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| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | <title>Writing an LLVM Pass</title> | 
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| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 10 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | <div class="doc_title"> | 
|  | 12 | Writing an LLVM Pass | 
|  | 13 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 14 |  | 
|  | 15 | <ol> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | <li><a href="#introduction">Introduction - What is a pass?</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | <li><a href="#quickstart">Quick Start - Writing hello world</a> | 
|  | 18 | <ul> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | <li><a href="#makefile">Setting up the build environment</a></li> | 
|  | 20 | <li><a href="#basiccode">Basic code required</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | <li><a href="#running">Running a pass with <tt>opt</tt> | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e4be6f | 2004-09-18 06:39:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | or <tt>analyze</tt></a></li> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | </ul></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | <li><a href="#passtype">Pass classes and requirements</a> | 
|  | 25 | <ul> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | <li><a href="#ImmutablePass">The <tt>ImmutablePass</tt> class</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 3c11c04 | 2004-09-20 04:36:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | <li><a href="#ModulePass">The <tt>ModulePass</tt> class</a> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 3c11c04 | 2004-09-20 04:36:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | <li><a href="#runOnModule">The <tt>runOnModule</tt> method</a></li> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | </ul></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e4be6f | 2004-09-18 06:39:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | <li><a href="#CallGraphSCCPass">The <tt>CallGraphSCCPass</tt> class</a> | 
|  | 32 | <ul> | 
|  | 33 | <li><a href="#doInitialization_scc">The <tt>doInitialization(Module | 
|  | 34 | &)</tt> method</a></li> | 
|  | 35 | <li><a href="#runOnSCC">The <tt>runOnSCC</tt> method</a></li> | 
|  | 36 | <li><a href="#doFinalization_scc">The <tt>doFinalization(Module | 
|  | 37 | &)</tt> method</a></li> | 
|  | 38 | </ul></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | <li><a href="#FunctionPass">The <tt>FunctionPass</tt> class</a> | 
|  | 40 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 5e08e70f | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | <li><a href="#doInitialization_mod">The <tt>doInitialization(Module | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | &)</tt> method</a></li> | 
|  | 43 | <li><a href="#runOnFunction">The <tt>runOnFunction</tt> method</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 5e08e70f | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | <li><a href="#doFinalization_mod">The <tt>doFinalization(Module | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | &)</tt> method</a></li> | 
|  | 46 | </ul></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | <li><a href="#BasicBlockPass">The <tt>BasicBlockPass</tt> class</a> | 
|  | 48 | <ul> | 
| Chris Lattner | 5e08e70f | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 49 | <li><a href="#doInitialization_fn">The <tt>doInitialization(Function | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 50 | &)</tt> method</a></li> | 
|  | 51 | <li><a href="#runOnBasicBlock">The <tt>runOnBasicBlock</tt> | 
|  | 52 | method</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 5e08e70f | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | <li><a href="#doFinalization_fn">The <tt>doFinalization(Function | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 54 | &)</tt> method</a></li> | 
|  | 55 | </ul></li> | 
| Brian Gaeke | 110f07b | 2003-07-17 18:53:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 56 | <li><a href="#MachineFunctionPass">The <tt>MachineFunctionPass</tt> | 
|  | 57 | class</a> | 
| Brian Gaeke | 673ef4d | 2003-07-22 20:53:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 58 | <ul> | 
|  | 59 | <li><a href="#runOnMachineFunction">The | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 60 | <tt>runOnMachineFunction(MachineFunction &)</tt> method</a></li> | 
|  | 61 | </ul></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 62 | </ul> | 
|  | 63 | <li><a href="#registration">Pass Registration</a> | 
|  | 64 | <ul> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 65 | <li><a href="#print">The <tt>print</tt> method</a></li> | 
|  | 66 | </ul></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 67 | <li><a href="#interaction">Specifying interactions between passes</a> | 
|  | 68 | <ul> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 69 | <li><a href="#getAnalysisUsage">The <tt>getAnalysisUsage</tt> | 
|  | 70 | method</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 71 | <li><a href="#AU::addRequired">The <tt>AnalysisUsage::addRequired<></tt> and <tt>AnalysisUsage::addRequiredTransitive<></tt> methods</a></li> | 
|  | 72 | <li><a href="#AU::addPreserved">The <tt>AnalysisUsage::addPreserved<></tt> method</a></li> | 
|  | 73 | <li><a href="#AU::examples">Example implementations of <tt>getAnalysisUsage</tt></a></li> | 
|  | 74 | <li><a href="#getAnalysis">The <tt>getAnalysis<></tt> and <tt>getAnalysisToUpdate<></tt> methods</a></li> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 75 | </ul></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 76 | <li><a href="#analysisgroup">Implementing Analysis Groups</a> | 
|  | 77 | <ul> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 78 | <li><a href="#agconcepts">Analysis Group Concepts</a></li> | 
|  | 79 | <li><a href="#registerag">Using <tt>RegisterAnalysisGroup</tt></a></li> | 
|  | 80 | </ul></li> | 
| Tanya Lattner | fb966ba | 2004-11-19 01:25:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 81 | <li><a href="#passStatistics">Pass Statistics</a> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 82 | <li><a href="#passmanager">What PassManager does</a> | 
|  | 83 | <ul> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 84 | <li><a href="#releaseMemory">The <tt>releaseMemory</tt> method</a></li> | 
|  | 85 | </ul></li> | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 86 | <li><a href="#registering">Registering dynamically loaded passes</a> | 
|  | 87 | <ul> | 
|  | 88 | <li><a href="#registering_existing">Using existing registries</a></li> | 
|  | 89 | <li><a href="#registering_new">Creating new registries</a></li> | 
|  | 90 | </ul></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 91 | <li><a href="#debughints">Using GDB with dynamically loaded passes</a> | 
|  | 92 | <ul> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 93 | <li><a href="#breakpoint">Setting a breakpoint in your pass</a></li> | 
|  | 94 | <li><a href="#debugmisc">Miscellaneous Problems</a></li> | 
|  | 95 | </ul></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 96 | <li><a href="#future">Future extensions planned</a> | 
|  | 97 | <ul> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 98 | <li><a href="#SMP">Multithreaded LLVM</a></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 3c11c04 | 2004-09-20 04:36:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 99 | <li><a href="#PassFunctionPass"><tt>ModulePass</tt>es requiring | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 100 | <tt>FunctionPass</tt>es</a></li> | 
|  | 101 | </ul></li> | 
|  | 102 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 56d9e22 | 2002-08-08 20:23:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 103 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 020e1fc | 2004-05-23 21:07:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 104 | <div class="doc_author"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 4bde9fb | 2006-08-11 16:37:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 105 | <p>Written by <a href="mailto:sabre@nondot.org">Chris Lattner</a> and | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 106 | <a href="mailto:jlaskey@apple.com">Jim Laskey</a></p> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 107 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 108 |  | 
|  | 109 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 110 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
|  | 111 | <a name="introduction">Introduction - What is a pass?</a> | 
|  | 112 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 113 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 114 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 115 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 116 |  | 
|  | 117 | <p>The LLVM Pass Framework is an important part of the LLVM system, because LLVM | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e4be6f | 2004-09-18 06:39:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 118 | passes are where most of the interesting parts of the compiler exist.  Passes | 
|  | 119 | perform the transformations and optimizations that make up the compiler, they | 
|  | 120 | build the analysis results that are used by these transformations, and they are, | 
|  | 121 | above all, a structuring technique for compiler code.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 122 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 123 | <p>All LLVM passes are subclasses of the <tt><a | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 124 | href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1Pass.html">Pass</a></tt> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 125 | class, which implement functionality by overriding virtual methods inherited | 
| Chris Lattner | 3c11c04 | 2004-09-20 04:36:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 126 | from <tt>Pass</tt>.  Depending on how your pass works, you should inherit from | 
|  | 127 | the <tt><a href="#ModulePass">ModulePass</a></tt>, <tt><a | 
|  | 128 | href="#CallGraphSCCPass">CallGraphSCCPass</a></tt>, <tt><a | 
|  | 129 | href="#FunctionPass">FunctionPass</a></tt>, or <tt><a | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e4be6f | 2004-09-18 06:39:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 130 | href="#BasicBlockPass">BasicBlockPass</a></tt> classes, which gives the system | 
|  | 131 | more information about what your pass does, and how it can be combined with | 
|  | 132 | other passes.  One of the main features of the LLVM Pass Framework is that it | 
|  | 133 | schedules passes to run in an efficient way based on the constraints that your | 
|  | 134 | pass meets (which are indicated by which class they derive from).</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 135 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 136 | <p>We start by showing you how to construct a pass, everything from setting up | 
|  | 137 | the code, to compiling, loading, and executing it.  After the basics are down, | 
|  | 138 | more advanced features are discussed.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 139 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 140 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 141 |  | 
|  | 142 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 143 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
|  | 144 | <a name="quickstart">Quick Start - Writing hello world</a> | 
|  | 145 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 146 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 147 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 148 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 149 |  | 
|  | 150 | <p>Here we describe how to write the "hello world" of passes.  The "Hello" pass | 
|  | 151 | is designed to simply print out the name of non-external functions that exist in | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e4be6f | 2004-09-18 06:39:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 152 | the program being compiled.  It does not modify the program at all, it just | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 153 | inspects it.  The source code and files for this pass are available in the LLVM | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 154 | source tree in the <tt>lib/Transforms/Hello</tt> directory.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 155 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 156 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 157 |  | 
|  | 158 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 159 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 160 | <a name="makefile">Setting up the build environment</a> | 
|  | 161 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 162 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 163 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 164 |  | 
| Reid Spencer | a179968 | 2004-12-11 05:12:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 165 | <p>First, you need to create a new directory somewhere in the LLVM source | 
|  | 166 | base.  For this example, we'll assume that you made | 
|  | 167 | <tt>lib/Transforms/Hello</tt>.  Next, you must set up a build script | 
|  | 168 | (Makefile) that will compile the source code for the new pass.  To do this, | 
|  | 169 | copy the following into <tt>Makefile</tt>:</p> | 
|  | 170 | <hr/> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 171 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 172 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 173 | # Makefile for hello pass | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 174 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | eb4ba3c | 2002-08-14 20:06:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 175 | # Path to top level of LLVM heirarchy | 
| Chris Lattner | 0c5e293 | 2002-08-14 20:07:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 176 | LEVEL = ../../.. | 
| Chris Lattner | eb4ba3c | 2002-08-14 20:06:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 177 |  | 
|  | 178 | # Name of the library to build | 
| Reid Spencer | 4a1ab18 | 2005-01-11 05:16:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 179 | LIBRARYNAME = Hello | 
| Chris Lattner | eb4ba3c | 2002-08-14 20:06:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 180 |  | 
| Reid Spencer | 4a1ab18 | 2005-01-11 05:16:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 181 | # Make the shared library become a loadable module so the tools can | 
|  | 182 | # dlopen/dlsym on the resulting library. | 
| Robert Bocchino | 19cbea1 | 2006-01-06 22:49:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 183 | LOADABLE_MODULE = 1 | 
| Reid Spencer | 4a1ab18 | 2005-01-11 05:16:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 184 |  | 
| Reid Spencer | 197d7bf | 2006-08-08 01:48:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 185 | # Tell the build system which LLVM libraries your pass needs. You'll probably | 
|  | 186 | # need at least LLVMSystem.a, LLVMSupport.a, LLVMCore.a but possibly several | 
|  | 187 | # others too. | 
|  | 188 | LLVMLIBS = LLVMCore.a LLVMSupport.a LLVMSystem.a | 
|  | 189 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | eb4ba3c | 2002-08-14 20:06:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 190 | # Include the makefile implementation stuff | 
|  | 191 | include $(LEVEL)/Makefile.common | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 192 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 193 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 194 | <p>This makefile specifies that all of the <tt>.cpp</tt> files in the current | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 195 | directory are to be compiled and linked together into a | 
| Reid Spencer | 4a1ab18 | 2005-01-11 05:16:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 196 | <tt>Debug/lib/Hello.so</tt> shared object that can be dynamically loaded by | 
|  | 197 | the <tt>opt</tt> or <tt>analyze</tt> tools via their <tt>-load</tt> options. | 
|  | 198 | If your operating system uses a suffix other than .so (such as windows or | 
|  | 199 | Mac OS/X), the appropriate extension will be used.</p> | 
| John Criswell | 2edea84 | 2004-01-26 21:26:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 200 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 201 | <p>Now that we have the build scripts set up, we just need to write the code for | 
|  | 202 | the pass itself.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 203 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 204 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 205 |  | 
