…f weights" #95136
Reverts #95060, and relands #86609, with the unintended code generation
changes addressed.
This patch implements the changes to LLVM IR discussed in
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-update-branch-weights-metadata-to-allow-tracking-branch-weight-origins/75032
In this patch, we add an optional field to MD_prof meatdata nodes for
branch weights, which can be used to distinguish weights added from
llvm.expect* intrinsics from those added via other methods, e.g. from
profiles or inserted by the compiler.
One of the major motivations, is for use with MisExpect diagnostics,
which need to know if branch_weight metadata originates from an
llvm.expect intrinsic. Without that information, we end up checking
branch weights multiple times in the case if ThinLTO + SampleProfiling,
leading to some inaccuracy in how we report MisExpect related
diagnostics to users.
Since we change the format of MD_prof metadata in a fundamental way, we
need to update code handling branch weights in a number of places.
We also update the lang ref for branch weights to reflect the change.
This patch implements the changes to LLVM IR discussed in
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-update-branch-weights-metadata-to-allow-tracking-branch-weight-origins/75032
In this patch, we add an optional field to MD_prof metadata nodes for
branch weights, which can be used to distinguish weights added from
`llvm.expect*` intrinsics from those added via other methods, e.g.
from profiles or inserted by the compiler.
One of the major motivations, is for use with MisExpect diagnostics,
which need to know if branch_weight metadata originates from an
llvm.expect intrinsic. Without that information, we end up checking
branch weights multiple times in the case if ThinLTO + SampleProfiling,
leading to some inaccuracy in how we report MisExpect related
diagnostics to users.
Since we change the format of MD_prof metadata in a fundamental way, we
need to update code handling branch weights in a number of places.
We also update the lang ref for branch weights to reflect the change.
A related change is https://reviews.llvm.org/D133121, which correctly
preserves both branch weights and value profiles for invoke instruction.
* If the branch weight of the `invokeinst` specifies taken / not-taken branches, there is no scale.
Since some places, like SimplifyCFG, work with 64-bit weights, we supply
an API in ProfDataUtils to extract the weights accordingly.
We change the API slightly to disambiguate the 64-bit version from the
32-bit version.
I'm planning to remove StringRef::equals in favor of
StringRef::operator==.
- StringRef::operator== outnumbers StringRef::equals by a factor of 22
under llvm/ in terms of their usage.
- The elimination of StringRef::equals brings StringRef closer to
std::string_view, which has operator== but not equals.
- S == "foo" is more readable than S.equals("foo"), especially for
!Long.Expression.equals("str") vs Long.Expression != "str".
- Put the helper function in `ProfDataUtil.h/cpp`, which is already a
dependency of `Instructions.cpp`
- The helper function could be re-used to update profiles of
`InvokeInst` (in a follow-up pull request)
This reverts commit e8512786fedbfa6ddba70ceddc29d7122173ba5e.
This revert is done because llvm::drop_begin over an empty ArrayRef
doesn't return an empty range, and therefore can lead to an invalid
address returned instead.
See discussion in https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/80737 for
more context.
Currently, there is significant code duplication for dealing with
MD_prof metadata throughout the compiler. These utility functions can
improve code reuse and simplify boilerplate code when dealing with
profiling metadata, such as branch weights. The inent is to provide a
uniform set of APIs that allow common tasks, such as identifying
specific types of MD_prof metadata and extracting branch weights.
Future patches can build on this initial implementation and clean up the
different implementations across the compiler.
Reviewed By: bogner
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128858
