introduce graph traversal abstraction and visitor

we may need to traverse the lazy graph multiple times:
- to record loan liveness
- to dump the localized outlives constraint in the polonius MIR dump

to do that we extract the previous loan liveness code into an abstract
traversal + visitor handling the liveness-specific parts, while the MIR
dump will be able to record constraints in its own visitor.
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Rémy Rakic 2025-12-30 22:55:12 +00:00
parent f4abd15bc5
commit 7de450ad52
3 changed files with 380 additions and 354 deletions

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use std::collections::BTreeMap;
use rustc_data_structures::fx::{FxHashMap, FxHashSet, FxIndexSet};
use rustc_index::interval::SparseIntervalMatrix;
use rustc_middle::mir::{Body, Location};
use rustc_middle::ty::RegionVid;
use rustc_mir_dataflow::points::PointIndex;
use crate::BorrowSet;
use crate::constraints::OutlivesConstraint;
use crate::dataflow::BorrowIndex;
use crate::polonius::ConstraintDirection;
use crate::region_infer::values::LivenessValues;
use crate::type_check::Locations;
use crate::universal_regions::UniversalRegions;
/// A localized outlives constraint reifies the CFG location where the outlives constraint holds,
/// within the origins themselves as if they were different from point to point: from `a: b`
/// outlives constraints to `a@p: b@p`, where `p` is the point in the CFG.
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pub(crate) struct LocalizedOutlivesConstraintSet {
pub outlives: Vec<LocalizedOutlivesConstraint>,
}
/// The localized constraint graph indexes the physical and logical edges to lazily compute a given
/// node's successors during traversal.
pub(super) struct LocalizedConstraintGraph {
/// The actual, physical, edges we have recorded for a given node. We localize them on-demand
/// when traversing from the node to the successor region.
edges: FxHashMap<LocalizedNode, FxIndexSet<RegionVid>>,
/// The logical edges representing the outlives constraints that hold at all points in the CFG,
/// which we don't localize to avoid creating a lot of unnecessary edges in the graph. Some CFGs
/// can be big, and we don't need to create such a physical edge for every point in the CFG.
logical_edges: FxHashMap<RegionVid, FxIndexSet<RegionVid>>,
}
/// A node in the graph to be traversed, one of the two vertices of a localized outlives constraint.
#[derive(Copy, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
pub(super) struct LocalizedNode {
pub region: RegionVid,
pub point: PointIndex,
}
/// The visitor interface when traversing a `LocalizedConstraintGraph`.
pub(super) trait LocalizedConstraintGraphVisitor {
/// Callback called when traversing a given `loan` encounters a localized `node` it hasn't
/// visited before.
fn on_node_traversed(&mut self, _loan: BorrowIndex, _node: LocalizedNode) {}
/// Callback called when discovering a new `successor` node for the `current_node`.
fn on_successor_discovered(&mut self, _current_node: LocalizedNode, _successor: LocalizedNode) {
}
}
impl LocalizedConstraintGraph {
/// Traverses the constraints and returns the indexed graph of edges per node.
pub(super) fn new<'tcx>(
liveness: &LivenessValues,
outlives_constraints: impl Iterator<Item = OutlivesConstraint<'tcx>>,
) -> Self {
let mut edges: FxHashMap<_, FxIndexSet<_>> = FxHashMap::default();
let mut logical_edges: FxHashMap<_, FxIndexSet<_>> = FxHashMap::default();
for outlives_constraint in outlives_constraints {
match outlives_constraint.locations {
Locations::All(_) => {
logical_edges
.entry(outlives_constraint.sup)
.or_default()
.insert(outlives_constraint.sub);
}
Locations::Single(location) => {
let node = LocalizedNode {
region: outlives_constraint.sup,
point: liveness.point_from_location(location),
};
edges.entry(node).or_default().insert(outlives_constraint.sub);
}
}
}
LocalizedConstraintGraph { edges, logical_edges }
}
/// Traverses the localized constraint graph per-loan, and notifies the `visitor` of discovered
/// nodes and successors.
