As a follow-up to https://reviews.llvm.org/D104129, I'm cleaning up the danling probe related code in both the compiler and llvm-profgen.
I'm seeing a 5% size win for the pseudo_probe section for SPEC2017 and 10% for Ciner. Certain benchmark such as 602.gcc has a 20% size win. No obvious difference seen on build time for SPEC2017 and Cinder.
Reviewed By: wenlei
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104477
Previously dangling samples were represented by INT64_MAX in sample profile while probes never executed were not reported. This was based on an observation that dangling probes were only at a smaller portion than zero-count probes. However, with compiler optimizations, dangling probes end up becoming at large portion of all probes in general and reporting them does not make sense from profile size point of view. This change flips sample reporting by reporting zero-count probes instead. This enabled dangling probe to be represented by none (missing entry in profile). This has a couple benefits:
1. Reducing sample profile size in optimize mode, even when the number of non-executed probes outperform the number of dangling probes, since INT64_MAX takes more space over 0 to encode.
2. Binary size savings. No need to encode dangling probe anymore, since missing probes are treated as dangling in the profile reader.
3. Reducing compiler work to track dangling probes. However, for probes that are real dead and removed, we still need the compiler to identify them so that they can be reported as zero-count, instead of mistreated as dangling probes.
4. Improving counts quality by respecting the counts already collected on the non-dangling copy of a probe. A probe, when duplicated, gets two copies at runtime. If one of them is dangling while the other is not, merging the two probes at profile generation time will cause the real samples collected on the non-dangling one to be discarded. Not reporting the dangling counterpart will keep the real samples.
5. Better readability.
6. Be consistent with non-CS dwarf line number based profile. Zero counts are trusted by the compiler counts inferencer while missing counts will be inferred by the compiler.
Note that the current patch does include any work for #3. There will be follow-up changes.
For #1, I've seen for a large Facebook service, the text profile is reduced by 7%. For extbinary profile, the size of LBRProfileSection is reduced by 35%.
For #4, I have seen general counts quality for SPEC2017 is improved by 10%.
Reviewed By: wenlei, wlei, wmi
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104129
Make extended binary the default output format for CSSPGO. This avoids having to pass flag every time when generating profile. It also matches llvm-profdata where binary profile is the default (should we switch to extbinary as default for llvm-profdata?).
We plan to compress name table for context profile, which depends on the built-in compression of extbinary.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103650
llvm-profgen uses profile summary based cold threshold to merge and trim cold context profile. This is to strike a good balance between profile size and performance.
We've been using 99.9% as the cutoff to save profile size without affecting performance. This change switch to use 99.9% instead of 99.9999% as default cold threshold cutoff for llvm-profgen.
Redundant switch csprof-cold-thres is also removed and tests cleaned up.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103071
Previously we didn't support to keep the unique linkage name(-funique-internal-linkage-name) in llvm-profgen. As discussed in https://reviews.llvm.org/D96932, we choose to do canonicalization for it.
Now since "selected" is set as the default parameter of getCanonicalFnName in `D96932`, we don't need to add any attribute here for the previous usage and only fix the missing usage in the pseudo probe decoding.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98226
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