[cfe-dev] unexpected coverage results for inline function with conditional #ifdef

Friedman, Eli via cfe-dev cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
Wed Nov 29 11:13:13 PST 2017


The given example has undefined behavior; C++ ODR says that inline 
functions are required to have the same definition in every translation 
unit.  (You can avoid this problem by making the function in question 
"static inline".) You're lucky that the only consequence you're seeing 
is that the coverage output is wrong; it could very easily lead to a 
crash or memory corruption instead.

-Eli

On 11/29/2017 4:28 AM, Serge Preis via cfe-dev wrote:
> Hello Vedant,
> I tried to look into this with Sam and hope my initial analysys will help.
> It seems to me that we face some kind of profile counter aliasing:
> On slightly different example I see the following in .ll files:
> ** In inlined code same counters are incremented in 2 differently 
> inlined codes (dpending on define like in the code Sam provided). They 
> look like:
>   %pgocount.i = load i64, i64* getelementptr inbounds ([2 x i64], [2 x 
> i64]* @__profc__Z22inline_foo_from_headeri, i64 0, i64 0), align 8, 
> !dbg !23
>   %1 = add i64 %pgocount.i, 1, !dbg !23
>   store i64 %1, i64* getelementptr inbounds ([2 x i64], [2 x i64]* 
> @__profc__Z22inline_foo_from_headeri, i64 0, i64 0), align 8, !dbg !23 
> <<<<< Counter #0
> ...
> if.then.i:                                        ; preds = %entry
>   %pgocount8.i = load i64, i64* getelementptr inbounds ([2 x i64], [2 
> x i64]* @__profc__Z22inline_foo_from_headeri, i64 0, i64 1), align 8, 
> !dbg !27
>   %2 = add i64 %pgocount8.i, 1, !dbg !27
>   store i64 %2, i64* getelementptr inbounds ([2 x i64], [2 x i64]* 
> @__profc__Z22inline_foo_from_headeri, i64 0, i64 1), align 8, !dbg !27 
> <<<<< Counter #1
> The 2nd counter naturally belongs to different code paths in different 
> inlining destination files.
> ** The counters structure looks like following in both files:
> @__profd__Z22inline_foo_from_headeri = linkonce_odr hidden global { 
> i64, i64, i64*, i8*, i8*, i32, [2 x i16] } { i64 -3479956896993626287, 
> i64 10, i64* getelementptr inbounds ([2 x i64], [2 x i64]* 
> @__profc__Z22inline_foo_from_headeri, i32 0, i32 0), i8* bitcast (i32 
> (i32)* @_Z22inline_foo_from_headeri to i8*), i8* null, i32 2, [2 x 
> i16] zeroinitializer }, section "__llvm_prf_data", 
> comdat($__profv__Z22inline_foo_from_headeri), align 8
> So the counters are definitely shared between inlined instances, This 
> looks reasonable.
> ** The __llvm_coverage_mapping structures are indeed different, but 
> refere to same counters:
> @__llvm_coverage_mapping = internal constant { { i32, i32, i32, i32 }, 
> [2 x <{ i64, i32, i64 }>], [192 x i8] } { { i32, i32, i32, i32 } { i32 
> 2, i32 148, i32 44, i32 1 }, [2 x <{ i64, i32, i64 }>] [<{ i64, i32, 
> i64 }> <{ i64 -2070989330109684161, i32 9, i64 0 }>, <{ i64, i32, i64 
> }> <{ i64 -3479956896993626287, i32 31, i64 10 }>], [192 x i8] 
> c"\02D/xxxx/xxxxxx/xxx/xxxx/xxxxxxxxx/test/compilation_flags/lib1/lib1.cppM/xxxx/xxxxxx/xxx/xxxx/xxxxxxxxx/test/compilation_flags/header/single_header.h
> \01\00\00\01
> \01\03\15\02\02\
> 01\01\ << This is about 
> /xxxx/xxxxxx/xxx/xxxx/xxxxxxxxx/test/compilation_flags/header/single_header.h
> 01\01\05\ << One expression(counter #0, #1) --- There was an else 
> branch in one of my cases
> 05\
> 01\03\2B\0E\02\ << This is for counter #0
> 01\03\09\00\0A\ << This is for counter #0
> 05\01\09\00\14\ << This is for counter #1
> 02\02\09\00\14\ << This is subtraction for counters #0-#1 according to 
> expression above
> 10\01\02\04\02\ << This is skipped region because of #ifdef
> 00\00\00\00" }, section "__llvm_covmap", align 8
