cmd/compile: use stricter rule for possible partial overlap

Partial overlaps can only happen for strict sub-pieces of larger arrays.
That's a much stronger condition than the current optimization rules.

Update #54467

Change-Id: I11e539b71099e50175f37ee78fddf69283f83ee5
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/433056
TryBot-Result: Gopher Robot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: David Chase <drchase@google.com>
Run-TryBot: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>

src/cmd/compile/internal/ssagen/ssa.go

@@ -1588,18 +1588,16 @@ func (s *state) stmt(n ir.Node) {
 		}
 
 		// mayOverlap keeps track of whether the LHS and RHS might
-		// refer to overlapping memory.
+		// refer to partially overlapping memory. Partial overlapping can
-		mayOverlap := true
+		// only happen for arrays, see the comment in moveWhichMayOverlap.
-		if n.Y == nil {
+		//
-			// Not a move at all, mayOverlap is not relevant.
+		// If both sides of the assignment are not dereferences, then partial
-		} else if n.Def {
+		// overlap can't happen. Partial overlap can only occur only when the
-			// A variable being defined cannot overlap anything else.
+		// arrays referenced are strictly smaller parts of the same base array.
-			mayOverlap = false
+		// If one side of the assignment is a full array, then partial overlap
-		} else if n.X.Op() == ir.ONAME && n.Y.Op() == ir.ONAME {
+		// can't happen. (The arrays are either disjoint or identical.)
-			// Two named things never overlap.
+		mayOverlap := n.X.Op() == ir.ODEREF && (n.Y != nil && n.Y.Op() == ir.ODEREF)
-			// (Or they are identical, which we treat as nonoverlapping.)
+		if n.Y != nil && n.Y.Op() == ir.ODEREF {
-			mayOverlap = false
-		} else if n.Y.Op() == ir.ODEREF {
 			p := n.Y.(*ir.StarExpr).X
 			for p.Op() == ir.OCONVNOP {
 				p = p.(*ir.ConvExpr).X
@@ -1609,12 +1607,6 @@ func (s *state) stmt(n ir.Node) {
 				// That memory can't overlap with the memory being written.
 				mayOverlap = false
 			}
-		} else if n.Y.Op() == ir.ORESULT || n.Y.Op() == ir.OCALLFUNC || n.Y.Op() == ir.OCALLINTER {
-			// When copying values out of the return area of a call, we know
-			// the source and destination don't overlap. Importantly, we must
-			// set mayOverlap so we don't introduce a call to memmove while
-			// we still have live data in the argument area.
-			mayOverlap = false
 		}
 
 		// Evaluate RHS.

test/codegen/issue54467.go

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+// asmcheck
+
+// Copyright 2022 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package codegen
+
+func f1(x *[4]int, y *[4]int) {
+	// amd64:".*memmove"
+	*x = *y
+}
+func f2(x *[4]int, y [4]int) {
+	// amd64:-".*memmove"
+	*x = y
+}
+func f3(x *[4]int, y *[4]int) {
+	// amd64:-".*memmove"
+	t := *y
+	// amd64:-".*memmove"
+	*x = t
+}
+func f4(x *[4]int, y [4]int) {
+	// amd64:-".*memmove"
+	t := y
+	// amd64:-".*memmove"
+	*x = t
+}
+
+type T struct {
+	a [4]int
+}
+
+func f5(x, y *T) {
+	// amd64:-".*memmove"
+	x.a = y.a
+}
+func f6(x *T, y T) {
+	// amd64:-".*memmove"
+	x.a = y.a
+}
+func f7(x *T, y *[4]int) {
+	// amd64:-".*memmove"
+	x.a = *y
+}
+func f8(x *[4]int, y *T) {
+	// amd64:-".*memmove"
+	*x = y.a
+}
+
+func f9(x [][4]int, y [][4]int, i, j int) {
+	// amd64:-".*memmove"
+	x[i] = y[j]
+}
+
+func f10() []byte {
+	// amd64:-".*memmove"
+	return []byte("aReasonablyBigTestString")
+}