Currently the a AAPCS compliant frame record is not always created for
functions when it should. Although a consistent frame record might not
be required in some cases, there are still scenarios where applications
may want to make use of the call hierarchy made available trough it.
In order to enable the use of AAPCS compliant frame records whilst keep
backwards compatibility, this patch introduces a new command-line option
(`-mframe-chain=[none|aapcs|aapcs+leaf]`) for Aarch32 and Thumb backends.
The option allows users to explicitly select when to use it, and is also
useful to ensure the extra overhead introduced by the frame records is
only introduced when necessary, in particular for Thumb targets.
Reviewed By: efriedma
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D125094
Currently the a AAPCS compliant frame record is not always created for
functions when it should. Although a consistent frame record might not
be required in some cases, there are still scenarios where applications
may want to make use of the call hierarchy made available trough it.
In order to enable the use of AAPCS compliant frame records whilst keep
backwards compatibility, this patch introduces a new command-line option
(`-mframe-chain=[none|aapcs|aapcs+leaf]`) for Aarch32 and Thumb backends.
The option allows users to explicitly select when to use it, and is also
useful to ensure the extra overhead introduced by the frame records is
only introduced when necessary, in particular for Thumb targets.
Reviewed By: efriedma
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D125094
Simiarly to what's done on both ARM's and AArch64's frame lowering code,
this updates Thumb1FrameLowering to use the FrameDestroy Machine
Instruction flag to identify instructions inserted as part of the epilog
instead of relying on assumptions about specific machine instructions.
Reviewed By: efriedma
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D126285
In the same spirit as D73543 and in reply to https://reviews.llvm.org/D126768#3549920 this patch is adding support for `__builtin_memset_inline`.
The idea is to get support from the compiler to easily write efficient memory function implementations.
This patch could be split in two:
- one for the LLVM part adding the `llvm.memset.inline.*` intrinsics.
- and another one for the Clang part providing the instrinsic as a builtin.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D126903
We already have patterns for matching fadd(select(..., -0.0)),
but an upcoming patch will lead to patterns using +0.0 as the
identity instead of -0.0. I'm adding support for these patterns
now to avoid any regressions for MVE.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D127275
MIR support is totally unusable for AMDGPU without this, since the set
of reserved registers is set from fields here.
Add a clone method to MachineFunctionInfo. This is a subtle variant of
the copy constructor that is required if there are any MIR constructs
that use pointers. Specifically, at minimum fields that reference
MachineBasicBlocks or the MachineFunction need to be adjusted to the
values in the new function.
I can't remove the function just yet as it is used in the generated .inc files.
I would also like to provide a way to compare alignment with TypeSize since it came up a few times.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D126910
The MVE shuffle costing for VREV instructions was making incorrect
assumptions as to legalized vector types remaining as vectors. Add a
quick check to ensure they are indeed vectors before attempting to get
the number of elements.
The directive name is not useful because the next line replicates the error line
which includes the directive. The prevailing style uses "expected newline".
We intentionally disable Thumb2SizeReduction for SEH
prologues/epilogues, to avoid needing to guess what will happen with
the instructions in a potential future pass in frame lowering.
But for this specific case, where we know we can express the
intent with a narrow instruction, change to that instruction form
directly in frame lowering.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D126949
We intentionally disable Thumb2SizeReduction for SEH
prologues/epilogues, to avoid needing to guess what will happen with
the instructions in a potential future pass in frame lowering.
But for this specific case, where we know we can express the
intent with a narrow instruction, change to that instruction form
directly in frame lowering.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D126948
For functions that require restoring SP from FP (e.g. that need to
align the stack, or that have variable sized allocations), the prologue
and epilogue previously used to look like this:
push {r4-r5, r11, lr}
add r11, sp, #8
...
sub r4, r11, #8
mov sp, r4
pop {r4-r5, r11, pc}
This is problematic, because this unwinding operation (restoring sp
from r11 - offset) can't be expressed with the SEH unwind opcodes
(probably because this unwind procedure doesn't map exactly to
individual instructions; note the detour via r4 in the epilogue too).