pub(super) fn traverse<'tcx>(
&self,
body: &Body<'tcx>,
liveness: &LivenessValues,
live_region_variances: &BTreeMap<RegionVid, ConstraintDirection>,
universal_regions: &UniversalRegions<'tcx>,
borrow_set: &BorrowSet<'tcx>,
visitor: &mut impl LocalizedConstraintGraphVisitor,
) {
let live_regions = liveness.points();
let mut visited = FxHashSet::default();
let mut stack = Vec::new();
// Compute reachability per loan by traversing each loan's subgraph starting from where it
// is introduced.
for (loan_idx, loan) in borrow_set.iter_enumerated() {
visited.clear();
stack.clear();
let start_node = LocalizedNode {
region: loan.region,
point: liveness.point_from_location(loan.reserve_location),
};
stack.push(start_node);
while let Some(node) = stack.pop() {
if !visited.insert(node) {
continue;
}
// We've reached a node we haven't visited before.
let location = liveness.location_from_point(node.point);
visitor.on_node_traversed(loan_idx, node);
// Then, we propagate the loan along the localized constraint graph. The outgoing
// edges are computed lazily, from:
// - the various physical edges present at this node,
// - the materialized logical edges that exist virtually at all points for this
// node's region, localized at this point.
// Universal regions propagate loans along the CFG, i.e. forwards only.
let is_universal_region = universal_regions.is_universal_region(node.region);
// The physical edges present at this node are:
//
// 1. the typeck edges that flow from region to region *at this point*.
for &succ in self.edges.get(&node).into_iter().flatten() {
let succ = LocalizedNode { region: succ, point: node.point };
if !visited.contains(&succ) {
stack.push(succ);
visitor.on_successor_discovered(node, succ);
}
}
// 2a. the liveness edges that flow *forward*, from this node's point to its
// successors in the CFG.
if body[location.block].statements.get(location.statement_index).is_some() {
// Intra-block edges, straight line constraints from each point to its successor
// within the same block.
let next_point = node.point + 1;
if let Some(succ) = compute_forward_successor(
node.region,
next_point,
live_regions,
live_region_variances,
is_universal_region,
) {
if !visited.contains(&succ) {
stack.push(succ);
visitor.on_successor_discovered(node, succ);
}
}
} else {
// Inter-block edges, from the block's terminator to each successor block's
// entry point.
for successor_block in body[location.block].terminator().successors() {
let next_location = Location { block: successor_block, statement_index: 0 };
let next_point = liveness.point_from_location(next_location);
if let Some(succ) = compute_forward_successor(
node.region,
next_point,
live_regions,
live_region_variances,
is_universal_region,
) {
if !visited.contains(&succ) {
stack.push(succ);
visitor.on_successor_discovered(node, succ);
}
}
}
}
// 2b. the liveness edges that flow *backward*, from this node's point to its
// predecessors in the CFG.
if !is_universal_region {
if location.statement_index > 0 {
// Backward edges to the predecessor point in the same block.
let previous_point = PointIndex::from(node.point.as_usize() - 1);
if let Some(succ) = compute_backward_successor(
node.region,
node.point,
previous_point,
live_regions,
live_region_variances,
) {
if !visited.contains(&succ) {
stack.push(succ);
visitor.on_successor_discovered(node, succ);
}
}
} else {
// Backward edges from the block entry point to the terminator of the
// predecessor blocks.
let predecessors = body.basic_blocks.predecessors();
for &pred_block in &predecessors[location.block] {
let previous_location = Location {
block: pred_block,
statement_index: body[pred_block].statements.len(),
};
let previous_point = liveness.point_from_location(previous_location);
if let Some(succ) = compute_backward_successor(
node.region,
node.point,
previous_point,
live_regions,
live_region_variances,
) {
if !visited.contains(&succ) {
stack.push(succ);
visitor.on_successor_discovered(node, succ);
}
}
}
}
}
// And finally, we have the logical edges, materialized at this point.
