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//===- Loads.cpp - Local load analysis ------------------------------------===//
//
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// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
//
// This file defines simple local analyses for load instructions.
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
#include "llvm/Analysis/Loads.h"
#include "llvm/Analysis/AliasAnalysis.h"
#include "llvm/Analysis/AssumeBundleQueries.h"
#include "llvm/Analysis/CaptureTracking.h"
#include "llvm/Analysis/LoopInfo.h"
#include "llvm/Analysis/MemoryBuiltins.h"
#include "llvm/Analysis/MemoryLocation.h"
#include "llvm/Analysis/ScalarEvolution.h"
#include "llvm/Analysis/ScalarEvolutionExpressions.h"
#include "llvm/Analysis/TargetLibraryInfo.h"
#include "llvm/Analysis/ValueTracking.h"
#include "llvm/IR/DataLayout.h"
#include "llvm/IR/GlobalAlias.h"
#include "llvm/IR/GlobalVariable.h"
#include "llvm/IR/IntrinsicInst.h"
#include "llvm/IR/LLVMContext.h"
#include "llvm/IR/Module.h"
#include "llvm/IR/Operator.h"
 
using namespace llvm;
 
static bool isAligned(const Value *Base, const APInt &Offset, Align Alignment,
                      const DataLayout &DL) {
  Align BA = Base->getPointerAlignment(DL);
  const APInt APAlign(Offset.getBitWidth(), Alignment.value());
  assert(APAlign.isPowerOf2() && "must be a power of 2!");
  return BA >= Alignment && !(Offset & (APAlign - 1));
}
 
/// Test if V is always a pointer to allocated and suitably aligned memory for
/// a simple load or store.
static bool isDereferenceableAndAlignedPointer(
    const Value *V, Align Alignment, const APInt &Size, const DataLayout &DL,
    const Instruction *CtxI, const DominatorTree *DT,
    const TargetLibraryInfo *TLI, SmallPtrSetImpl<const Value *> &Visited,
    unsigned MaxDepth) {
  assert(V->getType()->isPointerTy() && "Base must be pointer");
 
  // Recursion limit.
  if (MaxDepth-- == 0)
    return false;
 
  // Already visited?  Bail out, we've likely hit unreachable code.
  if (!Visited.insert(V).second)
    return false;
 
  // Note that it is not safe to speculate into a malloc'd region because
  // malloc may return null.
 
  // Recurse into both hands of select.
  if (const SelectInst *Sel = dyn_cast<SelectInst>(V)) {
    return isDereferenceableAndAlignedPointer(Sel->getTrueValue(), Alignment,
                                              Size, DL, CtxI, DT, TLI, Visited,
                                              MaxDepth) &&
           isDereferenceableAndAlignedPointer(Sel->getFalseValue(), Alignment,
                                              Size, DL, CtxI, DT, TLI, Visited,
                                              MaxDepth);
  }
 
  // bitcast instructions are no-ops as far as dereferenceability is concerned.
  if (const BitCastOperator *BC = dyn_cast<BitCastOperator>(V)) {
    if (BC->getSrcTy()->isPointerTy())
      return isDereferenceableAndAlignedPointer(
          BC->getOperand(0), Alignment, Size, DL, CtxI, DT, TLI,
          Visited, MaxDepth);
  }
 
  bool CheckForNonNull, CheckForFreed;
  APInt KnownDerefBytes(Size.getBitWidth(),
                        V->getPointerDereferenceableBytes(DL, CheckForNonNull,
                                                          CheckForFreed));
  if (KnownDerefBytes.getBoolValue() && KnownDerefBytes.uge(Size) &&
      !CheckForFreed)
    if (!CheckForNonNull || isKnownNonZero(V, DL, 0, nullptr, CtxI, DT)) {
      // As we recursed through GEPs to get here, we've incrementally checked
      // that each step advanced by a multiple of the alignment. If our base is
      // properly aligned, then the original offset accessed must also be.
      Type *Ty = V->getType();
      assert(Ty->isSized() && "must be sized");
      APInt Offset(DL.getTypeStoreSizeInBits(Ty), 0);
      return isAligned(V, Offset, Alignment, DL);
    }
 
