[Mlir-commits] [mlir] [mlir][DeadCodeAnalysis] Fix predecessors when running DeadCodeAnalysis on callable (PR #179146)

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<summary>Changes</summary>

`initializeSymbolCallables` only identifies potentially escaping functions inside a `SymbolTable` operation. If the top level operation is itself a callable, we should always treat it as escaping because we are not analysing its potential users.

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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/179146.diff


2 Files Affected:

- (modified) mlir/lib/Analysis/DataFlow/DeadCodeAnalysis.cpp (+6) 
- (added) mlir/test/Analysis/DataFlow/test-dead-code-analysis-func.mlir (+12) 


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diff --git a/mlir/lib/Analysis/DataFlow/DeadCodeAnalysis.cpp b/mlir/lib/Analysis/DataFlow/DeadCodeAnalysis.cpp
index 3ce0f94e0c6da..a71dfd3a42958 100644
--- a/mlir/lib/Analysis/DataFlow/DeadCodeAnalysis.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Analysis/DataFlow/DeadCodeAnalysis.cpp
@@ -149,6 +149,12 @@ LogicalResult DeadCodeAnalysis::initialize(Operation *top) {
            << OpWithFlags(top, OpPrintingFlags().skipRegions());
   }
 
+  // If the top level op is a callable, we cannot identify all of its callers.
+  if (auto c = dyn_cast<CallableOpInterface>(top)) {
+    auto *state = getOrCreate<PredecessorState>(getProgramPointAfter(c));
+    propagateIfChanged(state, state->setHasUnknownPredecessors());
+  }
+
   // Mark as overdefined the predecessors of symbol callables with potentially
   // unknown predecessors.
   initializeSymbolCallables(top);
diff --git a/mlir/test/Analysis/DataFlow/test-dead-code-analysis-func.mlir b/mlir/test/Analysis/DataFlow/test-dead-code-analysis-func.mlir
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..b9c1e72e5be56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mlir/test/Analysis/DataFlow/test-dead-code-analysis-func.mlir
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+// RUN: mlir-opt --pass-pipeline="builtin.module(func.func(test-dead-code-analysis))" 2>&1 %s | FileCheck %s
+
+// Test that when dead code analysis is run on a single function, we correctly
+// identify that we do not know all of the predecessors.
+// CHECK:      foo:
+// CHECK-NEXT:   region #0
+// CHECK-NEXT:     ^bb0 = live
+// CHECK-NEXT: op_preds: predecessors: (none)
+func.func @foo(%arg0: i32) -> i32
+    attributes {tag = "foo"} {
+  return {a} %arg0 : i32
+}

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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/179146


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