package transform // This file provides function to lower interface intrinsics to their final LLVM // form, optimizing them in the process. // // During SSA construction, the following pseudo-calls are created: // runtime.typeAssert(typecode, assertedType) // runtime.interfaceImplements(typecode, interfaceMethodSet) // runtime.interfaceMethod(typecode, interfaceMethodSet, signature) // See src/runtime/interface.go for details. // These calls are to declared but not defined functions, so the optimizer will // leave them alone. // // This pass lowers the above functions to their final form: // // typeAssert: // Replaced with an icmp instruction so it can be directly used in a type // switch. This is very easy to optimize for LLVM: it will often translate a // type switch into a regular switch statement. // // interfaceImplements: // This call is translated into a call that checks whether the underlying // type is one of the types implementing this interface. // // interfaceMethod: // This call is replaced with a call to a function that calls the // appropriate method depending on the underlying type. // When there is only one type implementing this interface, this call is // translated into a direct call of that method. // When there is no type implementing this interface, this code is marked // unreachable as there is no way such an interface could be constructed. // // Note that this way of implementing interfaces is very different from how the // main Go compiler implements them. For more details on how the main Go // compiler does it: https://research.swtch.com/interfaces import ( "sort" "strings" "github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/compiler/llvmutil" "tinygo.org/x/go-llvm" ) // signatureInfo is a Go signature of an interface method. It does not represent // any method in particular. type signatureInfo struct { name string global llvm.Value methods []*methodInfo interfaces []*interfaceInfo } // methodName takes a method name like "func String()" and returns only the // name, which is "String" in this case. func (s *signatureInfo) methodName() string { if !strings.HasPrefix(s.name, "func ") { panic("signature must start with \"func \"") } methodName := s.name[len("func "):] if openingParen := strings.IndexByte(methodName, '('); openingParen < 0 { panic("no opening paren in signature name") } else { return methodName[:openingParen] } } // methodInfo describes a single method on a concrete type. type methodInfo struct { *signatureInfo function llvm.Value } // typeInfo describes a single concrete Go type, which can be a basic or a named // type. If it is a named type, it may have methods. type typeInfo struct { name string typecode llvm.Value methodSet llvm.Value methods []*methodInfo } // getMethod looks up the method on this type with the given signature and // returns it. The method must exist on this type, otherwise getMethod will // panic. func (t *typeInfo) getMethod(signature *signatureInfo) *methodInfo { for _, method := range t.methods { if method.signatureInfo == signature { return method } } panic("could not find method") } // interfaceInfo keeps information about a Go interface type, including all // methods it has. type interfaceInfo struct { name string // name with $interface suffix methodSet llvm.Value // global which this interfaceInfo describes signatures []*signatureInfo // method set types []*typeInfo // types this interface implements assertFunc llvm.Value // runtime.interfaceImplements replacement methodFuncs map[*signatureInfo]llvm.Value // runtime.interfaceMethod replacements for each signature } // id removes the $interface suffix from the name and returns the clean // interface name including import path. func (itf *interfaceInfo) id() string { if !strings.HasSuffix(itf.name, "$interface") { panic("interface type does not have $interface suffix: " + itf.name) } return itf.name[:len(itf.name)-len("$interface")] } // lowerInterfacesPass keeps state related to the interface lowering pass. The // pass has been implemented as an object type because of its complexity, but // should be seen as a regular function call (see LowerInterfaces). type lowerInterfacesPass struct { mod llvm.Module sizeLevel int // LLVM optimization size level, 1 means -opt=s and 2 means -opt=z builder llvm.Builder ctx llvm.Context uintptrType llvm.Type types map[string]*typeInfo signatures map[string]*signatureInfo interfaces map[string]*interfaceInfo } // LowerInterfaces lowers all intermediate interface calls and globals that are // emitted by the compiler as higher-level intrinsics. They need some lowering // before LLVM can work on them. This is done so that a few cleanup passes can // run before assigning the final type codes. func LowerInterfaces(mod llvm.Module, sizeLevel int) error { p := &lowerInterfacesPass{ mod: mod, sizeLevel: sizeLevel, builder: mod.Context().NewBuilder(), ctx: mod.Context(), uintptrType: mod.Context().IntType(llvm.NewTargetData(mod.DataLayout()).PointerSize() * 8), types: make(map[string]*typeInfo), signatures: make(map[string]*signatureInfo), interfaces: make(map[string]*interfaceInfo), } return p.run() } // run runs the pass itself. func (p *lowerInterfacesPass) run() error { // Collect all type codes. for global := p.mod.FirstGlobal(); !global.IsNil(); global = llvm.NextGlobal(global) { if strings.HasPrefix(global.Name(), "reflect/types.type:") { // Retrieve Go type information based on an opaque global variable. // Only the name of the global is relevant, the object itself is // discarded afterwards. name := strings.TrimPrefix(global.Name(), "reflect/types.type:") if _, ok := p.types[name]; !ok { t := &typeInfo{ name: name, typecode: global, } p.types[name] = t initializer := global.Initializer() if initializer.IsNil() { continue } methodSet := llvm.ConstExtractValue(initializer, []uint32{2}) p.addTypeMethods(t, methodSet) } } } // Find all interface method calls. interfaceMethod := p.mod.NamedFunction("runtime.interfaceMethod") interfaceMethodUses := getUses(interfaceMethod) for _, use := range interfaceMethodUses { methodSet := use.Operand(1).Operand(0) name := methodSet.Name() if _, ok := p.interfaces[name]; !ok { p.addInterface(methodSet) } } // Find all interface type asserts. interfaceImplements := p.mod.NamedFunction("runtime.interfaceImplements") interfaceImplementsUses := getUses(interfaceImplements) for _, use := range interfaceImplementsUses { methodSet := use.Operand(1).Operand(0) name := methodSet.Name() if _, ok := p.interfaces[name]; !ok { p.addInterface(methodSet) } } // Find all the interfaces that are implemented per type. for _, t := range p.types { // This type has no methods, so don't spend time calculating them. if len(t.methods) == 0 { continue } // Pre-calculate a set of signatures that this type has, for easy // lookup/check. typeSignatureSet := make(map[*signatureInfo]struct{}) for _, method := range t.methods { typeSignatureSet[method.signatureInfo] = struct{}{} } // A set of interfaces, mapped from the name to the info. // When the name maps to a nil pointer, one of the methods of this type // exists in the given interface but not all of them so this type // doesn't implement the interface. satisfiesInterfaces := make(map[string]*interfaceInfo) for _, method := range t.methods { for _, itf := range method.interfaces { if _, ok := satisfiesInterfaces[itf.name]; ok { // interface already checked with a different method continue } // check whether this interface satisfies this type satisfies := true for _, itfSignature := range itf.signatures { if _, ok := typeSignatureSet[itfSignature]; !ok { satisfiesInterfaces[itf.name] = nil // does not satisfy satisfies = false break } } if !satisfies { continue } satisfiesInterfaces[itf.name] = itf } } // Add this type to all interfaces that satisfy this type. for _, itf := range satisfiesInterfaces { if itf == nil { // Interface does not implement this type, but one of the // methods on this type also exists on the interface. continue } itf.types = append(itf.types, t) } } // Sort all types added to the interfaces. for _, itf := range p.interfaces { sort.Slice(itf.types, func(i, j int) bool { return itf.types[i].name > itf.types[j].name }) } // Replace all interface methods with their uses, if possible. for _, use := range interfaceMethodUses { typecode := use.Operand(0) signature := p.signatures[use.Operand(2).Name()] methodSet := use.Operand(1).Operand(0) // global variable itf := p.interfaces[methodSet.Name()] // Delegate calling the right function to a special wrapper function. inttoptrs := getUses(use) if len(inttoptrs) != 1 || inttoptrs[0].IsAIntToPtrInst().IsNil() { return errorAt(use, "internal error: expected exactly one inttoptr use of runtime.interfaceMethod") } inttoptr := inttoptrs[0] calls := getUses(inttoptr) for _, call := range calls { // Set up parameters for the call. First copy the