> And
> @__llvm_coverage_mapping = internal constant { { i32, i32, i32, i32 }, 
> [2 x <{ i64, i32, i64 }>], [184 x i8] } { { i32, i32, i32, i32 } { i32 
> 2, i32 148, i32 36, i32 1 }, [2 x <{ i64, i32, i64 }>] [<{ i64, i32, 
> i64 }> <{ i64 7422656158144208762, i32 9, i64 0 }>, <{ i64, i32, i64 
> }> <{ i64 -3479956896993626287, i32 24, i64 10 }>], [184 x i8] 
> c"\02D/xxxx/xxxxxx/xxx/xxxx/xxxxxxxxx/test/compilation_flags/lib2/lib2.cppM/xxxx/xxxxxx/xxx/xxxx/xxxxxxxxx/test/compilation_flags/header/single_header.h
> \01\00\00\01\
> 01\03\15\02\02\
> 01\01\ << This is about 
> /xxxx/xxxxxx/xxx/xxxx/xxxxxxxxx/test/compilation_flags/header/single_header.h
> 00\ << no expressions in this case
> 04\
> 01\03\2B\0E\02\ << This is for counter #0
> 10\02\02\05\02\ << This is skipped region because of #ifdef
> 01\06\09\00\0A\ << This is for counter #0
> 05\01\09\00\14\ << This is for counter #1
> 00\00\00" }, section "__llvm_covmap", align 8
> ***
> So now we have 2 different coverage mappings referring same counters, 
> but attributing them to different paths in the code. This doesn't seem 
> right to me and I don't see any possibility for this case to work 
> properly after linking. I am not even sure that this situation is ever 
> fixable: in order to assign different counters instrumentation pass 
> should know a lot about #ifdef-ed out code, while it is not even a 
> part of AST. Or alternatively counters for inlined code shouldn't be 
> shared among inlining sites, but this would have created a lot of 
> troubles for accounting and extremely infalted counter structures.
> What worries me here is why some mapping regions are ignored in this 
> case: they all are in the final binary, but excluded from accounting 
> by some reason. Even if they stayed coverage would be incorrect but in 
> some better way. It would mistakely cover #ifdef-ed out code as 
> visited, but this is definitely better than additionally reporting 
> some visited line as unvisited.
> Thank you,
> -- 
> Serge Preis
> 29.11.2017, 02:46, "Vedant Kumar via cfe-dev" <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org>:
>> Hi,
>> Thanks for the report, I'll take a look.
>> vedant
>>> On Nov 28, 2017, at 5:15 AM, Sam Toliman via cfe-dev 
>>> <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I have faced unexpected coverage results for inline function with 
>>> conditional #ifdef
>>> // -- header.h
>>> #pragma once
>>>
>>> inline int bar(int x) {
>>>     int y = 10;
>>> #ifdef IE
>>>     if (x)
>>>         y *= 2;
>>> #else
>>>     y -= 5;
>>> #endif
>>>     return x * y;
>>> }
>>> // -- lib1.cpp
>>> #include "header.h"
>>>
>>> int lib1_foo(int x) {
>>>     return bar(x) + x;
>>> }
>>> // -- main.cpp
>>> #include <iostream>
>>> #include "header.h"
>>>
>>> extern int lib1_foo(int);
>>>
>>> int main_foo(int x) {
>>>     return bar(x) + x;
>>> }
>>>
>>> int main(int c, char**) {
>>>     std::cout << lib1_foo(c) << " " << main_foo(c) << std::endl;
>>>     return 0;
>>> }
>>> clang++ -fprofile-instr-generate -fcoverage-mapping -O2 -c -g 
>>> lib1.cpp -o lib1.o *-DIE*
>>> clang++ -fprofile-instr-generate -fcoverage-mapping -O2 -c -g 
>>> main.cpp -o main.o
>>> clang++ -fprofile-instr-generate -fcoverage-mapping -O2 -g main.o 
>>> lib1.o -o bin
>>> ./bin
>>> llvm-profdata merge -o merged.prof default.profraw
>>> llvm-cov export -instr-profile merged.prof -object bin
>>> Output of the program will be "21 6"
>>> However, segments for header.h will be:
>>> [3,23,2,1,1],[5,2,0,0,1],[8,2,2,1,0],[12,2,0,0,0] ("y -= 5;" was 
>>> performed twice)
>>> Looks like coverage wasn't able to connect source code with counters 
>>> properly.
>>> -Sam
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