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Dehao Chen a60cdd3881 Add function importing info from samplepgo profile to the module summary.
Summary: For SamplePGO, the profile may contain cross-module inline stacks. As we need to make sure the profile annotation happens when all the hot inline stacks are expanded, we need to pass this info to the module importer so that it can import proper functions if necessary. This patch implemented this feature by emitting cross-module targets as part of function entry metadata. In the module-summary phase, the metadata is used to build call edges that points to functions need to be imported.

Reviewers: mehdi_amini, tejohnson

Reviewed By: tejohnson

Subscribers: davidxl, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D30053

llvm-svn: 296498
2017-02-28 18:09:44 +00:00
Peter Collingbourne be9ffaacfa IR: Function summary extensions for whole-program devirtualization pass.
The summary information includes all uses of llvm.type.test and
llvm.type.checked.load intrinsics that can be used to devirtualize calls,
including any constant arguments for virtual constant propagation.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D29734

llvm-svn: 294795
2017-02-10 22:29:38 +00:00
Adrian Prantl a5bf2d7003 Fix bitcode upgrade for DIGlobalVariables with a var: field.
This is a follow-up to https://reviews.llvm.org/D29349.  It turns out
that NeedUpgradeToDIGlobalVariableExpression is always necessary when
we encountered a version==0 record because it may always be referenced
via a list of globals in a DICompileUnit. My tests weren't good enough
to catch this though. To trigger this case, we need much older bitcode
produced by LLVM around version 3.7.

<rdar://problem/30404262>

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D29693

llvm-svn: 294488
2017-02-08 17:44:43 +00:00
Adrian Prantl e37d314464 Fix the bitcode upgrade for DIGlobalVariable in a DIImportedEntity context.
The bitcode upgrade for DIGlobalVariable unconditionally wrapped
DIGlobalVariables in a DIGlobalVariableExpression. When a
DIGlobalVariable is referenced by a DIImportedEntity, however, this is
wrong. This patch fixes the bitcode upgrade by deferring the creation
of DIGlobalVariableExpressions until we know the context of the
DIGlobalVariable.

<rdar://problem/30134279>

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D29349

llvm-svn: 294318
2017-02-07 17:35:41 +00:00
Dehao Chen 0944a8c2ec Change debug-info-for-profiling from a TargetOption to a function attribute.
Summary: LTO requires the debug-info-for-profiling to be a function attribute.

Reviewers: echristo, mehdi_amini, dblaikie, probinson, aprantl

Reviewed By: mehdi_amini, dblaikie, aprantl

Subscribers: aprantl, probinson, ahatanak, llvm-commits, mehdi_amini

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D29203

llvm-svn: 293833
2017-02-01 22:45:09 +00:00
Teresa Johnson 519465b993 [ThinLTO] Subsume all importing checks into a single flag
Summary:
This adds a new summary flag NotEligibleToImport that subsumes
several existing flags (NoRename, HasInlineAsmMaybeReferencingInternal
and IsNotViableToInline). It also subsumes the checking of references
on the summary that was being done during the thin link by
eligibleForImport() for each candidate. It is much more efficient to
do that checking once during the per-module summary build and record
it in the summary.

Reviewers: mehdi_amini

Subscribers: llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D28169

llvm-svn: 291108
2017-01-05 14:32:16 +00:00
Adrian Prantl 36daf63b2b Add llvm-bcanalyzer support for new metadata node types.
Also sort the existing list by value.

llvm-svn: 290901
2017-01-03 19:17:49 +00:00
Mehdi Amini e98f925834 Add an index for Module Metadata record in the bitcode
This index record the position for each metadata record in
the bitcode, so that the reader will be able to lazy-load
on demand each individual record.

We also make sure that every abbrev is emitted upfront so
that the block can be skipped while reading.

I don't plan to commit this before having the reader
counterpart, but I figured this can be reviewed mostly
independently.

