[mlir][Transforms] `remove-dead-values`: Rely on canonicalizer for region simplification (#173505)
This commit simplifies the `remove-dead-values` pass and fixes a bug in
the handling of `RegionBranchOpInterface` ops. The pass used to produce
invalid IR ("null value found") for the newly added test case.
`remove-dead-values` is a pass for additional IR simplification that
cannot be performed by the canonicalizer pass. Based on a liveness
analysis, it erases dead values / IR. (The liveness analysis is a
dataflow analysis that has more information about the IR than a
canonicalization pattern, which can see only "local" information.)
Region-based ops are difficult. The liveness analysis may determine that
an SSA value is dead. However, that does not mean that the value can
actually be removed. Doing so may violate an region data flow (as
modeled by the `RegionBranchOpInterface`). As an example, consider the
case where a region branch terminator may dispatch to one of two region
successor with the same forwarded values. A successor input (block
argument) can be erased only if it is dead on both successors.
Before this commit, there used to be complex logic to determine when it
is safe to erase an SSA value. That logic was broken. The new
implementation does not remove any block arguments or op results of
region-based ops. Instead, operands of region-based ops and region
branch terminators are replaced with `ub.poison` if all of their
successor values are dead. This simplifies the IR good enough for the
canonicalizer to perform the remaining region simplification (i.e.,
dropping block arguments etc.).
RFC:
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-delegate-simplification-of-region-based-ops-from-remove-dead-values-to-canonicalizer/89194
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