regular params... params := make([]llvm.Value, call.OperandsCount()) paramTypes := make([]llvm.Type, len(params)) for i := 0; i < len(params)-1; i++ { params[i] = call.Operand(i) paramTypes[i] = params[i].Type() } // then add the typecode to the end of the list. params[len(params)-1] = typecode paramTypes[len(params)-1] = p.uintptrType // Create a function that redirects the call to the destination // call, after selecting the right concrete type. redirector := p.getInterfaceMethodFunc(itf, signature, call.Type(), paramTypes) // Replace the old lookup/inttoptr/call with the new call. p.builder.SetInsertPointBefore(call) retval := p.builder.CreateCall(redirector, append(params, llvm.ConstNull(llvm.PointerType(p.ctx.Int8Type(), 0))), "") if retval.Type().TypeKind() != llvm.VoidTypeKind { call.ReplaceAllUsesWith(retval) } call.EraseFromParentAsInstruction() } inttoptr.EraseFromParentAsInstruction() use.EraseFromParentAsInstruction() } // Replace all typeasserts on interface types with matches on their concrete // types, if possible. for _, use := range interfaceImplementsUses { actualType := use.Operand(0) methodSet := use.Operand(1).Operand(0) // global variable itf := p.interfaces[methodSet.Name()] // Create a function that does a type switch on all available types // that implement this interface. fn := p.getInterfaceImplementsFunc(itf) p.builder.SetInsertPointBefore(use) commaOk := p.builder.CreateCall(fn, []llvm.Value{actualType}, "typeassert.ok") use.ReplaceAllUsesWith(commaOk) use.EraseFromParentAsInstruction() } // Replace each type assert with an actual type comparison or (if the type // assert is impossible) the constant false. llvmFalse := llvm.ConstInt(p.ctx.Int1Type(), 0, false) for _, use := range getUses(p.mod.NamedFunction("runtime.typeAssert")) { actualType := use.Operand(0) name := strings.TrimPrefix(use.Operand(1).Name(), "reflect/types.typeid:") if t, ok := p.types[name]; ok { // The type exists in the program, so lower to a regular integer // comparison. p.builder.SetInsertPointBefore(use) commaOk := p.builder.CreateICmp(llvm.IntEQ, llvm.ConstPtrToInt(t.typecode, p.uintptrType), actualType, "typeassert.ok") use.ReplaceAllUsesWith(commaOk) } else { // The type does not exist in the program, so lower to a constant // false. This is trivially further optimized. // TODO: eventually it'll be necessary to handle reflect.PtrTo and // reflect.New calls which create new types not present in the // original program. use.ReplaceAllUsesWith(llvmFalse) } use.EraseFromParentAsInstruction() } // Remove all method sets, which are now unnecessary and inhibit later // optimizations if they are left in place. for _, t := range p.types { initializer := t.typecode.Initializer() methodSet := llvm.ConstExtractValue(initializer, []uint32{2}) initializer = llvm.ConstInsertValue(initializer, llvm.ConstNull(methodSet.Type()), []uint32{2}) t.typecode.SetInitializer(initializer) } return nil } // addTypeMethods reads the method set of the given type info struct. It // retrieves the signatures and the references to the method functions // themselves for later type<->interface matching. func (p *lowerInterfacesPass) addTypeMethods(t *typeInfo, methodSet llvm.Value) { if !t.methodSet.IsNil() || methodSet.IsNull() { // no methods or methods already read return } methodSet = methodSet.Operand(0) // get global from GEP // This type has methods, collect all methods of this type. t.methodSet = methodSet set := methodSet.Initializer() // get value from global for i := 0; i < set.Type().ArrayLength(); i++ { methodData := llvm.ConstExtractValue(set, []uint32{uint32(i)}) signatureGlobal := llvm.ConstExtractValue(methodData, []uint32{0}) signatureName := signatureGlobal.Name() function := llvm.ConstExtractValue(methodData, []uint32{1}).Operand(0) signature := p.getSignature(signatureName, signatureGlobal) method := &methodInfo{ function: function, signatureInfo: signature, } signature.methods = append(signature.methods, method) t.methods = append(t.methods, method) } } // addInterface reads information about an interface, which is the // fully-qualified name and the signatures of all methods it has. func (p *lowerInterfacesPass) addInterface(methodSet llvm.Value) { name := methodSet.Name() t := &interfaceInfo{ name: name, methodSet: methodSet, } p.interfaces[name] = t methodSet = methodSet.Initializer() // get global value from getelementptr for i := 0; i < methodSet.Type().ArrayLength(); i++ { signatureGlobal := llvm.ConstExtractValue(methodSet, []uint32{uint32(i)}) signatureName := signatureGlobal.Name() signature := p.getSignature(signatureName, signatureGlobal) signature.interfaces = append(signature.interfaces, t) t.signatures = append(t.signatures, signature) } } // getSignature returns a new *signatureInfo, creating it if it doesn't already // exist. func (p *lowerInterfacesPass) getSignature(name string, global llvm.Value) *signatureInfo { if _, ok := p.signatures[name]; !ok { p.signatures[name] = &signatureInfo{ name: name, global: global, } } return p.signatures[name] } // replaceInvokeWithCall replaces a runtime.interfaceMethod + inttoptr with a // concrete method. This can be done when only one type implements the // interface. func (p *lowerInterfacesPass) replaceInvokeWithCall(use llvm.Value, typ *typeInfo, signature *signatureInfo) error { inttoptrs := getUses(use) if len(inttoptrs) != 1 || inttoptrs[0].IsAIntToPtrInst().IsNil() { return errorAt(use, "internal error: expected exactly one inttoptr use of runtime.interfaceMethod") } inttoptr := inttoptrs[0] function := typ.getMethod(signature).function if inttoptr.Type() == function.Type() { // Easy case: the types are the same. Simply replace the inttoptr // result (which is directly called) with the actual function. inttoptr.ReplaceAllUsesWith(function) } else { // Harder case: the type is not actually the same. Go through each call // (of which there should be only one), extract the receiver params for // this call and replace the call with a direct call to the target // function. for _, call := range getUses(inttoptr) { if call.IsACallInst().IsNil() || call.CalledValue() != inttoptr { return errorAt(call, "internal error: expected the inttoptr to be called as a method, this is not a method call") } operands := make([]llvm.Value, call.OperandsCount()-1) for i := range operands { operands[i] = call.Operand(i) } paramTypes := function.Type().ElementType().ParamTypes() receiverParamTypes := paramTypes[:len(paramTypes)-(len(operands)-1)] methodParamTypes := paramTypes[len(paramTypes)-(len(operands)-1):] for i, methodParamType := range methodParamTypes { if methodParamType != operands[i+1].Type() { return errorAt(call, "internal error: expected method call param type and function param type to be the same") } } p.builder.SetInsertPointBefore(call) receiverParams := llvmutil.EmitPointerUnpack(p.builder, p.mod, operands[0], receiverParamTypes) result := p.builder.CreateCall(function, append(receiverParams, operands[1:]...), "") if result.Type().TypeKind() != llvm.VoidTypeKind { call.ReplaceAllUsesWith(result) } call.EraseFromParentAsInstruction() } } inttoptr.EraseFromParentAsInstruction() use.EraseFromParentAsInstruction() return nil } // getInterfaceImplementsFunc returns a function that checks whether a given // interface type implements a given interface, by checking all possible types // that implement this interface. // // The type match is implemented using an if/else chain over all possible types. // This if/else chain is easily converted to a big switch over all possible // types by the LLVM simplifycfg pass. func (p *lowerInterfacesPass) getInterfaceImplementsFunc(itf *interfaceInfo) llvm.Value { if !itf.assertFunc.IsNil() { return itf.assertFunc } // Create the function and function signature. // TODO: debug info fnName := itf.id() + "$typeassert" fnType := llvm.FunctionType(p.ctx.Int1Type(), []llvm.Type{p.uintptrType}, false) fn := llvm.AddFunction(p.mod, fnName, fnType) itf.assertFunc = fn fn.Param(0).SetName("actualType") fn.SetLinkage(llvm.InternalLinkage) fn.SetUnnamedAddr(true) if p.sizeLevel >= 2 { fn.AddFunctionAttr(p.ctx.CreateEnumAttribute(llvm.AttributeKindID("optsize"), 0)) } // Start the if/else chain at the entry block. entry := p.ctx.AddBasicBlock(fn, "entry") thenBlock := p.ctx.AddBasicBlock(fn, "then") p.builder.SetInsertPointAtEnd(entry) // Iterate over all possible types. Each iteration creates a new branch // either to the 'then' block (success) or the .next block, for the next // check. actualType := fn.Param(0) for _, typ := range itf.types { nextBlock := p.ctx.AddBasicBlock(fn, typ.name+".next") cmp := p.builder.CreateICmp(llvm.IntEQ, actualType, llvm.ConstPtrToInt(typ.typecode, p.uintptrType), typ.name+".icmp") p.builder.CreateCondBr(cmp, thenBlock, nextBlock) p.builder.SetInsertPointAtEnd(nextBlock) } // The builder is now inserting at the last *.next