To make unwinding work, the GPR push is split into two; the first one
pushing all other registers, and the second one pushing r11+lr, so that
r11 can be set pointing at this spot on the stack:
push {r4-r5}
push {r11, lr}
mov r11, sp
...
mov sp, r11
pop {r11, lr}
pop {r4-r5}
bx lr
For the same setup, MSVC generates code that uses two registers;
r11 still pointing at the {r11,lr} pair, but a separate register
used for restoring the stack at the end:
push {r4-r5, r7, r11, lr}
add r11, sp, #12
mov r7, sp
...
mov sp, r7
pop {r4-r5, r7, r11, pc}
For cases with clobbered float/vector registers, they are pushed
after the GPRs, before the {r11,lr} pair.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D125649
Skip inserting regular CFI instructions if using WinCFI.
This is based a fair amount on the corresponding ARM64 implementation,
but instead of trying to insert the SEH opcodes one by one where
we generate other prolog/epilog instructions, we try to walk over the
whole prolog/epilog range and insert them. This is done because in
many cases, the exact number of instructions inserted is abstracted
away deeper.
For some cases, we manually insert specific SEH opcodes directly where
instructions are generated, where the automatic mapping of instructions
to SEH opcodes doesn't hold up (e.g. for __chkstk stack probes).
Skip Thumb2SizeReduction for SEH prologs/epilogs, and force
tail calls to wide instructions (just like on MachO), to make sure
that the unwind info actually matches the width of the final
instructions, without heuristics about what later passes will do.
Mark SEH instructions as scheduling boundaries, to make sure that they
aren't reordered away from the instruction they describe by
PostRAScheduler.
Mark the SEH instructions with the NoMerge flag, to avoid doing
tail merging of functions that have multiple epilogs that all end
with the same sequence of "b <other>; .seh_nop_w, .seh_endepilogue".
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D125648
It's a fairly common issue that the generating code incorrectly marks
instructions as narrow or wide; check that the instruction lengths
add up to the expected value, and error out if it doesn't. This allows
catching code generation bugs.
Also check that prologs and epilogs are properly terminated, to
catch other code generation issues.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D125647
This includes .seh_* directives for generating it from assembly.
It is designed fairly similarly to the ARM64 handling.
For .seh_handler directives, such as
".seh_handler __C_specific_handler, @except" (which is supported
on x86_64 and aarch64 so far), the "@except" bit doesn't work in
ARM assembly, as '@' is used as a comment character (on all current
platforms).
Allow using '%' instead of '@' for this purpose. This convention
is used by GAS in similar contexts already,
e.g. [1]:
Note on targets where the @ character is the start of a comment
(eg ARM) then another character is used instead. For example the
ARM port uses the % character.
In practice, this unfortunately means that all such .seh_handler
directives will need ifdefs for ARM.
Contrary to ARM64, on ARM, it's quite common that we can't evaluate
e.g. the function length at this point, due to instructions whose
length is finalized later. (Also, inline jump tables end with
a ".p2align 1".)
If unable to to evaluate the function length immediately, emit
it as an MCExpr instead. If we'd implement splitting the unwind
info for a function (which isn't implemented for ARM64 yet either),
we wouldn't know whether we need to split it though.
Avoid calling getFrameIndexOffset() on an unset
FuncInfo.UnwindHelpFrameIdx, to avoid triggering asserts in the
preexisting testcase CodeGen/ARM/Windows/wineh-basic.ll. (Once
MSVC exception handling is fully implemented, those changes
can be reverted.)
[1] https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/Section.html#Section
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D125645
- Add t2LoopEnd to TargetInstrInfo::analyzeBranch and
related functions. As there are many side effects of
analyzing a branch, only do so if software pipelining
is enabled to maintain previous behavior when pipelining
is not desired.
- Make sure that t2LoopEndDec is immediately followed by
a t2B when it is synthesized from a t2LoopEnd. This is
done because the t2LoopEnd might have acquired a
fall-through path, but IfConversion assumes that
fall-through are only possible on analyzable branches.
