//===- PlaceSafepoints.h - Place GC Safepoints ----------------------------===// // // Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions. // See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information. // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception // //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// // // Place garbage collection safepoints at appropriate locations in the IR. This // does not make relocation semantics or variable liveness explicit. That's // done by RewriteStatepointsForGC. // // Terminology: // - A call is said to be "parseable" if there is a stack map generated for the // return PC of the call. A runtime can determine where values listed in the // deopt arguments and (after RewriteStatepointsForGC) gc arguments are located // on the stack when the code is suspended inside such a call. Every parse // point is represented by a call wrapped in an gc.statepoint intrinsic. // - A "poll" is an explicit check in the generated code to determine if the // runtime needs the generated code to cooperate by calling a helper routine // and thus suspending its execution at a known state. The call to the helper // routine will be parseable. The (gc & runtime specific) logic of a poll is // assumed to be provided in a function of the name "gc.safepoint_poll". // // We aim to insert polls such that running code can quickly be brought to a // well defined state for inspection by the collector. In the current // implementation, this is done via the insertion of poll sites at method entry // and the backedge of most loops. We try to avoid inserting more polls than // are necessary to ensure a finite period between poll sites. This is not // because the poll itself is expensive in the generated code; it's not. Polls // do tend to impact the optimizer itself in negative ways; we'd like to avoid // perturbing the optimization of the method as much as we can. // // We also need to make most call sites parseable. The callee might execute a // poll (or otherwise be inspected by the GC). If so, the entire stack // (including the suspended frame of the current method) must be parseable. // // This pass will insert: // - Call parse points ("call safepoints") for any call which may need to // reach a safepoint during the execution of the callee function. // - Backedge safepoint polls and entry safepoint polls to ensure that // executing code reaches a safepoint poll in a finite amount of time. // // We do not currently support return statepoints, but adding them would not // be hard. They are not required for correctness - entry safepoints are an // alternative - but some GCs may prefer them. Patches welcome. // //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// #ifndef LLVM_TRANSFORMS_SCALAR_PLACESAFEPOINTS_H #define LLVM_TRANSFORMS_SCALAR_PLACESAFEPOINTS_H #include "llvm/IR/PassManager.h" namespace llvm { class TargetLibraryInfo; class PlaceSafepointsPass : public PassInfoMixin { public: PreservedAnalyses run(Function &F, FunctionAnalysisManager &AM); bool runImpl(Function &F, const TargetLibraryInfo &TLI); void cleanup() {} private: }; } // namespace llvm #endif // LLVM_TRANSFORMS_SCALAR_PLACESAFEPOINTS_H