This patch introduces a new version for the basic block sections profile
as was requested in D158442, while keeping backward compatibility for
the old version.
The new encoding is as follows:
```
m <module_name>
f <function_name_1> <function_name_2>...
c <bb_id_1> <bb_id_2> <bb_id_3>
c <bb_id_4> <bb_id_5>
...
```
Module name specifier (starting with 'm') is optional and allows
distinguishing profiles for internal-linkage functions with the same
name. If not specified, profile will be applied to any function with the
same name.
Function name specifier (starting with 'f') can specify multiple
function name aliases.
Finally, basic block clusters are specified by 'c' and specify the
cluster of basic blocks, and the internal order in which they must be
placed in the same section.
This relands commit 4d8d2580c53e130c3c3dd3877384301e3c495554.
The major change here is using 'addUsedIfAvailable<BasicBlockSectionsProfileReader>()` to make sure we don't change the pipeline tests.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D126518
Today, text section prefixes (none, .unlikely, .hot, and .unkown) are determined based on PGO profile. However, Propeller may deem a function hot when PGO doesn't. Besides, when `-Wl,-keep-text-section-prefix=true` Propeller cannot enforce a global section ordering as the linker can only reorder sections within each output section (.text, .text.hot, .text.unlikely).
This patch promotes all functions with Propeller profiles (functions listed in the basic-block-sections profile) to .text.hot. The feature is hidden behind the flag `--bbsections-guided-section-prefix` which defaults to `true`.
The new implementation refactors the parsing of basic block sections profile into a new `BasicBlockSectionsProfileReader` analysis pass. This allows us to use the information earlier in `CodeGenPrepare` in order to set the functions text prefix. `BasicBlockSectionsProfileReader` will be used both by `BasicBlockSections` pass and `CodeGenPrepare`.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D122930
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
