This PR registers the writeout and reset functions for `gcov` for all
modules in the PGO runtime, instead of registering them
using global constructors in each module. The change is made for AIX
only, but the same mechanism works on Linux on Power.
When registering such functions using global constructors in each module
without `-ffunction-sections`, the AIX linker cannot garbage collect
unused undefined symbols, because such symbols are grouped in the same
section as the `__sinit` symbol. Keeping such undefined symbols causes
link errors (see test case
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/108570/files#diff-500a7e1ba871e1b6b61b523700d5e30987900002add306e1b5e4972cf6d5a4f1R1
for this scenario). This PR implements the initialization in the
runtime, hence avoiding introducing `__sinit` into each module.
The implementation adds a new global variable `__llvm_covinit_functions`
to each module. This new global variable contains the function pointers
to the `Writeout` and `Reset` functions. `__llvm_covinit_functions`'s
section is the named section `__llvm_covinit`. The linker will aggregate
all the `__llvm_covinit` sections from each module
to form one single named section in the final binary. The pair of
functions
```
const __llvm_gcov_init_func_struct *__llvm_profile_begin_covinit();
const __llvm_gcov_init_func_struct *__llvm_profile_end_covinit();
```
are implemented to return the start and end address of this named
section in the final binary, and they are used in function
```
__llvm_profile_gcov_initialize()
```
(which is a constructor function in the runtime) so the runtime knows
the addresses of all the `Writeout` and `Reset` functions from all the
modules.
One noticeable implementation detail relevant to AIX is that to preserve
the `__llvm_covinit` from the linker's garbage collection, a `.ref`
pseudo instruction is inserted into them, referring to the section that
contains the `__llvm_gcov_ctr` variables, which are used in the
instrumented code. The `__llvm_gcov_ctr` variables did not belong to
named sections before, but this PR added them to the
`__llvm_gcov_ctr_section` named section, so we can add a `.ref` pseudo
instruction that refers to them in the `__llvm_covinit` section.
This helps check clang generated good IR in the first place, as
otherwise this can cause UB in subsequent passes, with the final
verification pass not catching any issues.
This for example would have helped catch
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/67937 earlier.
-coverage-notes-file=aaa.gcno -coverage-data-file=bbb.gcda creates aaa.gcno in
the current directory (a pattern to be avoided; which may be read-only in an
alternative lit runner).
After a07b135ce0c0111bd83450b5dc29ef0381cdbc39, we always pass
-coverage-notes-file/-coverage-data-file for driver options
-ftest-coverage/-fprofile-arcs/--coverage. As a bonus, we can make the following
simplification to cc1 options:
* `-ftest-coverage -coverage-notes-file a.gcno` => `-coverage-notes-file a.gcno`
* `-fprofile-arcs -coverage-data-file a.gcda` => `-coverage-data-file a.gcda`
and remove EmitCovNotes/EmitCovArcs.
This seems to cause large regressions in existing code, as much as 75% slower
(4x the time taken). Small always inline functions seem to be used a lot in the
cmsis-dsp library.
I would add a phase ordering test to show the problems, but one already exists!
The llvm/test/Transforms/PhaseOrdering/ARM/arm_mult_q15.ll was just changed by
removing alwaysinline to hide the problems that existed.
This reverts commit cae033dcf227aeecf58fca5af6fc7fde1fd2fb4f.
This reverts commit 8e33c41e72ad42e4c27f8cbc3ad2e02b169637a1.
We have several situations where it's beneficial for code size to ensure that every
call to always-inline functions are inlined before normal inlining decisions are
made. While the normal inliner runs in a "MandatoryOnly" mode to try to do this,
it only does it on a per-SCC basis, rather than the whole module. Ensuring that
all mandatory inlinings are done before any heuristic based decisions are made
just makes sense.
Despite being referred to the "legacy" AlwaysInliner pass, it's already necessary
for -O0 because the CGSCC inliner is too expensive in compile time to run at -O0.
This also fixes an exponential compile time blow up in
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/59126
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D143624
This patch adds a new pass to add !annotation metadata for entries in
@llvm.global.anotations, which is generated using
__attribute__((annotate("_name"))) on functions in Clang.
This has been discussed on llvm-dev as part of
RFC: Combining Annotation Metadata and Remarks
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-November/146393.html
Reviewed By: thegameg
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91195
i.e. change the work flow from
* .gcno for function A
* .gcno for function B
* .gcno for function C
* .gcda for function A
* .gcda for function B
* .gcda for function C
to
* .gcno for function A
* .gcda for function A
* .gcno for function B
* .gcda for function B
* .gcno for function C
* .gcda for function C
Currently there is duplicate logic in .gcno & .gcda processing: how functions
are filtered, which edges are instrumented, etc. This refactor enables simplification.
