This adds a new scalar pass that reads a file with samples generated
by 'perf' during runtime. The samples read from the profile are
incorporated and emmited as IR metadata reflecting that profile.
The profile file is assumed to have been generated by an external
profile source. The profile information is converted into IR metadata,
which is later used by the analysis routines to estimate block
frequencies, edge weights and other related data.
External profile information files have no fixed format, each profiler
is free to define its own. This includes both the on-disk representation
of the profile and the kind of profile information stored in the file.
A common kind of profile is based on sampling (e.g., perf), which
essentially counts how many times each line of the program has been
executed during the run.
The SampleProfileLoader pass is organized as a scalar transformation.
On startup, it reads the file given in -sample-profile-file to
determine what kind of profile it contains. This file is assumed to
contain profile information for the whole application. The profile
data in the file is read and incorporated into the internal state of
the corresponding profiler.
To facilitate testing, I've organized the profilers to support two file
formats: text and native. The native format is whatever on-disk
representation the profiler wants to support, I think this will mostly
be bitcode files, but it could be anything the profiler wants to
support. To do this, every profiler must implement the
SampleProfile::loadNative() function.
The text format is mostly meant for debugging. Records are separated by
newlines, but each profiler is free to interpret records as it sees fit.
Profilers must implement the SampleProfile::loadText() function.
Finally, the pass will call SampleProfile::emitAnnotations() for each
function in the current translation unit. This function needs to
translate the loaded profile into IR metadata, which the analyzer will
later be able to use.
This patch implements the first steps towards the above design. I've
implemented a sample-based flat profiler. The format of the profile is
fairly simplistic. Each sampled function contains a list of relative
line locations (from the start of the function) together with a count
representing how many samples were collected at that line during
execution. I generate this profile using perf and a separate converter
tool.
Currently, I have only implemented a text format for these profiles. I
am interested in initial feedback to the whole approach before I send
the other parts of the implementation for review.
This patch implements:
- The SampleProfileLoader pass.
- The base ExternalProfile class with the core interface.
- A SampleProfile sub-class using the above interface. The profiler
generates branch weight metadata on every branch instructions that
matches the profiles.
- A text loader class to assist the implementation of
SampleProfile::loadText().
- Basic unit tests for the pass.
Additionally, the patch uses profile information to compute branch
weights based on instruction samples.
This patch converts instruction samples into branch weights. It
does a fairly simplistic conversion:
Given a multi-way branch instruction, it calculates the weight of
each branch based on the maximum sample count gathered from each
target basic block.
Note that this assignment of branch weights is somewhat lossy and can be
misleading. If a basic block has more than one incoming branch, all the
incoming branches will get the same weight. In reality, it may be that
only one of them is the most heavily taken branch.
I will adjust this assignment in subsequent patches.
llvm-svn: 194566
give the files a legacy prefix in the right directory. Use forwarding
headers in the old locations to paper over the name change for most
clients during the transitional period.
No functionality changed here! This is just clearing some space to
reduce renaming churn later on with a new system.
Even when the new stuff starts to go in, it is going to be hidden behind
a flag and off-by-default as it is still WIP and under development.
This patch is specifically designed so that very little out-of-tree code
has to change. I'm going to work as hard as I can to keep that the case.
Only direct forward declarations of the PassManager class are impacted
by this change.
llvm-svn: 194324
As with the other loop unrolling parameters (the unrolling threshold, partial
unrolling, etc.) runtime unrolling can now also be controlled via the
constructor. This will be necessary for moving non-trivial unrolling late in
the pass manager (after loop vectorization).
No functionality change intended.
llvm-svn: 194027
There are two ways one could implement hiding of linkonce_odr symbols in LTO:
* LLVM tells the linker which symbols can be hidden if not used from native
files.
* The linker tells LLVM which symbols are not used from other object files,
but will be put in the dso symbol table if present.
GOLD's API is the second option. It was implemented almost 1:1 in llvm by
passing the list down to internalize.
LLVM already had partial support for the first option. It is also very similar
to how ld64 handles hiding these symbols when *not* doing LTO.
This patch then
* removes the APIs for the DSO list.
* marks LTO_SYMBOL_SCOPE_DEFAULT_CAN_BE_HIDDEN all linkonce_odr unnamed_addr
global values and other linkonce_odr whose address is not used.
* makes the gold plugin responsible for handling the API mismatch.
llvm-svn: 193800
When a linkonce_odr value that is on the dso list is not unnamed_addr
we can still look to see if anything is actually using its address. If
not, it is safe to hide it.
This patch implements that by moving GlobalStatus to Transforms/Utils
and using it in Internalize.
llvm-svn: 193090
Generalize the API so we can distinguish symbols that are needed just for a DSO
symbol table from those that are used from some native .o.
