[llvm-dev] Reviews needed for LazyCallGraph patches (and coroutines)

Shoaib Meenai via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Wed Jan 22 16:55:02 PST 2020


Also CCing Philip Pfaffe.

On 1/21/20, 3:50 PM, "llvm-dev on behalf of Shoaib Meenai via llvm-dev" <llvm-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org on behalf of llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

    CCing Chandler and Fedor for feedback on the new pass manager.
    
    On 1/21/20, 3:18 PM, "llvm-dev on behalf of Brian Gesiak via llvm-dev" <llvm-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org on behalf of llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
    
        Hey all,
        
        Thanks to reviews by Wenlei He and JunMa (junparser), I have a stack
        of patches that implement the C++20 coroutine transformations in the
        new LLVM pass manager. The stack builds and optimizes coroutines in
        major open source coroutine libraries like
        http://github.com/lewissbaker/cppcoro. I also use the patches in my
        employer's downstream fork of LLVM/Clang, and it successfully compiles
        large C++ codebases that make use of C++17 and coroutines.
        
        The coroutine patches exist as a stack of 6 Phabricator revisions [1].
        Crucially, they make use of 3 patches related to LazyCallGraph, the
        call graph representation used by the new pass manager:
        
        1. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__reviews.llvm.org_D72025&d=DwIGaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=o3kDXzdBUE3ljQXKeTWOMw&m=7kZTN83WVu9bhfqIZtRR15pR0tbwTrUmjZ3Ajjfa9wY&s=kpLjtimhsMhNjVPLzvuD8eGmq-jcSv20Uju_AdarTTE&e=  (by Johannes Doerfert)
        2. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__reviews.llvm.org_D70927&d=DwIGaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=o3kDXzdBUE3ljQXKeTWOMw&m=7kZTN83WVu9bhfqIZtRR15pR0tbwTrUmjZ3Ajjfa9wY&s=XRnY-8Zn_EoSKY6Wu5mmuDVf8TKU07Au19I4L2dt1kU&e=  (ditto)
        3. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__reviews.llvm.org_D72226&d=DwIGaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=o3kDXzdBUE3ljQXKeTWOMw&m=7kZTN83WVu9bhfqIZtRR15pR0tbwTrUmjZ3Ajjfa9wY&s=P08bstAo5XXdmeDExMssmt7dU_favQOQ2k634si0BC0&e=  (this one by me)
        
        I only have moderate experience using the new pass manager, so I'd
        greatly appreciate a review of these patches. My coroutine patches
        rely on the interfaces they add to the LazyCallGraph abstraction.
        Could someone chime in with whether those interfaces could be merged
        to trunk?
        
        - Brian Gesiak
        
        [1] Sequentially, https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__reviews.llvm.org_D71898&d=DwIGaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=o3kDXzdBUE3ljQXKeTWOMw&m=7kZTN83WVu9bhfqIZtRR15pR0tbwTrUmjZ3Ajjfa9wY&s=lxA19e74ycegcH6AbWGuBs13m5WDDqf5TPcTAmYCYNs&e=  through
        https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__reviews.llvm.org_D71903&d=DwIGaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=o3kDXzdBUE3ljQXKeTWOMw&m=7kZTN83WVu9bhfqIZtRR15pR0tbwTrUmjZ3Ajjfa9wY&s=xKsheT47ZKP7XdEGNXzQeNCRsCNoZYmKFXAZjYsgkfU&e= . Reviews are welcome here as well!
        