block. Once we reach // this point, all types have been checked so the type assert will have // failed. p.builder.CreateRet(llvm.ConstInt(p.ctx.Int1Type(), 0, false)) // Fill 'then' block (type assert was successful). p.builder.SetInsertPointAtEnd(thenBlock) p.builder.CreateRet(llvm.ConstInt(p.ctx.Int1Type(), 1, false)) return itf.assertFunc } // getInterfaceMethodFunc returns a thunk for calling a method on an interface. // // Matching the actual type is implemented using an if/else chain over all // possible types. This is later converted to a switch statement by the LLVM // simplifycfg pass. func (p *lowerInterfacesPass) getInterfaceMethodFunc(itf *interfaceInfo, signature *signatureInfo, returnType llvm.Type, paramTypes []llvm.Type) llvm.Value { if fn, ok := itf.methodFuncs[signature]; ok { // This function has already been created. return fn } if itf.methodFuncs == nil { // initialize the above map itf.methodFuncs = make(map[*signatureInfo]llvm.Value) } // Construct the function name, which is of the form: // (main.Stringer).String fnName := "(" + itf.id() + ")." + signature.methodName() fnType := llvm.FunctionType(returnType, append(paramTypes, llvm.PointerType(p.ctx.Int8Type(), 0)), false) fn := llvm.AddFunction(p.mod, fnName, fnType) llvm.PrevParam(fn.LastParam()).SetName("actualType") fn.LastParam().SetName("parentHandle") itf.methodFuncs[signature] = fn fn.SetLinkage(llvm.InternalLinkage) fn.SetUnnamedAddr(true) if p.sizeLevel >= 2 { fn.AddFunctionAttr(p.ctx.CreateEnumAttribute(llvm.AttributeKindID("optsize"), 0)) } // TODO: debug info // Collect the params that will be passed to the functions to call. // These params exclude the receiver (which may actually consist of multiple // parts). params := make([]llvm.Value, fn.ParamsCount()-3) for i := range params { params[i] = fn.Param(i + 1) } // Start chain in the entry block. entry := p.ctx.AddBasicBlock(fn, "entry") p.builder.SetInsertPointAtEnd(entry) // Define all possible functions that can be called. actualType := llvm.PrevParam(fn.LastParam()) for _, typ := range itf.types { // Create type check (if/else). bb := p.ctx.AddBasicBlock(fn, typ.name) next := p.ctx.AddBasicBlock(fn, typ.name+".next") cmp := p.builder.CreateICmp(llvm.IntEQ, actualType, llvm.ConstPtrToInt(typ.typecode, p.uintptrType), typ.name+".icmp") p.builder.CreateCondBr(cmp, bb, next) // The function we will redirect to when the interface has this type. function := typ.getMethod(signature).function p.builder.SetInsertPointAtEnd(bb) receiver := fn.FirstParam() if receiver.Type() != function.FirstParam().Type() { // When the receiver is a pointer, it is not wrapped. This means the // i8* has to be cast to the correct pointer type of the target // function. receiver = p.builder.CreateBitCast(receiver, function.FirstParam().Type(), "") } // Check whether the called function has the same signature as would be // expected from the parameters. This can happen in rare cases when // named struct types are renamed after merging multiple LLVM modules. paramTypes := []llvm.Type{receiver.Type()} for _, param := range params { paramTypes = append(paramTypes, param.Type()) } calledFunctionType := function.Type() sig := llvm.PointerType(llvm.FunctionType(calledFunctionType.ElementType().ReturnType(), paramTypes, false), calledFunctionType.PointerAddressSpace()) if sig != function.Type() { function = p.builder.CreateBitCast(function, sig, "") } retval := p.builder.CreateCall(function, append([]llvm.Value{receiver}, params...), "") if retval.Type().TypeKind() == llvm.VoidTypeKind { p.builder.CreateRetVoid() } else { p.builder.CreateRet(retval) } // Start next comparison in the 'next' block (which is jumped to when // the type doesn't match). p.builder.SetInsertPointAtEnd(next) } // The builder now points to the last *.then block, after all types have // been checked. Call runtime.nilPanic here. // The only other possible value remaining is nil for nil interfaces. We // could panic with a different message here such as "nil interface" but // that would increase code size and "nil panic" is close enough. Most // importantly, it avoids undefined behavior when accidentally calling a // method on a nil interface. nilPanic := p.mod.NamedFunction("runtime.nilPanic") p.builder.CreateCall(nilPanic, []llvm.Value{ llvm.Undef(llvm.PointerType(p.ctx.Int8Type(), 0)), llvm.Undef(llvm.PointerType(p.ctx.Int8Type(), 0)), }, "") p.builder.CreateUnreachable() return fn }