Revise the coverage mapping format to reduce binary size by:
1. Naming function records and marking them `linkonce_odr`, and
2. Compressing filenames.
This shrinks the size of llc's coverage segment by 82% (334MB -> 62MB)
and speeds up end-to-end single-threaded report generation by 10%. For
reference the compressed name data in llc is 81MB (__llvm_prf_names).
Rationale for changes to the format:
- With the current format, most coverage function records are discarded.
E.g., more than 97% of the records in llc are *duplicate* placeholders
for functions visible-but-not-used in TUs. Placeholders *are* used to
show under-covered functions, but duplicate placeholders waste space.
- We reached general consensus about giving (1) a try at the 2017 code
coverage BoF [1]. The thinking was that using `linkonce_odr` to merge
duplicates is simpler than alternatives like teaching build systems
about a coverage-aware database/module/etc on the side.
- Revising the format is expensive due to the backwards compatibility
requirement, so we might as well compress filenames while we're at it.
This shrinks the encoded filenames in llc by 86% (12MB -> 1.6MB).
See CoverageMappingFormat.rst for the details on what exactly has
changed.
Fixes PR34533 [2], hopefully.
[1] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-October/118428.html
[2] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34533
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D69471
After clang started emitting deferred regions (r312818), llvm-cov has
had a hard time picking reasonable line execuction counts. There have
been one or two generic improvements in this area (e.g r310012), but
line counts can still report coverage for whitespace instead of code
(llvm.org/PR34612).
To fix the problem:
* Introduce a new region kind so that frontends can explicitly label
gap areas.
This is done by changing the encoding of the columnEnd field of
MappingRegion. This doesn't substantially increase binary size, and
makes it easy to maintain backwards-compatibility.
* Don't set the line count to a count from a gap area, unless the count
comes from a wrapped segment.
* Don't highlight gap areas as uncovered.
Fixes llvm.org/PR34612.
llvm-svn: 313597
This reduces sizes of instrumented object files, final binaries,
process images, and raw profile data.
The format of the indexed profile data remain the same.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D16388
llvm-svn: 260117