for &logical_succ in self.logical_edges.get(&node.region).into_iter().flatten() {
let succ = LocalizedNode { region: logical_succ, point: node.point };
if !visited.contains(&succ) {
stack.push(succ);
visitor.on_successor_discovered(node, succ);
}
}
}
}
}
}
/// Returns the successor for the current region/point node when propagating a loan through forward
/// edges, if applicable, according to liveness and variance.
fn compute_forward_successor(
region: RegionVid,
next_point: PointIndex,
live_regions: &SparseIntervalMatrix<RegionVid, PointIndex>,
live_region_variances: &BTreeMap<RegionVid, ConstraintDirection>,
is_universal_region: bool,
) -> Option<LocalizedNode> {
// 1. Universal regions are semantically live at all points.
if is_universal_region {
let succ = LocalizedNode { region, point: next_point };
return Some(succ);
}
// 2. Otherwise, gather the edges due to explicit region liveness, when applicable.
if !live_regions.contains(region, next_point) {
return None;
}
// Here, `region` could be live at the current point, and is live at the next point: add a
// constraint between them, according to variance.
// Note: there currently are cases related to promoted and const generics, where we don't yet
// have variance information (possibly about temporary regions created when typeck sanitizes the
// promoteds). Until that is done, we conservatively fallback to maximizing reachability by
// adding a bidirectional edge here. This will not limit traversal whatsoever, and thus
// propagate liveness when needed.
//
// FIXME: add the missing variance information and remove this fallback bidirectional edge.
let direction =
live_region_variances.get(&region).unwrap_or(&ConstraintDirection::Bidirectional);
match direction {
ConstraintDirection::Backward => {
// Contravariant cases: loans flow in the inverse direction, but we're only interested
// in forward successors and there are none here.
None
}
ConstraintDirection::Forward | ConstraintDirection::Bidirectional => {
// 1. For covariant cases: loans flow in the regular direction, from the current point
// to the next point.
// 2. For invariant cases, loans can flow in both directions, but here as well, we only
// want the forward path of the bidirectional edge.
Some(LocalizedNode { region, point: next_point })
}
}
}
/// Returns the successor for the current region/point node when propagating a loan through backward
/// edges, if applicable, according to liveness and variance.
fn compute_backward_successor(
region: RegionVid,
current_point: PointIndex,
previous_point: PointIndex,
live_regions: &SparseIntervalMatrix<RegionVid, PointIndex>,
live_region_variances: &BTreeMap<RegionVid, ConstraintDirection>,
) -> Option<LocalizedNode> {
// Liveness flows into the regions live at the next point. So, in a backwards view, we'll link
// the region from the current point, if it's live there, to the previous point.
if !live_regions.contains(region, current_point) {
return None;
}
// FIXME: add the missing variance information and remove this fallback bidirectional edge. See
// the same comment in `compute_forward_successor`.
let direction =
live_region_variances.get(&region).unwrap_or(&ConstraintDirection::Bidirectional);
match direction {
ConstraintDirection::Forward => {
// Covariant cases: loans flow in the regular direction, but we're only interested in
// backward successors and there are none here.
None
}
ConstraintDirection::Backward | ConstraintDirection::Bidirectional => {
// 1. For contravariant cases: loans flow in the inverse direction, from the current
// point to the previous point.
// 2. For invariant cases, loans can flow in both directions, but here as well, we only
// want the backward path of the bidirectional edge.
