Add a PPCCTRLoops verification pass

When asserts are enabled, this adds a verification pass for PPC counter-loop
formation. Unfortunately, without sacrificing code quality, there is no better
way of forming counter-based loops except at the (late) IR level. This means
that we need to recognize, at the IR level, anything which might turn into a
function call (or indirect branch). Because this is currently a finite set of
things, and because SelectionDAG lowering is basic-block local, this can be
done. Nevertheless, it is fragile, and failure results in a miscompile. This
verification pass checks that all (reachable) counter-based branches are
dominated by a loop mtctr instruction, and that no instructions in between
clobber the counter register. If these conditions are not satisfied, then an
ICE will be triggered.

In short, this is to help us sleep better at night.

llvm-svn: 182295

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPC.h b/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPC.h
index 28b654cf08d..2e7961014b1 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPC.h
+++ b/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPC.h
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ namespace llvm {
   class MCInst;
 
   FunctionPass *createPPCCTRLoops(PPCTargetMachine &TM);
+#ifndef NDEBUG
+  FunctionPass *createPPCCTRLoopsVerify();
+#endif
   FunctionPass *createPPCEarlyReturnPass();
   FunctionPass *createPPCBranchSelectionPass();
   FunctionPass *createPPCISelDag(PPCTargetMachine &TM);