When LLVM_LINK_LLVM_DYLIB is ON, `check-bolt` target reports unit test
failures:
BOLT-Unit :: Core/./CoreTests/failed_to_discover_tests_from_gtest
BOLT-Unit :: Profile/./ProfileTests/failed_to_discover_tests_from_gtest
The reason is that when llvm-lit runs a unit-test executable:
/path/to/CoreTests --gtest_list_tests '--gtest_filter=-*DISABLED_*'
an assertion is triggered with the following message:
LLVM ERROR: Option 'default' already exists!
This assertion triggers when the initializer of defaultListDAGScheduler
defined at SelectionDAGISel.cpp:219 is called as a statically-linked
function after already being called during the initialization of
libLLVM.
The issue can be traced down to LLVMTestingSupport library which depends
on libLLVM as neither COMPONENT_LIB nor DISABLE_LLVM_LINK_LLVM_DYLIB is
specified in a call to `add_llvm_library(LLVMTestingSupport ...)`.
Specifying DISABLE_LLVM_LINK_LLVM_DYLIB for LLVMTestingSupport makes
Clang unit test fail and COMPONENT_LIB is probably inappropriate for a
testing-specific library, thus as a workaround, added Error.cpp source
from LLVMTestingSupport directly to the list of source files of
CoreTests target (as it depends on
`llvm::detail::TakeError(llvm::Error)`) and removed LLVMTestingSupport
from the list of dependencies of ProfileTests.
Since Linux 6.14, Perf gained the ability to report SPE branch events
using the `brstack` format, which matches the layout of LBR/BRBE.
This patch reuses the existing LBR parsing logic to support SPE.
Example SPE brstack format:
```bash
perf script -i perf.data -F pid,brstack --itrace=bl
```
```
PID FROM / TO / PREDICTED
16984 0x72e342e5f4/0x72e36192d0/M/-/-/11/RET/-
16984 0x72e7b8b3b4/0x72e7b8b3b8/PN/-/-/11/COND/-
16984 0x72e7b92b48/0x72e7b92b4c/PN/-/-/8/COND/-
16984 0x72eacc6b7c/0x760cc94b00/P/-/-/9/RET/-
16984 0x72e3f210fc/0x72e3f21068/P/-/-/4//-
16984 0x72e39b8c5c/0x72e3627b24/P/-/-/4//-
16984 0x72e7b89d20/0x72e7b92bbc/P/-/-/4/RET/-
```
SPE brstack flags can be two characters long: `PN` or `MN`:
- `P` = predicted branch
- `M` = mispredicted branch
- `N` = optionally appears when the branch is NOT-TAKEN
- flag is relevant only to conditional branches
Example of usage with BOLT:
1. Capture SPE branch events:
```bash
perf record -e 'arm_spe_0/branch_filter=1/u' -- binary
```
2. Convert profile for BOLT:
```bash
perf2bolt -p perf.data -o perf.fdata --spe binary
```
3. Run BOLT Optimization:
```bash
llvm-bolt binary -o binary.bolted --data perf.fdata ...
```
A unit test verifies the parsing of the 'SPE brstack format'.
---------
Co-authored-by: Paschalis Mpeis <paschalis.mpeis@arm.com>
This does *not* link with libLLVM, but with static archives instead. Not
super-great, but at least the build works, which is probably better than
failing.
Related to #57551
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D134434
The latest perf tool can return non-empty buffer when executing
buildid-list command, even when perf.data was recorded with -B flag.
Some binaries will be listed without the ID, while others may have a
recorded ID. Allow invalid entires on the input, while checking the
valid ones for the match.
Reviewed By: Amir
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130223