Some(LocalizedNode { region, point: previous_point })
}
}
}

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use std::collections::BTreeMap;
use rustc_data_structures::fx::{FxHashMap, FxHashSet, FxIndexSet};
use rustc_index::interval::SparseIntervalMatrix;
use rustc_middle::mir::{Body, Location};
use rustc_middle::ty::RegionVid;
use rustc_mir_dataflow::points::PointIndex;
use crate::BorrowSet;
use crate::constraints::OutlivesConstraint;
use crate::polonius::{ConstraintDirection, LiveLoans};
use crate::region_infer::values::LivenessValues;
use crate::type_check::Locations;
use crate::universal_regions::UniversalRegions;
/// Compute loan reachability to approximately trace loan liveness throughout the CFG, by
/// traversing the graph of constraints that lazily combines:
/// - the localized constraints (the physical edges),
/// - with the constraints that hold at all points (the logical edges).
pub(super) fn compute_loan_liveness<'tcx>(
body: &Body<'tcx>,
outlives_constraints: impl Iterator<Item = OutlivesConstraint<'tcx>>,
liveness: &LivenessValues,
live_region_variances: &BTreeMap<RegionVid, ConstraintDirection>,
universal_regions: &UniversalRegions<'tcx>,
borrow_set: &BorrowSet<'tcx>,
) -> LiveLoans {
let mut live_loans = LiveLoans::new(borrow_set.len());
let live_regions = liveness.points();
// Create the graph with the physical edges, and the logical edges of constraints that hold at
// all points.
let graph = LocalizedConstraintGraph::new(liveness, outlives_constraints);
let mut visited = FxHashSet::default();
let mut stack = Vec::new();
// Compute reachability per loan by traversing each loan's subgraph starting from where it is
// introduced.
for (loan_idx, loan) in borrow_set.iter_enumerated() {
visited.clear();
stack.clear();
let start_node = LocalizedNode {
region: loan.region,
point: liveness.point_from_location(loan.reserve_location),
};
stack.push(start_node);
while let Some(node) = stack.pop() {
if !visited.insert(node) {
continue;
}
// Record the loan as being live on entry to this point if it reaches a live region
// there.
//
// This is an approximation of liveness (which is the thing we want), in that we're
// using a single notion of reachability to represent what used to be _two_ different
// transitive closures. It didn't seem impactful when coming up with the single-graph
// and reachability through space (regions) + time (CFG) concepts, but in practice the
// combination of time-traveling with kills is more impactful than initially
// anticipated.
//
// Kills should prevent a loan from reaching its successor points in the CFG, but not
// while time-traveling: we're not actually at that CFG point, but looking for
// predecessor regions that contain the loan. One of the two TCs we had pushed the
// transitive subset edges to each point instead of having backward edges, and the
// problem didn't exist before. In the abstract, naive reachability is not enough to
// model this, we'd need a slightly different solution. For example, maybe with a
// two-step traversal:
// - at each point we first traverse the subgraph (and possibly time-travel) looking for
// exit nodes while ignoring kills,
// - and then when we're back at the current point, we continue normally.
//
// Another (less annoying) subtlety is that kills and the loan use-map are
// flow-insensitive. Kills can actually appear in places before a loan is introduced, or
// at a location that is actually unreachable in the CFG from the introduction point,
// and these can also be encountered during time-traveling.
//
// The simplest change that made sense to "fix" the issues above is taking into
// account kills that are:
// - reachable from the introduction point
// - encountered during forward traversal. Note that this is not transitive like the
// two-step traversal described above: only kills encountered on exit via a backward
// edge are ignored.
//
// This version of the analysis, however, is enough in practice to pass the tests that
// we care about and NLLs reject, without regressions on crater, and is an actionable
// subset of the full analysis. It also naturally points to areas of improvement that we
// wish to explore later, namely handling kills appropriately during traversal, instead
// of continuing traversal to all the reachable nodes.
//
// FIXME: analyze potential unsoundness, possibly in concert with a borrowck
// implementation in a-mir-formality, fuzzing, or manually crafting counter-examples.
let location = liveness.location_from_point(node.point);
if liveness.is_live_at(node.region, location) {
live_loans.insert(node.point, loan_idx);
}
// Then, propagate the loan along the localized constraint graph. The outgoing edges are
// computed lazily, from:
// - the various physical edges present at this node,
// - the materialized logical edges that exist virtually at all points for this node's
// region, localized at this point.