|  | 206 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 207 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 208 | <a name="basiccode">Basic code required</a> | 
|  | 209 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 210 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 211 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 212 |  | 
|  | 213 | <p>Now that we have a way to compile our new pass, we just have to write it. | 
|  | 214 | Start out with:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 215 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 216 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 217 | <b>#include</b> "<a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/Pass_8h-source.html">llvm/Pass.h</a>" | 
|  | 218 | <b>#include</b> "<a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/Function_8h-source.html">llvm/Function.h</a>" | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 219 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 220 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 221 | <p>Which are needed because we are writing a <tt><a | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 222 | href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1Pass.html">Pass</a></tt>, and | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 223 | we are operating on <tt><a | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 224 | href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1Function.html">Function</a></tt>'s.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 225 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 226 | <p>Next we have:</p> | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 227 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Jonathan Manton | aff4a6a | 2004-06-30 18:10:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 228 | <b>using namespace llvm;</b> | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 229 | </pre></div> | 
| Jonathan Manton | aff4a6a | 2004-06-30 18:10:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 230 | <p>... which is required because the functions from the include files | 
|  | 231 | live in the llvm namespace. | 
|  | 232 | </p> | 
|  | 233 |  | 
|  | 234 | <p>Next we have:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 235 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 236 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 237 | <b>namespace</b> { | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 238 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 239 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 240 | <p>... which starts out an anonymous namespace.  Anonymous namespaces are to C++ | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 241 | what the "<tt>static</tt>" keyword is to C (at global scope).  It makes the | 
|  | 242 | things declared inside of the anonymous namespace only visible to the current | 
|  | 243 | file.  If you're not familiar with them, consult a decent C++ book for more | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 244 | information.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 245 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 246 | <p>Next, we declare our pass itself:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 247 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 248 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 249 | <b>struct</b> Hello : <b>public</b> <a href="#FunctionPass">FunctionPass</a> { | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 250 | </pre></div><p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 251 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 252 | <p>This declares a "<tt>Hello</tt>" class that is a subclass of <tt><a | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 253 | href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1FunctionPass.html">FunctionPass</a></tt>. | 
| Chris Lattner | a818d92 | 2002-09-09 03:48:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 254 | The different builtin pass subclasses are described in detail <a | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 255 | href="#passtype">later</a>, but for now, know that <a | 
|  | 256 | href="#FunctionPass"><tt>FunctionPass</tt></a>'s operate a function at a | 
|  | 257 | time.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 258 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 259 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 260 | <b>virtual bool</b> <a href="#runOnFunction">runOnFunction</a>(Function &F) { | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 261 | std::cerr << "<i>Hello: </i>" << F.getName() << "\n"; | 
|  | 262 | <b>return false</b>; | 
|  | 263 | } | 
|  | 264 | };  <i>// end of struct Hello</i> | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 265 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 266 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 267 | <p>We declare a "<a href="#runOnFunction"><tt>runOnFunction</tt></a>" method, | 
|  | 268 | which overloads an abstract virtual method inherited from <a | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 269 | href="#FunctionPass"><tt>FunctionPass</tt></a>.  This is where we are supposed | 
|  | 270 | to do our thing, so we just print out our message with the name of each | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 271 | function.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 272 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 273 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 274 | RegisterOpt<Hello> X("<i>hello</i>", "<i>Hello World Pass</i>"); | 
|  | 275 | }  <i>// end of anonymous namespace</i> | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 276 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 277 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 278 | <p>Lastly, we register our class <tt>Hello</tt>, giving it a command line | 
|  | 279 | argument "<tt>hello</tt>", and a name "<tt>Hello World Pass</tt>".  There are | 
|  | 280 | several different ways of <a href="#registration">registering your pass</a>, | 
|  | 281 | depending on what it is to be used for.  For "optimizations" we use the | 
|  | 282 | <tt>RegisterOpt</tt> template.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 283 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 284 | <p>As a whole, the <tt>.cpp</tt> file looks like:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 285 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 286 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 287 | <b>#include</b> "<a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/Pass_8h-source.html">llvm/Pass.h</a>" | 
|  | 288 | <b>#include</b> "<a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/Function_8h-source.html">llvm/Function.h</a>" | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 289 |  | 
| Jonathan Manton | aff4a6a | 2004-06-30 18:10:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 290 | <b>using namespace llvm;</b> | 
|  | 291 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 292 | <b>namespace</b> { | 
|  | 293 | <b>struct Hello</b> : <b>public</b> <a href="#FunctionPass">FunctionPass</a> { | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 294 | <b>virtual bool</b> <a href="#runOnFunction">runOnFunction</a>(Function &F) { | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 295 | std::cerr << "<i>Hello: </i>" << F.getName() << "\n"; | 
|  | 296 | <b>return false</b>; | 
|  | 297 | } | 
|  | 298 | }; | 
|  | 299 |  | 
|  | 300 | RegisterOpt<Hello> X("<i>hello</i>", "<i>Hello World Pass</i>"); | 
|  | 301 | } | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 302 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 303 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 304 | <p>Now that it's all together, compile the file with a simple "<tt>gmake</tt>" | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 305 | command in the local directory and you should get a new | 
| Reid Spencer | 4a1ab18 | 2005-01-11 05:16:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 306 | "<tt>Debug/lib/Hello.so</tt> file.  Note that everything in this file is | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 307 | contained in an anonymous namespace: this reflects the fact that passes are self | 
|  | 308 | contained units that do not need external interfaces (although they can have | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 309 | them) to be useful.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 310 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 311 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 312 |  | 
|  | 313 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 314 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 315 | <a name="running">Running a pass with <tt>opt</tt> or <tt>analyze</tt></a> | 
|  | 316 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 317 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 318 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 319 |  | 
| John Criswell | 2edea84 | 2004-01-26 21:26:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 320 | <p>Now that you have a brand new shiny shared object file, we can use the | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 321 | <tt>opt</tt> command to run an LLVM program through your pass.  Because you | 
|  | 322 | registered your pass with the <tt>RegisterOpt</tt> template, you will be able to | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 323 | use the <tt>opt</tt> tool to access it, once loaded.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 324 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 325 | <p>To test it, follow the example at the end of the <a | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 326 | href="GettingStarted.html">Getting Started Guide</a> to compile "Hello World" to | 
|  | 327 | LLVM.  We can now run the bytecode file (<tt>hello.bc</tt>) for the program | 
|  | 328 | through our transformation like this (or course, any bytecode file will | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 329 | work):</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 330 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 331 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Reid Spencer | 4a1ab18 | 2005-01-11 05:16:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 332 | $ opt -load ../../../Debug/lib/Hello.so -hello < hello.bc > /dev/null | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 333 | Hello: __main | 
|  | 334 | Hello: puts | 
|  | 335 | Hello: main | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 336 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 337 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 338 | <p>The '<tt>-load</tt>' option specifies that '<tt>opt</tt>' should load your | 
|  | 339 | pass as a shared object, which makes '<tt>-hello</tt>' a valid command line | 
|  | 340 | argument (which is one reason you need to <a href="#registration">register your | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 341 | pass</a>).  Because the hello pass does not modify the program in any | 
|  | 342 | interesting way, we just throw away the result of <tt>opt</tt> (sending it to | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 343 | <tt>/dev/null</tt>).</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 344 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 345 | <p>To see what happened to the other string you registered, try running | 
|  | 346 | <tt>opt</tt> with the <tt>--help</tt> option:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 347 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 348 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Reid Spencer | 4a1ab18 | 2005-01-11 05:16:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 349 | $ opt -load ../../../Debug/lib/Hello.so --help | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 350 | OVERVIEW: llvm .bc -> .bc modular optimizer | 
|  | 351 |  | 
|  | 352 | USAGE: opt [options] <input bytecode> | 
|  | 353 |  | 
|  | 354 | OPTIONS: | 
|  | 355 | Optimizations available: | 
|  | 356 | ... | 
|  | 357 | -funcresolve    - Resolve Functions | 
|  | 358 | -gcse           - Global Common Subexpression Elimination | 
|  | 359 | -globaldce      - Dead Global Elimination | 
|  | 360 | <b>-hello          - Hello World Pass</b> | 
| Chris Lattner | 216c7b8 | 2003-09-10 05:29:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 361 | -indvars        - Canonicalize Induction Variables | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 362 | -inline         - Function Integration/Inlining | 
|  | 363 | -instcombine    - Combine redundant instructions | 
|  | 364 | ... | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 365 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 366 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 367 | <p>The pass name get added as the information string for your pass, giving some | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 368 | documentation to users of <tt>opt</tt>.  Now that you have a working pass, you | 
|  | 369 | would go ahead and make it do the cool transformations you want.  Once you get | 
|  | 370 | it all working and tested, it may become useful to find out how fast your pass | 
|  | 371 | is.  The <a href="#passManager"><tt>PassManager</tt></a> provides a nice command | 
|  | 372 | line option (<tt>--time-passes</tt>) that allows you to get information about | 
|  | 373 | the execution time of your pass along with the other passes you queue up.  For | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 374 | example:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 375 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 376 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Reid Spencer | 4a1ab18 | 2005-01-11 05:16:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 377 | $ opt -load ../../../Debug/lib/Hello.so -hello -time-passes < hello.bc > /dev/null | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 378 | Hello: __main | 
|  | 379 | Hello: puts | 
|  | 380 | Hello: main | 
|  | 381 | =============================================================================== | 
|  | 382 | ... Pass execution timing report ... | 
|  | 383 | =============================================================================== | 
|  | 384 | Total Execution Time: 0.02 seconds (0.0479059 wall clock) | 
|  | 385 |  | 
|  | 386 | ---User Time---   --System Time--   --User+System--   ---Wall Time---  --- Pass Name --- | 
|  | 387 | 0.0100 (100.0%)   0.0000 (  0.0%)   0.0100 ( 50.0%)   0.0402 ( 84.0%)  Bytecode Writer | 
|  | 388 | 0.0000 (  0.0%)   0.0100 (100.0%)   0.0100 ( 50.0%)   0.0031 (  6.4%)  Dominator Set Construction | 
|  | 389 | 0.0000 (  0.0%)   0.0000 (  0.0%)   0.0000 (  0.0%)   0.0013 (  2.7%)  Module Verifier | 
|  | 390 | <b>  0.0000 (  0.0%)   0.0000 (  0.0%)   0.0000 (  0.0%)   0.0033 (  6.9%)  Hello World Pass</b> | 
|  | 391 | 0.0100 (100.0%)   0.0100 (100.0%)   0.0200 (100.0%)   0.0479 (100.0%)  TOTAL | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 392 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 393 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 394 | <p>As you can see, our implementation above is pretty fast :).  The additional | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 395 | passes listed are automatically inserted by the '<tt>opt</tt>' tool to verify | 
|  | 396 | that the LLVM emitted by your pass is still valid and well formed LLVM, which | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 397 | hasn't been broken somehow.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 398 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 399 | <p>Now that you have seen the basics of the mechanics behind passes, we can talk | 
|  | 400 | about some more details of how they work and how to use them.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 401 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 402 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 403 |  | 
|  | 404 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 405 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
|  | 406 | <a name="passtype">Pass classes and requirements</a> | 
|  | 407 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 408 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 409 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 410 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 411 |  | 