Reviewed By: dmgreen
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D126322
MCSymbolizer::tryAddingSymbolicOperand() overloaded the Size parameter
to specify either the instruction size or the operand size depending on
the architecture. However, for proper symbolic disassembly on X86, we
need to know both sizes, as an instruction can have two operands, and
the instruction size cannot be reliably calculated based on the operand
offset and its size. Hence, split Size into OpSize and InstSize.
For X86, the new interface allows to fix a couple of issues:
* Correctly adjust the value of PC-relative operands.
* Set operand size to zero when the operand is specified implicitly.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D126101
The `vcvtb.f16.f32 Sd, Sn` (and vcvtt.f16.f32) instruction convert a f32
into a f16, writing either the top or bottom halves of the register.
That means that half of the input register Sd is used in the output.
This wasn't being modelled in the instructions, leading later analyses
to believe that the registers were dead where they were not, generating
invalid scheduling
Fix that be specifying the input Sda register for the instructions too,
allowing them to be set for cases like vector inserts. Most of the
changes are plumbing through the constraint string, cstr.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D126118
The TC_RETURN/TCRETURNdi under Arm does not currently add the
register-mask operand when tail folding, which leads to the register
(like LR) not being 'used' by the return. This changes the code to
unconditionally set the register mask on the call, as opposed to
skipping it for tail calls.
I don't believe this will currently alter any codegen, but should glue
things together better post-frame lowering. It matches the AArch64 code
better.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D125906
Building on top of D125665, this adds MVE costs for fptosi.sat and
fptoui.sat, providing MVE is available and the types are legal.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D125666
Similar to D124357, this adds some cost modelling for fptoi_sat for Arm
targets. Where VFP2 is available (and FP64/FP16 for the relevant types),
the operations are legal as the Arm instructions naturally saturate.
Otherwise they will need an extra smin/smax clamp, similar to AArch64.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D125665
This brings clang/llvm into line with GCC. The Pass is still enabled for
the affected cores, but is now opt-in when using `-march=`.
I also took the opportunity to add release notes for this change.
Reviewed By: john.brawn
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D125775
In f8b0a7af52 in 2016, this parameter
was generalized on the caller side (previously passing
STI.isTargetMachO(), now passing STI.splitFramePushPop()). Rename
the parameter on the receiver side to match the generalization.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D125681
The name `MCFixedLenDisassembler.h` is out of date after D120958.
Rename it as `MCDecoderOps.h` to reflect the change.
Reviewed By: myhsu
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D124987
This adds a late Machine Pass to work around a Cortex CPU Erratum
affecting Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A72:
- Cortex-A57 Erratum 1742098
- Cortex-A72 Erratum 1655431
The pass inserts instructions to make the inputs to the fused AES
instruction pairs no longer trigger the erratum. Here the pass errs on
the side of caution, inserting the instructions wherever we cannot prove
that the inputs came from a safe instruction.
The pass is used:
- for Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A72,
- for "generic" cores (which are used when using `-march=`),
- when the user specifies `-mfix-cortex-a57-aes-1742098` or
`mfix-cortex-a72-aes-1655431` in the command-line arguments to clang.
Reviewed By: dmgreen, simon_tatham
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D119720
The reasoning for creating VSHLIMM/VSHRsIMM/VSHRuIMM nodes in a combine
- because matching i64 constants is difficult - does not apply for MVE,
as there are not v2i64 shifts. Delaying the creation of the nodes can
allow extra transforms on target independant shl/shr.
When adjusting the function prologue for segmented stacks, only update
the successor edges of the immediate predecessors of the original
prologue.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D122959
Fixed "private field is not used" warning when compiled
with clang.
original commit: 28d09bbbc3
reverted in: fa49021c68
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This patch permits Swing Modulo Scheduling for ARM targets
turns it on by default for the Cortex-M7. The t2Bcc
instruction is recognized as a loop-ending branch.
MachinePipeliner is extended by adding support for
"unpipelineable" instructions. These instructions are
those which contribute to the loop exit test; in the SMS
papers they are removed before creating the dependence graph
and then inserted into the final schedule of the kernel and
prologues. Support for these instructions was not previously
necessary because current targets supporting SMS have only
supported it for hardware loop branches, which have no
loop-exit-contributing instructions in the loop body.
