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+//===- LowerExpectIntrinsic.cpp - Lower expect intrinsic ------------------===//
+//
+// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
+// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+//
+// This pass lowers the 'expect' intrinsic to LLVM metadata.
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+#include "llvm/Transforms/Scalar/LowerExpectIntrinsic.h"
+#include "llvm/ADT/SmallVector.h"
+#include "llvm/ADT/Statistic.h"
+#include "llvm/ADT/iterator_range.h"
+#include "llvm/IR/BasicBlock.h"
+#include "llvm/IR/Constants.h"
+#include "llvm/IR/Function.h"
+#include "llvm/IR/Instructions.h"
+#include "llvm/IR/Intrinsics.h"
+#include "llvm/IR/LLVMContext.h"
+#include "llvm/IR/MDBuilder.h"
+#include "llvm/IR/Metadata.h"
+#include "llvm/Pass.h"
+#include "llvm/Support/CommandLine.h"
+#include "llvm/Support/Debug.h"
+#include "llvm/Transforms/Scalar.h"
+#include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/MisExpect.h"
+
+using namespace llvm;
+
+#define DEBUG_TYPE "lower-expect-intrinsic"
+
+STATISTIC(ExpectIntrinsicsHandled,
+ "Number of 'expect' intrinsic instructions handled");
+
+// These default values are chosen to represent an extremely skewed outcome for
+// a condition, but they leave some room for interpretation by later passes.
+//
+// If the documentation for __builtin_expect() was made explicit that it should
+// only be used in extreme cases, we could make this ratio higher. As it stands,
+// programmers may be using __builtin_expect() / llvm.expect to annotate that a
+// branch is likely or unlikely to be taken.
+//
+// There is a known dependency on this ratio in CodeGenPrepare when transforming
+// 'select' instructions. It may be worthwhile to hoist these values to some
+// shared space, so they can be used directly by other passes.
+
+static cl::opt<uint32_t> LikelyBranchWeight(
+ "likely-branch-weight", cl::Hidden, cl::init(2000),
+ cl::desc("Weight of the branch likely to be taken (default = 2000)"));
+static cl::opt<uint32_t> UnlikelyBranchWeight(
+ "unlikely-branch-weight", cl::Hidden, cl::init(1),
+ cl::desc("Weight of the branch unlikely to be taken (default = 1)"));
+
+static bool handleSwitchExpect(SwitchInst &SI) {
+ CallInst *CI = dyn_cast<CallInst>(SI.getCondition());
+ if (!CI)
+ return false;
+
+ Function *Fn = CI->getCalledFunction();
+ if (!Fn || Fn->getIntrinsicID() != Intrinsic::expect)
+ return false;
+
+ Value *ArgValue = CI->getArgOperand(0);
+ ConstantInt *ExpectedValue = dyn_cast<ConstantInt>(CI->getArgOperand(1));
+ if (!ExpectedValue)
+ return false;
+
+ SwitchInst::CaseHandle Case = *SI.findCaseValue(ExpectedValue);
+ unsigned n = SI.getNumCases(); // +1 for default case.
+ SmallVector<uint32_t, 16> Weights(n + 1, UnlikelyBranchWeight);
+
+ uint64_t Index = (Case == *SI.case_default()) ? 0 : Case.getCaseIndex() + 1;
+ Weights[Index] = LikelyBranchWeight;
+
+ SI.setMetadata(
+ LLVMContext::MD_misexpect,
+ MDBuilder(CI->getContext())
+ .createMisExpect(Index, LikelyBranchWeight, UnlikelyBranchWeight));
+
+ SI.setCondition(ArgValue);
+ misexpect::checkFrontendInstrumentation(SI);
+
+ SI.setMetadata(LLVMContext::MD_prof,
+ MDBuilder(CI->getContext()).createBranchWeights(Weights));
+
+ return true;
+}
+
+/// Handler for PHINodes that define the value argument to an
+/// @llvm.expect call.
