This is intended to provide a parallel (threaded) ThinLTO scheme
for linker plugin use through the libLTO C API.
The intent of this patch is to provide a first implementation as a
proof-of-concept and allows linker to start supporting ThinLTO by
definiing the libLTO C API. Some part of the libLTO API are left
unimplemented yet. Following patches will add support for these.
The current implementation can link all clang/llvm binaries.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17066
From: Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini@apple.com>
llvm-svn: 262977
Function lto_module_create_in_local_context() would previously
rely on the default LLVMContext being created for it by
LTOModule::makeLTOModule(). This context exits the program on
error and is not arranged to update sLastStringError in
tools/lto/lto.cpp.
Function lto_module_create_in_local_context() now creates an
LLVMContext by itself, sets it up correctly to its needs and then
passes it to LTOModule::createInLocalContext() which takes
ownership of the context and keeps it present for the lifetime of
the returned LTOModule.
Function LTOModule::makeLTOModule() is modified to take a
reference to LLVMContext (instead of a pointer) and no longer
creates a default context when nullptr is passed to it. Method
LTOModule::createInContext() that takes a pointer to LLVMContext
is removed because it allows to pass a nullptr to it. Instead
LTOModule::createFromBuffer() (that takes a reference to
LLVMContext) should be used.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17715
llvm-svn: 262330
convert one test to use this.
This is a particularly significant milestone because it required
a working per-function AA framework which can be queried over each
function from within a CGSCC transform pass (and additionally a module
analysis to be accessible). This is essentially *the* point of the
entire pass manager rewrite. A CGSCC transform is able to query for
multiple different function's analysis results. It works. The whole
thing appears to actually work and accomplish the original goal. While
we were able to hack function attrs and basic-aa to "work" in the old
pass manager, this port doesn't use any of that, it directly leverages
the new fundamental functionality.
For this to work, the CGSCC framework also has to support SCC-based
behavior analysis, etc. The only part of the CGSCC pass infrastructure
not sorted out at this point are the updates in the face of inlining and
running function passes that mutate the call graph.
The changes are pretty boring and boiler-plate. Most of the work was
factored into more focused preperatory patches. But this is what wires
it all together.
llvm-svn: 261203
Summary:
I thought -Xlinker -mllvm -Xlinker -stats worked at some point but maybe
it never did.
For clang, I believe that stats are printed from cc1_main. This patch
also prints them for LTO, specifically right after codegen happens.
I only looked at the C API for LTO briefly to see if this is a good
place. Probably there are still cases where this wouldn't be printed
but it seems to be working for the common case. I also experimented
putting this in the LTOCodeGenerator destructor but that didn't trigger
for me because ld64 does not destroy the LTOCodeGenerator.
Reviewers: dexonsmith, joker.eph
Subscribers: rafael, joker.eph, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17302
llvm-svn: 261013
Summary:
This patch is provided in preparation for removing autoconf on 1/26. The proposal to remove autoconf on 1/26 was discussed on the llvm-dev thread here: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-January/093875.html
"I felt a great disturbance in the [build system], as if millions of [makefiles] suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something [amazing] has happened."
- Obi Wan Kenobi
Reviewers: chandlerc, grosbach, bob.wilson, tstellarAMD, echristo, whitequark
Subscribers: chfast, simoncook, emaste, jholewinski, tberghammer, jfb, danalbert, srhines, arsenm, dschuff, jyknight, dsanders, joker.eph, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D16471
llvm-svn: 258861
This addresses PR26060 where function lto_module_create() could return nullptr
but lto_get_error_message() returned an empty string.
The error() call after LTOModule::createFromFile() in llvm-lto is then removed
because any error from this function should go through the diagnostic handler in
llvm-lto which will exit the program. The error() call was added because this
previously did not happen when the file was non-existent. This is fixed by the
patch. (The situation that llvm-lto reports an error when the input file does
not exist is tested by llvm/tools/llvm-lto/error.ll).
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D16106
llvm-svn: 258298
Summary:
This is a companion patch for http://reviews.llvm.org/D16124.
Internalized symbols increase the size of strongly-connected components in
SCC-based module splitting and thus reduce the amount of parallelism. This
patch records the original linkage of non-local symbols prior to
internalization and then restores it just before splitting/CodeGen. This is
also useful for cases where the linker requires symbols to remain external, for
instance, so they can be placed according to linker script rules.
It's currently under its own flag (-restore-globals) but should eventually
share a common flag with D16124.
Reviewers: joker.eph, pcc
Subscribers: slarin, llvm-commits, joker.eph
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D16229
llvm-svn: 258100
a top-down manner into a true top-down or RPO pass over the call graph.
There are specific patterns of function attributes, notably the
norecurse attribute, which are most effectively propagated top-down
because all they us caller information.
