[llvm-dev] [RFC] [RewriteStatepointsForGC] Introduce intrinsics to get base ptr and offset

[Yevgeny Rouban via llvm-dev]

Hi LLVM developers.

 

Working with GC pointers (https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#accurate-garbage-collection-intrinsics) there can be a need for some optimizations to get pointer base and/or offset from the base. The base can be calculated by generating needed instructions as it is done by the RewriteStatepointsForGC::findBasePointer() function. The offset can be calculated in the same way. Though to not expose the base calculation and to make the offset calculation as simple as (ptrtoint(derived_ptr) - ptrtoint(base_ptr)), which is illegal outside RewriteStatepointsForGC, 2 intrinsics are proposed:

 

    declare i8 addrspace(1)* @llvm.experimental.gc.get.pointer.base(i8 addrspace(1)* readnone nocapture %base_ptr) nounwind readnone willreturn "gc-leaf-function"

    declare i64 @llvm.experimental.gc.get.pointer.offset(i8 addrspace(1)* readnone nocapture %base_ptr) nounwind readnone willreturn "gc-leaf-function"

 

These intrinsics are inlined by RewriteStatepointsForGC along with generation of statepoint sequences.

 

For example, with these new intrinsics the GC parseable lowering for atomic memcpy intrinsics (https://reviews.llvm.org/D88861) could be implemented as a separate pass.

 

Here is a patch that implements the proposal.

https://reviews.llvm.org/D100445 [RS4GC] Introduce intrinsics to get base ptr and offset

 

Thanks.

-Yevgeny Rouban