[IR] Add writable attribute

This adds a writable attribute, which in conjunction with
dereferenceable(N) states that a spurious store of N bytes is
introduced on function entry. This implies that this many bytes
are writable without trapping or introducing data races. See
https://llvm.org/docs/Atomics.html#optimization-outside-atomic for
why the second point is important.

This attribute can be added to sret arguments. I believe Rust will
also be able to use it for by-value (moved) arguments. Rust likely
won't be able to use it for &mut arguments (tree borrows does not
appear to allow spurious stores).

In this patch the new attribute is only used by LICM scalar promotion.
However, the actual motivation for this is to fix a correctness issue
in call slot optimization, which needs this attribute to avoid
optimization regressions.

Followup to the discussion on D157499.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D158081

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/lib/Bitcode/Reader/BitcodeReader.cpp b/llvm/lib/Bitcode/Reader/BitcodeReader.cpp
index fcba736..747968b 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Bitcode/Reader/BitcodeReader.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Bitcode/Reader/BitcodeReader.cpp
@@ -2058,6 +2058,8 @@ static Attribute::AttrKind getAttrFromCode(uint64_t Code) {
     return Attribute::Hot;
   case bitc::ATTR_KIND_PRESPLIT_COROUTINE:
     return Attribute::PresplitCoroutine;
+  case bitc::ATTR_KIND_WRITABLE:
+    return Attribute::Writable;
   }
 }