|  | 412 | <p>One of the first things that you should do when designing a new pass is to | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 413 | decide what class you should subclass for your pass.  The <a | 
|  | 414 | href="#basiccode">Hello World</a> example uses the <tt><a | 
|  | 415 | href="#FunctionPass">FunctionPass</a></tt> class for its implementation, but we | 
|  | 416 | did not discuss why or when this should occur.  Here we talk about the classes | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 417 | available, from the most general to the most specific.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 418 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 419 | <p>When choosing a superclass for your Pass, you should choose the <b>most | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 420 | specific</b> class possible, while still being able to meet the requirements | 
| Misha Brukman | 7eb05a1 | 2003-08-18 14:43:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 421 | listed.  This gives the LLVM Pass Infrastructure information necessary to | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 422 | optimize how passes are run, so that the resultant compiler isn't unneccesarily | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 423 | slow.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 424 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 425 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 426 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 9720dda | 2002-09-25 22:31:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 427 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 428 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 429 | <a name="ImmutablePass">The <tt>ImmutablePass</tt> class</a> | 
|  | 430 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 9720dda | 2002-09-25 22:31:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 431 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 432 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 433 |  | 
|  | 434 | <p>The most plain and boring type of pass is the "<tt><a | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 435 | href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1ImmutablePass.html">ImmutablePass</a></tt>" | 
| Chris Lattner | 9720dda | 2002-09-25 22:31:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 436 | class.  This pass type is used for passes that do not have to be run, do not | 
|  | 437 | change state, and never need to be updated.  This is not a normal type of | 
|  | 438 | transformation or analysis, but can provide information about the current | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 439 | compiler configuration.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 9720dda | 2002-09-25 22:31:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 440 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 441 | <p>Although this pass class is very infrequently used, it is important for | 
| Chris Lattner | 9720dda | 2002-09-25 22:31:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 442 | providing information about the current target machine being compiled for, and | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 443 | other static information that can affect the various transformations.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 9720dda | 2002-09-25 22:31:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 444 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 445 | <p><tt>ImmutablePass</tt>es never invalidate other transformations, are never | 
|  | 446 | invalidated, and are never "run".</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 9720dda | 2002-09-25 22:31:38 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 447 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 448 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 449 |  | 
|  | 450 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 451 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 3c11c04 | 2004-09-20 04:36:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 452 | <a name="ModulePass">The <tt>ModulePass</tt> class</a> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 453 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 454 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 455 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 456 |  | 
|  | 457 | <p>The "<tt><a | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 458 | href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1ModulePass.html">ModulePass</a></tt>" | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 459 | class is the most general of all superclasses that you can use.  Deriving from | 
| Chris Lattner | 3c11c04 | 2004-09-20 04:36:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 460 | <tt>ModulePass</tt> indicates that your pass uses the entire program as a unit, | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 461 | refering to function bodies in no predictable order, or adding and removing | 
| Chris Lattner | 3c11c04 | 2004-09-20 04:36:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 462 | functions.  Because nothing is known about the behavior of <tt>ModulePass</tt> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 463 | subclasses, no optimization can be done for their execution.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 464 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 3c11c04 | 2004-09-20 04:36:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 465 | <p>To write a correct <tt>ModulePass</tt> subclass, derive from | 
|  | 466 | <tt>ModulePass</tt> and overload the <tt>runOnModule</tt> method with the | 
|  | 467 | following signature:</p> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 468 |  | 
|  | 469 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 470 |  | 
|  | 471 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 472 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 3c11c04 | 2004-09-20 04:36:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 473 | <a name="runOnModule">The <tt>runOnModule</tt> method</a> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 474 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 475 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 476 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 477 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 478 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 3c11c04 | 2004-09-20 04:36:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 479 | <b>virtual bool</b> runOnModule(Module &M) = 0; | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 480 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 481 |  | 
| John Criswell | a3f5110 | 2005-07-15 19:25:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 482 | <p>The <tt>runOnModule</tt> method performs the interesting work of the pass. | 
|  | 483 | It should return true if the module was modified by the transformation and | 
|  | 484 | false otherwise.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 485 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 486 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 487 |  | 
|  | 488 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 489 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e4be6f | 2004-09-18 06:39:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 490 | <a name="CallGraphSCCPass">The <tt>CallGraphSCCPass</tt> class</a> | 
|  | 491 | </div> | 
|  | 492 |  | 
|  | 493 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 494 |  | 
|  | 495 | <p>The "<tt><a | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 496 | href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1CallGraphSCCPass.html">CallGraphSCCPass</a></tt>" | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e4be6f | 2004-09-18 06:39:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 497 | is used by passes that need to traverse the program bottom-up on the call graph | 
|  | 498 | (callees before callers).  Deriving from CallGraphSCCPass provides some | 
|  | 499 | mechanics for building and traversing the CallGraph, but also allows the system | 
|  | 500 | to optimize execution of CallGraphSCCPass's.  If your pass meets the | 
|  | 501 | requirements outlined below, and doesn't meet the requirements of a <tt><a | 
|  | 502 | href="#FunctionPass">FunctionPass</a></tt> or <tt><a | 
|  | 503 | href="#BasicBlockPass">BasicBlockPass</a></tt>, you should derive from | 
|  | 504 | <tt>CallGraphSCCPass</tt>.</p> | 
|  | 505 |  | 
|  | 506 | <p><b>TODO</b>: explain briefly what SCC, Tarjan's algo, and B-U mean.</p> | 
|  | 507 |  | 
|  | 508 | <p>To be explicit, <tt>CallGraphSCCPass</tt> subclasses are:</p> | 
|  | 509 |  | 
|  | 510 | <ol> | 
|  | 511 |  | 
|  | 512 | <li>... <em>not allowed</em> to modify any <tt>Function</tt>s that are not in | 
|  | 513 | the current SCC.</li> | 
|  | 514 |  | 
|  | 515 | <li>... <em>allowed</em> to inspect any Function's other than those in the | 
|  | 516 | current SCC and the direct callees of the SCC.</li> | 
|  | 517 |  | 
|  | 518 | <li>... <em>required</em> to preserve the current CallGraph object, updating it | 
|  | 519 | to reflect any changes made to the program.</li> | 
|  | 520 |  | 
|  | 521 | <li>... <em>not allowed</em> to add or remove SCC's from the current Module, | 
|  | 522 | though they may change the contents of an SCC.</li> | 
|  | 523 |  | 
|  | 524 | <li>... <em>allowed</em> to add or remove global variables from the current | 
|  | 525 | Module.</li> | 
|  | 526 |  | 
|  | 527 | <li>... <em>allowed</em> to maintain state across invocations of | 
|  | 528 | <a href="#runOnSCC"><tt>runOnSCC</tt></a> (including global data).</li> | 
|  | 529 | </ol> | 
|  | 530 |  | 
|  | 531 | <p>Implementing a <tt>CallGraphSCCPass</tt> is slightly tricky in some cases | 
|  | 532 | because it has to handle SCCs with more than one node in it.  All of the virtual | 
|  | 533 | methods described below should return true if they modified the program, or | 
|  | 534 | false if they didn't.</p> | 
|  | 535 |  | 
|  | 536 | </div> | 
|  | 537 |  | 
|  | 538 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
|  | 539 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 540 | <a name="doInitialization_scc">The <tt>doInitialization(Module &)</tt> | 
|  | 541 | method</a> | 
|  | 542 | </div> | 
|  | 543 |  | 
|  | 544 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 545 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 546 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e4be6f | 2004-09-18 06:39:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 547 | <b>virtual bool</b> doInitialization(Module &M); | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 548 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e4be6f | 2004-09-18 06:39:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 549 |  | 
|  | 550 | <p>The <tt>doIninitialize</tt> method is allowed to do most of the things that | 
|  | 551 | <tt>CallGraphSCCPass</tt>'s are not allowed to do.  They can add and remove | 
|  | 552 | functions, get pointers to functions, etc.  The <tt>doInitialization</tt> method | 
|  | 553 | is designed to do simple initialization type of stuff that does not depend on | 
|  | 554 | the SCCs being processed.  The <tt>doInitialization</tt> method call is not | 
|  | 555 | scheduled to overlap with any other pass executions (thus it should be very | 
|  | 556 | fast).</p> | 
|  | 557 |  | 
|  | 558 | </div> | 
|  | 559 |  | 
|  | 560 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
|  | 561 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 562 | <a name="runOnSCC">The <tt>runOnSCC</tt> method</a> | 
|  | 563 | </div> | 
|  | 564 |  | 
|  | 565 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 566 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 567 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e4be6f | 2004-09-18 06:39:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 568 | <b>virtual bool</b> runOnSCC(const std::vector<CallGraphNode *> &SCCM) = 0; | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 569 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e4be6f | 2004-09-18 06:39:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 570 |  | 
|  | 571 | <p>The <tt>runOnSCC</tt> method performs the interesting work of the pass, and | 
|  | 572 | should return true if the module was modified by the transformation, false | 
|  | 573 | otherwise.</p> | 
|  | 574 |  | 
|  | 575 | </div> | 
|  | 576 |  | 
|  | 577 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
|  | 578 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 579 | <a name="doFinalization_scc">The <tt>doFinalization(Module | 
|  | 580 | &)</tt> method</a> | 
|  | 581 | </div> | 
|  | 582 |  | 
|  | 583 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 584 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 585 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e4be6f | 2004-09-18 06:39:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 586 | <b>virtual bool</b> doFinalization(Module &M); | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 587 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 9e4be6f | 2004-09-18 06:39:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 588 |  | 
|  | 589 | <p>The <tt>doFinalization</tt> method is an infrequently used method that is | 
|  | 590 | called when the pass framework has finished calling <a | 
|  | 591 | href="#runOnFunction"><tt>runOnFunction</tt></a> for every function in the | 
|  | 592 | program being compiled.</p> | 
|  | 593 |  | 
|  | 594 | </div> | 
|  | 595 |  | 
|  | 596 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
|  | 597 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 598 | <a name="FunctionPass">The <tt>FunctionPass</tt> class</a> | 
|  | 599 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 600 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 601 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 602 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 3c11c04 | 2004-09-20 04:36:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 603 | <p>In contrast to <tt>ModulePass</tt> subclasses, <tt><a | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 604 | href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1Pass.html">FunctionPass</a></tt> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 605 | subclasses do have a predictable, local behavior that can be expected by the | 
|  | 606 | system.  All <tt>FunctionPass</tt> execute on each function in the program | 
| Misha Brukman | be372b9 | 2003-08-21 22:14:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 607 | independent of all of the other functions in the program. | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 608 | <tt>FunctionPass</tt>'s do not require that they are executed in a particular | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 609 | order, and <tt>FunctionPass</tt>'s do not modify external functions.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 610 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 611 | <p>To be explicit, <tt>FunctionPass</tt> subclasses are not allowed to:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 612 |  | 
|  | 613 | <ol> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 614 | <li>Modify a Function other than the one currently being processed.</li> | 
|  | 615 | <li>Add or remove Function's from the current Module.</li> | 
|  | 616 | <li>Add or remove global variables from the current Module.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 617 | <li>Maintain state across invocations of | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 618 | <a href="#runOnFunction"><tt>runOnFunction</tt></a> (including global data)</li> | 
|  | 619 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 620 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 621 | <p>Implementing a <tt>FunctionPass</tt> is usually straightforward (See the <a | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 622 | href="#basiccode">Hello World</a> pass for example).  <tt>FunctionPass</tt>'s | 
|  | 623 | may overload three virtual methods to do their work.  All of these methods | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 624 | should return true if they modified the program, or false if they didn't.</p> | 
|  | 625 |  | 
|  | 626 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 627 |  | 
|  | 628 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 629 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 630 | <a name="doInitialization_mod">The <tt>doInitialization(Module &)</tt> | 
