1 //===- LowerAllocations.cpp - Reduce malloc & free insts to calls ---------===//
3 // The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
5 // This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
6 // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
8 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
10 // The LowerAllocations transformation is a target-dependent tranformation
11 // because it depends on the size of data types and alignment constraints.
13 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
15 #define DEBUG_TYPE "lowerallocs"
16 #include "llvm/Transforms/Scalar.h"
17 #include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/UnifyFunctionExitNodes.h"
18 #include "llvm/Module.h"
19 #include "llvm/DerivedTypes.h"
20 #include "llvm/Instructions.h"
21 #include "llvm/Constants.h"
22 #include "llvm/Pass.h"
23 #include "llvm/ADT/Statistic.h"
24 #include "llvm/Target/TargetData.h"
25 #include "llvm/Support/Compiler.h"
28 STATISTIC(NumLowered, "Number of allocations lowered");
31 /// LowerAllocations - Turn malloc and free instructions into %malloc and
34 class VISIBILITY_HIDDEN LowerAllocations : public BasicBlockPass {
35 Constant *MallocFunc; // Functions in the module we are processing
36 Constant *FreeFunc; // Initialized by doInitialization
37 bool LowerMallocArgToInteger;
39 static char ID; // Pass ID, replacement for typeid
40 explicit LowerAllocations(bool LowerToInt = false)
41 : BasicBlockPass((intptr_t)&ID), MallocFunc(0), FreeFunc(0),
42 LowerMallocArgToInteger(LowerToInt) {}
44 virtual void getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage &AU) const {
45 AU.addRequired<TargetData>();
48 // This is a cluster of orthogonal Transforms:
49 AU.addPreserved<UnifyFunctionExitNodes>();
50 AU.addPreservedID(PromoteMemoryToRegisterID);
51 AU.addPreservedID(LowerSwitchID);
52 AU.addPreservedID(LowerInvokePassID);
55 /// doPassInitialization - For the lower allocations pass, this ensures that
56 /// a module contains a declaration for a malloc and a free function.
58 bool doInitialization(Module &M);
60 virtual bool doInitialization(Function &F) {
61 return BasicBlockPass::doInitialization(F);
64 /// runOnBasicBlock - This method does the actual work of converting
65 /// instructions over, assuming that the pass has already been initialized.
67 bool runOnBasicBlock(BasicBlock &BB);
71 char LowerAllocations::ID = 0;
72 static RegisterPass<LowerAllocations>
73 X("lowerallocs", "Lower allocations from instructions to calls");
75 // Publically exposed interface to pass...
76 const PassInfo *const llvm::LowerAllocationsID = &X;
77 // createLowerAllocationsPass - Interface to this file...
78 Pass *llvm::createLowerAllocationsPass(bool LowerMallocArgToInteger) {
79 return new LowerAllocations(LowerMallocArgToInteger);
83 // doInitialization - For the lower allocations pass, this ensures that a
84 // module contains a declaration for a malloc and a free function.
86 // This function is always successful.
88 bool LowerAllocations::doInitialization(Module &M) {
89 const Type *BPTy = PointerType::getUnqual(Type::Int8Ty);
90 // Prototype malloc as "char* malloc(...)", because we don't know in
91 // doInitialization whether size_t is int or long.
92 FunctionType *FT = FunctionType::get(BPTy, std::vector<const Type*>(), true);
93 MallocFunc = M.getOrInsertFunction("malloc", FT);
94 FreeFunc = M.getOrInsertFunction("free" , Type::VoidTy, BPTy, (Type *)0);
98 // runOnBasicBlock - This method does the actual work of converting
99 // instructions over, assuming that the pass has already been initialized.
101 bool LowerAllocations::runOnBasicBlock(BasicBlock &BB) {
102 bool Changed = false;
103 assert(MallocFunc && FreeFunc && "Pass not initialized!");
105 BasicBlock::InstListType &BBIL = BB.getInstList();
107 const TargetData &TD = getAnalysis<TargetData>();
108 const Type *IntPtrTy = TD.getIntPtrType();
110 // Loop over all of the instructions, looking for malloc or free instructions
111 for (BasicBlock::iterator I = BB.begin(), E = BB.end(); I != E; ++I) {
112 if (MallocInst *MI = dyn_cast<MallocInst>(I)) {
113 const Type *AllocTy = MI->getType()->getElementType();
115 // malloc(type) becomes sbyte *malloc(size)
117 if (LowerMallocArgToInteger)
118 MallocArg = ConstantInt::get(Type::Int64Ty, TD.getABITypeSize(AllocTy));
120 MallocArg = ConstantExpr::getSizeOf(AllocTy);
121 MallocArg = ConstantExpr::getTruncOrBitCast(cast<Constant>(MallocArg),
124 if (MI->isArrayAllocation()) {
125 if (isa<ConstantInt>(MallocArg) &&
126 cast<ConstantInt>(MallocArg)->isOne()) {
127 MallocArg = MI->getOperand(0); // Operand * 1 = Operand
128 } else if (Constant *CO = dyn_cast<Constant>(MI->getOperand(0))) {
129 CO = ConstantExpr::getIntegerCast(CO, IntPtrTy, false /*ZExt*/);
130 MallocArg = ConstantExpr::getMul(CO, cast<Constant>(MallocArg));
132 Value *Scale = MI->getOperand(0);
133 if (Scale->getType() != IntPtrTy)
134 Scale = CastInst::CreateIntegerCast(Scale, IntPtrTy, false /*ZExt*/,
137 // Multiply it by the array size if necessary...
138 MallocArg = BinaryOperator::Create(Instruction::Mul, Scale,
143 // Create the call to Malloc.
144 CallInst *MCall = CallInst::Create(MallocFunc, MallocArg, "", I);
145 MCall->setTailCall();
147 // Create a cast instruction to convert to the right type...
149 if (MCall->getType() != Type::VoidTy)
150 MCast = new BitCastInst(MCall, MI->getType(), "", I);
152 MCast = Constant::getNullValue(MI->getType());
154 // Replace all uses of the old malloc inst with the cast inst
155 MI->replaceAllUsesWith(MCast);
156 I = --BBIL.erase(I); // remove and delete the malloc instr...
159 } else if (FreeInst *FI = dyn_cast<FreeInst>(I)) {
161 new BitCastInst(FI->getOperand(0),
162 PointerType::getUnqual(Type::Int8Ty), "", I);
164 // Insert a call to the free function...
165 CallInst::Create(FreeFunc, PtrCast, "", I)->setTailCall();
167 // Delete the old free instruction