Walk in RPO over the call graph SCCs takes the form of a module pass run
immediately after the CGSCC pass managers postorder walk of the SCCs,
trying again to deduce norerucrse for each singular SCC in the call
graph.
This removes a very legacy pass manager specific trick of using a lazy
revisit list traversed during finalization of the CGSCC pass. There is
no analogous finalization step in the new pass manager, and a lazy
revisit list is just trying to produce an RPO iteration of the call
graph. We can do that more directly if more expensively. It seems
unlikely that this will be the expensive part of any compilation though
as we never examine the function bodies here. Even in an LTO run over
a very large module, this should be a reasonable fast set of operations
over a reasonably small working set -- the function call graph itself.
In the future, if this really is a compile time performance issue, we
can look at building support for both post order and RPO traversals
directly into a pass manager that builds and maintains the PO list of
SCCs.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15785
llvm-svn: 257163
Renamed variables to be more reflective of whether they are
an instance of Linker, IRLinker or ModuleLinker. Also fix a stale
comment.
llvm-svn: 256011
This patch converts code that has access to a LLVMContext to not take a
diagnostic handler.
This has a few advantages
* It is easier to use a consistent diagnostic handler in a single program.
* Less clutter since we are not passing a handler around.
It does make it a bit awkward to implement some C APIs that return a
diagnostic string. I will propose new versions of these APIs and
deprecate the current ones.
llvm-svn: 255571
Before this patch the diagnostic handler was optional. If it was not
passed, the one in the LLVMContext was used.
That is probably not a pattern we want to follow. If each area has an
optional callback, there is a sea of callbacks and it is hard to follow
which one is called.
Doing this also found cases where the callback is a nice addition, like
testing that no errors or warnings are reported.
The other option is to always use the diagnostic handler in the
LLVMContext. That has a few problems
* To implement the C API we would have to set the diag handler and then
set it back to the original value.
* Code that creates the context might be far away from code that wants
the diagnostics.
I do have a patch that implements the second option and will send that as
an RFC.
llvm-svn: 254777
This is a continuation of r253367.
These functions return is owned by the caller, so they return
std::unique_ptr now.
The call can fail, so the return is wrapped in ErrorOr.
They have a context where to report diagnostics, so they don't need to
take a string out parameter.
With this there are no call to getGlobalContext in lib/LTO.
llvm-svn: 254721
It was only used from LTO for a debug feature, and LTO can just create
another linker.
It is pretty odd to have a method to reset the module in the middle of a
link. It would make IdentifiedStructTypes inconsistent with the Module
for example.
llvm-svn: 254434
This adds a new API, LTOCodeGenerator::setFileType, to choose the output file
format for LTO CodeGen. A corresponding change to use this new API from
llvm-lto and a test case is coming in a separate commit.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14554
llvm-svn: 253622
This patch removes the std::string& argument from a number of C++ LTO API calls
and instead makes them use the installed diagnostic handler. This would also
improve consistency of diagnostic handling infrastructure: if an LTO client used
lto_codegen_set_diagnostic_handler() to install a custom error handler, we do
not want some error messages to go through the custom error handler, and some
other error messages to go into sLastErrorString.
llvm-svn: 253367
This is a follow-up from the previous discussion on the thread:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20151019/307763.html
The LibLTO lto_get_error_message() API reads error messages from a std::string
sLastErrorString. Instead of passing this string around as an argument, this
patch creates a diagnostic handler and then sends this handler to the
constructor of LTOCodeGenerator.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14313
llvm-svn: 252791
Summary: Mimic parseTriple(); and exposes it to LTOModule.cpp
Reviewers: dexonsmith, rafael
Subscribers: llvm-commits
From: Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini@apple.com>
llvm-svn: 252442
The verifier currently runs three times in LTO: (1) after parsing, (2)
at the beginning of the optimization pipeline, and (3) at the end of it.
The first run is important, since we're not sure where the bitcode comes
from and it's nice to validate it, but in release builds the extra runs
aren't appropriate.
This commit:
- Allows these runs to be disabled in LTOCodeGenerator.
- Adds command-line options to llvm-lto.
- Adds command-line options to libLTO.dylib, and disables the verifier
by default in release builds (based on NDEBUG).
This shaves about 3.5% off the runtime of ld64 when linking
verify-uselistorder with -flto -g.
rdar://22509081
llvm-svn: 247729
In some ways this is a very boring port to the new pass manager as there
are no interesting analyses or dependencies or other oddities.
However, this does introduce the first good example of a transformation
pass with non-trivial state porting to the new pass manager. I've tried
to carve out patterns here to replicate elsewhere, and would appreciate
comments on whether folks like these patterns:
- A common need in the new pass manager is to effectively lift the pass
class and some of its state into a public header file. Prior to this,
LLVM used anonymous namespaces to provide "module private" types and
utilities, but that doesn't scale to cases where a public header file
is needed and the new pass manager will exacerbate that. The pattern
I've adopted here is to use the namespace-cased-name of the core pass
(what would be a module if we had them) as a module-private namespace.
