Summary:
Read .gcc_except_table and add information to CFG. Calls have extra operands
indicating there's a possible handler for exceptions and an action. Landing
pad information is recorded in BinaryFunction.
Also convert JMP instructions that are calls into tail calls pseudo
instructions so that they don't miss call instruction analysis.
(cherry picked from FBD2652775)
Summary: Reverting this commit until we better investigate why
it is necessary to change local symbol names with a prefix.
(cherry picked from FBD28109521)
Summary: After discussion with Maksim, we decided to drop the lines
that add the PG prefix if the symbol is already local, since they
wouldn't be impacted by the way LLVM handles these symbols.
(cherry picked from FBD28109400)
Summary:
This bug would cause llvm-flo to fail to disambiguate two local symbols
with the same file name, causing two different addresses to compete in the
symbol table for the resolution of a given name, causing unpredicted behavior in
the linker.
(cherry picked from FBD2646626)
Summary:
In order to represent CFI information in our BinaryFunction class, this
patch adds a map of Offsets to CFI instructions. In this way, we make it easy to
check exactly where DWARF CFI information is annotated in the disassembled
function.
(cherry picked from FBD2619216)
Summary:
We need to parse the whole contents of .gcc_except_table even if we are
not printing exceptions. Otherwise we are missing type index table and
miscalculate the size of the current table.
(cherry picked from FBD2632965)
Summary: In order to reorder binaries with C++ exceptions, we first need to
read DWARF CFI (call frame info) from binaries in a table in the .eh_frame
ELF section. This table contains unwinding information we need to be aware of
when reordering basic blocks, so as to avoid corrupting it. This patch also
cleans up some code from Exceptions.cpp due to a refactoring where we moved
some functions to the LLVM's libSupport.
(cherry picked from FBD2614464)
Summary:
Print actions for exception ranges from .gcc_except_table.
Types are printed as names if the name is available from symbol table.
(cherry picked from FBD2612631)
Summary:
Previously, we inferred all non-taken branch frequencies with the
information we had for taken branches. This patch teaches perf2flo and llvm-flo
how to read and incorporate non-taken branch frequencies directly from the
traces available in LBR data and by disassembling the binary. It still leaves
the inference engine untouched in case we need it to fill out other
fall-throughs.
(cherry picked from FBD2589212)
Summary:
Pettis' paper on block layout (PLDI'90) suggests we should order
clusters (or chains, using the paper terminology) using a specific criterion.
This patch implements two distinct ideas for cluster layout that can be
activated using different command-line flags. The first one reflects Pettis'
ideas on minimizing branch mispredictions and the second one is targeted at
reducing I-cache misses, described in the Ispike paper (CGO'04).
(cherry picked from FBD2588693)
Summary:
Fixes a bug which caused the block reordering heuristic to put in the
same cluster hot basic blocks and cold basic blocks, increasing I-cache misses.
(cherry picked from FBD2588203)
Summary:
When the ignore-nops patch landed, it exposed a bug in fixBranches()
where it ignored empty BBs. However, we cannot ignore empty BBs when it is
reordered and its fall-through changes. We must update it with a jump to the
original fall-through. This patch fixes this.
(cherry picked from FBD2568244)
Summary:
It is important to remove dead blocks to free up space in functions
and allow us to reorder blocks or align branch targets with more
freedom. This patch implements a simple algorithm to delete all basic
blocks that are not reachable from the entry point. Note that C++
exceptions may create "unreachable" blocks, so this option must be
used with care.
(cherry picked from FBD2562637)
Summary:
SPEC CPU2006 perlbench triggered a bug in our heuristic block
reordering algorithm where a hot edge that targets the entry point (as in a
recursive tail call) would make us try to allocate the call site before the
function entry point. Since we don't update function addresses yet, moving the
entry point will corrupt the program. This patch fixes this.
(cherry picked from FBD2562528)
Summary:
If we have two consecutive JMP instructions and no branches to the
second one, the second one is dead code, but llvm-flo does not handle these
cases properly and put two JMPs in the same BB. This patch fixes this, putting
the extraneous JMP in a separate block, making it easy for us to detect it is
dead code and remove it later in a separate step.
(cherry picked from FBD2562465)
Summary:
Nop instructions are primarily used for alignment purposes on the input.
We remove all nops when we build CFG and derive alignment of basic blocks
based on existing alignment and a presence of nops before it. This
will not always work as some basic blocks will be naturally aligned
without necessity for nops. However, it's better than random alignment.
We would also add heuristics for BB alignment based on execution profile.
(cherry picked from FBD2561740)
Summary:
Adds logic in BinaryFunction to be able to fix branches (invert
its condition, delete or add a branch), making the new function work with the
new layout proposed by the layout pass. All the architecture-specific content
was designed to live in the LLVM Target library, in the MCInstrAnalysis pass.
For now, we only introduce such logic to the X86 backend.
(cherry picked from FBD2551479)
Summary:
Tests with SPEC CPU2006 400.perlbench exposed a bug in the block reordering
heuristic that happened when two blocks are both successor and predecessor of
each other. This patch fixes this.
(cherry picked from FBD2555835)
Summary:
SPEC CPU2006 perlbench exposed a bug in BinaryFunction::optimizeLayout()
where it would try to optimize the layout even though the function had zero
basic blocks. This patch simply checks if the function has zero basic blocks and
bails out.
(cherry picked from FBD2556831)
Summary:
In a recent commit, we changed local symbols to be specially tagged
with the number 2 (local sym) instead of 1 (sym). This patch modifies the reader
to don't choke when seeing a 2 in the symbol id field.
(cherry picked from FBD2552776)
Summary:
This patch implements a dynamic programming approach to solve reorder
basic blocks with profiling information in an optimal way. Since this is
analogous to TSP, it is NP-hard and the algorithm is exponential in time and
memory consumption. Therefore, we only use the optimal algorithm to decide the
layout of small functions (with less than 11 basic blocks).
(cherry picked from FBD2544124)
Summary:
This patch introduces a first approach to reorder basic blocks based on
profiling data that gives us the execution frequency for each edge. Our strategy
is to layout basic blocks in a order that maximizes the weight (hotness) of
branches that will be deleted. We can delete branches when src comes right
before dst in the new layout order. This can be reduced to the TSP problem. This
patch uses a greedy heuristic to solve the problem: we start with a graph with
no edges and progressively add edges by choosing the hottest edges first,
building a layout order that attempts to put BBs with hot edges together.
(cherry picked from FBD2544076)
Summary:
The LBR only has information about taken branches and does not record
information when a branch is not taken. In our CFG, we call these edges
"fall-through" edges. This patch teaches llvm-flo how to infer fall-through
edge frequencies.
(cherry picked from FBD2536633)
Summary:
Changes DataReader to organize branch perf data per function name and
sets up logistics to bring this data to BinaryFunction::buildCFG(). To do this,
we expand BinaryContext with a const reference to DataReader. This patch also
adds the "-dump-functions" flag to force llvm-flo to dump the current state of
BinaryFunctions once they are disassembled and their CFG built, allowing us to
test whether the builder is sane with LLVM LIT tests.
(cherry picked from FBD2534675)
Summary:
This patch introduces DataReader, a module responsible for
parsing llvm flo data files into in-memory data structures.
(cherry picked from FBD2515754)
