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There is memory explosion when converting the body or initializer region of a large global variable, e.g. a constant array.
For example, when translating a constant array of 100000 strings:
```
llvm.mlir.global internal constant @cats_strings() {addr_space = 0 : i32, alignment = 16 : i64} : !llvm.array<100000 x ptr<i8>> {
%0 = llvm.mlir.undef : !llvm.array<100000 x ptr<i8>>
%1 = llvm.mlir.addressof @om_1 : !llvm.ptr<array<1 x i8>>
%2 = llvm.getelementptr %1[0, 0] : (!llvm.ptr<array<1 x i8>>) -> !llvm.ptr<i8>
%3 = llvm.insertvalue %2, %0[0] : !llvm.array<100000 x ptr<i8>>
%4 = llvm.mlir.addressof @om_2 : !llvm.ptr<array<1 x i8>>
%5 = llvm.getelementptr %4[0, 0] : (!llvm.ptr<array<1 x i8>>) -> !llvm.ptr<i8>
%6 = llvm.insertvalue %5, %3[1] : !llvm.array<100000 x ptr<i8>>
%7 = llvm.mlir.addressof @om_3 : !llvm.ptr<array<1 x i8>>
%8 = llvm.getelementptr %7[0, 0] : (!llvm.ptr<array<1 x i8>>) -> !llvm.ptr<i8>
%9 = llvm.insertvalue %8, %6[2] : !llvm.array<100000 x ptr<i8>>
%10 = llvm.mlir.addressof @om_4 : !llvm.ptr<array<1 x i8>>
%11 = llvm.getelementptr %10[0, 0] : (!llvm.ptr<array<1 x i8>>) -> !llvm.ptr<i8>
%12 = llvm.insertvalue %11, %9[3] : !llvm.array<100000 x ptr<i8>>
... (ignore the remaining part)
}
```
where `@om_1`, `@om_2`, ... are string global constants.
Each time an operation is converted to LLVM, a new constant is created.
When it comes to `llvm.insertvalue`, a new constant array of 100000 elements is created and the old constant array (input) is not destroyed.
This causes memory explosion. We observed that, on a system with 128 GB memory, the translation of 100000 elements got killed due to using up all the memory.
On a system with 64 GB, 65536 elements was enough to cause the translation killed.
This patch fixes the issue by checking generated constants and destroyed them if there is no use.
By the fix, the translation of 100000 elements only takes about 1.6 GB memory, and finishes without any error.
Reviewed By: ftynse, kiranchandramohan
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D148487
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