[llvm] r245140 - Accelerate MergeFunctions with hashing

David Blaikie via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Fri Aug 14 18:39:57 PDT 2015


On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 6:18 PM, JF Bastien via llvm-commits <
llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Author: jfb
> Date: Fri Aug 14 20:18:18 2015
> New Revision: 245140
>
> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=245140&view=rev
> Log:
> Accelerate MergeFunctions with hashing
>
> This patch makes the Merge Functions pass faster by calculating and
> comparing
> a hash value which captures the essential structure of a function before
> performing a full function comparison.
>
> The hash is calculated by hashing the function signature, then walking the
> basic
> blocks of the function in the same order as the main comparison function.
> The
> opcode of each instruction is hashed in sequence, which means that
> different
> functions according to the existing total order cannot have the same hash,
> as
> the comparison requires the opcodes of the two functions to be the same
> order.
>
> The hash function is a static member of the FunctionComparator class
> because it
> is tightly coupled to the exact comparison function used. For example,
> functions
> which are equivalent modulo a single variant callsite might be merged by a
> more
> aggressive MergeFunctions, and the hash function would need to be
> insensitive to
> these differences in order to exploit this.
>
> The hashing function uses a utility class which accumulates the values
> into an
> internal state using a standard bit-mixing function. Note that this is a
> different interface
> than a regular hashing routine, because the values to be hashed are
> scattered
> amongst the properties of a llvm::Function, not linear in memory. This
> scheme is
> fast because only one word of state needs to be kept, and the mixing
> function is
> a few instructions.
>
> The main runOnModule function first computes the hash of each function,
> and only
> further processes functions which do not have a unique function hash. The
> hash
> is also used to order the sorted function set. If the hashes differ, their
> values are used to order the functions, otherwise the full comparison is
> done.
>
> Both of these are helpful in speeding up MergeFunctions. Together they
> result in
> speedups of 9% for mysqld (a mostly C application with little redundancy),
> 46%
> for libxul in Firefox, and 117% for Chromium. (These are all LTO builds.)
> In all
> three cases, the new speed of MergeFunctions is about half that of the
> module
> verifier, making it relatively inexpensive even for large LTO builds with
> hundreds of thousands of functions. The same functions are merged, so this
> change is free performance.
>
> Author: jrkoenig
>
> Reviewers: nlewycky, dschuff, jfb
>
> Subscribers: llvm-commits, aemerson
>
> Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D11923
>
> Modified:
>     llvm/trunk/lib/Transforms/IPO/MergeFunctions.cpp
>     llvm/trunk/test/Transforms/MergeFunc/call-and-invoke-with-ranges.ll
>
> Modified: llvm/trunk/lib/Transforms/IPO/MergeFunctions.cpp
> URL:
> http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/lib/Transforms/IPO/MergeFunctions.cpp?rev=245140&r1=245139&r2=245140&view=diff
>
> ==============================================================================
> --- llvm/trunk/lib/Transforms/IPO/MergeFunctions.cpp (original)
> +++ llvm/trunk/lib/Transforms/IPO/MergeFunctions.cpp Fri Aug 14 20:18:18
> 2015
> @@ -27,6 +27,14 @@
>  // -- We define Function* container class with custom "operator<"
> (FunctionPtr).
>  // -- "FunctionPtr" instances are stored in std::set collection, so every
>  //    std::set::insert operation will give you result in log(N) time.
> +//
> +// As an optimization, a hash of the function structure is calculated
> first, and
> +// two functions are only compared if they have the same hash. This hash
> is
> +// cheap to compute, and has the property that if function F == G
> according to
> +// the comparison function, then hash(F) == hash(G). This consistency
> property
> +// is critical to ensuring all possible merging opportunities are
> exploited.
> +// Collisions in the hash affect the speed of the pass but not the
> correctness
> +// or determinism of the resulting transformation.