Recommit r290684 (was reverted in r290686 because a test
was broken) after adding a threshold to avoid emitting
the index when unnecessary (little amount of metadata).
This optimization "hides" a limitation of the ability
to backpatch in the bitstream: we can only backpatch
safely when the position has been flushed. So if we emit
an index for one metadata, it is possible that (part of)
the offset placeholder hasn't been flushed and the backpatch
will fail.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D28083

llvm-svn: 290690
2016-12-28 22:30:28 +00:00
Saleem Abdulrasool 2b59eca1f7 Revert "Add an index for Module Metadata record in the bitcode"
This reverts commit a0ca6ae2d38339e4ede0dfa588086fc23d87e836.  Revert at
Mehdi's request as it is breaking bots.

llvm-svn: 290686
2016-12-28 20:37:22 +00:00
Mehdi Amini 32ca148198 Add an index for Module Metadata record in the bitcode
Summary:
This index record the position for each metadata record in
the bitcode, so that the reader will be able to lazy-load
on demand each individual record.

We also make sure that every abbrev is emitted upfront so
that the block can be skipped while reading.

I don't plan to commit this before having the reader
counterpart, but I figured this can be reviewed mostly
independently.

Reviewers: pcc, tejohnson

Subscribers: llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D28083

llvm-svn: 290684
2016-12-28 19:44:19 +00:00
Peter Collingbourne 1b4137a7f9 IR: Function summary representation for type tests.
Each function summary has an attached list of type identifier GUIDs. The
idea is that during the regular LTO phase we would match these GUIDs to type
identifiers defined by the regular LTO module and store the resolutions in
a top-level "type identifier summary" (which will be implemented separately).

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27967

llvm-svn: 290280
2016-12-21 23:03:45 +00:00
Peter Collingbourne 0c30f089d5 IR: Eliminate non-determinism in the module summary analysis.
Also make the summary ref and call graph vectors immutable. This means
a smaller API surface and fewer places to audit for non-determinism.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27875

llvm-svn: 290200
2016-12-20 21:12:28 +00:00
Adrian Prantl bceaaa9643 [IR] Remove the DIExpression field from DIGlobalVariable.
This patch implements PR31013 by introducing a
DIGlobalVariableExpression that holds a pair of DIGlobalVariable and
DIExpression.

Currently, DIGlobalVariables holds a DIExpression. This is not the
best way to model this:

(1) The DIGlobalVariable should describe the source level variable,
    not how to get to its location.

(2) It makes it unsafe/hard to update the expressions when we call
    replaceExpression on the DIGLobalVariable.

(3) It makes it impossible to represent a global variable that is in
    more than one location (e.g., a variable with multiple
    DW_OP_LLVM_fragment-s).  We also moved away from attaching the
    DIExpression to DILocalVariable for the same reasons.

This reapplies r289902 with additional testcase upgrades and a change
to the Bitcode record for DIGlobalVariable, that makes upgrading the
old format unambiguous also for variables without DIExpressions.

<rdar://problem/29250149>
https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=31013
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26769

llvm-svn: 290153
2016-12-20 02:09:43 +00:00
Adrian Prantl 73ec065604 Revert "[IR] Remove the DIExpression field from DIGlobalVariable."
This reverts commit 289920 (again).
I forgot to implement a Bitcode upgrade for the case where a DIGlobalVariable
has not DIExpression. Unfortunately it is not possible to safely upgrade
these variables without adding a flag to the bitcode record indicating which
version they are.
My plan of record is to roll the planned follow-up patch that adds a
unit: field to DIGlobalVariable into this patch before recomitting.
This way we only need one Bitcode upgrade for both changes (with a
version flag in the bitcode record to safely distinguish the record
formats).

Sorry for the churn!

llvm-svn: 289982
2016-12-16 19:39:01 +00:00
Adrian Prantl 74a835cda0 [IR] Remove the DIExpression field from DIGlobalVariable.
This patch implements PR31013 by introducing a
DIGlobalVariableExpression that holds a pair of DIGlobalVariable and
DIExpression.