Then utility and other code can be declared and defined in this
namespace. At some point in the future, we could even have
(conditionally compiled) code that used modules features when
available to do the same basic thing.
- I've split the actual pass run method in two in order to expose
a private method usable by the old pass manager to wrap the new class
with a minimum of duplicated code. I actually looked at a bunch of
ways to automate or generate these, but they are all quite terrible
IMO. The fundamental need is to extract the set of analyses which need
to cross this interface boundary, and that will end up being too
unpredictable to effectively encapsulate IMO. This is also
a relatively small amount of boiler plate that will live a relatively
short time, so I'm not too worried about the fact that it is boiler
plate.
The rest of the patch is totally boring but results in a massive diff
(sorry). It just moves code around and removes or adds qualifiers to
reflect the new name and nesting structure.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D12773
llvm-svn: 247501
with the new pass manager, and no longer relying on analysis groups.
This builds essentially a ground-up new AA infrastructure stack for
LLVM. The core ideas are the same that are used throughout the new pass
manager: type erased polymorphism and direct composition. The design is
as follows:
- FunctionAAResults is a type-erasing alias analysis results aggregation
interface to walk a single query across a range of results from
different alias analyses. Currently this is function-specific as we
always assume that aliasing queries are *within* a function.
- AAResultBase is a CRTP utility providing stub implementations of
various parts of the alias analysis result concept, notably in several
cases in terms of other more general parts of the interface. This can
be used to implement only a narrow part of the interface rather than
the entire interface. This isn't really ideal, this logic should be
hoisted into FunctionAAResults as currently it will cause
a significant amount of redundant work, but it faithfully models the
behavior of the prior infrastructure.
- All the alias analysis passes are ported to be wrapper passes for the
legacy PM and new-style analysis passes for the new PM with a shared
result object. In some cases (most notably CFL), this is an extremely
naive approach that we should revisit when we can specialize for the
new pass manager.
- BasicAA has been restructured to reflect that it is much more
fundamentally a function analysis because it uses dominator trees and
loop info that need to be constructed for each function.
All of the references to getting alias analysis results have been
updated to use the new aggregation interface. All the preservation and
other pass management code has been updated accordingly.
The way the FunctionAAResultsWrapperPass works is to detect the
available alias analyses when run, and add them to the results object.
This means that we should be able to continue to respect when various
passes are added to the pipeline, for example adding CFL or adding TBAA
passes should just cause their results to be available and to get folded
into this. The exception to this rule is BasicAA which really needs to
be a function pass due to using dominator trees and loop info. As
a consequence, the FunctionAAResultsWrapperPass directly depends on
BasicAA and always includes it in the aggregation.
This has significant implications for preserving analyses. Generally,
most passes shouldn't bother preserving FunctionAAResultsWrapperPass
because rebuilding the results just updates the set of known AA passes.
The exception to this rule are LoopPass instances which need to preserve
all the function analyses that the loop pass manager will end up
needing. This means preserving both BasicAAWrapperPass and the
aggregating FunctionAAResultsWrapperPass.
Now, when preserving an alias analysis, you do so by directly preserving
that analysis. This is only necessary for non-immutable-pass-provided
alias analyses though, and there are only three of interest: BasicAA,
GlobalsAA (formerly GlobalsModRef), and SCEVAA. Usually BasicAA is
preserved when needed because it (like DominatorTree and LoopInfo) is
marked as a CFG-only pass. I've expanded GlobalsAA into the preserved
set everywhere we previously were preserving all of AliasAnalysis, and
I've added SCEVAA in the intersection of that with where we preserve
SCEV itself.
One significant challenge to all of this is that the CGSCC passes were
actually using the alias analysis implementations by taking advantage of
a pretty amazing set of loop holes in the old pass manager's analysis
management code which allowed analysis groups to slide through in many
cases. Moving away from analysis groups makes this problem much more
obvious. To fix it, I've leveraged the flexibility the design of the new
PM components provides to just directly construct the relevant alias
analyses for the relevant functions in the IPO passes that need them.
This is a bit hacky, but should go away with the new pass manager, and
is already in many ways cleaner than the prior state.
Another significant challenge is that various facilities of the old
alias analysis infrastructure just don't fit any more. The most
significant of these is the alias analysis 'counter' pass. That pass
relied on the ability to snoop on AA queries at different points in the
analysis group chain. Instead, I'm planning to build printing
functionality directly into the aggregation layer. I've not included
that in this patch merely to keep it smaller.
