This is an ELF-specific thing that adds SHF_LINK_ORDER to the global's section
pointing to the metadata argument's section. The effect of that is a reverse dependency
between sections for the linker GC.
!associated does not change the behavior of global-dce. The global
may also need to be added to llvm.compiler.used.
Since SHF_LINK_ORDER is per-section, !associated effectively enables
fdata-sections for the affected globals, the same as comdats do.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D29104
llvm-svn: 298157
CFI is using intrinsics that takes MDString as arguments, and this
was broken during lazy-loading of metadata.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D28916
llvm-svn: 292641
Summary:
Without this, we're stressing the RAUW of unique nodes,
which is a costly operation. This is intended to limit
the number of RAUW, and is very effective on the total
link-time of opt with ThinLTO, before:
real 4m4.587s user 15m3.401s sys 0m23.616s
after:
real 3m25.261s user 12m22.132s sys 0m24.152s
Reviewers: tejohnson, pcc
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D28751
llvm-svn: 292420
Summary:
This is a relatively simple scheme: we use the index emitted in the
bitcode to avoid loading all the global metadata. Instead we load
the index with their position in the bitcode so that we can load each
of them individually. Materializing the global metadata block in this
condition only triggers loading the named metadata, and the ones
referenced from there (transitively). When materializing a function,
metadata from the global block are loaded lazily as they are
referenced.
Two main current limitations are:
1) Global values other than functions are not materialized on demand,
so we need to eagerly load METADATA_GLOBAL_DECL_ATTACHMENT records
(and their transitive dependencies).
2) When we load a single metadata, we don't recurse on the operands,
instead we use a placeholder or a temporary metadata. Unfortunately
tepmorary nodes are very expensive. This is why we don't have it
always enabled and only for importing.
These two limitations can be lifted in a subsequent improvement if
needed.
With this change, the total link time of opt with ThinLTO and Debug
Info enabled is going down from 282s to 224s (~20%).
Reviewers: pcc, tejohnson, dexonsmith
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D28113
llvm-svn: 291027
Evgeniy Stepanov