The current structure of the MachinePipeliner makes it difficult
to remove/exclude these instructions from the dependence graph.
Therefore, this patch leaves them in the graph, but adds a
"normalization" method which moves them in the schedule to
stage 0, which causes them to appear properly in kernel and
prologues.
It was also necessary to be more careful about boundary nodes
when iterating across successors in the dependence graph because
the loop exit branch is now a non-artificial successor to
instructions in the graph. In additional, schedules with physical
use/def pairs in the same cycle should be treated as creating an
invalid schedule because the scheduling logic doesn't respect
physical register dependence once scheduled to the same cycle.
Reviewed By: dmgreen
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D122672
This patch permits Swing Modulo Scheduling for ARM targets
turns it on by default for the Cortex-M7. The t2Bcc
instruction is recognized as a loop-ending branch.
MachinePipeliner is extended by adding support for
"unpipelineable" instructions. These instructions are
those which contribute to the loop exit test; in the SMS
papers they are removed before creating the dependence graph
and then inserted into the final schedule of the kernel and
prologues. Support for these instructions was not previously
necessary because current targets supporting SMS have only
supported it for hardware loop branches, which have no
loop-exit-contributing instructions in the loop body.
The current structure of the MachinePipeliner makes it difficult
to remove/exclude these instructions from the dependence graph.
Therefore, this patch leaves them in the graph, but adds a
"normalization" method which moves them in the schedule to
stage 0, which causes them to appear properly in kernel and
prologues.
It was also necessary to be more careful about boundary nodes
when iterating across successors in the dependence graph because
the loop exit branch is now a non-artificial successor to
instructions in the graph. In additional, schedules with physical
use/def pairs in the same cycle should be treated as creating an
invalid schedule because the scheduling logic doesn't respect
physical register dependence once scheduled to the same cycle.
Reviewed By: dmgreen
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D122672
Before this patch `Args` was used to pass a broadcat's arguments by SLP.
This patch changes this. `Args` is now used for passing the operands of
the shuffle.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D124202
This is used to emit one field in doFinalization for the module. We
can accumulate this when emitting all individual functions directly in
the AsmPrinter, rather than accumulating additional state in
MachineModuleInfo.
Move the special case behavior predicate into MachineFrameInfo to
share it. This now promotes it to generic behavior. I'm assuming this
is fine because no other target implements adjustForSegmentedStacks,
or has tests using the split-stack attribute.
The patch adds SPIRV-specific MC layer implementation, SPIRV object
file support and SPIRVInstPrinter.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D116462
Authors: Aleksandr Bezzubikov, Lewis Crawford, Ilia Diachkov,
Michal Paszkowski, Andrey Tretyakov, Konrad Trifunovic
Co-authored-by: Aleksandr Bezzubikov <zuban32s@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ilia Diachkov <iliya.diyachkov@intel.com>
Co-authored-by: Michal Paszkowski <michal.paszkowski@outlook.com>
Co-authored-by: Andrey Tretyakov <andrey1.tretyakov@intel.com>
Co-authored-by: Konrad Trifunovic <konrad.trifunovic@intel.com>
I assume we meant to return the result of the call to
BaseT::isLoweredToCall(F).
This might not be a functional change in practice because it would
still hit the default case in the switch and call
BaseT::isLoweredToCall(F) at the end.
Reviewed By: efriedma
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123333
Use the same enum as the other atomic instructions for consistency, in
preparation for addition of another strategy.
Introduce a new "Expand" option, since the store expansion does not
use cmpxchg. Alternatively, the existing CmpXChg strategy could be
renamed to Expand.
DXIL is wrapped in a container format defined by the DirectX 11
specification. Codebases differ in calling this format either DXBC or
DXILContainer.
Since eventually we want to add support for DXBC as a target
architecture and the format is used by DXBC and DXIL, I've termed it
DXContainer here.
Most of the changes in this patch are just adding cases to switch
statements to address warnings.
Reviewed By: pete
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D122062
All LLVM backends use MCDisassembler as a base class for their
instruction decoders. Use "const MCDisassembler *" for the decoder
instead of "const void *". Remove unnecessary static casts.
