1 llvm-profdata - Profile data tool
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7 :program:`llvm-profdata` *command* [*args...*]
12 The :program:`llvm-profdata` tool is a small utility for working with profile
18 * :ref:`merge <profdata-merge>`
19 * :ref:`show <profdata-show>`
21 .. program:: llvm-profdata merge
31 :program:`llvm-profdata merge` [*options*] [*filename...*]
36 :program:`llvm-profdata merge` takes several profile data files
37 generated by PGO instrumentation and merges them together into a single
38 indexed profile data file.
40 By default profile data is merged without modification. This means that the
41 relative importance of each input file is proportional to the number of samples
42 or counts it contains. In general, the input from a longer training run will be
43 interpreted as relatively more important than a shorter run. Depending on the
44 nature of the training runs it may be useful to adjust the weight given to each
45 input file by using the ``-weighted-input`` option.
47 Profiles passed in via ``-weighted-input``, ``-input-files``, or via positional
48 arguments are processed once for each time they are seen.
56 Print a summary of command line options.
58 .. option:: -output=output, -o=output
60 Specify the output file name. *Output* cannot be ``-`` as the resulting
61 indexed profile data can't be written to standard output.
63 .. option:: -weighted-input=weight,filename
65 Specify an input file name along with a weight. The profile counts of the
66 supplied ``filename`` will be scaled (multiplied) by the supplied
67 ``weight``, where where ``weight`` is a decimal integer >= 1.
68 Input files specified without using this option are assigned a default
69 weight of 1. Examples are shown below.
71 .. option:: -input-files=path, -f=path
73 Specify a file which contains a list of files to merge. The entries in this
74 file are newline-separated. Lines starting with '#' are skipped. Entries may
75 be of the form <filename> or <weight>,<filename>.
77 .. option:: -instr (default)
79 Specify that the input profile is an instrumentation-based profile.
83 Specify that the input profile is a sample-based profile.
85 The format of the generated file can be generated in one of three ways:
87 .. option:: -binary (default)
89 Emit the profile using a binary encoding. For instrumentation-based profile
90 the output format is the indexed binary format.
94 Emit the profile in text mode. This option can also be used with both
95 sample-based and instrumentation-based profile. When this option is used
96 the profile will be dumped in the text format that is parsable by the profile
101 Emit the profile using GCC's gcov format (Not yet supported).
103 .. option:: -sparse[=true|false]
105 Do not emit function records with 0 execution count. Can only be used in
106 conjunction with -instr. Defaults to false, since it can inhibit compiler
107 optimization during PGO.
109 .. option:: -num-threads=N, -j=N
111 Use N threads to perform profile merging. When N=0, llvm-profdata auto-detects
112 an appropriate number of threads to use. This is the default.
118 Merge three profiles:
122 llvm-profdata merge foo.profdata bar.profdata baz.profdata -output merged.profdata
126 The input file `foo.profdata` is especially important, multiply its counts by 10:
130 llvm-profdata merge -weighted-input=10,foo.profdata bar.profdata baz.profdata -output merged.profdata
132 Exactly equivalent to the previous invocation (explicit form; useful for programmatic invocation):
136 llvm-profdata merge -weighted-input=10,foo.profdata -weighted-input=1,bar.profdata -weighted-input=1,baz.profdata -output merged.profdata
138 .. program:: llvm-profdata show
148 :program:`llvm-profdata show` [*options*] [*filename*]
153 :program:`llvm-profdata show` takes a profile data file and displays the
154 information about the profile counters for this file and
155 for any of the specified function(s).
157 If *filename* is omitted or is ``-``, then **llvm-profdata show** reads its
158 input from standard input.
163 .. option:: -all-functions
165 Print details for every function.
169 Print the counter values for the displayed functions.
171 .. option:: -function=string
173 Print details for a function if the function's name contains the given string.
177 Print a summary of command line options.
179 .. option:: -output=output, -o=output
181 Specify the output file name. If *output* is ``-`` or it isn't specified,
182 then the output is sent to standard output.
184 .. option:: -instr (default)
186 Specify that the input profile is an instrumentation-based profile.
190 Instruct the profile dumper to show profile counts in the text format of the
191 instrumentation-based profile data representation. By default, the profile
192 information is dumped in a more human readable form (also in text) with
197 Instruct the profile dumper to show the top ``n`` functions with the
198 hottest basic blocks in the summary section. By default, the topn functions
203 Specify that the input profile is a sample-based profile.
205 .. option:: -memop-sizes
207 Show the profiled sizes of the memory intrinsic calls for shown functions.
212 :program:`llvm-profdata` returns 1 if the command is omitted or is invalid,
213 if it cannot read input files, or if there is a mismatch between their data.