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Peter Collingbourne 75bb30ddbf Move {load,store}(llvm.protected.field.ptr) lowering to InstCombine.
The previous position of llvm.protected.field.ptr lowering for loads
and stores was problematic as it not only inhibited optimizations such
as DSE (as stores to a llvm.protected.field.ptr were not considered to
must-alias stores to the non-protected.field pointer) but also required
changes to other optimization passes to avoid transformations that would
reduce PFP coverage.

Address this by moving the load/store part of the lowering to
InstCombine, where it will run earlier than the PFP-breaking and
AA-relying transformations. The deactivation symbol, null comparison
and EmuPAC parts of the lowering remain in PreISelLowering.

Now that the transformation inhibitions are no longer needed, remove them
(i.e. partially revert #151649, and revert #182976).

This change resulted in a 2.4% reduction in Fleetbench .text size and
the following improvements to PFP performance overhead for BM_PROTO_Arena
on various microarchitectures:

                    before   after
  Apple M2 Ultra     3.5%    3.3%
  Google Axion C4A   3.3%    2.9%
  Google Axion N4A   2.7%    2.2%

Reviewers: fmayer, nikic, vitalybuka

Reviewed By: fmayer

Pull Request: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/186548
2026-04-06 17:47:24 -07:00

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