The symbols that are only wanted for the dso symbol table can be dropped if
llvm can prove every other dso has a copy (linkonce_odr) and the address is not
important (unnamed_addr).
llvm-svn: 191922
infrastructure.
This was essentially work toward PGO based on a design that had several
flaws, partially dating from a time when LLVM had a different
architecture, and with an effort to modernize it abandoned without being
completed. Since then, it has bitrotted for several years further. The
result is nearly unusable, and isn't helping any of the modern PGO
efforts. Instead, it is getting in the way, adding confusion about PGO
in LLVM and distracting everyone with maintenance on essentially dead
code. Removing it paves the way for modern efforts around PGO.
Among other effects, this removes the last of the runtime libraries from
LLVM. Those are being developed in the separate 'compiler-rt' project
now, with somewhat different licensing specifically more approriate for
runtimes.
llvm-svn: 191835
This pass was based on the previous (essentially unused) profiling
infrastructure and the assumption that by ordering the basic blocks at
the IR level in a particular way, the correct layout would happen in the
end. This sometimes worked, and mostly didn't. It also was a really
naive implementation of the classical paper that dates from when branch
predictors were primarily directional and when loop structure wasn't
commonly available. It also didn't factor into the equation
non-fallthrough branches and other machine level details.
Anyways, for all of these reasons and more, I wrote
MachineBlockPlacement, which completely supercedes this pass. It both
uses modern profile information infrastructure, and actually works. =]
llvm-svn: 190748
When unrolling is disabled in the pass manager, the loop vectorizer should also
not unroll loops. This will allow the -fno-unroll-loops option in Clang to
behave as expected (even for vectorizable loops). The loop vectorizer's
-force-vector-unroll option will (continue to) override the pass-manager
setting (including -force-vector-unroll=0 to force use of the internal
auto-selection logic).
In order to test this, I added a flag to opt (-disable-loop-unrolling) to force
disable unrolling through opt (the analog of -fno-unroll-loops in Clang). Also,
this fixes a small bug in opt where the loop vectorizer was enabled only after
the pass manager populated the queue of passes (the global_alias.ll test needed
a slight update to the RUN line as a result of this fix).
llvm-svn: 189499
...so that it can be used for z too. Most of the code is the same.
The only real change is to use TargetTransformInfo to test when a sqrt
instruction is available.
The pass is opt-in because at the moment it only handles sqrt.
llvm-svn: 189097
This replaces the old incomplete greylist functionality with an ABI
list, which can provide more detailed information about the ABI and
semantics of specific functions. The pass treats every function in
the "uninstrumented" category in the ABI list file as conforming to
the "native" (i.e. unsanitized) ABI. Unless the ABI list contains
additional categories for those functions, a call to one of those
functions will produce a warning message, as the labelling behaviour
of the function is unknown. The other supported categories are
"functional", "discard" and "custom".
- "discard" -- This function does not write to (user-accessible) memory,
and its return value is unlabelled.
- "functional" -- This function does not write to (user-accessible)
memory, and the label of its return value is the union of the label of
its arguments.
- "custom" -- Instead of calling the function, a custom wrapper __dfsw_F
is called, where F is the name of the function. This function may wrap
the original function or provide its own implementation.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1345
llvm-svn: 188402
However, opt -O2 doesn't run mem2reg directly so nobody noticed until r188146
when SROA started sending more things directly down the PromoteMemToReg path.
In order to revert r187191, I also revert dependent revisions r187296, r187322
and r188146. Fixes PR16867. Does not add the testcases from that PR, but both
of them should get added for both mem2reg and sroa when this revert gets
unreverted.
llvm-svn: 188327
Summary:
Doing work in constructors is bad: this change suggests to
call SpecialCaseList::create(Path, Error) instead of
"new SpecialCaseList(Path)". Currently the latter may crash with
report_fatal_error, which is undesirable - sometimes we want to report
the error to user gracefully - for example, if he provides an incorrect
file as an argument of Clang's -fsanitize-blacklist flag.
Reviewers: pcc
Reviewed By: pcc
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1327
llvm-svn: 188156
DataFlowSanitizer is a generalised dynamic data flow analysis.
Unlike other Sanitizer tools, this tool is not designed to detect a
specific class of bugs on its own. Instead, it provides a generic
dynamic data flow analysis framework to be used by clients to help
detect application-specific issues within their own code.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D965
llvm-svn: 187923
Our internal regex implementation does not cope with large numbers
of anchors very efficiently. Given a ~3600-entry special case list,
regex compilation can take on the order of seconds. This patch solves
the problem for the special case of patterns matching literal global
names (i.e. patterns with no regex metacharacters). Rather than
forming regexes from literal global name patterns, add them to
a StringSet which is checked before matching against the regex.
