1 //===-- BasicBlockSections.cpp ---=========--------------------------------===//
3 // Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
4 // See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
5 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
7 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
9 // BasicBlockSections implementation.
11 // The purpose of this pass is to assign sections to basic blocks when
12 // -fbasic-block-sections= option is used. Further, with profile information
13 // only the subset of basic blocks with profiles are placed in separate sections
14 // and the rest are grouped in a cold section. The exception handling blocks are
15 // treated specially to ensure they are all in one seciton.
17 // Basic Block Sections
18 // ====================
20 // With option, -fbasic-block-sections=list, every function may be split into
21 // clusters of basic blocks. Every cluster will be emitted into a separate
22 // section with its basic blocks sequenced in the given order. To get the
23 // optimized performance, the clusters must form an optimal BB layout for the
24 // function. We insert a symbol at the beginning of every cluster's section to
25 // allow the linker to reorder the sections in any arbitrary sequence. A global
26 // order of these sections would encapsulate the function layout.
27 // For example, consider the following clusters for a function foo (consisting
28 // of 6 basic blocks 0, 1, ..., 5).
33 // * Basic blocks 0 and 2 are placed in one section with symbol `foo`
34 // referencing the beginning of this section.
35 // * Basic blocks 1, 3, 5 are placed in a separate section. A new symbol
36 // `foo.__part.1` will reference the beginning of this section.
37 // * Basic block 4 (note that it is not referenced in the list) is placed in
38 // one section, and a new symbol `foo.cold` will point to it.
40 // There are a couple of challenges to be addressed:
42 // 1. The last basic block of every cluster should not have any implicit
43 // fallthrough to its next basic block, as it can be reordered by the linker.
44 // The compiler should make these fallthroughs explicit by adding
45 // unconditional jumps..
47 // 2. All inter-cluster branch targets would now need to be resolved by the
48 // linker as they cannot be calculated during compile time. This is done
49 // using static relocations. Further, the compiler tries to use short branch
50 // instructions on some ISAs for small branch offsets. This is not possible
51 // for inter-cluster branches as the offset is not determined at compile
52 // time, and therefore, long branch instructions have to be used for those.
54 // 3. Debug Information (DebugInfo) and Call Frame Information (CFI) emission
55 // needs special handling with basic block sections. DebugInfo needs to be
56 // emitted with more relocations as basic block sections can break a
57 // function into potentially several disjoint pieces, and CFI needs to be
58 // emitted per cluster. This also bloats the object file and binary sizes.
63 // With -fbasic-block-sections=labels, we emit the offsets of BB addresses of
64 // every function into the .llvm_bb_addr_map section. Along with the function
65 // symbols, this allows for mapping of virtual addresses in PMU profiles back to
66 // the corresponding basic blocks. This logic is implemented in AsmPrinter. This
67 // pass only assigns the BBSectionType of every function to ``labels``.
69 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
71 #include "llvm/ADT/Optional.h"
72 #include "llvm/ADT/SmallSet.h"
73 #include "llvm/ADT/SmallVector.h"
74 #include "llvm/ADT/StringMap.h"
75 #include "llvm/ADT/StringRef.h"
76 #include "llvm/CodeGen/BasicBlockSectionUtils.h"
77 #include "llvm/CodeGen/MachineFunction.h"
78 #include "llvm/CodeGen/MachineFunctionPass.h"
79 #include "llvm/CodeGen/MachineModuleInfo.h"
80 #include "llvm/CodeGen/Passes.h"
81 #include "llvm/CodeGen/TargetInstrInfo.h"
82 #include "llvm/InitializePasses.h"
83 #include "llvm/Support/Error.h"
84 #include "llvm/Support/LineIterator.h"
85 #include "llvm/Support/MemoryBuffer.h"
86 #include "llvm/Target/TargetMachine.h"
89 using llvm::SmallVector
;
90 using llvm::StringMap
;
91 using llvm::StringRef
;
94 // Placing the cold clusters in a separate section mitigates against poor
95 // profiles and allows optimizations such as hugepage mapping to be applied at a
96 // section granularity. Defaults to ".text.split." which is recognized by lld
97 // via the `-z keep-text-section-prefix` flag.
98 cl::opt
<std::string
> llvm::BBSectionsColdTextPrefix(
99 "bbsections-cold-text-prefix",
100 cl::desc("The text prefix to use for cold basic block clusters"),
101 cl::init(".text.split."), cl::Hidden
);
103 cl::opt
<bool> BBSectionsDetectSourceDrift(
104 "bbsections-detect-source-drift",
105 cl::desc("This checks if there is a fdo instr. profile hash "
106 "mismatch for this function"),
107 cl::init(true), cl::Hidden
);
111 // This struct represents the cluster information for a machine basic block.
