Support overriding the Doxygen & OCamldoc install directories,
and provide a more FHS-compliant defaults for both of them. This extends
r282240 that added this override for Sphinx-built documentation.
LLVM_INSTALL_DOXYGEN_HTML_DIR and LLVM_INSTALL_OCAMLDOC_HTML_DIR are
added, to control the location where Doxygen-generated and
OCamldoc-generated HTML docs are installed appropriately. They both
specify CMake-style install paths, and therefore can either by relative
to the install prefix or absolute.
The new defaults are subdirectories of share/doc/llvm, and replace
the previous directories of 'docs/html' and 'docs/ocaml/html' that
resulted in creating invalid '/usr/docs' that furthermore lacked proper
namespacing for the LLVM package. The new defaults are consistent with
the ones used for Sphinx HTML documentation, differing only in the last
component. Since the 'html' subdirectory is already used for Sphinx
docs, the 'doxygen-html' and 'ocaml-html' directories are used instead.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24935
llvm-svn: 282536
This patch updates WritingAnLLVMPass.rst to make it in line with current state of things.
Specifically:
* Makefile instructions replaced with CMake ones
* Filenames replaced with correct ones
* Example reformatted a bit to make it less confusing and more conforming to LLVM Coding Standards
* opt tool output updated with what it actually prints nowdays
* "gcse" (which doesn't exist anymore) replaced with "gvn" (which still does)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24233
llvm-svn: 282482
Summary:
Add links to ISA manuals and ABI.
Add text about assembler syntax.
Add info about instructions operands.
Add instruction examples for each encoding.
Update directives section, add missing .amdgpu_hsa_kernel.
Reviewers: tstellarAMD, SamWot, vpykhtin
Subscribers: kzhuravl, wdng, nhaehnle, yaxunl, tony-tye, artem.tamazov, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24724
llvm-svn: 281962
Summary:
It was previously not possible for tools to use solely the stackmap
information emitted to reconstruct the return addresses of callsites in
the map, which is necessary to use the information to walk a stack. This
patch adds per-function callsite counts when emitting the stackmap
section in order to resolve the problem. Note that this slightly alters
the stackmap format, so external tools parsing these maps will need to
be updated.
**Problem Details:**
Records only store their offset from the beginning of the function they
belong to. While these records and the functions are output in program
order, it is not possible to determine where the end of one function's
records are without the callsite count when processing the records to
compute return addresses.
Patch by Kavon Farvardin!
Reviewers: atrick, ributzka, sanjoy
Subscribers: nemanjai
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23487
llvm-svn: 281532
On Windows, it is often applied to the second parameter, and the x86
backend is prepared to deal with sret appearing on any parameter.
Other backends assume it only appears on parameter zero, but those are
target-specific requirements, and not an IR-level rule.
llvm-svn: 280951
No need to have a long inline code snippet in this doc.
Also move "flags that control numerical code" underneath the "invoking
clang" section, and reformat things a bit.
llvm-svn: 280857
CUDA is an extension to C++ -- there is no such thing as "CUDA C". But
also, the language is much more commonly called "CUDA" than "CUDA C++".
llvm-svn: 280849
auto-brief format for doxygen comments. Most notable is switching to
that in the example doxygen comment. I've also tweaked the wording but
am happy to tweak it further if others have suggestions here.
Mostly doing this to capture something I and others have been writing
consistently and repeatedly in code reviews.
llvm-svn: 280419
This is a partial revert of r280013. Brad King pointed out these variable names are matching CMake conventions, so we should preserve them.
I've also added a direct mapping of the LLVM_*_DIR variables which we need to make projects support building in and out of tree.
llvm-svn: 280380
I've found this out the hard way; LLVM will not normally catch this
error (unless -verify-machineinstrs is passed), and under certain
very specific circumstances (such as register scavenger running
under pressure) this would result in an opaque crash in codegen.
llvm-svn: 280071
With the runtimes build we're trying to use LLVMConfig.cmake as a way of providing LLVM_* variables that are needed to behave as if the project is building in tree. To make this work we need to rename two variables by dropping the "S" from the end. This makes the variables match the in-tree names.
This renames:
LLVM_INCLUDE_DIRS -> LLVM_INCLUDE_DIR
LLVM_LIBRARY_DIRS -> LLVM_LIBRARY_DIR
The versions ending in S are not used in-tree anywhere. This also cleans up LLVM_LIBRARY_DIR being set to the same value with and without the "S".
llvm-svn: 280013
Summary:
[Coroutines] Part 9: Add cleanup subfunction.