  if (CtxI) {
    /// Look through assumes to see if both dereferencability and alignment can
    /// be provent by an assume
    RetainedKnowledge AlignRK;
    RetainedKnowledge DerefRK;
    if (getKnowledgeForValue(
            V, {Attribute::Dereferenceable, Attribute::Alignment}, nullptr,
            [&](RetainedKnowledge RK, Instruction *Assume, auto) {
              if (!isValidAssumeForContext(Assume, CtxI))
                return false;
              if (RK.AttrKind == Attribute::Alignment)
                AlignRK = std::max(AlignRK, RK);
              if (RK.AttrKind == Attribute::Dereferenceable)
                DerefRK = std::max(DerefRK, RK);
              if (AlignRK && DerefRK && AlignRK.ArgValue >= Alignment.value() &&
                  DerefRK.ArgValue >= Size.getZExtValue())
                return true; // We have found what we needed so we stop looking
              return false;  // Other assumes may have better information. so
                             // keep looking
            }))
      return true;
  }
  /// TODO refactor this function to be able to search independently for
  /// Dereferencability and Alignment requirements.
 
  // For GEPs, determine if the indexing lands within the allocated object.
  if (const GEPOperator *GEP = dyn_cast<GEPOperator>(V)) {
    const Value *Base = GEP->getPointerOperand();
 
    APInt Offset(DL.getIndexTypeSizeInBits(GEP->getType()), 0);
    if (!GEP->accumulateConstantOffset(DL, Offset) || Offset.isNegative() ||
        !Offset.urem(APInt(Offset.getBitWidth(), Alignment.value()))
             .isMinValue())
      return false;
 
    // If the base pointer is dereferenceable for Offset+Size bytes, then the
    // GEP (== Base + Offset) is dereferenceable for Size bytes.  If the base
    // pointer is aligned to Align bytes, and the Offset is divisible by Align
    // then the GEP (== Base + Offset == k_0 * Align + k_1 * Align) is also
    // aligned to Align bytes.
 
    // Offset and Size may have different bit widths if we have visited an
    // addrspacecast, so we can't do arithmetic directly on the APInt values.
    return isDereferenceableAndAlignedPointer(
        Base, Alignment, Offset + Size.sextOrTrunc(Offset.getBitWidth()), DL,
        CtxI, DT, TLI, Visited, MaxDepth);
  }
 
  // For gc.relocate, look through relocations
  if (const GCRelocateInst *RelocateInst = dyn_cast<GCRelocateInst>(V))
    return isDereferenceableAndAlignedPointer(RelocateInst->getDerivedPtr(),
                                              Alignment, Size, DL, CtxI, DT,
                                              TLI, Visited, MaxDepth);
 
  if (const AddrSpaceCastInst *ASC = dyn_cast<AddrSpaceCastInst>(V))
    return isDereferenceableAndAlignedPointer(ASC->getOperand(0), Alignment,
                                              Size, DL, CtxI, DT, TLI,
                                              Visited, MaxDepth);
 
  if (const auto *Call = dyn_cast<CallBase>(V)) {
    if (auto *RP = getArgumentAliasingToReturnedPointer(Call, true))
      return isDereferenceableAndAlignedPointer(RP, Alignment, Size, DL, CtxI,
                                                DT, TLI, Visited, MaxDepth);
 
    // If we have a call we can't recurse through, check to see if this is an
    // allocation function for which we can establish an minimum object size.
    // Such a minimum object size is analogous to a deref_or_null attribute in
    // that we still need to prove the result non-null at point of use.
    // NOTE: We can only use the object size as a base fact as we a) need to
    // prove alignment too, and b) don't want the compile time impact of a
    // separate recursive walk.
    ObjectSizeOpts Opts;
    // TODO: It may be okay to round to align, but that would imply that
    // accessing slightly out of bounds was legal, and we're currently
    // inconsistent about that.  For the moment, be conservative.
    Opts.RoundToAlign = false;
    Opts.NullIsUnknownSize = true;
    uint64_t ObjSize;
    if (getObjectSize(V, ObjSize, DL, TLI, Opts)) {
      APInt KnownDerefBytes(Size.getBitWidth(), ObjSize);
      if (KnownDerefBytes.getBoolValue() && KnownDerefBytes.uge(Size) &&
          isKnownNonZero(V, DL, 0, nullptr, CtxI, DT) && !V->canBeFreed()) {
        // As we recursed through GEPs to get here, we've incrementally
        // checked that each step advanced by a multiple of the alignment. If
        // our base is properly aligned, then the original offset accessed
        // must also be. 
        Type *Ty = V->getType();
        assert(Ty->isSized() && "must be sized");
        APInt Offset(DL.getTypeStoreSizeInBits(Ty), 0);
        return isAligned(V, Offset, Alignment, DL);
      }
    }
  }
 