>  //
>  // When a match is found the functions are folded. If both functions are
>  // overridable, we move the functionality into a new internal function and
> @@ -87,6 +95,7 @@
>  #include "llvm/ADT/STLExtras.h"
>  #include "llvm/ADT/SmallSet.h"
>  #include "llvm/ADT/Statistic.h"
> +#include "llvm/ADT/Hashing.h"
>  #include "llvm/IR/CallSite.h"
>  #include "llvm/IR/Constants.h"
>  #include "llvm/IR/DataLayout.h"
> @@ -132,6 +141,10 @@ public:
>
>    /// Test whether the two functions have equivalent behaviour.
>    int compare();
> +  /// Hash a function. Equivalent functions will have the same hash, and
> unequal
> +  /// functions will have different hashes with high probability.
> +  typedef uint64_t FunctionHash;
> +  static FunctionHash functionHash(Function &);
>
>  private:
>    /// Test whether two basic blocks have equivalent behaviour.
> @@ -390,9 +403,11 @@ private:
>
>  class FunctionNode {
>    mutable AssertingVH<Function> F;
> +  FunctionComparator::FunctionHash Hash;
>
>  public:
> -  FunctionNode(Function *F) : F(F) {}
> +  // Note the hash is recalculated potentially multiple times, but it is
> cheap.
> +  FunctionNode(Function *F) : F(F),
> Hash(FunctionComparator::functionHash(*F)){}
>    Function *getFunc() const { return F; }
>
>    /// Replace the reference to the function F by the function G, assuming
> their
> @@ -406,6 +421,9 @@ public:
>
>    void release() { F = 0; }
>    bool operator<(const FunctionNode &RHS) const {
> +    // Order first by hashes, then full function comparison.
> +    if (Hash != RHS.Hash)
> +      return Hash < RHS.Hash;
>      return (FunctionComparator(F, RHS.getFunc()).compare()) == -1;
>    }
>  };
> @@ -1074,6 +1092,66 @@ int FunctionComparator::compare() {
>    return 0;
>  }
>
> +// Accumulate the hash of a sequence of 64-bit integers. This is similar
> to a
> +// hash of a sequence of 64bit ints, but the entire input does not need
> to be
> +// available at once. This interface is necessary for functionHash
> because it
> +// needs to accumulate the hash as the structure of the function is
> traversed
> +// without saving these values to an intermediate buffer. This form of
> hashing
> +// is not often needed, as usually the object to hash is just read from a
> +// buffer.
> +class HashAccumulator64 {
>

Any chance of using LLVM's Hashing.h for hash aggregation? (it's already
got accumulator support, if I'm not mistaken?)


> +  uint64_t Hash;
> +public:
> +  // Initialize to random constant, so the state isn't zero.
> +  HashAccumulator64() { Hash = 0x6acaa36bef8325c5ULL; }
> +  void add(uint64_t V) {
> +     Hash = llvm::hashing::detail::hash_16_bytes(Hash, V);
> +  }
> +  // No finishing is required, because the entire hash value is used.
> +  uint64_t getHash() { return Hash; }
> +};
> +
> +// A function hash is calculated by considering only the number of
> arguments and
> +// whether a function is varargs, the order of basic blocks (given by the
> +// successors of each basic block in depth first order), and the order of
> +// opcodes of each instruction within each of these basic blocks. This
> mirrors
> +// the strategy compare() uses to compare functions by walking the BBs in
> depth
> +// first order and comparing each instruction in sequence. Because this
> hash
> +// does not look at the operands, it is insensitive to things such as the
> +// target of calls and the constants used in the function, which makes it
> useful
> +// when possibly merging functions which are the same modulo constants
> and call
> +// targets.
