<div dir="ltr"><div>At least one proprietary linker put a lot of effort into deduplicating and rewriting debug information. This took up the majority of the link time despite serious engineering time on performance optimisation. For example, some sections were written from scratch by the linker because that proved faster than parsing the input. Teaching LLD to dedup DWARF should be expected to dramatically slow it down (when enabled, ideally not when disabled).<br><br></div>Is a more incremental approach viable? In particular, are there IR passes that fold debug strings etc that could be deployed before feeding everything into a linker?<br><div><br><br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 10:59 PM, via llvm-dev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send llvm-dev mailing list submissions to<br>
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1. Re: [RFC] Half-Precision Support in the Arm Backends<br>
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3. Re: [RFC] - Deduplication of debug information in linkers<br>
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From: "Friedman, Eli via llvm-dev" <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>><br>
To: Sjoerd Meijer <<a href="mailto:Sjoerd.Meijer@arm.com">Sjoerd.Meijer@arm.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>"<br>
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On 12/4/2017 6:44 AM, Sjoerd Meijer via llvm-dev wrote:<br>
><br>
> Custom Lowering<br>
> -------------------------<br>
><br>
> Making f16 legal and not having native load/stores instructions available,<br>
> (no FullFP16 support) means custom lowering loads/stores:<br>
> 1) Since we don't have FP16 load/store instructions available, we create<br>
> integer half-word loads. I unfortunately need the FP16_TO_FP node here,<br>
> because that "models" creating an integer value, which is what we need<br>
> to create a "truncating i16" integer load instructions. Instead, of<br>
> using<br>
> FP16_TO_FP, I have tried BITCASTs, but this can lead to code generation<br>
> to stack loads/stores which I don't want.<br>
> 2) Custom lowering f16 stores is very similar, and creates truncating<br>
> half-word integer stores.<br>
<br>
Technically, there are no f16 load/store instructions, yes, but we can<br>
use NEON vdl1 and vst1 to get something roughly equivalent, right?<br>
<br>
You probably want to custom-lower BITCAST instructions; the generic<br>
sequence emitted by the legalizer is pretty inefficient in most cases.<br>
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---<br>
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Overall, I think your approach makes sense.<br>
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-Eli<br>
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## News and articles from around the web<br>
<br>
LLVM/Clang 5.0.1-rc2 [has been<br>
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## On the mailing lists<br>
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* Alexey Kukanov has published an RFC on [contributing Intel's Parallel STL<br>
implementation to<br>
libc++](<a href="http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2017-November/056135.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.llvm.org/<wbr>pipermail/cfe-dev/2017-<wbr>November/056135.html</a>).<br>
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* Artem Dergachev has [started to<br>
document](<a href="http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2017-November/056095.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.llvm.<wbr>org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2017-<wbr>November/056095.html</a>) a<br>
number of issues preventing inlining in C++ code.<br>
<br>
* Mohammed Agabaria<br>
[proposes](<a href="http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-November/119364.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.llvm.<wbr>org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-<wbr>November/119364.html</a>)<br>
adding a `no-overflow` keyword to the sdiv and udiv IR instructions.<br>
<br>
* Greg Clayton has responded to a user question with a [handy summary of how<br>
to remotely launch a new process in<br>
LLDB](<a href="http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/lldb-dev/2017-November/012979.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.llvm.org/<wbr>pipermail/lldb-dev/2017-<wbr>November/012979.html</a>).<br>
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* Jonas Thiem is [looking for<br>
answers](<a href="http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-November/119269.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.llvm.<wbr>org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-<wbr>November/119269.html</a>)<br>
to a licensing question about the runtime libraries, and [further<br>