This patch completes coroutine heap allocation elision. Now, the heap elision example from docs\Coroutines.rst compiles and produces expected result (see test/Transform/Coroutines/ex3.ll)
Intrinsic Changes:
* coro.free gets a token parameter tying it to coro.id to allow reliably discovering all coro.frees associated with a particular coroutine.
* coro.id gets an extra parameter that points back to a coroutine function. This allows to check whether a coro.id describes the enclosing function or it belongs to a different function that was later inlined.
CoroSplit now creates three subfunctions:
# f$resume - resume logic
# f$destroy - cleanup logic, followed by a deallocation code
# f$cleanup - just the cleanup code
CoroElide pass during devirtualization replaces coro.destroy with either f$destroy or f$cleanup depending whether heap elision is performed or not.
Other fixes, improvements:
* Fixed buglet in Shape::buildFrame that was not creating coro.save properly if coroutine has more than one suspend point.
* Switched to using variable width suspend index field (no longer limited to 32 bit index field can be as little as i1 or as large as i<whatever-size_t-is>)
Reviewers: majnemer
Subscribers: llvm-commits, mehdi_amini
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23844
llvm-svn: 279971
Primarily, this clarifies wording in a few places, and adds "\ "s to
make the formatting of things like "``Foo`` s" better.
Thanks to Michael Kuperstein for the comments.
llvm-svn: 279007
Making explicit our current policy to accept new targets as experimental and
later official. Every new target should follow these rules to be added,
and kept relevant in the upstream tree.
llvm-svn: 278971
The statement on using #if 0 ... #endif is not very clear (for people like me
:-)). This patch clarifies it a bit to avoid confusion.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23404
llvm-svn: 278932
Summary:
1. Make coroutine representation more robust against optimization that may duplicate instruction by introducing coro.id intrinsics that returns a token that will get fed into coro.alloc and coro.begin. Due to coro.id returning a token, it won't get duplicated and can be used as reliable indicator of coroutine identify when a particular coroutine call gets inlined.
2. Move last three arguments of coro.begin into coro.id as they will be shared if coro.begin will get duplicated.
3. doc + test + code updated to support the new intrinsic.
Reviewers: mehdi_amini, majnemer
Subscribers: mehdi_amini, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23412
llvm-svn: 278481
Summary:
A particular coroutine usage pattern, where a coroutine is created, manipulated and
destroyed by the same calling function, is common for coroutines implementing
RAII idiom and is suitable for allocation elision optimization which avoid
dynamic allocation by storing the coroutine frame as a static `alloca` in its
caller.
coro.free and coro.alloc intrinsics are used to indicate which code needs to be suppressed
when dynamic allocation elision happens:
```
entry:
%elide = call i8* @llvm.coro.alloc()
%need.dyn.alloc = icmp ne i8* %elide, null
br i1 %need.dyn.alloc, label %coro.begin, label %dyn.alloc
dyn.alloc:
%alloc = call i8* @CustomAlloc(i32 4)
br label %coro.begin
coro.begin:
%phi = phi i8* [ %elide, %entry ], [ %alloc, %dyn.alloc ]
%hdl = call i8* @llvm.coro.begin(i8* %phi, i32 0, i8* null,
i8* bitcast ([2 x void (%f.frame*)*]* @f.resumers to i8*))
```
and
```
%mem = call i8* @llvm.coro.free(i8* %hdl)
%need.dyn.free = icmp ne i8* %mem, null
br i1 %need.dyn.free, label %dyn.free, label %if.end
dyn.free:
call void @CustomFree(i8* %mem)
br label %if.end
if.end:
...
```
If heap allocation elision is performed, we replace coro.alloc with a static alloca on the caller frame and coro.free with null constant.
Also, we need to make sure that if there are any tail calls referencing the coroutine frame, we need to remote tail call attribute, since now coroutine frame lives on the stack.
Documentation and overview is here: http://llvm.org/docs/Coroutines.html.
