Text section prefix is created in CodeGenPrepare, it's file format independent implementation, text section name is written into object file in TargetLoweringObjectFile, it's file format dependent implementation, port code of adding text section prefix to text section name from ELF to COFF.
Different with ELF that use '.' as concatenation character, COFF use '$' as concatenation character. That is, concatenation character is variable, so split concatenation character from text section prefix.
Text section prefix is existing feature of ELF, it can help to reduce icache and itlb misses, it's also make possible aggregate other compilers e.g. v8 created same prefix sections. Furthermore, the recent feature Machine Function Splitter (basic block level text prefix section) is based on text section prefix.
Reviewed By: pengfei, rnk
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D92073
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
them in a special text section.
For sampleFDO, because the optimized build uses profile generated from
previous release, previously we couldn't tell a function without profile
was truely cold or just newly created so we had to treat them conservatively
and put them in .text section instead of .text.unlikely. The result was when
we persuing the best performance by locking .text.hot and .text in memory,
we wasted a lot of memory to keep cold functions inside.
In https://reviews.llvm.org/D66374, we introduced profile symbol list to
discriminate functions being cold versus functions being newly added.
This mechanism works quite well for regular use cases in AutoFDO. However,
in some case, we can only have a partial profile when optimizing a target.
The partial profile may be an aggregated profile collected from many targets.
The profile symbol list method used for regular sampleFDO profile is not
applicable to partial profile use case because it may be too large and
introduce many false positives.
To solve the problem for partial profile use case, we provide an option called
--profile-unknown-in-special-section. For functions without profile, we will
still treat them conservatively in compiler optimizations -- for example,
treat them as warm instead of cold in inliner. When we use profile info to
add section prefix for functions, we will discriminate functions known to be
not cold versus functions without profile (being unknown), and we will put
functions being unknown in a special text section called .text.unknown.
Runtime system will have the flexibility to decide where to put the special
section in order to achieve a balance between performance and memory saving.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D62540
As it's causing some bot failures (and per request from kbarton).
This reverts commit r358543/ab70da07286e618016e78247e4a24fcb84077fda.
llvm-svn: 358546
ProfileSampleAccurate is used to indicate the profile has exact match to the
code to be optimized.
Previously ProfileSampleAccurate is handled in ProfileSummaryInfo::isColdCallSite
and ProfileSummaryInfo::isColdBlock. A better solution is to initialize function
entry count to 0 when ProfileSampleAccurate is true, so we don't have to handle
ProfileSampleAccurate in multiple places.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D55660
llvm-svn: 349088
Pan, Tao