|  | 631 | method</a> | 
|  | 632 | </div> | 
|  | 633 |  | 
|  | 634 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 635 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 636 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 637 | <b>virtual bool</b> doInitialization(Module &M); | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 638 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 639 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 640 | <p>The <tt>doIninitialize</tt> method is allowed to do most of the things that | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 641 | <tt>FunctionPass</tt>'s are not allowed to do.  They can add and remove | 
| Chris Lattner | 5e08e70f | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 642 | functions, get pointers to functions, etc.  The <tt>doInitialization</tt> method | 
|  | 643 | is designed to do simple initialization type of stuff that does not depend on | 
|  | 644 | the functions being processed.  The <tt>doInitialization</tt> method call is not | 
|  | 645 | scheduled to overlap with any other pass executions (thus it should be very | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 646 | fast).</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 647 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 648 | <p>A good example of how this method should be used is the <a | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 649 | href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/LowerAllocations_8cpp-source.html">LowerAllocations</a> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 650 | pass.  This pass converts <tt>malloc</tt> and <tt>free</tt> instructions into | 
| Misha Brukman | be372b9 | 2003-08-21 22:14:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 651 | platform dependent <tt>malloc()</tt> and <tt>free()</tt> function calls.  It | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 652 | uses the <tt>doInitialization</tt> method to get a reference to the malloc and | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 653 | free functions that it needs, adding prototypes to the module if necessary.</p> | 
|  | 654 |  | 
|  | 655 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 656 |  | 
|  | 657 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 658 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 659 | <a name="runOnFunction">The <tt>runOnFunction</tt> method</a> | 
|  | 660 | </div> | 
|  | 661 |  | 
|  | 662 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 663 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 664 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 665 | <b>virtual bool</b> runOnFunction(Function &F) = 0; | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 666 | </pre></div><p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 667 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 668 | <p>The <tt>runOnFunction</tt> method must be implemented by your subclass to do | 
|  | 669 | the transformation or analysis work of your pass.  As usual, a true value should | 
|  | 670 | be returned if the function is modified.</p> | 
|  | 671 |  | 
|  | 672 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 673 |  | 
|  | 674 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 675 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 676 | <a name="doFinalization_mod">The <tt>doFinalization(Module | 
|  | 677 | &)</tt> method</a> | 
|  | 678 | </div> | 
|  | 679 |  | 
|  | 680 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 681 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 682 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 683 | <b>virtual bool</b> doFinalization(Module &M); | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 684 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 685 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 686 | <p>The <tt>doFinalization</tt> method is an infrequently used method that is | 
|  | 687 | called when the pass framework has finished calling <a | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 688 | href="#runOnFunction"><tt>runOnFunction</tt></a> for every function in the | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 689 | program being compiled.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 690 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 691 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 692 |  | 
|  | 693 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 694 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 695 | <a name="BasicBlockPass">The <tt>BasicBlockPass</tt> class</a> | 
|  | 696 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 697 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 698 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 699 |  | 
|  | 700 | <p><tt>BasicBlockPass</tt>'s are just like <a | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 701 | href="#FunctionPass"><tt>FunctionPass</tt></a>'s, except that they must limit | 
|  | 702 | their scope of inspection and modification to a single basic block at a time. | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 703 | As such, they are <b>not</b> allowed to do any of the following:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 704 |  | 
|  | 705 | <ol> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 706 | <li>Modify or inspect any basic blocks outside of the current one</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 707 | <li>Maintain state across invocations of | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 708 | <a href="#runOnBasicBlock"><tt>runOnBasicBlock</tt></a></li> | 
| Reid Spencer | a179968 | 2004-12-11 05:12:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 709 | <li>Modify the control flow graph (by altering terminator instructions)</li> | 
|  | 710 | <li>Any of the things forbidden for | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 711 | <a href="#FunctionPass"><tt>FunctionPass</tt></a>es.</li> | 
|  | 712 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 713 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 714 | <p><tt>BasicBlockPass</tt>es are useful for traditional local and "peephole" | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 715 | optimizations.  They may override the same <a | 
| Chris Lattner | 5e08e70f | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 716 | href="#doInitialization_mod"><tt>doInitialization(Module &)</tt></a> and <a | 
|  | 717 | href="#doFinalization_mod"><tt>doFinalization(Module &)</tt></a> methods that <a | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 718 | href="#FunctionPass"><tt>FunctionPass</tt></a>'s have, but also have the following virtual methods that may also be implemented:</p> | 
|  | 719 |  | 
|  | 720 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 5e08e70f | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 721 |  | 
|  | 722 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 723 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 724 | <a name="doInitialization_fn">The <tt>doInitialization(Function | 
|  | 725 | &)</tt> method</a> | 
|  | 726 | </div> | 
|  | 727 |  | 
|  | 728 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 5e08e70f | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 729 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 730 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 5e08e70f | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 731 | <b>virtual bool</b> doInitialization(Function &F); | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 732 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 5e08e70f | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 733 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 734 | <p>The <tt>doIninitialize</tt> method is allowed to do most of the things that | 
| Chris Lattner | 5e08e70f | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 735 | <tt>BasicBlockPass</tt>'s are not allowed to do, but that | 
|  | 736 | <tt>FunctionPass</tt>'s can.  The <tt>doInitialization</tt> method is designed | 
| Reid Spencer | a179968 | 2004-12-11 05:12:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 737 | to do simple initialization that does not depend on the | 
| Chris Lattner | 5e08e70f | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 738 | BasicBlocks being processed.  The <tt>doInitialization</tt> method call is not | 
|  | 739 | scheduled to overlap with any other pass executions (thus it should be very | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 740 | fast).</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 5e08e70f | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 741 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 742 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 743 |  | 
|  | 744 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 745 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 746 | <a name="runOnBasicBlock">The <tt>runOnBasicBlock</tt> method</a> | 
|  | 747 | </div> | 
|  | 748 |  | 
|  | 749 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 750 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 751 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 752 | <b>virtual bool</b> runOnBasicBlock(BasicBlock &BB) = 0; | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 753 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 754 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 755 | <p>Override this function to do the work of the <tt>BasicBlockPass</tt>.  This | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 756 | function is not allowed to inspect or modify basic blocks other than the | 
|  | 757 | parameter, and are not allowed to modify the CFG.  A true value must be returned | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 758 | if the basic block is modified.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 759 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 760 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 761 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 5e08e70f | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 762 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 763 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 764 | <a name="doFinalization_fn">The <tt>doFinalization(Function &)</tt> | 
|  | 765 | method</a> | 
|  | 766 | </div> | 
|  | 767 |  | 
|  | 768 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 5e08e70f | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 769 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 770 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 5e08e70f | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 771 | <b>virtual bool</b> doFinalization(Function &F); | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 772 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 5e08e70f | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 773 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 774 | <p>The <tt>doFinalization</tt> method is an infrequently used method that is | 
|  | 775 | called when the pass framework has finished calling <a | 
| Chris Lattner | 5e08e70f | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 776 | href="#runOnBasicBlock"><tt>runOnBasicBlock</tt></a> for every BasicBlock in the | 
|  | 777 | program being compiled.  This can be used to perform per-function | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 778 | finalization.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 5e08e70f | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 779 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 780 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 5e08e70f | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 781 |  | 
| Brian Gaeke | 110f07b | 2003-07-17 18:53:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 782 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 783 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 784 | <a name="MachineFunctionPass">The <tt>MachineFunctionPass</tt> class</a> | 
|  | 785 | </div> | 
| Brian Gaeke | 110f07b | 2003-07-17 18:53:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 786 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 787 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 788 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 789 | <p>A <tt>MachineFunctionPass</tt> is a part of the LLVM code generator that | 
|  | 790 | executes on the machine-dependent representation of each LLVM function in the | 
|  | 791 | program.  A <tt>MachineFunctionPass</tt> is also a <tt>FunctionPass</tt>, so all | 
| Brian Gaeke | 110f07b | 2003-07-17 18:53:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 792 | the restrictions that apply to a <tt>FunctionPass</tt> also apply to it. | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 793 | <tt>MachineFunctionPass</tt>es also have additional restrictions. In particular, | 
|  | 794 | <tt>MachineFunctionPass</tt>es are not allowed to do any of the following:</p> | 
| Brian Gaeke | 110f07b | 2003-07-17 18:53:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 795 |  | 
|  | 796 | <ol> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 797 | <li>Modify any LLVM Instructions, BasicBlocks or Functions.</li> | 
|  | 798 | <li>Modify a MachineFunction other than the one currently being processed.</li> | 
|  | 799 | <li>Add or remove MachineFunctions from the current Module.</li> | 
|  | 800 | <li>Add or remove global variables from the current Module.</li> | 
|  | 801 | <li>Maintain state across invocations of <a | 
|  | 802 | href="#runOnMachineFunction"><tt>runOnMachineFunction</tt></a> (including global | 
|  | 803 | data)</li> | 
|  | 804 | </ol> | 
| Brian Gaeke | 110f07b | 2003-07-17 18:53:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 805 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 806 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 5e08e70f | 2002-09-12 17:06:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 807 |  | 
| Brian Gaeke | 673ef4d | 2003-07-22 20:53:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 808 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 809 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 810 | <a name="runOnMachineFunction">The <tt>runOnMachineFunction(MachineFunction | 
|  | 811 | &MF)</tt> method</a> | 
|  | 812 | </div> | 
|  | 813 |  | 
|  | 814 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Brian Gaeke | 673ef4d | 2003-07-22 20:53:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 815 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 816 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Brian Gaeke | 673ef4d | 2003-07-22 20:53:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 817 | <b>virtual bool</b> runOnMachineFunction(MachineFunction &MF) = 0; | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 818 | </pre></div> | 
| Brian Gaeke | 673ef4d | 2003-07-22 20:53:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 819 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 820 | <p><tt>runOnMachineFunction</tt> can be considered the main entry point of a | 
|  | 821 | <tt>MachineFunctionPass</tt>; that is, you should override this method to do the | 
|  | 822 | work of your <tt>MachineFunctionPass</tt>.</p> | 
| Brian Gaeke | 673ef4d | 2003-07-22 20:53:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 823 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 824 | <p>The <tt>runOnMachineFunction</tt> method is called on every | 
| Brian Gaeke | 673ef4d | 2003-07-22 20:53:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 825 | <tt>MachineFunction</tt> in a <tt>Module</tt>, so that the | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 826 | <tt>MachineFunctionPass</tt> may perform optimizations on the machine-dependent | 
|  | 827 | representation of the function. If you want to get at the LLVM <tt>Function</tt> | 
|  | 828 | for the <tt>MachineFunction</tt> you're working on, use | 
|  | 829 | <tt>MachineFunction</tt>'s <tt>getFunction()</tt> accessor method -- but | 
|  | 830 | remember, you may not modify the LLVM <tt>Function</tt> or its contents from a | 
|  | 831 | <tt>MachineFunctionPass</tt>.</p> | 
|  | 832 |  | 
|  | 833 | </div> | 
| Brian Gaeke | 673ef4d | 2003-07-22 20:53:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 834 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 835 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 836 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
|  | 837 | <a name="registration">Pass registration</a> | 
