For profile staleness report, before it only counts for the top-level function samples in the nested profile, the samples in the inlinees are ignored. This could affect the quality of the metrics when there are heavily inlined functions. This change adds a feature to flatten the nested profile and we're changing to use flatten profile as the input for stale profile detection and matching.
Example for profile flattening:
```
Original profile:
_Z3bazi:20301:1000
1: 1000
3: 2000
5: inline1:1600
1: 600
3: inline2:500
1: 500
Flattened profile:
_Z3bazi:18701:1000
1: 1000
3: 2000
5: 600 inline1:600
inline1:1100:600
1: 600
3: 500 inline2: 500
inline2:500:500
1: 500
```
This feature could be useful for offline analysis, like understanding the hotness of each individual function. So I'm adding the support to `llvm-profdata merge` under `--gen-flattened-profile`.
Reviewed By: hoy, wenlei
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D146452
When a flat CS profile is converted to a nested profile, the call target samples for inlined callee contexts are left over in the callsite target map. This could cause indirect call promotion to function improperly. One issue is that the inlined callsites are treated with double amount of samples. The other is the inlined callsites are reconsidered for subsequent PGO ICP.
I'm fixing this by excluding call targets from the callsite for inlined targets. While fixing this I found that callsite target sum and the number of body samples for that callsite could be mismatched. {D122609} has an explanation and a fix for that on llvm-profgen side. For now I'm tolerating it in this change.
Reviewed By: wenlei
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D125266
To be more clear and definitive, I'm renaming `ProfileIsCSFlat` back to `ProfileIsCS` which stands for full context-sensitive flat profiles. `ProfileIsCSNested` is now renamed to `ProfileIsPreInlined` and is extended to be applicable for CS flat profiles too. More specifically, `ProfileIsPreInlined` is for any kind of profiles (flat or nested) that contain 'ShouldBeInlined' contexts. The flag is encoded in the profile summary section for extbinary profiles and is computed on-the-fly for text profiles.
Reviewed By: wenlei
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D122602
When generating nested CS profile with all calling contexts of a function duplicated into a base profile under `--generate-merged-base-profiles`, do not recount callee samples when computing profile summary. This fixes the profile summary mismatch between flat cs profile and nested cs profile, for both extbinary and text format.
Reviewed By: wenlei
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D119494
CSSPGO currently employs a flat profile format for context-sensitive profiles. Such a flat profile allows for precisely manipulating contexts that is either inlined or not inlined. This is a benefit over the nested profile format used by non-CS AutoFDO. A downside of this is the longer build time due to parsing the indexing the full CS contexts.
For a CS flat profile, though only the context profiles relevant to a module are loaded when that module is compiled, the cost to figure out what profiles are relevant is noticeably high when there're many contexts, since the sample reader will need to scan all context strings anyway. On the contrary, a nested function profile has its related inline subcontexts isolated from other unrelated contexts. Therefore when compiling a set of functions, unrelated contexts will never need to be scanned.
In this change we are exploring using nested profile format for CSSPGO. This is expected to work based on an assumption that with a preinliner-computed profile all contexts are precomputed and expected to be inlined by the compiler. Contexts not expected to be inlined will be cut off and returned to corresponding base profiles (for top-level outlined functions). This naturally forms a nested profile where all nested contexts are expected to be inlined. The compiler will less likely optimize on derived contexts that are not precomputed.
A CS-nested profile will look exactly the same with regular nested profile except that each nested profile can come with an attributes. With pseudo probes, a nested profile shown as below can also have a CFG checksum.
```
main:1968679:12
2: 24
3: 28 _Z5funcAi:18
3.1: 28 _Z5funcBi:30
3: _Z5funcAi:1467398
0: 10
1: 10 _Z8funcLeafi:11
3: 24
1: _Z8funcLeafi:1467299
0: 6
1: 6
3: 287884
4: 287864 _Z3fibi:315608
15: 23
!CFGChecksum: 138828622701
!Attributes: 2
!CFGChecksum: 281479271677951
!Attributes: 2
```
Specific work included in this change:
- A recursive profile converter to convert CS flat profile to nested profile.
- Extend function checksum and attribute metadata to be stored in nested way for text profile and extbinary profile.
- Unifiy sample loader inliner path for CS and preinlined nested profile.
- Changes in the sample loader to support probe-based nested profile.
I've seen promising results regarding build time. A nested profile can result in a 20% shorter build time than a CS flat profile while keep an on-par performance. This is with -duplicate-contexts-into-base=1.
Test Plan:
Reviewed By: wenlei
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D115205
