Alexey Samsonov a0ac3c2bf0 [ASan] Improve blacklisting of global variables.
This commit changes the way we blacklist global variables in ASan.
Now the global is excluded from instrumentation (either regular
bounds checking, or initialization-order checking) if:

1) Global is explicitly blacklisted by its mangled name.
This part is left unchanged.

2) SourceLocation of a global is in blacklisted source file.
This changes the old behavior, where instead of looking at the
SourceLocation of a variable we simply considered llvm::Module
identifier. This was wrong, as identifier may not correspond to
the file name, and we incorrectly disabled instrumentation
for globals coming from #include'd files.

3) Global is blacklisted by type.
Now we build the type of a global variable using Clang machinery
(QualType::getAsString()), instead of llvm::StructType::getName().

After this commit, the active users of ASan blacklist files
may have to revisit them (this is a backwards-incompatible change).

llvm-svn: 220097
2014-10-17 22:37:33 +00:00
..
2014-09-10 16:59:01 +00:00

IRgen optimization opportunities.

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The common pattern of
--
short x; // or char, etc
(x == 10)
--
generates an zext/sext of x which can easily be avoided.

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Bitfields accesses can be shifted to simplify masking and sign
extension. For example, if the bitfield width is 8 and it is
appropriately aligned then is is a lot shorter to just load the char
directly.

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It may be worth avoiding creation of alloca's for formal arguments
for the common situation where the argument is never written to or has
its address taken. The idea would be to begin generating code by using
the argument directly and if its address is taken or it is stored to
then generate the alloca and patch up the existing code.

In theory, the same optimization could be a win for block local
variables as long as the declaration dominates all statements in the
block.

NOTE: The main case we care about this for is for -O0 -g compile time
performance, and in that scenario we will need to emit the alloca
anyway currently to emit proper debug info. So this is blocked by
being able to emit debug information which refers to an LLVM
temporary, not an alloca.

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We should try and avoid generating basic blocks which only contain
jumps. At -O0, this penalizes us all the way from IRgen (malloc &
instruction overhead), all the way down through code generation and
assembly time.

On 176.gcc:expr.ll, it looks like over 12% of basic blocks are just
direct branches!

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