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Arthur Eubanks 84a8ca1e6c [NewPM] Pin -lazy-branch-prob and -lazy-block-freq tests to legacy PM
NPM passes just use the normal versions of these analyses instead.
Also pin any tests with -analyze to legacy PM.

Reviewed By: asbirlea

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87857
2020-09-21 17:51:46 -07:00
Kazu Hirata ca8321574d Fix comment typos. NFC. 2020-09-21 16:12:56 -07:00
Xinliang David Li 28a932742c [PM] port Branch Frequency Analaysis pass to new PM
llvm-svn: 268687
2016-05-05 21:13:27 +00:00
Diego Novillo 8c49a57266 Add documentation for new backedge mass propagation in irregular loops.
Tweak test cases and rename headerIndexFor -> getHeaderIndex.

llvm-svn: 239915
2015-06-17 16:28:22 +00:00
Diego Novillo 9a779623d9 Fix PR 23525 - Separate header mass propagation in irregular loops.
Summary:
When propagating mass through irregular loops, the mass flowing through
each loop header may not be equal. This was causing wrong frequencies
to be computed for irregular loop headers.

Fixed by keeping track of masses flowing through each of the headers in
an irregular loop. To do this, we now keep track of per-header backedge
weights. After the loop mass is distributed through the loop, the
backedge weights are used to re-distribute the loop mass to the loop
headers.

Since each backedge will have a mass proportional to the different
branch weights, the loop headers will end up with a more approximate
weight distribution (as opposed to the current distribution that assumes
that every loop header is the same).

Reviewers: dexonsmith

Subscribers: llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10348

llvm-svn: 239843
2015-06-16 19:10:58 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith be7ea19b58 IR: Make metadata typeless in assembly
Now that `Metadata` is typeless, reflect that in the assembly.  These
are the matching assembly changes for the metadata/value split in
r223802.

  - Only use the `metadata` type when referencing metadata from a call
    intrinsic -- i.e., only when it's used as a `Value`.

  - Stop pretending that `ValueAsMetadata` is wrapped in an `MDNode`
    when referencing it from call intrinsics.

So, assembly like this:

    define @foo(i32 %v) {
      call void @llvm.foo(metadata !{i32 %v}, metadata !0)
      call void @llvm.foo(metadata !{i32 7}, metadata !0)
      call void @llvm.foo(metadata !1, metadata !0)
      call void @llvm.foo(metadata !3, metadata !0)
      call void @llvm.foo(metadata !{metadata !3}, metadata !0)
      ret void, !bar !2
    }
    !0 = metadata !{metadata !2}
    !1 = metadata !{i32* @global}
    !2 = metadata !{metadata !3}
    !3 = metadata !{}

turns into this:

    define @foo(i32 %v) {
      call void @llvm.foo(metadata i32 %v, metadata !0)
      call void @llvm.foo(metadata i32 7, metadata !0)
      call void @llvm.foo(metadata i32* @global, metadata !0)
      call void @llvm.foo(metadata !3, metadata !0)
      call void @llvm.foo(metadata !{!3}, metadata !0)
      ret void, !bar !2
    }
    !0 = !{!2}
    !1 = !{i32* @global}
    !2 = !{!3}
    !3 = !{}

I wrote an upgrade script that handled almost all of the tests in llvm
and many of the tests in cfe (even handling many `CHECK` lines).  I've
attached it (or will attach it in a moment if you're speedy) to PR21532
to help everyone update their out-of-tree testcases.

This is part of PR21532.

llvm-svn: 224257
2014-12-15 19:07:53 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith c5a3139ebd Reapply "blockfreq: Approximate irreducible control flow"
This reverts commit r207287, reapplying r207286.

I'm hoping that declaring an explicit struct and instantiating
`addBlockEdges()` directly works around the GCC crash from r207286.
This is a lot more boilerplate, though.

llvm-svn: 207438
2014-04-28 20:02:29 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith 42292ceaa9 Revert "blockfreq: Approximate irreducible control flow"
This reverts commit r207286.  It causes an ICE on the
cmake-llvm-x86_64-linux buildbot [1]:

    llvm/lib/Analysis/BlockFrequencyInfo.cpp: In lambda function:
    llvm/lib/Analysis/BlockFrequencyInfo.cpp:182:1: internal compiler error: in get_expr_operands, at tree-ssa-operands.c:1035

[1]: http://bb.pgr.jp/builders/cmake-llvm-x86_64-linux/builds/12093/steps/build_llvm/logs/stdio

llvm-svn: 207287
2014-04-25 23:16:58 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith 384d0e8ad4 blockfreq: Approximate irreducible control flow
Previously, irreducible backedges were ignored.  With this commit,
irreducible SCCs are discovered on the fly, and modelled as loops with
multiple headers.

