Currenlty PseudoProbeInserter is a pass conditioned on a target switch. It works well with a single clang invocation. It doesn't work so well when the backend is called separately (i.e, through the linker or llc), where user has always to pass -pseudo-probe-for-profiling explictly. I'm making the pass a default pass that requires no command line arg to trigger, but will be actually run depending on whether the CU comes with `llvm.pseudo_probe_desc` metadata.
Reviewed By: wenlei
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D110209
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
Same dangling probes are redundant since they all have the same semantic that is to rely on the counts inference tool to get reasonable count for the same original block. Therefore, there's no need to keep multiple copies of them. I've seen jump threading created tons of redundant dangling probes that slowed down the compiler dramatically. Other optimization passes can also result in redundant probes though without an observed impact so far.
This change removes block-wise redundant dangling probes specifically introduced by jump threading. To support removing redundant dangling probes caused by all other passes, a final function-wise deduplication is also added.
An 18% size win of the .pseudo_probe section was seen for SPEC2017. No performance difference was observed.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97482
This change fixes a couple places where the pseudo probe intrinsic blocks optimizations because they are not naturally removable. To unblock those optimizations, the blocking pseudo probes are moved out of the original blocks and tagged dangling, instead of allowing pseudo probes to be literally removed. The reason is that when the original block is removed, we won't be able to sample it. Instead of assigning it a zero weight, moving all its pseudo probes into another block and marking them dangling should allow the counts inference a chance to assign them a more reasonable weight. We have not seen counts quality degradation from our experiments.
The optimizations being unblocked are:
1. Removing conditional probes for if-converted branches. Conditional probes are tagged dangling when their homing branch arms are folded so that they will not be over-counted.
2. Unblocking jump threading from removing empty blocks. Pseudo probe prevents jump threading from removing logically empty blocks that only has one unconditional jump instructions.
3. Unblocking SimplifyCFG and MIR tail duplicate to thread empty blocks and blocks with redundant branch checks.
Since dangling probes are logically deleted, they should not consume any samples in LTO postLink. This can be achieved by setting their distribution factors to zero when dangled.
Reviewed By: wmi
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97481
Hongtao Yu