Currently, DIGlobalVariables holds a DIExpression. This is not the
best way to model this:

(1) The DIGlobalVariable should describe the source level variable,
    not how to get to its location.

(2) It makes it unsafe/hard to update the expressions when we call
    replaceExpression on the DIGLobalVariable.

(3) It makes it impossible to represent a global variable that is in
    more than one location (e.g., a variable with multiple
    DW_OP_LLVM_fragment-s).  We also moved away from attaching the
    DIExpression to DILocalVariable for the same reasons.

This reapplies r289902 with additional testcase upgrades.

<rdar://problem/29250149>
https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=31013
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26769

llvm-svn: 289920
2016-12-16 04:25:54 +00:00
Adrian Prantl 03c6d31a3b Revert "[IR] Remove the DIExpression field from DIGlobalVariable."
This reverts commit 289902 while investigating bot berakage.

llvm-svn: 289906
2016-12-16 01:00:30 +00:00
Adrian Prantl ce13935776 [IR] Remove the DIExpression field from DIGlobalVariable.
This patch implements PR31013 by introducing a
DIGlobalVariableExpression that holds a pair of DIGlobalVariable and
DIExpression.

Currently, DIGlobalVariables holds a DIExpression. This is not the
best way to model this:

(1) The DIGlobalVariable should describe the source level variable,
    not how to get to its location.

(2) It makes it unsafe/hard to update the expressions when we call
    replaceExpression on the DIGLobalVariable.

(3) It makes it impossible to represent a global variable that is in
    more than one location (e.g., a variable with multiple
    DW_OP_LLVM_fragment-s).  We also moved away from attaching the
    DIExpression to DILocalVariable for the same reasons.

<rdar://problem/29250149>
https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=31013
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26769

llvm-svn: 289902
2016-12-16 00:36:43 +00:00
Adrian Prantl 941fa7588b [DIExpression] Introduce a dedicated DW_OP_LLVM_fragment operation
so we can stop using DW_OP_bit_piece with the wrong semantics.

The entire back story can be found here:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20161114/405934.html

The gist is that in LLVM we've been misinterpreting DW_OP_bit_piece's
offset field to mean the offset into the source variable rather than
the offset into the location at the top the DWARF expression stack. In
order to be able to fix this in a subsequent patch, this patch
introduces a dedicated DW_OP_LLVM_fragment operation with the
semantics that we used to apply to DW_OP_bit_piece, which is what we
actually need while inside of LLVM. This patch is complete with a
bitcode upgrade for expressions using the old format. It does not yet
fix the DWARF backend to use DW_OP_bit_piece correctly.

Implementation note: We discussed several options for implementing
this, including reserving a dedicated field in DIExpression for the
fragment size and offset, but using an custom operator at the end of
the expression works just fine and is more efficient because we then
only pay for it when we need it.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27361
rdar://problem/29335809

llvm-svn: 288683
2016-12-05 18:04:47 +00:00
Peter Collingbourne 8700d91ddb Bitcode: Add a more comprehensive multi-module test now that we have both llvm-cat and llvm-modextract.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27189

llvm-svn: 288202
2016-11-29 21:55:09 +00:00
Peter Collingbourne 5a0a2e648c Bitcode: Introduce BitcodeWriter interface.
This interface allows clients to write multiple modules to a single
bitcode file. Also introduce the llvm-cat utility which can be used
to create a bitcode file containing multiple modules.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26179

llvm-svn: 288195
2016-11-29 20:43:47 +00:00
Peter Collingbourne 7a74803abf Bitcode: Introduce initial multi-module reader API.
Implement getLazyBitcodeModule() and parseBitcodeFile() in terms of it.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26719

llvm-svn: 287156
2016-11-16 21:44:45 +00:00
Peter Collingbourne d93620bf4d IR: Introduce inrange attribute on getelementptr indices.
If the inrange keyword is present before any index, loading from or
storing to any pointer derived from the getelementptr has undefined
behavior if the load or store would access memory outside of the bounds of
the element selected by the index marked as inrange.

