COFF has a verifier check that private global variables don't have a comdat of the same name.
Reviewed By: rnk
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D131043
`__profd_*` variables are referenced by code only when value profiling is
enabled. If disabled (e.g. default -fprofile-instr-generate), the symbols just
waste space on ELF/Mach-O. We change the comdat symbol from `__profd_*` to
`__profc_*` because an internal symbol does not provide deduplication features
on COFF. The choice doesn't matter on ELF.
(In -DLLVM_BUILD_INSTRUMENTED_COVERAGE=on build, there is now no `__profd_*` symbols.)
On Windows this enables further optimization. We are no longer affected by the
link.exe limitation: an external symbol in IMAGE_COMDAT_SELECT_ASSOCIATIVE can
cause duplicate definition error.
https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2021-May/150758.html
We can thus use llvm.compiler.used instead of llvm.used like ELF (D97585).
This avoids many `/INCLUDE:` directives in `.drectve`.
Here is rnk's measurement for Chrome:
```
This reduced object file size of base_unittests.exe, compiled with coverage, optimizations, and gmlt debug info by 10%:
#BEFORE
$ find . -iname '*.obj' | xargs du -b | awk '{ sum += $1 } END { print sum}'
1047758867
$ du -cksh base_unittests.exe
82M base_unittests.exe
82M total
# AFTER
$ find . -iname '*.obj' | xargs du -b | awk '{ sum += $1 } END { print sum}'
937886499
$ du -cksh base_unittests.exe
78M base_unittests.exe
78M total
```
The change is NFC for Mach-O.
Reviewed By: davidxl, rnk
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103372
`__profd_*` variables are referenced by code only when value profiling is
enabled. If disabled (e.g. default -fprofile-instr-generate), the symbols just
waste space on ELF/Mach-O. We change the comdat symbol from `__profd_*` to
`__profc_*` because an internal symbol does not provide deduplication features
on COFF. The choice doesn't matter on ELF.
(In -DLLVM_BUILD_INSTRUMENTED_COVERAGE=on build, there is now no `__profd_*` symbols.)
On Windows this enables further optimization. We are no longer affected by the
link.exe limitation: an external symbol in IMAGE_COMDAT_SELECT_ASSOCIATIVE can
cause duplicate definition error.
https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2021-May/150758.html
We can thus use llvm.compiler.used instead of llvm.used like ELF (D97585).
This avoids many `/INCLUDE:` directives in `.drectve`.
Here is rnk's measurement for Chrome:
```
This reduced object file size of base_unittests.exe, compiled with coverage, optimizations, and gmlt debug info by 10%:
#BEFORE
$ find . -iname '*.obj' | xargs du -b | awk '{ sum += $1 } END { print sum}'
1047758867
$ du -cksh base_unittests.exe
82M base_unittests.exe
82M total
# AFTER
$ find . -iname '*.obj' | xargs du -b | awk '{ sum += $1 } END { print sum}'
937886499
$ du -cksh base_unittests.exe
78M base_unittests.exe
78M total
```
Reviewed By: davidxl, rnk
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103372
D68041 placed `__profc_`, `__profd_` and (if exists) `__profvp_` in different comdat groups.
There are some issues:
* Cost: one or two additional section headers (`.group` section(s)): 64 or 128 bytes on ELF64.
* `__profc_`, `__profd_` and (if exists) `__profvp_` should be retained or
discarded. Placing them into separate comdat groups is conceptually inferior.
* If the prevailing group does not include `__profvp_` (value profiling not
used) but a non-prevailing group from another translation unit has `__profvp_`
(the function is inlined into another and triggers value profiling), there
will be a stray `__profvp_` if --gc-sections is not enabled.
This has been fixed by 3d6f53018f.
Actually, we can reuse an existing symbol (we choose `__profd_`) as the group
signature to avoid a string in the string table (the sole reason that D68041
could improve code size is that `__profv_` was an otherwise unused symbol which
wasted string table space). This saves one or two section headers.
For a -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DLLVM_BUILD_INSTRUMENTED=IR build, `ninja
clang lld`, the patch has saved 10.5MiB (2.2%) for the total .o size.
Reviewed By: davidxl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D84723
With this patch, compiler generated profile variables will have its own COMDAT
name for ELF format, which syncs the behavior with COFF. Tested with clang
PGO bootstrap. This shows a modest reduction in object sizes in ELF format.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D68041
llvm-svn: 373241
For COFF, a comdat group is really a symbol marked
IMAGE_COMDAT_SELECT_ANY and zero or more other symbols marked
IMAGE_COMDAT_SELECT_ASSOCIATIVE. Typically the associative symbols in
the group are not external and are not referenced by other TUs, they are
things like debug info, C++ dynamic initializers, or other section
registration schemes. The Visual C++ linker reports a duplicate symbol
error for symbols marked IMAGE_COMDAT_SELECT_ASSOCIATIVE even if they
would be discarded after handling the leader symbol.
Fixes coverage-inline.cpp in check-profile after r372020.
llvm-svn: 372182
This fixes relocations against __profd_ symbols in discarded sections,
which is PR41380.
In general, instrumentation happens very early, and optimization and
inlining happens afterwards. The counters for a function are calculated
early, and after inlining, counters for an inlined function may be
widely referenced by other functions.
For C++ inline functions of all kinds (linkonce_odr &
available_externally mainly), instr profiling wants to deduplicate these
__profc_ and __profd_ globals. Otherwise the binary would be quite
large.
I made __profd_ and __profc_ comdat in r355044, but I chose to make
__profd_ internal. At the time, I was only dealing with coverage, and in
that case, none of the instrumentation needs to reference __profd_.
However, if you use PGO, then instrumentation passes add calls to
__llvm_profile_instrument_range which reference __profd_ globals. The
solution is to make these globals externally visible by using
linkonce_odr linkage for data as was done for counters.
This is safe because PGO adds a CFG hash to the names of the data and
counter globals, so if different TUs have different globals, they will
get different data and counter arrays.
Reviewers: xur, hans
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D67579
llvm-svn: 372020
Summary:
I hadn't realized that instrumentation runs before inlining, so we can't
use the function as the comdat group. Doing so can create relocations
against discarded sections when references to discarded __profc_
variables are inlined into functions outside the function's comdat
group.
In the future, perhaps we should consider standardizing the comdat group
names that ELF and COFF use. It will save object file size, since
__profv_$sym won't appear in the symbol table again.
Reviewers: xur, vsk
Subscribers: eraman, hiraditya, cfe-commits, #sanitizers, llvm-commits
Tags: #clang, #sanitizers, #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D58737
llvm-svn: 355044
Summary:
The motivating use case is eliminating duplicate profile data registered
for the same inline function in two object files. Before this change,
users would observe multiple symbol definition errors with VC link, but
links with LLD would succeed.
Users (Mozilla) have reported that PGO works well with clang-cl and LLD,
but when using LLD without this static registration, we would get into a
"relocation against a discarded section" situation. I'm not sure what
happens in that situation, but I suspect that duplicate, unused profile
information was retained. If so, this change will reduce the size of
such binaries with LLD.
Now, Windows uses static registration and is in line with all the other
platforms.
Reviewers: davidxl, wmi, inglorion, void, calixte
Subscribers: mgorny, krytarowski, eraman, fedor.sergeev, hiraditya, #sanitizers, dmajor, llvm-commits
Tags: #sanitizers, #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D57929
llvm-svn: 353547
Arthur Eubanks