+///
+/// If the operand of the phi has a constant value and it 'contradicts'
+/// with the expected value of phi def, then the corresponding incoming
+/// edge of the phi is unlikely to be taken. Using that information,
+/// the branch probability info for the originating branch can be inferred.
+static void handlePhiDef(CallInst *Expect) {
+ Value &Arg = *Expect->getArgOperand(0);
+ ConstantInt *ExpectedValue = dyn_cast<ConstantInt>(Expect->getArgOperand(1));
+ if (!ExpectedValue)
+ return;
+ const APInt &ExpectedPhiValue = ExpectedValue->getValue();
+
+ // Walk up in backward a list of instructions that
+ // have 'copy' semantics by 'stripping' the copies
+ // until a PHI node or an instruction of unknown kind
+ // is reached. Negation via xor is also handled.
+ //
+ // C = PHI(...);
+ // B = C;
+ // A = B;
+ // D = __builtin_expect(A, 0);
+ //
+ Value *V = &Arg;
+ SmallVector<Instruction *, 4> Operations;
+ while (!isa<PHINode>(V)) {
+ if (ZExtInst *ZExt = dyn_cast<ZExtInst>(V)) {
+ V = ZExt->getOperand(0);
+ Operations.push_back(ZExt);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ if (SExtInst *SExt = dyn_cast<SExtInst>(V)) {
+ V = SExt->getOperand(0);
+ Operations.push_back(SExt);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ BinaryOperator *BinOp = dyn_cast<BinaryOperator>(V);
+ if (!BinOp || BinOp->getOpcode() != Instruction::Xor)
+ return;
+
+ ConstantInt *CInt = dyn_cast<ConstantInt>(BinOp->getOperand(1));
+ if (!CInt)
+ return;
+
+ V = BinOp->getOperand(0);
+ Operations.push_back(BinOp);
+ }
+
+ // Executes the recorded operations on input 'Value'.
+ auto ApplyOperations = [&](const APInt &Value) {
+ APInt Result = Value;
+ for (auto Op : llvm::reverse(Operations)) {
+ switch (Op->getOpcode()) {
+ case Instruction::Xor:
+ Result ^= cast<ConstantInt>(Op->getOperand(1))->getValue();
+ break;
+ case Instruction::ZExt:
+ Result = Result.zext(Op->getType()->getIntegerBitWidth());
+ break;
+ case Instruction::SExt:
+ Result = Result.sext(Op->getType()->getIntegerBitWidth());
+ break;
+ default:
+ llvm_unreachable("Unexpected operation");
+ }
+ }
+ return Result;
+ };
+
+ auto *PhiDef = cast<PHINode>(V);
+
+ // Get the first dominating conditional branch of the operand
+ // i's incoming block.
+ auto GetDomConditional = [&](unsigned i) -> BranchInst * {
+ BasicBlock *BB = PhiDef->getIncomingBlock(i);
+ BranchInst *BI = dyn_cast<BranchInst>(BB->getTerminator());
+ if (BI && BI->isConditional())
+ return BI;
+ BB = BB->getSinglePredecessor();
+ if (!BB)
+ return nullptr;
+ BI = dyn_cast<BranchInst>(BB->getTerminator());
+ if (!BI || BI->isUnconditional())
+ return nullptr;
+ return BI;
+ };
+
+ // Now walk through all Phi operands to find phi oprerands with values
+ // conflicting with the expected phi output value. Any such operand
+ // indicates the incoming edge to that operand is unlikely.
+ for (unsigned i = 0, e = PhiDef->getNumIncomingValues(); i != e; ++i) {
+
+ Value *PhiOpnd = PhiDef->getIncomingValue(i);
+ ConstantInt *CI = dyn_cast<ConstantInt>(PhiOpnd);
+ if (!CI)
+ continue;
+
+ // Not an interesting case when IsUnlikely is false -- we can not infer
+ // anything useful when the operand value matches the expected phi
+ // output.