elaborates](<a href="http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-November/119334.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.llvm.<wbr>org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-<wbr>November/119334.html</a>)<br>
in this follow-up.<br>
<br>
<br>
## LLVM commits<br>
<br>
* A new SpeculateAroundPHIs pass has been introduced. It's stunningly well<br>
documented, so well worth a ready.<br>
[r319164](<a href="http://reviews.llvm.org/rL319164" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://reviews.llvm.<wbr>org/rL319164</a>).<br>
<br>
* The new `-stack-size-section` flag causes metadata to be emitted in an ELF<br>
section with information on function stack sizes.<br>
[r319430](<a href="http://reviews.llvm.org/rL319430" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://reviews.llvm.<wbr>org/rL319430</a>).<br>
<br>
* MergeConsecutiveStores is now run a second time, just before instruction<br>
selection. This allows lowered intrinsics to be merged as well.<br>
[r319036](<a href="http://reviews.llvm.org/rL319036" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://reviews.llvm.<wbr>org/rL319036</a>).<br>
<br>
* The MachineVerifier PHI and register operand checking has been improved.<br>
[r319140](<a href="http://reviews.llvm.org/rL319140" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://reviews.llvm.<wbr>org/rL319140</a>),<br>
[r319141](<a href="http://reviews.llvm.org/rL319141" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://reviews.llvm.<wbr>org/rL319141</a>).<br>
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* You can now use `-ppc-reg-with-percent-prefix` to get more readable PPC<br>
assembler output. [r319381](<a href="http://reviews.llvm.org/rL319381" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://reviews.llvm.<wbr>org/rL319381</a>).<br>
<br>
* The ARC backend can now assemble a subset of ARC instructions.<br>
[r319609](<a href="http://reviews.llvm.org/rL319609" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://reviews.llvm.<wbr>org/rL319609</a>).<br>
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<br>
## Clang commits<br>
<br>
* clang-format gained options to control sorting of include blocks, allowing<br>
groups to be sorted individually, merged and sorted, and merged and resplit.<br>
[r319024](<a href="http://reviews.llvm.org/rL319024" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://reviews.llvm.<wbr>org/rL319024</a>).<br>
<br>
* A number of math libcalls/builtins are now converted to equivalent LLVM<br>
intrinsics. [r319593](<a href="http://reviews.llvm.org/rL319593" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://reviews.llvm.<wbr>org/rL319593</a>).<br>
<br>
* clangd gained a fuzzy match scorer.<br>
[r319557](<a href="http://reviews.llvm.org/rL319557" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://reviews.llvm.<wbr>org/rL319557</a>).<br>
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## Other project commits<br>
<br>
* LLD gained support for range extension thunks on AArch64.<br>
[r319307](<a href="http://reviews.llvm.org/rL319307" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://reviews.llvm.<wbr>org/rL319307</a>).<br>
<br>
* LLD has reduced the size of the .gnu.hash section.<br>
[r319503](<a href="http://reviews.llvm.org/rL319503" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://reviews.llvm.<wbr>org/rL319503</a>).<br>
<br>
* LLDB remote debugging documentation has been updated.<br>
[r319213](<a href="http://reviews.llvm.org/rL319213" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://reviews.llvm.<wbr>org/rL319213</a>).<br>
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* "Allows pretty printing of declarations through the libclang (C) API. This<br>
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clang tests in patch)." [D39694](<a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D39694" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://reviews.llvm.<wbr>org/D39694</a>), patch by<br>
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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:20:53 -0600<br>
From: UE US via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>><br>
To: George Rimar <<a href="mailto:grimar@accesssoftek.com">grimar@accesssoftek.com</a>><br>
Cc: "<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] [RFC] - Deduplication of debug information in<br>
linkers (LLD).<br>
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Funny, I just filed a bug on that last night. Your solutions look like<br>
they'll help me extensively as cutting the size if half will prevent my<br>
80GB make install issues.<br>
<a href="https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35512" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.llvm.org/show_<wbr>bug.cgi?id=35512</a><br>
<br>
I'll leave the bug open for tracking purposes.<br>
