Various reflect operations permit assignability conversions,
i.e. their internals behave unlike y=x.(T) which unpacks only
those interface values in x that are identical to T.
We split typeAssertConstraint y=x.(T) into two constraints:
1) typeFilter, for when T is an interface type and no
representation change occurs.
2) unpack, for when T is a concrete type and the payload of the
tagged object is extracted. This constraint has an 'exact'
parameter indicating whether to use the predicate
IsIdentical (for type assertions) or
IsAssignable (for reflect operators).
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This information can be used to specialize such calls, e.g.
- report location of unsound calls (done for reflect.NewAt)
- exploit argument information (done for constant 'dir' parameter to reflect.ChanOf)
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Since the Go runtime treats it specially, so must the pointer analysis.
Details:
- Combine object.{val,typ} fields into 'data interface{}'.
It may now hold a string, describing an instrinsically
allocated object such as the command-line args.
- extend Label accordingly; add Label.ReflectType() accessor.
Also: document pointer analysis algorithm classification.
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Details:
- Warnings are reported as values in Result, not a callback in Config.
- remove TODO to eliminate Print callback. It's better than the alternative.
- remove unused Config.root field.
- hang Result off analysis object (impl. detail)
- reword TODO.
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Motivation: simple constraints---copy and addr---are more
amenable to pre-solver optimizations (forthcoming) than
complex constraints: load, store, and all others.
In code such as the following:
t0 = new struct { x, y int }
t1 = &t0.y
t2 = *t1
there's no need for the full generality of a (complex)
load constraint for t2=*t1 since t1 can only point to t0.y.
All we need is a (simple) copy constraint t2 = (t0.y)
where (t0.y) is the object node label for that field.
For all "addressable" SSA instructions, we tabulate
whether their points-to set is necessarily a singleton. For
some (e.g. Alloc, MakeSlice, etc) this is always true by
design. For others (e.g. FieldAddr) it depends on their
operands.
We exploit this information when generating constraints:
all load-form and store-form constraints are reduced to copy
constraints if the pointer's PTS is a singleton.
Similarly all FieldAddr (y=&x.f) and IndexAddr (y=&x[0])
constraints are reduced to offset addition, for singleton
operands.
Here's the constraint mix when running on the oracle itself.
The total number of constraints is unchanged but the fraction
that are complex has gone down to 21% from 53%.
before after
--simple--
addr 20682 46949
copy 61454 91211
--complex--
offsetAddr 41621 15325
load 18769 12925
store 30758 6908
invoke 758 760
typeAssert 1688 1689
total 175832 175869
Also:
- Add Pointer.Context() for local variables,
since we now plumb cgnodes throughout. Nice.
- Refactor all load-form (load, receive, lookup) and
store-form (Store, send, MapUpdate) constraints to use
genLoad and genStore.
- Log counts of constraints by type.
- valNodes split into localval and globalval maps;
localval is purged after each function.
- analogous maps localobj[v] and globalobj[v] hold sole label
for pts(v), if singleton.
- fnObj map subsumed by globalobj.
- make{Function/Global/Constant} inlined into objectValue.
Much cleaner.
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Also: pointer.Analyze now returns a pointer.Result object,
containing the callgraph and the results of ssa.Value queries.
The oracle has been updated to use the new call and pointer APIs.
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(reflect.Value).Send
(reflect.Value).TrySend
(reflect.Value).Recv
(reflect.Value).TryRecv
(reflect.Type).ChanOf
(reflect.Type).In
(reflect.Type).Out
reflect.Indirect
reflect.MakeChan
Also:
- specialize genInvoke when the receiver is a reflect.Type under the
assumption that there's only one possible concrete type. This
makes all reflect.Type operations context-sensitive since the calls
are no longer dynamic.
- Rename all variables to match the actual parameter names used in
the reflect API.
- Add pointer.Config.Reflection flag
(exposed in oracle as --reflect, default false) to enable reflection.
It currently adds about 20% running time. I'll make it true after
the presolver is implemented.
- Simplified worklist datatype and solver main loop slightly
(~10% speed improvement).
- Use addLabel() utility to add a label to a PTS.
(Working on my 3 yr old 2x2GHz+4GB Mac vs 8x4GHz+24GB workstation,
one really notices the cost of pointer analysis.
Note to self: time to implement presolver.)
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Core:
reflect.TypeOf
reflect.ValueOf
reflect.Zero
reflect.Value.Interface
Maps:
(reflect.Value).MapIndex
(reflect.Value).MapKeys
(reflect.Value).SetMapIndex
(*reflect.rtype).Elem
(*reflect.rtype).Key
+ tests:
pointer/testdata/mapreflect.go.
oracle/testdata/src/main/reflection.go.
Interface objects (T, V...) have been renamed "tagged objects".
Abstraction: we model reflect.Value similar to
interface{}---as a pointer that points only to tagged
objects---but a reflect.Value may also point to an "indirect
tagged object", one in which the payload V is of type *T not T.
These are required because reflect.Values can hold lvalues,
e.g. when derived via Field() or Elem(), though we won't use
them till we get to structs and pointers.
Solving: each reflection intrinsic defines a new constraint
and resolution rule. Because of the nature of reflection,
generalizing across types, the resolution rules dynamically
create additional complex constraints during solving, where
previously only simple (copy) constraints were created.
This requires some solver changes:
The work done before the main solver loop (to attach new
constraints to the graph) is now done before each iteration,
in processNewConstraints.
Its loop over constraints is broken into two passes:
the first handles base (addr-of) constraints,
the second handles simple and complex constraints.
constraint.init() has been inlined. The only behaviour that
varies across constraints is ptr()
Sadly this will pessimize presolver optimisations, when we get
there; such is the price of reflection.
Objects: reflection intrinsics create objects (i.e. cause
memory allocations) with no SSA operation. We will represent
them as the cgnode of the instrinsic (e.g. reflect.New), so we
extend Labels and node.data to represent objects as a product
(not sum) of ssa.Value and cgnode and pull this out into its
own type, struct object. This simplifies a number of
invariants and saves space. The ntObject flag is now
represented by obj!=nil; the other flags are moved into
object.
cgnodes are now always recorded in objects/Labels for which it
is appropriate (all but those for globals, constants and the
shared contours for functions).
Also:
- Prepopulate the flattenMemo cache to consider reflect.Value
a fake pointer, not a struct.
- Improve accessors and documentation on type Label.
- @conctypes assertions renamed @types (since dyn. types needn't be concrete).
- add oracle 'describe' test on an interface (missing, an oversight).
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This is a short-term usability measure.
Longer term, we need to audit each conversion to decide
whether it should be ignored or modelled by an analytic
summary.
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Background: some ssa.Values represent lvalues, e.g.
var g = new(string)
the *ssa.Global g is a **string, the address of what users
think of as the global g.
Querying pts(g) returns a singleton containing the object g, a
*string. What users really want to see is what that in turn
points to, i.e. the label for the call to new().
This change now lets users make "indirect" pointer queries,
i.e. for pts(*v) where v is an ssa.Value. The oracle makes an
indirect query if the type of the ssa.Value differs from the
source expression type by a pointer, i.e. it's an lvalue.
In other words, we're hiding the fact that compilers (e.g. ssa) internally represent globals by their address.
+ Tests.
This serendipitously fixed an outstanding bug mentioned in the
describe.go
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