// Universal regions propagate loans along the CFG, i.e. forwards only.
let is_universal_region = universal_regions.is_universal_region(node.region);
// The physical edges present at this node are:
//
// 1. the typeck edges that flow from region to region *at this point*.
for &succ in graph.edges.get(&node).into_iter().flatten() {
let succ = LocalizedNode { region: succ, point: node.point };
if !visited.contains(&succ) {
stack.push(succ);
}
}
// 2a. the liveness edges that flow *forward*, from this node's point to its successors
// in the CFG.
if body[location.block].statements.get(location.statement_index).is_some() {
// Intra-block edges, straight line constraints from each point to its successor
// within the same block.
let next_point = node.point + 1;
if let Some(succ) = compute_forward_successor(
node.region,
next_point,
live_regions,
live_region_variances,
is_universal_region,
) {
if !visited.contains(&succ) {
stack.push(succ);
}
}
} else {
// Inter-block edges, from the block's terminator to each successor block's entry
// point.
for successor_block in body[location.block].terminator().successors() {
let next_location = Location { block: successor_block, statement_index: 0 };
let next_point = liveness.point_from_location(next_location);
if let Some(succ) = compute_forward_successor(
node.region,
next_point,
live_regions,
live_region_variances,
is_universal_region,
) {
if !visited.contains(&succ) {
stack.push(succ);
}
}
}
}
// 2b. the liveness edges that flow *backward*, from this node's point to its
// predecessors in the CFG.
if !is_universal_region {
if location.statement_index > 0 {
// Backward edges to the predecessor point in the same block.
let previous_point = PointIndex::from(node.point.as_usize() - 1);
if let Some(succ) = compute_backward_successor(
node.region,
node.point,
previous_point,
live_regions,
live_region_variances,
) {
if !visited.contains(&succ) {
stack.push(succ);
}
}
} else {
// Backward edges from the block entry point to the terminator of the
// predecessor blocks.
let predecessors = body.basic_blocks.predecessors();
for &pred_block in &predecessors[location.block] {
let previous_location = Location {
block: pred_block,
statement_index: body[pred_block].statements.len(),
};
let previous_point = liveness.point_from_location(previous_location);
if let Some(succ) = compute_backward_successor(
node.region,
node.point,
previous_point,
live_regions,
live_region_variances,
) {
if !visited.contains(&succ) {
stack.push(succ);
}
}
}
}
}
// And finally, we have the logical edges, materialized at this point.
for &logical_succ in graph.logical_edges.get(&node.region).into_iter().flatten() {
let succ = LocalizedNode { region: logical_succ, point: node.point };
if !visited.contains(&succ) {
stack.push(succ);
}
}
}
}
live_loans
}
/// Returns the successor for the current region/point node when propagating a loan
/// through forward edges, if applicable, according to liveness and variance.
fn compute_forward_successor(
region: RegionVid,
next_point: PointIndex,
live_regions: &SparseIntervalMatrix<RegionVid, PointIndex>,
live_region_variances: &BTreeMap<RegionVid, ConstraintDirection>,
is_universal_region: bool,
) -> Option<LocalizedNode> {
// 1. Universal regions are semantically live at all points.
if is_universal_region {
let succ = LocalizedNode { region, point: next_point };
return Some(succ);
}
// 2. Otherwise, gather the edges due to explicit region liveness, when applicable.
if !live_regions.contains(region, next_point) {
return None;
}
// Here, `region` could be live at the current point, and is live at the next point: add a
// constraint between them, according to variance.
// Note: there currently are cases related to promoted and const generics, where we don't yet
// have variance information (possibly about temporary regions created when typeck sanitizes the
// promoteds). Until that is done, we conservatively fallback to maximizing reachability by
// adding a bidirectional edge here. This will not limit traversal whatsoever, and thus
// propagate liveness when needed.
//
// FIXME: add the missing variance information and remove this fallback bidirectional edge.
let direction =
live_region_variances.get(&region).unwrap_or(&ConstraintDirection::Bidirectional);
match direction {
ConstraintDirection::Backward => {
// Contravariant cases: loans flow in the inverse direction, but we're only interested
// in forward successors and there are none here.