This can be used, e.g. for alias analysis or to split globals at element
boundaries where beneficial.

As previously proposed on llvm-dev:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-July/102472.html

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22793

llvm-svn: 286514
2016-11-10 22:34:55 +00:00
Peter Collingbourne 58f7f0759f Bitcode: Change the BitcodeReader to use llvm::Error internally.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26430

llvm-svn: 286323
2016-11-09 00:51:04 +00:00
Adrian Prantl dbfda63695 Add DWARF debug info support for C++11 inline namespaces.
This implements the DWARF 5 DW_AT_export_symbols feature:
http://dwarfstd.org/ShowIssue.php?issue=141212.1

<rdar://problem/18616046>

llvm-svn: 285959
2016-11-03 19:42:02 +00:00
Peter Collingbourne ff2c2ec6b2 Bitcode: Check file size before reading bitcode header.
Should unbreak ocaml binding tests.

Also added an llvm-dis test that checks for the same thing.

llvm-svn: 285777
2016-11-02 00:39:11 +00:00
Peter Collingbourne 028eb5a3f8 Bitcode: Change reader interface to take memory buffers.
As proposed on llvm-dev:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-October/106595.html

This change also fixes an API oddity where BitstreamCursor::Read() would
return zero for the first read past the end of the bitstream, but would
report_fatal_error for subsequent reads. Now we always report_fatal_error
for all reads past the end. Updated clients to check for the end of the
bitstream before reading from it.

I also needed to add padding to the invalid bitcode tests in
test/Bitcode/. This is because the streaming interface was not checking that
the file size is a multiple of 4.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26219

llvm-svn: 285773
2016-11-02 00:08:19 +00:00
Victor Leschuk 83d3f62120 DebugInfo: add bitcode upgrade test for alignment
Bitcode format was changed in D25073, this adds bitcode upgrade test.

llvm-svn: 285179
2016-10-26 08:34:19 +00:00
Victor Leschuk 2461a2e2c5 DebugInfo: remove broken bitcode upgrade test
llvm-svn: 284682
2016-10-20 00:26:36 +00:00
Victor Leschuk 2ede126b1b DebugInfo: preparation to implement DW_AT_alignment
- Add alignment attribute to DIVariable family
 - Modify bitcode format to match new DIVariable representation
 - Update tests to match these changes (also add bitcode upgrade test)
 - Expect that frontend passes non-zero align value only when it is not default
   (was forcibly aligned by alignas()/_Alignas()/__atribute__(aligned())

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D25073

llvm-svn: 284678
2016-10-20 00:13:12 +00:00
Adrian Prantl 3bfe1093df Teach llvm::StripDebugInfo() about global variable !dbg attachments.
This is a regression introduced by the global variable ownership
reversal performed in r281284.

rdar://problem/28448075

llvm-svn: 283784
2016-10-10 17:53:33 +00:00
Teresa Johnson 897bab9b35 [ThinLTO] Record calls to aliases
Summary:
When there is a call to an alias in the same module, we were not
adding a call edge. So we could incorrectly think that the alias
was dead if it was inlined in that function, despite having a
reference imported elsewhere. This resulted in unsats at link time.

Add a call edge when the call is to an alias.

Reviewers: davide, mehdi_amini

Subscribers: llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D25384

llvm-svn: 283664
2016-10-08 16:11:42 +00:00
Piotr Padlewski d9830eb79f [thinlto] Basic thinlto fdo heuristic
Summary:
This patch improves thinlto importer
by importing 3x larger functions that are called from hot block.

