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
Summary:
This fixes a subtle bug in new FileCheck feature added
in r194343. When we search for the first satisfying check-prefix,
we should actually return the first encounter of some check-prefix as a
substring, even if it's not a part of valid check-line. Otherwise
"FileCheck --check-prefix=FOO --check-prefix=BAR" with check file:
FOO not a vaild check-line
FOO: foo
BAR: bar
incorrectly accepted file:
fog
bar
as it skipped the first two encounters of FOO, matching only BAR: line.
Reviewers: arsenm, dsanders
Reviewed By: dsanders
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2166
llvm-svn: 194565
specifically about the .space directive. This allows us to force large
blocks of code to appear in test cases for things like constant islands
without having to make giant test cases to force things like long
branches to take effect.
llvm-svn: 194555
This bug only bit the C++98 build bots because all of the actual uses
really do move. ;] But not *quite* ready to do the whole C++11 switch
yet, so clean it up. Also add a unit test that catches this immediately.
llvm-svn: 194548
This patch reapplies r193676 with an additional fix for the Hexagon backend. The
SystemZ backend has already been fixed by r194148.
The Type Legalizer recognizes that VSELECT needs to be split, because the type
is to wide for the given target. The same does not always apply to SETCC,
because less space is required to encode the result of a comparison. As a result
VSELECT is split and SETCC is unrolled into scalar comparisons.
This commit fixes the issue by checking for VSELECT-SETCC patterns in the DAG
Combiner. If a matching pattern is found, then the result mask of SETCC is
promoted to the expected vector mask type for the given target. Now the type
legalizer will split both VSELECT and SETCC.
This allows the following X86 DAG Combine code to sucessfully detect the MIN/MAX
pattern. This fixes PR16695, PR17002, and <rdar://problem/14594431>.
Reviewed by Nadav
llvm-svn: 194542
more smarts in it. This is where most of the interesting logic that used
to live in the implicit-scheduling-hackery of the old pass manager will
live.
Like the previous commits, note that this is a very early prototype!
I expect substantial changes before this is ready to use.
The core of the design is the following:
- We have an AnalysisManager which can be used across a series of
passes over a module.
- The code setting up a pass pipeline registers the analyses available
with the manager.
- Individual transform passes can check than an analysis manager
provides the analyses they require in order to fail-fast.
- There is *no* implicit registration or scheduling.
- Analysis passes are different from other passes: they produce an
analysis result that is cached and made available via the analysis
manager.
- Cached results are invalidated automatically by the pass managers.
- When a transform pass requests an analysis result, either the analysis
is run to produce the result or a cached result is provided.
There are a few aspects of this design that I *know* will change in
subsequent commits:
- Currently there is no "preservation" system, that needs to be added.
- All of the analysis management should move up to the analysis library.
- The analysis management needs to support at least SCC passes. Maybe
loop passes. Living in the analysis library will facilitate this.
- Need support for analyses which are *both* module and function passes.
- Need support for pro-actively running module analyses to have cached
results within a function pass manager.
- Need a clear design for "immutable" passes.
- Need support for requesting cached results when available and not
re-running the pass even if that would be necessary.
- Need more thorough testing of all of this infrastructure.
There are other aspects that I view as open questions I'm hoping to
resolve as I iterate a bit on the infrastructure, and especially as
I start writing actual passes against this.
- Should we have separate management layers for function, module, and
SCC analyses? I think "yes", but I'm not yet ready to switch the code.
Adding SCC support will likely resolve this definitively.
- How should the 'require' functionality work? Should *that* be the only
way to request results to ensure that passes always require things?
- How should preservation work?
- Probably some other things I'm forgetting. =]
Look forward to more patches in shorter order now that this is in place.
llvm-svn: 194538
Add user-supplied C runtime and compiler-rt library functions to
llvm.compiler.used to protect them from premature optimization by
passes like -globalopt and -ipsccp. Calls to (seemingly unused)
runtime library functions can be added by -instcombine and instruction
lowering.
Patch by Duncan Exon Smith, thanks!
Fixes <rdar://problem/14740087>
llvm-svn: 194514
The system LDM and STM instructions can't usually writeback to the base
register. The one exception is when an LDM is actually an exception-return
(i.e. contains PC in the register list).
(There's already a test that "ldm sp!, {r0-r3, pc}^" works, which is why there
is no positive test).
rdar://problem/15223374
llvm-svn: 194512
This commit significantly speeds up both bytecode and native
builds of LLVM clients (from ~20 second to sub-second link time),
and allows to invoke LLVM functions from OCaml toplevel.
The behavior for --disable-shared builds is unchanged.
llvm-svn: 194509
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
We already know how to fold a reload from a frameindex without
analyzing the load instruction. Generalize this to handle any
frameindex load. This streamlines the logic for rematerializing loads
from stack arguments. As a side effect, it allows stackmaps to record
a stack argument location without spilling it.
Verified no effect on codegen for llvm test-suite.
llvm-svn: 194497
This reverts commit r194485.
The variable is unused in some macro instantiations, but not others. We should
probably fix clang to not warn on this.
llvm-svn: 194486
Like GCC, this re-uses the 'f' constraint and a new 'w' print-modifier:
asm ("ldi.w %w0, 1", "=f"(result));
Unlike GCC, the 'w' print-modifer is not _required_ to produce the intended
output. This is a consequence of differences in the internal handling of
the registers in each compiler. To be source-compatible between the
compilers, users must use the 'w' print-modifier.
MSA registers (including control registers) are supported in clobber lists.
llvm-svn: 194476
