OptimizeAllocationLiveness.cpp

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//===- OptimizeAllocationLiveness.cpp - impl. optimize allocation liveness pass
//-===//
//
// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
//
// This file implements a pass for optimizing allocation liveness.
// The pass moves the deallocation operation after the last user of the
// allocated buffer.
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
#include "mlir/Dialect/Bufferization/Transforms/BufferViewFlowAnalysis.h"
#include "mlir/Dialect/Bufferization/Transforms/Passes.h"
#include "mlir/Dialect/Func/IR/FuncOps.h"
#include "mlir/IR/Dominance.h"
#include "mlir/IR/Operation.h"
#include "mlir/IR/Value.h"
#include "mlir/Interfaces/SideEffectInterfaces.h"
#include "llvm/Support/DebugLog.h"
 
#define DEBUG_TYPE "optimize-allocation-liveness"
 
namespace mlir {
namespace bufferization {
#define GEN_PASS_DEF_OPTIMIZEALLOCATIONLIVENESSPASS
#include "mlir/Dialect/Bufferization/Transforms/Passes.h.inc"
} // namespace bufferization
} // namespace mlir
 
using namespace mlir;
 
namespace {
 
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
// Helper functions
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
/// Return true if `a` happens before `b`, i.e., `a` or one of its ancestors
/// properly dominates `b` and `b` is not inside `a`.
static bool happensBefore(Operation *a, Operation *b) {
  do {
    if (a->isProperAncestor(b))
      return false;
    if (Operation *bAncestor = a->getBlock()->findAncestorOpInBlock(*b)) {
      return a->isBeforeInBlock(bAncestor);
    }
  } while ((a = a->getParentOp()));
  return false;
}
 
/// This method searches for a user of value that is a dealloc operation.
/// If multiple users with free effect are found, return nullptr.
Operation *findUserWithFreeSideEffect(Value value) {
  Operation *freeOpUser = nullptr;
  for (Operation *user : value.getUsers()) {
    if (MemoryEffectOpInterface memEffectOp =
            dyn_cast<MemoryEffectOpInterface>(user)) {
      SmallVector<MemoryEffects::EffectInstance, 2> effects;
      memEffectOp.getEffects(effects);
 
      for (const auto &effect : effects) {
        if (isa<MemoryEffects::Free>(effect.getEffect())) {
          if (freeOpUser) {
            LDBG() << "Multiple users with free effect found: " << *freeOpUser
                   << " and " << *user;
            return nullptr;
          }
          freeOpUser = user;
        }
      }
    }
  }
  return freeOpUser;
}
 
/// Checks if the given op allocates memory.
static bool hasMemoryAllocEffect(MemoryEffectOpInterface memEffectOp) {
  SmallVector<MemoryEffects::EffectInstance, 2> effects;
  memEffectOp.getEffects(effects);
  for (const auto &effect : effects) {
    if (isa<MemoryEffects::Allocate>(effect.getEffect())) {
      return true;
    }
  }
  return false;
}
 
/// Extracts OpResult's with Allocate effects from given op
static SmallVector<OpResult>
collectAllocations(MemoryEffectOpInterface allocOp) {
  SmallVector<MemoryEffects::EffectInstance> effects;
  allocOp.getEffects(effects);
  SmallVector<OpResult> allocResults;
  for (const MemoryEffects::EffectInstance &it : effects)
    if (isa<MemoryEffects::Allocate>(it.getEffect()))
      if (auto val = it.getValue(); val && val.getDefiningOp() == allocOp)
        allocResults.push_back(cast<OpResult>(val));
  return allocResults;
}
 
struct OptimizeAllocationLiveness
    : public bufferization::impl::OptimizeAllocationLivenessPassBase<
          OptimizeAllocationLiveness> {
public:
  OptimizeAllocationLiveness() = default;
 
  /// When moving a dealloc operation to be closer to its companion alloc we
  /// have to consider the following. The dealloc should be:
  /// - After all the operand definitions that the dealloc uses
  /// - Before any ops that consume the results produced by the dealloc
  /// To do this, we first ensure the "target" position is after all the
  /// operands. Then we ensure this target dominates all consumers of the
  /// dealloc's results. If not, no valid position exists and nullptr is
  /// returned.
  static Operation *findValidInsertionPoint(DominanceInfo *domInfo,
                                            Operation *allocOp,
                                            Operation *deallocOp,
                                            Operation *lastUser) {
 
    auto *target = lastUser;
 
