After using this for a while, we find that it is generally useful to
have it set to .text.split. by default, removing the need for an
additional -mllvm option.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D88997
This change adds an option to basic block sections to allow cold
clusters to be assigned a custom text prefix. With a custom prefix such
as ".text.split." (D87840), lld can place them in a separate output section.
The benefits are -
* Empirically shown to improve icache and itlb metrics by 3-5%
(absolute) compared to placing split parts in .text.unlikely.
* Mitigates against poor profiles, eg samplePGO profiles used with the
machine function splitter. Optimizations such as hugepage remapping can
make different decisions at the section granularity.
* Enables section granularity hotness monitoring (checking on the
decisions made during compilation vs sample data from production).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87813
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
