Summary:
ELF linkers generate __start_<secname> and __stop_<secname> symbols
when there is a value in a section <secname> where the name is a valid
C identifier. If dead stripping determines that the values declared
in section <secname> are dead, and we then internalize (and delete)
such a symbol, programs that reference the corresponding start and end
section symbols will get undefined reference linking errors.
To fix this, add the section name to the IRSymtab entry when a symbol is
defined in a specific section. Then use this in the gold-plugin to mark
the symbol as external and visible from outside the summary when the
section name is a valid C identifier.
Reviewers: pcc
Subscribers: mehdi_amini, inglorion, eraman, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D35639
llvm-svn: 309009
Introduce symbol table data structures that can be potentially written to
disk, have the LTO library build those data structures using temporarily
constructed modules and redirect the LTO library implementation to go through
those data structures. This allows us to remove the LLVMContext and Modules
owned by InputFile.
With this change I measured a peak memory consumption decrease from 5.4GB to
2.8GB in a no-op incremental ThinLTO link of Chromium on Linux. The impact on
memory consumption is larger in COFF linkers where we are currently forced
to materialize all metadata in order to read linker options. Peak memory
consumption linking a large piece of Chromium for Windows with full LTO and
debug info decreases from >64GB (OOM) to 15GB.
Part of PR27551.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31364
llvm-svn: 299168
Summary:
The cumulative size of the bitcode files for a very large application
can be huge, particularly with -g. In a distributed build environment,
all of these files must be sent to the remote build node that performs
the thin link step, and this can exceed size limits.
The thin link actually only needs the summary along with a bitcode
symbol table. Until we have a proper bitcode symbol table, simply
stripping the debug metadata results in significant size reduction.
Add support for an option to additionally emit minimized bitcode
modules, just for use in the thin link step, which for now just strips
all debug metadata. I plan to add a cc1 option so this can be invoked
easily during the compile step.
However, care must be taken to ensure that these minimized thin link
bitcode files produce the same index as with the original bitcode files,
as these original bitcode files will be used in the backends.
Specifically:
1) The module hash used for caching is typically produced by hashing the
written bitcode, and we want to include the hash that would correspond
to the original bitcode file. This is because we want to ensure that
changes in the stripped portions affect caching. Added plumbing to emit
the same module hash in the minimized thin link bitcode file.
2) The module paths in the index are constructed from the module ID of
each thin linked bitcode, and typically is automatically generated from
the input file path. This is the path used for finding the modules to
import from, and obviously we need this to point to the original bitcode
files. Added gold-plugin support to take a suffix replacement during the
thin link that is used to override the identifier on the MemoryBufferRef
constructed from the loaded thin link bitcode file. The assumption is
that the build system can specify that the minimized bitcode file has a
name that is similar but uses a different suffix (e.g. out.thinlink.bc
instead of out.o).
Added various tests to ensure that we get identical index files out of
the thin link step.
Reviewers: mehdi_amini, pcc
Subscribers: Prazek, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31027
llvm-svn: 298638
After the call to sys::fs::exists succeeds, indicating a cache hit, we call
AddFile and the client will open the file using the supplied path. If the
client is using cache pruning, there is a potential race between the pruner
and the client. To avoid this, change the caching API so that it provides
a MemoryBuffer to the client, and have clients use that MemoryBuffer where
possible.
This scheme won't work with the gold plugin because the plugin API expects a
file path. So we have the gold plugin use the buffer identifier as a path and
live with the race for now. (Note that the gold plugin isn't actually affected
by the problem at the moment because it doesn't support cache pruning.)
This effectively reverts r279883 modulo the change to use the existing path
in the gold plugin.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31063
llvm-svn: 298020
Summary:
This is necessary to get stats from the ThinLink printed before the
early exit when compiling in a distributed build.
Reviewers: mehdi_amini
Subscribers: Prazek, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D29461
llvm-svn: 293908
Summary: ThinLTO needs to invoke SampleProfileLoader pass during link time in order to annotate profile correctly after module importing.
Reviewers: davidxl, mehdi_amini, tejohnson
Subscribers: pcc, davide, llvm-commits, mehdi_amini
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27790
llvm-svn: 289957
Summary:
Split ReaderWriter.h which contains the APIs into both the BitReader and
BitWriter libraries into BitcodeReader.h and BitcodeWriter.h.
This is to address Chandler's concern about sharing the same API header
between multiple libraries (BitReader and BitWriter). That concern is
why we create a single bitcode library in our downstream build of clang,
which led to r286297 being reverted as it added a dependency that
created a cycle only when there is a single bitcode library (not two as
in upstream).
Reviewers: mehdi_amini
Subscribers: dlj, mehdi_amini, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26502
llvm-svn: 286566
The BitcodeReader no longer produces BitcodeDiagnosticInfo diagnostics.
The only remaining reference was in the gold plugin; the code there has been
dead since we stopped producing InvalidBitcodeSignature error codes in r225562.