+ if (ExpectedPhiValue == ApplyOperations(CI->getValue()))
+ continue;
+
+ BranchInst *BI = GetDomConditional(i);
+ if (!BI)
+ continue;
+
+ MDBuilder MDB(PhiDef->getContext());
+
+ // There are two situations in which an operand of the PhiDef comes
+ // from a given successor of a branch instruction BI.
+ // 1) When the incoming block of the operand is the successor block;
+ // 2) When the incoming block is BI's enclosing block and the
+ // successor is the PhiDef's enclosing block.
+ //
+ // Returns true if the operand which comes from OpndIncomingBB
+ // comes from outgoing edge of BI that leads to Succ block.
+ auto *OpndIncomingBB = PhiDef->getIncomingBlock(i);
+ auto IsOpndComingFromSuccessor = [&](BasicBlock *Succ) {
+ if (OpndIncomingBB == Succ)
+ // If this successor is the incoming block for this
+ // Phi operand, then this successor does lead to the Phi.
+ return true;
+ if (OpndIncomingBB == BI->getParent() && Succ == PhiDef->getParent())
+ // Otherwise, if the edge is directly from the branch
+ // to the Phi, this successor is the one feeding this
+ // Phi operand.
+ return true;
+ return false;
+ };
+
+ if (IsOpndComingFromSuccessor(BI->getSuccessor(1)))
+ BI->setMetadata(
+ LLVMContext::MD_prof,
+ MDB.createBranchWeights(LikelyBranchWeight, UnlikelyBranchWeight));
+ else if (IsOpndComingFromSuccessor(BI->getSuccessor(0)))
+ BI->setMetadata(
+ LLVMContext::MD_prof,
+ MDB.createBranchWeights(UnlikelyBranchWeight, LikelyBranchWeight));
+ }
+}
+
+// Handle both BranchInst and SelectInst.
+template <class BrSelInst> static bool handleBrSelExpect(BrSelInst &BSI) {
+
+ // Handle non-optimized IR code like:
+ // %expval = call i64 @llvm.expect.i64(i64 %conv1, i64 1)
+ // %tobool = icmp ne i64 %expval, 0
+ // br i1 %tobool, label %if.then, label %if.end
+ //
+ // Or the following simpler case:
+ // %expval = call i1 @llvm.expect.i1(i1 %cmp, i1 1)
+ // br i1 %expval, label %if.then, label %if.end
+
+ CallInst *CI;
+
+ ICmpInst *CmpI = dyn_cast<ICmpInst>(BSI.getCondition());
+ CmpInst::Predicate Predicate;
+ ConstantInt *CmpConstOperand = nullptr;
+ if (!CmpI) {
+ CI = dyn_cast<CallInst>(BSI.getCondition());
+ Predicate = CmpInst::ICMP_NE;
+ } else {
+ Predicate = CmpI->getPredicate();
+ if (Predicate != CmpInst::ICMP_NE && Predicate != CmpInst::ICMP_EQ)
+ return false;
+
+ CmpConstOperand = dyn_cast<ConstantInt>(CmpI->getOperand(1));
+ if (!CmpConstOperand)
+ return false;
+ CI = dyn_cast<CallInst>(CmpI->getOperand(0));
+ }
+
+ if (!CI)
+ return false;
+
+ uint64_t ValueComparedTo = 0;
+ if (CmpConstOperand) {
+ if (CmpConstOperand->getBitWidth() > 64)
+ return false;
+ ValueComparedTo = CmpConstOperand->getZExtValue();
+ }
+
+ Function *Fn = CI->getCalledFunction();
+ if (!Fn || Fn->getIntrinsicID() != Intrinsic::expect)
+ return false;
+
+ Value *ArgValue = CI->getArgOperand(0);
+ ConstantInt *ExpectedValue = dyn_cast<ConstantInt>(CI->getArgOperand(1));
+ if (!ExpectedValue)
+ return false;
+
+ MDBuilder MDB(CI->getContext());
+ MDNode *Node;
+ MDNode *ExpNode;
+
+ if ((ExpectedValue->getZExtValue() == ValueComparedTo) ==
+ (Predicate == CmpInst::ICMP_EQ)) {
