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
The IR/MIR pseudo probe intrinsics don't get materialized into real machine instructions and therefore they don't incur runtime cost directly. However, they come with indirect cost by blocking certain optimizations. Some of the blocking are intentional (such as blocking code merge) for better counts quality while the others are accidental. This change unblocks perf-critical optimizations that do not affect counts quality. They include:
1. IR InstCombine, sinking load operation to shorten lifetimes.
2. MIR LiveRangeShrink, similar to #1
3. MIR TwoAddressInstructionPass, i.e, opeq transform
4. MIR function argument copy elision
5. IR stack protection. (though not perf-critical but nice to have).
Reviewed By: wmi
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D95982