  // If we don't know, assume the worst.
  return false;
}
 
bool llvm::isDereferenceableAndAlignedPointer(const Value *V, Align Alignment,
                                              const APInt &Size,
                                              const DataLayout &DL,
                                              const Instruction *CtxI,
                                              const DominatorTree *DT,
                                              const TargetLibraryInfo *TLI) {
  // Note: At the moment, Size can be zero.  This ends up being interpreted as
  // a query of whether [Base, V] is dereferenceable and V is aligned (since
  // that's what the implementation happened to do).  It's unclear if this is
  // the desired semantic, but at least SelectionDAG does exercise this case.
 
  SmallPtrSet<const Value *, 32> Visited;
  return ::isDereferenceableAndAlignedPointer(V, Alignment, Size, DL, CtxI, DT,
                                              TLI, Visited, 16);
}
 
bool llvm::isDereferenceableAndAlignedPointer(const Value *V, Type *Ty,
                                              MaybeAlign MA,
                                              const DataLayout &DL,
                                              const Instruction *CtxI,
                                              const DominatorTree *DT,
                                              const TargetLibraryInfo *TLI) {
  // For unsized types or scalable vectors we don't know exactly how many bytes
  // are dereferenced, so bail out.
  if (!Ty->isSized() || isa<ScalableVectorType>(Ty))
    return false;
 
  // When dereferenceability information is provided by a dereferenceable
  // attribute, we know exactly how many bytes are dereferenceable. If we can
  // determine the exact offset to the attributed variable, we can use that
  // information here.
 
  // Require ABI alignment for loads without alignment specification
  const Align Alignment = DL.getValueOrABITypeAlignment(MA, Ty);
  APInt AccessSize(DL.getPointerTypeSizeInBits(V->getType()),
                   DL.getTypeStoreSize(Ty));
  return isDereferenceableAndAlignedPointer(V, Alignment, AccessSize, DL, CtxI,
                                            DT, TLI);
}
 
bool llvm::isDereferenceablePointer(const Value *V, Type *Ty,
                                    const DataLayout &DL,
                                    const Instruction *CtxI,
                                    const DominatorTree *DT,
                                    const TargetLibraryInfo *TLI) {
  return isDereferenceableAndAlignedPointer(V, Ty, Align(1), DL, CtxI, DT, TLI);
}
 
/// Test if A and B will obviously have the same value.
///
/// This includes recognizing that %t0 and %t1 will have the same
/// value in code like this:
/// \code
///   %t0 = getelementptr \@a, 0, 3
///   store i32 0, i32* %t0
///   %t1 = getelementptr \@a, 0, 3
///   %t2 = load i32* %t1
/// \endcode
///
static bool AreEquivalentAddressValues(const Value *A, const Value *B) {
  // Test if the values are trivially equivalent.
  if (A == B)
    return true;
 
  // Test if the values come from identical arithmetic instructions.
  // Use isIdenticalToWhenDefined instead of isIdenticalTo because
  // this function is only used when one address use dominates the
  // other, which means that they'll always either have the same
  // value or one of them will have an undefined value.
  if (isa<BinaryOperator>(A) || isa<CastInst>(A) || isa<PHINode>(A) ||
      isa<GetElementPtrInst>(A))
    if (const Instruction *BI = dyn_cast<Instruction>(B))
      if (cast<Instruction>(A)->isIdenticalToWhenDefined(BI))
        return true;
 
