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memssa.rs

1//! Memory SSA: the chain, and the budgeted walk back to the store a load sees.
2//!
3//! Design: `spec/optimizer/09-memory-ssa.md`. The representation is in `rucc-ir` and this is what
4//! builds it and what reads it.
5//!
6//! # One variable
7//!
8//! GCC has had this since 2004 and calls it virtual operands: a statement that reads memory
9//! carries a VUSE, one that writes memory carries a VDEF, and both are versions of one artificial
10//! variable called `.MEM`. LLVM calls the same three things `MemoryUse`, `MemoryDef` and
11//! `MemoryPhi`. The idea in both is to reuse the scalar SSA machinery for memory by pretending
12//! memory is one scalar, and it is the right idea, so this does the same.
13//!
14//! The consequence is that the def-use chain over memory is maximally conservative. Every store
15//! kills every load, structurally. All of the precision comes from walking it, which is what
16//! [`Walk::clobber`] does.
17//!
18//! [`build`] is the construction: place a memory parameter at every join the memory versions
19//! reach, which is the same iterated dominance frontier that SSA construction uses, and thread
20//! the operand through every instruction that touches memory. A memory phi is an ordinary block
21//! parameter, so nothing here is a side table and the CFG updates that keep memory SSA in step
22//! with the blocks are the ones every other value already needed.
23//!
24//! # The walk
25//!
26//! [`Walk::clobber`] is GCC's `walk_non_aliased_vuses` at `gcc/tree-ssa-alias.cc:3915`. Given the
27//! version of memory a load reads, it walks back through the defs, asks the alias analysis at each
28//! one whether that def could have written what the load reads, and stops at the first one that
29//! could. Two parts of GCC's interface are worth copying and both are here.
30//!
31//! **The budget.** `sccvn-max-alias-queries-per-access`, default 1000 at `gcc/params.opt:1020`,
32//! and it is [`MAX_ALIAS_QUERIES_PER_ACCESS`] here under the same name, because a user who knows
33//! to raise GCC's should not have to learn a second one. The walk is worst case quadratic: every
34//! load can walk back through every store and each step is an alias query, so a function with a
35//! thousand of each and no disambiguation is a million queries per pass that uses it, and there
36//! are four such passes. Exceeding the budget gives [`Clobber::Unknown`], which is not an answer
37//! and is not a no.
38//!
39//! **`translate`.** When the walk reaches a def it cannot see past, the caller may adjust the
40//! reference and carry on, which is [`Step::Retry`]. This is what lets value numbering follow a
41//! load through a `memcpy` by rewriting the reference to the copy's source, and section 9.2 says
42//! it is the mechanism behind a surprising fraction of GCC's memory optimization. Without it the
43//! walk is a stopping condition. With it, it is a way to rewrite the question.
44//!
45//! A rewrite is counted, as [`Counts::rewritten`], for the same reason the steps and the budget
46//! exhaustions are: it is the one thing in the walk that starts the walk again, so it is where the
47//! work goes when the work goes somewhere unexpected, and it is what says whether the callback is
48//! reaching anything at all on a build rather than only on the build somebody last looked at.
49//!
50//! # Five answers, not two
51//!
52//! [`Clobber`] has five variants and the shape of it is deliberate. Section 9.6 names two ways
53//! this goes wrong and the type is what rules both out.
54//!
55//! The first is a caller treating a budget exhaustion as a no. There is no `Option` anywhere in
56//! the return and there is no default arm to fall into, so [`Clobber::Unknown`] has to be handled
57//! by name.
58//!
59//! The second is partial overlap. A four byte store followed by a one byte load at offset one:
60//! the load sees the store, but it cannot be replaced by the stored value, because the byte it
61//! wants is somewhere inside that value and getting it out is a shift and a truncate. So a
62//! clobber that wrote exactly the bytes of the reference is [`Clobber::Exact`], one that wrote
63//! some of them is [`Clobber::Partial`], and one that may have written them is
64//! [`Clobber::Maybe`]. Section 9.5 says getting this down to two answers is a class of
65//! miscompilation.
66//!
67//! # What is conservative on purpose
68//!
69//! Every atomic and every fence is a full memory def and a full memory use. Section 9.5 says this
70//! is correct and it is what M4 should do, and that doing better means modelling the memory model
71//! rather than the memory, which is post-1.0. The failure mode it names is treating a relaxed
72//! atomic load as an ordinary load because it orders nothing: it orders nothing and it is still a
73//! load, and hoisting it out of a loop changes an observable. Atomics are never moved.
74//!
75//! `volatile` is checked before anything else and is never walked past. Alias analysis says
76//! nothing about how many times an access happens and `volatile` constrains that too, so it is a
77//! separate bit rather than a strong alias fact.
78//!
79//! # The cache
80//!
81//! There is not one. Section 9.3 is explicit: build the uncached walk, instrument how many alias
82//! queries a `-O2` compilation makes, and add caching only if that number is a measurable
83//! fraction of compile time. GCC has run without it for twenty years and LLVM's caching walker is
84//! a large part of its MemorySSA complexity and a known source of invalidation bugs. The
85//! instrumentation is the M4 deliverable and it is [`Counts`]. The number that decides it is the
86//! fraction of walks that end by exhausting the budget rather than by finding a clobber: above
87//! one percent and the budget is too small or the alias analysis is too weak, and both of those
88//! are better fixed than cached around.
89
90use std::collections::{HashMap, HashSet};
91
92use rucc_base::hash::Set;
93use rucc_ir::{Block, BlockCall, Def, Flags, Func, Inst, InstData, MemOrder, Opcode, Type, Value};
94
95use crate::alias::{Access, Alias, Answer, Options};
96use crate::cfg::Cfg;
97use crate::dom::Dominators;
98use crate::outside::Outside;
99
100/// How many alias queries one walk may make before it gives up.
101///
102/// GCC's `sccvn-max-alias-queries-per-access`, default 1000 at `gcc/params.opt:1020`, under the
103/// same name on purpose. Exceeding it gives [`Clobber::Unknown`] rather than a wrong answer.
104pub const MAX_ALIAS_QUERIES_PER_ACCESS: u32 = 1000;
105
106/// What the walk found.
107///
108/// Five variants, and section 9.6 is why. Three of them are a clobber and they differ in how much
109/// of the reference the clobber covers, because a caller that cannot tell `Exact` from `Partial`
110/// replaces a one byte load with the wrong byte of a four byte store. The other two are the ways
111/// a walk ends without one, and `Unknown` is not a no.
112#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
113pub enum Clobber {
114    /// This instruction wrote exactly the bytes the reference covers.
115    ///
116    /// The only answer redundant load elimination may act on by taking the stored value, and
117    /// even then only after checking the two types are the same width.
118    Exact(Inst),
119    /// This instruction wrote some of the reference, or wrote all of it and more.
120    ///
121    /// The load sees it, and what it sees cannot be had without taking part of what was stored
122    /// or combining it with something else, which is document 16's decision rather than this
123    /// one's.
124    Partial(Inst),
125    /// This instruction may have written the reference, and there is no telling how much.
126    Maybe(Inst),
127    /// Nothing in this function wrote it. The walk reached the start of the chain.
128    NoClobber,
129    /// The walk ran out of budget, or the paths into a join disagreed. Nothing is known.
130    Unknown,
131}
132
133impl Clobber {
134    /// The instruction, for the three answers that name one.
