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
Constant merge can merge a constant with implicit alignment with one that has
explicit alignment. Before this change it was assuming that the explicit
alignment was higher than the implicit one, causing the result to be under
aligned in some cases.
Fixes pr17815.
Patch by Chris Smowton!
llvm-svn: 194506
The symptom is that an assertion is triggered. The assertion was added by
me to detect the situation when value is propagated from dead blocks.
(We can certainly get rid of assertion; it is safe to do so, because propagating
value from dead block to alive join node is certainly ok.)
The root cause of this bug is : edge-splitting is conducted on the fly,
the edge being split could be a dead edge, therefore the block that
split the critial edge needs to be flagged "dead" as well.
There are 3 ways to fix this bug:
1) Get rid of the assertion as I mentioned eariler
2) When an dead edge is split, flag the inserted block "dead".
3) proactively split the critical edges connecting dead and live blocks when
new dead blocks are revealed.
This fix go for 3) with additional 2 LOC.
Testing case was added by Rafael the other day.
llvm-svn: 194424
Summary:
Consider a GEP of:
i8* getelementptr ({ [2 x i8], i32, i8, [3 x i8] }* @main.c, i32 0, i32 0, i64 0)
If we proceeded to GEP the aforementioned object by 8, would form a GEP of:
i8* getelementptr ({ [2 x i8], i32, i8, [3 x i8] }* @main.c, i32 0, i32 0, i64 8)
Note that we would go through the first array member, causing an
out-of-bounds accesses. This is problematic because we might get fooled
if we are trying to evaluate loads using this GEP, for example, based
off of an object with a constant initializer where the array is zero.
This fixes PR17732.
Reviewers: nicholas, chandlerc, void
Reviewed By: void
CC: llvm-commits, echristo, void, aemerson
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2093
llvm-svn: 194220
Patch by Michele Scandale!
Rewrite of the functions used to compute the backedge taken count of a
loop on LT and GT comparisons.
I decided to split the handling of LT and GT cases becasue the trick
"a > b == -a < -b" in some cases prevents the trip count computation
due to the multiplication by -1 on the two operands of the
comparison. This issue comes from the conservative computation of
value range of SCEVs: taking the negative SCEV of an expression that
have a small positive range (e.g. [0,31]), we would have a SCEV with a
fullset as value range.
Indeed, in the new rewritten function I tried to better handle the
maximum backedge taken count computation when MAX/MIN expression are
used to handle the cases where no entry guard is found.
Some test have been modified in order to check the new value correctly
(I manually check them and reasoning on possible overflow the new
values seem correct).
I finally added a new test case related to the multiplication by -1
issue on GT comparisons.
llvm-svn: 194116
Due to the previously added overflow checks, we can have a retain/release
relation that is one directional. This occurs specifically when we run into an
additive overflow causing us to drop state in only one direction. If that
occurs, we should bail and not optimize that retain/release instead of
asserting.
Apologies for the size of the testcase. It is necessary to cause the additive
cfg overflow to trigger.
rdar://15377890
llvm-svn: 194083
When the elements are extracted from a select on vectors
or a vector select, do the select on the extracted scalars
from the input if there is only one use.
llvm-svn: 194013
This adds an SimplifyLibCalls case which converts the special __sinpi and
__cospi (float & double variants) into a __sincospi_stret where appropriate to
remove duplicated work.
Patch by Tim Northover
llvm-svn: 193943
When the loop vectorizer was part of the SCC inliner pass manager gvn would
run after the loop vectorizer followed by instcombine. This way redundancy
(multiple uses) were removed and instcombine could perform scalarization on the
induction variables. Having moved the loop vectorizer to later we no longer run
any form of redundancy elimination before we perform instcombine. This caused
vectorized induction variables to survive that did not before.
On a recent iMac this helps linpack back from 6000Mflops to 7000Mflops.
This should also help lpbench and paq8p.
I ran a Release (without Asserts) build over the test-suite and did not see any
negative impact on compile time.
radar://15339680
llvm-svn: 193891
When a dependence check fails we can still try to vectorize loops with runtime
array bounds checks.
