C++: pragma[noinline] on GVN charpred

The charpred of class `GVN` in `ASTValueNumbering.qll` got inlined into
the member predicate `getAnInstruction` and caused a tuple explosion on
Wireshark in the query `StrncpyFlippedArgs.ql`.

I interrupted the predicate after 10 minutes and got these intermediate
tuple counts:

    (5208s) Tuple counts for ASTValueNumbering::GVN::getAnInstruction_dispred#ff:
    8754900909 ~5%          {3} r1 = JOIN ValueNumberingInternal::tvalueNumber#ff_10#join_rhs AS L WITH ValueNumberingInternal::tvalueNumber#ff_10#join_rhs AS R ON FIRST 1 OUTPUT R.<1>, L.<1>, L.<0>
    4390274632 ~150085%     {2} r2 = JOIN r1 WITH project#SSAConstruction::Cached::getInstructionUnconvertedResultExpression AS R ON FIRST 1 OUTPUT r1.<2>, r1.<1>
                            return r2

After this change, the `getAnInstruction` predicate is itself inlined,
like it should be. The new non-inlined charpred takes 2.1s and has these
tuple counts:

    (2s) Tuple counts for ASTValueNumbering::GVN#f:
    9158442  ~117%     {1} r1 = JOIN project#SSAConstruction::Cached::getInstructionUnconvertedResultExpression AS L WITH ValueNumberingInternal::tvalueNumber#ff@staged_ext AS R ON FIRST 1 OUTPUT R.<1>
                       return r1
This commit is contained in:
Jonas Jensen
2020-03-04 10:26:48 +01:00
parent 88c74b2a4b
commit 60bcbf477a

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@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ private import semmle.code.cpp.ir.IR
* methods.
*/
class GVN extends TValueNumber {
pragma[noinline]
GVN() {
exists(Instruction instr |
this = tvalueNumber(instr) and exists(instr.getUnconvertedResultExpression())