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