This removes most of the handling of the relative block frequency
support added in 2018 in c73cec84c99e5a63dca961fef67998a677c53a3c, which
was disabled by default and never utilized in the thin link as expected.
Support for reading old Bitcode containing the record is maintained as
required for backwards compatibility requirements, as is the support for
parsing old LLVM assembly containing that information. Tests ensure that
this backwards compatibility is maintained.
This came up in the context of redundant BFI/DT computations which
existed largely for the purpose of computing this information
and are being addressed in PR176646.
This patch makes the dead_on_return parameter attribute optionally require a number
of bytes to be passed in to specify the number of bytes known to be dead
upon function return/unwind. This is aimed at enabling annotating the
this pointer in C++ destructors with dead_on_return in clang. We need
this to handle cases like the following:
```
struct X {
int n;
~X() {
this[n].n = 0;
}
};
void f() {
X xs[] = {42, -1};
}
```
Where we only certain that sizeof(X) bytes are dead upon return of ~X.
Otherwise DSE would be able to eliminate the store in ~X which would not
be correct.
This patch only does the wiring within IR. Future patches will make
clang emit correct sizing information and update DSE to only delete
stores to objects marked dead_on_return that are provably in bounds of
the number of bytes specified to be dead_on_return.
Reviewers: nikic, alinas, antoniofrighetto
Pull Request: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/171712
SwitchInst case values must be ConstantInt, which have no use list.
Therefore it is not necessary to store these as Use, instead store them
more efficiently as a simple array of pointers after the uses, similar
to how PHINode stores basic blocks.
After this change, the successors of all terminators are stored
consecutively in the operand list. This is preparatory work for
improving the performance of successor access.
Add new C API functions so that switch case values remain accessible
from bindings for other languages.
While this could also be achieved by merely changing the order of
operands (i.e., first all successors, then all constants), doing so
would increase the asymptotic runtime of addCase from O(1) to O(n)
(i.e., adding n cases would be O(n^2)), because it would need to shift
all constants by one slot. Having null/invalid operands is also a bad
idea and would cause much more breakage.
Pull Request: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/170984
One of the most common mistakes when working with the LLVM C API is to
mix functions that work on the global context and those that work on an
explicit context. This often results in seemingly nonsensical errors
because types from different contexts are mixed.
We have considered the APIs working on the global context to be obsolete
for a long time already, and do not add any new APIs using the global
context. However, the fact that these still exist (and have shorter
names) continues to cause issues.
This PR proposes to deprecate these APIs, with intent to remove them at
some point in the future.
RFC:
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-deprecate-c-api-functions-using-the-global-context/88639
SwitchInst case values must be ConstantInt, which have no use list.
Therefore it is not necessary to store these as Use, instead store them
more efficiently as a simple array of pointers after the uses, similar
to how PHINode stores basic blocks.
After this change, the successors of all terminators are stored
consecutively in the operand list. This is preparatory work for
improving the performance of successor access.
Deactivation symbol operands are supported in the code generator by
building on the previously added support for IRELATIVE relocations.
Reviewers: ojhunt, fmayer, ahmedbougacha, nikic, efriedma-quic
Reviewed By: fmayer
Pull Request: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/133537
For swift async code, we need to use a debug intrinsic that behaves like
an llvm.dbg.declare but can take any location type rather than just a
pointer or integer.
To solve this, a new debug instrinsic called llvm.dbg.declare_value has
been created, which behaves exactly like an llvm.dbg.declare but can
take non pointer and integer location types.
More information here:
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-introduce-new-llvm-dbg-coroframe-entry-intrinsic/88269
This is the first patch as part of a stack of patches, with the one
succeeding it being: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/168134
Also add a corresponding intrinsic property that can be used to mark
intrinsics that do not introduce poison, for example simple arithmetic
intrinsics that propagate poison just like a simple arithmetic
instruction.
As a smoke test this patch adds the new property to
llvm.amdgcn.fmul.legacy.
DW_TAG_base_type DIEs are permitted to have both byte_size and bit_size
attributes "If the value of an object of the given type does not fully
occupy the storage described by a byte size attribute"
* Add DataSizeInBits to DIBasicType (`DIBasicType(... dataSize: n ...)` in IR).
* Change Clang to add DataSizeInBits to _BitInt type metadata.
* Change LLVM to add DW_AT_bit_size to base_type DIEs that have non-zero
DataSizeInBits.
TODO: Do we need to emit DW_AT_data_bit_offset for big endian targets?
See discussion on the PR.
Fixes [#61952](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/61952)
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Co-authored-by: David Stenberg <david.stenberg@ericsson.com>
Depends on:
* https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/165401
We weren't testing `DIObjCProperty` roundtripping. So this was never
caught.