  // Otherwise they may not be equivalent.
  return false;
}
 
bool llvm::isDereferenceableAndAlignedInLoop(LoadInst *LI, Loop *L,
                                             ScalarEvolution &SE,
                                             DominatorTree &DT) {
  auto &DL = LI->getModule()->getDataLayout();
  Value *Ptr = LI->getPointerOperand();
 
  APInt EltSize(DL.getIndexTypeSizeInBits(Ptr->getType()),
                DL.getTypeStoreSize(LI->getType()).getFixedSize());
  const Align Alignment = LI->getAlign();
 
  Instruction *HeaderFirstNonPHI = L->getHeader()->getFirstNonPHI();
 
  // If given a uniform (i.e. non-varying) address, see if we can prove the
  // access is safe within the loop w/o needing predication.
  if (L->isLoopInvariant(Ptr))
    return isDereferenceableAndAlignedPointer(Ptr, Alignment, EltSize, DL,
                                              HeaderFirstNonPHI, &DT);
 
  // Otherwise, check to see if we have a repeating access pattern where we can
  // prove that all accesses are well aligned and dereferenceable.
  auto *AddRec = dyn_cast<SCEVAddRecExpr>(SE.getSCEV(Ptr));
  if (!AddRec || AddRec->getLoop() != L || !AddRec->isAffine())
    return false;
  auto* Step = dyn_cast<SCEVConstant>(AddRec->getStepRecurrence(SE));
  if (!Step)
    return false;
  // TODO: generalize to access patterns which have gaps
  if (Step->getAPInt() != EltSize)
    return false;
 
  auto TC = SE.getSmallConstantMaxTripCount(L);
  if (!TC)
    return false;
 
  const APInt AccessSize = TC * EltSize;
 
  auto *StartS = dyn_cast<SCEVUnknown>(AddRec->getStart());
  if (!StartS)
    return false;
  assert(SE.isLoopInvariant(StartS, L) && "implied by addrec definition");
  Value *Base = StartS->getValue();
 
  // For the moment, restrict ourselves to the case where the access size is a
  // multiple of the requested alignment and the base is aligned.
  // TODO: generalize if a case found which warrants
  if (EltSize.urem(Alignment.value()) != 0)
    return false;
  return isDereferenceableAndAlignedPointer(Base, Alignment, AccessSize, DL,
                                            HeaderFirstNonPHI, &DT);
}
 
/// Check if executing a load of this pointer value cannot trap.
///
/// If DT and ScanFrom are specified this method performs context-sensitive
/// analysis and returns true if it is safe to load immediately before ScanFrom.
///
/// If it is not obviously safe to load from the specified pointer, we do
/// a quick local scan of the basic block containing \c ScanFrom, to determine
/// if the address is already accessed.
///
/// This uses the pointee type to determine how many bytes need to be safe to
/// load from the pointer.
bool llvm::isSafeToLoadUnconditionally(Value *V, Align Alignment, APInt &Size,
                                       const DataLayout &DL,
                                       Instruction *ScanFrom,
                                       const DominatorTree *DT,
                                       const TargetLibraryInfo *TLI) {
  // If DT is not specified we can't make context-sensitive query
  const Instruction* CtxI = DT ? ScanFrom : nullptr;
  if (isDereferenceableAndAlignedPointer(V, Alignment, Size, DL, CtxI, DT, TLI))
    return true;
 
  if (!ScanFrom)
    return false;
 
  if (Size.getBitWidth() > 64)
    return false;
  const uint64_t LoadSize = Size.getZExtValue();
 
  // Otherwise, be a little bit aggressive by scanning the local block where we
  // want to check to see if the pointer is already being loaded or stored
  // from/to.  If so, the previous load or store would have already trapped,
  // so there is no harm doing an extra load (also, CSE will later eliminate
  // the load entirely).
  BasicBlock::iterator BBI = ScanFrom->getIterator(),
                       E = ScanFrom->getParent()->begin();
 
  // We can at least always strip pointer casts even though we can't use the
  // base here.
  V = V->stripPointerCasts();
 
  while (BBI != E) {
    --BBI;
 
    // If we see a free or a call which may write to memory (i.e. which might do
    // a free) the pointer could be marked invalid.
    if (isa<CallInst>(BBI) && BBI->mayWriteToMemory() &&
        !isa<DbgInfoIntrinsic>(BBI))
      return false;
 