135    #[must_use]
136    pub const fn inst(self) -> Option<Inst> {
137        match self {
138            Self::Exact(inst) | Self::Partial(inst) | Self::Maybe(inst) => Some(inst),
139            Self::NoClobber | Self::Unknown => None,
140        }
141    }
142}
143
144/// What a caller does when the walk reaches a def it cannot see past.
145///
146/// GCC's `translate` callback, section 9.2. A caller with no rewrite to offer says [`Step::Stop`]
147/// and gets the clobber. One that can see through the def rewrites the reference and the walk
148/// carries on with the new one.
149#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
150pub enum Step {
151    /// Stop here. This is the answer.
152    Stop,
153    /// Carry on past this def, asking about this reference instead.
154    Retry(Access),
155}
156
157/// What the walks have cost, which section 9.7 asks for as its own counter.
158///
159/// The walk is charged to whichever pass made it, so `-ftime-report` shows it under GVN and PRE
160/// and not under memory SSA. That is misleading, and the fix section 9.7 asks for is to report
161/// the step count separately from the wall time, because it is the thing to look at when a
162/// pathological input turns up.
163#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
164pub struct Counts {
165    walks: u64,
166    steps: u64,
167    exhausted: u64,
168    rewritten: u64,
169}
170
171impl Counts {
172    /// How many walks were made.
173    #[must_use]
174    pub const fn walks(&self) -> u64 {
175        self.walks
176    }
177
178    /// How many defs those walks looked at, which is one alias query each.
179    #[must_use]
180    pub const fn steps(&self) -> u64 {
181        self.steps
182    }
183
184    /// How many walks ended by running out of budget.
185    ///
186    /// This is the number section 9.3 says decides whether the cache gets built. Above one
187    /// percent of walks and the budget is too small or the alias analysis is too weak.
188    #[must_use]
189    pub const fn exhausted(&self) -> u64 {
190        self.exhausted
191    }
192
193    /// How many times a caller rewrote the reference and the walk carried on with the new one.
194    ///
195    /// A rewrite starts a walk of its own, so this is both how much work the `translate` callback
196    /// is asking for and how much it is getting, and it is the counter that says whether the
197    /// callback is doing anything at all on a given build.
198    #[must_use]
199    pub const fn rewritten(&self) -> u64 {
200        self.rewritten
201    }
202}
203
204/// Puts a function on the memory chain, and says whether it did.
205///
206/// Construction is the same iterated dominance frontier SSA construction uses, over one variable:
207/// the blocks that write memory are the definitions, the joins their versions reach get a memory
208/// parameter, and a walk of the dominator tree threads the operand through every instruction that
209/// touches memory. Linear with a dominance frontier factor, per section 9.7.
210///
211/// It gives back `false` and changes nothing for a function that has no memory operations at all,
212/// for a declaration, and for one that is already on the chain. The first of those is the reason
213/// the answer is a `bool` rather than nothing: a function with no memory in it must not get a
214/// `mem_entry`, because a chain that starts and reaches nothing is a chain the verifier turns
215/// down and a reader would have to interpret.
216pub fn build(func: &mut Func) -> bool {
217    let Some(entry) = func.entry() else {
218        return false;
219    };
220    let cfg = Cfg::new(func);
221    let doms = Dominators::new(&cfg);
222
223    // Where the writes are, which is where the versions of memory are defined.
224    let mut defs = vec![entry];
225    let mut any = false;
226    for block in func.blocks() {
227        // A block nothing reaches is one the verifier turns down on its own, and it is not on
228        // the dominator tree either, so threading would leave it off the chain and the chain
229        // would then be neither all of the function nor none of it. Running the cleanup that
230        // deletes it first is the caller's job.
231        if !cfg.reaches(block) {
232            return false;
233        }
234        let mut writes = false;
235        for inst in func.insts(block) {
236            if func.carries_mem(inst) {
237                return false;
238            }
239            let opcode = func[inst].opcode;
240            any |= opcode.touches_memory();
241            writes |= opcode.writes_memory();
242        }
243        if writes && block != entry {
244            defs.push(block);
245        }
246    }
247    // An entry block with nothing in it has no terminator either, so this is not a function the
248    // verifier would have let through and there is nothing sensible to build over it.
249    let Some(first) = func.insts(entry).next() else {
250        return false;
251    };
252    if !any {
253        return false;
254    }
255
256    let joins = iterated_frontier(&cfg, &doms, &defs);
257    let mut params = HashMap::new();
258    for block in func.blocks().collect::<Vec<_>>() {
259        if joins.contains(&block) {
260            params.insert(block, func.append_param(block, Type::MEM));
261        }
262    }
263
264    let start = start_of_chain(func, first);
265    let ends = thread(func, &doms, &params, entry, start);
266    pass_it_on(func, &params, &ends);
267    true
268}
269
270/// Takes the chain back off, and says whether it did.
271///
272/// The inverse of [`build`], and it is here because the back end has never seen memory SSA and is
273/// not going to: `rucc_codegen::capability` says outright that the chain comes off before it runs.
274/// Nothing was taking it off, so until this existed the only way to use the chain was to not use
275/// it. A pass that wants the walk builds the chain, does its work and strips it, which is a linear
276/// walk each way on top of whatever the pass itself costs.
277///
278/// Keeping the chain across passes instead would be cheaper and is a much bigger claim to make,
279/// since every edit to the control flow graph in the optimizer would have to keep the memory
280/// parameters in step with the blocks. That is worth wanting later and is not what this is.
281///
282/// Three things come off, in the order they have to. Every instruction on the chain loses its
283/// incoming version and its outgoing one, which is [`Func::without_mem`], and what it produced
284/// otherwise is forwarded to what the bare one produces. Every memory parameter comes off the
285/// block that has it and the matching argument comes off every branch to that block. The
286/// `mem_entry` at the top goes last, because until the rest is off it is a definition with
287/// readers.
288///
289/// It gives back `false` and changes nothing for a function that is not on the chain.
290pub fn strip(func: &mut Func) -> bool {
291    let mut forward: Vec<(Value, Value)> = Vec::new();
292    let mut gone: Vec<Inst> = Vec::new();
293    let mut entry = None;
294    for block in func.blocks().collect::<Vec<Block>>() {
295        for inst in func.insts(block).collect::<Vec<Inst>>() {
296            if func[inst].opcode == Opcode::MemEntry {
297                entry = Some(inst);
298                continue;
299            }
300            if !func.carries_mem(inst) {
301                continue;
302            }
303            let bare = func.without_mem(inst);
304            func.insert_before(bare, inst);
305            // The results the bare one kept are at the same positions, and the version of memory
306            // the old one produced is past the end of them, so zipping forwards exactly the ones
307            // that have somewhere to go.
308            for (old, new) in func[inst].results().zip(func[bare].results()) {
309                forward.push((old, new));
310            }
311            gone.push(inst);
312        }
313    }
314    if entry.is_none() && gone.is_empty() {
315        return false;
316    }
317    for inst in gone {
318        func.remove_inst(inst);
319    }
320    let forward: HashMap<Value, Value> = forward.into_iter().collect();
321    if !forward.is_empty() {
322        substitute(func, &forward);
323    }
324    drop_params(func);
325    if let Some(inst) = entry {
326        func.remove_inst(inst);
327    }
328    true
329}
330
331/// Takes the memory parameter off every block that has one, and the argument off every branch to
332/// it.
