Summary:
This patch finishes up support for handling sampling profiles in both
text and binary formats. The new binary format uses uleb128 encoding to
represent numeric values. This makes profiles files about 25% smaller.
The profile writer class can write profiles in the existing text and the
new binary format. In subsequent patches, I will add the capability to
read (and perhaps write) profiles in the gcov format used by GCC.
Additionally, I will be adding support in llvm-profdata to manipulate
sampling profiles.
There was a bit of refactoring needed to separate some code that was in
the reader files, but is actually common to both the reader and writer.
The new test checks that reading the same profile encoded as text or
raw, produces the same results.
Reviewers: bogner, dexonsmith
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6000
llvm-svn: 220915
When the profile for a function cannot be applied, we use to emit an
error. This seems extreme. The compiler can continue, it's just that the
optimization opportunities won't include profile information.
llvm-svn: 220386
Summary:
The compiler does not always generate linkage names. If a function
has been inlined and its body elided, its linkage name may not be
generated.
When the binary executes, the profiler will use its unmangled name
when attributing samples. This results in unmangled names in the
input profile.
We are currently failing hard when this happens. However, in this case
all that happens is that we fail to attribute samples to the inlined
function. While this means fewer optimization opportunities, it should
not cause a compilation failure.
This patch accepts all valid function names, regardless of whether
they were mangled or not.
Reviewers: chandlerc
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D3087
llvm-svn: 204142
Summary:
The sample profiler pass emits several error messages. Instead of
just aborting the compiler with report_fatal_error, we can emit
better messages using DiagnosticInfo.
This adds a new sub-class of DiagnosticInfo to handle the sample
profiler.
Reviewers: chandlerc, qcolombet
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D3086
llvm-svn: 203976
Summary:
When the sample profiles include discriminator information,
use the discriminator values to distinguish instruction weights
in different basic blocks.
This modifies the BodySamples mapping to map <line, discriminator> pairs
to weights. Instructions on the same line but different blocks, will
use different discriminator values. This, in turn, means that the blocks
may have different weights.
Other changes in this patch:
- Add tests for positive values of line offset, discriminator and samples.
- Change data types from uint32_t to unsigned and int and do additional
validation.
Reviewers: chandlerc
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2857
llvm-svn: 203508
1- Use the line_iterator class to read profile files.
2- Allow comments in profile file. Lines starting with '#'
are completely ignored while reading the profile.
3- Add parsing support for discriminators and indirect call samples.
Our external profiler can emit more profile information that we are
currently not handling. This patch does not add new functionality to
support this information, but it allows profile files to provide it.
I will add actual support later on (for at least one of these
features, I need support for DWARF discriminators in Clang).
A sample line may contain the following additional information:
Discriminator. This is used if the sampled program was compiled with
DWARF discriminator support
(http://wiki.dwarfstd.org/index.php?title=Path_Discriminators). This
is currently only emitted by GCC and we just ignore it.
Potential call targets and samples. If present, this line contains a
call instruction. This models both direct and indirect calls. Each
called target is listed together with the number of samples. For
example,
130: 7 foo:3 bar:2 baz:7
The above means that at relative line offset 130 there is a call
instruction that calls one of foo(), bar() and baz(). With baz()
being the relatively more frequent call target.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2355
4- Simplify format of profile input file.
This implements earlier suggestions to simplify the format of the
sample profile file. The symbol table is not necessary and function
profiles do not need to know the number of samples in advance.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2419
llvm-svn: 198973
This adds a propagation heuristic to convert instruction samples
into branch weights. It implements a similar heuristic to the one
implemented by Dehao Chen on GCC.
The propagation proceeds in 3 phases:
1- Assignment of block weights. All the basic blocks in the function
are initial assigned the same weight as their most frequently
executed instruction.
2- Creation of equivalence classes. Since samples may be missing from
blocks, we can fill in the gaps by setting the weights of all the
blocks in the same equivalence class to the same weight. To compute
the concept of equivalence, we use dominance and loop information.
Two blocks B1 and B2 are in the same equivalence class if B1
dominates B2, B2 post-dominates B1 and both are in the same loop.
3- Propagation of block weights into edges. This uses a simple
propagation heuristic. The following rules are applied to every
block B in the CFG:
- If B has a single predecessor/successor, then the weight
of that edge is the weight of the block.
- If all the edges are known except one, and the weight of the
block is already known, the weight of the unknown edge will
be the weight of the block minus the sum of all the known
edges. If the sum of all the known edges is larger than B's weight,
we set the unknown edge weight to zero.
- If there is a self-referential edge, and the weight of the block is
known, the weight for that edge is set to the weight of the block
minus the weight of the other incoming edges to that block (if
known).
Since this propagation is not guaranteed to finalize for every CFG, we
only allow it to proceed for a limited number of iterations (controlled
by -sample-profile-max-propagate-iterations). It currently uses the same
GCC default of 100.
Before propagation starts, the pass builds (for each block) a list of
unique predecessors and successors. This is necessary to handle
identical edges in multiway branches. Since we visit all blocks and all
edges of the CFG, it is cleaner to build these lists once at the start
of the pass.
Finally, the patch fixes the computation of relative line locations.
The profiler emits lines relative to the function header. To discover
it, we traverse the compilation unit looking for the subprogram
corresponding to the function. The line number of that subprogram is the
line where the function begins. That becomes line zero for all the
relative locations.
llvm-svn: 198972
The profile file parser needed some tests for its parsing actions.
This adds tests for each of the error messages emitted by the parser.
llvm-svn: 196106