The consequence of this is that the `setter:` would have the getter name
and `getter:` would have the setter name.
Module flag is used to indicate the feature to be propagated to the
function. As now the frontend emits all attributes accordingly let's
help the auto upgrade to only do work when old and new bitcodes are
merged.
Depends on #82819 and #86031
In preparation for a follow on change that will require checking every
time a new summary is added to the SummaryList for a GUID, make the
SummaryList private and require all accesses to go through one of two
new interfaces. Most changes are to access the list via the read only
getSummaryList() method, and the few that add new summaries (e.g. while
building the combined summary) use the new addSummary() method.
This patch moves the `preserve-bc-uselistorder` and
`preserve-ll-uselistorder` options out of individual tools(opt, llvm-as,
llvm-dis, llvm-link, llvm-extract) and make them global defaults for
AsmWriter and BitcodeWriter.
These options are useful when we use `-print-*` options to dump LLVM IR.
This patch sets up `DICompileUnit` to support the DWARFv6
`DW_AT_language_name` and `DW_AT_language_version` attributes (which are
set to replace `DW_AT_language`). This patch changes the
`DICompileUnit::SourceLanguage` field type to a `DISourceLanguageName`
that encapsulates the notion of "versioned vs. unversioned name". A
"versioned" name is one that has an associated version stored separately
in `DISourceLanguageName::Version`.
This patch just changes all the clients of the `getSourceLanguage` API
to the expect a `DISourceLanguageName`. Currently they all just `assert`
(via `DISourceLanguageName::getUnversionedName`) that we're dealing with
"unversioned names" (i.e., the pre-DWARFv6 language codes). In follow-up
patches (e.g., draft is at
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/162261), when we start
emitting versioned language codes, the `getUnversionedName` calls can
then be adjusted to `getName`.
**Implementation considerations**
* We could have added a new member to `DICompileUnit` alongside the
existing `SourceLanguage` field. I don't think this would have made the
transition any simpler (clients would still need to be aware of
"versioned" vs. "unversioned" language names). I felt that encapsulating
this inside a `DISourceLanguageName` was easier to reason about for
maintainers.
* Currently DISourceLanguageName is a `12` byte structure. We could
probably pack all the info inside a `uint64_t` (16-bits for the name,
32-bits for the version, 1-bit for answering the `hasVersionedName`).
Just to keep the prototype simple I used a `std::optional`. But since
the guts of the structure are hidden, we can always change the layout to
a more compact representation instead.
**How to review**
* The new `DISourceLanguageName` structure is defined in
`DebugInfoMetadata.h`. All the other changes fall out from changing the
`DICompileUnit::SourceLanguage` from `unsigned` to
`DISourceLanguageName`.
Add a new named module-level frontend-annotated metadata that
specifies the TBAA node for an integer access, for which, C/C++
`errno` accesses are guaranteed to use (under strict aliasing).
This should allow LLVM to prove the involved memory location/
accesses may not alias `errno`; thus, to perform optimizations
around errno-writing libcalls (store-to-load forwarding amongst
others).
Previous discussion: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-modelling-errno-memory-effects/82972.
Teach the IR parser and writer to support metadata on ifuncs, and update
documentation.
In PR #153049, we have a use case of attaching the `!associated`
metadata to an ifunc.
Since an ifunc is similar to a function declaration, it seems natural to
allow metadata on ifuncs.
Currently, the metadata API allows adding Metadata to
llvm::GlobalObject, so the in-memory IR allows for metadata on ifuncs,
but the IR reader/writer is not aware of that.
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Co-authored-by: Wael Yehia <wyehia@ca.ibm.com>
- Remove forward declaration of `llvm::Argument` and include Argument.h
instead.
- Restrict scope of anonymous namespaces to just class declarations.
- Move local static function out of anonymous namespace.
- Remove a redundant assert when indexing a vector.
In order to better see what's going on during ThinLTO linking, this PR
adds more profile tags when using `--time-trace` on a `lld-link.exe`
invocation.
After PR, linking `clang.exe`:
<img width="3839" height="2026" alt="Capture d’écran 2025-09-02 082021"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bf0c85ba-2f85-4bbf-a5c1-800039b56910"
/>
Linking a custom (Unreal Engine game) binary gives a completly
different picture, probably because of using Unity files, and the sheer
amount of input files (here, providing over 60 GB of .OBJs/.LIBs).
<img width="1940" height="1008" alt="Capture d’écran 2025-09-02 102048"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/60b28630-7995-45ce-9e8c-13f3cb5312e0"
/>
MaxAlignment is used to produce the abbreviation for MODULE_CODE_GLOBALVAR
and is not used for anything related to function alignments, so stop
combining function alignments and rename it to make its purpose clearer.