333///
334/// A parameter that goes has to take the argument in the same position out of every branch, and
335/// only the caller knows which branches there are, which is why [`Func::retain_params`] does not
336/// do it. The position is worked out before anything is removed, because renumbering the
337/// parameters and rewriting the arguments cannot both go first.
338fn drop_params(func: &mut Func) {
339    let mut at: HashMap<Block, Vec<usize>> = HashMap::new();
340    let mut going: HashSet<Value> = HashSet::new();
341    for block in func.blocks().collect::<Vec<Block>>() {
342        let mut keep = Vec::new();
343        for (index, &param) in func[block].params.iter().enumerate() {
344            if func[param].ty.is_mem() {
345                going.insert(param);
346            } else {
347                keep.push(index);
348            }
349        }
350        if keep.len() != func[block].params.len() {
351            at.insert(block, keep);
352        }
353    }
354    if at.is_empty() {
355        return;
356    }
357    for block in func.blocks().collect::<Vec<Block>>() {
358        let Some(terminator) = func.terminator(block) else {
359            continue;
360        };
361        for target in func.target_list(terminator).iter() {
362            let call = func[target];
363            let Some(keep) = at.get(&call.block) else {
364                continue;
365            };
366            let args: Vec<Value> = keep.iter().map(|&index| func[call.args][index]).collect();
367            let args = func.push_values(&args);
368            func.set_block_call(target, BlockCall { args, ..call });
369        }
370    }
371    for block in at.keys().copied().collect::<Vec<Block>>() {
372        func.retain_params(block, |param| !going.contains(&param));
373    }
374}
375
376/// The `mem_entry` above that instruction, which is where every chain starts.
377///
378/// It goes at the very top of the entry block, and the verifier insists on that: a start to the
379/// chain anywhere else would have instructions above it that are on the chain and reach a version
380/// of memory defined below them.
381fn start_of_chain(func: &mut Func, first: Inst) -> Value {
382    let span = func.span(first);
383    let inst = func.create_inst(InstData::new(Opcode::MemEntry), &[Type::MEM], span);
384    func.insert_before(inst, first);
385    func[inst].results().next().expect("mem_entry produces one value")
386}
387
388/// Threads the operand through every instruction that touches memory, and says which version of
389/// memory each block ends with.
390///
391/// The walk is over the dominator tree rather than the CFG, because the version reaching the top
392/// of a block is the one its immediate dominator ended with unless the block has a parameter of
393/// its own. That is the ordinary SSA renaming and memory is an ordinary variable here.
394fn thread(
395    func: &mut Func,
396    doms: &Dominators,
397    params: &HashMap<Block, Value>,
398    entry: Block,
399    start: Value,
400) -> HashMap<Block, Value> {
401    // An instruction cannot grow a result, so threading one makes a new instruction beside it and
402    // the old one goes away. What the old one produced is forwarded to what the new one produces,
403    // at the same positions, in one substitution at the end rather than as each is replaced,
404    // because an instruction threaded early can be an operand of one threaded late.
405    let mut forward: Vec<(Value, Value)> = Vec::new();
406    let mut ends = HashMap::new();
407    let mut stack = vec![(entry, start)];
408    while let Some((block, incoming)) = stack.pop() {
409        let mut current = params.get(&block).copied().unwrap_or(incoming);
410        for inst in func.insts(block).collect::<Vec<_>>() {
411            if !func[inst].opcode.touches_memory() {
412                continue;
413            }
414            let fresh = func.with_mem(inst, current);
415            func.insert_before(fresh, inst);
416            for (old, new) in func[inst].results().zip(func[fresh].results()) {
417                forward.push((old, new));
418            }
419            func.remove_inst(inst);
420            if let Some(next) = func.mem_out(fresh) {
421                current = next;
422            }
423        }
424        ends.insert(block, current);
425        stack.extend(doms.children(block).map(|child| (child, current)));
426    }
427
428    let forward: HashMap<Value, Value> = forward.into_iter().collect();
429    if !forward.is_empty() {
430        substitute(func, &forward);
431    }
432    ends
433}
434
435/// Replaces every use of what a threaded instruction produced with what its replacement produces.
436fn substitute(func: &mut Func, forward: &HashMap<Value, Value>) {
437    let with = |value: Value| forward.get(&value).copied().unwrap_or(value);
438    for block in func.blocks().collect::<Vec<_>>() {
439        for inst in func.insts(block).collect::<Vec<_>>() {
440            let args = func[inst].args;
441            func.rewrite(args, with);
442            for call in func.successors(inst).collect::<Vec<_>>() {
443                func.rewrite(call.args, with);
444            }
445        }
446    }
447    // And the names, which go where the readers went, for the same reason `crate::uses::substitute`
448    // moves them. A call is an instruction that carries memory and `int x = f();` names what one
449    // produced, so a value rewritten here can be a value a declaration is spelled by.
450    let mut moving: Vec<Value> = forward.keys().copied().collect();
451    moving.sort_unstable();
452    for from in moving {
453        func.rename_value(from, with(from));
454    }
455}
456
457/// Passes the version of memory each block ends with to the joins it branches to.
458fn pass_it_on(func: &mut Func, params: &HashMap<Block, Value>, ends: &HashMap<Block, Value>) {
459    for block in func.blocks().collect::<Vec<_>>() {
460        let Some(terminator) = func.terminator(block) else {
461            continue;
462        };
463        let Some(&value) = ends.get(&block) else {
464            continue;
465        };
466        for at in func.target_list(terminator).iter() {
467            let call = func[at];
468            if !params.contains_key(&call.block) {
469                continue;
470            }
471            // The memory parameter was appended last, so the argument goes last too, which is
472            // the same rule the operand follows and for the same reason.
473            let args = func.append_arg(call.args, value);
474            func.set_block_call(at, BlockCall { args, ..call });
475        }
476    }
477}
478
479/// The blocks that need a memory parameter, which is the iterated dominance frontier of the
480/// blocks that define a version of memory.
481fn iterated_frontier(cfg: &Cfg, doms: &Dominators, defs: &[Block]) -> HashSet<Block> {
482    let frontier = frontiers(cfg, doms);
483    let mut placed = HashSet::new();
484    let mut seen: HashSet<Block> = defs.iter().copied().collect();
485    let mut work: Vec<Block> = defs.to_vec();
486    while let Some(block) = work.pop() {
487        let Some(targets) = frontier.get(&block) else {
488            continue;
489        };
490        for &target in targets {
491            if placed.insert(target) && seen.insert(target) {
492                work.push(target);
493            }
494        }
495    }
496    placed
497}
498
499/// The dominance frontier of every block, by Cytron's walk from each join up to its immediate
500/// dominator.
501fn frontiers(cfg: &Cfg, doms: &Dominators) -> HashMap<Block, Vec<Block>> {
502    let mut frontier: HashMap<Block, Vec<Block>> = HashMap::new();
503    for block in cfg.reverse_postorder() {
504        let preds = cfg.predecessors(block);
505        if preds.len() < 2 {
506            continue;
507        }
508        let Some(top) = doms.immediate_dominator(block) else {
509            continue;
510        };
511        for &pred in preds {
512            let mut runner = pred;
513            while runner != top {
514                let at = frontier.entry(runner).or_default();
515                if !at.contains(&block) {
516                    at.push(block);
517                }
518                let Some(next) = doms.immediate_dominator(runner) else {
519                    break;
520                };
521                runner = next;
522            }
523        }
524    }
525    frontier
526}
527
528/// The walk back through the memory chain.
