Summary:
When we're building with XRay instrumentation, we use a trick that
preserves references from the function to a function sled index. This
index table lives in a separate section, and without this trick the
linker is free to garbage-collect this section and all the segments it
refers to. Until we're able to tell the linkers to preserve these
sections, we use this reference trick to keep around both the index and
the entries in the instrumentation map.
Before this change we emitted both a synthetic reference to the label in
the instrumentation map, and to the entry in the function map index.
This change removes the first synthetic reference and only emits one
synthetic reference to the index -- the index entry has the references
to the labels in the instrumentation map, so the linker will still
preserve those if the function itself is preserved.
This reduces the amount of synthetic references we emit from 16 bytes to
just 8 bytes in x86_64, and similarly to other platforms.
Reviewers: dblaikie
Subscribers: javed.absar, kpw, pelikan, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34340
llvm-svn: 305880
Summary:
This change adds a new section to the xray-instrumented binary that
stores an index into ranges of the instrumentation map, where sleds
associated with the same function can be accessed as an array. At
runtime, we can get access to this index by function ID offset allowing
for selective patching and unpatching by function ID.
Each entry in this new section (xray_fn_idx) will include two pointers
indicating the start and one past the end of the sleds associated with
the same function. These entries will be 16 bytes long on x86 and
aarch64. On arm, we align to 16 bytes anyway so the runtime has to take
that into consideration.
__{start,stop}_xray_fn_idx will be the symbols that the runtime will
look for when we implement the selective patching/unpatching by function
id APIs. Because XRay synthesizes the function id's in a monotonically
increasing manner at runtime now, implementations (and users) can use
this table to look up the sleds associated with a specific function.
This is useful in implementations that want to do things like:
- Implement coverage mode for functions by patching everything
pre-main, then as functions are encountered, the installed handler
can unpatch the function that's been encountered after recording
that it's been called.
- Do "learning mode", so that the implementation can figure out some
statistical information about function calls by function id for a
time being, and then determine which functions are worth
uninstrumenting at runtime.
- Do "selective instrumentation" where an implementation can
specifically instrument only certain function id's at runtime
(either based on some external data, or through some other
heuristics) instead of patching all the instrumented functions at
runtime.
Reviewers: dblaikie, echristo, chandlerc, javed.absar
Subscribers: pelikan, aemerson, kpw, llvm-commits, rengolin
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D32693
llvm-svn: 302109
This patch adds a test for the assembly code emitted with XRay
instrumentation. It also fixes a bug where the operand of a jump
instruction must be not the number of bytes to jump over, but rather the
number of 4-byte instructions.
Author: rSerge
Reviewers: dberris, rengolin
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26805
llvm-svn: 287516
Dean Michael Berris