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)
commite6909c8e8ba07acb5e6366186fe186c91054e93c
tree0e1f875c39059aa76d8ae64ba80136585d610aa0
parent0365675522ae4c7b754989d86c177875a52baa72
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

llvm-svn: 230054
21 files changed:
llvm/docs/BitSets.rst [new file with mode: 0644]
llvm/docs/LangRef.rst
llvm/docs/index.rst
llvm/include/llvm/ADT/EquivalenceClasses.h
llvm/include/llvm/ADT/PointerUnion.h
llvm/include/llvm/IR/Intrinsics.td
llvm/include/llvm/InitializePasses.h
llvm/include/llvm/Transforms/IPO.h
llvm/include/llvm/Transforms/IPO/LowerBitSets.h [new file with mode: 0644]
llvm/lib/Transforms/IPO/CMakeLists.txt
llvm/lib/Transforms/IPO/IPO.cpp
llvm/lib/Transforms/IPO/LowerBitSets.cpp [new file with mode: 0644]
llvm/lib/Transforms/IPO/PassManagerBuilder.cpp
llvm/test/Transforms/LowerBitSets/constant.ll [new file with mode: 0644]
llvm/test/Transforms/LowerBitSets/simple.ll [new file with mode: 0644]
llvm/test/Transforms/LowerBitSets/single-offset.ll [new file with mode: 0644]
llvm/unittests/Transforms/CMakeLists.txt
llvm/unittests/Transforms/IPO/CMakeLists.txt [new file with mode: 0644]
llvm/unittests/Transforms/IPO/LowerBitSets.cpp [new file with mode: 0644]
llvm/unittests/Transforms/IPO/Makefile [new file with mode: 0644]
llvm/unittests/Transforms/Makefile