<br>
GNOMETOYS<br>
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On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 9:11 AM, George Rimar via llvm-dev <<br>
<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hi all !<br>
><br>
> We have an issue with LLD, it is "relocation R_X86_64_32 out of range"<br>
> (PR31109)<br>
> which occurs during resolving relocations in debug sections. It looks<br>
> happens<br>
> because .debug_info section can be too large sometimes and 32x relocation<br>
> is not enough<br>
> to represent the value. One of possible solutions looks to be to<br>
> deduplicate information<br>
> to reduce .debug_info size.<br>
> The rest of mail contains information about experiments I did, the<br>
> obtained results and<br>
> some questions and suggestions as well.<br>
><br>
> I was investigating idea to deduplicate debug types information. Idea is<br>
> described at<br>
> p276 of DWARF4 specification (<a href="http://www.dwarfstd.org/doc/DWARF4.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.dwarfstd.org/doc/<wbr>DWARF4.pdf</a>). It<br>
> suggests<br>
> to split types information out of .debug_info and emit multiple<br>
> .debug_types sections<br>
> with use of COMDATs. Both clang and gcc I tested implements<br>
> -fdebug-types-section flag for that:<br>
><br>
> -fdebug-types-section, -fno-debug-types-section<br>
> Place debug types in their own section (ELF Only)<br>
> gcc's description is here: <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-6.4.0/gcc/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gcc.gnu.org/<wbr>onlinedocs/gcc-6.4.0/gcc/</a><br>
> Debugging-Options.html#<wbr>Debugging-Options.<br>
><br>
> This flag is disabled by default. I compared clang binaries to see the<br>
> difference<br>
> with and without the linker side optimisation.<br>
> 1) Clang built with -g has size of 1.7 GB, .debug_info section size is<br>
> 894.5 Mb.<br>
> 2) Clang built with -g -fdebug-types-section has size of 1.0 GB.<br>
> .debug_types size is 26.267 MB, .debug_info size is 227.7 MB.<br>
><br>
> Difference is huge and I believe shows (though probably for most of<br>
> readers here it was<br>
> already obvious) that optimization can be useful. Though<br>
> -fdebug-types-section is disabled by default.<br>
> Looks it was initially disabled because not all of DWARF consumers were<br>
> aware of .debug_types section.<br>
><br>
> Now in 2017 situation is different. I think most of DWARF consumers knows<br>
> about .debug_types, but:<br>
> 1) DWARF5 specification explicitly eliminates the .debug_types section<br>
> introduced in DWARF4:<br>
> p8, "1.4 Changes from Version 4 to Version 5" <a href="http://dwarfstd.org/doc/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://dwarfstd.org/doc/</a><br>
> DWARF5.pdf<br>
> 2) Instead of emiting multiple .debug_types it suggests to emit multiple<br>
> .debug_info COMDAT<br>
> sections. (p375, p376).<br>
><br>
> And it seems currently there is no way to make clang to emit multiple<br>
> .debug_info with type information<br>
> like DWARF5 suggests. I tried command line below:<br>
> -g -fdebug-types-section -gdwarf-5<br>
> It still emits .debug_types and does not look there is a flag for emiting<br>
> multiple .debug_info.<br>
> Looking at whole LLVM code (lib/mc, lib/CodeGen) actually it seems it is<br>
> just always assumed .debug_info is<br>
> a unique section in object.<br>
> (also not sure why clang emits .debug_types when -gdwarf-5 flag is set, as<br>
> this section is incompatible with v5,<br>
> probably it is a bug).<br>
><br>
> So my questions are following:<br>
> 1) Do we want to try to implement multiple .debug_info approach ? As it<br>
> seems can be very useful sometimes.<br>
> 2) For now in LLD may be we may want to extend our error message from<br>
> "relocation X out of range" to something<br>
> suggesting to use -fdebug-types-section (only for relocations in debug<br>
> sections) ?<br>
> 3) Why -fdebug-types-section is disabled by default ?<br>
><br>
> <br>
> Best regards,<br>
> George | Developer | Access Softek, Inc<br>
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An old co-worker told me that writing a dwarf support library was the most<br>
painful experience of his life due to the confusing standards documents, so<br>
it's not surprising DWARF5 is going slow.<br>
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GNOMETOYS<br>
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On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Robinson, Paul via llvm-dev <<br>
<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Thanks for providing the experimental data! It clearly shows the value of<br>
> type sections in DWARF.<br>
><br>
> Regarding why type sections are off by default, aside from the issue of<br>
> consumers needing to understand them, there is a size penalty to type<br>
