The splitting pass uses its 'unlikelyExecuted' predicate to statically
decide which blocks are cold.
- Do not treat noreturn calls as if they are cold unless they are actually
marked cold. This is motivated by functions like exit() and longjmp(), which
are not beneficial to outline.
- Do not treat inline asm as an outlining barrier. In practice asm("") is
frequently used to inhibit basic block merging; enabling outlining in this case
results in substantial memory savings.
- Treat invokes of cold functions as cold.
As a drive-by, remove the 'exceptionHandlingFunctions' predicate, because it's
no longer needed. The pass can identify & outline blocks dominated by EH pads,
so there's no need to special-case __cxa_begin_catch etc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54244
llvm-svn: 348640
Algorithm: Identify maximal cold regions and put them in a worklist. If
a candidate region overlaps with another, discard it. While the worklist
is full, remove a single-entry sub-region from the worklist and attempt
to outline it. By the non-overlap property, this should not invalidate
parts of the domtree pertaining to other outlining regions.
Testing: LNT results on X86 are clean. With test-suite + externals, llvm
outlines 134KB pre-patch, and 352KB post-patch (+ ~2.6x). The file
483.xalancbmk/src/Constants.cpp stands out as an extreme case where llvm
outlines over 100 times in some functions (mostly EH paths). There was
not a significant performance impact pre vs. post-patch.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D53887
llvm-svn: 348639
Every Analysis pass has a get method that returns a reference of the Result of
the Analysis, for example, BlockFrequencyInfo
&BlockFrequencyInfoWrapperPass::getBFI(). I believe that
ProfileSummaryInfo::getPSI() is the only exception to that, as it was returning
a pointer.
Another change is renaming isHotBB and isColdBB to isHotBlock and isColdBlock,
respectively. Most methods use BB as the argument of variable names while
methods usually refer to Basic Blocks as Blocks, instead of BB. For example,
Function::getEntryBlock, Loop:getExitBlock, etc.
I also fixed one of the comments.
Patch by Rodrigo Caetano Rocha!
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54669
llvm-svn: 347182
Using TargetTransformInfo allows the splitting pass to factor in the
code size cost of instructions as it decides whether or not outlining is
profitable.
This did not regress the overall amount of outlining seen on the handful
of internal frameworks I tested.
Thanks to Jun Bum Lim for suggesting this!
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D53835
llvm-svn: 346108
It can be profitable to outline single-block cold regions because they
may be large.
Allow outlining single-block regions if they have over some threshold of
non-debug, non-terminator instructions. I chose 3 as the threshold after
experimenting with several internal frameworks.
In practice, reducing the threshold further did not give much
improvement, whereas increasing it resulted in substantial regressions.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D53824
llvm-svn: 345524
The current splitting algorithm works in three stages:
1) Identify cold blocks, then
2) Use forward/backward propagation to mark hot blocks, then
3) Grow a SESE region of blocks *outside* of the set of hot blocks and
start outlining.
While testing this pass on Apple internal frameworks I noticed that some
kinds of control flow (e.g. loops) are never outlined, even though they
unconditionally lead to / follow cold blocks. I noticed two other issues
related to how cold regions are identified:
- An inconsistency can arise in the internal state of the hotness
propagation stage, as a block may end up in both the ColdBlocks set
and the HotBlocks set. Further inconsistencies can arise as these sets
do not match what's in ProfileSummaryInfo.
- It isn't necessary to limit outlining to single-exit regions.
This patch teaches the splitting algorithm to identify maximal cold
regions and outline them. A maximal cold region is defined as the set of
blocks post-dominated by a cold sink block, or dominated by that sink
block. This approach can successfully outline loops in the cold path. As
a side benefit, it maintains less internal state than the current
approach.
Due to a limitation in CodeExtractor, blocks within the maximal cold
region which aren't dominated by a single entry point (a so-called "max
ancestor") are filtered out.
Results:
- X86 (LNT + -Os + externals): 134KB of TEXT were outlined compared to
47KB pre-patch, or a ~3x improvement. Did not see a performance impact
across two runs.