While at it remove the InvalidBitcodeSignature error code.
llvm-svn: 286326
In an IR symbol table I would expect the comdats to be represented as:
- A table of strings, one for each comdat name.
- Each symbol has an optional index into that table.
The natural api for accessing that would be
InputFile:
ArrayRef<StringRef> getComdatTable() const;
Symbol:
int getComdatIndex() const;
This patch implements an API as close to that as possible. The
implementation on top of the current IRObjectFile is a bit hackish,
but should map just fine over a symbol table and is very convenient to
use.
llvm-svn: 285061
Summary:
Changes default backend parallelism from thread::hardware_concurrency to
the new llvm::heavyweight_hardware_concurrency, which for X86 Linux
defaults to the number of physical cores (and will fall back to
thread::hardware_concurrency otherwise). This avoid oversubscribing
the physical cores using hyperthreading.
Reviewers: mehdi_amini, pcc
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D25775
llvm-svn: 284618
The NativeObjectOutput class has a design problem: it mixes up the caching
policy with the interface for output streams, which makes the client-side
code hard to follow and would for example make it harder to replace the
cache implementation in an arbitrary client.
This change separates the two aspects by moving the caching policy
to a separate field in Config, replacing NativeObjectOutput with a
NativeObjectStream class which only deals with streams and does not need to
be overridden by most clients and introducing an AddFile callback for adding
files (e.g. from the cache) to the link.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24622
llvm-svn: 282299
Summary:
As suggested in D24826, use different options for ThinLTO backend
parallelism from the option controlling regular LTO code gen
parallelism. They are already split in the LTO API, and this enables
controlling them with different clang options.
Reviewers: pcc, mehdi_amini
Subscribers: dexonsmith, llvm-commits, mehdi_amini
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24873
llvm-svn: 282290
With the new LTO API in r278338, we stopped emitting the individual
index files and imports files for some modules in the distributed backend
case (thinlto-index-only plugin option).
Specifically, this is when the linker decides not to include a module in the
link, because it was in an archive library and did not have a strong
reference to it. Not creating the expected output files makes the
distributed build system implementation more difficult, in terms of
checking for the expected outputs of the thin link, and scheduling the
backend jobs. To address this, the gold-plugin will write dummy empty
.thinlto.bc and .imports files for modules not included in the link
(which LTO never sees).
Augmented a gold v1.12+ test, since that version of gold has the handling
for notifying on modules not being included in the link.
llvm-svn: 282100
Summary:
Have the cache pass back the path to the cache entry when it
is ready to be loaded, instead of a buffer.
For gold-plugin we can simply pass this file back to gold directly,
which avoids expensive writing of a separate tmp file. Ensure
the cache entry is not deleted on cleanup by adjusting the setting
of the IsTemporary flags.
Moved the loading of the buffer into llvm-lto2 to maintain current
behavior.
Reviewers: mehdi_amini
Subscribers: llvm-commits, mehdi_amini
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23946
llvm-svn: 279883
Summary:
With support now in the new LTO API for caching (r279576), add
optional ThinLTO caching in the gold-plugin.
Reviewers: mehdi_amini
Subscribers: mehdi_amini, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23836
llvm-svn: 279631
The gold-plugin was doing this internally, now the API is handling
commons correctly based on the given resolution.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23739
llvm-svn: 279417
Summary:
The gold-plugin changes added along with the new LTO API in r278338 had
the effect of removing the management of the PluginInputFile that
ensured the files weren't released back to gold until the backend
threads were complete. Add back the old file handling.
Fixes PR29020.
Reviewers: mehdi_amini
Subscribers: mehdi_amini, llvm-commits, hjl.tools
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23721
llvm-svn: 279356
Summary:
Skip the merging of common symbols for ThinLTO modules, they will be
merged by the final native object link. Trying to merge the symbols and
add to a combined module will incorrectly enable the common symbol to be
internalized in the ThinLTO module. Additionally, we will not want to
create a combined module for ThinLTO distributed builds.
This fixes failures in 7 cpu2006 benchmarks from the new LTO API in
ThinLTO mode.
Reviewers: mehdi_amini
Subscribers: pcc, llvm-commits, mehdi_amini
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23637
llvm-svn: 279023
Summary:
It does not play well with directories (end up with a bunch of hidden
files).
Also, do not strip the 0 suffix for the first task, especially since
0 can be used by ThinLTO as well now.
Reviewers: tejohnson
Subscribers: mehdi_amini, pcc, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23612
llvm-svn: 279014
Summary:
While NFC for now, this will allow more flexibility on the client side
to hold state necessary to back up the stream.
Also when adding caching, this class will grow in complexity.
Note I blindly modified the gold-plugin as I can't compile it.