    Value *AccessedPtr;
    Type *AccessedTy;
    Align AccessedAlign;
    if (LoadInst *LI = dyn_cast<LoadInst>(BBI)) {
      // Ignore volatile loads. The execution of a volatile load cannot
      // be used to prove an address is backed by regular memory; it can,
      // for example, point to an MMIO register.
      if (LI->isVolatile())
        continue;
      AccessedPtr = LI->getPointerOperand();
      AccessedTy = LI->getType();
      AccessedAlign = LI->getAlign();
    } else if (StoreInst *SI = dyn_cast<StoreInst>(BBI)) {
      // Ignore volatile stores (see comment for loads).
      if (SI->isVolatile())
        continue;
      AccessedPtr = SI->getPointerOperand();
      AccessedTy = SI->getValueOperand()->getType();
      AccessedAlign = SI->getAlign();
    } else
      continue;
 
    if (AccessedAlign < Alignment)
      continue;
 
    // Handle trivial cases.
    if (AccessedPtr == V &&
        LoadSize <= DL.getTypeStoreSize(AccessedTy))
      return true;
 
    if (AreEquivalentAddressValues(AccessedPtr->stripPointerCasts(), V) &&
        LoadSize <= DL.getTypeStoreSize(AccessedTy))
      return true;
  }
  return false;
}
 
bool llvm::isSafeToLoadUnconditionally(Value *V, Type *Ty, Align Alignment,
                                       const DataLayout &DL,
                                       Instruction *ScanFrom,
                                       const DominatorTree *DT,
                                       const TargetLibraryInfo *TLI) {
  APInt Size(DL.getIndexTypeSizeInBits(V->getType()), DL.getTypeStoreSize(Ty));
  return isSafeToLoadUnconditionally(V, Alignment, Size, DL, ScanFrom, DT, TLI);
}
 
/// DefMaxInstsToScan - the default number of maximum instructions
/// to scan in the block, used by FindAvailableLoadedValue().
/// FindAvailableLoadedValue() was introduced in r60148, to improve jump
/// threading in part by eliminating partially redundant loads.
/// At that point, the value of MaxInstsToScan was already set to '6'
/// without documented explanation.
cl::opt<unsigned>
llvm::DefMaxInstsToScan("available-load-scan-limit", cl::init(6), cl::Hidden,
  cl::desc("Use this to specify the default maximum number of instructions "
           "to scan backward from a given instruction, when searching for "
           "available loaded value"));
 
Value *llvm::FindAvailableLoadedValue(LoadInst *Load,
                                      BasicBlock *ScanBB,
                                      BasicBlock::iterator &ScanFrom,
                                      unsigned MaxInstsToScan,
                                      AAResults *AA, bool *IsLoad,
                                      unsigned *NumScanedInst) {
  // Don't CSE load that is volatile or anything stronger than unordered.
  if (!Load->isUnordered())
    return nullptr;
 
  MemoryLocation Loc = MemoryLocation::get(Load);
  return findAvailablePtrLoadStore(Loc, Load->getType(), Load->isAtomic(),
                                   ScanBB, ScanFrom, MaxInstsToScan, AA, IsLoad,
                                   NumScanedInst);
}
 
// Check if the load and the store have the same base, constant offsets and
// non-overlapping access ranges.
static bool areNonOverlapSameBaseLoadAndStore(const Value *LoadPtr,
                                              Type *LoadTy,
                                              const Value *StorePtr,
                                              Type *StoreTy,
                                              const DataLayout &DL) {
  APInt LoadOffset(DL.getTypeSizeInBits(LoadPtr->getType()), 0);
  APInt StoreOffset(DL.getTypeSizeInBits(StorePtr->getType()), 0);
  const Value *LoadBase = LoadPtr->stripAndAccumulateConstantOffsets(
      DL, LoadOffset, /* AllowNonInbounds */ false);
  const Value *StoreBase = StorePtr->stripAndAccumulateConstantOffsets(
      DL, StoreOffset, /* AllowNonInbounds */ false);
  if (LoadBase != StoreBase)
    return false;
  auto LoadAccessSize = LocationSize::precise(DL.getTypeStoreSize(LoadTy));
  auto StoreAccessSize = LocationSize::precise(DL.getTypeStoreSize(StoreTy));
  ConstantRange LoadRange(LoadOffset,
                          LoadOffset + LoadAccessSize.toRaw());
  ConstantRange StoreRange(StoreOffset,
                           StoreOffset + StoreAccessSize.toRaw());
  return LoadRange.intersectWith(StoreRange).isEmptySet();
}
 
