This was originally introduced in #10916 as a way to remove all landing
pads when performing LTO. However this is no longer necessary today
since rustc properly marks all functions and call-sites as nounwind
where appropriate.
In fact this is incorrect in the presence of `extern "C-unwind"` which
must create a landing pad when compiled with `-C panic=abort` so that
foreign exceptions are caught and properly turned into aborts.
In https://reviews.llvm.org/D71059 LLVM 11, the time trace profiler was
extended to support multiple threads.
`timeTraceProfilerInitialize` creates a thread local profiler instance.
When a thread finishes `timeTraceProfilerFinishThread` moves a thread
local instance into a global collection of instances. Finally when all
codegen work is complete `timeTraceProfilerWrite` writes data from the
current thread local instance and the instances in global collection
of instances.
Previously, the profiler was intialized on a single thread only. Since
this thread performs no code generation on its own, the resulting
profile was empty.
Update LLVM codegen to initialize & finish time trace profiler on each
code generation thread.
Add -Z no-unique-section-names to reduce ELF header bloat.
This change adds a new compiler flag that can help reduce the size of ELF binaries that contain many functions.
By default, when enabling function sections (which is the default for most targets), the LLVM backend will generate different section names for each function. For example, a function `func` would generate a section called `.text.func`. Normally this is fine because the linker will merge all those sections into a single one in the binary. However, starting with [LLVM 12](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/ee5d1a04), the backend will also generate unique section names for exception handling, resulting in thousands of `.gcc_except_table.*` sections ending up in the final binary because some linkers like LLD don't currently merge or strip these EH sections (see discussion [here](https://reviews.llvm.org/D83655)). This can bloat the ELF headers and string table significantly in binaries that contain many functions.
The new option is analogous to Clang's `-fno-unique-section-names`, and instructs LLVM to generate the same `.text` and `.gcc_except_table` section for each function, resulting in a smaller final binary.
The motivation to add this new option was because we have a binary that ended up with so many ELF sections (over 65,000) that it broke some existing ELF tools, which couldn't handle so many sections.
Here's our old binary:
```
$ readelf --sections old.elf | head -1
There are 71746 section headers, starting at offset 0x2a246508:
$ readelf --sections old.elf | grep shstrtab
[71742] .shstrtab STRTAB 0000000000000000 2977204c ad44bb 00 0 0 1
```
That's an 11MB+ string table. Here's the new binary using this option:
```
$ readelf --sections new.elf | head -1
There are 43 section headers, starting at offset 0x29143ca8:
$ readelf --sections new.elf | grep shstrtab
[40] .shstrtab STRTAB 0000000000000000 29143acc 0001db 00 0 0 1
```
The whole binary size went down by over 20MB, which is quite significant.
This change adds a new compiler flag that can help reduce the size of
ELF binaries that contain many functions.
By default, when enabling function sections (which is the default for most
targets), the LLVM backend will generate different section names for each
function. For example, a function "func" would generate a section called
".text.func". Normally this is fine because the linker will merge all those
sections into a single one in the binary. However, starting with LLVM 12
(llvm/llvm-project@ee5d1a0), the backend will
also generate unique section names for exception handling, resulting in
thousands of ".gcc_except_table.*" sections ending up in the final binary
because some linkers don't currently merge or strip these EH sections.
This can bloat the ELF headers and string table significantly in
binaries that contain many functions.
The new option is analogous to Clang's -fno-unique-section-names, and
instructs LLVM to generate the same ".text" and ".gcc_except_table"
section for each function, resulting in smaller object files and
potentially a smaller final binary.
This largely involves implementing the options debug-info-for-profiling
and profile-sample-use and forwarding them on to LLVM.
AutoFDO can be used on x86-64 Linux like this:
rustc -O -Cdebug-info-for-profiling main.rs -o main
perf record -b ./main
create_llvm_prof --binary=main --out=code.prof
rustc -O -Cprofile-sample-use=code.prof main.rs -o main2
Now `main2` will have feedback directed optimization applied to it.
The create_llvm_prof tool can be obtained from this github repository:
https://github.com/google/autofdoFixes#64892.
thinLTOResolvePrevailingInModule became thinLTOFinalizeInModule and
gained the ability to propagate noRecurse and noUnwind function
attributes. I ran codegen tests with it both on and off, as the upstream
patch uses it in both modes, and the tests pass both ways. Given that,
it seemed reasonable to go ahead and let the propagation be enabled in
rustc, and see what happens. See https://reviews.llvm.org/D36850 for
more examples of how the new version of the function gets used.