529///
530/// It borrows the function rather than owning anything, and it holds the alias analysis because
531/// every step is a query and the escape analysis inside it is worth building once.
532#[derive(Debug)]
533pub struct Walk<'a> {
534    func: &'a Func,
535    cfg: Cfg,
536    alias: Alias<'a>,
537    limit: u32,
538    counts: Counts,
539    /// The versions the walk under way has been to. Emptied for each walk rather than made again,
540    /// so the room it grew to is used again.
541    seen: Seen,
542}
543
544/// A set of versions of memory, hashed with [`rucc_base::hash::Mix`] rather than SipHash.
545///
546/// A walk starts one of these for every load it is asked about and puts every version it passes
547/// into it, and on jtckdint's `test.c` hashing them was more than a percent of the build. A value
548/// is a small dense number that nobody outside picks, so there is nothing for SipHash to defend
549/// against.
550type Seen = Set<Value>;
551
552impl<'a> Walk<'a> {
553    /// A walk over this function, with GCC's budget.
554    #[must_use]
555    pub fn new(func: &'a Func, outside: &'a Outside) -> Self {
556        Self::with(func, outside, Options::default(), MAX_ALIAS_QUERIES_PER_ACCESS)
557    }
558
559    /// The same, with the alias options the command line left and a budget of your own.
560    #[must_use]
561    pub fn with(func: &'a Func, outside: &'a Outside, options: Options, limit: u32) -> Self {
562        Self {
563            func,
564            cfg: Cfg::new(func),
565            alias: Alias::with(func, outside, options),
566            limit,
567            counts: Counts::default(),
568            seen: Seen::default(),
569        }
570    }
571
572    /// What the walks have cost so far.
573    #[must_use]
574    pub const fn counts(&self) -> &Counts {
575        &self.counts
576    }
577
578    /// The same walk, with what the module's functions were worked out to do to memory.
579    ///
580    /// Handed straight to the oracle underneath, where [`Alias::knowing`] says what it is for.
581    #[must_use]
582    pub fn knowing(mut self, summaries: &'a crate::modref::Summaries) -> Self {
583        self.alias = self.alias.knowing(summaries);
584        self
585    }
586
587    /// The alias analysis underneath, whose own counters say which layer answered.
588    #[must_use]
589    pub const fn alias(&self) -> &Alias<'a> {
590        &self.alias
591    }
592
593    /// The store this load sees.
594    ///
595    /// [`Clobber::Unknown`] for an instruction that reads nothing, for one that is not on the
596    /// chain, and for a walk that ran out of budget, because all three mean the same thing to a
597    /// caller, which is that nothing was established.
598    pub fn clobber(&mut self, load: Inst) -> Clobber {
599        self.clobber_with(load, &mut |_, _| Step::Stop)
600    }
601
602    /// The same, with the chance to rewrite the reference at every def the walk cannot see past.
603    ///
604    /// Section 9.2's `translate`. The callback is handed the reference as it stands and the def
605    /// in the way, and answers [`Step::Stop`] to take the clobber or [`Step::Retry`] to carry on
606    /// past it asking about something else. Following a load through a `memcpy` by rewriting the
607    /// reference to the copy's source is the case worth having it for, since that is what a
608    /// struct assignment lowers to.
609    ///
610    /// Section 9.6 calls a `translate` that rewrites the reference wrongly the subtlest bug in
611    /// the document and essentially untestable by unit test, so the defence is differential
612    /// execution per document 41 rather than anything here.
613    pub fn clobber_with(
614        &mut self,
615        load: Inst,
616        translate: &mut dyn FnMut(&Access, Inst) -> Step,
617    ) -> Clobber {
618        let (Some(reference), Some(version)) = (self.alias.reads(load), self.func.mem_in(load))
619        else {
620            return Clobber::Unknown;
621        };
622        self.counts.walks += 1;
623        let mut budget = self.limit;
624        let mut seen = std::mem::take(&mut self.seen);
625        seen.clear();
626        let answer = self.back(reference, version, &mut budget, &mut seen, translate);
627        self.seen = seen;
628        // Nothing new on any path back is nothing that wrote it, which is the same answer as
629        // reaching the start of the chain and is only reachable through a cycle of parameters.
630        answer.unwrap_or(Clobber::NoClobber)
631    }
632
633    /// One version of memory, and everything that reaches it.
634    ///
635    /// `None` means this version has already been accounted for on another path, which is the
636    /// neutral answer: it is how a loop is cut, since the back edge of a loop whose body writes
637    /// nothing relevant leads back to the parameter the walk started from.
638    fn back(
639        &mut self,
640        reference: Access,
641        version: Value,
642        budget: &mut u32,
643        seen: &mut Seen,
644        translate: &mut dyn FnMut(&Access, Inst) -> Step,
645    ) -> Option<Clobber> {
646        if !seen.insert(version) {
647            return None;
648        }
649        match self.func[version].def {
650            // A memory phi. The answer is the same down every path into the block or it is not
651            // an answer, which is conservative and is what keeps a caller from acting on a store
652            // that only one predecessor made.
653            Def::Param { block, index } => {
654                let mut answer = None;
655                let func = self.func;
656                // By place rather than by copying the list out, since the walk below needs the
657                // walker and a phi is the step it takes most often.
658                for at in 0..self.cfg.predecessors(block).len() {
659                    let pred = self.cfg.predecessors(block)[at];
660                    let Some(terminator) = func.terminator(pred) else {
661                        continue;
662                    };
663                    for call in func.successors(terminator) {
664                        if call.block != block {
665                            continue;
666                        }
667                        let Some(&incoming) = self.func[call.args].get(index as usize) else {
668                            continue;
669                        };
670                        let one = self.back(reference, incoming, budget, seen, translate);
671                        answer = combine(answer, one);
672                        if answer == Some(Clobber::Unknown) {
673                            return answer;
674                        }
675                    }
676                }
677                answer
678            }
679            Def::Result { inst, .. } => {
680                if self.func[inst].opcode == Opcode::MemEntry {
681                    return Some(Clobber::NoClobber);
682                }
683                if *budget == 0 {
684                    self.counts.exhausted += 1;
685                    return Some(Clobber::Unknown);
686                }
687                *budget -= 1;
688                self.counts.steps += 1;
689                let past = match self.wrote(&reference, inst) {
690                    None => reference,
691                    Some(answer) => match translate(&reference, inst) {
692                        Step::Stop => return Some(answer),
693                        // A rewritten question is a walk of its own and gets a visited set of its
694                        // own. The set is there to stop a cycle being walked twice, and what makes
695                        // the second time round pointless is that the answer at a version is an
696                        // answer about one reference: a version this walk has already been to was
697                        // visited asking something else, and what it said then says nothing about
698                        // what is being asked now. Carrying the set across the rewrite loses an
699                        // answer rather than repeating one, because a version declined as already
700                        // seen contributes nothing to the join above it, and a join whose two paths
701                        // disagree would come back holding whichever of them was walked first
702                        // rather than `Unknown`.
