[PATCH] D38768: Add remarks describing when a pass changes the IR instruction count of a module

[Jessica Paquette via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

paquette created this revision.
Herald added subscribers: fhahn, mehdi_amini.

This patch adds a remark which tells the user when a pass changes the number of IR instructions in a module. It can be enabled by using -Rpass-analysis=size-info. The point of this is to make it easier to collect statistics on how passes modify programs in terms of code size. This is similar in concept to timing reports, but using a remark-based interface makes it easy to diff changes over multiple compilations of the same program. By adding functionality like this, we can see

- Which passes impact code size the most
- How passes impact code size at different optimization levels
- Which pass might have contributed the most to an overall code size regression

The patch lives in the legacy pass manager, but since it's simply emitting remarks, it shouldn't be too difficult to adapt the functionality to the new pass manager as well. This can also be adapted to handle MachineInstr counts in the later Machine* passes.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D38768

Files:
  include/llvm/IR/LegacyPassManagers.h
  lib/Analysis/CGSCCPassManager.cpp
  lib/Analysis/CallGraphSCCPass.cpp
  lib/IR/LegacyPassManager.cpp
  test/Other/size-remarks.ll

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