Change ab41eef9aca3 in LLVM split MemorySanitizerPass into
MemorySanitizerPass for functions and ModuleMemorySanitizerPass for
modules. There's a related change for ThreadSanitizerPass, and in here
since we're using a ModulePassManager I only add the module flavor of
the pass on LLVM 14.
r? @nikic cc @nagisa
These API changes appear to have all taken place in
https://reviews.llvm.org/D105007, which moved HWAddressSanitizerPass and
AddressSanitizerPass to only accept their options type as a ctor
argument instead of the sequence of bools etc. This required a couple of
parameter additions, which I made match the default prior to the
mentioned upstream LLVM change.
This patch restores rustc to building (though not quite passing all
tests, I've mailed other patches for those issues) against LLVM HEAD.
PassWrapper: update for LLVM change D102093
In https://reviews.llvm.org/D102093 lots of things stopped taking the
DebugLogging boolean parameter. Mercifully we appear to always set
DebugPassManager to false, so I don't think we're losing anything by not
passing this parameter.
In https://reviews.llvm.org/D102093 lots of things stopped taking the
DebugLogging boolean parameter. Mercifully we appear to always set
DebugPassManager to false, so I don't think we're losing anything by not
passing this parameter.
This changed in 54fb3ca96e261f7107cb1b5778c34cb0e0808be6 - I'm not
entirely sure it's correct that we're leaving config empty, but the one
case in LLVM that looked similar did that.
This works around a design defect in the LLVM 12 pass builder
implementation. In LLVM 13, the PreLink ThinLTO pipeline properly
respects the OptimizerLastEPCallbacks.
This commit modifies the FFI bindings to LLVM required for Split DWARF
support in rustc. In particular:
- `addPassesToEmitFile`'s wrapper, `LLVMRustWriteOutputFile` now takes
a `DwoPath` `const char*`. When disabled, `nullptr` should be provided
which will preserve existing behaviour. When enabled, the path to the
`.dwo` file should be provided.
- `createCompileUnit`'s wrapper, `LLVMRustDIBuilderCreateCompileUnit`
now has two additional arguments, for the `DWOId` and to enable
`SplitDebugInlining`. `DWOId` should always be zero.
- `createTargetMachine`'s wrapper, `LLVMRustCreateTargetMachine` has an
additional argument which should be provided the path to the `.dwo`
when enabled.
Signed-off-by: David Wood <david@davidtw.co>
This commit grepped for LLVM_VERSION_GE, LLVM_VERSION_LT, get_major_version and
min-llvm-version and statically evaluated every expression possible
(and sensible) assuming that the LLVM version is >=9 now
During incremental ThinLTO compilation, we attempt to re-use the
optimized (post-ThinLTO) bitcode file for a module if it is 'safe' to do
so.
Up until now, 'safe' has meant that the set of modules that our current
modules imports from/exports to is unchanged from the previous
compilation session. See PR #67020 and PR #71131 for more details.
However, this turns out be insufficient to guarantee that it's safe
to reuse the post-LTO module (i.e. that optimizing the pre-LTO module
would produce the same result). When LLVM optimizes a module during
ThinLTO, it may look at other information from the 'module index', such
as whether a (non-imported!) global variable is used. If this
information changes between compilation runs, we may end up re-using an
optimized module that (for example) had dead-code elimination run on a
function that is now used by another module.
Fortunately, LLVM implements its own ThinLTO module cache, which is used
when ThinLTO is performed by a linker plugin (e.g. when clang is used to
compile a C proect). Using this cache directly would require extensive
refactoring of our code - but fortunately for us, LLVM provides a
function that does exactly what we need.
The function `llvm::computeLTOCacheKey` is used to compute a SHA-1 hash
from all data that might influence the result of ThinLTO on a module.
In addition to the module imports/exports that we manually track, it
also hashes information about global variables (e.g. their liveness)
which might be used during optimization. By using this function, we
shouldn't have to worry about new LLVM passes breaking our module re-use
behavior.
In LLVM, the output of this function forms part of the filename used to
store the post-ThinLTO module. To keep our current filename structure
intact, this PR just writes out the mapping 'CGU name -> Hash' to a
file. To determine if a post-LTO module should be reused, we compare
hashes from the previous session.
This should unblock PR #75199 - by sheer chance, it seems to have hit
this issue due to the particular CGU partitioning and optimization
decisions that end up getting made.