703                        Step::Retry(next) => {
704                            self.counts.rewritten += 1;
705                            let before = self.func.mem_in(inst)?;
706                            let mut fresh = Seen::default();
707                            return self.back(next, before, budget, &mut fresh, translate);
708                        }
709                    },
710                };
711                let next = self.func.mem_in(inst)?;
712                self.back(past, next, budget, seen, translate)
713            }
714        }
715    }
716
717    /// Whether this def wrote the reference, and how much of it.
718    ///
719    /// `None` is the answer that lets the walk carry on, and it is only given where the alias
720    /// analysis said the two cannot touch the same byte.
721    fn wrote(&mut self, reference: &Access, inst: Inst) -> Option<Clobber> {
722        // Section 9.5, and it is first. Alias analysis says nothing about how many times an
723        // access happens and `volatile` constrains that too, so this is a separate bit rather
724        // than a strong alias fact, and it is checked before the analysis is asked anything.
725        if reference.volatile || self.func[inst].flags.contains(Flags::VOLATILE) {
726            return Some(Clobber::Maybe(inst));
727        }
728        // Every atomic and every fence is a full def and a full use. Pessimistic for lock-free
729        // code and correct, and section 9.5 says doing better means modelling the memory model
730        // rather than the memory, which is post-1.0.
731        if self.ordered(inst) {
732            return Some(Clobber::Maybe(inst));
733        }
734        if let Some(write) = self.alias.writes(inst) {
735            return match self.alias.query(reference, &write) {
736                Answer::No(_) => None,
737                Answer::May => Some(self.extent(reference, &write, inst)),
738            };
739        }
740        // A call, or anything else that writes memory without an access saying what. What a call
741        // touches is its attributes and the escape analysis, which is section 8.4's, and without
742        // those the honest answer is that it wrote everything.
743        match self.alias.clobbered_by(reference, inst) {
744            Answer::No(_) => None,
745            Answer::May => Some(Clobber::Maybe(inst)),
746        }
747    }
748
749    /// How much of the reference a write that may touch it covered.
750    ///
751    /// Two accesses to the same origin with both offsets and both sizes known are two runs of
752    /// bytes at known places, and comparing them is what tells `Exact` from `Partial`. Anything
753    /// less is `Maybe`, since a `May` from the alias analysis is not a proof that anything was
754    /// written at all.
755    ///
756    /// `Exact` is the same bytes and not merely a superset of them. A four byte store and the
757    /// one byte load at offset one inside it is `Partial`, because the byte the load wants is
758    /// somewhere in the value the store wrote and getting it out is a shift and a truncate that
759    /// document 16 decides on rather than this. Two runs that are the same bytes can still be
760    /// two different types, and checking that is the caller's as well.
761    fn extent(&self, reference: &Access, write: &Access, inst: Inst) -> Clobber {
762        if reference.origin != write.origin {
763            return Clobber::Maybe(inst);
764        }
765        let (Some(want), Some(wrote)) = (reference.range(), write.range()) else {
766            return Clobber::Maybe(inst);
767        };
768        if want == wrote {
769            Clobber::Exact(inst)
770        } else if wrote.0 < want.1 && want.0 < wrote.1 {
771            Clobber::Partial(inst)
772        } else {
773            // No overlap at all, which the alias analysis should have said no to. Saying `Maybe`
774            // rather than walking past is the conservative reading of a disagreement.
775            Clobber::Maybe(inst)
776        }
777    }
778
779    /// Whether the instruction orders memory, which is every atomic and every fence.
780    fn ordered(&self, inst: Inst) -> bool {
781        use rucc_ir::Extra;
782        let order = match self.func[inst].extra {
783            Extra::Mem(at) => self.func[at].order,
784            Extra::Rmw(_, at) => self.func[at].order,
785            Extra::Order(order) => order,
786            _ => return false,
787        };
788        order != MemOrder::NotAtomic
789    }
790}
791
792/// Two answers from two paths into a join.
793///
794/// The same answer on both is the answer. Nothing on one path is whatever the other said, which
795/// is how a cycle contributes nothing. Anything else is a disagreement, and a disagreement is
796/// `Unknown` rather than the weaker of the two, because there is no order on these that a caller
797/// could act on.
798fn combine(a: Option<Clobber>, b: Option<Clobber>) -> Option<Clobber> {
799    match (a, b) {
800        (None, other) | (other, None) => other,
801        (Some(one), Some(other)) if one == other => Some(one),
802        _ => Some(Clobber::Unknown),
803    }
804}
805
806#[cfg(test)]
807mod tests {
808    use rucc_base::Interner;
809    use rucc_ir::{Builder, MemInfo, Module, Restrict, Signature, parse, verify_func};
810
811    use super::*;
812
813    /// A module and a function built from the text, which is how these are written.
814    fn read(text: &str) -> (Module, Interner) {
815        let mut names = Interner::new();
816        let module = parse(text, &mut names).expect("the text parses");
817        (module, names)
818    }
819
820    const HEADER: &str = "\
821; ModuleID = 'mem.c'
822; format 0
823target triple = \"x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu\"
824target datalayout = \"e-p:64:64-i64:64-f80:128-S128\"
825";
826
827    fn wrap(signature: &str, body: &str) -> String {
828        format!("{HEADER}\nfunc @f{signature}, linkage(external) {{\n{body}}}\n")
829    }
830
831    /// Builds memory SSA over the function and insists the result verifies, which is where most
832    /// of the strength of these tests is: the rules in the verifier are the specification of the
833    /// chain and construction has to satisfy all of them.
834    fn built(text: &str) -> (Module, bool) {
835        let (mut module, names) = read(text);
836        let id = module.funcs().next().expect("one function");
837        let changed = build(&mut module[id]);
838        if let Err(errors) = verify_func(&module, &module[id], &names) {
839            panic!("{errors:#?}");
840        }
841        (module, changed)
842    }
843
844    fn one(module: &Module) -> &Func {
845        &module[module.funcs().next().expect("one function")]
846    }
847
848    /// The instruction with that opcode, counting from the top of the function.