I compared performance with the trunk on spec, and there
were about 2% on povray and 3.33% on milc. These results seems
to be consistant and match the results Teresa got with her simple
heuristic. Some benchmarks got slower but I think they are just
noisy (mcf, xalancbmki, omnetpp)- running the benchmarks again with
more iterations to confirm. Geomean of all benchmarks including the noisy ones
were about +0.02%.

I see much better improvement on google branch with Easwaran patch
for pgo callsite inlining (the inliner actually inline those big functions)
Over all I see +0.5% improvement, and I get +8.65% on povray.
So I guess we will see much bigger change when Easwaran patch will land
(it depends on new pass manager), but it is still worth putting this to trunk
before it.

Implementation details changes:
- Removed CallsiteCount.
- ProfileCount got replaced by Hotness
- hot-import-multiplier is set to 3.0 for now,
didn't have time to tune it up, but I see that we get most of the interesting
functions with 3, so there is no much performance difference with higher, and
binary size doesn't grow as much as with 10.0.

Reviewers: eraman, mehdi_amini, tejohnson

Subscribers: mehdi_amini, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24638

llvm-svn: 282437
2016-09-26 20:37:32 +00:00
Teresa Johnson 620c140a9b [ThinLTO] Always emit a summary when compiling in ThinLTO mode
Summary:
Emit an empty summary section, instead of no summary section, when
there are no global variables in the index. This ensures that LTO
will treat these files as ThinLTO inputs, instead of as regular
LTO inputs.

In addition to not being what the user likely intended when
compiling with -flto=thin, the current behavior is problematic for
distributed build systems that expect to get ThinLTO index and imports
files back for each input compiled with -flto=thin. Combining into
a single regular LTO module also reduces the backend parallelism.
And in the case where the index was suppressed due to uses in
inline assembly, combining into a single LTO module could provoke
renaming of duplicates that we were trying to prevent by suppressing
the index.

This change required a couple of fixes to handle the empty summary
section.

Reviewers: mehdi_amini

Subscribers: mehdi_amini, llvm-commits, pcc

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24779

llvm-svn: 282037
2016-09-20 23:07:17 +00:00
Mehdi Amini 7cf6382657 BitcodeWriter: fix emission of invoke when calling a var-arg function with operand bundles
llvm-svn: 281940
2016-09-19 21:27:04 +00:00
Mehdi Amini 55b06538b5 Fix test after renaming -name-anon-functions pass to -name-anon-globals
llvm-svn: 281752
2016-09-16 17:18:16 +00:00
Mehdi Amini b53b62eb69 Fix autoupgrade logic for Objective-C class properties module flag
Previous we were issuing an error when linking a module containing
the new Objective-C metadata structure for class properties with an
"old" one.
Now instead we downgrade the module flag so that the Objective-C
runtime does not expect the new metadata structure.

This is consistent with what ld64 is doing on binary files.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24620

llvm-svn: 281685
2016-09-16 00:38:18 +00:00
Peter Collingbourne d4135bbc30 DebugInfo: New metadata representation for global variables.
This patch reverses the edge from DIGlobalVariable to GlobalVariable.
This will allow us to more easily preserve debug info metadata when
manipulating global variables.

Fixes PR30362. A program for upgrading test cases is attached to that
bug.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D20147

llvm-svn: 281284
2016-09-13 01:12:59 +00:00
Vedant Kumar e32490933e [Bitcode] Add compatibility test for the 3.9 release
Fork off compatibility.ll for the 3.9 release. The *.bc file in this
commit was produced using a Release build of the release_39 branch.

llvm-svn: 281059
2016-09-09 17:24:31 +00:00
Piotr Padlewski 6b96c15b83 Deleted right file
llvm-svn: 280887
2016-09-07 23:46:52 +00:00
Piotr Padlewski 3a0579f699 Revert "[thinlto] Deleted unused test file"
This reverts commit a7ad00460027c4a92640c2a5706a7d1869b60989.

llvm-svn: 280886
2016-09-07 23:46:50 +00:00
Piotr Padlewski e66bfd6bd6 [thinlto] Deleted unused test file
Summary:
This file should be referenced from
thinlto-function-summary-callgraph-pgo.ll file,
but someone forgot to use it there. Everything worked because
we store pgo data about callsite blocks, so there is no need to have
pgo count of @func.