Reviewers: tejohnson
Subscribers: mehdi_amini, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23542
llvm-svn: 278907
This restores commit r278330, with fixes for a few bot failures:
- Fix a late change I had made to the save temps output file that I
missed due to existing files sitting on my disk
- Fix a bunch of Windows bot failures with "ambiguous call to overloaded
function" due to confusion between llvm::make_unique vs
std::make_unique (preface the new make_unique calls with "llvm::")
- Attempt to fix a modules bot failure by adding a missing include
to LTO/Config.h.
Original change:
Resolution-based LTO API.
Summary:
This introduces a resolution-based LTO API. The main advantage of this API over
existing APIs is that it allows the linker to supply a resolution for each
symbol in each object, rather than the combined object as a whole. This will
become increasingly important for use cases such as ThinLTO which require us
to process symbol resolutions in a more complicated way than just adjusting
linkage.
Patch by Peter Collingbourne.
Reviewers: rafael, tejohnson, mehdi_amini
Subscribers: lhames, tejohnson, mehdi_amini, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D20268
llvm-svn: 278338
This reverts commit r278330.
I made a change to the save temps output that is causing issues with the
bots. Didn't realize this because I had older output files sitting on
disk in my test output directory.
llvm-svn: 278331
Summary:
This introduces a resolution-based LTO API. The main advantage of this API over
existing APIs is that it allows the linker to supply a resolution for each
symbol in each object, rather than the combined object as a whole. This will
become increasingly important for use cases such as ThinLTO which require us
to process symbol resolutions in a more complicated way than just adjusting
linkage.
Patch by Peter Collingbourne.
Reviewers: rafael, tejohnson, mehdi_amini
Subscribers: lhames, tejohnson, mehdi_amini, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D20268
Address review comments
llvm-svn: 278330
Summary:
In the distributed backend case, the ThinLink step and the final native
object link are separate processes. This can be problematic when archive
libraries are involved in the link (e.g. via --start-lib/--end-lib
pairs). The linker only includes objects from libraries when
there is a strong reference to them, and depending on the intervening
ThinLTO backend processes' importing/inlining, the strong references
may appear different in the two link steps. See D22356 and D22467
for two scenarios where this causes issues.
To ensure that the final link includes the same objects, this patch
adds support for an "=filename" form of the thinlto-index-only plugin
option, in which case objects gold included in the link are emitted to
the given filename. This should be used as input to the final link (e.g.
via the @filename option to gold), instead of listing all the objects
within --start-lib/--end-lib pairs again.
Note that the support for the gold callback that identifies included
objects was added in gold version 1.12.
Reviewers: davidxl, mehdi_amini
Subscribers: llvm-commits, mehdi_amini
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22677
llvm-svn: 276450
Summary:
Invoke the weak/linkonce symbol resolution support (already used by
libLTO) that operates via the summary index.
This ensures prevailing linkonce are kept, by making them weak, and
marks preempted copies as available_externally when possible.
With this change, the older support for keeping the prevailing linkonce
(by changing their symbol resolution) is removed.
Reviewers: mehdi_amini
Subscribers: llvm-commits, mehdi_amini
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D22302
llvm-svn: 275474
While testing a follow-on change to enable index-based symbol resolution
and internalization in the distributed backends, I realized that a test
case change I made in r275247 was only required because we were not
analyzing symbols in the claimed files in thinlto-index-only mode.
In the fixed test case there should be no internalization because we are
linking in -shared mode, so f() is in fact exported, which is detected
properly when we analyze symbols in thinlto-index-only mode. Note that
this is not (yet) a correctness issue (because we are not yet performing
the index-based linkage optimizations in the distributed backends -
that's coming in a follow-on patch).
llvm-svn: 275277
Internalization was missing cases where we originally had a local symbol
that was promoted eagerly but not actually exported. This is because we
were only internalizing the set of global (non-local) symbols that were
PREVAILAING_DEF_IRONLY. Instead, collect the set of global symbols that
are referenced outside of a single IR file, and skip internalization for
those.
llvm-svn: 275247
If a local_unnamed_addr attribute is attached to a global, the address
is known to be insignificant within the module. It is distinct from the
existing unnamed_addr attribute in that it only describes a local property
of the module rather than a global property of the symbol.
This attribute is intended to be used by the code generator and LTO to allow
the linker to decide whether the global needs to be in the symbol table. It is
possible to exclude a global from the symbol table if three things are true:
- This attribute is present on every instance of the global (which means that
the normal rule that the global must have a unique address can be broken without
being observable by the program by performing comparisons against the global's
address)
- The global has linkonce_odr linkage (which means that each linkage unit must have
its own copy of the global if it requires one, and the copy in each linkage unit
must be the same)
- It is a constant or a function (which means that the program cannot observe that
the unique-address rule has been broken by writing to the global)
Although this attribute could in principle be computed from the module
contents, LTO clients (i.e. linkers) will normally need to be able to compute
this property as part of symbol resolution, and it would be inefficient to
materialize every module just to compute it.
See:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20160509/356401.htmlhttp://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20160516/356738.html
for earlier discussion.
Part of the fix for PR27553.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D20348
llvm-svn: 272709
Teresa Johnson