static Value *getAvailableLoadStore(Instruction *Inst, const Value *Ptr,
                                    Type *AccessTy, bool AtLeastAtomic,
                                    const DataLayout &DL, bool *IsLoadCSE) {
  // If this is a load of Ptr, the loaded value is available.
  // (This is true even if the load is volatile or atomic, although
  // those cases are unlikely.)
  if (LoadInst *LI = dyn_cast<LoadInst>(Inst)) {
    // We can value forward from an atomic to a non-atomic, but not the
    // other way around.
    if (LI->isAtomic() < AtLeastAtomic)
      return nullptr;
 
    Value *LoadPtr = LI->getPointerOperand()->stripPointerCasts();
    if (!AreEquivalentAddressValues(LoadPtr, Ptr))
      return nullptr;
 
    if (CastInst::isBitOrNoopPointerCastable(LI->getType(), AccessTy, DL)) {
      if (IsLoadCSE)
        *IsLoadCSE = true;
      return LI;
    }
  }
 
  // If this is a store through Ptr, the value is available!
  // (This is true even if the store is volatile or atomic, although
  // those cases are unlikely.)
  if (StoreInst *SI = dyn_cast<StoreInst>(Inst)) {
    // We can value forward from an atomic to a non-atomic, but not the
    // other way around.
    if (SI->isAtomic() < AtLeastAtomic)
      return nullptr;
 
    Value *StorePtr = SI->getPointerOperand()->stripPointerCasts();
    if (!AreEquivalentAddressValues(StorePtr, Ptr))
      return nullptr;
 
    if (IsLoadCSE)
      *IsLoadCSE = false;
 
    Value *Val = SI->getValueOperand();
    if (CastInst::isBitOrNoopPointerCastable(Val->getType(), AccessTy, DL))
      return Val;
 
    if (auto *C = dyn_cast<Constant>(Val))
      return ConstantFoldLoadThroughBitcast(C, AccessTy, DL);
  }
 
  return nullptr;
}
 
Value *llvm::findAvailablePtrLoadStore(
    const MemoryLocation &Loc, Type *AccessTy, bool AtLeastAtomic,
    BasicBlock *ScanBB, BasicBlock::iterator &ScanFrom, unsigned MaxInstsToScan,
    AAResults *AA, bool *IsLoadCSE, unsigned *NumScanedInst) {
  if (MaxInstsToScan == 0)
    MaxInstsToScan = ~0U;
 
  const DataLayout &DL = ScanBB->getModule()->getDataLayout();
  const Value *StrippedPtr = Loc.Ptr->stripPointerCasts();
 
  while (ScanFrom != ScanBB->begin()) {
    // We must ignore debug info directives when counting (otherwise they
    // would affect codegen).
    Instruction *Inst = &*--ScanFrom;
    if (isa<DbgInfoIntrinsic>(Inst))
      continue;
 
    // Restore ScanFrom to expected value in case next test succeeds
    ScanFrom++;
 
    if (NumScanedInst)
      ++(*NumScanedInst);
 
    // Don't scan huge blocks.
    if (MaxInstsToScan-- == 0)
      return nullptr;
 
    --ScanFrom;
 
    if (Value *Available = getAvailableLoadStore(Inst, StrippedPtr, AccessTy,
                                                 AtLeastAtomic, DL, IsLoadCSE))
      return Available;
 
    // Try to get the store size for the type.
    if (StoreInst *SI = dyn_cast<StoreInst>(Inst)) {
      Value *StorePtr = SI->getPointerOperand()->stripPointerCasts();
 