Since we always process .gcno, in -fprofile-arcs -fno-test-coverage mode,
__llvm_internal_gcov_emit_function_args.0 will have non-zero checksums.
GCC r187297 (2012-05) introduced `__gcov_dump` and `__gcov_reset`.
`__gcov_flush = __gcov_dump + __gcov_reset`
The resolution to https://gcc.gnu.org/PR93623 ("No need to dump gcdas when forking" target GCC 11.0) removed the unuseful and undocumented __gcov_flush.
Close PR38064.
Reviewed By: calixte, serge-sans-paille
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D83149
Making -g[no-]column-info opt out reduces the length of a typical CC1 command line.
Additionally, in a non-debug compile, we won't see -dwarf-column-info.
global-ctor.ll no longer checks what it intended to check
(@_GLOBAL__sub_I_global-ctor.ll needs a !dbg to work).
Rewrite it.
gcov 3.4 and gcov 4.2 use the same format, thus we can lower the version
requirement to 3.4
Defaulting to -Xclang -coverage-version='407*' makes .gcno/.gcda
compatible with gcov [4.7,8)
In addition, delete clang::CodeGenOptionsBase::CoverageExtraChecksum and GCOVOptions::UseCfgChecksum.
We can infer the information from the version.
With this change, .gcda files produced by `clang --coverage a.o` linked executable can be read by gcov 4.7~7.
We don't need other -Xclang -coverage* options.
There may be a mismatching version warning, though.
(Note, GCC r173147 "split checksum into cfg checksum and line checksum"
made gcov 4.7 incompatible with previous versions.)
rL144865 incorrectly wrote function names for GCOV_TAG_FUNCTION
(this might be part of the reasons the header says
"We emit files in a corrupt version of GCOV's "gcda" file format").
rL176173 and rL177475 realized the problem and introduced -coverage-no-function-names-in-data
to work around the issue. (However, the description is wrong.
libgcov never writes function names, even before GCC 4.2).
In reality, the linker command line has to look like:
clang --coverage -Xclang -coverage-version='407*' -Xclang -coverage-cfg-checksum -Xclang -coverage-no-function-names-in-data
Failing to pass -coverage-no-function-names-in-data can make gcov 4.7~7
either produce wrong results (for one gcov-4.9 program, I see "No executable lines")
or segfault (gcov-7).
(gcov-8 uses an incompatible format.)
This patch deletes -coverage-no-function-names-in-data and the related
function names support from libclang_rt.profile
instrumentation codegeneration strategy of using a data structure and
a loop. Required some finesse to get the critical things being tested to
surface in a nice way for FileCheck but I think this preserves the
original intent of the test.
llvm-svn: 331411
GCOV in the old pass manager also strips debug info (if debug info is
disabled/only produced for profiling anyway) after the GCOV pass runs.
I think the strip pass hasn't been ported to the new pass manager, so it
might take me a little while to wire that up.
llvm-svn: 322126
-fprofile-dir=path allows the user to specify where .gcda files should be
emitted when the program is run. In particular, this is the first flag that
causes the .gcno and .o files to have different paths, LLVM is extended to
support this. -fprofile-dir= does not change the file name in the .gcno (and
thus where lcov looks for the source) but it does change the name in the .gcda
(and thus where the runtime library writes the .gcda file). It's different from
a GCOV_PREFIX because a user can observe that the GCOV_PREFIX_STRIP will strip
paths off of -fprofile-dir= but not off of a supplied GCOV_PREFIX.
To implement this we split -coverage-file into -coverage-data-file and
-coverage-notes-file to specify the two different names. The !llvm.gcov
metadata node grows from a 2-element form {string coverage-file, node dbg.cu}
to 3-elements, {string coverage-notes-file, string coverage-data-file, node
dbg.cu}. In the 3-element form, the file name is already "mangled" with
.gcno/.gcda suffixes, while the 2-element form left that to the middle end
pass.
llvm-svn: 280306
emit function names in .gcda files by default, and the flag turns that off!
Rename the flag to make it match what it actually does. This keeps the default
format compatible with gcc 4.2.
Also add a test for this flag.
llvm-svn: 177475
