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authorPiotr Padlewski <piotr.padlewski@gmail.com>2018-07-02 04:49:30 +0000
committerPiotr Padlewski <piotr.padlewski@gmail.com>2018-07-02 04:49:30 +0000
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Implement strip.invariant.group
Summary: This patch introduce new intrinsic - strip.invariant.group that was described in the RFC: Devirtualization v2 Reviewers: rsmith, hfinkel, nlopes, sanjoy, amharc, kuhar Subscribers: arsenm, nhaehnle, JDevlieghere, hiraditya, xbolva00, llvm-commits Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47103 Co-authored-by: Krzysztof Pszeniczny <krzysztof.pszeniczny@gmail.com> llvm-svn: 336073
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diff --git a/llvm/docs/LangRef.rst b/llvm/docs/LangRef.rst
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--- a/llvm/docs/LangRef.rst
+++ b/llvm/docs/LangRef.rst
@@ -13350,16 +13350,17 @@ Overview:
"""""""""
The '``llvm.launder.invariant.group``' intrinsic can be used when an invariant
-established by invariant.group metadata no longer holds, to obtain a new pointer
-value that does not carry the invariant information. It is an experimental
-intrinsic, which means that its semantics might change in the future.
+established by ``invariant.group`` metadata no longer holds, to obtain a new
+pointer value that carries fresh invariant group information. It is an
+experimental intrinsic, which means that its semantics might change in the
+future.
Arguments:
""""""""""
-The ``llvm.launder.invariant.group`` takes only one argument, which is
-the pointer to the memory for which the ``invariant.group`` no longer holds.
+The ``llvm.launder.invariant.group`` takes only one argument, which is a pointer
+to the memory.
Semantics:
""""""""""
@@ -13368,6 +13369,43 @@ Returns another pointer that aliases its argument but which is considered differ
for the purposes of ``load``/``store`` ``invariant.group`` metadata.
It does not read any accessible memory and the execution can be speculated.
+'``llvm.strip.invariant.group``' Intrinsic
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Syntax:
+"""""""
+This is an overloaded intrinsic. The memory object can belong to any address
+space. The returned pointer must belong to the same address space as the
+argument.
+
+::
+
+ declare i8* @llvm.strip.invariant.group.p0i8(i8* <ptr>)
+
+Overview:
+"""""""""
+
+The '``llvm.strip.invariant.group``' intrinsic can be used when an invariant
+established by ``invariant.group`` metadata no longer holds, to obtain a new pointer
+value that does not carry the invariant information. It is an experimental
+intrinsic, which means that its semantics might change in the future.
+
+
+Arguments:
+""""""""""
+
+The ``llvm.strip.invariant.group`` takes only one argument, which is a pointer
+to the memory.
+
+Semantics:
+""""""""""
+
+Returns another pointer that aliases its argument but which has no associated
+``invariant.group`` metadata.
+It does not read any memory and can be speculated.
+
+
+
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