849    fn nth(func: &Func, opcode: Opcode, want: usize) -> Inst {
850        func.blocks()
851            .flat_map(|block| func.insts(block).collect::<Vec<_>>())
852            .filter(|&inst| func[inst].opcode == opcode)
853            .nth(want)
854            .expect("that many of them")
855    }
856
857    #[test]
858    fn a_function_with_no_memory_in_it_gets_no_chain() {
859        let text = wrap(
860            "(i32) -> i32",
861            "block0(%0: i32):
862    %1 = add %0, %0
863    return %1
864",
865        );
866        let (module, changed) = built(&text);
867        assert!(!changed);
868        assert_eq!(one(&module).blocks().count(), 1);
869    }
870
871    #[test]
872    fn a_straight_line_is_threaded_in_order() {
873        let text = wrap(
874            "(ptr) -> i32",
875            "block0(%0: ptr):
876    %1 = iconst.i32 7
877    store %1 -> %0, align 4
878    %2 = load.i32 %0, align 4
879    return %2
880",
881        );
882        let (module, changed) = built(&text);
883        assert!(changed);
884        let func = one(&module);
885        let start = nth(func, Opcode::MemEntry, 0);
886        let store = nth(func, Opcode::Store, 0);
887        let load = nth(func, Opcode::Load, 0);
888        assert_eq!(func.mem_in(store), func.mem_out(start));
889        assert_eq!(func.mem_in(load), func.mem_out(store));
890        assert_eq!(func.mem_out(load), None);
891    }
892
893    #[test]
894    fn a_join_gets_a_memory_parameter_and_every_branch_passes_one() {
895        let text = wrap(
896            "(ptr, i1) -> i32",
897            "block0(%0: ptr, %1: i1):
898    br_if %1, block1, block2
899
900block1:
901    %2 = iconst.i32 7
902    store %2 -> %0, align 4
903    jump block3
904
905block2:
906    jump block3
907
908block3:
909    %3 = load.i32 %0, align 4
910    return %3
911",
912        );
913        let (module, _) = built(&text);
914        let func = one(&module);
915        let join = func.blocks().nth(3).expect("four blocks");
916        assert_eq!(func[join].params.len(), 1);
917        let param = func[join].params[0];
918        assert!(func[param].ty.is_mem());
919        assert_eq!(func.mem_in(nth(func, Opcode::Load, 0)), Some(param));
920    }
921
922    #[test]
923    fn a_block_that_only_reads_needs_no_parameter() {
924        let text = wrap(
925            "(ptr, i1) -> i32",
926            "block0(%0: ptr, %1: i1):
927    br_if %1, block1, block2
928
929block1:
930    %2 = load.i32 %0, align 4
931    jump block3
932
933block2:
934    jump block3
935
936block3:
937    %3 = load.i32 %0, align 4
938    return %3
939",
940        );
941        let (module, _) = built(&text);
942        let func = one(&module);
943        // One version of memory reaches the whole function, so no join needs a parameter and
944        // every load reads what `mem_entry` produced.
945        for block in func.blocks() {
946            assert!(func[block].params.iter().all(|&param| !func[param].ty.is_mem()));
947        }
948    }
949
950    #[test]
951    fn every_arm_of_a_switch_passes_its_own_version_along() {
952        let text = wrap(
953            "(ptr, i32) -> i32",
954            "block0(%0: ptr, %1: i32):
955    switch %1, block1, [0 => block2, 1 => block3]
956
957block1:
958    %2 = iconst.i32 1
959    store %2 -> %0, align 4
960    jump block4
961
962block2:
963    %3 = iconst.i32 2
964    store %3 -> %0, align 4
965    jump block4
966
967block3:
968    jump block4
969
970block4:
971    %4 = load.i32 %0, align 4
972    return %4
973",
974        );
975        let (module, _) = built(&text);
976        let func = one(&module);
977        let join = func.blocks().nth(4).expect("five blocks");
978        let param = *func[join].params.last().expect("a parameter");
979        assert!(func[param].ty.is_mem());
980        // Each arm reaches the join with the version it ended on, and the two that wrote reach
981        // it with the version their own store produced.
982        for (arm, want) in [(1, Some(0)), (2, Some(1)), (3, None)] {
983            let block = func.blocks().nth(arm).expect("that block");
984            let jump = func.terminator(block).expect("a terminator");
985            let call = func.successors(jump).next().expect("one target");
986            let sent = *func[call.args].last().expect("an argument");
987            let expect = match want {
988                Some(store) => func.mem_out(nth(func, Opcode::Store, store)),
989                None => func.mem_out(nth(func, Opcode::MemEntry, 0)),
990            };
991            assert_eq!(Some(sent), expect, "arm {arm} passed the wrong version");
992        }
993    }
994
995    #[test]
996    fn a_function_with_a_block_nothing_reaches_is_left_alone() {
997        let text = wrap(
998            "(ptr) -> i32",
999            "block0(%0: ptr):
1000    %1 = iconst.i32 7
1001    store %1 -> %0, align 4
1002    jump block2
1003
1004block1:
1005    %2 = iconst.i32 9
1006    store %2 -> %0, align 4
1007    jump block2
1008
1009block2:
1010    %3 = load.i32 %0, align 4
1011    return %3
1012",
1013        );
1014        // Block 1 has no predecessor. Half a function on the chain is worse than none of it, so
1015        // this declines rather than producing something the verifier would turn down.
1016        let (mut module, _) = read(&text);
1017        let id = module.funcs().next().expect("one function");
1018        assert!(!build(&mut module[id]));
1019        assert_eq!(module[id].blocks().filter(|&b| !module[id][b].params.is_empty()).count(), 1);
1020    }
1021
1022    /// The last load in the function, which is the one every walk here starts from.
1023    fn last_load(func: &Func) -> Inst {
1024        func.blocks()
1025            .flat_map(|block| func.insts(block).collect::<Vec<_>>())
1026            .filter(|&inst| func[inst].opcode == Opcode::Load)
1027            .last()
1028            .expect("a load")
1029    }
1030
1031    /// A load, a store and the walk between them, over a function written as text.
1032    fn walked(text: &str) -> (Clobber, Counts) {
1033        let (module, changed) = built(text);
1034        assert!(changed, "the function has memory in it");
1035        let func = one(&module);
1036        let outside = Outside::of(&module);
1037        let mut walk = Walk::new(func, &outside);
1038        let answer = walk.clobber(last_load(func));
1039        (answer, *walk.counts())
1040    }
1041
1042    #[test]
1043    fn a_load_sees_the_store_before_it() {
1044        let text = wrap(
1045            "(ptr) -> i32",
1046            "block0(%0: ptr):
1047    %1 = iconst.i32 7
1048    store %1 -> %0, align 4
1049    %2 = load.i32 %0, align 4
1050    return %2
1051",
1052        );
1053        let (answer, counts) = walked(&text);
1054        assert!(matches!(answer, Clobber::Exact(_)));
1055        assert_eq!(counts.walks(), 1);
1056        assert_eq!(counts.steps(), 1);
1057        assert_eq!(counts.exhausted(), 0);
1058    }
1059
1060    #[test]
1061    fn a_load_walks_past_a_store_to_another_object() {
1062        let text = wrap(
1063            "() -> i32",
1064            "block0:
1065    %0 = alloca, size 8, align 8
1066    %1 = alloca, size 8, align 8
1067    %2 = iconst.i32 7
1068    store %2 -> %0, align 4
1069    %3 = load.i32 %1, align 4
1070    return %3
1071",
1072        );
1073        let (answer, counts) = walked(&text);
1074        assert_eq!(answer, Clobber::NoClobber);
1075        // It looked at the store, said no, and reached the start of the chain.
1076        assert_eq!(counts.steps(), 1);
1077    }
1078
1079    #[test]
1080    fn a_load_of_one_byte_of_a_wider_store_is_partial() {
1081        let text = wrap(
1082            "() -> i8",
1083            "block0:
1084    %0 = alloca, size 8, align 8
1085    %1 = iconst.i32 7
1086    store %1 -> %0, align 4
1087    %2 = iconst.i64 1
1088    %3 = ptr_add %0, %2
1089    %4 = load.i8 %3, align 1
1090    return %4
1091",
1092        );
1093        let (answer, _) = walked(&text);
1094        assert!(matches!(answer, Clobber::Partial(_)), "{answer:?}");
1095    }
1096
1097    #[test]
1098    fn a_load_after_a_call_that_cannot_reach_it_walks_past_the_call() {
1099        let text = wrap(
1100            "() -> i32",
1101            "block0:
1102    %0 = alloca, size 8, align 8
1103    %1 = iconst.i32 7
1104    store %1 -> %0, align 4
1105    call @g() : ()
1106    %2 = load.i32 %0, align 4
1107    return %2
1108",
1109        );
1110        // The local's address never leaves the function, so the call cannot touch it and the
1111        // walk goes straight past to the store. That is the escape layer paying for itself.