> sections that becomes more evident in smaller projects (meaning, fewer<br>
> compilation units). The size penalty can be balanced against the amount of<br>
> deduplication for a net win, if you have enough duplicates that you can<br>
> eliminate. But it is a tradeoff.<br>
><br>
> In Sony's case, it is not uncommon for studios to do what are called<br>
> "unity" builds, where you have basically one master .cpp file that does<br>
> #include of each other .cpp file, giving you an LTO-like build. In this<br>
> case the debug-info production will automatically produce only one copy of<br>
> each type, and so using type sections would probably make the net debug<br>
> info bigger. And of course an LTO build will deduplicate type info at the<br>
> metadata level, with a similar effect.<br>
><br>
> So, I think whether type sections help or hurt will depend on how a<br>
> particular project's build procedure is set up. Clang/LLVM are set up to<br>
> do lots of smaller compilations and link them all together, in a fairly<br>
> traditional model, and that is where type sections will provide the most<br>
> benefit. Your data, then, is essentially for a best-case scenario. Other<br>
> kinds of projects will not benefit as much.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Regarding DWARF 5 and emitting type sections into the .debug_info section<br>
> rather than the .debug_types section: The work to support DWARF 5 in LLVM<br>
> has not gotten very far yet. Conforming to the standard in this respect is<br>
> certainly on my list, however there are other features that Sony considers<br>
> higher priority. If you or someone else wants to contribute that feature<br>
> sooner, that would be excellent! Otherwise, we will get to it in due time.<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
><br>
> --paulr<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> *From:* llvm-dev [mailto:<a href="mailto:llvm-dev-bounces@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev-bounces@<wbr>lists.llvm.org</a>] *On Behalf Of *George<br>
> Rimar via llvm-dev<br>
> *Sent:* Monday, December 04, 2017 7:11 AM<br>
> *To:* <a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a><br>
> *Subject:* [llvm-dev] [RFC] - Deduplication of debug information in<br>
> linkers (LLD).<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Hi all !<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> We have an issue with LLD, it is "relocation R_X86_64_32 out of range"<br>
> (PR31109)<br>
><br>
> which occurs during resolving relocations in debug sections. It looks<br>
> happens<br>
><br>
> because .debug_info section can be too large sometimes and 32x relocation<br>
> is not enough<br>
><br>
> to represent the value. One of possible solutions looks to be to<br>
> deduplicate information<br>
><br>
> to reduce .debug_info size.<br>
><br>
> The rest of mail contains information about experiments I did, the<br>
> obtained results and<br>
><br>
> some questions and suggestions as well.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> I was investigating idea to deduplicate debug types information. Idea is<br>
> described at<br>
><br>
> p276 of DWARF4 specification (<a href="http://www.dwarfstd.org/doc/DWARF4.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.dwarfstd.org/doc/<wbr>DWARF4.pdf</a>). It<br>
> suggests<br>
><br>
> to split types information out of .debug_info and emit multiple<br>
> .debug_types sections<br>
><br>
> with use of COMDATs. Both clang and gcc I tested implements<br>
> -fdebug-types-section flag for that:<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> -fdebug-types-section, -fno-debug-types-section<br>
><br>
> Place debug types in their own section (ELF Only)<br>
><br>
> gcc's description is here: <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-6.4.0/gcc/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gcc.gnu.org/<wbr>onlinedocs/gcc-6.4.0/gcc/</a><br>
> Debugging-Options.html#<wbr>Debugging-Options.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> This flag is disabled by default. I compared clang binaries to see the<br>
> difference<br>
><br>
> with and without the linker side optimisation.<br>
><br>
> 1) Clang built with -g has size of 1.7 GB, .debug_info section size is<br>
> 894.5 Mb.<br>
><br>
> 2) Clang built with -g -fdebug-types-section has size of 1.0 GB.<br>
><br>
> .debug_types size is 26.267 MB, .debug_info size is 227.7 MB.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Difference is huge and I believe shows (though probably for most of<br>
> readers here it was<br>
><br>
> already obvious) that optimization can be useful. Though<br>
> -fdebug-types-section is disabled by default.<br>
><br>
> Looks it was initially disabled because not all of DWARF consumers were<br>
> aware of .debug_types section.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Now in 2017 situation is different. I think most of DWARF consumers knows<br>