        On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 9:29 AM Brian Gesiak <modocache at gmail.com> wrote:
        >
        > Hello all,
        >
        > It's been a month since my previous email on the topic, and since then
        > I've done some initial work on porting the coroutines passes to the
        > new pass manager. In total there are 6 patches -- that's a lot to
        > review, so allow me to introduce the changes being made in each of
        > them.
        >
        > # What's finished
        >
        > In these first 6 patches, I focused on lowering coroutine intrinsics
        > correctly. With the patches applied, Clang is able to successfully use
        > the new pass manager to build and test a major open source C++20
        > coroutines library, https://github.com/lewissbaker/cppcoro.
        >
        > 1. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__reviews.llvm.org_D71898&d=DwIGaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=o3kDXzdBUE3ljQXKeTWOMw&m=7kZTN83WVu9bhfqIZtRR15pR0tbwTrUmjZ3Ajjfa9wY&s=lxA19e74ycegcH6AbWGuBs13m5WDDqf5TPcTAmYCYNs&e= 
        > New pass manager implementation of the coro-early function pass, with
        > LLVM regression tests for this pass updated to test both the new and
        > legacy implementations.
        >
        > 2. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__reviews.llvm.org_D71899&d=DwIGaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=o3kDXzdBUE3ljQXKeTWOMw&m=7kZTN83WVu9bhfqIZtRR15pR0tbwTrUmjZ3Ajjfa9wY&s=bRU9JkSkk6pfLJK5wQrLUNw2wyTr_UB_ax0bMBTNkX0&e= 
        > Same thing, but for coro-split CGSCC pass. This patch adds support to
        > the new pass manager for only the C++20 switch-based coroutines ABI.
        > I'd like to implement support for the Swift returned-continuation ABI
        > in a future patch.
        >
        > 3. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__reviews.llvm.org_D71900&d=DwIGaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=o3kDXzdBUE3ljQXKeTWOMw&m=7kZTN83WVu9bhfqIZtRR15pR0tbwTrUmjZ3Ajjfa9wY&s=_oDoj_tqXuEzl0dGUSpTadrfW1HZRajKAAMagUc7SxE&e= 
        > 4. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__reviews.llvm.org_D71901&d=DwIGaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=o3kDXzdBUE3ljQXKeTWOMw&m=7kZTN83WVu9bhfqIZtRR15pR0tbwTrUmjZ3Ajjfa9wY&s=tyCSqoUBLCnZ7g-6CdTdcrJc7HyAChKl-8kd72mumGs&e= 
        > Same thing, but for the coro-elide and coro-cleanup function passes.
        >
        > 5. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__reviews.llvm.org_D71902&d=DwIGaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=o3kDXzdBUE3ljQXKeTWOMw&m=7kZTN83WVu9bhfqIZtRR15pR0tbwTrUmjZ3Ajjfa9wY&s=P093yCZSMla0daFd5wn5zpNB7s9-NlQtIPyzWL_051Q&e= 
        > The first 4 patches allow users to run coroutine passes by invoking,
        > for example 'opt -passes=coro-early'. However, most of LLVM's tests
        > for coroutines use 'opt -enable-coroutines', which adds all 4
        > coroutines passes, in the correct order, to the pass pipeline. This
        > 5th patch adds a similar feature but in a way that can be used by the
        > new pass manager: a pipeline parser that understands 'opt
        > -passes=coroutines'.
        >
        > 6. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__reviews.llvm.org_D71903&d=DwIGaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=o3kDXzdBUE3ljQXKeTWOMw&m=7kZTN83WVu9bhfqIZtRR15pR0tbwTrUmjZ3Ajjfa9wY&s=xKsheT47ZKP7XdEGNXzQeNCRsCNoZYmKFXAZjYsgkfU&e= 
        > Finally, this patch modifies Clang to run the new coroutine passes
        > when the experimental pass manager is being used with coroutines
        > enabled (either via '-fcoroutines-ts' or '-std=c++2a'). With all 6
        > patches applied, the cppcoro library builds and tests successfully
        > with a Clang built with 'ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_NEW_PASS_MANAGER=On'.
        >
        > # What's yet to be done: Swift "returned-continuation" coroutines &
        > the "devirtualization trigger"
        >
        > Two things are missing from these initial 6 patches: the first is, as
        > I mentioned above, support for returned-continuation coroutines, which
        > are used by Swift. I think this will be fairly straightforward for me
        > (or others, if interested) to add in an upcoming patch.
        >
        > The second missing feature has to do with how CGSCC passes are re-run
        > by the pass manager infrastructure.
        >
        > The legacy coro-split and coro-elide passes work in tandem: the
        > coro-split pass first introduces an indirect call to a dummy
        > "devirtualization trigger" function, and then the coro-elide pass
        > devirtualizes it. The legacy CGSCC pass manager checks for
        > devirtualizations after each pass and, if any occur, it re-runs the
        > CGSCC pass pipeline. In other words: coro-split is run, a check is
        > made for devirtualization, then coro-elide is run, and another check
        > is made.
        >
        > The new pass manager allows for a series of CGSCC passes to be wrapped
        > in a DevirtSCCRepeatedPass, but this only checks for devirtualizations
        > after all passes are run. In the case of coro-split and coro-elide,
        > the indirect function call is added and then devirtualized within a
        > single pass of the repeater, so DevirtSCCRepeatedPass never sees the
        > devirtualization and thus doesn't perform a repeat iteration. In other
        > words: a check is made, coro-split is run and it adds an indirect
        > call, coro-elide is run and it devirtualizes that call, and then
        > another check is made. From the repeater pass's point of view, nothing
        > has changed.
        >
        > This is something I'd like to tweak in future patches (my thinking is
        > to add a member to CGSCCUpdateResult to allow passes to manually
        > inform the pass manager about devirtualizations, but I'm very open to
        > alternative ideas). But for now, I simply have Clang manually schedule
