src/cmd/compile/internal/devirtualize/devirtualize.go

// Copyright 2020 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

// Package devirtualize implements two "devirtualization" optimization passes:
//
//   - "Static" devirtualization which replaces interface method calls with
//     direct concrete-type method calls where possible.
//   - "Profile-guided" devirtualization which replaces indirect calls with a
//     conditional direct call to the hottest concrete callee from a profile, as
//     well as a fallback using the original indirect call.
package devirtualize

import (
	"cmd/compile/internal/base"
	"cmd/compile/internal/ir"
	"cmd/compile/internal/typecheck"
	"cmd/compile/internal/types"
)

// StaticCall devirtualizes the given call if possible when the concrete callee
// is available statically.
func StaticCall(call *ir.CallExpr) {
	// For promoted methods (including value-receiver methods promoted
	// to pointer-receivers), the interface method wrapper may contain
	// expressions that can panic (e.g., ODEREF, ODOTPTR,
	// ODOTINTER). Devirtualization involves inlining these expressions
	// (and possible panics) to the call site. This normally isn't a
	// problem, but for go/defer statements it can move the panic from
	// when/where the call executes to the go/defer statement itself,
	// which is a visible change in semantics (e.g., #52072). To prevent
	// this, we skip devirtualizing calls within go/defer statements
	// altogether.
	if call.GoDefer {
		return
	}

	if call.Op() != ir.OCALLINTER {
		return
	}

	sel := call.Fun.(*ir.SelectorExpr)
	r := ir.StaticValue(sel.X)
	if r.Op() != ir.OCONVIFACE {
		return
	}
	recv := r.(*ir.ConvExpr)

	typ := recv.X.Type()
	if typ.IsInterface() {
		return
	}

	// If typ is a shape type, then it was a type argument originally
	// and we'd need an indirect call through the dictionary anyway.
	// We're unable to devirtualize this call.
	if typ.IsShape() {
		return
	}

	// If typ *has* a shape type, then it's a shaped, instantiated
	// type like T[go.shape.int], and its methods (may) have an extra
	// dictionary parameter. We could devirtualize this call if we
	// could derive an appropriate dictionary argument.
	//
	// TODO(mdempsky): If typ has has a promoted non-generic method,
	// then that method won't require a dictionary argument. We could
	// still devirtualize those calls.
	//
	// TODO(mdempsky): We have the *runtime.itab in recv.TypeWord. It
	// should be possible to compute the represented type's runtime
	// dictionary from this (e.g., by adding a pointer from T[int]'s
	// *runtime._type to .dict.T[int]; or by recognizing static
	// references to go:itab.T[int],iface and constructing a direct
	// reference to .dict.T[int]).
	if typ.HasShape() {
		if base.Flag.LowerM != 0 {
			base.WarnfAt(call.Pos(), "cannot devirtualize %v: shaped receiver %v", call, typ)
		}
		return
	}

	// Further, if sel.X's type has a shape type, then it's a shaped
	// interface type. In this case, the (non-dynamic) TypeAssertExpr
	// we construct below would attempt to create an itab
	// corresponding to this shaped interface type; but the actual
	// itab pointer in the interface value will correspond to the
	// original (non-shaped) interface type instead. These are
	// functionally equivalent, but they have distinct pointer
	// identities, which leads to the type assertion failing.
	//
	// TODO(mdempsky): We know the type assertion here is safe, so we
	// could instead set a flag so that walk skips the itab check. For
	// now, punting is easy and safe.
	if sel.X.Type().HasShape() {
		if base.Flag.LowerM != 0 {
			base.WarnfAt(call.Pos(), "cannot devirtualize %v: shaped interface %v", call, sel.X.Type())
		}
		return
	}

	dt := ir.NewTypeAssertExpr(sel.Pos(), sel.X, nil)
	dt.SetType(typ)
	x := typecheck.XDotMethod(sel.Pos(), dt, sel.Sel, true)
	switch x.Op() {
	case ir.ODOTMETH:
		if base.Flag.LowerM != 0 {
			base.WarnfAt(call.Pos(), "devirtualizing %v to %v", sel, typ)
		}
		call.SetOp(ir.OCALLMETH)
		call.Fun = x
	case ir.ODOTINTER:
		// Promoted method from embedded interface-typed field (#42279).
		if base.Flag.LowerM != 0 {
			base.WarnfAt(call.Pos(), "partially devirtualizing %v to %v", sel, typ)
		}
		call.SetOp(ir.OCALLINTER)
		call.Fun = x
	default:
		base.FatalfAt(call.Pos(), "failed to devirtualize %v (%v)", x, x.Op())
	}

	// Duplicated logic from typecheck for function call return
	// value types.
	//
	// Receiver parameter size may have changed; need to update
	// call.Type to get correct stack offsets for result
	// parameters.
	types.CheckSize(x.Type())
	switch ft := x.Type(); ft.NumResults() {
	case 0:
	case 1:
		call.SetType(ft.Result(0).Type)
	default:
		call.SetType(ft.ResultsTuple())
	}

	// Desugar OCALLMETH, if we created one (#57309).
	typecheck.FixMethodCall(call)
}