This adds a new kind of fact to the fact manager that knows whether a
block is dead - i.e. guaranteed to be statically unreachable - and a
new transformation for adding a selection construct to a CFG that
conditionally branches to a fresh, dead block, such that the branch
will never be dynamically taken. Transformations that may create new
blocks ('split block' and 'outline function') are updated to propagate
dead block facts to newly-created blocks where appropriate. A fuzzer
pass randomly adds dead blocks to the module.
Future transformations will be able to exploit the fact that such
blocks are known to be dead.
The passes that add dead breaks and continues suffer from the
challenge that a new control flow graph edge can change dominance
information, leading to the potenital for definitions to no longer
dominate their uses. The attempt at guarding against this was known
to be incomplete. This change calls on the SPIR-V validator to do the
necessary checking: in deciding whether adding such an edge would be
legitimate, we clone the module, add the edge, and use the validator
to check whether the transformed clone is valid.
This strategy is heavy-weight, and should be used sparingly, but seems
like a good option when the validity of transformations is intricate,
to avoid reimplementing swathes of validation logic in the fuzzer.
Fixes#2919.
Because dominance information becomes a bit unreliable when blocks are
unreachable, this change makes it so that the 'dead break'
transformation will not introduce a break to an unreachable block.
Fixes#2907.
Issues #2898 and #2900 identify some cases where adding a dead
continue would lead to an invalid module, and these turned out to be
due to the lack of sensible dominance information when a continue
target is unreachable. This change requires that the header of a loop
dominates the loop's continue target if a dead continue is to be
added.
Furthermore, issue #2905 identified a shortcoming in the algorithm
being used to identify when it is OK, from a dominance point of view,
to add a new break/continue edge to a control flow graph. This change
replaces that algorithm with a simpler and more obviously correct
algorithm (that incidentally does not require the new edge to be a
break/continue edge in particular).
Fixes#2898.
Fixes#2900.
Fixes#2905.
The implementation of these passes had overlooked the fact that adding
a new edge to a control flow graph can change dominance information.
Adding a dead break/continue risks causing uses to no longer be
dominated by their definitions. This change introduces various tests
to expose such scenarios, and augments the preconditions for these
transformations with checks to guard against the situation.
Similar to the existing 'add dead breaks' pass, this adds a pass to
add dead continues to blocks in loops where such a transformation is
viable. Various functionality common to this new pass and 'add dead
breaks' has been factored into 'fuzzer_util', and some small
improvements to 'add dead breaks' that were identified while reviewing
that code again have been applied.
Fixes#2719.
