[llvm] r329047 - [SCEV] Make computeExitLimit more simple and more powerful

Chandler Carruth via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Apr 24 23:56:24 PDT 2018


Passing -O1 just to the compile of trees.c from zlib results in the failure:
https://github.com/madler/zlib/blob/master/trees.c

Looking at getting a before/after diff by reverting just this patch.

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:49 PM Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Narrowing this down to a miscompile of zlib v1.2.11 which gets linked into
> Clang and which is used to compress and decompress the PCH file. This makes
> sense as the error is a corrupt zlib header.
>
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:21 PM Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Just FYI, Clang appears to continue to miscompile itself on PPC after
>> incorporating all of these fixes. I'll try narrow down what file.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 4:46 AM Maxim Kazantsev <max.kazantsev at azul.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Fix is https://reviews.llvm.org/D45945
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Maxim Kazantsev
>>> *Sent:* Monday, April 23, 2018 5:02 PM
>>> *To:* 'Chandler Carruth' <chandlerc at gmail.com>
>>> *Cc:* Kit Barton <kbarton at ca.ibm.com>; Eric Christopher <
>>> echristo at google.com>; Han Shen <shenhan at google.com>; Hal Finkel <
>>> hfinkel at anl.gov>; dlj at google.com; llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
>>>
>>>
>>> *Subject:* RE: [llvm] r329047 - [SCEV] Make computeExitLimit more
>>> simple and more powerful
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Here they have a reproducer on something that is very similar to that
>>> (and is not a duplicate): https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37205
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm going to start looking at this.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Chandler Carruth [mailto:chandlerc at gmail.com
>>> <chandlerc at gmail.com>]
>>>
>>> *Sent:* Monday, April 23, 2018 4:56 PM
>>> *To:* Maxim Kazantsev <max.kazantsev at azul.com>
>>>
>>> *Cc:* Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at gmail.com>; Kit Barton <
>>> kbarton at ca.ibm.com>; Eric Christopher <echristo at google.com>; Han Shen <
>>> shenhan at google.com>; Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov>; dlj at google.com;
>>> llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
>>>
>>>
>>> *Subject:* Re: [llvm] r329047 - [SCEV] Make computeExitLimit more
>>> simple and more powerful
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> FWIW, I think it is OK to land some of these without explicit testing
>>> given the clear evidence that they could be problematic. It should also be
>>> reasonable to add test cases reduced later from these failures if possible.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> But the easiest way for me to confirm whether these address the specific
>>> issue I've seen (but don't have a test case yet, nor know how to produce
>>> one easily) is to land the patches.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 2:34 AM Maxim Kazantsev via llvm-commits <
>>> llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> One more place of potential problem is here:
>>> https://reviews.llvm.org/D45940
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Note that I don't have a test that would prove this leads to real
>>> miscompiles, and I'm not sure how to construct it, but common sense says
>>> that invalidating parent alone is not enough.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Maxim Kazantsev
>>> *Sent:* Monday, April 23, 2018 1:05 PM
>>>
>>>
>>> *To:* 'Chandler Carruth' <chandlerc at gmail.com>; 'Kit Barton' <
>>> kbarton at ca.ibm.com>; 'Eric Christopher' <echristo at google.com>; 'Han
>>> Shen' <shenhan at google.com>; 'Hal Finkel' <hfinkel at anl.gov>; '
>>> dlj at google.com' <dlj at google.com>
>>> *Cc:* 'llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org' <llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org>
>>>
>>> *Subject:* RE: [llvm] r329047 - [SCEV] Make computeExitLimit more
>>> simple and more powerful
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> At least one of this variety is real. It seems that some passes *do*
>>> expect that only the innermost loop's cached data will be affected. I've
>>> submitted a fix for it: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45937
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I will keep looking for other issues of this kind. The symptom of the
>>> problem is that SE.verify() fails at some point (which means that its
>>> internal data is inconsistent).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope it helps,
>>>
>>> Max
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Maxim Kazantsev
>>> *Sent:* Monday, April 23, 2018 9:32 AM
>>> *To:* 'Chandler Carruth' <chandlerc at gmail.com>; 'Kit Barton' <
>>> kbarton at ca.ibm.com>; 'Eric Christopher' <echristo at google.com>; 'Han
>>> Shen' <shenhan at google.com>; 'Hal Finkel' <hfinkel at anl.gov>; '
>>> dlj at google.com' <dlj at google.com>
>>> *Cc:* 'llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org' <llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org>
>>> *Subject:* RE: [llvm] r329047 - [SCEV] Make computeExitLimit more
>>> simple and more powerful
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Actually I've started looking into the passes, and what happens in Loop
>>> Unswitching looks highly suspicious:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   if (auto *SEWP = getAnalysisIfAvailable<ScalarEvolutionWrapperPass>())
>>>
>>>     SEWP->getSE().forgetLoop(L);
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We are doing this before we start modifying the loop, in particular
>>> inserting new blocks. It is pretty much like what was happening in
>>> unrolling. I haven't yet proved that it is a bug, but it is likely to be
>>> one. If you could disable loop unswitching and check if you still observe
>>> your failure without it, it would be very useful input.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Max
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Maxim Kazantsev