    // Start at the last user of the buffer, then move later if an operand of
    // the dealloc is defined after it. E.g. target starts at %x but moves to
    // %w:
    //   %x = memref.load %a[%c0]                          // lastUser
    //   %w = gpu.wait async [%d]                          // target
    //   %done = gpu.dealloc async [%w] %a : memref<8xf32> // deallocOp
    for (Value operand : deallocOp->getOperands()) {
      auto *definingOp = operand.getDefiningOp();
      if (!definingOp)
        continue;
 
      if (!target || domInfo->properlyDominates(target, definingOp))
        target = definingOp;
    }
 
    if (!target)
      target = allocOp;
 
    // Ensure target dominates all result users. Here the realloc is the
    // deallocOp since it frees %a, and it also produces %b. The first loop
    // leaves target at the memref.dealloc (the last user of the aliased
    // buffer), but that op uses %b, so placing the realloc after it is invalid:
    //   %a = memref.alloc() : memref<8xf32>
    //   %b = memref.realloc %a : memref<8xf32> to memref<16xf32> // deallocOp
    //   memref.dealloc %b : memref<16xf32>                       // target
    // nullptr is returned as a result.
    for (Value result : deallocOp->getResults()) {
      for (Operation *user : result.getUsers()) {
        if (user == target ||
            !domInfo->properlyDominates(target, user, /*enclosingOpOk=*/false))
          return nullptr;
      }
    }
    // Return the op to insert before
    return target->getNextNode();
  }
 
  void runOnOperation() override {
    func::FuncOp func = getOperation();
 
    if (func.isExternal())
      return;
 
    BufferViewFlowAnalysis analysis = BufferViewFlowAnalysis(func);
    auto domInfo = DominanceInfo();
 
    func.walk([&](MemoryEffectOpInterface memEffectOp) -> WalkResult {
      if (!hasMemoryAllocEffect(memEffectOp))
        return WalkResult::advance();
 
      auto allocOp = memEffectOp;
      LDBG() << "Checking alloc op: " << allocOp;
 
      SmallVector<OpResult> allocationResults = collectAllocations(allocOp);
      // Multiple allocations from a single op are not considered here yet.
      if (allocationResults.size() != 1)
        return WalkResult::advance();
 
      OpResult allocResult = allocationResults[0];
      LDBG() << "On allocation result: " << allocResult;
 
      auto *deallocOp = findUserWithFreeSideEffect(allocResult);
      if (!deallocOp || (deallocOp->getBlock() != allocOp->getBlock())) {
        // The pass handles allocations that have a single dealloc op in the
        // same block. We also should not hoist the dealloc op out of
        // conditionals.
        return WalkResult::advance();
      }
 
      Operation *lastUser = nullptr;
      const BufferViewFlowAnalysis::ValueSetT &deps =
          analysis.resolve(allocResult);
      for (auto dep : llvm::make_early_inc_range(deps)) {
        for (auto *user : dep.getUsers()) {
          // We are looking for a non dealloc op user.
          // check if user is the dealloc op itself.
          if (user == deallocOp)
            continue;
 
          // find the ancestor of user that is in the same block as the allocOp.
          auto *topUser = allocOp->getBlock()->findAncestorOpInBlock(*user);
          if (!lastUser || happensBefore(lastUser, topUser)) {
            lastUser = topUser;
          }
        }
      }
      if (lastUser == nullptr) {
        return WalkResult::advance();
      }
      LDBG() << "Last user found: " << *lastUser;
      assert(lastUser->getBlock() == allocOp->getBlock());
      assert(lastUser->getBlock() == deallocOp->getBlock());
 
      Operation *target =
          findValidInsertionPoint(&domInfo, allocOp, deallocOp, lastUser);
      if (!target) {
        LDBG() << "No valid insertion point found; skipping move";
        return WalkResult::advance();
      }
 
      deallocOp->moveBefore(target);
      LDBG() << "Moved dealloc op before: " << *target;
 
      return WalkResult::advance();
    });
  }
};
 
} // end anonymous namespace