|  | 838 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 839 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 840 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 841 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 842 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 843 | <p>In the <a href="#basiccode">Hello World</a> example pass we illustrated how | 
|  | 844 | pass registration works, and discussed some of the reasons that it is used and | 
|  | 845 | what it does.  Here we discuss how and why passes are registered.</p> | 
|  | 846 |  | 
|  | 847 | <p>Passes can be registered in several different ways.  Depending on the general | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 848 | classification of the pass, you should use one of the following templates to | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 849 | register the pass:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 850 |  | 
|  | 851 | <ul> | 
|  | 852 | <li><b><tt>RegisterOpt</tt></b> - This template should be used when you are | 
|  | 853 | registering a pass that logically should be available for use in the | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 854 | '<tt>opt</tt>' utility.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 855 |  | 
|  | 856 | <li><b><tt>RegisterAnalysis</tt></b> - This template should be used when you are | 
|  | 857 | registering a pass that logically should be available for use in the | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 858 | '<tt>analyze</tt>' utility.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 859 |  | 
|  | 860 | <li><b><tt>RegisterPass</tt></b> - This is the generic form of the | 
|  | 861 | <tt>Register*</tt> templates that should be used if you want your pass listed by | 
|  | 862 | multiple or no utilities.  This template takes an extra third argument that | 
|  | 863 | specifies which tools it should be listed in.  See the <a | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 864 | href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/PassSupport_8h-source.html">PassSupport.h</a> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 865 | file for more information.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 866 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 867 | </ul> | 
|  | 868 |  | 
|  | 869 | <p>Regardless of how you register your pass, you must specify at least two | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 870 | parameters.  The first parameter is the name of the pass that is to be used on | 
|  | 871 | the command line to specify that the pass should be added to a program (for | 
|  | 872 | example <tt>opt</tt> or <tt>analyze</tt>).  The second argument is the name of | 
|  | 873 | the pass, which is to be used for the <tt>--help</tt> output of programs, as | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 874 | well as for debug output generated by the <tt>--debug-pass</tt> option.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 875 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 876 | <p>If a pass is registered to be used by the <tt>analyze</tt> utility, you | 
|  | 877 | should implement the virtual <tt>print</tt> method:</p> | 
|  | 878 |  | 
|  | 879 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 880 |  | 
|  | 881 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 882 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 883 | <a name="print">The <tt>print</tt> method</a> | 
|  | 884 | </div> | 
|  | 885 |  | 
|  | 886 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 887 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 888 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 889 | <b>virtual void</b> print(std::ostream &O, <b>const</b> Module *M) <b>const</b>; | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 890 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 891 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 892 | <p>The <tt>print</tt> method must be implemented by "analyses" in order to print | 
|  | 893 | a human readable version of the analysis results.  This is useful for debugging | 
|  | 894 | an analysis itself, as well as for other people to figure out how an analysis | 
|  | 895 | works.  The <tt>analyze</tt> tool uses this method to generate its output.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 896 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 897 | <p>The <tt>ostream</tt> parameter specifies the stream to write the results on, | 
|  | 898 | and the <tt>Module</tt> parameter gives a pointer to the top level module of the | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 899 | program that has been analyzed.  Note however that this pointer may be null in | 
|  | 900 | certain circumstances (such as calling the <tt>Pass::dump()</tt> from a | 
|  | 901 | debugger), so it should only be used to enhance debug output, it should not be | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 902 | depended on.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 903 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 904 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 905 |  | 
|  | 906 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 907 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
|  | 908 | <a name="interaction">Specifying interactions between passes</a> | 
|  | 909 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 910 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 911 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 912 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 913 |  | 
|  | 914 | <p>One of the main responsibilities of the <tt>PassManager</tt> is the make sure | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 915 | that passes interact with each other correctly.  Because <tt>PassManager</tt> | 
|  | 916 | tries to <a href="#passmanager">optimize the execution of passes</a> it must | 
|  | 917 | know how the passes interact with each other and what dependencies exist between | 
|  | 918 | the various passes.  To track this, each pass can declare the set of passes that | 
|  | 919 | are required to be executed before the current pass, and the passes which are | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 920 | invalidated by the current pass.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 921 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 922 | <p>Typically this functionality is used to require that analysis results are | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 923 | computed before your pass is run.  Running arbitrary transformation passes can | 
|  | 924 | invalidate the computed analysis results, which is what the invalidation set | 
|  | 925 | specifies.  If a pass does not implement the <tt><a | 
|  | 926 | href="#getAnalysisUsage">getAnalysisUsage</a></tt> method, it defaults to not | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 927 | having any prerequisite passes, and invalidating <b>all</b> other passes.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 928 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 929 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 930 |  | 
|  | 931 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 932 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 933 | <a name="getAnalysisUsage">The <tt>getAnalysisUsage</tt> method</a> | 
|  | 934 | </div> | 
|  | 935 |  | 
|  | 936 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 937 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 938 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 939 | <b>virtual void</b> getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage &Info) <b>const</b>; | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 940 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 941 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 942 | <p>By implementing the <tt>getAnalysisUsage</tt> method, the required and | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 943 | invalidated sets may be specified for your transformation.  The implementation | 
|  | 944 | should fill in the <tt><a | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 945 | href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1AnalysisUsage.html">AnalysisUsage</a></tt> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 946 | object with information about which passes are required and not invalidated.  To | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 947 | do this, a pass may call any of the following methods on the AnalysisUsage | 
|  | 948 | object:</p> | 
|  | 949 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 950 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 951 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
|  | 952 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 953 | <a name="AU::addRequired">The <tt>AnalysisUsage::addRequired<></tt> and <tt>AnalysisUsage::addRequiredTransitive<></tt> methods</a> | 
|  | 954 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 955 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 956 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 957 | <p> | 
| Reid Spencer | a179968 | 2004-12-11 05:12:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 958 | If your pass requires a previous pass to be executed (an analysis for example), | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 959 | it can use one of these methods to arrange for it to be run before your pass. | 
|  | 960 | LLVM has many different types of analyses and passes that can be required, | 
| Reid Spencer | a179968 | 2004-12-11 05:12:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 961 | spanning the range from <tt>DominatorSet</tt> to <tt>BreakCriticalEdges</tt>. | 
|  | 962 | Requiring <tt>BreakCriticalEdges</tt>, for example, guarantees that there will | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 963 | be no critical edges in the CFG when your pass has been run. | 
|  | 964 | </p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 965 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 966 | <p> | 
|  | 967 | Some analyses chain to other analyses to do their job.  For example, an <a | 
|  | 968 | href="AliasAnalysis.html">AliasAnalysis</a> implementation is required to <a | 
|  | 969 | href="AliasAnalysis.html#chaining">chain</a> to other alias analysis passes.  In | 
|  | 970 | cases where analyses chain, the <tt>addRequiredTransitive</tt> method should be | 
|  | 971 | used instead of the <tt>addRequired</tt> method.  This informs the PassManager | 
|  | 972 | that the transitively required pass should be alive as long as the requiring | 
|  | 973 | pass is. | 
|  | 974 | </p> | 
|  | 975 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 976 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 977 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
|  | 978 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 979 | <a name="AU::addPreserved">The <tt>AnalysisUsage::addPreserved<></tt> method</a> | 
|  | 980 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 981 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 982 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 983 | <p> | 
|  | 984 | One of the jobs of the PassManager is to optimize how and when analyses are run. | 
|  | 985 | In particular, it attempts to avoid recomputing data unless it needs to.  For | 
|  | 986 | this reason, passes are allowed to declare that they preserve (i.e., they don't | 
|  | 987 | invalidate) an existing analysis if it's available.  For example, a simple | 
| Reid Spencer | a179968 | 2004-12-11 05:12:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 988 | constant folding pass would not modify the CFG, so it can't possibly affect the | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 989 | results of dominator analysis.  By default, all passes are assumed to invalidate | 
|  | 990 | all others. | 
|  | 991 | </p> | 
|  | 992 |  | 
|  | 993 | <p> | 
|  | 994 | The <tt>AnalysisUsage</tt> class provides several methods which are useful in | 
|  | 995 | certain circumstances that are related to <tt>addPreserved</tt>.  In particular, | 
|  | 996 | the <tt>setPreservesAll</tt> method can be called to indicate that the pass does | 
|  | 997 | not modify the LLVM program at all (which is true for analyses), and the | 
|  | 998 | <tt>setPreservesCFG</tt> method can be used by transformations that change | 
|  | 999 | instructions in the program but do not modify the CFG or terminator instructions | 
|  | 1000 | (note that this property is implicitly set for <a | 
|  | 1001 | href="#BasicBlockPass">BasicBlockPass</a>'s). | 
|  | 1002 | </p> | 
|  | 1003 |  | 
|  | 1004 | <p> | 
|  | 1005 | <tt>addPreserved</tt> is particularly useful for transformations like | 
|  | 1006 | <tt>BreakCriticalEdges</tt>.  This pass knows how to update a small set of loop | 
|  | 1007 | and dominator related analyses if they exist, so it can preserve them, despite | 
|  | 1008 | the fact that it hacks on the CFG. | 
|  | 1009 | </p> | 
|  | 1010 | </div> | 
|  | 1011 |  | 
|  | 1012 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
|  | 1013 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 1014 | <a name="AU::examples">Example implementations of <tt>getAnalysisUsage</tt></a> | 
|  | 1015 | </div> | 
|  | 1016 |  | 
|  | 1017 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1018 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1019 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1020 | <i>// This is an example implementation from an analysis, which does not modify | 
|  | 1021 | // the program at all, yet has a prerequisite.</i> | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1022 | <b>void</b> <a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1PostDominanceFrontier.html">PostDominanceFrontier</a>::getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage &AU) <b>const</b> { | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1023 | AU.setPreservesAll(); | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1024 | AU.addRequired<<a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1PostDominatorTree.html">PostDominatorTree</a>>(); | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1025 | } | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1026 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1027 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1028 | <p>and:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1029 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1030 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1031 | <i>// This example modifies the program, but does not modify the CFG</i> | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1032 | <b>void</b> <a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/structLICM.html">LICM</a>::getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage &AU) <b>const</b> { | 
| Chris Lattner | a8c82c2 | 2002-10-21 19:57:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1033 | AU.setPreservesCFG(); | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1034 | AU.addRequired<<a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1LoopInfo.html">LoopInfo</a>>(); | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1035 | } | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1036 | </pre></div> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1037 |  | 
|  | 1038 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1039 |  | 
|  | 1040 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1041 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1042 | <a name="getAnalysis">The <tt>getAnalysis<></tt> and <tt>getAnalysisToUpdate<></tt> methods</a> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1043 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1044 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1045 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 1046 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1047 | <p>The <tt>Pass::getAnalysis<></tt> method is automatically inherited by | 
|  | 1048 | your class, providing you with access to the passes that you declared that you | 
|  | 1049 | required with the <a href="#getAnalysisUsage"><tt>getAnalysisUsage</tt></a> | 
|  | 1050 | method.  It takes a single template argument that specifies which pass class you | 
|  | 1051 | want, and returns a reference to that pass.  For example:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1052 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1053 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | baf3f62 | 2004-03-17 21:33:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1054 | bool LICM::runOnFunction(Function &F) { | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1055 | LoopInfo &LI = getAnalysis<LoopInfo>(); | 
