This patch removes the llvm:: prefix within llvm-exegesis where it is
not necessary. This is most occurrences of the prefix within exegesis as
exegesis is within the llvm namespace. This patch makes things more
consistent as the vast majority of the code did not use the llvm::
prefix for anything.
All users of MCCodeEmitter::encodeInstruction use a raw_svector_ostream
to encode the instruction into a SmallVector. The raw_ostream however
incurs some overhead for the actual encoding.
This change allows an MCCodeEmitter to directly emit an instruction into
a SmallVector without using a raw_ostream and therefore allow for
performance improvments in encoding. A default path that uses existing
raw_ostream implementations is provided.
Reviewed By: MaskRay, Amir
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D145791
Performance counters may be unavailable due to various reasons (such as
access restriction via sysctl properties or the CPU model being unknown
to libpfm). On the other hand, for debugging llvm-exegesis itself it is
still useful to be able to run generated code snippets to ensure that
the snippet does not crash at run time.
The --use-dummy-perf-counters command line option makes llvm-exegesis
behave just as usual except for using fake event counts instead of asking
the kernel for actual values.
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Huawei RRI, OS Lab
Reviewed By: courbet
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D146301
The forwarding header is left in place because of its use in
`polly/lib/External/isl/interface/extract_interface.cc`, but I have
added a GCC warning about the fact it is deprecated, because it is used
in `isl` from where it is included by Polly.
This reducer runtime of
```
$ ./bin/llvm-exegesis -mode=inverse_throughput --opcode-index=-1 --benchmarks-file=/dev/null --dump-object-to-disk=0 --measurements-print-progress --skip-measurements
```
from 3m44s to 2m17s, aka -38%.
But more importantly, we go from 400 *million* memory allocations
down to just 100 million, aka -75%.
But really, the big missing thing is doing everything in a single thread.
Sure, we can't do anything when measuring, but when we are not measuring,
we should just prepare (codegen) everything via all threads.
That should parallelize quite well.
Sometimes we only want to ensure that we can produce snippets (all the way
through `SnippetRepetitor`!), but don't care for the execution.
E.g. all of our tests are this way.
I've built LLVM without PFM and removed my CPU from `X86PfmCounters.td`,
and this produces the expected results in that configuration.
Reviewed By: courbet
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D139448
This moves the registry higher in the LLVM library dependency stack.
Every client of the target registry needs to link against MC anyway to
actually use the target, so we might as well move this out of Support.
This allows us to ensure that Support doesn't have includes from MC/*.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D111454
This makes it possible for targets to define their own MCObjectFileInfo.
This MCObjectFileInfo is then used to determine things like section alignment.
This is a follow up to D101462 and prepares for the RISCV backend defining the
text section alignment depending on the enabled extensions.
Reviewed By: MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101921
This untangles the MCContext and the MCObjectFileInfo. There is a circular
dependency between MCContext and MCObjectFileInfo. Currently this dependency
also exists during construction: You can't contruct a MOFI without a MCContext
without constructing the MCContext with a dummy version of that MOFI first.
This removes this dependency during construction. In a perfect world,
MCObjectFileInfo wouldn't depend on MCContext at all, but only be stored in the
MCContext, like other MC information. This is future work.
This also shifts/adds more information to the MCContext making it more
available to the different targets. Namely:
- TargetTriple
- ObjectFileType
- SubtargetInfo
Reviewed By: MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101462
All these potential null pointer dereferences are reported by my static analyzer for null smart pointer dereferences, which has a different implementation from `alpha.cplusplus.SmartPtr`.
The checked pointers in this patch are initialized by Target::createXXX functions. When the creator function pointer is not correctly set, a null pointer will be returned, or the creator function may originally return a null pointer.
Some of them may not make sense as they may be checked before entering the function, but I fixed them all in this patch. I submit this fix because 1) similar checks are found in some other places in the LLVM codebase for the same return value of the function; and, 2) some of the pointers are dereferenced before they are checked, which may definitely trigger a null pointer dereference if the return value is nullptr.
Reviewed By: tejohnson, MaskRay, jpienaar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91410
Summary:
This prevents "Cannot encode high byte register in REX-prefixed instruction"
from happening on instructions that require REX encoding when AH & co
get selected.
On the down side, these 4 registers can no longer be selected
automatically, but this avoids having to expose all the X86 encoding
complexity.
Reviewers: gchatelet
Subscribers: tschuett, jdoerfert, llvm-commits, bdb
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D59821
llvm-svn: 357003
to reflect the new license.
We understand that people may be surprised that we're moving the header
entirely to discuss the new license. We checked this carefully with the
Foundation's lawyer and we believe this is the correct approach.
Essentially, all code in the project is now made available by the LLVM
project under our new license, so you will see that the license headers
include that license only. Some of our contributors have contributed
code under our old license, and accordingly, we have retained a copy of
our old license notice in the top-level files in each project and
repository.
llvm-svn: 351636
Summary:
The pfm counters are now in the ExegesisTarget rather than the
MCSchedModel (PR39165).
This also compresses the pfm counter tables (PR37068).
Reviewers: RKSimon, gchatelet
Subscribers: mgrang, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52932
llvm-svn: 345243
Summary:
This allows simplifying references of llvm::foo with foo when the needs
come in the future.
Reviewers: courbet, gchatelet
Reviewed By: gchatelet
Subscribers: javed.absar, tschuett, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D53455
llvm-svn: 344922
Summary: Simplify code by having LLVMState hold the RegisterAliasingTrackerCache.
Reviewers: courbet
Subscribers: tschuett, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D53078
llvm-svn: 344143
Summary:
This allows targets to override code generation for some instructions.
As an example of override, this also moves ad-hoc instruction filtering
for X86 into the X86 ExegesisTarget.
Reviewers: gchatelet
Subscribers: mgorny, tschuett, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D48587
llvm-svn: 335582
Summary:
This ensures that the snippet always sees the same values for registers,
making measurements reproducible.
This will also allow exploring different values.
Reviewers: gchatelet
Subscribers: tschuett, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D48542
llvm-svn: 335465
Summary: Pretty much everything we need is in llvm::TargetMachine.
Reviewers: gchatelet
Subscribers: llvm-commits, tschuett
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D48428
llvm-svn: 335237
Summary:
[llvm-exegesis][RFC] Automatic Measurement of Instruction Latency/Uops
This is the code corresponding to the RFC "llvm-exegesis Automatic Measurement of Instruction Latency/Uops".
The RFC is available on the LLVM mailing lists as well as the following document
for easier reading:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QidaJMJUyQdRrFKD66vE1_N55whe0coQ3h1GpFzz27M/edit?usp=sharing
Subscribers: mgorny, gchatelet, orwant, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44519
llvm-svn: 329156