Upstreaming sequence (rough plan)
1.Add documentation. (https://reviews.llvm.org/D22603)
2.Add coroutine intrinsics. (https://reviews.llvm.org/D22659)
3.Add empty coroutine passes. (https://reviews.llvm.org/D22847)
4.Add coroutine devirtualization + tests.
ab) Lower coro.resume and coro.destroy (https://reviews.llvm.org/D22998)
c) Do devirtualization (https://reviews.llvm.org/D23229)
5.Add CGSCC restart trigger + tests. (https://reviews.llvm.org/D23234)
6.Add coroutine heap elision + tests. <= we are here
7.Add the rest of the logic (split into more patches)
Reviewers: mehdi_amini, majnemer
Subscribers: mehdi_amini, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23245
llvm-svn: 278242
This reverts commit r278048. Something changed between the last time I
built this--it takes awhile on my ridiculously slow and ancient
computer--and now that broke this.
llvm-svn: 278053
Summary:
Based on two patches by Michael Mueller.
This is a target attribute that causes a function marked with it to be
emitted as "hotpatchable". This particular mechanism was originally
devised by Microsoft for patching their binaries (which they are
constantly updating to stay ahead of crackers, script kiddies, and other
ne'er-do-wells on the Internet), but is now commonly abused by Windows
programs to hook API functions.
This mechanism is target-specific. For x86, a two-byte no-op instruction
is emitted at the function's entry point; the entry point must be
immediately preceded by 64 (32-bit) or 128 (64-bit) bytes of padding.
This padding is where the patch code is written. The two byte no-op is
then overwritten with a short jump into this code. The no-op is usually
a `movl %edi, %edi` instruction; this is used as a magic value
indicating that this is a hotpatchable function.
Reviewers: majnemer, sanjoy, rnk
Subscribers: dberris, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D19908
llvm-svn: 278048
Summary:
Currently, the Scudo Hardened Allocator only gets its flags via the SCUDO_OPTIONS environment variable.
With this patch, we offer the opportunity for programs to define their own options via __scudo_default_options() which behaves like __asan_default_options() (weak symbol).
A relevant test has been added as well, and the documentation updated accordingly.
I also used this patch as an opportunity to rename a few variables to comply with the LLVM naming scheme, and replaced a use of Report with dieWithMessage for consistency (and to avoid a callback).
Reviewers: llvm-commits, kcc
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23018
llvm-svn: 277536
This patch replaces RuntimeDyld::SymbolInfo with JITSymbol: A symbol class
that is capable of lazy materialization (i.e. the symbol definition needn't be
emitted until the address is requested). This can be used to support common
and weak symbols in the JIT (though this is not implemented in this patch).
For consistency, RuntimeDyld::SymbolResolver is renamed to JITSymbolResolver.
For space efficiency a new class, JITEvaluatedSymbol, is introduced that
behaves like the old RuntimeDyld::SymbolInfo - i.e. it is just a pair of an
address and symbol flags. Instances of JITEvaluatedSymbol can be used in
symbol-tables to avoid paying the space cost of the materializer.
llvm-svn: 277386
Summary:
This change adds a `ni` specifier in the `datalayout` string to denote
pointers in some given address spaces as "non-integral", and adds some
typing rules around these special pointers.
Reviewers: majnemer, chandlerc, atrick, dberlin, eli.friedman, tstellarAMD, arsenm
Subscribers: arsenm, mcrosier, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22488
llvm-svn: 277085
This adds boilerplate code for all coroutine passes,
the passes are no-ops for now.
Also, a small test has been added to verify that passes execute in
the expected order or not at all if coroutine support is disabled.
Patch by Gor Nishanov!
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22847
llvm-svn: 277033
This is the second patch in the coroutine series. It adds coroutine
intrinsics and updates intrinsic cost in TargetTransformInfoImpl.h.
Patch by Gor Nishanov!
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22659
llvm-svn: 276839
This enables users to export coverage information as portable JSON for use by
analysis tools and storage in document based databases.
The export sub-command is invoked just like the others:
llvm-cov export -instr-profile path/to/foo.profdata path/to/foo.binary
The resulting JSON contains a list of files and functions. Every file object
contains a list of segments, expansions, and a summary of the file's region,
function, and line coverage. Every function object contains the function's name
and regions. There is also a total summary for the entire object file.
Changes since the initial commit (r276813):
- Fixed the regexes in the tests to handle Windows filepaths.
Patch by Eddie Hurtig!
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22651
llvm-svn: 276818
This enables users to export coverage information as portable JSON for use by
analysis tools and storage in document based databases.