|  | 1056 | ... | 
|  | 1057 | } | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1058 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1059 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1060 | <p>This method call returns a reference to the pass desired.  You may get a | 
|  | 1061 | runtime assertion failure if you attempt to get an analysis that you did not | 
|  | 1062 | declare as required in your <a | 
|  | 1063 | href="#getAnalysisUsage"><tt>getAnalysisUsage</tt></a> implementation.  This | 
|  | 1064 | method can be called by your <tt>run*</tt> method implementation, or by any | 
|  | 1065 | other local method invoked by your <tt>run*</tt> method.</p> | 
|  | 1066 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1067 | <p> | 
|  | 1068 | If your pass is capable of updating analyses if they exist (e.g., | 
|  | 1069 | <tt>BreakCriticalEdges</tt>, as described above), you can use the | 
|  | 1070 | <tt>getAnalysisToUpdate</tt> method, which returns a pointer to the analysis if | 
|  | 1071 | it is active.  For example:</p> | 
|  | 1072 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1073 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1074 | ... | 
|  | 1075 | if (DominatorSet *DS = getAnalysisToUpdate<DominatorSet>()) { | 
|  | 1076 | <i>// A DominatorSet is active.  This code will update it.</i> | 
|  | 1077 | } | 
|  | 1078 | ... | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1079 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1080 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1081 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1082 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1083 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1084 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
|  | 1085 | <a name="analysisgroup">Implementing Analysis Groups</a> | 
|  | 1086 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1087 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 1088 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1089 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 1090 |  | 
|  | 1091 | <p>Now that we understand the basics of how passes are defined, how the are | 
|  | 1092 | used, and how they are required from other passes, it's time to get a little bit | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1093 | fancier.  All of the pass relationships that we have seen so far are very | 
|  | 1094 | simple: one pass depends on one other specific pass to be run before it can run. | 
|  | 1095 | For many applications, this is great, for others, more flexibility is | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1096 | required.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1097 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1098 | <p>In particular, some analyses are defined such that there is a single simple | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1099 | interface to the analysis results, but multiple ways of calculating them. | 
|  | 1100 | Consider alias analysis for example.  The most trivial alias analysis returns | 
|  | 1101 | "may alias" for any alias query.  The most sophisticated analysis a | 
|  | 1102 | flow-sensitive, context-sensitive interprocedural analysis that can take a | 
|  | 1103 | significant amount of time to execute (and obviously, there is a lot of room | 
|  | 1104 | between these two extremes for other implementations).  To cleanly support | 
|  | 1105 | situations like this, the LLVM Pass Infrastructure supports the notion of | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1106 | Analysis Groups.</p> | 
|  | 1107 |  | 
|  | 1108 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1109 |  | 
|  | 1110 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1111 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1112 | <a name="agconcepts">Analysis Group Concepts</a> | 
|  | 1113 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1114 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1115 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 1116 |  | 
|  | 1117 | <p>An Analysis Group is a single simple interface that may be implemented by | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1118 | multiple different passes.  Analysis Groups can be given human readable names | 
|  | 1119 | just like passes, but unlike passes, they need not derive from the <tt>Pass</tt> | 
|  | 1120 | class.  An analysis group may have one or more implementations, one of which is | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1121 | the "default" implementation.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1122 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1123 | <p>Analysis groups are used by client passes just like other passes are: the | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1124 | <tt>AnalysisUsage::addRequired()</tt> and <tt>Pass::getAnalysis()</tt> methods. | 
|  | 1125 | In order to resolve this requirement, the <a href="#passmanager">PassManager</a> | 
|  | 1126 | scans the available passes to see if any implementations of the analysis group | 
|  | 1127 | are available.  If none is available, the default implementation is created for | 
|  | 1128 | the pass to use.  All standard rules for <A href="#interaction">interaction | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1129 | between passes</a> still apply.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1130 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1131 | <p>Although <a href="#registration">Pass Registration</a> is optional for normal | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1132 | passes, all analysis group implementations must be registered, and must use the | 
|  | 1133 | <A href="#registerag"><tt>RegisterAnalysisGroup</tt></a> template to join the | 
|  | 1134 | implementation pool.  Also, a default implementation of the interface | 
|  | 1135 | <b>must</b> be registered with <A | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1136 | href="#registerag"><tt>RegisterAnalysisGroup</tt></a>.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1137 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1138 | <p>As a concrete example of an Analysis Group in action, consider the <a | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1139 | href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1AliasAnalysis.html">AliasAnalysis</a> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1140 | analysis group.  The default implementation of the alias analysis interface (the | 
|  | 1141 | <tt><a | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1142 | href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/structBasicAliasAnalysis.html">basicaa</a></tt> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1143 | pass) just does a few simple checks that don't require significant analysis to | 
|  | 1144 | compute (such as: two different globals can never alias each other, etc). | 
|  | 1145 | Passes that use the <tt><a | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1146 | href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1AliasAnalysis.html">AliasAnalysis</a></tt> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1147 | interface (for example the <tt><a | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1148 | href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/structGCSE.html">gcse</a></tt> pass), do | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1149 | not care which implementation of alias analysis is actually provided, they just | 
|  | 1150 | use the designated interface.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1151 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1152 | <p>From the user's perspective, commands work just like normal.  Issuing the | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1153 | command '<tt>opt -gcse ...</tt>' will cause the <tt>basicaa</tt> class to be | 
|  | 1154 | instantiated and added to the pass sequence.  Issuing the command '<tt>opt | 
|  | 1155 | -somefancyaa -gcse ...</tt>' will cause the <tt>gcse</tt> pass to use the | 
|  | 1156 | <tt>somefancyaa</tt> alias analysis (which doesn't actually exist, it's just a | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1157 | hypothetical example) instead.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1158 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1159 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1160 |  | 
|  | 1161 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1162 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1163 | <a name="registerag">Using <tt>RegisterAnalysisGroup</tt></a> | 
|  | 1164 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1165 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1166 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 1167 |  | 
|  | 1168 | <p>The <tt>RegisterAnalysisGroup</tt> template is used to register the analysis | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1169 | group itself as well as add pass implementations to the analysis group.  First, | 
|  | 1170 | an analysis should be registered, with a human readable name provided for it. | 
|  | 1171 | Unlike registration of passes, there is no command line argument to be specified | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1172 | for the Analysis Group Interface itself, because it is "abstract":</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1173 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1174 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1175 | <b>static</b> RegisterAnalysisGroup<<a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1AliasAnalysis.html">AliasAnalysis</a>> A("<i>Alias Analysis</i>"); | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1176 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1177 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1178 | <p>Once the analysis is registered, passes can declare that they are valid | 
|  | 1179 | implementations of the interface by using the following code:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1180 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1181 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1182 | <b>namespace</b> { | 
|  | 1183 | //<i> Analysis Group implementations <b>must</b> be registered normally...</i> | 
|  | 1184 | RegisterOpt<FancyAA> | 
|  | 1185 | B("<i>somefancyaa</i>", "<i>A more complex alias analysis implementation</i>"); | 
|  | 1186 |  | 
|  | 1187 | //<i> Declare that we implement the AliasAnalysis interface</i> | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1188 | RegisterAnalysisGroup<<a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1AliasAnalysis.html">AliasAnalysis</a>, FancyAA> C; | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1189 | } | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1190 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1191 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1192 | <p>This just shows a class <tt>FancyAA</tt> that is registered normally, then | 
|  | 1193 | uses the <tt>RegisterAnalysisGroup</tt> template to "join" the <tt><a | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1194 | href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1AliasAnalysis.html">AliasAnalysis</a></tt> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1195 | analysis group.  Every implementation of an analysis group should join using | 
|  | 1196 | this template.  A single pass may join multiple different analysis groups with | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1197 | no problem.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1198 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1199 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1200 | <b>namespace</b> { | 
|  | 1201 | //<i> Analysis Group implementations <b>must</b> be registered normally...</i> | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1202 | RegisterOpt<<a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/structBasicAliasAnalysis.html">BasicAliasAnalysis</a>> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1203 | D("<i>basicaa</i>", "<i>Basic Alias Analysis (default AA impl)</i>"); | 
|  | 1204 |  | 
|  | 1205 | //<i> Declare that we implement the AliasAnalysis interface</i> | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1206 | RegisterAnalysisGroup<<a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1AliasAnalysis.html">AliasAnalysis</a>, <a href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/structBasicAliasAnalysis.html">BasicAliasAnalysis</a>, <b>true</b>> E; | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1207 | } | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1208 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1209 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1210 | <p>Here we show how the default implementation is specified (using the extra | 
| Chris Lattner | 8d8a928 | 2002-08-22 19:21:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1211 | argument to the <tt>RegisterAnalysisGroup</tt> template).  There must be exactly | 
|  | 1212 | one default implementation available at all times for an Analysis Group to be | 
|  | 1213 | used.  Here we declare that the <tt><a | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1214 | href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/structBasicAliasAnalysis.html">BasicAliasAnalysis</a></tt> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1215 | pass is the default implementation for the interface.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1216 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1217 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1218 |  | 
|  | 1219 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1220 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
| Tanya Lattner | fb966ba | 2004-11-19 01:25:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1221 | <a name="passStatistics">Pass Statistics</a> | 
|  | 1222 | </div> | 
|  | 1223 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 1224 |  | 
|  | 1225 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Tanya Lattner | 0b40ee6 | 2004-11-19 01:26:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1226 | <p>The <a | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1227 | href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/Statistic_8h-source.html"><tt>Statistic</tt></a> | 
| John Criswell | 3e149a2 | 2005-11-28 23:25:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1228 | class is designed to be an easy way to expose various success | 
| Tanya Lattner | fb966ba | 2004-11-19 01:25:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1229 | metrics from passes.  These statistics are printed at the end of a | 
|  | 1230 | run, when the -stats command line option is enabled on the command | 
| Tanya Lattner | 0b40ee6 | 2004-11-19 01:26:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1231 | line. See the <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/ProgrammersManual.html#Statistic">Statistics section</a> in the Programmer's Manual for details. | 
| Tanya Lattner | fb966ba | 2004-11-19 01:25:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1232 |  | 
|  | 1233 | </div> | 
|  | 1234 |  | 
|  | 1235 |  | 
|  | 1236 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 1237 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1238 | <a name="passmanager">What PassManager does</a> | 
|  | 1239 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1240 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 1241 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1242 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 1243 |  | 
|  | 1244 | <p>The <a | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1245 | href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/PassManager_8h-source.html"><tt>PassManager</tt></a> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1246 | <a | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1247 | href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1PassManager.html">class</a> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1248 | takes a list of passes, ensures their <a href="#interaction">prerequisites</a> | 
|  | 1249 | are set up correctly, and then schedules passes to run efficiently.  All of the | 
|  | 1250 | LLVM tools that run passes use the <tt>PassManager</tt> for execution of these | 
|  | 1251 | passes.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1252 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1253 | <p>The <tt>PassManager</tt> does two main things to try to reduce the execution | 