Reviewers: teresajohnson
Reviewed By: teresajohnson
Pull Request: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/155341
This introduces a new `ptrtoaddr` instruction which is similar to
`ptrtoint` but has two differences:
1) Unlike `ptrtoint`, `ptrtoaddr` does not capture provenance
2) `ptrtoaddr` only extracts (and then extends/truncates) the low
index-width bits of the pointer
For most architectures, difference 2) does not matter since index (address)
width and pointer representation width are the same, but this does make a
difference for architectures that have pointers that aren't just plain
integer addresses such as AMDGPU fat pointers or CHERI capabilities.
This commit introduces textual and bitcode IR support as well as basic code
generation, but optimization passes do not handle the new instruction yet
so it may result in worse code than using ptrtoint. Follow-up changes will
update capture tracking, etc. for the new instruction.
RFC: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/clarifiying-the-semantics-of-ptrtoint/83987/54
Reviewed By: nikic
Pull Request: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/139357
When materializing a function, we'd upgrade all calls to all upgraded
intrinsics. However, this would operate on all calls to the intrinsic
(including previously materialized ones), which leads to quadratic
complexity.
Instead, only upgrade the calls that are in the materialized function.
This fixes a compile-time regression introduced by #149310.
lifetime.start and lifetime.end are primarily intended for use on
allocas, to enable stack coloring and other liveness optimizations. This
is necessary because all (static) allocas are hoisted into the entry
block, so lifetime markers are the only way to convey the actual
lifetimes.
However, lifetime.start and lifetime.end are currently *allowed* to be
used on non-alloca pointers. We don't actually do this in practice, but
just the mere fact that this is possible breaks the core purpose of the
lifetime markers, which is stack coloring of allocas. Stack coloring can
only work correctly if all lifetime markers for an alloca are
analyzable.
* If a lifetime marker may operate on multiple allocas via a select/phi,
we don't know which lifetime actually starts/ends and handle it
incorrectly (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/104776).
* Stack coloring operates on the assumption that all lifetime markers
are visible, and not, for example, hidden behind a function call or
escaped pointer. It's not possible to change this, as part of the
purpose of lifetime markers is that they work even in the presence of
escaped pointers, where simple use analysis is insufficient.
I don't think there is any way to have coherent semantics for lifetime
markers on allocas, while also permitting them on arbitrary pointer
values.
This PR restricts lifetimes to operate on allocas only. As a followup, I
will also drop the size argument, which is superfluous if we always
operate on an alloca. (This change also renders various code handling
lifetime markers on non-alloca dead. I plan to clean up that kind of
code after dropping the size argument as well.)
In practice, I've only found a few places that currently produce
lifetimes on non-allocas:
* CoroEarly replaces the promise alloca with the result of an intrinsic,
which will later be replaced back with an alloca. I think this is the
only place where there is some legitimate loss of functionality, but I
don't think this is particularly important (I don't think we'd expect
the promise in a coroutine to admit useful lifetime optimization.)
* SafeStack moves unsafe allocas onto a separate frame. We can safely
drop lifetimes here, as SafeStack performs its own stack coloring.
* Similar for AddressSanitizer, it also moves allocas into separate
memory.
* LSR sometimes replaces the lifetime argument with a GEP chain of the
alloca (where the offsets ultimately cancel out). This is just
unnecessary. (Fixed separately in
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/149492.)
* InferAddrSpaces sometimes makes lifetimes operate on an addrspacecast
of an alloca. I don't think this is necessary.
This is a fix additional to #92162
In some cases, section names contain a whitespace between the segment
name and the actual section name (e.g. `__TEXT, __swift5_proto`). It is
confirmed by source code of the Swift compiler
This fix allows LTO to work correctly with the `-ObjC` flag in that rare
case when only a section with a whitespace in the name is present in the
linked bitcode module, but there are no sections containing
`__TEXT,__swift`
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Co-authored-by: Ураков Александр Сергеевич <a.urakov@tbank.ru>
Co-authored-by: Ellis Hoag <ellis.sparky.hoag@gmail.com>
Serialise key-instruction fields of DILocations and DISubprograms into
and outof bitcode, add tests. debug-info bitcode sizes grow, but it
balances out given an earlier size optimisation in 51f4e2c.
Co-authored-by: Orlando Cazalet-Hyams <orlando.hyams@sony.com>
DILocations that are not attached to instructions are encoded using
METADATA_LOCATION records which have an abbrev. DILocations attached to
instructions are interleaved with instruction records as FUNC_CODE_DEBUG_LOC
records, which do not have an abbrev (and FUNC_CODE_DEBUG_LOC_AGAIN
which have no operands).
Add a new FUNCTION_BLOCK abbrev FUNCTION_DEBUG_LOC_ABBREV for
FUNC_CODE_DEBUG_LOC records.