> about .debug_types, but:<br>
><br>
> 1) DWARF5 specification explicitly eliminates the .debug_types section<br>
> introduced in DWARF4:<br>
><br>
> p8, "1.4 Changes from Version 4 to Version 5" <a href="http://dwarfstd.org/doc/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://dwarfstd.org/doc/</a><br>
> DWARF5.pdf<br>
><br>
> 2) Instead of emiting multiple .debug_types it suggests to emit multiple<br>
> .debug_info COMDAT<br>
><br>
> sections. (p375, p376).<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> And it seems currently there is no way to make clang to emit multiple<br>
> .debug_info with type information<br>
><br>
> like DWARF5 suggests. I tried command line below:<br>
><br>
> -g -fdebug-types-section -gdwarf-5<br>
><br>
> It still emits .debug_types and does not look there is a flag for emiting<br>
> multiple .debug_info.<br>
><br>
> Looking at whole LLVM code (lib/mc, lib/CodeGen) actually it seems it is<br>
> just always assumed .debug_info is<br>
><br>
> a unique section in object.<br>
><br>
> (also not sure why clang emits .debug_types when -gdwarf-5 flag is set, as<br>
> this section is incompatible with v5,<br>
><br>
> probably it is a bug).<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> So my questions are following:<br>
><br>
> 1) Do we want to try to implement multiple .debug_info approach ? As it<br>
> seems can be very useful sometimes.<br>
><br>
> 2) For now in LLD may be we may want to extend our error message from<br>
> "relocation X out of range" to something<br>
><br>
> suggesting to use -fdebug-types-section (only for relocations in debug<br>
> sections) ?<br>
><br>
> 3) Why -fdebug-types-section is disabled by default ?<br>
><br>
> <br>
><br>
> Best regards,<br>
> George | Developer | Access Softek, Inc<br>
><br>
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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 15:29:48 -0600<br>
From: Dounia Khaldi via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>><br>
To: llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>><br>
Subject: [llvm-dev] Adding a string-argument Intrinsic<br>
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hello,<br>
<br>
Is there a way to add an intrinsic that takes a string as argument?<br>
<br>
If yes, what should be the second value provided to the macro //<br>
BUILTIN(__builtin_dummy, "v?", "n")<br>
in tools/clang/include/clang/<wbr>Basic/BuiltinsX86.def<br>
<br>
Also, what should be the type passed in include/llvm/IR/IntrinsicsX86.<wbr>td<br>
def dummy : GCCBuiltin<"__builtin_dummy">,<br>
Intrinsic<[], [llvm_???_ty], [IntrArgMemOnly] /* , "llvm.dummy" */>;<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Dounia<br>
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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 14:38:15 -0700<br>
From: Jonathan Roelofs via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>><br>
To: Dounia Khaldi <<a href="mailto:khaldi.dounia@gmail.com">khaldi.dounia@gmail.com</a>>, llvm-dev<br>
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Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] Adding a string-argument Intrinsic<br>
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On 12/4/17 2:29 PM, Dounia Khaldi via llvm-dev wrote:<br>
> hello,<br>
><br>
> Is there a way to add an intrinsic that takes a string as argument?<br>
<br>
Have a look at __builtin_annotation<br>
<br>
<br>
Jon<br>
<br>
><br>
> If yes, what should be the second value provided to the macro //<br>
> BUILTIN(__builtin_dummy, "v?", "n")<br>
> in tools/clang/include/clang/<wbr>Basic/BuiltinsX86.def<br>
><br>
> Also, what should be the type passed in include/llvm/IR/IntrinsicsX86.<wbr>td<br>
> def dummy : GCCBuiltin<"__builtin_dummy">,<br>
> Intrinsic<[], [llvm_???_ty], [IntrArgMemOnly] /* , "llvm.dummy" */>;<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Dounia<br>
><br>
><br>
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Message: 7<br>
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 13:44:15 -0800<br>
From: Vedant Kumar via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>><br>
To: llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>><br>
Subject: [llvm-dev] Passes to add/validate synthetic debug info<br>
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Hi,<br>
<br>
I've prototyped a pair of passes which 1) add synthetic debug info to a Module and 2) determine how much of that info is lost. The idea is to make it easier to write targeted test cases for debug info preservation. For example, here is a quick way to test that Mem2Reg doesn't drop debug info from one test input:<br>
<br>
> ; RUN: opt < %s -debugify -mem2reg -check-debugify -S 2>&1 | FileCheck %s<br>
> ; CHECK: CheckDebugify: PASS<br>
<br>