> +FunctionComparator::FunctionHash
> FunctionComparator::functionHash(Function &F) {
> +  HashAccumulator64 H;
> +  H.add(F.isVarArg());
> +  H.add(F.arg_size());
> +
> +  SmallVector<const BasicBlock *, 8> BBs;
> +  SmallSet<const BasicBlock *, 16> VisitedBBs;
> +
> +  // Walk the blocks in the same order as FunctionComparator::compare(),
> +  // accumulating the hash of the function "structure." (BB and opcode
> sequence)
> +  BBs.push_back(&F.getEntryBlock());
> +  VisitedBBs.insert(BBs[0]);
> +  while (!BBs.empty()) {
> +    const BasicBlock *BB = BBs.pop_back_val();
> +    // This random value acts as a block header, as otherwise the
> partition of
> +    // opcodes into BBs wouldn't affect the hash, only the order of the
> opcodes
> +    H.add(45798);
> +    for (auto &Inst : *BB) {
> +      H.add(Inst.getOpcode());
> +    }
> +    const TerminatorInst *Term = BB->getTerminator();
> +    for (unsigned i = 0, e = Term->getNumSuccessors(); i != e; ++i) {
> +      if (!VisitedBBs.insert(Term->getSuccessor(i)).second)
> +        continue;
> +      BBs.push_back(Term->getSuccessor(i));
> +    }
> +  }
> +  return H.getHash();
> +}
> +
> +
>  namespace {
>
>  /// MergeFunctions finds functions which will generate identical machine
> code,
> @@ -1228,11 +1306,28 @@ bool MergeFunctions::doSanityCheck(std::
>  bool MergeFunctions::runOnModule(Module &M) {
>    bool Changed = false;
>
> -  for (Module::iterator I = M.begin(), E = M.end(); I != E; ++I) {
> -    if (!I->isDeclaration() && !I->hasAvailableExternallyLinkage())
> -      Deferred.push_back(WeakVH(I));
> +  // All functions in the module, ordered by hash. Functions with a unique
> +  // hash value are easily eliminated.
> +  std::vector<std::pair<FunctionComparator::FunctionHash, Function *>>
> +    HashedFuncs;
> +  for (Function &Func : M) {
> +    if (!Func.isDeclaration() && !Func.hasAvailableExternallyLinkage()) {
> +      HashedFuncs.push_back({FunctionComparator::functionHash(Func),
> &Func});
> +    }
> +  }
> +
> +  std::sort(HashedFuncs.begin(), HashedFuncs.end());
> +
> +  auto S = HashedFuncs.begin();
> +  for (auto I = HashedFuncs.begin(), IE = HashedFuncs.end(); I != IE;
> ++I) {
> +    // If the hash value matches the previous value or the next one, we
> must
> +    // consider merging it. Otherwise it is dropped and never considered
> again.
> +    if ((I != S && std::prev(I)->first == I->first) ||
> +        (std::next(I) != IE && std::next(I)->first == I->first) ) {
> +      Deferred.push_back(WeakVH(I->second));
> +    }
>    }
> -
> +
>    do {
>      std::vector<WeakVH> Worklist;
>      Deferred.swap(Worklist);
>
> Modified:
> llvm/trunk/test/Transforms/MergeFunc/call-and-invoke-with-ranges.ll
> URL:
> http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/test/Transforms/MergeFunc/call-and-invoke-with-ranges.ll?rev=245140&r1=245139&r2=245140&view=diff
>
> ==============================================================================
> --- llvm/trunk/test/Transforms/MergeFunc/call-and-invoke-with-ranges.ll
> (original)
> +++ llvm/trunk/test/Transforms/MergeFunc/call-and-invoke-with-ranges.ll
> Fri Aug 14 20:18:18 2015
> @@ -63,14 +63,6 @@ lpad:
>    resume { i8*, i32 } zeroinitializer
>  }
>
> -define i8 @call_with_same_range() {
> -; CHECK-LABEL: @call_with_same_range
> -; CHECK: tail call i8 @call_with_range
> -  bitcast i8 0 to i8
> -  %out = call i8 @dummy(), !range !0
> -  ret i8 %out
> -}
> -
>  define i8 @invoke_with_same_range() personality i8* undef {
>  ; CHECK-LABEL: @invoke_with_same_range()
>  ; CHECK: tail call i8 @invoke_with_range()
> @@ -84,6 +76,16 @@ lpad:
>    resume { i8*, i32 } zeroinitializer
>  }
>
> +define i8 @call_with_same_range() {
> +; CHECK-LABEL: @call_with_same_range
> +; CHECK: tail call i8 @call_with_range
> +  bitcast i8 0 to i8
> +  %out = call i8 @dummy(), !range !0
> +  ret i8 %out
> +}
> +
> +
> +
>  declare i8 @dummy();
>  declare i32 @__gxx_personality_v0(...)
>
>
>
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