Mircea Trofin b2dea4fd22
[ctxprof] root autodetection mechanism (#133147)
This is an optional mechanism that automatically detects roots. It's a best-effort mechanism, and its main goal is to *avoid* pointing at the message pump function as a root. This is the function that polls message queue(s) in an infinite loop, and is thus a bad root (it never exits).

High-level, when collection is requested - which should happen when a server has already been set up and handing requests - we spend a bit of time sampling all the server's threads. Each sample is a stack which we insert in a `PerThreadCallsiteTrie`. After a while, we run for each `PerThreadCallsiteTrie` the root detection logic. We then traverse all the `FunctionData`, find the ones matching the detected roots, and allocate a `ContextRoot` for them. From here, we special case `FunctionData` objects, in `__llvm_ctx_profile_get_context, that have a `CtxRoot` and route them to `__llvm_ctx_profile_start_context`.

For this to work, on the llvm side, we need to have all functions call `__llvm_ctx_profile_release_context` because they _might_ be roots. This comes at a slight (percentages) penalty during collection - which we can afford since the overall technique is ~5x faster than normal instrumentation. We can later explore conditionally enabling autoroot detection and avoiding this penalty, if desired. 

Note that functions that `musttail call` can't have their return instrumented this way, and a subsequent patch will harden the mechanism against this case.

The mechanism could be used in combination with explicit root specification, too.
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// Simple integration test for contextual instrumentation
//
// Copy the header defining ContextNode.
// RUN: mkdir -p %t_include
// RUN: cp %llvm_src/include/llvm/ProfileData/CtxInstrContextNode.h %t_include/
//
// Compile with ctx instrumentation "on". We treat "theRoot" as callgraph root.
// RUN: %clangxx %s %ctxprofilelib -I%t_include -O2 -o %t.bin -mllvm -profile-context-root=theRoot \
// RUN: -mllvm -ctx-prof-skip-callsite-instr=skip_me
//
// Run the binary, and observe the profile fetch handler's output.
// RUN: %t.bin | FileCheck %s
#include "CtxInstrContextNode.h"
#include <cstdio>
#include <iostream>
using namespace llvm::ctx_profile;
extern "C" void
__llvm_ctx_profile_start_collection(unsigned AutoDetectDuration = 0);
extern "C" bool __llvm_ctx_profile_fetch(ProfileWriter &);
// avoid name mangling
extern "C" {
__attribute__((noinline)) void skip_me() {}
__attribute__((noinline)) void someFunction(int I) {
if (I % 2)
printf("check odd\n");
else
printf("check even\n");
skip_me();
}
// block inlining because the pre-inliner otherwise will inline this - it's
// too small.
__attribute__((noinline)) void theRoot() {
printf("check 1\n");
someFunction(1);
#pragma nounroll
for (auto I = 0; I < 2; ++I) {
someFunction(I);
}
skip_me();
}
__attribute__((noinline)) void flatFct() {
printf("flat check 1\n");
someFunction(1);
#pragma nounroll
for (auto I = 0; I < 2; ++I) {
someFunction(I);
}
}
}
// Make sure the program actually ran correctly.
// CHECK: check 1
// CHECK-NEXT: check odd
// CHECK-NEXT: check even
// CHECK-NEXT: check odd
// CHECK-NEXT: flat check 1
// CHECK-NEXT: check odd
// CHECK-NEXT: check even
// CHECK-NEXT: check odd
class TestProfileWriter : public ProfileWriter {
void printProfile(const ContextNode &Node, const std::string &Indent,
const std::string &Increment) {
std::cout << Indent << "Guid: " << Node.guid() << std::endl;
std::cout << Indent << "Entries: " << Node.entrycount() << std::endl;
std::cout << Indent << Node.counters_size() << " counters and "
<< Node.callsites_size() << " callsites" << std::endl;
std::cout << Indent << "Counter values: ";
for (uint32_t I = 0U; I < Node.counters_size(); ++I)
std::cout << Node.counters()[I] << " ";
std::cout << std::endl;
for (uint32_t I = 0U; I < Node.callsites_size(); ++I)
for (const auto *N = Node.subContexts()[I]; N; N = N->next()) {
std::cout << Indent << "At Index " << I << ":" << std::endl;
printProfile(*N, Indent + Increment, Increment);
}
}
void startContextSection() override {
std::cout << "Entered Context Section" << std::endl;
}
void endContextSection() override {
std::cout << "Exited Context Section" << std::endl;
}
void writeContextual(const ContextNode &RootNode,
const ContextNode *Unhandled,
uint64_t EntryCount) override {
std::cout << "Entering Root " << RootNode.guid()
<< " with total entry count " << EntryCount << std::endl;
for (const auto *P = Unhandled; P; P = P->next())
std::cout << "Unhandled GUID: " << P->guid() << " entered "
<< P->entrycount() << " times" << std::endl;
printProfile(RootNode, " ", " ");
}
void startFlatSection() override {
std::cout << "Entered Flat Section" << std::endl;
}
void writeFlat(GUID Guid, const uint64_t *Buffer,
size_t BufferSize) override {
std::cout << "Flat: " << Guid << " " << Buffer[0];
for (size_t I = 1U; I < BufferSize; ++I)
std::cout << "," << Buffer[I];
std::cout << std::endl;
};
void endFlatSection() override {
std::cout << "Exited Flat Section" << std::endl;
}
};
// 8657661246551306189 is theRoot. We expect 2 callsites and 2 counters - one
// for the entry basic block and one for the loop.
// 6759619411192316602 is someFunction. We expect all context instances to show
// the same nr of counters and callsites, but the counters will be different.
// The first context is for the first callsite with theRoot as parent, and the
// second counter in someFunction will be 0 (we pass an odd nr, and the other
// path gets instrumented).
// The second context is in the loop. We expect 2 entries and each of the
// branches would be taken once, so the second counter is 1.
// CHECK-NEXT: Entered Context Section
// CHECK-NEXT: Entering Root 8657661246551306189 with total entry count 1
// skip_me is entered 4 times: 3 via `someFunction`, and once from `theRoot`
// CHECK-NEXT: Unhandled GUID: 17928815489886282963 entered 4 times
// CHECK-NEXT: Guid: 8657661246551306189
// CHECK-NEXT: Entries: 1
// CHECK-NEXT: 2 counters and 3 callsites
// CHECK-NEXT: Counter values: 1 2
// CHECK-NEXT: At Index 1:
// CHECK-NEXT: Guid: 6759619411192316602
// CHECK-NEXT: Entries: 1
// CHECK-NEXT: 2 counters and 2 callsites
// CHECK-NEXT: Counter values: 1 0
// CHECK-NEXT: At Index 2:
// CHECK-NEXT: Guid: 6759619411192316602
// CHECK-NEXT: Entries: 2
// CHECK-NEXT: 2 counters and 2 callsites
// CHECK-NEXT: Counter values: 2 1
// CHECK-NEXT: Exited Context Section
// CHECK-NEXT: Entered Flat Section
// This is `skip_me`. Entered 3 times via `someFunction`
// CHECK-NEXT: Flat: 17928815489886282963 3
// CHECK-NEXT: Flat: 6759619411192316602 3,1
// This is flatFct (guid: 14569438697463215220)
// CHECK-NEXT: Flat: 14569438697463215220 1,2
// CHECK-NEXT: Exited Flat Section
bool profileWriter() {
TestProfileWriter W;
return __llvm_ctx_profile_fetch(W);
}
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
__llvm_ctx_profile_start_collection();
theRoot();
flatFct();
// This would be implemented in a specific RPC handler, but here we just call
// it directly.
return !profileWriter();
}