None
}
ConstraintDirection::Forward | ConstraintDirection::Bidirectional => {
// 1. For covariant cases: loans flow in the regular direction, from the current point
// to the next point.
// 2. For invariant cases, loans can flow in both directions, but here as well, we only
// want the forward path of the bidirectional edge.
Some(LocalizedNode { region, point: next_point })
}
}
}
/// Returns the successor for the current region/point node when propagating a loan
/// through backward edges, if applicable, according to liveness and variance.
fn compute_backward_successor(
region: RegionVid,
current_point: PointIndex,
previous_point: PointIndex,
live_regions: &SparseIntervalMatrix<RegionVid, PointIndex>,
live_region_variances: &BTreeMap<RegionVid, ConstraintDirection>,
) -> Option<LocalizedNode> {
// Liveness flows into the regions live at the next point. So, in a backwards view, we'll link
// the region from the current point, if it's live there, to the previous point.
if !live_regions.contains(region, current_point) {
return None;
}
// FIXME: add the missing variance information and remove this fallback bidirectional edge. See
// the same comment in `compute_forward_successor`.
let direction =
live_region_variances.get(&region).unwrap_or(&ConstraintDirection::Bidirectional);
match direction {
ConstraintDirection::Forward => {
// Covariant cases: loans flow in the regular direction, but we're only interested in
// backward successors and there are none here.
None
}
ConstraintDirection::Backward | ConstraintDirection::Bidirectional => {
// 1. For contravariant cases: loans flow in the inverse direction, from the current
// point to the previous point.
// 2. For invariant cases, loans can flow in both directions, but here as well, we only
// want the backward path of the bidirectional edge.
Some(LocalizedNode { region, point: previous_point })
}
}
}
/// The localized constraint graph indexes the physical and logical edges to lazily compute a given
/// node's successors during traversal.
struct LocalizedConstraintGraph {
/// The actual, physical, edges we have recorded for a given node. We localize them on-demand
/// when traversing from the node to the successor region.
edges: FxHashMap<LocalizedNode, FxIndexSet<RegionVid>>,
/// The logical edges representing the outlives constraints that hold at all points in the CFG,
/// which we don't localize to avoid creating a lot of unnecessary edges in the graph. Some CFGs
/// can be big, and we don't need to create such a physical edge for every point in the CFG.
logical_edges: FxHashMap<RegionVid, FxIndexSet<RegionVid>>,
}
/// A node in the graph to be traversed, one of the two vertices of a localized outlives constraint.
#[derive(Copy, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
struct LocalizedNode {
region: RegionVid,
point: PointIndex,
}
impl LocalizedConstraintGraph {
/// Traverses the constraints and returns the indexed graph of edges per node.
fn new<'tcx>(
liveness: &LivenessValues,
outlives_constraints: impl Iterator<Item = OutlivesConstraint<'tcx>>,
) -> Self {
let mut edges: FxHashMap<_, FxIndexSet<_>> = FxHashMap::default();
let mut logical_edges: FxHashMap<_, FxIndexSet<_>> = FxHashMap::default();
for outlives_constraint in outlives_constraints {
match outlives_constraint.locations {
Locations::All(_) => {
logical_edges
.entry(outlives_constraint.sup)
.or_default()
.insert(outlives_constraint.sub);
}
Locations::Single(location) => {
let node = LocalizedNode {
region: outlives_constraint.sup,
point: liveness.point_from_location(location),
};
edges.entry(node).or_default().insert(outlives_constraint.sub);
}
}
}
LocalizedConstraintGraph { edges, logical_edges }
}
}

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@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ mod constraints;
mod dump;
pub(crate) mod legacy;
mod liveness_constraints;
mod loan_liveness;
use std::collections::BTreeMap;
@ -57,8 +56,8 @@ use rustc_mir_dataflow::points::PointIndex;
pub(crate) use self::constraints::*;
pub(crate) use self::dump::dump_polonius_mir;
use self::loan_liveness::compute_loan_liveness;
use crate::dataflow::BorrowIndex;
use crate::region_infer::values::LivenessValues;
use crate::{BorrowSet, RegionInferenceContext};
pub(crate) type LiveLoans = SparseBitMatrix<PointIndex, BorrowIndex>;
@ -123,17 +122,23 @@ impl PoloniusContext {
let localized_outlives_constraints = LocalizedOutlivesConstraintSet::default();
let liveness = regioncx.liveness_constraints();
if borrow_set.len() > 0 {
// From the outlives constraints, liveness, and variances, we can compute reachability
// on the lazy localized constraint graph to trace the liveness of loans, for the next
// step in the chain (the NLL loan scope and active loans computations).
