Rename isEarlierInSameTrace to isUsefulDominator.

In very rare cases caused by irreducible control flow, the dominating
block can have the same trace head without actually being part of the
trace.

As long as such a dominator still has valid instruction depths, it is OK
to use it for computing instruction depths.

Rename the function to avoid lying, and add a check that instruction
depths are computed for the dominator.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@176668 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/include/llvm/CodeGen/MachineTraceMetrics.h b/include/llvm/CodeGen/MachineTraceMetrics.h
index 460730b040..eaaa70a67d 100644
--- a/include/llvm/CodeGen/MachineTraceMetrics.h
+++ b/include/llvm/CodeGen/MachineTraceMetrics.h
@@ -165,12 +165,25 @@ public:
     /// Invalidate height resources when a block below this one has changed.
     void invalidateHeight() { InstrHeight = ~0u; HasValidInstrHeights = false; }
 
-    /// Determine if this block belongs to the same trace as TBI and comes
-    /// before it in the trace.
+    /// Assuming that this is a dominator of TBI, determine if it contains
+    /// useful instruction depths. A dominating block can be above the current
+    /// trace head, and any dependencies from such a far away dominator are not
+    /// expected to affect the critical path.
+    ///
     /// Also returns true when TBI == this.
-    bool isEarlierInSameTrace(const TraceBlockInfo &TBI) const {
-      return hasValidDepth() && TBI.hasValidDepth() &&
-        Head == TBI.Head && InstrDepth <= TBI.InstrDepth;
+    bool isUsefulDominator(const TraceBlockInfo &TBI) const {
+      // The trace for TBI may not even be calculated yet.
+      if (!hasValidDepth() || !TBI.hasValidDepth())
+        return false;
+      // Instruction depths are only comparable if the traces share a head.
+      if (Head != TBI.Head)
+        return false;
+      // It is almost always the case that TBI belongs to the same trace as
+      // this block, but rare convoluted cases involving irreducible control
+      // flow, a dominator may share a trace head without actually being on the
+      // same trace as TBI. This is not a big problem as long as it doesn't
+      // increase the instruction depth.
+      return HasValidInstrDepths && InstrDepth <= TBI.InstrDepth;
     }
 
     // Data-dependency-related information. Per-instruction depth and height