This change avoids inserting probes to EH blocks. Pseudo probe can prevent block merging when probes in the blocks look different. This has a chained effect to passes incurring exponential IR growth (such as jump threading) and as a consequence the compilation may time out. Not inserting probes to EH blocks could mitigate the issue. Another benefit is that both IR size and binary size are smaller. Since EH blocks are usually cold, the change should have minimal impact to profile quality.
Testing:
Out of two internal large benchmarks, no perf impact seen. 1% size savings to both the `text` and the `pseudo_probe` section.
Reviewed By: wenlei
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D142747
value() has undesired exception checking semantics and calls
__throw_bad_optional_access in libc++. Moreover, the API is unavailable without
_LIBCPP_NO_EXCEPTIONS on older Mach-O platforms (see
_LIBCPP_AVAILABILITY_BAD_OPTIONAL_ACCESS).
The current machine function splitter is reliant on profile data to do profile summary analysis to split blocks into cold section. This may sometimes limit the usage of machine function splitter especially in cases where we could do some form of static analysis to split out cold blocks if profile data is absent or profile data which may be faulty (Consider Sample PGO).
Of all code that could statically be marked cold Exception handling blocks are one of them (In fact BFI framework also tends to mark them as cold), and the most in size contribution. In my experiments I found out Exception handling pads and all code reachable from there account for up to 6-8% of the .text section on modern production binaries. This patch introduces a flag to split out all Exception handling blocks and blocks only reachable from Exceptional Handling pad to cold section. This flag has shown to give a performance win of up to 0.1% in terms of average cycles and instructions executed on internal facebook search service.
Reviewed By: snehasish
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D131824
This change adds a nop instruction if section starts with landing pad. This change is like [D73739](https://reviews.llvm.org/D73739) which avoids zero offset landing pad in basic block sections.
Detailed description:
The current machine functions splitter can create ˜sections which start with a landing pad themselves. This places landing pad at offset zero from LPStart.
```
.section .text.split.foo10,"ax",@progbits
foo10.cold: # %lpad
.cfi_startproc
.cfi_personality 3, __gxx_personality_v0
.cfi_lsda 3, .Lexception5
.cfi_def_cfa %rsp, 16
.Ltmp11: <--- This is a Landing pad and also LP Start as it is start of this section
movq %rax, %rdi <--- first instruction is at offest 0 from LPStart
callq _Unwind_Resume@PLT
```
This will cause landing pad entries to become zero (.Ltmp11-foo10.cold)
```
.Lcst_begin4:
.uleb128 .Ltmp9-.Lfunc_begin2 # >> Call Site 1 <<
.uleb128 .Ltmp10-.Ltmp9 # Call between .Ltmp9 and .Ltmp10
.uleb128 .Ltmp11-foo10.cold <---This is zero # jumps to .Ltmp11
.byte 3 # On action: 2
.uleb128 .Ltmp10-.Lfunc_begin2 # >> Call Site 2 <<
.uleb128 .Lfunc_end9-.Ltmp10 # Call between .Ltmp10 and .Lfunc_end9
.byte 0 # has no landing pad
.byte 0 # On action: cleanup
.p2align 2
```
The C++ ABI somehow assumes that no landing pads point directly to LPStart (which works in the normal case since the function begin is never a landing pad), and uses LP.offset = 0 to specify no landing pad. This change adds a nop instruction at start of such sections so that such a case could be avoided. Output:
```
.section .text.split.foo10,"ax",@progbits
foo10.cold: # %lpad
.cfi_startproc
.cfi_personality 3, __gxx_personality_v0
.cfi_lsda 3, .Lexception5
.cfi_def_cfa %rsp, 16
nop <--- new instruction that is added
.Ltmp11:
movq %rax, %rdi
callq _Unwind_Resume@PLT
```
Reviewed By: modimo, snehasish, rahmanl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130133
This reverts commit 7f230feeeac8a67b335f52bd2e900a05c6098f20.
Breaks CodeGenCUDA/link-device-bitcode.cu in check-clang,
and many LLVM tests, see comments on https://reviews.llvm.org/D121169
Support for splitting exception handling pads was added in D73739. This
change updates the code to split out exception handling pads if profile
information indicates that they are cold. For a given function with
multiple landind pads, if one of them is hot they are all retained as
part of the hot code section.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D96372
Text section prefix is created in CodeGenPrepare, it's file format independent implementation, text section name is written into object file in TargetLoweringObjectFile, it's file format dependent implementation, port code of adding text section prefix to text section name from ELF to COFF.
Different with ELF that use '.' as concatenation character, COFF use '$' as concatenation character. That is, concatenation character is variable, so split concatenation character from text section prefix.
Text section prefix is existing feature of ELF, it can help to reduce icache and itlb misses, it's also make possible aggregate other compilers e.g. v8 created same prefix sections. Furthermore, the recent feature Machine Function Splitter (basic block level text prefix section) is based on text section prefix.
Reviewed By: pengfei, rnk
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D92073
We introduce a codegen optimization pass which splits functions into hot and cold
parts. This pass leverages the basic block sections feature recently
introduced in LLVM from the Propeller project. The pass targets
functions with profile coverage, identifies cold blocks and moves them
to a separate section. The linker groups all cold blocks across
functions together, decreasing fragmentation and improving icache and
itlb utilization.
We evaluated the Machine Function Splitter pass on clang bootstrap and
SPECInt 2017.
For clang bootstrap we observe a mean 2.33% runtime improvement with a
~32% reduction in itlb and stlb misses. Additionally, L1 icache misses
reduced by 9.5% while L2 instruction misses reduced by 20%.
For SPECInt we report the change in IntRate the C/C++
benchmarks. All benchmarks apart from mcf and x264 improve, on average
by 0.6% with the max for deepsjeng at 1.6%.
Benchmark % Change
500.perlbench_r 0.78
502.gcc_r 0.82
505.mcf_r -0.30
520.omnetpp_r 0.18
523.xalancbmk_r 0.37
525.x264_r -0.46
531.deepsjeng_r 1.61
541.leela_r 0.83
557.xz_r 0.15
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85368