The export sub-command is invoked just like the others:
llvm-cov export -instr-profile path/to/foo.profdata path/to/foo.binary
The resulting JSON contains a list of files and functions. Every file object
contains a list of segments, expansions, and a summary of the file's region,
function, and line coverage. Every function object contains the function's name
and regions. There is also a total summary for the entire object file.
Patch by Eddie Hurtig!
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22651
llvm-svn: 276813
Summary:
s/code-block:: C++/code-block:: c++ in docs/Coroutines.rst .
Patch by Gor Nishanov! Edited by Sanjoy to fix a missing s/C/c/.
Reviewers: sanjoy, rengolin
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22832
llvm-svn: 276806
This is the first patch in the coroutine series.
It contains the documentation for the coroutine intrinsics and their usage.
Patch by Gor Nishanov!
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22603
llvm-svn: 276513
Summary:
The llvm.invariant.start and llvm.invariant.end intrinsics currently
support specifying invariant memory objects only in the default address
space.
With this change, these intrinsics are overloaded for any adddress space
for memory objects
and we can use these llvm invariant intrinsics in non-default address
spaces.
Example: llvm.invariant.start.p1i8(i64 4, i8 addrspace(1)* %ptr)
This overloaded intrinsic is needed for representing final or invariant
memory in managed languages.
Reviewers: apilipenko, reames
Subscribers: llvm-commits
llvm-svn: 276447
Given that other proposals are making their way through, it's better if we
specify what GitHub proposal this is, in case there are others that also
involve GitHub, but not sub-modules.
llvm-svn: 276325
Summary:
The llvm.invariant.start and llvm.invariant.end intrinsics currently
support specifying invariant memory objects only in the default address space.
With this change, these intrinsics are overloaded for any adddress space for memory objects
and we can use these llvm invariant intrinsics in non-default address spaces.
Example: llvm.invariant.start.p1i8(i64 4, i8 addrspace(1)* %ptr)
This overloaded intrinsic is needed for representing final or invariant memory in managed languages.
Reviewers: tstellarAMD, reames, apilipenko
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22519
llvm-svn: 276316
Lots of blocks had "llvm" or "nasm" syntax types but either weren't following
the syntax, or the syntax has changed (and sphinx hasn't keep up) or the type
doesn't even exist (nasm?).
Other documents had :options: what were invalid. I only removed those that had
warnings, and left the ones that didn't, in order to follow the principle of
least surprise.
This is like this for ages, but the buildbot is now failing on errors. It may
take a while to upgrade the buildbot's sphinx, if that's even possible, but
that shouldn't stop us from getting docs updates (which seem down for quite
a while).
Also, we're not losing any syntax highlight, since when it doesn't parse, it
doesn't colour. Ie. those blocks are not being highlighted anyway.
I'm trying to get all docs in one go, so that it's easy to revert later if we
do fix, or at least easy to know what's to fix.
llvm-svn: 276109
This document was crafted from the various (320+) emails between 2nd June and
20th July regarding the move to GitHub. It tried to consolidate every issue that
was raised and every solution that was presented to have a GitHub repository
with sub-modules.
It *does not* try to argue whether sub-modules are better or worse than any other
Git solution, nor if Git is better than any other VCS, nor if GitHub is better
than any other free code hosting service. This is just the final conclusions of
48 days and 320 emails (plus a lot of IRC discussions) on the LLVM community.
This document will be presented at the survey that the foundation will setup for
us to decide if we move to this solution or not. It reflects what was discussed
on the lists, but it's not authoritative. If something is not clear enough,
please refer to the mailing list discussions (hint: search for "GitHub").
Review: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22463
llvm-svn: 276097
Add a "-j" option to llvm-profdata to control the number of threads used.
Auto-detect NumThreads when it isn't specified, and avoid spawning threads when
they wouldn't be beneficial.
I tested this patch using a raw profile produced by clang (147MB). Here is the
time taken to merge 4 copies together on my laptop:
No thread pool: 112.87s user 5.92s system 97% cpu 2:01.08 total
With 2 threads: 134.99s user 26.54s system 164% cpu 1:33.31 total
Changes since the initial commit:
- When handling odd-length inputs, call ThreadPool::wait() before merging the
last profile. Should fix a race/off-by-one (see r275937).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22438
llvm-svn: 275938
Add an overview of stubs and compile callbacks before the discussion of the
source changes.