>>> *Sent:* Monday, April 23, 2018 8:26 AM
>>> *To:* 'Chandler Carruth' <chandlerc at gmail.com>; Kit Barton <
>>> kbarton at ca.ibm.com>; Eric Christopher <echristo at google.com>; Han Shen <
>>> shenhan at google.com>; Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov>; dlj at google.com
>>> *Cc:* llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
>>> *Subject:* RE: [llvm] r329047 - [SCEV] Make computeExitLimit more
>>> simple and more powerful
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Chandler,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for getting me informed! I'd be happy to help to
>>> deal with this issue. Please provide exact steps for reproducing this issue
>>> once you track them down (I don't typically work with Clang and might need
>>> some links or instructions how to build the configuration you are
>>> mentioning).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> As for my suspicions (it is just a shot in the dark, I don't have solid
>>> arguments that this is exactly what is going on) is that some pass, likely
>>> close to backend, is misusing SCEV. We can end up with memory corruption if
>>> some optimization doesn't invoke "forgetLoop" for a loop it might have
>>> modified somehow. The old code could be just accidentally correct just
>>> because we could not compute anything for a loop which we failed to
>>> invalidate. In this case, it is something that must be fixed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Fortunately, there is not so many places where forgetLoop is used. I
>>> will now go through them and try to see what could be wrong in how it's
>>> done there. With the patch under suspicion, we calculate exit counts for
>>> more loops now.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Please keep me informed on what you find!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Max
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* Chandler Carruth [mailto:chandlerc at gmail.com
>>> <chandlerc at gmail.com>]
>>>
>>> *Sent:* Saturday, April 21, 2018 10:20 AM
>>> *To:* Maxim Kazantsev <max.kazantsev at azul.com>; Kit Barton <
>>> kbarton at ca.ibm.com>; Eric Christopher <echristo at google.com>; Han Shen <
>>> shenhan at google.com>; Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov>; dlj at google.com
>>>
>>> *Cc:* llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
>>> *Subject:* Re: [llvm] r329047 - [SCEV] Make computeExitLimit more
>>> simple and more powerful
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This doesn't have anything to do with ASan FWIW, that just enables -O1.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Essentially, we're seeing this test fail on a "normal" bootstrapped
>>> Clang with -O1 (or -O2) after this revision. But weirdly, the 3-stage PPC
>>> build bot isn't failing. Trying to figure out why next.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 7:20 PM Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> In case it wasn't clear, I have no reason to suspect the code in this
>>> commit is wrong. We've looked at it and the code looks totally fine.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Much more likely that it is exposing some underlying bug somewhere much
>>> like the one fixed here: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44818
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 7:19 PM Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> We're seeing a miscompile with this that is ... really frustrating to
>>> pin down.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Specifically, it appears that if you build Clang itself using a Clang
>>> built after this revision (so a stage2 Clang binary in bootstrap parlance),
>>> and specifically build Clang itself with ASan enabled targeting PPC (no
>>> other architectures we test in this way appear to be impacted), and then
>>> use that asan+ppc stage2 Clang binary to run a specific OpenMP test
>>> (clang/test/OpenMP:for_simd_codegen.cpp), that test will fail. It will
>>> specifically fail the third RUN line with the output:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> error: 'error' diagnostics seen but not expected:
>>>
>>>   (frontend): malformed or corrupted AST file: 'could not decompress
>>> embedded file contents: zlib error: Z_DATA_ERROR'
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It is possible we have a miscompiled zlib after this revision? Haven't
>>> yet pinned down whether the *write* of the PCH just above it wrote corrupt
>>> data, or the *read* failed to read perfectly correct data.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sadly, I don't have access to a PPC machine to easily reproduce this and
>>> test these things out. We just have an automated build that happens to use
>>> this configuration and spits out the failure. =/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> CC-ing various folks who may be able to help try to reproduce this
>>> usefully.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Somewhat concerning is that this is the *only* failure we've seen
>>> testing past this revision. No other platform, no other test. Doesn't fail
>>> w/o ASan, etc etc. But it also is really reliable on our end.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If anyone is trying to reproduce this, happy to chat with them on IRC
>>> and try to give the exact commands used at each stage of this.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -Chandler
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> PS: Huge props to +David Jones <dlj at google.com> for pinning down the
>>> cause of this.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 11:00 PM Max Kazantsev via llvm-commits <
>>> llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Author: mkazantsev
>>> Date: Mon Apr  2 22:57:19 2018
>>> New Revision: 329047
>>>
>>> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=329047&view=rev
>>> Log:
>>> [SCEV] Make computeExitLimit more simple and more powerful
>>>
>>> Current implementation of `computeExitLimit` has a big piece of code
>>> the only purpose of which is to prove that after the execution of this
>>> block the latch will be executed. What it currently checks is actually a
>>> subset of situations where the exiting block dominates latch.
