https://forums.swift.org/t/improving-the-representation-of-polymorphic-interfaces-in-sil-with-substituted-function-types/29711
This prepares SIL to be able to more accurately preserve the calling convention of
polymorphic generic interfaces by letting the type system represent "substituted function types".
We add a couple of fields to SILFunctionType to support this:
- A substitution map, accessed by `getSubstitutions()`, which maps the generic signature
of the function to its concrete implementation. This will allow, for instance, a protocol
witness for a requirement of type `<Self: P> (Self, ...) -> ...` for a concrete conforming
type `Foo` to express its type as `<Self: P> (Self, ...) -> ... for <Foo>`, preserving the relation
to the protocol interface without relying on the pile of hacks that is the `witness_method`
protocol.
- A bool for whether the generic signature of the function is "implied" by the substitutions.
If true, the generic signature isn't really part of the calling convention of the function.
This will allow closure types to distinguish a closure being passed to a generic function, like
`<T, U> in (*T, *U) -> T for <Int, String>`, from the concrete type `(*Int, *String) -> Int`,
which will make it easier for us to differentiate the representation of those as types, for
instance by giving them different pointer authentication discriminators to harden arm64e
code.
This patch is currently NFC, it just introduces the new APIs and takes a first pass at updating
code to use them. Much more work will need to be done once we start exercising these new
fields.
This does bifurcate some existing APIs:
- SILFunctionType now has two accessors to get its generic signature.
`getSubstGenericSignature` gets the generic signature that is used to apply its
substitution map, if any. `getInvocationGenericSignature` gets the generic signature
used to invoke the function at apply sites. These differ if the generic signature is
implied.
- SILParameterInfo and SILResultInfo values carry the unsubstituted types of the parameters
and results of the function. They now have two APIs to get that type. `getInterfaceType`
returns the unsubstituted type of the generic interface, and
`getArgumentType`/`getReturnValueType` produce the substituted type that is used at
apply sites.
The XXOptUtils.h convention is already established and parallels
the SIL/XXUtils convention.
New:
- InstOptUtils.h
- CFGOptUtils.h
- BasicBlockOptUtils.h
- ValueLifetime.h
Removed:
- Local.h
- Two conflicting CFG.h files
This reorganization is helpful before I introduce more
utilities for block cloning similar to SinkAddressProjections.
Move the control flow utilies out of Local.h, which was an
unreadable, unprincipled mess. Rename it to InstOptUtils.h, and
confine it to small APIs for working with individual instructions.
These are the optimizer's additions to /SIL/InstUtils.h.
Rename CFG.h to CFGOptUtils.h and remove the one in /Analysis. Now
there is only SIL/CFG.h, resolving the naming conflict within the
swift project (this has always been a problem for source tools). Limit
this header to low-level APIs for working with branches and CFG edges.
Add BasicBlockOptUtils.h for block level transforms (it makes me sad
that I can't use BBOptUtils.h, but SIL already has
BasicBlockUtils.h). These are larger APIs for cloning or removing
whole blocks.
Structurally prevent a number of common anti-patterns involving generic
signatures by separating the interface into GenericSignature and the
implementation into GenericSignatureBase. In particular, this allows
the comparison operators to be deleted which forces callers to
canonicalize the signature or ask to compare pointers explicitly.
While tightening the requirements of the debug info generator in
IRGenSIL I noticed that SILCloner didn't correctly transfer variable
debug info on alloc_box and alloc_stack instructions. In order to make
these mistakes easier to find I added an assertion to SILBuilder and
fixed all issues uncovered by that assertion, too.
The result is a moderate increase in debug info coverage in optimized code.
On stdlib/public/core/OSX/x86_64/Swift.o "variables with location"
increases from 60134 to 60299.
This mostly requires changing various entry points to pass around a
TypeConverter instead of a SILModule. I've left behind entry points
that take a SILModule for a few methods like SILType::subst() to
avoid creating even more churn.
This memoizes the result, which is fine for all callers; the only
exception is open existential types where each new open existential
now explicitly gets a unique generic environment, allocated by
calling GenericEnvironment::getIncomplete().
The code previously assumed that arguments of class constrained existential type were always passed
directly, causing crashes when they weren't. Fixes rdar://problem/54322849.
Handle calling conventions and cleanups in all the places (hopefully).
- when ExistentialSpecializer copies the specialized concrete arg into the
original existential value
- when ExistentialSpecializer generates a think
- when SILCombine substitutes concrete values in place of the opened
existential.
One particularly nasty problem is the existential boxes need to be
destroyed. It is not ok to simply destroy their value. The "leaks"
tool does not catch this problem.
Ownership SIL will make this all much more robust.
Fixes <rdar://problem/50595630> Multiple leaks detected - Swift Perf
Minor drive-by fix. Use best practice when generating debug locations.
Use the scope and location from the insertion point. But since we
can't attach a return location to a normal instruction, use a compiler
generated placeholder.
Mostly functionally neutral:
- may fix latent bugs.
- may reduce useless basic blocks after inlining.
This rewrite encapsulates the cloner's internal state, providing a
clean API for the CRTP subclasses. The subclasses are rewritten to use
the exposed API and extension points. This makes it much easier to
understand, work with, and extend SIL cloners, which are central to
many optimization passes. Basic SIL invariants are now clearly
expressed and enforced. There is no longer a intricate dance between
multiple levels of subclasses operating on underlying low-level data
structures. All of the logic needed to keep the original SIL in a
consistent state is contained within the SILCloner itself. Subclasses
only need to be responsible for their own modifications.
The immediate motiviation is to make CFG updates self-contained so
that SIL remains in a valid state. This will allow the removal of
critical edge splitting hacks and will allow general SIL utilities to
take advantage of the fact that we don't allow critical edges.
This rewrite establishes a simple principal that should be followed
everywhere: aside from the primitive mutation APIs on SIL data types,
each SIL utility is responsibile for leaving SIL in a valid state and
the logic for doing so should exist in one central location.
This includes, for example:
- Generating a valid CFG, splitting edges if needed.
- Returning a valid instruction iterator if any instructions are removed.
- Updating dominance.
- Updating SSA (block arguments).
(Dominance info and SSA properties are fundamental to SIL verification).
LoopInfo is also somewhat fundamental to SIL, and should generally be
updated, but it isn't required.
This also fixes some latent bugs related to iterator invalidation in
recursivelyDeleteTriviallyDeadInstructions and SILInliner. Note that
the SILModule deletion callback should be avoided. It can be useful as
a simple cache invalidation mechanism, but it is otherwise bug prone,
too limited to be very useful, and basically bad design. Utilities
that mutate should return a valid instruction iterator and provide
their own deletion callbacks.