This reduces regex compilation time by an order of roughly thousands
when reading the aforementioned special case list, according to a
completely unscientific study.
No test cases. I figure that any new tests for this code should
check that regex metacharacters are properly recognised. However,
I could not find any documentation which documents the fact that the
syntax of global names in special case lists is based on regexes.
The extent to which regex syntax is supported in special case lists
should probably be decided on/documented before writing tests.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1150
llvm-svn: 187732
standards for LLVM. Remove duplicated comments on the interface from the
implementation file (implementation comments are left there of course).
Also clean up, re-word, and fix a few typos and errors in the commenst
spotted along the way.
This is in preparation for changes to these files and to keep the
uninteresting tidying in a separate commit.
llvm-svn: 187335
Adds unit tests for it too.
Split BasicBlockUtils into an analysis-half and a transforms-half, and put the
analysis bits into a new Analysis/CFG.{h,cpp}. Promote isPotentiallyReachable
into llvm::isPotentiallyReachable and move it into Analysis/CFG.
llvm-svn: 187283
Merge consecutive if-regions if they contain identical statements.
Both transformations reduce number of branches. The transformation
is guarded by a target-hook, and is currently enabled only for +R600,
but the correctness has been tested on X86 target using a variety of
CPU benchmarks.
Patch by: Mei Ye
llvm-svn: 187278
The language reference says that:
"If a symbol appears in the @llvm.used list, then the compiler,
assembler, and linker are required to treat the symbol as if there is
a reference to the symbol that it cannot see"
Since even the linker cannot see the reference, we must assume that
the reference can be using the symbol table. For example, a user can add
__attribute__((used)) to a debug helper function like dump and use it from
a debugger.
llvm-svn: 187103
A special case list can now specify categories for specific globals,
which can be used to instruct an instrumentation pass to treat certain
functions or global variables in a specific way, such as by omitting
certain aspects of instrumentation while keeping others, or informing
the instrumentation pass that a specific uninstrumentable function
has certain semantics, thus allowing the pass to instrument callers
according to those semantics.
For example, AddressSanitizer now uses the "init" category instead of
global-init prefixes for globals whose initializers should not be
instrumented, but which in all other respects should be instrumented.
The motivating use case is DataFlowSanitizer, which will have a
number of different categories for uninstrumentable functions, such
as "functional" which specifies that a function has pure functional
semantics, or "discard" which indicates that a function's return
value should not be labelled.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1092
llvm-svn: 185978
- Build debug metadata for 'bare' Modules using DIBuilder
- DebugIR can be constructed to generate an IR file (to be seen by a debugger)
or not in cases where the user already has an IR file on disk.
llvm-svn: 185193
CGSCC pass manager. This should insulate the inlining decisions from the
vectorization decisions, however it may have both compile time and code
size problems so it is just an experimental option right now.
Adding this based on a discussion with Arnold and it seems at least
worth having this flag for us to both run some experiments to see if
this strategy is workable. It may solve some of the regressions seen
with the loop vectorizer.
llvm-svn: 184698
This commit completely removes what is left of the simplify-libcalls
pass. All of the functionality has now been migrated to the instcombine
and functionattrs passes. The following C API functions are now NOPs:
1. LLVMAddSimplifyLibCallsPass
2. LLVMPassManagerBuilderSetDisableSimplifyLibCalls
llvm-svn: 184459
Extend LinkModules to pass a ValueMaterializer to RemapInstruction and friends to lazily create Functions for lazily linked globals. This is a big win when linking small modules with large (mostly unused) library modules.
llvm-svn: 182776
- move AsmWriter.h from public headers into lib
- marked all AssemblyWriter functions as non-virtual; no need to override them
- DebugIR now "plugs into" AssemblyWriter with an AssemblyAnnotationWriter helper
- exposed flags to control hiding of a) debug metadata b) debug intrinsic calls
C/R: Paul Redmond
llvm-svn: 182617
Other passes, PPC counter-loop formation for example, also need to add loop
preheaders outside of the regular loop simplification pass. This makes
InsertPreheaderForLoop a global function so that it can be used by other
passes.
No functionality change intended.
llvm-svn: 182299
- requires existing debug information to be present
- fixes up file name and line number information in metadata
- emits a "<orig_filename>-debug.ll" succinct IR file (without !dbg metadata
or debug intrinsics) that can be read by a debugger
- initialize pass in opt tool to enable the "-debug-ir" flag
- lit tests to follow
llvm-svn: 181467
Since we can't guarantee that the original dbg.declare instrinsic
is removed by LowerDbgDeclare(), we need to make sure that we are
not inserting the same dbg.value intrinsic over and over.
This removes tons of redundant DIEs when compiling optimized code.
rdar://problem/13056109
llvm-svn: 180615
