for cases where post dominator does not exists
     or is exit block.  These can happen for infinite loops as we create
     fake edges in the dominator tree.   
     The edge is no longer associated with a conditional, so it does
     not have TRUE/FALSE flags.   
     The lone outgoing edge from BB will be a fallthru edge.   
     Remove the remaining outgoing edges.   
 If this is a store into a variable that is being optimized away,
 add a debug bind stmt if possible.   

References gimple_assign_rhs1(), gimple_build_debug_bind, gsi_insert_after(), GSI_SAME_STMT, and unshare_expr().

static void tree_dce_done ( )
static

Cleanup after this pass.

static void tree_dce_init ( )
static

Initialization for this pass. Set up the used data structures.

static unsigned int tree_ssa_cd_dce ( )
static

Referenced by gate_dce().

static unsigned int tree_ssa_dce ( )
static

Pass entry points.

static unsigned int tree_ssa_dce_loop ( )
static

Variable Documentation

sbitmap bb_contains_live_stmts
static

Vector indicating that BB contains statements that are live.

control_dependences* cd
static

Before we can determine whether a control branch is dead, we need to compute which blocks are control dependent on which edges.

We expect each block to be control dependent on very few edges so we use a bitmap for each block recording its edges. An array holds the bitmap. The Ith bit in the bitmap is set if that block is dependent on the Ith edge.

Referenced by same_phi_alternatives_1().

bool cfg_altered
static

TRUE if this pass alters the CFG (by removing control statements). FALSE otherwise.

If this pass alters the CFG, then it will arrange for the dominators to be recomputed.

bool chain_ovfl = false
static
sbitmap last_stmt_necessary
static

Vector indicating that the last statement of a basic block has already been marked as necessary.

unsigned int longest_chain = 0
static
unsigned int nr_walks = 0
static
sbitmap processed
static

Vector indicating an SSA name has already been processed and marked as necessary.

struct stmt_stats stats
static
unsigned int total_chain = 0
static
sbitmap visited_control_parents
static

Vector indicating that a basic block has already had all the edges processed that it is control dependent on.

vec<gimple> worklist
static