Currently each Function points to a DISubprogram and DISubprogram has a
scope field. For member functions the scope is a DICompositeType. DIScopes
point to the DICompileUnit to facilitate type uniquing.
Distinct DISubprograms (with isDefinition: true) are not part of the type
hierarchy and cannot be uniqued. This change removes the subprograms
list from DICompileUnit and instead adds a pointer to the owning compile
unit to distinct DISubprograms. This would make it easy for ThinLTO to
strip unneeded DISubprograms and their transitively referenced debug info.
Motivation
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Materializing DISubprograms is currently the most expensive operation when
doing a ThinLTO build of clang.
We want the DISubprogram to be stored in a separate Bitcode block (or the
same block as the function body) so we can avoid having to expensively
deserialize all DISubprograms together with the global metadata. If a
function has been inlined into another subprogram we need to store a
reference the block containing the inlined subprogram.
Attached to https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=27284 is a python script
that updates LLVM IR testcases to the new format.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D19034
<rdar://problem/25256815>
llvm-svn: 266446
This adds two thresholds to the sample profiler to affect inlining
decisions: the concept of global hotness and coldness.
Functions that have accumulated more than a certain fraction of samples at
runtime, are annotated with the InlineHint attribute. Conversely,
functions that accumulate less than a certain fraction of samples, are
annotated with the Cold attribute.
This is very similar to the hints emitted by Clang when using
instrumentation profiles.
Notice that this is a very blunt instrument. A function may have
globally collected a significant fraction of samples, but that does not
necessarily mean that every callsite for that function is hot.
Ideally, we would annotate each callsite with the samples collected at
that callsite. This way, the inliner can incorporate all these weights
into its cost model.
Once the inliner offers this functionality, we can change the hints
emitted here to a more precise per-callsite annotation. For now, this is
providing some measure of speedups with our internal benchmarks. I've
observed speedups of up to 23% (though the geo mean is about 3%). I expect
these numbers to improve as the inliner gets better annotations.
llvm-svn: 254212
Xinliang David Li