>>>
>>> This patch replaces all these checks for simple particular cases with
>>> domination check over loop's latch which is the only necessary condition
>>> of taking the exiting block into consideration. This change allows to
>>> calculate exact loop taken count for simple loops like
>>>
>>>   for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
>>>     if (cond) {...} else {...}
>>>     if (i > 50) break;
>>>     . . .
>>>   }
>>>
>>> Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44677
>>> Reviewed By: efriedma
>>>
>>> Modified:
>>>     llvm/trunk/lib/Analysis/ScalarEvolution.cpp
>>>     llvm/trunk/test/Analysis/ScalarEvolution/exact_iter_count.ll
>>>
>>> Modified: llvm/trunk/lib/Analysis/ScalarEvolution.cpp
>>> URL:
>>> http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/lib/Analysis/ScalarEvolution.cpp?rev=329047&r1=329046&r2=329047&view=diff
>>>
>>> ==============================================================================
>>> --- llvm/trunk/lib/Analysis/ScalarEvolution.cpp (original)
>>> +++ llvm/trunk/lib/Analysis/ScalarEvolution.cpp Mon Apr  2 22:57:19 2018
>>> @@ -6884,63 +6884,12 @@ ScalarEvolution::computeBackedgeTakenCou
>>>  ScalarEvolution::ExitLimit
>>>  ScalarEvolution::computeExitLimit(const Loop *L, BasicBlock
>>> *ExitingBlock,
>>>                                        bool AllowPredicates) {
>>> -  // Okay, we've chosen an exiting block.  See what condition causes us
>>> to exit
>>> -  // at this block and remember the exit block and whether all other
>>> targets
>>> -  // lead to the loop header.
>>> -  bool MustExecuteLoopHeader = true;
>>> -  BasicBlock *Exit = nullptr;
>>> -  for (auto *SBB : successors(ExitingBlock))
>>> -    if (!L->contains(SBB)) {
>>> -      if (Exit) // Multiple exit successors.
>>> -        return getCouldNotCompute();
>>> -      Exit = SBB;
>>> -    } else if (SBB != L->getHeader()) {
>>> -      MustExecuteLoopHeader = false;
>>> -    }
>>> -
>>> -  // At this point, we know we have a conditional branch that
>>> determines whether
>>> -  // the loop is exited.  However, we don't know if the branch is
>>> executed each
>>> -  // time through the loop.  If not, then the execution count of the
>>> branch will
>>> -  // not be equal to the trip count of the loop.
>>> -  //
>>> -  // Currently we check for this by checking to see if the Exit branch
>>> goes to
>>> -  // the loop header.  If so, we know it will always execute the same
>>> number of
>>> -  // times as the loop.  We also handle the case where the exit block
>>> *is* the
>>> -  // loop header.  This is common for un-rotated loops.
>>> -  //
>>> -  // If both of those tests fail, walk up the unique predecessor chain
>>> to the
>>> -  // header, stopping if there is an edge that doesn't exit the loop.
>>> If the
>>> -  // header is reached, the execution count of the branch will be equal
>>> to the
>>> -  // trip count of the loop.
>>> -  //
>>> -  //  More extensive analysis could be done to handle more cases here.
>>> -  //
>>> -  if (!MustExecuteLoopHeader && ExitingBlock != L->getHeader()) {
>>> -    // The simple checks failed, try climbing the unique predecessor
>>> chain
>>> -    // up to the header.
