[clang-tidy]improve performance-unnecessary-value-param performance

[HerrCai0907]

Tolerate fix-it breaking compilation when functions is used as pointers.
isReferencedOutsideOfCallExpr will visit the whole translate unit for each matched function decls. It will waste lots of cpu time in some big cpp files.
But the benefits of this validation are limited. Lots of function usage are out of current translation unit.

After removing this validation step, the check profiling changes from 5.7 to 1.1 in SemaExprCXX.cpp, which is similar to version 18.

[llvmbot]

@llvm/pr-subscribers-clang-tidy

@llvm/pr-subscribers-clang-tools-extra

Author: Congcong Cai (HerrCai0907)

Changes

Tolerate fix-it breaking compilation when functions is used as pointers.
isReferencedOutsideOfCallExpr will visit the whole translate unit for each matched function decls. It will waste lots of cpu time in some big cpp files.
But the benefits of this validation are limited. Lots of function usage are out of current translation unit.

After removing this validation step, the check profiling changes from 5.7 to 1.1 in SemaExprCXX.cpp, which is similar to version 18.

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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/128383.diff

3 Files Affected:

• (modified) clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/performance/UnnecessaryValueParamCheck.cpp (+1-13)
• (modified) clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst (+5)
• (modified) clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/performance/unnecessary-value-param.cpp (+1-5)

diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/performance/UnnecessaryValueParamCheck.cpp b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/performance/UnnecessaryValueParamCheck.cpp
index d356f866a8804..a877f9a7ee912 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/performance/UnnecessaryValueParamCheck.cpp
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/performance/UnnecessaryValueParamCheck.cpp
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
 #include "UnnecessaryValueParamCheck.h"
-
 #include "../utils/DeclRefExprUtils.h"
 #include "../utils/FixItHintUtils.h"
 #include "../utils/Matchers.h"
@@ -30,14 +29,6 @@ std::string paramNameOrIndex(StringRef Name, size_t Index) {
       .str();
 }
 
-bool isReferencedOutsideOfCallExpr(const FunctionDecl &Function,
-                                   ASTContext &Context) {
-  auto Matches = match(declRefExpr(to(functionDecl(equalsNode(&Function))),
-                                   unless(hasAncestor(callExpr()))),
-                       Context);
-  return !Matches.empty();
-}
-
 bool hasLoopStmtAncestor(const DeclRefExpr &DeclRef, const Decl &Decl,
                          ASTContext &Context) {
   auto Matches = match(
@@ -155,12 +146,9 @@ void UnnecessaryValueParamCheck::handleConstRefFix(const FunctionDecl &Function,
   // Do not propose fixes when:
   // 1. the ParmVarDecl is in a macro, since we cannot place them correctly
   // 2. the function is virtual as it might break overrides
-  // 3. the function is referenced outside of a call expression within the
-  //    compilation unit as the signature change could introduce build errors.
-  // 4. the function is an explicit template/ specialization.
+  // 3. the function is an explicit template/ specialization.
   const auto *Method = llvm::dyn_cast<CXXMethodDecl>(&Function);
   if (Param.getBeginLoc().isMacroID() || (Method && Method->isVirtual()) ||
-      isReferencedOutsideOfCallExpr(Function, Context) ||
       Function.getTemplateSpecializationKind() == TSK_ExplicitSpecialization)
     return;
   for (const auto *FunctionDecl = &Function; FunctionDecl != nullptr;
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
index 6b8fe22242417..22ed7fe07fff9 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
@@ -110,6 +110,11 @@ Changes in existing checks
   <clang-tidy/checks/misc/redundant-expression>` check by providing additional
   examples and fixing some macro related false positives.
 
+- Improved :doc:`performance/unnecessary-value-param
+  <clang-tidy/checks/performance/unnecessary-value-param>` check performance by
+  tolerating fix-it breaking compilation when functions is used as pointers 
+  to avoid matching usage of functions within the current compilation unit.
+
 Removed checks
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/performance/unnecessary-value-param.cpp b/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/performance/unnecessary-value-param.cpp
index 7c7ae43698929..60ba7d01420b8 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/performance/unnecessary-value-param.cpp
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/performance/unnecessary-value-param.cpp
@@ -332,11 +332,7 @@ void PositiveNonConstDeclaration(const ExpensiveToCopyType A) {
 
 void PositiveOnlyMessageAsReferencedInCompilationUnit(ExpensiveToCopyType A) {
   // CHECK-MESSAGES: [[@LINE-1]]:75: warning: the parameter 'A' is copied
-  // CHECK-FIXES: void PositiveOnlyMessageAsReferencedInCompilationUnit(ExpensiveToCopyType A) {
-}
-
-void ReferenceFunctionOutsideOfCallExpr() {
-  void (*ptr)(ExpensiveToCopyType) = &PositiveOnlyMessageAsReferencedInCompilationUnit;
+  // CHECK-FIXES: void PositiveOnlyMessageAsReferencedInCompilationUnit(const ExpensiveToCopyType& A) {
 }
 
 void PositiveMessageAndFixAsFunctionIsCalled(ExpensiveToCopyType A) {

[PiotrZSL]

LGTM but put some entry in check documentation.

[HerrCai0907]

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[vbvictor]

nit: performance/unnecessary-value-param should be performance-unnecessary-value-param, may be fixed later before 21 release