Reviewed By: skan
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D122245
The mask being NoRegister prevented the existing aliases from matching
since NoRegister isn't in the VMV0 register class.
To workaround this I've added new aliases that look for zero_reg.
I had to motify tablegen to generate matching code for zero_reg.
And as a consequence, I had to change the EmitPriority for an ARM
alias that used zero_reg that started printing.
Reviewed By: frasercrmck
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D121496
Regression from 2f497ec3; we should not try to generate ldrexd on
targets that don't have it.
Also, while I'm here, fix shouldExpandAtomicStoreInIR, for consistency.
That doesn't really have any practical effect, though. On Thumb targets
where we need to use __sync_* libcalls, there is no libcall for stores,
so SelectionDAG calls __sync_lock_test_and_set_8 anyway.
Without this patch, clang would generate calls to __sync_* routines on
targets where it does not make sense; we can't assume the routines exist
on unknown targets. Linux has special implementations of the routines
that work on old ARM targets; other targets have no such routines. In
general, atomics operations which aren't natively supported should go
through libatomic (__atomic_*) APIs, which can support arbitrary atomics
through locks.
ARM targets older than v6, where this patch makes a difference, are rare
in practice, but not completely extinct. See, for example, discussion on
D116088.
This also affects Cortex-M0, but I don't think __sync_* routines
actually exist in any Cortex-M0 libraries. So in practice this just
leads to a slightly different linker error for those cases, I think.
Mechanically, this patch does the following:
- Ensures we run atomic expansion unconditionally; it never makes sense to
completely skip it.
- Fixes getMaxAtomicSizeInBitsSupported() so it returns an appropriate
number on all ARM subtargets.
- Fixes shouldExpandAtomicRMWInIR() and shouldExpandAtomicCmpXchgInIR() to
correctly handle subtargets that don't have atomic instructions.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D120026
Reland of D120906 after sanitizer failures.
This patch aims to reduce a lot of the boilerplate around adding new subtarget
features. From the SubtargetFeatures tablegen definitions, a series of calls to
the macro GET_SUBTARGETINFO_MACRO are generated in
ARM/AArch64GenSubtargetInfo.inc. ARMSubtarget/AArch64Subtarget can then use
this macro to define bool members and the corresponding getter methods.
Some naming inconsistencies have been fixed to allow this, and one unused
member removed.
This implementation only applies to boolean members; in future both BitVector
and enum members could also be generated.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D120906
This patch aims to reduce a lot of the boilerplate around adding new subtarget
features. From the SubtargetFeatures tablegen definitions, a series of calls to
the macro GET_SUBTARGETINFO_MACRO are generated in
ARM/AArch64GenSubtargetInfo.inc. ARMSubtarget/AArch64Subtarget can then use
this macro to define bool members and the corresponding getter methods.
Some naming inconsistencies have been fixed to allow this, and one unused
member removed.
This implementation only applies to boolean members; in future both BitVector
and enum members could also be generated.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D120906
There is a crash in the ARM backend when attempting to decode a "tsb
csync" instruction using `llvm-objdump --triple=armv8.4a -d`. The crash
was in `ARMMCInstrAnalysis::evaluateBranch` where the number of operands
in the decoded instruction (0) did not match the number of operands in
the instruction description (1).
This is becuase `tsb csync` looks like it has an operand during
assembly, but there is only one valid operand (csync), so there is no
encoding space in the instruction for the operand, so the decoder never
has a field to decode that represents `csync`.
The fix is to add a custom decode method, which ensures that this
instruction does have the right number of operands after decoding. This
method merely adds the only available operand value, `ARM_TSB::CSYNC`.
Reviewed By: tmatheson
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D121479
While experimenting with different algorithms for std::sort
I discovered that combine-vmovdrr.ll fails if this sort is not
stable.
I suspect that the test is too stringent in its check--the resultant
code looks functionally identical to me under both stable and unstable
sorting, but a generic fix is quite a bit more difficult to implement.
Thanks to scw@google.com for finding the proper fix.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D121870
Includes verifier changes checking the elementtype, clang codegen
changes to emit the elementtype, and ISel changes using the elementtype.
Basically the same as D120527.