This approximation specifies the headers of irreducible sub-SCCs as its
entry blocks and all nodes that are targets of a backedge within it
(excluding backedges within true sub-loops).  Block frequency
calculations act as if we insert a new block that intercepts all the
edges to the headers.  All backedges and entries to the irreducible SCC
point to this imaginary block.  This imaginary block has an edge (with
even probability) to each header block.

The result is now reasonable enough that I've added a number of
testcases for irreducible control flow.  I've outlined in
`BlockFrequencyInfoImpl.h` ways to improve the approximation.

<rdar://problem/14292693>

llvm-svn: 207286
2014-04-25 23:08:57 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith 84408d1fda blockfreq: Use better branch weights in multiexit test
The branch weights were even before.  Make them different.

<rdar://problem/14292693>

llvm-svn: 207193
2014-04-25 04:38:37 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith 58c8948a0c blockfreq: Clean up irreducible testcases
Strip irreducible testcases to pure control flow.  The function calls
made the branch weights more believable but cluttered it up a lot.
There isn't going to be any constant analysis here, so just use dumb
branch logic to clarify the important parts.

<rdar://problem/14292693>

llvm-svn: 207192
2014-04-25 04:38:35 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith b3380ea60a blockfreq: Skip irreducible backedges inside functions
The branch that skips irreducible backedges was only active when
propagating mass at the top-level.  In particular, when propagating mass
through a loop recognized by `LoopInfo` with irreducible control flow
inside, irreducible backedges would not be skipped.

Not sure where that idea came from, but the result was that mass was
lost until after loop exit.  Added a testcase that covers this case.

llvm-svn: 206860
2014-04-22 03:31:53 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith 10be9a8868 Reapply "blockfreq: Rewrite BlockFrequencyInfoImpl"
This reverts commit r206707, reapplying r206704.  The preceding commit
to CalcSpillWeights should have sorted out the failing buildbots.

<rdar://problem/14292693>

llvm-svn: 206766
2014-04-21 17:57:07 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith e63327e967 Revert "blockfreq: Rewrite BlockFrequencyInfoImpl"
This reverts commit r206704, as expected.

llvm-svn: 206707
2014-04-19 22:46:00 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith 875ddfac75 Reapply "blockfreq: Rewrite BlockFrequencyInfoImpl"
This reverts commit r206677, reapplying my BlockFrequencyInfo rewrite.

I've done a careful audit, added some asserts, and fixed a couple of
bugs (unfortunately, they were in unlikely code paths).  There's a small
chance that this will appease the failing bots [1][2].  (If so, great!)

If not, I have a follow-up commit ready that will temporarily add
-debug-only=block-freq to the two failing tests, allowing me to compare
the code path between what the failing bots and what my machines (and
the rest of the bots) are doing.  Once I've triggered those builds, I'll
revert both commits so the bots go green again.

[1]: http://bb.pgr.jp/builders/ninja-x64-msvc-RA-centos6/builds/1816
[2]: http://llvm-amd64.freebsd.your.org/b/builders/clang-i386-freebsd/builds/18445

<rdar://problem/14292693>

llvm-svn: 206704
2014-04-19 22:34:26 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith 76b813619a Revert "blockfreq: Rewrite BlockFrequencyInfoImpl" (#2)
This reverts commit r206666, as planned.

Still stumped on why the bots are failing.  Sanitizer bots haven't
turned anything up.  If anyone can help me debug either of the failures
(referenced in r206666) I'll owe them a beer.  (In the meantime, I'll be
auditing my patch for undefined behaviour.)

llvm-svn: 206677
2014-04-19 00:42:46 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith b3caf3646f Reapply "blockfreq: Rewrite BlockFrequencyInfoImpl" (#2)
This reverts commit r206628, reapplying r206622 (and r206626).

Two tests are failing only on buildbots [1][2]: i.e., I can't reproduce
on Darwin, and Chandler can't reproduce on Linux.  Asan and valgrind
don't tell us anything, but we're hoping the msan bot will catch it.

So, I'm applying this again to get more feedback from the bots.  I'll
leave it in long enough to trigger builds in at least the sanitizer
buildbots (it was failing for reasons unrelated to my commit last time
it was in), and hopefully a few others.... and then I expect to revert a
third time.

[1]: http://bb.pgr.jp/builders/ninja-x64-msvc-RA-centos6/builds/1816
[2]: http://llvm-amd64.freebsd.your.org/b/builders/clang-i386-freebsd/builds/18445

llvm-svn: 206666
2014-04-18 22:30:03 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith 0842ff36a6 Revert "blockfreq: Rewrite BlockFrequencyInfoImpl" (#2)
This reverts commit r206622 and the MSVC fixup in r206626.