-- This line, and those below, will be ignored--
M docs/tutorial/BuildingAJIT3.rst
llvm-svn: 275933
Add a "-j" option to llvm-profdata to control the number of threads
used. Auto-detect NumThreads when it isn't specified, and avoid spawning
threads when they wouldn't be beneficial.
I tested this patch using a raw profile produced by clang (147MB). Here is the
time taken to merge 4 copies together on my laptop:
No thread pool: 112.87s user 5.92s system 97% cpu 2:01.08 total
With 2 threads: 134.99s user 26.54s system 164% cpu 1:33.31 total
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22438
llvm-svn: 275921
The default behavior of bugpoint is to print "<crash>" when it finds a reduced
test that crashes compilation. With this flag we now can see the output of the
crashing program. This is useful to make sure it is the same error being
tracked down and not a different error that happens to crash the compiler as
well.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22411
llvm-svn: 275646
Add an option to specify a symbol demangler (as well as options to the
demangler). This can be used to make reports more human-readable.
This option is especially useful in -output-dir mode, since it isn't as
easy to manually pipe reports into a demangler in this mode.
llvm-svn: 275640
This adds Clang-specific DWARF constants for nullability and ObjC
class properties that are already generated by clang. This patch adds
dwarfdump support and a more comprehensive testcase.
<rdar://problem/27335745>
llvm-svn: 275354
The description of the 'returned' attribute says that it is only used when
code-generating the caller. I'd like to make the optimizer smarter about
looking through functions with returned arguments (generally, but motivated by
my llvm.noalias work). As David pointed out in the review of D22202, the
LangRef should be updated to make its expanded uses clearer.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D22205
llvm-svn: 275026
Text suggested by Daniel Berlin. While it is likely to be exactly what
the advisory committee would do anyway, codifying it does no harm and
helps reassure people that rare does not mean arbitrary.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21981
llvm-svn: 274659
Summary:
This complements the earlier addition of IntrWriteMem and IntrWriteArgMem
LLVM intrinsic properties, see D18291.
Also start using the attribute for memset, memcpy, and memmove intrinsics,
and remove their special-casing in BasicAliasAnalysis.
Reviewers: reames, joker.eph
Subscribers: joker.eph, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18714
llvm-svn: 274485
This new chapter describes compiling LLVM IR to object files.
The new chaper is chapter 8, so later chapters have been renumbered.
Since this brings us to 10 chapters total, I've also needed to rename
the other chapters to use two digit numbering.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18070
llvm-svn: 274441
associated reporting guide.
I want to emphasize that at this point these are just drafts!
This is the result of very extended discussion on the mailing lists on
several different threads:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2015-October/091218.htmlhttp://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-May/099120.htmlhttp://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20151019/307070.html
The reporting guide in particular I anticipate will be shaped somewhat
by the advisory committee when they are selected. But hopefully this
serves as a good starting point and good guidance while the advisory
committee is being sorted out.
I'd like to thank all the folks who contributed to this. Many, *many*
people worked to help with drafting, wording, suggestions, and edits.
Also, this is based on widely used existing codes of coduct as mentioned
in the text, and the original authors of those deserve many thanks as
well.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D13741
llvm-svn: 274268
This is a resubmittion of 263158 change after fixing the existing problem with intrinsics mangling (see LTO and intrinsics mangling llvm-dev thread for details).
This patch fixes the problem which occurs when loop-vectorize tries to use @llvm.masked.load/store intrinsic for a non-default addrspace pointer. It fails with "Calling a function with a bad signature!" assertion in CallInst constructor because it tries to pass a non-default addrspace pointer to the pointer argument which has default addrspace.
The fix is to add pointer type as another overloaded type to @llvm.masked.load/store intrinsics.
Reviewed By: reames
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17270
llvm-svn: 274043
Passing -output-dir path/to/dir to llvm-cov show creates path/to/dir if
it doesn't already exist, and prints reports into that directory.
In function view mode, all views are written into
path/to/dir/functions.$EXTENSION. In file view mode, all views are
written into path/to/dir/coverage/$PATH.$EXTENSION.
Changes since the initial commit:
- Avoid accidentally closing stdout twice.
llvm-svn: 273985
This reverts commit r273971. test/profile/instrprof-visibility.cpp is
failing because of an uncaught error in SafelyCloseFileDescriptor.
llvm-svn: 273978
Passing -output-dir path/to/dir to llvm-cov show creates path/to/dir if
it doesn't already exist, and prints reports into that directory.