1112        let (answer, _) = walked(&text);
1113        assert!(matches!(answer, Clobber::Exact(_)), "{answer:?}");
1114    }
1115
1116    #[test]
1117    fn a_load_after_a_call_that_could_have_the_address_sees_the_call() {
1118        let text = wrap(
1119            "(ptr) -> i32",
1120            "block0(%0: ptr):
1121    %1 = iconst.i32 7
1122    store %1 -> %0, align 4
1123    call @g() : ()
1124    %2 = load.i32 %0, align 4
1125    return %2
1126",
1127        );
1128        let (answer, _) = walked(&text);
1129        assert!(matches!(answer, Clobber::Maybe(_)), "{answer:?}");
1130    }
1131
1132    #[test]
1133    fn a_load_after_an_atomic_store_sees_it_whatever_it_wrote() {
1134        let text = wrap(
1135            "() -> i32",
1136            "block0:
1137    %0 = alloca, size 8, align 8
1138    %1 = alloca, size 8, align 8
1139    %2 = iconst.i32 7
1140    atomic_store %2 -> %0, align 4, release
1141    %3 = load.i32 %1, align 4
1142    return %3
1143",
1144        );
1145        // Two different objects, and it still stops: an atomic is a full def and a full use, per
1146        // section 9.5, and this is the test that says so rather than a comment.
1147        let (answer, _) = walked(&text);
1148        assert!(matches!(answer, Clobber::Maybe(_)), "{answer:?}");
1149    }
1150
1151    #[test]
1152    fn a_load_after_a_volatile_store_sees_it_whatever_it_wrote() {
1153        let text = wrap(
1154            "() -> i32",
1155            "block0:
1156    %0 = alloca, size 8, align 8
1157    %1 = alloca, size 8, align 8
1158    %2 = iconst.i32 7
1159    store.volatile %2 -> %0, align 4
1160    %3 = load.i32 %1, align 4
1161    return %3
1162",
1163        );
1164        let (answer, _) = walked(&text);
1165        assert!(matches!(answer, Clobber::Maybe(_)), "{answer:?}");
1166    }
1167
1168    #[test]
1169    fn paths_that_disagree_are_unknown_rather_than_the_weaker_of_the_two() {
1170        let text = wrap(
1171            "(i1) -> i32",
1172            "block0(%0: i1):
1173    %1 = alloca, size 8, align 8
1174    br_if %0, block1, block2
1175
1176block1:
1177    %2 = iconst.i32 7
1178    store %2 -> %1, align 4
1179    jump block3
1180
1181block2:
1182    jump block3
1183
1184block3:
1185    %3 = load.i32 %1, align 4
1186    return %3
1187",
1188        );
1189        let (answer, _) = walked(&text);
1190        assert_eq!(answer, Clobber::Unknown);
1191    }
1192
1193    #[test]
1194    fn a_loop_that_writes_nothing_relevant_walks_out_of_it() {
1195        let text = wrap(
1196            "(i32) -> i32",
1197            "block0(%0: i32):
1198    %1 = alloca, size 8, align 8
1199    %2 = alloca, size 8, align 8
1200    %3 = iconst.i32 7
1201    store %3 -> %1, align 4
1202    jump block1(%0)
1203
1204block1(%4: i32):
1205    %5 = iconst.i32 1
1206    %6 = sub %4, %5
1207    store %5 -> %2, align 4
1208    %7 = icmp sgt %6, %5
1209    br_if %7, block1(%6), block2
1210
1211block2:
1212    %8 = load.i32 %1, align 4
1213    return %8
1214",
1215        );
1216        // The store in the loop is to the other object, so the walk goes round the back edge,
1217        // meets the parameter it started from, contributes nothing, and takes the answer from
1218        // the path that leaves the loop.
1219        let (answer, counts) = walked(&text);
1220        assert!(matches!(answer, Clobber::Exact(_)), "{answer:?}");
1221        assert_eq!(counts.exhausted(), 0);
1222    }
1223
1224    #[test]
1225    fn a_budget_of_nothing_gives_unknown_and_says_so() {
1226        let text = wrap(
1227            "(ptr) -> i32",
1228            "block0(%0: ptr):
1229    %1 = iconst.i32 7
1230    store %1 -> %0, align 4
1231    %2 = load.i32 %0, align 4
1232    return %2
1233",
1234        );
1235        let (module, _) = built(&text);
1236        let func = one(&module);
1237        let load = nth(func, Opcode::Load, 0);
1238        let outside = Outside::of(&module);
1239        let mut walk = Walk::with(func, &outside, Options::default(), 0);
1240        assert_eq!(walk.clobber(load), Clobber::Unknown);
1241        assert_eq!(walk.counts().exhausted(), 1);
1242    }
1243
1244    #[test]
1245    fn translate_carries_the_walk_past_a_def_it_would_have_stopped_at() {
1246        let text = wrap(
1247            "(ptr) -> i32",
1248            "block0(%0: ptr):
1249    %1 = iconst.i32 7
1250    store %1 -> %0, align 4
1251    memcpy %0, %0, size 4, align 4
1252    %2 = load.i32 %0, align 4
1253    return %2
1254",
1255        );
1256        let (module, _) = built(&text);
1257        let func = one(&module);
1258        let load = nth(func, Opcode::Load, 0);
1259
1260        // With no rewrite to offer, the copy is where it stops.
1261        let outside = Outside::of(&module);
1262        let mut walk = Walk::new(func, &outside);
1263        let stopped_at = walk.clobber(load).inst().expect("something wrote it");
1264        assert_eq!(func[stopped_at].opcode, Opcode::Memcpy);
1265
1266        // The same walk, with a caller that can see through the copy. It says nothing about the
1267        // reference here, which is enough to show the callback is reached and obeyed.
1268        let mut walk = Walk::new(func, &outside);
1269        let mut seen = Vec::new();
1270        let answer = walk.clobber_with(load, &mut |reference, inst| {
1271            seen.push(func[inst].opcode);
1272            if func[inst].opcode == Opcode::Memcpy { Step::Retry(*reference) } else { Step::Stop }
1273        });
1274        assert_eq!(seen, [Opcode::Memcpy, Opcode::Store]);
1275        assert_eq!(answer.inst().map(|inst| func[inst].opcode), Some(Opcode::Store));
1276
1277        // One rewrite offered and one taken, which is the counter a caller reads to find out
1278        // whether its callback reached anything.
1279        assert_eq!(walk.counts().rewritten(), 1);
1280    }
1281
1282    #[test]
1283    fn building_twice_changes_nothing_the_second_time() {
1284        let text = wrap(
1285            "(ptr) -> i32",
1286            "block0(%0: ptr):
1287    %1 = load.i32 %0, align 4
1288    return %1
1289",
1290        );
1291        let (mut module, _) = read(&text);
1292        let id = module.funcs().next().expect("one function");
1293        let func = &mut module[id];
1294        assert!(build(func));
1295        let before = func.counts().insts;
1296        assert!(!build(func));
1297        assert_eq!(func.counts().insts, before);
1298    }
1299
1300    /// The builder path rather than the parser path, since a pass that adds a store adds it with
1301    /// the builder and the chain has to survive that too.