Apparently the remotely failing tests are still failing, despite my
attempt to fix the nondeterminism in r206621.

llvm-svn: 206628
2014-04-18 17:56:08 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith f8361d127a Reapply "blockfreq: Rewrite BlockFrequencyInfoImpl"
This reverts commit r206556, effectively reapplying commit r206548 and
its fixups in r206549 and r206550.

In an intervening commit I've added target triples to the tests that
were failing remotely [1] (but passing locally).  I'm hoping the mystery
is solved?  I'll revert this again if the tests are still failing
remotely.

[1]: http://bb.pgr.jp/builders/ninja-x64-msvc-RA-centos6/builds/1816

llvm-svn: 206622
2014-04-18 17:22:25 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith e576167df8 Revert "blockfreq: Rewrite BlockFrequencyInfoImpl"
This reverts commits r206548, r206549 and r206549.

There are some unit tests failing that aren't failing locally [1], so
reverting until I have time to investigate.

[1]: http://bb.pgr.jp/builders/ninja-x64-msvc-RA-centos6/builds/1816

llvm-svn: 206556
2014-04-18 02:17:43 +00:00
Duncan P. N. Exon Smith 12e68e1733 blockfreq: Rewrite BlockFrequencyInfoImpl
Rewrite the shared implementation of BlockFrequencyInfo and
MachineBlockFrequencyInfo entirely.

The old implementation had a fundamental flaw:  precision losses from
nested loops (or very wide branches) compounded past loop exits (and
convergence points).

The @nested_loops testcase at the end of
test/Analysis/BlockFrequencyAnalysis/basic.ll is motivating.  This
function has three nested loops, with branch weights in the loop headers
of 1:4000 (exit:continue).  The old analysis gives non-sensical results:

    Printing analysis 'Block Frequency Analysis' for function 'nested_loops':
    ---- Block Freqs ----
     entry = 1.0
     for.cond1.preheader = 1.00103
     for.cond4.preheader = 5.5222
     for.body6 = 18095.19995
     for.inc8 = 4.52264
     for.inc11 = 0.00109
     for.end13 = 0.0

The new analysis gives correct results:

    Printing analysis 'Block Frequency Analysis' for function 'nested_loops':
    block-frequency-info: nested_loops
     - entry: float = 1.0, int = 8
     - for.cond1.preheader: float = 4001.0, int = 32007
     - for.cond4.preheader: float = 16008001.0, int = 128064007
     - for.body6: float = 64048012001.0, int = 512384096007
     - for.inc8: float = 16008001.0, int = 128064007
     - for.inc11: float = 4001.0, int = 32007
     - for.end13: float = 1.0, int = 8

Most importantly, the frequency leaving each loop matches the frequency
entering it.

The new algorithm leverages BlockMass and PositiveFloat to maintain
precision, separates "probability mass distribution" from "loop
scaling", and uses dithering to eliminate probability mass loss.  I have
unit tests for these types out of tree, but it was decided in the review
to make the classes private to BlockFrequencyInfoImpl, and try to shrink
them (or remove them entirely) in follow-up commits.

The new algorithm should generally have a complexity advantage over the
old.  The previous algorithm was quadratic in the worst case.  The new
algorithm is still worst-case quadratic in the presence of irreducible
control flow, but it's linear without it.

The key difference between the old algorithm and the new is that control
flow within a loop is evaluated separately from control flow outside,
limiting propagation of precision problems and allowing loop scale to be
calculated independently of mass distribution.  Loops are visited
bottom-up, their loop scales are calculated, and they are replaced by
pseudo-nodes.  Mass is then distributed through the function, which is
now a DAG.  Finally, loops are revisited top-down to multiply through
the loop scales and the masses distributed to pseudo nodes.

There are some remaining flaws.

  - Irreducible control flow isn't modelled correctly.  LoopInfo and
    MachineLoopInfo ignore irreducible edges, so this algorithm will
    fail to scale accordingly.  There's a note in the class
    documentation about how to get closer.  See also the comments in
    test/Analysis/BlockFrequencyInfo/irreducible.ll.

  - Loop scale is limited to 4096 per loop (2^12) to avoid exhausting
    the 64-bit integer precision used downstream.

  - The "bias" calculation proposed on llvmdev is *not* incorporated
    here.  This will be added in a follow-up commit, once comments from
    this review have been handled.

llvm-svn: 206548
2014-04-18 01:57:45 +00:00