Note that all of this needs a nearly complete rewrite of the AA
documentation. I'm planning to do that, but I'd like to make sure the
new design settles, and to flesh out a bit more of what it looks like in
the new pass manager first.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D12080
llvm-svn: 247167
Follow LLVM style for the parameter names (`CamelCase` not `camelCase`),
and surface the header docs in doxygen. No functionality change
intended.
llvm-svn: 246509
llvm::splitCodeGen is a function that implements the core of parallel LTO
code generation. It uses llvm::SplitModule to split the module into linkable
partitions and spawning one code generation thread per partition. The function
produces multiple object files which can be linked in the usual way.
This has been threaded through to LTOCodeGenerator (and llvm-lto for testing
purposes). Separate patches will add parallel LTO support to the gold plugin
and lld.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D12260
llvm-svn: 246236
This change moves LTOCodeGenerator's ownership of the merged module to a
field of type std::unique_ptr<Module>. This helps simplify parts of the code
and clears the way for the module to be consumed by LLVM CodeGen (see D12132
review comments).
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D12205
llvm-svn: 245891
This allows us to remove a bunch of code in LTOCodeGenerator and llvm-lto
and has the side effect of improving error handling in the libLTO C API.
llvm-svn: 245756
folding the code into the main Analysis library.
There already wasn't much of a distinction between Analysis and IPA.
A number of the passes in Analysis are actually IPA passes, and there
doesn't seem to be any advantage to separating them.
Moreover, it makes it hard to have interactions between analyses that
are both local and interprocedural. In trying to make the Alias Analysis
infrastructure work with the new pass manager, it becomes particularly
awkward to navigate this split.
I've tried to find all the places where we referenced this, but I may
have missed some. I have also adjusted the C API to continue to be
equivalently functional after this change.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D12075
llvm-svn: 245318
Summary:
Replace getDataLayout() with a createDataLayout() method to make
explicit that it is intended to create a DataLayout only and not
accessing it for other purpose.
This change is the last of a series of commits dedicated to have a
single DataLayout during compilation by using always the one owned
by the module.
Reviewers: echristo
Subscribers: jholewinski, llvm-commits, rafael, yaron.keren
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D11103
(cherry picked from commit 5609fc56bca971e5a7efeaa6ca4676638eaec5ea)
From: Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini@apple.com>
llvm-svn: 243114
This reverts commit 0f720d984f419c747709462f7476dff962c0bc41.
It breaks clang too badly, I need to prepare a proper patch for clang
first.
From: Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini@apple.com>
llvm-svn: 243089
Summary:
Replace getDataLayout() with a createDataLayout() method to make
explicit that it is intended to create a DataLayout only and not
accessing it for other purpose.
This change is the last of a series of commits dedicated to have a
single DataLayout during compilation by using always the one owned
by the module.
Reviewers: echristo
Subscribers: jholewinski, llvm-commits, rafael, yaron.keren
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D11103
(cherry picked from commit 5609fc56bca971e5a7efeaa6ca4676638eaec5ea)
From: Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini@apple.com>
llvm-svn: 243083
This is needed for COFF linkers to distinguish between weak external aliases
and regular symbols with LLVM weak linkage, which are represented as strong
symbols in COFF.
llvm-svn: 241389
This change unifies how LTOModule and the backend obtain linker flags
for globals: via a new TargetLoweringObjectFile member function named
emitLinkerFlagsForGlobal. A new function LTOModule::getLinkerOpts() returns
the list of linker flags as a single concatenated string.
This change affects the C libLTO API: the function lto_module_get_*deplibs now
exposes an empty list, and lto_module_get_*linkeropts exposes a single element
which combines the contents of all observed flags. libLTO should never have
tried to parse the linker flags; it is the linker's job to do so. Because
linkers will need to be able to parse flags in regular object files, it
makes little sense for libLTO to have a redundant mechanism for doing so.
The new API is compatible with the old one. It is valid for a user to specify
multiple linker flags in a single pragma directive like this:
#pragma comment(linker, "/defaultlib:foo /defaultlib:bar")
The previous implementation would not have exposed
either flag via lto_module_get_*deplibs (as the test in
TargetLoweringObjectFileCOFF::getDepLibFromLinkerOpt was case sensitive)
and would have exposed "/defaultlib:foo /defaultlib:bar" as a single flag via
lto_module_get_*linkeropts. This may have been a bug in the implementation,
but it does give us a chance to fix the interface.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10548
llvm-svn: 241010
Start using C++ types such as StringRef and MemoryBuffer in the C++ LTO
API. In doing so, clarify the ownership of the native object file: the caller
now owns it, not the LTOCodeGenerator. The C libLTO library has been modified
to use a derived class of LTOCodeGenerator that owns the object file.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10114
llvm-svn: 238776