+ Node = MDB.createBranchWeights(LikelyBranchWeight, UnlikelyBranchWeight);
+ ExpNode = MDB.createMisExpect(0, LikelyBranchWeight, UnlikelyBranchWeight);
+ } else {
+ Node = MDB.createBranchWeights(UnlikelyBranchWeight, LikelyBranchWeight);
+ ExpNode = MDB.createMisExpect(1, LikelyBranchWeight, UnlikelyBranchWeight);
+ }
+
+ BSI.setMetadata(LLVMContext::MD_misexpect, ExpNode);
+
+ if (CmpI)
+ CmpI->setOperand(0, ArgValue);
+ else
+ BSI.setCondition(ArgValue);
+
+ misexpect::checkFrontendInstrumentation(BSI);
+
+ BSI.setMetadata(LLVMContext::MD_prof, Node);
+
+ return true;
+}
+
+static bool handleBranchExpect(BranchInst &BI) {
+ if (BI.isUnconditional())
+ return false;
+
+ return handleBrSelExpect<BranchInst>(BI);
+}
+
+static bool lowerExpectIntrinsic(Function &F) {
+ bool Changed = false;
+
+ for (BasicBlock &BB : F) {
+ // Create "block_weights" metadata.
+ if (BranchInst *BI = dyn_cast<BranchInst>(BB.getTerminator())) {
+ if (handleBranchExpect(*BI))
+ ExpectIntrinsicsHandled++;
+ } else if (SwitchInst *SI = dyn_cast<SwitchInst>(BB.getTerminator())) {
+ if (handleSwitchExpect(*SI))
+ ExpectIntrinsicsHandled++;
+ }
+
+ // Remove llvm.expect intrinsics. Iterate backwards in order
+ // to process select instructions before the intrinsic gets
+ // removed.
+ for (auto BI = BB.rbegin(), BE = BB.rend(); BI != BE;) {
+ Instruction *Inst = &*BI++;
+ CallInst *CI = dyn_cast<CallInst>(Inst);
+ if (!CI) {
+ if (SelectInst *SI = dyn_cast<SelectInst>(Inst)) {
+ if (handleBrSelExpect(*SI))
+ ExpectIntrinsicsHandled++;
+ }
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ Function *Fn = CI->getCalledFunction();
+ if (Fn && Fn->getIntrinsicID() == Intrinsic::expect) {
+ // Before erasing the llvm.expect, walk backward to find
+ // phi that define llvm.expect's first arg, and
+ // infer branch probability:
+ handlePhiDef(CI);
+ Value *Exp = CI->getArgOperand(0);
+ CI->replaceAllUsesWith(Exp);
+ CI->eraseFromParent();
+ Changed = true;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ return Changed;
+}
+
+PreservedAnalyses LowerExpectIntrinsicPass::run(Function &F,
+ FunctionAnalysisManager &) {
+ if (lowerExpectIntrinsic(F))
+ return PreservedAnalyses::none();
+
+ return PreservedAnalyses::all();
+}
+
+namespace {
+/// Legacy pass for lowering expect intrinsics out of the IR.
+///
+/// When this pass is run over a function it uses expect intrinsics which feed
+/// branches and switches to provide branch weight metadata for those
+/// terminators. It then removes the expect intrinsics from the IR so the rest
+/// of the optimizer can ignore them.
+class LowerExpectIntrinsic : public FunctionPass {
+public:
+ static char ID;
+ LowerExpectIntrinsic() : FunctionPass(ID) {
+ initializeLowerExpectIntrinsicPass(*PassRegistry::getPassRegistry());
+ }
+
+ bool runOnFunction(Function &F) override { return lowerExpectIntrinsic(F); }
+};
+}
+
+char LowerExpectIntrinsic::ID = 0;
+INITIALIZE_PASS(LowerExpectIntrinsic, "lower-expect",
+ "Lower 'expect' Intrinsics", false, false)
+
+FunctionPass *llvm::createLowerExpectIntrinsicPass() {
+ return new LowerExpectIntrinsic();
+}