112 struct BBClusterInfo
{
113 // MachineBasicBlock ID.
115 // Cluster ID this basic block belongs to.
117 // Position of basic block within the cluster.
118 unsigned PositionInCluster
;
121 using ProgramBBClusterInfoMapTy
= StringMap
<SmallVector
<BBClusterInfo
, 4>>;
123 class BasicBlockSections
: public MachineFunctionPass
{
127 // This contains the basic-block-sections profile.
128 const MemoryBuffer
*MBuf
= nullptr;
130 // This encapsulates the BB cluster information for the whole program.
132 // For every function name, it contains the cluster information for (all or
133 // some of) its basic blocks. The cluster information for every basic block
134 // includes its cluster ID along with the position of the basic block in that
136 ProgramBBClusterInfoMapTy ProgramBBClusterInfo
;
138 // Some functions have alias names. We use this map to find the main alias
139 // name for which we have mapping in ProgramBBClusterInfo.
140 StringMap
<StringRef
> FuncAliasMap
;
142 BasicBlockSections(const MemoryBuffer
*Buf
)
143 : MachineFunctionPass(ID
), MBuf(Buf
) {
144 initializeBasicBlockSectionsPass(*PassRegistry::getPassRegistry());
147 BasicBlockSections() : MachineFunctionPass(ID
) {
148 initializeBasicBlockSectionsPass(*PassRegistry::getPassRegistry());
151 StringRef
getPassName() const override
{
152 return "Basic Block Sections Analysis";
155 void getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage
&AU
) const override
;
157 /// Read profiles of basic blocks if available here.
158 bool doInitialization(Module
&M
) override
;
160 /// Identify basic blocks that need separate sections and prepare to emit them
162 bool runOnMachineFunction(MachineFunction
&MF
) override
;
165 } // end anonymous namespace
167 char BasicBlockSections::ID
= 0;
168 INITIALIZE_PASS(BasicBlockSections
, "bbsections-prepare",
169 "Prepares for basic block sections, by splitting functions "
170 "into clusters of basic blocks.",
173 // This function updates and optimizes the branching instructions of every basic
174 // block in a given function to account for changes in the layout.
175 static void updateBranches(
177 const SmallVector
<MachineBasicBlock
*, 4> &PreLayoutFallThroughs
) {
178 const TargetInstrInfo
*TII
= MF
.getSubtarget().getInstrInfo();
179 SmallVector
<MachineOperand
, 4> Cond
;
180 for (auto &MBB
: MF
) {
181 auto NextMBBI
= std::next(MBB
.getIterator());
182 auto *FTMBB
= PreLayoutFallThroughs
[MBB
.getNumber()];
183 // If this block had a fallthrough before we need an explicit unconditional
184 // branch to that block if either
185 // 1- the block ends a section, which means its next block may be
186 // reorderd by the linker, or
187 // 2- the fallthrough block is not adjacent to the block in the new
189 if (FTMBB
&& (MBB
.isEndSection() || &*NextMBBI
!= FTMBB
))
190 TII
->insertUnconditionalBranch(MBB
, FTMBB
, MBB
.findBranchDebugLoc());
192 // We do not optimize branches for machine basic blocks ending sections, as
193 // their adjacent block might be reordered by the linker.
194 if (MBB
.isEndSection())
197 // It might be possible to optimize branches by flipping the branch
200 MachineBasicBlock
*TBB
= nullptr, *FBB
= nullptr; // For analyzeBranch.
201 if (TII
->analyzeBranch(MBB
, TBB
, FBB
, Cond
))
203 MBB
.updateTerminator(FTMBB
);
207 // This function provides the BBCluster information associated with a function.
208 // Returns true if a valid association exists and false otherwise.
209 static bool getBBClusterInfoForFunction(
210 const MachineFunction
&MF
, const StringMap
<StringRef
> FuncAliasMap
,
211 const ProgramBBClusterInfoMapTy
&ProgramBBClusterInfo
,
212 std::vector
<Optional
<BBClusterInfo
>> &V
) {
213 // Get the main alias name for the function.
214 auto FuncName
= MF
.getName();
215 auto R
= FuncAliasMap
.find(FuncName
);
216 StringRef AliasName
= R
== FuncAliasMap
.end() ? FuncName
: R
->second
;
218 // Find the assoicated cluster information.
