The use of basic block sections should take precedence over the machine
function splitting pass. Since they use the same underlying mechanism
they are kept exclusive. Updated the tests to check that split machine
functions is overridden by all flavours of basic block sections.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D96392
Currently, `llvm_bb_addr_map` sections are generated per section names because we use
the `LinkedToSymbol` argument of getELFSection. This will cause the address map tables of functions
grouped into the same section when `-function-sections=true -unique-section-names=false` which is not
the intended behaviour. This patch lets the unique id of every `.text` section propagate to the associated
`.llvm_bb_addr_map` section.
Reviewed By: MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D92113
This patch lets the bb_addr_map (renamed to __llvm_bb_addr_map) section use a special section type (SHT_LLVM_BB_ADDR_MAP) instead of SHT_PROGBITS. This would help parsers, dumpers and other tools to use the sh_type ELF field to identify this section rather than relying on string comparison on the section name.
Reviewed By: jhenderson
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D88199
This patch introduces the new .bb_addr_map section feature which allows us to emit the bits needed for mapping binary profiles to basic blocks into a separate section.
The format of the emitted data is represented as follows. It includes a header for every function:
| Address of the function | -> 8 bytes (pointer size)
| Number of basic blocks in this function (>0) | -> ULEB128
The header is followed by a BB record for every basic block. These records are ordered in the same order as MachineBasicBlocks are placed in the function. Each BB Info is structured as follows:
| Offset of the basic block relative to function begin | -> ULEB128
| Binary size of the basic block | -> ULEB128
| BB metadata | -> ULEB128 [ MBB.isReturn() OR MBB.hasTailCall() << 1 OR MBB.isEHPad() << 2 ]
The new feature will replace the existing "BB labels" functionality with -basic-block-sections=labels.
The .bb_addr_map section scrubs the specially-encoded BB symbols from the binary and makes it friendly to profilers and debuggers.
Furthermore, the new feature reduces the binary size overhead from 70% bloat to only 12%.
For more information and results please refer to the RFC: https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-July/143512.html
Reviewed By: MaskRay, snehasish
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85408
D68049 created options for basic block sections: -fbasic-block-sections=,
-funique-basic-block-section-names. Rename options in llc and lld (--lto-)
to be consistent. Specifically,
+ Rename basicblock-sections to basic-block-sections
+ Rename unique-bb-section-names to unique-basic-block-section-names
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D84462
