[llvm] r185843 - Fix a SCEV update problem.

Shuxin Yang shuxin.llvm at gmail.com
Mon Jul 8 10:33:13 PDT 2013


Author: shuxin_yang
Date: Mon Jul  8 12:33:13 2013
New Revision: 185843

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=185843&view=rev
Log:
 Fix a SCEV update problem.

 The symptom is seg-fault, and the root cause is that a SCEV contains a SCEVUnknown
which has null-pointer to a llvm::Value.

 This is how the problem take place:
 ===================================
  1). In the pristine input IR, there are two relevant instrutions Op1 and Op2, 
     Op1's corresponding SCEV (denoted as SCEV(op1)) is a SCEVUnknown, and
     SCEV(Op2) contains SCEV(Op1).  None of these instructions are dead.

     Op1 : V1 = ...
     ...
     Op2 : V2 = ... // directly or indirectly (data-flow) depends on Op1
    
  2) Optimizer (LSR in my case) generates an instruction holding the equivalent
     value of Op1, making Op1 dead. 
     Op1': V1' = ...
     Op1: V1 = ... ; now dead)
     Op2 : V2 = ... //Now deps on Op1', but the SCEV(Op2) still contains SCEV(Op1)

  3) Op1 is deleted, and call-back function is called to reset 
     SCEV(Op1) to indicate it is invalid. However, SCEV(Op2) is not 
     invalidated as well.

  4) Following pass get the cached, invalid SCEV(Op2), and try to manipulate it,
     and cause segfault. 

 The fix:
 ========
 It seems there is no clean yet inexpensive fix. I write to dev-list
soliciting good solution, unforunately no ack. So, I decide to fix this 
problem in a brute-force way:

  When ScalarEvolution::getSCEV is called, check if the cached SCEV 
contains a invalid SCEVUnknow, if yes, remove the cached SCEV, and
re-evaluate the SCEV from scratch.

  I compile buch of big *.c and *.cpp, fortunately, I don't see any increase
in compile time.

 Misc:
=====
 The reduced test-case has 2357 lines of code+other-stuff, too big to commit.

 rdar://14283433

Modified:
    llvm/trunk/include/llvm/Analysis/ScalarEvolution.h
    llvm/trunk/lib/Analysis/ScalarEvolution.cpp

Modified: llvm/trunk/include/llvm/Analysis/ScalarEvolution.h
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/include/llvm/Analysis/ScalarEvolution.h?rev=185843&r1=185842&r2=185843&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- llvm/trunk/include/llvm/Analysis/ScalarEvolution.h (original)
+++ llvm/trunk/include/llvm/Analysis/ScalarEvolution.h Mon Jul  8 12:33:13 2013
@@ -545,6 +545,10 @@ namespace llvm {
     /// forgetMemoizedResults - Drop memoized information computed for S.
     void forgetMemoizedResults(const SCEV *S);
 
+    /// return false iff given SCEV contains a SCEVUnknown with NULL value-
+    /// pointer.
+    bool checkValidity(const SCEV *S) const;
+
   public:
     static char ID; // Pass identification, replacement for typeid
     ScalarEvolution();

Modified: llvm/trunk/lib/Analysis/ScalarEvolution.cpp
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/lib/Analysis/ScalarEvolution.cpp?rev=185843&r1=185842&r2=185843&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- llvm/trunk/lib/Analysis/ScalarEvolution.cpp (original)
+++ llvm/trunk/lib/Analysis/ScalarEvolution.cpp Mon Jul  8 12:33:13 2013
@@ -2715,13 +2715,51 @@ const SCEV *ScalarEvolution::getCouldNot
   return &CouldNotCompute;
 }
 
+namespace {
+  // Helper class working with SCEVTraversal to figure out if a SCEV contains
+  // a SCEVUnknown with null value-pointer. FindInvalidSCEVUnknown::FindOne
+  // is set iff if find such SCEVUnknown.
+  //
+  struct FindInvalidSCEVUnknown {
+    bool FindOne;
+    FindInvalidSCEVUnknown() { FindOne = false; }
+    bool follow(const SCEV *S) {
+      switch (S->getSCEVType()) {
+      case scConstant:
+        return false;
+      case scUnknown:
+        if(!cast<SCEVUnknown>(S)->getValue())
+          FindOne = true;
+        return false;
+      default:
+        return true;
+      }
+    }
+    bool isDone() const { return FindOne; }
+  };
+}
+
+bool ScalarEvolution::checkValidity(const SCEV *S) const {
+  FindInvalidSCEVUnknown F;
+  SCEVTraversal<FindInvalidSCEVUnknown> ST(F);
+  ST.visitAll(S);
+
+  return !F.FindOne;
+}
+
 /// getSCEV - Return an existing SCEV if it exists, otherwise analyze the
 /// expression and create a new one.
 const SCEV *ScalarEvolution::getSCEV(Value *V) {
   assert(isSCEVable(V->getType()) && "Value is not SCEVable!");
 
-  ValueExprMapType::const_iterator I = ValueExprMap.find_as(V);
-  if (I != ValueExprMap.end()) return I->second;
+  ValueExprMapType::iterator I = ValueExprMap.find_as(V);
+  if (I != ValueExprMap.end()) {
+    const SCEV *S = I->second;
+    if(checkValidity(S))
+      return S;
+    else
+      ValueExprMap.erase(I);
+  }
   const SCEV *S = createSCEV(V);
 
   // The process of creating a SCEV for V may have caused other SCEVs





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