219 auto P
= ProgramBBClusterInfo
.find(AliasName
);
220 if (P
== ProgramBBClusterInfo
.end())
223 if (P
->second
.empty()) {
224 // This indicates that sections are desired for all basic blocks of this
225 // function. We clear the BBClusterInfo vector to denote this.
230 V
.resize(MF
.getNumBlockIDs());
231 for (auto bbClusterInfo
: P
->second
) {
232 // Bail out if the cluster information contains invalid MBB numbers.
233 if (bbClusterInfo
.MBBNumber
>= MF
.getNumBlockIDs())
235 V
[bbClusterInfo
.MBBNumber
] = bbClusterInfo
;
240 // This function sorts basic blocks according to the cluster's information.
241 // All explicitly specified clusters of basic blocks will be ordered
242 // accordingly. All non-specified BBs go into a separate "Cold" section.
243 // Additionally, if exception handling landing pads end up in more than one
244 // clusters, they are moved into a single "Exception" section. Eventually,
245 // clusters are ordered in increasing order of their IDs, with the "Exception"
246 // and "Cold" succeeding all other clusters.
247 // FuncBBClusterInfo represent the cluster information for basic blocks. If this
248 // is empty, it means unique sections for all basic blocks in the function.
250 assignSections(MachineFunction
&MF
,
251 const std::vector
<Optional
<BBClusterInfo
>> &FuncBBClusterInfo
) {
252 assert(MF
.hasBBSections() && "BB Sections is not set for function.");
253 // This variable stores the section ID of the cluster containing eh_pads (if
254 // all eh_pads are one cluster). If more than one cluster contain eh_pads, we
255 // set it equal to ExceptionSectionID.
256 Optional
<MBBSectionID
> EHPadsSectionID
;
258 for (auto &MBB
: MF
) {
259 // With the 'all' option, every basic block is placed in a unique section.
260 // With the 'list' option, every basic block is placed in a section
261 // associated with its cluster, unless we want individual unique sections
262 // for every basic block in this function (if FuncBBClusterInfo is empty).
263 if (MF
.getTarget().getBBSectionsType() == llvm::BasicBlockSection::All
||
264 FuncBBClusterInfo
.empty()) {
265 // If unique sections are desired for all basic blocks of the function, we
266 // set every basic block's section ID equal to its number (basic block
267 // id). This further ensures that basic blocks are ordered canonically.
268 MBB
.setSectionID({static_cast<unsigned int>(MBB
.getNumber())});
269 } else if (FuncBBClusterInfo
[MBB
.getNumber()].hasValue())
270 MBB
.setSectionID(FuncBBClusterInfo
[MBB
.getNumber()]->ClusterID
);
272 // BB goes into the special cold section if it is not specified in the
274 MBB
.setSectionID(MBBSectionID::ColdSectionID
);
277 if (MBB
.isEHPad() && EHPadsSectionID
!= MBB
.getSectionID() &&
278 EHPadsSectionID
!= MBBSectionID::ExceptionSectionID
) {
279 // If we already have one cluster containing eh_pads, this must be updated
280 // to ExceptionSectionID. Otherwise, we set it equal to the current
282 EHPadsSectionID
= EHPadsSectionID
.hasValue()
283 ? MBBSectionID::ExceptionSectionID
284 : MBB
.getSectionID();
288 // If EHPads are in more than one section, this places all of them in the
289 // special exception section.
290 if (EHPadsSectionID
== MBBSectionID::ExceptionSectionID
)
293 MBB
.setSectionID(EHPadsSectionID
.getValue());
296 void llvm::sortBasicBlocksAndUpdateBranches(
297 MachineFunction
&MF
, MachineBasicBlockComparator MBBCmp
) {
298 SmallVector
<MachineBasicBlock
*, 4> PreLayoutFallThroughs(
299 MF
.getNumBlockIDs());
301 PreLayoutFallThroughs
[MBB
.getNumber()] = MBB
.getFallThrough();
305 // Set IsBeginSection and IsEndSection according to the assigned section IDs.
306 MF
.assignBeginEndSections();
308 // After reordering basic blocks, we must update basic block branches to
309 // insert explicit fallthrough branches when required and optimize branches
311 updateBranches(MF
, PreLayoutFallThroughs
);
314 // If the exception section begins with a landing pad, that landing pad will
315 // assume a zero offset (relative to @LPStart) in the LSDA. However, a value of
316 // zero implies "no landing pad." This function inserts a NOP just before the EH
317 // pad label to ensure a nonzero offset. Returns true if padding is not needed.
