Introduce bitset metadata format and bitset lowering pass.
authorPeter Collingbourne <peter@pcc.me.uk>
Fri, 20 Feb 2015 20:30:47 +0000 (20:30 +0000)
committerPeter Collingbourne <peter@pcc.me.uk>
Fri, 20 Feb 2015 20:30:47 +0000 (20:30 +0000)
commit5a81e143850a8e9dfa2cab9153b24f0464aa7837
tree2148acdc7c9a3dbf492325fcc8764845c0d498b9
parentb2e79a8e69d672c367a8a3fcb9138f80d7e3e7e0
Introduce bitset metadata format and bitset lowering pass.

This patch introduces a new mechanism that allows IR modules to co-operatively
build pointer sets corresponding to addresses within a given set of
globals. One particular use case for this is to allow a C++ program to
efficiently verify (at each call site) that a vtable pointer is in the set
of valid vtable pointers for the class or its derived classes. One way of
doing this is for a toolchain component to build, for each class, a bit set
that maps to the memory region allocated for the vtables, such that each 1
bit in the bit set maps to a valid vtable for that class, and lay out the
vtables next to each other, to minimize the total size of the bit sets.

The patch introduces a metadata format for representing pointer sets, an
'@llvm.bitset.test' intrinsic and an LTO lowering pass that lays out the globals
and builds the bitsets, and documents the new feature.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D7288

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@230054 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
21 files changed:
docs/BitSets.rst [new file with mode: 0644]
docs/LangRef.rst
docs/index.rst
include/llvm/ADT/EquivalenceClasses.h
include/llvm/ADT/PointerUnion.h
include/llvm/IR/Intrinsics.td
include/llvm/InitializePasses.h
include/llvm/Transforms/IPO.h
include/llvm/Transforms/IPO/LowerBitSets.h [new file with mode: 0644]
lib/Transforms/IPO/CMakeLists.txt
lib/Transforms/IPO/IPO.cpp
lib/Transforms/IPO/LowerBitSets.cpp [new file with mode: 0644]
lib/Transforms/IPO/PassManagerBuilder.cpp
test/Transforms/LowerBitSets/constant.ll [new file with mode: 0644]
test/Transforms/LowerBitSets/simple.ll [new file with mode: 0644]
test/Transforms/LowerBitSets/single-offset.ll [new file with mode: 0644]
unittests/Transforms/CMakeLists.txt
unittests/Transforms/IPO/CMakeLists.txt [new file with mode: 0644]
unittests/Transforms/IPO/LowerBitSets.cpp [new file with mode: 0644]
unittests/Transforms/IPO/Makefile [new file with mode: 0644]
unittests/Transforms/Makefile