Teach GVN to invalidate some memdep information when it does an RAUW

of a pointer.  This allows is to catch more equivalencies.  For example,
the type_lists_compatible_p function used to require two iterations of
the gvn pass (!) to delete its 18 redundant loads because the first pass
would CSE all the addressing computation cruft, which would unblock the
second memdep/gvn passes from recognizing them.  This change allows
memdep/gvn to catch all 18 when run just once on the function (as is 
typical :) instead of just 3.

On all of 403.gcc, this bumps up the # reundandancies found from:

     63 gvn    - Number of instructions PRE'd
 153991 gvn    - Number of instructions deleted
  50069 gvn    - Number of loads deleted
to:
     63 gvn    - Number of instructions PRE'd
 154137 gvn    - Number of instructions deleted
  50185 gvn    - Number of loads deleted

+120 loads deleted isn't bad.



git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@60799 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/llvm/Analysis/MemoryDependenceAnalysis.h b/include/llvm/Analysis/MemoryDependenceAnalysis.h
index ceed0ab..8a5b07e 100644
--- a/include/llvm/Analysis/MemoryDependenceAnalysis.h
+++ b/include/llvm/Analysis/MemoryDependenceAnalysis.h
@@ -243,6 +243,14 @@ namespace llvm {
     /// updating the dependence of instructions that previously depended on it.
     void removeInstruction(Instruction *InstToRemove);
     
+    /// invalidateCachedPointerInfo - This method is used to invalidate cached
+    /// information about the specified pointer, because it may be too
+    /// conservative in memdep.  This is an optional call that can be used when
+    /// the client detects an equivalence between the pointer and some other
+    /// value and replaces the other value with ptr. This can make Ptr available
+    /// in more places that cached info does not necessarily keep.
+    void invalidateCachedPointerInfo(Value *Ptr);
+    
   private:
     MemDepResult getPointerDependencyFrom(Value *Pointer, uint64_t MemSize,
                                           bool isLoad, 
@@ -260,7 +268,6 @@ namespace llvm {
                                          NonLocalDepInfo *Cache,
                                          unsigned NumSortedEntries);
 
-    
     void RemoveCachedNonLocalPointerDependencies(ValueIsLoadPair P);
     
     /// verifyRemoved - Verify that the specified instruction does not occur