|  | 1254 | time of a series of passes:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1255 |  | 
|  | 1256 | <ol> | 
|  | 1257 | <li><b>Share analysis results</b> - The PassManager attempts to avoid | 
|  | 1258 | recomputing analysis results as much as possible.  This means keeping track of | 
|  | 1259 | which analyses are available already, which analyses get invalidated, and which | 
|  | 1260 | analyses are needed to be run for a pass.  An important part of work is that the | 
|  | 1261 | <tt>PassManager</tt> tracks the exact lifetime of all analysis results, allowing | 
|  | 1262 | it to <a href="#releaseMemory">free memory</a> allocated to holding analysis | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1263 | results as soon as they are no longer needed.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1264 |  | 
|  | 1265 | <li><b>Pipeline the execution of passes on the program</b> - The | 
|  | 1266 | <tt>PassManager</tt> attempts to get better cache and memory usage behavior out | 
|  | 1267 | of a series of passes by pipelining the passes together.  This means that, given | 
|  | 1268 | a series of consequtive <a href="#FunctionPass"><tt>FunctionPass</tt></a>'s, it | 
|  | 1269 | will execute all of the <a href="#FunctionPass"><tt>FunctionPass</tt></a>'s on | 
|  | 1270 | the first function, then all of the <a | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1271 | href="#FunctionPass"><tt>FunctionPass</tt></a>es on the second function, | 
|  | 1272 | etc... until the entire program has been run through the passes. | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1273 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1274 | <p>This improves the cache behavior of the compiler, because it is only touching | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1275 | the LLVM program representation for a single function at a time, instead of | 
|  | 1276 | traversing the entire program.  It reduces the memory consumption of compiler, | 
|  | 1277 | because, for example, only one <a | 
| Reid Spencer | ca05854 | 2006-03-14 05:39:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1278 | href="http://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1DominatorSet.html"><tt>DominatorSet</tt></a> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1279 | needs to be calculated at a time.  This also makes it possible some <a | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1280 | href="#SMP">interesting enhancements</a> in the future.</p></li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1281 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1282 | </ol> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1283 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1284 | <p>The effectiveness of the <tt>PassManager</tt> is influenced directly by how | 
|  | 1285 | much information it has about the behaviors of the passes it is scheduling.  For | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1286 | example, the "preserved" set is intentionally conservative in the face of an | 
|  | 1287 | unimplemented <a href="#getAnalysisUsage"><tt>getAnalysisUsage</tt></a> method. | 
|  | 1288 | Not implementing when it should be implemented will have the effect of not | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1289 | allowing any analysis results to live across the execution of your pass.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1290 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1291 | <p>The <tt>PassManager</tt> class exposes a <tt>--debug-pass</tt> command line | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1292 | options that is useful for debugging pass execution, seeing how things work, and | 
|  | 1293 | diagnosing when you should be preserving more analyses than you currently are | 
|  | 1294 | (To get information about all of the variants of the <tt>--debug-pass</tt> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1295 | option, just type '<tt>opt --help-hidden</tt>').</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1296 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1297 | <p>By using the <tt>--debug-pass=Structure</tt> option, for example, we can see | 
|  | 1298 | how our <a href="#basiccode">Hello World</a> pass interacts with other passes. | 
|  | 1299 | Lets try it out with the <tt>gcse</tt> and <tt>licm</tt> passes:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1300 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1301 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Reid Spencer | 4a1ab18 | 2005-01-11 05:16:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1302 | $ opt -load ../../../Debug/lib/Hello.so -gcse -licm --debug-pass=Structure < hello.bc > /dev/null | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1303 | Module Pass Manager | 
|  | 1304 | Function Pass Manager | 
|  | 1305 | Dominator Set Construction | 
|  | 1306 | Immediate Dominators Construction | 
|  | 1307 | Global Common Subexpression Elimination | 
|  | 1308 | --  Immediate Dominators Construction | 
|  | 1309 | --  Global Common Subexpression Elimination | 
|  | 1310 | Natural Loop Construction | 
|  | 1311 | Loop Invariant Code Motion | 
|  | 1312 | --  Natural Loop Construction | 
|  | 1313 | --  Loop Invariant Code Motion | 
|  | 1314 | Module Verifier | 
|  | 1315 | --  Dominator Set Construction | 
|  | 1316 | --  Module Verifier | 
|  | 1317 | Bytecode Writer | 
|  | 1318 | --Bytecode Writer | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1319 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1320 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1321 | <p>This output shows us when passes are constructed and when the analysis | 
|  | 1322 | results are known to be dead (prefixed with '<tt>--</tt>').  Here we see that | 
|  | 1323 | GCSE uses dominator and immediate dominator information to do its job.  The LICM | 
|  | 1324 | pass uses natural loop information, which uses dominator sets, but not immediate | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1325 | dominators.  Because immediate dominators are no longer useful after the GCSE | 
|  | 1326 | pass, it is immediately destroyed.  The dominator sets are then reused to | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1327 | compute natural loop information, which is then used by the LICM pass.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1328 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1329 | <p>After the LICM pass, the module verifier runs (which is automatically added | 
|  | 1330 | by the '<tt>opt</tt>' tool), which uses the dominator set to check that the | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1331 | resultant LLVM code is well formed.  After it finishes, the dominator set | 
|  | 1332 | information is destroyed, after being computed once, and shared by three | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1333 | passes.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1334 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1335 | <p>Lets see how this changes when we run the <a href="#basiccode">Hello | 
|  | 1336 | World</a> pass in between the two passes:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1337 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1338 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Reid Spencer | 4a1ab18 | 2005-01-11 05:16:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1339 | $ opt -load ../../../Debug/lib/Hello.so -gcse -hello -licm --debug-pass=Structure < hello.bc > /dev/null | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1340 | Module Pass Manager | 
|  | 1341 | Function Pass Manager | 
|  | 1342 | Dominator Set Construction | 
|  | 1343 | Immediate Dominators Construction | 
|  | 1344 | Global Common Subexpression Elimination | 
|  | 1345 | <b>--  Dominator Set Construction</b> | 
|  | 1346 | --  Immediate Dominators Construction | 
|  | 1347 | --  Global Common Subexpression Elimination | 
|  | 1348 | <b>    Hello World Pass | 
|  | 1349 | --  Hello World Pass | 
|  | 1350 | Dominator Set Construction</b> | 
|  | 1351 | Natural Loop Construction | 
|  | 1352 | Loop Invariant Code Motion | 
|  | 1353 | --  Natural Loop Construction | 
|  | 1354 | --  Loop Invariant Code Motion | 
|  | 1355 | Module Verifier | 
|  | 1356 | --  Dominator Set Construction | 
|  | 1357 | --  Module Verifier | 
|  | 1358 | Bytecode Writer | 
|  | 1359 | --Bytecode Writer | 
|  | 1360 | Hello: __main | 
|  | 1361 | Hello: puts | 
|  | 1362 | Hello: main | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1363 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1364 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1365 | <p>Here we see that the <a href="#basiccode">Hello World</a> pass has killed the | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1366 | Dominator Set pass, even though it doesn't modify the code at all!  To fix this, | 
|  | 1367 | we need to add the following <a | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1368 | href="#getAnalysisUsage"><tt>getAnalysisUsage</tt></a> method to our pass:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1369 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1370 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1371 | <i>// We don't modify the program, so we preserve all analyses</i> | 
|  | 1372 | <b>virtual void</b> getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage &AU) <b>const</b> { | 
|  | 1373 | AU.setPreservesAll(); | 
|  | 1374 | } | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1375 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1376 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1377 | <p>Now when we run our pass, we get this output:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1378 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1379 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Reid Spencer | 4a1ab18 | 2005-01-11 05:16:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1380 | $ opt -load ../../../Debug/lib/Hello.so -gcse -hello -licm --debug-pass=Structure < hello.bc > /dev/null | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1381 | Pass Arguments:  -gcse -hello -licm | 
|  | 1382 | Module Pass Manager | 
|  | 1383 | Function Pass Manager | 
|  | 1384 | Dominator Set Construction | 
|  | 1385 | Immediate Dominators Construction | 
|  | 1386 | Global Common Subexpression Elimination | 
|  | 1387 | --  Immediate Dominators Construction | 
|  | 1388 | --  Global Common Subexpression Elimination | 
|  | 1389 | Hello World Pass | 
|  | 1390 | --  Hello World Pass | 
|  | 1391 | Natural Loop Construction | 
|  | 1392 | Loop Invariant Code Motion | 
|  | 1393 | --  Loop Invariant Code Motion | 
|  | 1394 | --  Natural Loop Construction | 
|  | 1395 | Module Verifier | 
|  | 1396 | --  Dominator Set Construction | 
|  | 1397 | --  Module Verifier | 
|  | 1398 | Bytecode Writer | 
|  | 1399 | --Bytecode Writer | 
|  | 1400 | Hello: __main | 
|  | 1401 | Hello: puts | 
|  | 1402 | Hello: main | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1403 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1404 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1405 | <p>Which shows that we don't accidentally invalidate dominator information | 
|  | 1406 | anymore, and therefore do not have to compute it twice.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1407 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1408 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1409 |  | 
|  | 1410 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1411 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 1412 | <a name="releaseMemory">The <tt>releaseMemory</tt> method</a> | 
|  | 1413 | </div> | 
|  | 1414 |  | 
|  | 1415 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1416 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1417 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1418 | <b>virtual void</b> releaseMemory(); | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1419 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1420 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1421 | <p>The <tt>PassManager</tt> automatically determines when to compute analysis | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1422 | results, and how long to keep them around for.  Because the lifetime of the pass | 
|  | 1423 | object itself is effectively the entire duration of the compilation process, we | 
|  | 1424 | need some way to free analysis results when they are no longer useful.  The | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1425 | <tt>releaseMemory</tt> virtual method is the way to do this.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1426 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1427 | <p>If you are writing an analysis or any other pass that retains a significant | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1428 | amount of state (for use by another pass which "requires" your pass and uses the | 
|  | 1429 | <a href="#getAnalysis">getAnalysis</a> method) you should implement | 
|  | 1430 | <tt>releaseMEmory</tt> to, well, release the memory allocated to maintain this | 
|  | 1431 | internal state.  This method is called after the <tt>run*</tt> method for the | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1432 | class, before the next call of <tt>run*</tt> in your pass.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1433 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1434 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1435 |  | 
|  | 1436 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1437 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1438 | <a name="registering">Registering dynamically loaded passes</a> | 
|  | 1439 | </div> | 
|  | 1440 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 1441 |  | 
|  | 1442 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 1443 |  | 
|  | 1444 | <p><i>Size matters</i> when constructing production quality tools using llvm, | 
|  | 1445 | both for the purposes of distribution, and for regulating the resident code size | 
|  | 1446 | when running on the target system. Therefore, it becomes desirable to | 
|  | 1447 | selectively use some passes, while omitting others and maintain the flexibility | 
|  | 1448 | to change configurations later on. You want to be able to do all this, and, | 
|  | 1449 | provide feedback to the user. This is where pass registration comes into | 
|  | 1450 | play.</p> | 
|  | 1451 |  | 
|  | 1452 | <p>The fundamental mechanisms for pass registration are the | 
|  | 1453 | <tt>MachinePassRegistry</tt> class and subclasses of | 
|  | 1454 | <tt>MachinePassRegistryNode</tt>.</p> | 
|  | 1455 |  | 
|  | 1456 | <p>An instance of <tt>MachinePassRegistry</tt> is used to maintain a list of | 
|  | 1457 | <tt>MachinePassRegistryNode</tt> objects.  This instance maintains the list and | 
|  | 1458 | communicates additions and deletions to the command line interface.</p> | 
|  | 1459 |  | 
|  | 1460 | <p>An instance of <tt>MachinePassRegistryNode</tt> subclass is used to maintain | 
|  | 1461 | information provided about a particular pass.  This information includes the | 
|  | 1462 | command line name, the command help string and the address of the function used | 
|  | 1463 | to create an instance of the pass.  A global static constructor of one of these | 
|  | 1464 | instances <i>registers</i> with a corresponding <tt>MachinePassRegistry</tt>, | 
|  | 1465 | the static destructor <i>unregisters</i>. Thus a pass that is statically linked | 
|  | 1466 | in the tool will be registered at start up. A dynamically loaded pass will | 
|  | 1467 | register on load and unregister at unload.</p> | 
|  | 1468 |  | 
|  | 1469 | </div> | 
|  | 1470 |  | 
|  | 1471 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
|  | 1472 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 1473 | <a name="registering_existing">Using existing registries</a> | 
|  | 1474 | </div> | 
|  | 1475 |  | 
|  | 1476 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 1477 |  | 
|  | 1478 | <p>There are predefined registries to track instruction scheduling | 
|  | 1479 | (<tt>RegisterScheduler</tt>) and register allocation (<tt>RegisterRegAlloc</tt>) | 
|  | 1480 | machine passes.  Here we will describe how to <i>register</i> a register | 
|  | 1481 | allocator machine pass.</p> | 
|  | 1482 |  | 
|  | 1483 | <p>Implement your register allocator machine pass.  In your register allocator | 
|  | 1484 | .cpp file add the following include;</p> | 
|  | 1485 |  | 