1302    #[test]
1303    fn a_function_built_by_hand_threads_the_same_way() {
1304        let mut names = Interner::new();
1305        let i32_ = Type::int(32);
1306        let mut func = Func::new(
1307            names.intern("f"),
1308            Signature::new().with_params(&[Type::PTR]).with_returns(&[i32_]),
1309        );
1310        let entry = func.create_block();
1311        let addr = func.append_param(entry, Type::PTR);
1312        let info = MemInfo {
1313            size: 4,
1314            align: 4,
1315            order: MemOrder::NotAtomic,
1316            tbaa: None,
1317            owns: 0,
1318            restrict: Restrict::NONE,
1319        };
1320        let mut b = Builder::new(&mut func, entry);
1321        let seven = b.iconst(i32_, 7);
1322        b.store(seven, addr, info, Flags::NONE);
1323        let read = b.load(i32_, addr, info, Flags::NONE);
1324        b.ret(&[read]);
1325
1326        assert!(build(&mut func));
1327        let store = nth(&func, Opcode::Store, 0);
1328        let load = nth(&func, Opcode::Load, 0);
1329        assert_eq!(func.mem_in(load), func.mem_out(store));
1330    }
1331
1332    /// Builds the chain, takes it back off, and insists the result verifies both times. A half
1333    /// removed chain is exactly the kind of thing that would pass a shape assertion and fail on a
1334    /// real file, so the verifier is the assertion that matters here too.
1335    fn stripped(text: &str) -> (Module, bool) {
1336        let (mut module, names) = read(text);
1337        let id = module.funcs().next().expect("one function");
1338        build(&mut module[id]);
1339        if let Err(errors) = verify_func(&module, &module[id], &names) {
1340            panic!("after building: {errors:#?}");
1341        }
1342        let changed = strip(&mut module[id]);
1343        if let Err(errors) = verify_func(&module, &module[id], &names) {
1344            panic!("after stripping: {errors:#?}");
1345        }
1346        (module, changed)
1347    }
1348
1349    /// Nothing anywhere in the function is on the chain any more.
1350    fn off(func: &Func) {
1351        for block in func.blocks() {
1352            assert!(
1353                func[block].params.iter().all(|&param| !func[param].ty.is_mem()),
1354                "a block kept a memory parameter"
1355            );
1356            for inst in func.insts(block) {
1357                assert_ne!(
1358                    func[inst].opcode,
1359                    Opcode::MemEntry,
1360                    "the start of the chain is still here"
1361                );
1362                assert!(!func.carries_mem(inst), "an instruction is still on the chain");
1363            }
1364        }
1365    }
1366
1367    #[test]
1368    fn a_straight_line_comes_off_the_chain_the_way_it_went_on() {
1369        let text = wrap(
1370            "(ptr) -> i32",
1371            "block0(%0: ptr):
1372    %1 = iconst.i32 7
1373    store %1 -> %0, align 4
1374    %2 = load.i32 %0, align 4
1375    return %2
1376",
1377        );
1378        let (module, changed) = stripped(&text);
1379        assert!(changed);
1380        let func = one(&module);
1381        off(func);
1382        // The instructions are the same ones doing the same thing, which is the whole claim: the
1383        // address the load reads is still the function's parameter and the value returned is
1384        // still what the load read.
1385        let load = nth(func, Opcode::Load, 0);
1386        let param = func[func.entry().expect("an entry")].params[0];
1387        assert_eq!(func[func[load].args][0], param);
1388        let ret = nth(func, Opcode::Return, 0);
1389        assert_eq!(func[func[ret].args][0], func[load].results().next().expect("a result"));
1390    }
1391
1392    #[test]
1393    fn a_join_gives_its_memory_parameter_back_and_so_does_every_branch_to_it() {
1394        let text = wrap(
1395            "(ptr, i1) -> i32",
1396            "block0(%0: ptr, %1: i1):
1397    br_if %1, block1, block2
1398
1399block1:
1400    %2 = iconst.i32 7
1401    store %2 -> %0, align 4
1402    jump block3
1403
1404block2:
1405    jump block3
1406
1407block3:
1408    %3 = load.i32 %0, align 4
1409    return %3
1410",
1411        );
1412        let (module, changed) = stripped(&text);
1413        assert!(changed);
1414        let func = one(&module);
1415        off(func);
1416        let join = func.blocks().nth(3).expect("four blocks");
1417        assert!(func[join].params.is_empty(), "the join kept a parameter");
1418        for block in func.blocks() {
1419            let Some(terminator) = func.terminator(block) else { continue };
1420            for call in func.successors(terminator) {
1421                assert!(func[call.args].is_empty(), "a branch kept an argument");
1422            }
1423        }
1424    }
1425
1426    #[test]
1427    fn a_parameter_that_was_never_memory_keeps_its_place() {
1428        // The argument a branch passes goes by position, so a block with a memory parameter
1429        // beside an ordinary one is where taking the wrong one out would show.
1430        let text = wrap(
1431            "(ptr, i1) -> i32",
1432            "block0(%0: ptr, %1: i1):
1433    %2 = iconst.i32 7
1434    br_if %1, block1(%2), block2
1435
1436block1(%3: i32):
1437    store %3 -> %0, align 4
1438    jump block3
1439
1440block2:
1441    jump block3
1442
1443block3:
1444    %4 = load.i32 %0, align 4
1445    return %4
1446",
1447        );
1448        let (module, _) = stripped(&text);
1449        let func = one(&module);
1450        off(func);
1451        let arm = func.blocks().nth(1).expect("four blocks");
1452        assert_eq!(func[arm].params.len(), 1);
1453        let param = func[arm].params[0];
1454        assert_eq!(func[param].ty, Type::int(32));
1455        let store = nth(func, Opcode::Store, 0);
1456        assert_eq!(func[func[store].args][0], param, "the store lost the value it writes");
1457    }
1458
1459    #[test]
1460    fn a_function_that_was_never_on_the_chain_is_left_alone() {
1461        let text = wrap(
1462            "(i32) -> i32",
1463            "block0(%0: i32):
1464    %1 = add %0, %0
1465    return %1
1466",
1467        );
1468        let (mut module, names) = read(&text);
1469        let id = module.funcs().next().expect("one function");
1470        assert!(!strip(&mut module[id]));
1471        if let Err(errors) = verify_func(&module, &module[id], &names) {
1472            panic!("{errors:#?}");
1473        }
1474    }
1475
1476    #[test]
1477    fn a_call_that_returns_something_keeps_it() {
1478        // A call is threaded like a store and gives back a value as well, so its results are the
1479        // one place where the version of memory sits behind something that has a reader.
1480        let text = format!(
1481            "{HEADER}\nfunc @f() -> i32, linkage(external) {{\nblock0:\n    %0 = call @g() : () -> \
1482             i32\n    return %0\n}}\n"
1483        );
1484        let (module, changed) = stripped(&text);
1485        assert!(changed);
1486        let func = one(&module);
1487        off(func);
1488        let call = nth(func, Opcode::Call, 0);
1489        let ret = nth(func, Opcode::Return, 0);
1490        assert_eq!(func[call].results().count(), 1);
1491        assert_eq!(func[func[ret].args][0], func[call].results().next().expect("a result"));
1492    }
1493}