318 static bool avoidZeroOffsetLandingPad(MachineFunction
&MF
) {
319 for (auto &MBB
: MF
) {
320 if (MBB
.isBeginSection() && MBB
.isEHPad()) {
321 MachineBasicBlock::iterator MI
= MBB
.begin();
322 while (!MI
->isEHLabel())
324 MCInst Nop
= MF
.getSubtarget().getInstrInfo()->getNop();
325 BuildMI(MBB
, MI
, DebugLoc(),
326 MF
.getSubtarget().getInstrInfo()->get(Nop
.getOpcode()));
333 // This checks if the source of this function has drifted since this binary was
334 // profiled previously. For now, we are piggy backing on what PGO does to
335 // detect this with instrumented profiles. PGO emits an hash of the IR and
336 // checks if the hash has changed. Advanced basic block layout is usually done
337 // on top of PGO optimized binaries and hence this check works well in practice.
338 static bool hasInstrProfHashMismatch(MachineFunction
&MF
) {
339 if (!BBSectionsDetectSourceDrift
)
342 const char MetadataName
[] = "instr_prof_hash_mismatch";
343 auto *Existing
= MF
.getFunction().getMetadata(LLVMContext::MD_annotation
);
345 MDTuple
*Tuple
= cast
<MDTuple
>(Existing
);
346 for (auto &N
: Tuple
->operands())
347 if (cast
<MDString
>(N
.get())->getString() == MetadataName
)
354 bool BasicBlockSections::runOnMachineFunction(MachineFunction
&MF
) {
355 auto BBSectionsType
= MF
.getTarget().getBBSectionsType();
356 assert(BBSectionsType
!= BasicBlockSection::None
&&
357 "BB Sections not enabled!");
359 // Check for source drift. If the source has changed since the profiles
360 // were obtained, optimizing basic blocks might be sub-optimal.
361 // This only applies to BasicBlockSection::List as it creates
362 // clusters of basic blocks using basic block ids. Source drift can
363 // invalidate these groupings leading to sub-optimal code generation with
364 // regards to performance.
365 if (BBSectionsType
== BasicBlockSection::List
&&
366 hasInstrProfHashMismatch(MF
))
369 // Renumber blocks before sorting them for basic block sections. This is
370 // useful during sorting, basic blocks in the same section will retain the
371 // default order. This renumbering should also be done for basic block
372 // labels to match the profiles with the correct blocks.
375 if (BBSectionsType
== BasicBlockSection::Labels
) {
376 MF
.setBBSectionsType(BBSectionsType
);
380 std::vector
<Optional
<BBClusterInfo
>> FuncBBClusterInfo
;
381 if (BBSectionsType
== BasicBlockSection::List
&&
382 !getBBClusterInfoForFunction(MF
, FuncAliasMap
, ProgramBBClusterInfo
,
385 MF
.setBBSectionsType(BBSectionsType
);
386 assignSections(MF
, FuncBBClusterInfo
);
388 // We make sure that the cluster including the entry basic block precedes all
390 auto EntryBBSectionID
= MF
.front().getSectionID();
392 // Helper function for ordering BB sections as follows:
393 // * Entry section (section including the entry block).
394 // * Regular sections (in increasing order of their Number).
396 // * Exception section
398 auto MBBSectionOrder
= [EntryBBSectionID
](const MBBSectionID
&LHS
,
399 const MBBSectionID
&RHS
) {
400 // We make sure that the section containing the entry block precedes all the
402 if (LHS
== EntryBBSectionID
|| RHS
== EntryBBSectionID
)
403 return LHS
== EntryBBSectionID
;
404 return LHS
.Type
== RHS
.Type
? LHS
.Number
< RHS
.Number
: LHS
.Type
< RHS
.Type
;
407 // We sort all basic blocks to make sure the basic blocks of every cluster are
408 // contiguous and ordered accordingly. Furthermore, clusters are ordered in
409 // increasing order of their section IDs, with the exception and the
410 // cold section placed at the end of the function.
411 auto Comparator
= [&](const MachineBasicBlock
&X
,
412 const MachineBasicBlock
&Y
) {
413 auto XSectionID
= X
.getSectionID();
414 auto YSectionID
= Y
.getSectionID();
415 if (XSectionID
!= YSectionID
)
416 return MBBSectionOrder(XSectionID
, YSectionID
);
417 // If the two basic block are in the same section, the order is decided by
418 // their position within the section.
