Summary:
The compiler does not always generate linkage names. If a function
has been inlined and its body elided, its linkage name may not be
generated.
When the binary executes, the profiler will use its unmangled name
when attributing samples. This results in unmangled names in the
input profile.
We are currently failing hard when this happens. However, in this case
all that happens is that we fail to attribute samples to the inlined
function. While this means fewer optimization opportunities, it should
not cause a compilation failure.
This patch accepts all valid function names, regardless of whether
they were mangled or not.
Reviewers: chandlerc
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D3087
llvm-svn: 204142
1- Use the line_iterator class to read profile files.
2- Allow comments in profile file. Lines starting with '#'
are completely ignored while reading the profile.
3- Add parsing support for discriminators and indirect call samples.
Our external profiler can emit more profile information that we are
currently not handling. This patch does not add new functionality to
support this information, but it allows profile files to provide it.
I will add actual support later on (for at least one of these
features, I need support for DWARF discriminators in Clang).
A sample line may contain the following additional information:
Discriminator. This is used if the sampled program was compiled with
DWARF discriminator support
(http://wiki.dwarfstd.org/index.php?title=Path_Discriminators). This
is currently only emitted by GCC and we just ignore it.
Potential call targets and samples. If present, this line contains a
call instruction. This models both direct and indirect calls. Each
called target is listed together with the number of samples. For
example,
130: 7 foo:3 bar:2 baz:7
The above means that at relative line offset 130 there is a call
instruction that calls one of foo(), bar() and baz(). With baz()
being the relatively more frequent call target.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2355
4- Simplify format of profile input file.
This implements earlier suggestions to simplify the format of the
sample profile file. The symbol table is not necessary and function
profiles do not need to know the number of samples in advance.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2419
llvm-svn: 198973
The profile file parser needed some tests for its parsing actions.
This adds tests for each of the error messages emitted by the parser.
llvm-svn: 196106
Dehao Chen