The motivating use case is to support import the function declaration
across modules to construct call graph edges for indirect calls [1]
when importing the function definition costs too much compile time
(e.g., the function is too large has no `noinline` attribute).
1. Currently, when the compiled IR module doesn't have a function
definition but its postlink combined summary contains the function
summary or a global alias summary with this function as aliasee, the
function definition will be imported from source module by IRMover. The
implementation is in FunctionImporter::importFunctions [2]
2. In order for FunctionImporter to import a declaration of a function,
both function summary and alias summary need to carry the def / decl
state. Specifically, all existing summary fields doesn't differ across
import modules, but the def / decl state of is decided by
`<ImportModule, Function>`.
This change encodes the def/decl state in `GlobalValueSummary::GVFlags`.
In the subsequent changes
1. The indexing step `computeImportForModule` [3]
will compute the set of definitions and the set of declarations for each
module, and passing on the information to bitcode writer.
2. Bitcode writer will look up the def/decl state and sets the state
when it writes out the flag value. This is demonstrated in
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/87600
3. Function importer will read the def/decl state when reading the
combined summary to figure out two sets of global values, and IRMover
will be updated to import the declaration (aka linkGlobalValuePrototype [4])
into the destination module.
- The next change is https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/87600
[1] mentioned in rfc https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-for-better-call-graph-sort-build-a-more-complete-call-graph-by-adding-more-indirect-call-edges/74029#support-cross-module-function-declaration-import-5
[2] 3b337242ee/llvm/lib/Transforms/IPO/FunctionImport.cpp (L1608-L1764)
[3] 3b337242ee/llvm/lib/Transforms/IPO/FunctionImport.cpp (L856)
[4] 3b337242ee/llvm/lib/Linker/IRMover.cpp (L605)
Thinlink provides an opportunity to propagate function attributes across modules, enabling additional propagation opportunities.
This change propagates (currently default off, turn on with `disable-thinlto-funcattrs=1`) noRecurse and noUnwind based off of function summaries of the prevailing functions in bottom-up call-graph order. Testing on clang self-build:
1. There's a 35-40% increase in noUnwind functions due to the additional propagation opportunities.
2. Throughput is measured at 10-15% increase in thinlink time which itself is 1.5% of E2E link time.
Implementation-wise this adds the following summary function attributes:
1. noUnwind: function is noUnwind
2. mayThrow: function contains a non-call instruction that `Instruction::mayThrow` returns true on (e.g. windows SEH instructions)
3. hasUnknownCall: function contains calls that don't make it into the summary call-graph thus should not be propagated from (e.g. indirect for now, could add no-opt functions as well)
Testing:
Clang self-build passes and 2nd stage build passes check-all
ninja check-all with newly added tests passing
Reviewed By: tejohnson
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D36850
Summary:
Adds a new -f[no]split-lto-unit flag that is disabled by default to
control module splitting during ThinLTO. It is automatically enabled
for -fsanitize=cfi and -fwhole-program-vtables.
The new EnableSplitLTOUnit codegen flag is passed down to llvm
via a new module flag of the same name.
Depends on D53890.
Reviewers: pcc
Subscribers: ormris, mehdi_amini, inglorion, eraman, steven_wu, dexonsmith, cfe-commits, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D53891
llvm-svn: 350949
Summary:
Changes to some clang side tests to go with the summary parsing patch.
Depends on D47905.
Reviewers: pcc, dexonsmith, mehdi_amini
Subscribers: inglorion, eraman, cfe-commits, steven_wu
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47906
llvm-svn: 335618
Summary:
Adds testing of combined index summary entries in disassembly format
to CFI tests that were already testing the bitcode format.
Depends on D46699.
Reviewers: pcc
Subscribers: mehdi_amini, inglorion, eraman, cfe-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D46700
llvm-svn: 333966
Summary:
TypeID summaries are used by CFI and need to be serialized by ThinLTO
indexing for later use by LTO Backend.
Reviewers: tejohnson, pcc
Subscribers: mehdi_amini, inglorion, eraman, hiraditya, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D42611
llvm-svn: 325182