419 if (XSectionID
.Type
== MBBSectionID::SectionType::Default
)
420 return FuncBBClusterInfo
[X
.getNumber()]->PositionInCluster
<
421 FuncBBClusterInfo
[Y
.getNumber()]->PositionInCluster
;
422 return X
.getNumber() < Y
.getNumber();
425 sortBasicBlocksAndUpdateBranches(MF
, Comparator
);
426 avoidZeroOffsetLandingPad(MF
);
430 // Basic Block Sections can be enabled for a subset of machine basic blocks.
431 // This is done by passing a file containing names of functions for which basic
432 // block sections are desired. Additionally, machine basic block ids of the
433 // functions can also be specified for a finer granularity. Moreover, a cluster
434 // of basic blocks could be assigned to the same section.
435 // A file with basic block sections for all of function main and three blocks
436 // for function foo (of which 1 and 2 are placed in a cluster) looks like this:
437 // ----------------------------
443 static Error
getBBClusterInfo(const MemoryBuffer
*MBuf
,
444 ProgramBBClusterInfoMapTy
&ProgramBBClusterInfo
,
445 StringMap
<StringRef
> &FuncAliasMap
) {
447 line_iterator
LineIt(*MBuf
, /*SkipBlanks=*/true, /*CommentMarker=*/'#');
449 auto invalidProfileError
= [&](auto Message
) {
450 return make_error
<StringError
>(
451 Twine("Invalid profile " + MBuf
->getBufferIdentifier() + " at line " +
452 Twine(LineIt
.line_number()) + ": " + Message
),
453 inconvertibleErrorCode());
456 auto FI
= ProgramBBClusterInfo
.end();
458 // Current cluster ID corresponding to this function.
459 unsigned CurrentCluster
= 0;
460 // Current position in the current cluster.
461 unsigned CurrentPosition
= 0;
463 // Temporary set to ensure every basic block ID appears once in the clusters
465 SmallSet
<unsigned, 4> FuncBBIDs
;
467 for (; !LineIt
.is_at_eof(); ++LineIt
) {
468 StringRef
S(*LineIt
);
471 // Check for the leading "!"
472 if (!S
.consume_front("!") || S
.empty())
474 // Check for second "!" which indicates a cluster of basic blocks.
475 if (S
.consume_front("!")) {
476 if (FI
== ProgramBBClusterInfo
.end())
477 return invalidProfileError(
478 "Cluster list does not follow a function name specifier.");
479 SmallVector
<StringRef
, 4> BBIndexes
;
480 S
.split(BBIndexes
, ' ');
481 // Reset current cluster position.
483 for (auto BBIndexStr
: BBIndexes
) {
484 unsigned long long BBIndex
;
485 if (getAsUnsignedInteger(BBIndexStr
, 10, BBIndex
))
486 return invalidProfileError(Twine("Unsigned integer expected: '") +
488 if (!FuncBBIDs
.insert(BBIndex
).second
)
489 return invalidProfileError(Twine("Duplicate basic block id found '") +
491 if (!BBIndex
&& CurrentPosition
)
492 return invalidProfileError("Entry BB (0) does not begin a cluster.");
494 FI
->second
.emplace_back(BBClusterInfo
{
495 ((unsigned)BBIndex
), CurrentCluster
, CurrentPosition
++});
498 } else { // This is a function name specifier.
499 // Function aliases are separated using '/'. We use the first function
500 // name for the cluster info mapping and delegate all other aliases to
502 SmallVector
<StringRef
, 4> Aliases
;
503 S
.split(Aliases
, '/');
504 for (size_t i
= 1; i
< Aliases
.size(); ++i
)
505 FuncAliasMap
.try_emplace(Aliases
[i
], Aliases
.front());
507 // Prepare for parsing clusters of this function name.
508 // Start a new cluster map for this function name.
509 FI
= ProgramBBClusterInfo
.try_emplace(Aliases
.front()).first
;
514 return Error::success();
517 bool BasicBlockSections::doInitialization(Module
&M
) {
520 if (auto Err
= getBBClusterInfo(MBuf
, ProgramBBClusterInfo
, FuncAliasMap
))
521 report_fatal_error(std::move(Err
));
525 void BasicBlockSections::getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage
&AU
) const {
526 AU
.setPreservesAll();
527 MachineFunctionPass::getAnalysisUsage(AU
);
530 MachineFunctionPass
*
531 llvm::createBasicBlockSectionsPass(const MemoryBuffer
*Buf
) {
532 return new BasicBlockSections(Buf
);