This helps linpack to vectorize a loop in dgefa. And we are back to 2x of the
scalar performance on a corei7-avx.
radar://15339680
llvm-svn: 193853
Given that backend does not handle "invoke asm" correctly ("invoke asm" will be
handled by SelectionDAGBuilder::visitInlineAsm, which does not have the right
setup for LPadToCallSiteMap) and we already made the assumption that inline asm
does not throw in InstCombiner::visitCallSite, we are going to make the same
assumption in Inliner to make sure we don't convert "call asm" to "invoke asm".
If it becomes necessary to add support for "invoke asm" later on, we will need
to modify the backend as well as remove the assumptions that inline asm does
not throw.
Fix rdar://15317907
llvm-svn: 193808
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
By vectorizing a series of srl, or, ... instructions we have obfuscated the
intention so much that the backend does not know how to fold this code away.
radar://15336950
llvm-svn: 193573
Partial fix for PR17459: wrong code at -O3 on x86_64-linux-gnu
(affecting trunk and 3.3)
When SCEV expands a recurrence outside of a loop it attempts to scale
by the stride of the recurrence. Chained recurrences don't work that
way. We could compute binomial coefficients, but would hve to
guarantee that the chained AddRec's are in a perfectly reduced form.
llvm-svn: 193438
Partial fix for PR17459: wrong code at -O3 on x86_64-linux-gnu
(affecting trunk and 3.3)
ScalarEvolutionNormalization was attempting to normalize by adding and
subtracting strides. Chained recurrences don't work that way.
llvm-svn: 193437
This patch teaches GlobalStatus to analyze a call that uses the global value as
a callee, not as an argument.
With this change internalize call handle the common use of linkonce_odr
functions. This reduces the number of linkonce_odr functions in a LTO build of
clang (checked with the emit-llvm gold plugin option) from 1730 to 60.
llvm-svn: 193436
The loop vectorizer does not currently understand how to vectorize
extractelement instructions. The existing check, which excluded all
vector-valued instructions, did not catch extractelement instructions because
it checked only the return value. As a result, vectorization would proceed,
producing illegal instructions like this:
%58 = extractelement <2 x i32> %15, i32 0
%59 = extractelement i32 %58, i32 0
where the second extractelement is illegal because its first operand is not a vector.
llvm-svn: 193434
Make sure we mark all loops (scalar and vector) when vectorizing,
so that we don't try to vectorize them anymore. Also, set unroll
to 1, since this is what we check for on early exit.
llvm-svn: 193349
Major steps include:
1). introduces a not-addr-taken bit-field in GlobalVariable
2). GlobalOpt pass sets "not-address-taken" if it proves a global varirable
dosen't have its address taken.
3). AA use this info for disambiguation.
llvm-svn: 193251
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
A landing pad can be jumped to only by the unwind edge of an invoke
instruction. If we eliminate a partially redundant load in a landing pad, it
will create a basic block that violates this constraint. It then leads to other
problems down the line if it tries to merge that basic block with the landing
pad. Avoid this by not eliminating the load in a landing pad.
PR17621
llvm-svn: 193064
One optimization simplify-cfg performs is the converting of switches to
lookup tables if the switch has > 4 cases. This is done by:
1. Finding the max/min case value and calculating the switch case range.
2. Create a lookup table basic block.
3. Perform a check in the switch's BB to see if the input value is in
the switch's case range. If the input value satisfies said predicate
branch to the lookup table BB, otherwise branch to the switch's default
destination BB using the default value as the result.
The conditional check consists of subtracting the min case value of the
table from any input iN value and then ensuring that said value is
unsigned less than the size of the lookup table represented as an iN
value.
If the lookup table is a covered lookup table, the size of the table will be N
which is 0 as an iN value. Thus the comparison will be an `icmp ult` of an iN
value against 0 which is always false yielding the incorrect result.
This patch fixes this problem by recognizing if we have a covered lookup table
and if we do, unconditionally jumps to the lookup table BB since the covering
property of the lookup table implies no input values could not be handled by
said BB.
rdar://15268442
llvm-svn: 193045