In function view mode, all views are written into
path/to/dir/functions.$EXTENSION. In file view mode, all views are
written into path/to/dir/coverage/$PATH.$EXTENSION.
llvm-svn: 273971
This is a resubmittion of 263158 change after fixing the existing problem with intrinsics mangling (see LTO and intrinsics mangling llvm-dev thread for details).
This patch fixes the problem which occurs when loop-vectorize tries to use @llvm.masked.load/store intrinsic for a non-default addrspace pointer. It fails with "Calling a function with a bad signature!" assertion in CallInst constructor because it tries to pass a non-default addrspace pointer to the pointer argument which has default addrspace.
The fix is to add pointer type as another overloaded type to @llvm.masked.load/store intrinsics.
Reviewed By: reames
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17270
llvm-svn: 273892
This intrinsic safely loads a function pointer from a virtual table pointer
using type metadata. This intrinsic is used to implement control flow integrity
in conjunction with virtual call optimization. The virtual call optimization
pass will optimize away llvm.type.checked.load intrinsics associated with
devirtualized calls, thereby removing the type check in cases where it is
not needed to enforce the control flow integrity constraint.
This patch also introduces the capability to copy type metadata between
global variables, and teaches the virtual call optimization pass to do so.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21121
llvm-svn: 273756
The bitset metadata currently used in LLVM has a few problems:
1. It has the wrong name. The name "bitset" refers to an implementation
detail of one use of the metadata (i.e. its original use case, CFI).
This makes it harder to understand, as the name makes no sense in the
context of virtual call optimization.
2. It is represented using a global named metadata node, rather than
being directly associated with a global. This makes it harder to
manipulate the metadata when rebuilding global variables, summarise it
as part of ThinLTO and drop unused metadata when associated globals are
dropped. For this reason, CFI does not currently work correctly when
both CFI and vcall opt are enabled, as vcall opt needs to rebuild vtable
globals, and fails to associate metadata with the rebuilt globals. As I
understand it, the same problem could also affect ASan, which rebuilds
globals with a red zone.
This patch solves both of those problems in the following way:
1. Rename the metadata to "type metadata". This new name reflects how
the metadata is currently being used (i.e. to represent type information
for CFI and vtable opt). The new name is reflected in the name for the
associated intrinsic (llvm.type.test) and pass (LowerTypeTests).
2. Attach metadata directly to the globals that it pertains to, rather
than using the "llvm.bitsets" global metadata node as we are doing now.
This is done using the newly introduced capability to attach
metadata to global variables (r271348 and r271358).
See also: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-June/100462.html
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21053
llvm-svn: 273729
Summary:
We will start generating this in a future patch.
Reviewers: arsenm, kzhuravl, rafael, ruiu, tony-tye
Subscribers: arsenm, llvm-commits, kzhuravl
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21482
llvm-svn: 273628
This change is motivated by an upcoming change to the metadata representation
used for CFI. The indirect function call checker needs type information for
external function declarations in order to correctly generate jump table
entries for such declarations. We currently associate such type information
with declarations using a global metadata node, but I plan [1] to move all
such metadata to global object attachments.
In bitcode, metadata attachments for function declarations appear in the
global metadata block. This seems reasonable to me because I expect metadata
attachments on declarations to be uncommon. In the long term I'd also expect
this to be the case for CFI, because we'd want to use some specialized bitcode
format for this metadata that could be read as part of the ThinLTO thin-link
phase, which would mean that it would not appear in the global metadata block.
To solve the lazy loaded metadata issue I was seeing with D20147, I use the
same bitcode representation for metadata attachments for global variables as I
do for function declarations. Since there's a use case for metadata attachments
in the global metadata block, we might as well use that representation for
global variables as well, at least until we have a mechanism for lazy loading
global variables.
In the assembly format, the metadata attachments appear after the "declare"
keyword in order to avoid a parsing ambiguity.
[1] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-June/100462.html
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21052
llvm-svn: 273336
Nearly all the changes to this pass have been done while maintaining and
updating other parts of LLVM. LLVM has had another pass, SROA, which
has superseded ScalarReplAggregates for quite some time.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21316
llvm-svn: 272737
Dylan McKay