Reviewers: tejohnson, eraman, mehdi_amini

Subscribers: mehdi_amini, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24309

llvm-svn: 280882
2016-09-07 23:35:46 +00:00
Teresa Johnson 4223dd8559 [PM] Port NameAnonFunction pass to new pass manager
Summary:
Port the NameAnonFunction pass and add a test.

Depends on D23439.

Reviewers: mehdi_amini

Subscribers: llvm-commits, mehdi_amini

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23440

llvm-svn: 278509
2016-08-12 14:03:36 +00:00
Teresa Johnson f93b246f8b [PM] Port ModuleSummaryIndex analysis to new pass manager
Summary:
Port the ModuleSummaryAnalysisWrapperPass to the new pass manager.
Use it in the ported BitcodeWriterPass (similar to how we use the
legacy ModuleSummaryAnalysisWrapperPass in the legacy WriteBitcodePass).

Also, pass the -module-summary opt flag through to the new pass
manager pipeline and through to the bitcode writer pass, and add
a test that uses it.

Reviewers: mehdi_amini

Subscribers: llvm-commits, mehdi_amini

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23439

llvm-svn: 278508
2016-08-12 13:53:02 +00:00
Piotr Padlewski 332b3b2210 Don't import variadic functions
Summary:
This patch adds IsVariadicFunction bit to summary in order
to not import variadic functions. Inliner doesn't inline
variadic functions because it is hard to reason about it.

This one small fix improves Importer by about 16%
(going from 86% to 100% of imported functions that are
inlined anywhere)
on some spec benchmarks like 'int' and others.

Reviewers: eraman, mehdi_amini, tejohnson

Subscribers: mehdi_amini, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23339

llvm-svn: 278432
2016-08-11 22:13:57 +00:00
Nicolai Haehnle 84c9f9919a Add writeonly IR attribute
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
2016-07-04 08:01:29 +00:00
Reid Kleckner b5af11dfa3 [codeview] Add DISubprogram::ThisAdjustment
Summary:
This represents the adjustment applied to the implicit 'this' parameter
in the prologue of a virtual method in the MS C++ ABI. The adjustment is
always zero unless multiple inheritance is involved.

This increases the size of DISubprogram by 8 bytes, unfortunately. The
adjustment really is a signed 32-bit integer. If this size increase is
too much, we could probably win it back by splitting out a subclass with
info specific to virtual methods (virtuality, vindex, thisadjustment,
containingType).

Reviewers: aprantl, dexonsmith

Subscribers: aaboud, amccarth, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21614

llvm-svn: 274325
2016-07-01 02:41:21 +00:00
Peter Collingbourne b19924a425 BitcodeWriter: Remove redundant (and incorrect) check for whether to emit module summary.
The function name Module::empty() is slightly misleading in that it
only tests for the presence of functions in the module. However we
still want to emit the module summary if the module contains only
global variables or aliases. The presence of such entities can be
determined simply by checking the summary directly, as we are doing
below.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21669

llvm-svn: 273638
2016-06-24 01:58:02 +00:00
Peter Collingbourne 96efdd6107 IR: Introduce local_unnamed_addr attribute.
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.html
http://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
2016-06-14 21:01:22 +00:00
Filipe Cabecinhas 6328f8e9e6 [BitCode] Make sure atomicrmw's argument is an actual PointerType
llvm-svn: 271851
2016-06-05 18:43:40 +00:00
Filipe Cabecinhas 036e73c8bf [BitCode] Make sure storeatomic's argument is an actual PointerType
llvm-svn: 271850
2016-06-05 18:43:33 +00:00