>>> -    bool Ok = false;
>>> -    for (BasicBlock *BB = ExitingBlock; BB; ) {
>>> -      BasicBlock *Pred = BB->getUniquePredecessor();
>>> -      if (!Pred)
>>> -        return getCouldNotCompute();
>>> -      TerminatorInst *PredTerm = Pred->getTerminator();
>>> -      for (const BasicBlock *PredSucc : PredTerm->successors()) {
>>> -        if (PredSucc == BB)
>>> -          continue;
>>> -        // If the predecessor has a successor that isn't BB and isn't
>>> -        // outside the loop, assume the worst.
>>> -        if (L->contains(PredSucc))
>>> -          return getCouldNotCompute();
>>> -      }
>>> -      if (Pred == L->getHeader()) {
>>> -        Ok = true;
>>> -        break;
>>> -      }
>>> -      BB = Pred;
>>> -    }
>>> -    if (!Ok)
>>> -      return getCouldNotCompute();
>>> -  }
>>> +  assert(L->contains(ExitingBlock) && "Exit count for non-loop block?");
>>> +  // If our exiting block does not dominate the latch, then its
>>> connection with
>>> +  // loop's exit limit may be far from trivial.
>>> +  const BasicBlock *Latch = L->getLoopLatch();
>>> +  if (!Latch || !DT.dominates(ExitingBlock, Latch))
>>> +    return getCouldNotCompute();
>>>
>>>    bool IsOnlyExit = (L->getExitingBlock() != nullptr);
>>>    TerminatorInst *Term = ExitingBlock->getTerminator();
>>> @@ -6955,9 +6904,19 @@ ScalarEvolution::computeExitLimit(const
>>>          /*ControlsExit=*/IsOnlyExit, AllowPredicates);
>>>    }
>>>
>>> -  if (SwitchInst *SI = dyn_cast<SwitchInst>(Term))
>>> +  if (SwitchInst *SI = dyn_cast<SwitchInst>(Term)) {
>>> +    // For switch, make sure that there is a single exit from the loop.
>>> +    BasicBlock *Exit = nullptr;
>>> +    for (auto *SBB : successors(ExitingBlock))
>>> +      if (!L->contains(SBB)) {
>>> +        if (Exit) // Multiple exit successors.
>>> +          return getCouldNotCompute();
>>> +        Exit = SBB;
>>> +      }
>>> +    assert(Exit && "Exiting block must have at least one exit");
>>>      return computeExitLimitFromSingleExitSwitch(L, SI, Exit,
>>>
>>>  /*ControlsExit=*/IsOnlyExit);
>>> +  }
>>>
>>>    return getCouldNotCompute();
>>>  }
>>>
>>> Modified: llvm/trunk/test/Analysis/ScalarEvolution/exact_iter_count.ll
>>> URL:
>>> http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/test/Analysis/ScalarEvolution/exact_iter_count.ll?rev=329047&r1=329046&r2=329047&view=diff
>>>
>>> ==============================================================================
>>> --- llvm/trunk/test/Analysis/ScalarEvolution/exact_iter_count.ll
>>> (original)
>>> +++ llvm/trunk/test/Analysis/ScalarEvolution/exact_iter_count.ll Mon
>>> Apr  2 22:57:19 2018
>>> @@ -25,3 +25,37 @@ exit:
>>>  side.exit:
>>>    ret void
>>>  }
>>> +
>>> +define void @test_02(i1 %c) {
>>> +
>>> +; CHECK-LABEL: Determining loop execution counts for: @test_02
>>> +; CHECK-NEXT:  Loop %loop: <multiple exits> backedge-taken count is 50
>>> +
>>> +entry:
>>> +  br label %loop
>>> +
>>> +loop:
>>> +  %iv = phi i32 [ 0, %entry ], [ %iv.next, %backedge ]
>>> +  br i1 %c, label %if.true, label %if.false
>>> +
>>> +if.true:
>>> +  br label %merge
>>> +
>>> +if.false:
>>> +  br label %merge
>>> +
>>> +merge:
>>> +  %side.cond = icmp slt i32 %iv, 50
>>> +  br i1 %side.cond, label %backedge, label %side.exit
>>> +
>>> +backedge:
>>> +  %iv.next = add i32 %iv, 1
>>> +  %loop.cond = icmp slt i32 %iv, 100
>>> +  br i1 %loop.cond, label %loop, label %exit
>>> +
>>> +exit:
>>> +  ret void
>>> +
>>> +side.exit:
>>> +  ret void
>>> +}
>>>
>>>
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