      // If both StrippedPtr and StorePtr reach all the way to an alloca or
      // global and they are different, ignore the store. This is a trivial form
      // of alias analysis that is important for reg2mem'd code.
      if ((isa<AllocaInst>(StrippedPtr) || isa<GlobalVariable>(StrippedPtr)) &&
          (isa<AllocaInst>(StorePtr) || isa<GlobalVariable>(StorePtr)) &&
          StrippedPtr != StorePtr)
        continue;
 
      if (!AA) {
        // When AA isn't available, but if the load and the store have the same
        // base, constant offsets and non-overlapping access ranges, ignore the
        // store. This is a simple form of alias analysis that is used by the
        // inliner. FIXME: use BasicAA if possible.
        if (areNonOverlapSameBaseLoadAndStore(
                Loc.Ptr, AccessTy, SI->getPointerOperand(),
                SI->getValueOperand()->getType(), DL))
          continue;
      } else {
        // If we have alias analysis and it says the store won't modify the
        // loaded value, ignore the store.
        if (!isModSet(AA->getModRefInfo(SI, Loc)))
          continue;
      }
 
      // Otherwise the store that may or may not alias the pointer, bail out.
      ++ScanFrom;
      return nullptr;
    }
 
    // If this is some other instruction that may clobber Ptr, bail out.
    if (Inst->mayWriteToMemory()) {
      // If alias analysis claims that it really won't modify the load,
      // ignore it.
      if (AA && !isModSet(AA->getModRefInfo(Inst, Loc)))
        continue;
 
      // May modify the pointer, bail out.
      ++ScanFrom;
      return nullptr;
    }
  }
 
  // Got to the start of the block, we didn't find it, but are done for this
  // block.
  return nullptr;
}
 
Value *llvm::FindAvailableLoadedValue(LoadInst *Load, AAResults &AA,
                                      bool *IsLoadCSE,
                                      unsigned MaxInstsToScan) {
  const DataLayout &DL = Load->getModule()->getDataLayout();
  Value *StrippedPtr = Load->getPointerOperand()->stripPointerCasts();
  BasicBlock *ScanBB = Load->getParent();
  Type *AccessTy = Load->getType();
  bool AtLeastAtomic = Load->isAtomic();
 
  if (!Load->isUnordered())
    return nullptr;
 
  // Try to find an available value first, and delay expensive alias analysis
  // queries until later.
  Value *Available = nullptr;;
  SmallVector<Instruction *> MustNotAliasInsts;
  for (Instruction &Inst : make_range(++Load->getReverseIterator(),
                                      ScanBB->rend())) {
    if (isa<DbgInfoIntrinsic>(&Inst))
      continue;
 
    if (MaxInstsToScan-- == 0)
      return nullptr;
 
    Available = getAvailableLoadStore(&Inst, StrippedPtr, AccessTy,
                                      AtLeastAtomic, DL, IsLoadCSE);
    if (Available)
      break;
 
    if (Inst.mayWriteToMemory())
      MustNotAliasInsts.push_back(&Inst);
  }
 
  // If we found an available value, ensure that the instructions in between
  // did not modify the memory location.
  if (Available) {
    MemoryLocation Loc = MemoryLocation::get(Load);
    for (Instruction *Inst : MustNotAliasInsts)
      if (isModSet(AA.getModRefInfo(Inst, Loc)))
        return nullptr;
  }
 
  return Available;
}
 
bool llvm::canReplacePointersIfEqual(Value *A, Value *B, const DataLayout &DL,
                                     Instruction *CtxI) {
  Type *Ty = A->getType();
  assert(Ty == B->getType() && Ty->isPointerTy() &&
         "values must have matching pointer types");
 
  // NOTE: The checks in the function are incomplete and currently miss illegal
  // cases! The current implementation is a starting point and the
  // implementation should be made stricter over time.
  if (auto *C = dyn_cast<Constant>(B)) {
    // Do not allow replacing a pointer with a constant pointer, unless it is
    // either null or at least one byte is dereferenceable.
    APInt OneByte(DL.getPointerTypeSizeInBits(Ty), 1);
    return C->isNullValue() ||
           isDereferenceableAndAlignedPointer(B, Align(1), OneByte, DL, CtxI);
  }
 
  return true;
}