        > two iterations of the coro-split pass, rather than have it rely on the
        > repeater detecting a devirtualization and automatically scheduling
        > another coro-split iteration. As a result, the new pass manager
        > implementation of coroutines realizes correct program behavior, but
        > fails to realize some of the optimization patterns that are tested for
        > in the regression tests in 'llvm/test/Transforms/Coroutines'.
        >
        > I'd greatly appreciate code review on my patches! Or, please reply
        > here with any questions/comments.
        >
        > - Brian Gesiak
        >
        > On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 8:39 PM Brian Gesiak <modocache at gmail.com> wrote:
        > >
        > > Hi all!
        > >
        > > I'm working on porting the LLVM passes for C++20 coroutines over to
        > > the new pass manager infrastructure. Of the 4 passes, 3 are function
        > > passes, and so porting them is straightforward and easy (my thanks to
        > > those involved -- the design is great!). However, I'm struggling with
        > > 'coro-split', which is an SCC pass. Specifically, I'd like advice on
        > > how to appropriately update the new pass manager's preferred
        > > representation of the SCC: 'llvm::LazyCallGraph'.
        > >
        > > Before I ask my specific questions about 'LazyCallGraph', it may help
        > > to explain my understanding of the 'coro-split' pass and how it
        > > modifies the call graph:
        > >
        > > The coro-split pass "clones" coroutine functions. For example, for a
        > > coroutine function 'foo', it creates declarations for 3 new functions
        > > ('foo.resume', 'foo.destroy', and 'foo.cleanup') using the static
        > > member function 'llvm::Function::Create'. It then uses
        > > 'llvm::CloneFunctionInto' to copy the 'foo' function's attributes,
        > > arguments, basic blocks, and instructions, into each of the 3 new
        > > functions. Finally, the coro-split pass replaces the entry basic
        > > blocks of the function to read a value from a global store of
        > > coroutine state called the coroutine frame, and uses that value to
        > > determine which part of the cloned coroutine function should be
        > > executed upon "resumption" of the coroutine.
        > >
        > > Of course, once the coro-split SCC pass has done all this, it must
        > > update LLVM's representation of the call graph. It does so using ~40
        > > lines of code that you may read here:
        > > https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/890c6ef1fb/llvm/lib/Transforms/Coroutines/Coroutines.cpp#L186-L224
        > >
        > > To explain my understanding of the code in the above link: the
        > > coro-split pass completely re-initializes the 'CallGraphSCC' object,
        > > using the member function
        > > 'CallGraphSCC::initialize(ArrayRef<CallGraphNode*>)'. The array of
        > > nodes it uses to re-initialize the SCC includes nodes for each of the
        > > 3 new functions, which it adds to the call graph using
        > > 'CallGraph::getOrInsertFunction'. For each of the new nodes, and for
        > > the node representing the original function, the coro-split pass
        > > iterates over each of the instructions in the function, and uses
        > > 'CallGraphNode::addCalledFunction' to add edges to the call graph.
        > >
        > > The difficulty I'm having here in porting coro-split to the new pass
        > > manager is that its SCC passes use 'LazyCallGraph' and
        > > 'LazyCallGraph::SCC'. These classes' documentation explains that they
        > > are designed with the constraint that optimization passes shall not
        > > delete, remove, or add edges that invalidate a bottom-up traversal of
        > > the SCC DAG. Unfortunately, I understand the coro-split pass to be
        > > doing exactly those things.
        > >
        > > As a result, if I attempt to mimic the coro-split pass's logic by
        > > inserting functions into the call graph using 'LazyCallGraph::get',
        > > and then adding call edges with
        > > 'LazyCallGraph::RefSCC::insertTrivialRefEdge' and
        > > 'LazyCallGraph::RefSCC::switchInternalEdgeToCall', I'm met with an
        > > assertion: llvm/lib/Analysis/CGSCCPassManager.cpp:463: [...]:
        > > Assertion `E && "No function transformations should introduce *new* "
        > > "call edges! Any new calls should be modeled as " "promoted existing
        > > ref edges!"' failed.
        > >
        > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can better work within the
        > > constraints of the 'LazyCallGraph'?
        > >
        > > In case it helps, you can see the code that currently hits this
        > > assertion here:
        > > https://github.com/modocache/llvm-project/commit/02c10528e9. Of
        > > particular interest may be the functions 'buildLazyCallGraphNode' and
        > > 'updateCallGraphAfterSplit'.
        > >
        > > One idea a colleague of mine suggested was to have an earlier
        > > coroutine function pass insert declarations of 'foo.resume',
        > > 'foo.destroy', and 'foo.cleanup', which we could then promote to call
        > > edges. However, they also found this FIXME in CGSCCPassManager.cpp:
        > > "We should really handle adding new calls. While it will make
        > > downstream usage more complex, there is no fundamental limitation and
        > > it will allow passes within the CGSCC to be a bit more flexible in
        > > what transforms they can do. Until then, we verify that new calls
        > > haven't been introduced."
        > >
        > > As a result, I'm now unsure whether I ought to modify coro-split's
        > > implementation for the new pass manager, or modify 'CGSCCPassManager'
        > > to allow for the insertion of new calls. Any and all advice would be
        > > greatly appreciated!
        > >
        > > - Brian Gesiak
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