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1 //===- SpeculativeExecution.h -----------------------------------*- C++ -*-===//
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 pass hoists instructions to enable speculative execution on
10 // targets where branches are expensive. This is aimed at GPUs. It
11 // currently works on simple if-then and if-then-else
12 // patterns.
13 //
14 // Removing branches is not the only motivation for this
15 // pass. E.g. consider this code and assume that there is no
16 // addressing mode for multiplying by sizeof(*a):
17 //
18 //   if (b > 0)
19 //     c = a[i + 1]
20 //   if (d > 0)
21 //     e = a[i + 2]
22 //
23 // turns into
24 //
25 //   p = &a[i + 1];
26 //   if (b > 0)
27 //     c = *p;
28 //   q = &a[i + 2];
29 //   if (d > 0)
30 //     e = *q;
31 //
32 // which could later be optimized to
33 //
34 //   r = &a[i];
35 //   if (b > 0)
36 //     c = r[1];
37 //   if (d > 0)
38 //     e = r[2];
39 //
40 // Later passes sink back much of the speculated code that did not enable
41 // further optimization.
42 //
43 // This pass is more aggressive than the function SpeculativeyExecuteBB in
44 // SimplifyCFG. SimplifyCFG will not speculate if no selects are introduced and
45 // it will speculate at most one instruction. It also will not speculate if
46 // there is a value defined in the if-block that is only used in the then-block.
47 // These restrictions make sense since the speculation in SimplifyCFG seems
48 // aimed at introducing cheap selects, while this pass is intended to do more
49 // aggressive speculation while counting on later passes to either capitalize on
50 // that or clean it up.
51 //
52 // If the pass was created by calling
53 // createSpeculativeExecutionIfHasBranchDivergencePass or the
54 // -spec-exec-only-if-divergent-target option is present, this pass only has an
55 // effect on targets where TargetTransformInfo::hasBranchDivergence() is true;
56 // on other targets, it is a nop.
57 //
58 // This lets you include this pass unconditionally in the IR pass pipeline, but
59 // only enable it for relevant targets.
60 //
61 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
62 #ifndef LLVM_TRANSFORMS_SCALAR_SPECULATIVEEXECUTION_H
63 #define LLVM_TRANSFORMS_SCALAR_SPECULATIVEEXECUTION_H
64 
65 #include "llvm/Analysis/TargetTransformInfo.h"
66 #include "llvm/IR/PassManager.h"
67 
68 namespace llvm {
69 class SpeculativeExecutionPass
70     : public PassInfoMixin<SpeculativeExecutionPass> {
71 public:
72   SpeculativeExecutionPass(bool OnlyIfDivergentTarget = false);
73 
74   PreservedAnalyses run(Function &F, FunctionAnalysisManager &AM);
75 
76   // Glue for old PM
77   bool runImpl(Function &F, TargetTransformInfo *TTI);
78 
79 private:
80   bool runOnBasicBlock(BasicBlock &B);
81   bool considerHoistingFromTo(BasicBlock &FromBlock, BasicBlock &ToBlock);
82 
83   // If true, this pass is a nop unless the target architecture has branch
84   // divergence.
85   const bool OnlyIfDivergentTarget = false;
86 
87   TargetTransformInfo *TTI = nullptr;
88 };
89 }
90 
91 #endif //LLVM_TRANSFORMS_SCALAR_SPECULATIVEEXECUTION_H
92