let live_loans = compute_loan_liveness(
&body,
regioncx.outlives_constraints(),
regioncx.liveness_constraints(),
let graph = LocalizedConstraintGraph::new(liveness, regioncx.outlives_constraints());
let mut live_loans = LiveLoans::new(borrow_set.len());
let mut visitor = LoanLivenessVisitor { liveness, live_loans: &mut live_loans };
graph.traverse(
body,
liveness,
&live_region_variances,
regioncx.universal_regions(),
borrow_set,
&mut visitor,
);
regioncx.record_live_loans(live_loans);
}
@ -141,3 +146,59 @@ impl PoloniusContext {
PoloniusDiagnosticsContext { localized_outlives_constraints, boring_nll_locals }
}
}
/// Visitor to record loan liveness when traversing the localized constraint graph.
struct LoanLivenessVisitor<'a> {
liveness: &'a LivenessValues,
live_loans: &'a mut LiveLoans,
}
impl LocalizedConstraintGraphVisitor for LoanLivenessVisitor<'_> {
fn on_node_traversed(&mut self, loan: BorrowIndex, node: LocalizedNode) {
// Record the loan as being live on entry to this point if it reaches a live region
// there.
//
// This is an approximation of liveness (which is the thing we want), in that we're
// using a single notion of reachability to represent what used to be _two_ different
// transitive closures. It didn't seem impactful when coming up with the single-graph
// and reachability through space (regions) + time (CFG) concepts, but in practice the
// combination of time-traveling with kills is more impactful than initially
// anticipated.
//
// Kills should prevent a loan from reaching its successor points in the CFG, but not
// while time-traveling: we're not actually at that CFG point, but looking for
// predecessor regions that contain the loan. One of the two TCs we had pushed the
// transitive subset edges to each point instead of having backward edges, and the
// problem didn't exist before. In the abstract, naive reachability is not enough to
// model this, we'd need a slightly different solution. For example, maybe with a
// two-step traversal:
// - at each point we first traverse the subgraph (and possibly time-travel) looking for
// exit nodes while ignoring kills,
// - and then when we're back at the current point, we continue normally.
//
// Another (less annoying) subtlety is that kills and the loan use-map are
// flow-insensitive. Kills can actually appear in places before a loan is introduced, or
// at a location that is actually unreachable in the CFG from the introduction point,
// and these can also be encountered during time-traveling.
//
// The simplest change that made sense to "fix" the issues above is taking into account
// kills that are:
// - reachable from the introduction point
// - encountered during forward traversal. Note that this is not transitive like the
// two-step traversal described above: only kills encountered on exit via a backward
// edge are ignored.
//
// This version of the analysis, however, is enough in practice to pass the tests that
// we care about and NLLs reject, without regressions on crater, and is an actionable
// subset of the full analysis. It also naturally points to areas of improvement that we
// wish to explore later, namely handling kills appropriately during traversal, instead
// of continuing traversal to all the reachable nodes.
//
// FIXME: analyze potential unsoundness, possibly in concert with a borrowck
// implementation in a-mir-formality, fuzzing, or manually crafting counter-examples.
let location = self.liveness.location_from_point(node.point);
if self.liveness.is_live_at(node.region, location) {
self.live_loans.insert(node.point, loan);
}
}
}