When sampleFDO is enabled, people may expect they can use
-fno-profile-sample-use to opt-out using sample profile for a certain file.
That could be either for debugging purpose or for performance tuning purpose.
However, when thinlto is enabled, if a function in file A compiled with
-fno-profile-sample-use is imported to another file B compiled with
-fprofile-sample-use, the inlined copy of the function in file B may still
get its profile annotated.
The inconsistency may even introduce profile unused warning because if the
target is not compiled with explicit debug information flag, the function
in file A won't have its debug information enabled (debug information will
be enabled implicitly only when -fprofile-sample-use is used). After it is
imported into file B which is compiled with -fprofile-sample-use, profile
annotation for the outline copy of the function will fail because the
function has no debug information, and that will trigger profile unused
warning.
We add a new attribute use-sample-profile to control whether a function
will use its sample profile no matter for its outline or inline copies.
That will make the behavior of -fno-profile-sample-use consistent.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79959
Summary: AutoFDO compilation has two places that do inlining - the sample profile loader that does inlining with context sensitive profile, and the regular inliner as CGSCC pass. Ideally we want most inlining to come from sample profile loader as that is driven by context sensitive profile and also retains context sensitivity after inlining. However the reality is most of the inlining actually happens during regular inliner. To track the number of inline instances from sample profile loader and help move more inlining to sample profile loader, I'm adding statistics and optimization remarks for sample profile loader's inlining.
Reviewers: wmi, davidxl
Subscribers: hiraditya, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D70584
Wei Mi