This reduces the bc file size by up to 7% in CTMark, with many between 2-4%
smaller.
[per-file file size
compile-time-tracker](https://llvm-compile-time-tracker.com/compare.php?from=75cf826849713c00829cdf657e330e24c1a2fd03&to=1e268ebd0a581016660d9d7e942495c1be041f7d&stat=size-file&details=on)
(go to stage1-ReleaseLTO-g).
This optimisation is motivated by #144102, which adds the new Key Instructions
fields to bitcode records. The combined patches still overall look to be a
slight improvement over the base.
(Originally reviewed in PR #146497)
Co-authored-by: Orlando Cazalet-Hyams <orlando.hyams@sony.com>
RFC on discourse:
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-debug-info-for-coroutine-suspension-locations-take-2/86606
With this commit, we add `DILabel` debug infos to the resume points of a
coroutine. Those labels can be used by debugging scripts to figure out
the exact line and column at which a coroutine was suspended by looking
up current `__coro_index` value inside the coroutines frame, and then
searching for the corresponding label inside the coroutine's resume
function.
The DWARF information generated for such a label looks like:
```
0x00000f71: DW_TAG_label
DW_AT_name ("__coro_resume_1")
DW_AT_decl_file ("generator-example.cpp")
DW_AT_decl_line (5)
DW_AT_decl_column (3)
DW_AT_artificial (true)
DW_AT_LLVM_coro_suspend_idx (0x01)
DW_AT_low_pc (0x00000000000019be)
```
The labels can be mapped to their corresponding `__coro_idx` values
either via their naming convention `__coro_resume_<N>` or using the new
`DW_AT_LLVM_coro_suspend_idx` attribute. In gdb, those line numebrs can
be looked up using `info line -function my_coroutine -label
__coro_resume_1`. LLDB unfortunately does not understand DW_TAG_label
debug information, yet.
Given this is an artificial compiler-generated label, I did apply the
DW_AT_artificial tag to it. The DWARFv5 standard only allows that tag on
type and variable definitions, but this is a natural extension and was
also blessed in the RFC on discourse.
Also, this commit adds `DW_AT_decl_column` to labels, not only for
coroutines but also for normal C and C++ labels. While not strictly
necessary, I am doing so now because it would be harder to do so later
without breaking the binary LLVM-IR format
Drive-by fixes: While reading the existing test cases to understand how
to write my own test case, I did a couple of small typo fixes and
comment improvements
Add abbreviations for icmp/fcmp, store and br, which are the most common
instructions that don't have abbreviations yet. This requires increasing
the abbreviation size to 5 bits.
This gives about 3-5% bitcode size reductions for the clang build.
PR #141106 changed the debuginfo metdata to allow dynamic bit offsets
and sizes. This caused a crash in lld when using LTO.
The problem is that lazyLoadOneMetadata assumes that the metadata in
question can be cast to MDNode; but in the typical case where the offset
is a constant, this is not true.
This patch changes this spot to allow non-MDNodes through.
The included test case comes from the report in #141106.
Add `dead_on_return` attribute, which is meant to be taken advantage
by the frontend, and states that the memory pointed to by the argument
is dead upon function return. As with `byval`, it is supposed to be
used for passing aggregates by value. The difference lies in the ABI:
`byval` implies that the pointer is explicitly passed as argument to
the callee (during codegen the copy is emitted as per byval contract),
whereas a `dead_on_return`-marked argument implies that the copy
already exists in the IR, is located at a specific stack offset within
the caller, and this memory will not be read further by the caller upon
callee return – or otherwise poison, if read before being written.
RFC: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-add-dead-on-return-attribute/86871.
In Ada, a record type can have a non-constant size, and a field can
appear at a non-constant bit offset in a record.
To support this, this patch changes DIType to record the size and offset
using metadata, rather than plain integers. In addition to a constant
offset, both DIVariable and DIExpression are now supported here.
One thing of note in this patch is the choice of how exactly to
represent a non-constant bit offset, with the difficulty being that
DWARF 5 does not support this. DWARF 3 did have a way to support a
non-constant byte offset, combined with a constant bit offset within the
byte, but this was deprecated in DWARF 4 and removed from DWARF 5.
This patch takes a simple approach: a DWARF extension allowing the use
of an expression with DW_AT_data_bit_offset. There is a corresponding
DWARF issue, see https://dwarfstd.org/issues/250501.1.html. The main
reason for this approach is that it keeps API simplicity: just a single
value is needed, rather than having separate data describing the byte
offset and the bit within the byte.
This flag was used to let us incrementally introduce debug records
into LLVM, however everything is now using records. It serves no
purpose now, so delete it.
This was a utility for flipping between intrinsic and debug record mode
-- we don't need it any more. The "IsNewDbgInfoFormat" should be true
everywhere.