- AArch64 (LNT + -Os + externals + Apple-internal benchmarks): 149KB
of TEXT were outlined. Ditto re: performance impact.
- Outlining results improve marginally in the internal frameworks I
tested.
Follow-ups:
- Outline more than once per function, outline large single basic
blocks, & try to remove unconditional branches in outlined functions.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D53627
llvm-svn: 345209
Summary:
The current default of appending "_"+entry block label to the new
extracted cold function breaks demangling. Change the deliminator from
"_" to "." to enable demangling. Because the header block label will
be empty for release compile code, use "extracted" after the "." when
the label is empty.
Additionally, add a mechanism for the client to pass in an alternate
suffix applied after the ".", and have the hot cold split pass use
"cold."+Count, where the Count is currently 1 but can be used to
uniquely number multiple cold functions split out from the same function
with D53588.
Reviewers: sebpop, hiraditya
Subscribers: llvm-commits, erik.pilkington
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D53534
llvm-svn: 345178
Outlined code is cold by assumption, so it makes sense to optimize it
for minimal code size rather than performance.
After r344869 moved the splitting pass to the end of the IR pipeline,
this does not result in much of a code size reduction. This is probably
because a comparatively small number backend transforms make use of the
MinSize hint.
Running LNT on x86_64, I see that 33/1020 binaries shrink for a total of
919 bytes of TEXT reduction. I didn't measure a significant performance
impact.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D53518
llvm-svn: 345072
r344558 added an assignment to a TerminatorInst* from
BasicBlock::getTerminatorInst(), but BasicBlock::getTerminatorInst() returns an
Instruction* rather than a TerminatorInst* since r344504 so this fails to
compile.
Changing the variable to an Instruction* should get the bots building again.
llvm-svn: 344566
Make the code of blockEndsInUnreachable to match the function
blockEndsInUnreachable in CodeGen/BranchFolding.cpp. I also have
added a note to make sure the code of this function will not be
modified unless the back-end version is also modified.
An early return before outlining has been added to avoid
outlining the full function body when the first block in the
function is marked cold.
The static analysis of cold code has been amended to avoid
marking the whole function as cold by back-propagation
because the back-propagation would mark blocks with return
statements as cold.
The patch adds debug statements to help discover these problems.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52904
llvm-svn: 344558
by `getTerminator()` calls instead be declared as `Instruction`.
This is the biggest remaining chunk of the usage of `getTerminator()`
that insists on the narrow type and so is an easy batch of updates.
Several files saw more extensive updates where this would cascade to
requiring API updates within the file to use `Instruction` instead of
`TerminatorInst`. All of these were trivial in nature (pervasively using
`Instruction` instead just worked).
llvm-svn: 344502
Modified the testcases to use both pass managers
Use single commandline flag for both pass managers.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52708
Reviewers: sebpop, tejohnson, brzycki, SirishP
Reviewed By: tejohnson, brzycki
llvm-svn: 343662
The test used to fail with an invalid phi node: the two predecessors were outlined
and the SSA representation was left invalid. The patch adds the exit block to the
cold region.
llvm-svn: 342277
remove duplicate entries from isSingleEntrySingleExit: the Entry block is
already added by the loop over the dominance frontier.
Remove the heuristic from isOutlineCandidate that a region is too small when it
only contains a basic block. With this change we now grow regions starting from
a block and we continue adding to the ValidColdRegion. Check the heuristic just
before code generation.
llvm-svn: 342276
Also fix a problem in forward propagation:
const TerminatorInst *TI = It->getTerminator();
was set outside the while loop that iterates over It.
llvm-svn: 342275
Before tagging a function with coldcc make sure the target supports cold calling
convention. Without this patch HotColdSplitting pass fails on aarch64 with:
fatal error: error in backend: Unsupported calling convention.
llvm-svn: 341838
Find cold blocks based on profile information (or optionally with static analysis).
Forward propagate profile information to all cold-blocks.
Outline a cold region.
Set calling conv and prof hint for the callsite of the outlined function.
Worked in collaboration with: Sebastian Pop <s.pop@samsung.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D50658
llvm-svn: 341669
Vedant Kumar