Reviewed By: #opaque-pointers, nikic
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D121847
It fixes the overflow of 8-bit immediate field in the emitted
instruction that allocates large stacklet.
For thumb2 targets, load large immediate by a pair of movw and movt
instruction. For thumb1 and ARM targets, load large immediate by reading
from literal pool.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118545
This wraps up from D119053. The 2 headers are moved as described,
fixed file headers and include guards, updated all files where the old
paths were detected (simple grep through the repo), and `clang-format`-ed it all.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D119876
Internally to DAGCombiner the SDValues were passed by non-const
reference despite not being modified. They were then passed by
const reference to TLI.
This patch passes them by value which is consistent with the vast
majority of code.
Reviewed By: RKSimon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D120420
We have some recognition of SSAT and USAT from SELECT_CC at the moment.
This extends the matching to SMIN/SMAX which can help catch more cases,
either from min/max being the canonical form in instcombine or from some
expanded nodes like fp_to_si_sat.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D119819
This patch is the first in a series of patches to upstream the support for Apple's DriverKit. Once complete, it will allow targeting DriverKit platform with Clang similarly to AppleClang.
This code was originally authored by JF Bastien.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118046
This function was added in D49837, but no setOperationAction call
was added with it. The code is equivalent to what is done by the
default ExpandIntRes_ABS implementation when ADDCARRY is supported.
Test case added to verify this. There was some existing coverage
from Thumb2 MVE tests, but they started from vectors.
Previous we used sra (X, size(X)-1); xor (add (X, Y), Y).
By placing sub at the end, we allow RISCV to combine sign_extend_inreg
with it to form subw.
Some X86 tests for Z - abs(X) seem to have improved as well.
Other targets look to be a wash.
I had to modify ARM's abs matching code to match from sub instead of
xor. Maybe instead ISD::ABS should be made legal. I'll try that in
parallel to this patch.
This is an alternative to D119099 which was focused on RISCV only.
Reviewed By: RKSimon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D119171
It's not particularly user-friendly to have to call `initLRU` everywhere. Also,
it wasn't particularly great that the LRU for registers used in a sequence was
also initialized by `initLRU`.
This patch hides this stuff behind some helper functions:
* `isAvailableAcrossAndOutOfSeq`
* `isAnyUnavailableAcrossOrOutOfSeq`
* `isAvailableInsideSeq`
This allows the user to avoid calling `initLRU` explicitly. Also, it allows
us to separate initializing the used-in-sequence LRU from the main LRU.
Since both ARM and AArch64 check LR liveness in `insertOutlinedCall`, this
refactor requires that we de-const the Candidate there.
Some other quality-of-code improvements:
* LRUs in outliner::Candidate now have more descriptive names
* Use `Register` instead of `unsigned` in some places
* Improve readability in some places by using ranges rather than `std::for_each`
This is a preparatory commit for a larger compile time related change for the
AArch64 outliner.
The introduction and some examples are on this page:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/announcing-jmc-stepping-in-visual-studio/
The `/JMC` flag enables these instrumentations:
- Insert at the beginning of every function immediately after the prologue with
a call to `void __fastcall __CheckForDebuggerJustMyCode(unsigned char *JMC_flag)`.
The argument for `__CheckForDebuggerJustMyCode` is the address of a boolean
global variable (the global variable is initialized to 1) with the name
convention `__<hash>_<filename>`. All such global variables are placed in
the `.msvcjmc` section.
- The `<hash>` part of `__<hash>_<filename>` has a one-to-one mapping
with a directory path. MSVC uses some unknown hashing function. Here I
used DJB.
- Add a dummy/empty COMDAT function `__JustMyCode_Default`.
- Add `/alternatename:__CheckForDebuggerJustMyCode=__JustMyCode_Default` link
option via ".drectve" section. This is to prevent failure in
case `__CheckForDebuggerJustMyCode` is not provided during linking.
Implementation:
All the instrumentations are implemented in an IR codegen pass. The pass is placed immediately before CodeGenPrepare pass. This is to not interfere with mid-end optimizations and make the instrumentation target-independent (I'm still working on an ELF port in a separate patch).
Reviewed By: hans
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118428
David Green