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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">While trying ThinLTO, I ran into an assertion failure in IRMover: <a href="https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=28180">https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=28180</a>. I found that the assertion failure
is happening because IRMover tries to map the metadata that already mapped in the destination module, and it seems that this happens because two different IRMovers are used for the same destination (or composite) module. During LTO, an IRMover is created in
thinLTOBackendTask function(tools/gold/gold-plugin.cpp). linkInModule function, which is called by thinLTOBackendTask, calls the ‘move’ function of this IRMover. The other IRMover is created when “TheLinker” is created in FunctionImporter::importFunctions
(lib/Transforms/IPO/FunctionImport.cpp). thinLTOBackendTask invokes FunctionImporeter::importFunctions as well, with a call chain of thinLTOBackendTask
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">à</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">CodeGen::runAll (tools/gold/gold-plugin.cpp)
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">à</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> CodeGen::runLTOPasses ((tools/gold/gold-plugin.cpp)
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings">à</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> FunctionImporter::importFunctions.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As these two IRMovers share the same destination module, when the second IRMover tries to map the metadata already mapped by the first IRMover, it eventually results the assertion failure. It seems that IRMover
maintains SharedMDs to keep the metadata mapping record across the multiple calls of its move function, but that doesn’t help between two separate IRMovers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">What would be the right fix for this? Please let me know if I misunderstand something.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Taewook<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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