|  | 1486 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 4bde9fb | 2006-08-11 16:37:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 1487 | #include "llvm/CodeGen/RegAllocRegistry.h" | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1488 | </pre></div> | 
|  | 1489 |  | 
|  | 1490 | <p>Also in your register allocator .cpp file, define a creator function in the | 
|  | 1491 | form; </p> | 
|  | 1492 |  | 
|  | 1493 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
|  | 1494 | FunctionPass *createMyRegisterAllocator() { | 
|  | 1495 | return new MyRegisterAllocator(); | 
|  | 1496 | } | 
|  | 1497 | </pre></div> | 
|  | 1498 |  | 
|  | 1499 | <p>Note that the signature of this function should match the type of | 
|  | 1500 | <tt>RegisterRegAlloc::FunctionPassCtor</tt>.  In the same file add the | 
|  | 1501 | "installing" declaration, in the form;</p> | 
|  | 1502 |  | 
|  | 1503 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
|  | 1504 | static RegisterRegAlloc myRegAlloc("myregalloc", | 
|  | 1505 | "  my register allocator help string", | 
|  | 1506 | createMyRegisterAllocator); | 
|  | 1507 | </pre></div> | 
|  | 1508 |  | 
|  | 1509 | <p>Note the two spaces prior to the help string produces a tidy result on the | 
|  | 1510 | --help query.</p> | 
|  | 1511 |  | 
|  | 1512 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
|  | 1513 | $ llc --help | 
|  | 1514 | ... | 
|  | 1515 | -regalloc                    - Register allocator to use: (default = linearscan) | 
|  | 1516 | =linearscan                -   linear scan register allocator | 
|  | 1517 | =local                     -   local register allocator | 
|  | 1518 | =simple                    -   simple register allocator | 
|  | 1519 | =myregalloc                -   my register allocator help string | 
|  | 1520 | ... | 
|  | 1521 | </pre></div> | 
|  | 1522 |  | 
|  | 1523 | <p>And that's it.  The user is now free to use <tt>-regalloc=myregalloc</tt> as | 
|  | 1524 | an option.  Registering instruction schedulers is similar except use the | 
| Chris Lattner | 4bde9fb | 2006-08-11 16:37:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 1525 | <tt>RegisterScheduler</tt> class.  Note that the | 
|  | 1526 | <tt>RegisterScheduler::FunctionPassCtor</tt> is significantly different from | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1527 | <tt>RegisterRegAlloc::FunctionPassCtor</tt>.</p> | 
|  | 1528 |  | 
|  | 1529 | <p>To force the load/linking of your register allocator into the llc/lli tools, | 
|  | 1530 | add your creator function's global declaration to "Passes.h" and add a "pseudo" | 
|  | 1531 | call line to <tt>llvm/Codegen/LinkAllCodegenComponents.h</tt>.</p> | 
|  | 1532 |  | 
|  | 1533 | </div> | 
|  | 1534 |  | 
|  | 1535 |  | 
|  | 1536 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
|  | 1537 | <div class="doc_subsection"> | 
|  | 1538 | <a name="registering_new">Creating new registries</a> | 
|  | 1539 | </div> | 
|  | 1540 |  | 
|  | 1541 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 1542 |  | 
|  | 1543 | <p>The easiest way to get started is to clone one of the existing registries; we | 
|  | 1544 | recommend <tt>llvm/CodeGen/RegAllocRegistry.h</tt>.  The key things to modify | 
|  | 1545 | are the class name and the <tt>FunctionPassCtor</tt> type.</p> | 
|  | 1546 |  | 
|  | 1547 | <p>Then you need to declare the registry.  Example: if your pass registry is | 
|  | 1548 | <tt>RegisterMyPasses</tt> then define;</p> | 
|  | 1549 |  | 
|  | 1550 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
|  | 1551 | MachinePassRegistry RegisterMyPasses::Registry; | 
|  | 1552 | </pre></div> | 
|  | 1553 |  | 
|  | 1554 | <p>And finally, declare the command line option for your passes.  Example:</p> | 
|  | 1555 |  | 
|  | 1556 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
|  | 1557 | cl::opt<RegisterMyPasses::FunctionPassCtor, false, | 
|  | 1558 | RegisterPassParser<RegisterMyPasses> > | 
|  | 1559 | MyPassOpt("mypass", | 
|  | 1560 | cl::init(&createDefaultMyPass), | 
|  | 1561 | cl::desc("my pass option help")); | 
|  | 1562 | </pre></div> | 
|  | 1563 |  | 
|  | 1564 | <p>Here the command option is "mypass", with createDefaultMyPass as the default | 
|  | 1565 | creator.</p> | 
|  | 1566 |  | 
|  | 1567 | </div> | 
|  | 1568 |  | 
|  | 1569 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 1570 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1571 | <a name="debughints">Using GDB with dynamically loaded passes</a> | 
|  | 1572 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1573 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 1574 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1575 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 1576 |  | 
|  | 1577 | <p>Unfortunately, using GDB with dynamically loaded passes is not as easy as it | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1578 | should be.  First of all, you can't set a breakpoint in a shared object that has | 
|  | 1579 | not been loaded yet, and second of all there are problems with inlined functions | 
|  | 1580 | in shared objects.  Here are some suggestions to debugging your pass with | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1581 | GDB.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1582 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1583 | <p>For sake of discussion, I'm going to assume that you are debugging a | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1584 | transformation invoked by <tt>opt</tt>, although nothing described here depends | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1585 | on that.</p> | 
|  | 1586 |  | 
|  | 1587 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1588 |  | 
|  | 1589 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1590 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 1591 | <a name="breakpoint">Setting a breakpoint in your pass</a> | 
|  | 1592 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1593 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1594 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 1595 |  | 
|  | 1596 | <p>First thing you do is start <tt>gdb</tt> on the <tt>opt</tt> process:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1597 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1598 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1599 | $ <b>gdb opt</b> | 
|  | 1600 | GNU gdb 5.0 | 
|  | 1601 | Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | 
|  | 1602 | GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are | 
|  | 1603 | welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. | 
|  | 1604 | Type "show copying" to see the conditions. | 
|  | 1605 | There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details. | 
|  | 1606 | This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.6"... | 
|  | 1607 | (gdb) | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1608 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1609 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1610 | <p>Note that <tt>opt</tt> has a lot of debugging information in it, so it takes | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1611 | time to load.  Be patient.  Since we cannot set a breakpoint in our pass yet | 
|  | 1612 | (the shared object isn't loaded until runtime), we must execute the process, and | 
|  | 1613 | have it stop before it invokes our pass, but after it has loaded the shared | 
|  | 1614 | object.  The most foolproof way of doing this is to set a breakpoint in | 
|  | 1615 | <tt>PassManager::run</tt> and then run the process with the arguments you | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1616 | want:</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1617 |  | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1618 | <div class="doc_code"><pre> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1619 | (gdb) <b>break PassManager::run</b> | 
|  | 1620 | Breakpoint 1 at 0x2413bc: file Pass.cpp, line 70. | 
| Chris Lattner | 0727518 | 2005-04-21 04:52:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1621 | (gdb) <b>run test.bc -load $(LLVMTOP)/llvm/Debug/lib/[libname].so -[passoption]</b> | 
|  | 1622 | Starting program: opt test.bc -load $(LLVMTOP)/llvm/Debug/lib/[libname].so -[passoption] | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1623 | Breakpoint 1, PassManager::run (this=0xffbef174, M=@0x70b298) at Pass.cpp:70 | 
|  | 1624 | 70      bool PassManager::run(Module &M) { return PM->run(M); } | 
|  | 1625 | (gdb) | 
| Jim Laskey | 575df8b | 2006-08-04 18:10:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1626 | </pre></div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1627 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1628 | <p>Once the <tt>opt</tt> stops in the <tt>PassManager::run</tt> method you are | 
|  | 1629 | now free to set breakpoints in your pass so that you can trace through execution | 
|  | 1630 | or do other standard debugging stuff.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1631 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1632 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1633 |  | 
|  | 1634 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1635 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
|  | 1636 | <a name="debugmisc">Miscellaneous Problems</a> | 
|  | 1637 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1638 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1639 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 1640 |  | 
|  | 1641 | <p>Once you have the basics down, there are a couple of problems that GDB has, | 
|  | 1642 | some with solutions, some without.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1643 |  | 
|  | 1644 | <ul> | 
|  | 1645 | <li>Inline functions have bogus stack information.  In general, GDB does a | 
|  | 1646 | pretty good job getting stack traces and stepping through inline functions. | 
|  | 1647 | When a pass is dynamically loaded however, it somehow completely loses this | 
|  | 1648 | capability.  The only solution I know of is to de-inline a function (move it | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1649 | from the body of a class to a .cpp file).</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1650 |  | 
|  | 1651 | <li>Restarting the program breaks breakpoints.  After following the information | 
|  | 1652 | above, you have succeeded in getting some breakpoints planted in your pass.  Nex | 
|  | 1653 | thing you know, you restart the program (i.e., you type '<tt>run</tt>' again), | 
|  | 1654 | and you start getting errors about breakpoints being unsettable.  The only way I | 
|  | 1655 | have found to "fix" this problem is to <tt>delete</tt> the breakpoints that are | 
|  | 1656 | already set in your pass, run the program, and re-set the breakpoints once | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1657 | execution stops in <tt>PassManager::run</tt>.</li> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1658 |  | 
|  | 1659 | </ul> | 
|  | 1660 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1661 | <p>Hopefully these tips will help with common case debugging situations.  If | 
|  | 1662 | you'd like to contribute some tips of your own, just contact <a | 
|  | 1663 | href="mailto:sabre@nondot.org">Chris</a>.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1664 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1665 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8a97c8a | 2002-09-06 02:02:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1666 |  | 
|  | 1667 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1668 | <div class="doc_section"> | 
|  | 1669 | <a name="future">Future extensions planned</a> | 
|  | 1670 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1671 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> | 
|  | 1672 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1673 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 1674 |  | 
|  | 1675 | <p>Although the LLVM Pass Infrastructure is very capable as it stands, and does | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1676 | some nifty stuff, there are things we'd like to add in the future.  Here is | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1677 | where we are going:</p> | 
|  | 1678 |  | 
|  | 1679 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1680 |  | 
|  | 1681 | <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ --> | 
| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1682 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1683 | <a name="SMP">Multithreaded LLVM</a> | 
|  | 1684 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1685 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1686 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
|  | 1687 |  | 
|  | 1688 | <p>Multiple CPU machines are becoming more common and compilation can never be | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1689 | fast enough: obviously we should allow for a multithreaded compiler.  Because of | 
|  | 1690 | the semantics defined for passes above (specifically they cannot maintain state | 
|  | 1691 | across invocations of their <tt>run*</tt> methods), a nice clean way to | 
|  | 1692 | implement a multithreaded compiler would be for the <tt>PassManager</tt> class | 
| Misha Brukman | 7fdaab4 | 2003-07-14 17:20:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1693 | to create multiple instances of each pass object, and allow the separate | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1694 | instances to be hacking on different parts of the program at the same time.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1695 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1696 | <p>This implementation would prevent each of the passes from having to implement | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1697 | multithreaded constructs, requiring only the LLVM core to have locking in a few | 
|  | 1698 | places (for global resources).  Although this is a simple extension, we simply | 
|  | 1699 | haven't had time (or multiprocessor machines, thus a reason) to implement this. | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1700 | Despite that, we have kept the LLVM passes SMP ready, and you should too.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1701 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1702 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1703 |  | 
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| Chris Lattner | 8e87165 | 2004-03-17 21:09:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1705 | <div class="doc_subsubsection"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 3c11c04 | 2004-09-20 04:36:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1706 | <a name="PassFunctionPass"><tt>ModulePass</tt>es requiring <tt>FunctionPass</tt>es</a> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1707 | </div> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1708 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1709 | <div class="doc_text"> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1710 |  | 
| Chris Lattner | 3c11c04 | 2004-09-20 04:36:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1711 | <p>Currently it is illegal for a <a href="#ModulePass"><tt>ModulePass</tt></a> | 
|  | 1712 | to require a <a href="#FunctionPass"><tt>FunctionPass</tt></a>.  This is because | 
|  | 1713 | there is only one instance of the <a | 
|  | 1714 | href="#FunctionPass"><tt>FunctionPass</tt></a> object ever created, thus nowhere | 
|  | 1715 | to store information for all of the functions in the program at the same time. | 
|  | 1716 | Although this has come up a couple of times before, this has always been worked | 
|  | 1717 | around by factoring one big complicated pass into a global and an | 
|  | 1718 | interprocedural part, both of which are distinct.  In the future, it would be | 
|  | 1719 | nice to have this though.</p> | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1720 |  | 
|  | 1721 | <p>Note that it is no problem for a <a | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1722 | href="#FunctionPass"><tt>FunctionPass</tt></a> to require the results of a <a | 
| Chris Lattner | 3c11c04 | 2004-09-20 04:36:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1723 | href="#ModulePass"><tt>ModulePass</tt></a>, only the other way around.</p> | 
| Chris Lattner | 34ceebe | 2002-08-08 20:11:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1724 |  | 
| Misha Brukman | f5edf1e | 2004-01-15 18:34:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1725 | </div> | 
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