So far, I've used this utility to identify problems in LSR and instcombine (haven't gotten around to filing bugs yet). There's some more discussion about this utility on the thread "RFC: [GlobalISel] Towards a generic MI combiner framework", where Amara and Daniel suggested trying something similar at the MI level.<br>
<br>
I've put the passes up for review here <a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D40512" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://reviews.llvm.org/<wbr>D40512</a> <<a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D40512" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://reviews.llvm.org/<wbr>D40512</a>>. I just wanted to ping llvm-dev to raise awareness about the proposed passes, and to see if anyone in the community has concerns/feedback.<br>
<br>
thanks,<br>
vedant<br>
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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 14:18:37 -0800<br>
From: Davide Italiano via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>><br>
To: Vedant Kumar <<a href="mailto:vsk@apple.com">vsk@apple.com</a>><br>
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Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] Passes to add/validate synthetic debug info<br>
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On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Vedant Kumar <<a href="mailto:vsk@apple.com">vsk@apple.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I've prototyped a pair of passes which 1) add synthetic debug info to a<br>
> Module and 2) determine how much of that info is lost. The idea is to make<br>
> it easier to write targeted test cases for debug info preservation. For<br>
> example, here is a quick way to test that Mem2Reg doesn't drop debug info<br>
> from one test input:<br>
><br>
> ; RUN: opt < %s -debugify -mem2reg -check-debugify -S 2>&1 | FileCheck %s<br>
> ; CHECK: CheckDebugify: PASS<br>
><br>
><br>
> So far, I've used this utility to identify problems in LSR and instcombine<br>
> (haven't gotten around to filing bugs yet). There's some more discussion<br>
> about this utility on the thread "RFC: [GlobalISel] Towards a generic MI<br>
> combiner framework", where Amara and Daniel suggested trying something<br>
> similar at the MI level.<br>
><br>
> I've put the passes up for review here <a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D40512" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://reviews.llvm.org/<wbr>D40512</a>. I<br>
> just wanted to ping llvm-dev to raise awareness about the proposed passes,<br>
> and to see if anyone in the community has concerns/feedback.<br>
><br>
> thanks,<br>
> vedant<br>
<br>
After you addressed all my comments, this is pretty close to me. I'll<br>
take another look today or tomorrow but I'm confident we can iterate<br>
in tree.<br>
In other words, +1 from me (you may want to wait a week or so before<br>
committing so that people have a chance to take a look).<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
Davide<br>
<br>
"There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more<br>
or less solved" -- Henri Poincare<br>
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Message: 9<br>
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 22:59:22 +0000<br>
From: Eric Christopher via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>><br>
To: UE US <<a href="mailto:uexplorer666@gmail.com">uexplorer666@gmail.com</a>><br>
Cc: "<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>>, George Rimar<br>
<<a href="mailto:grimar@accesssoftek.com">grimar@accesssoftek.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] [RFC] - Deduplication of debug information in<br>
linkers (LLD).<br>
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This isn't a particularly productive email - especially as a number of<br>
people on this list are current contributors to the standard. Mostly dwarf5<br>
support is lined up behind one of us having the spare cycles to implement<br>
it rather than anything else FWIW :)<br>
<br>
That said, if you have specific feedback about confusing items I'm<br>
definitely happy to help figure out:<br>
<br>
a) some better way to say it,<br>
b) some other implementation to avoid it being confusing<br>
<br>
Having partially implemented a couple of readers and writers at this point<br>
I agree that it's not the friendliest of documents, but sometimes being<br>
inside of it makes it harder to see where it's causing issues.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
-eric<br>
<br>
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 1:23 PM UE US via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
<br>
> An old co-worker told me that writing a dwarf support library was the most<br>
> painful experience of his life due to the confusing standards documents, so<br>
> it's not surprising DWARF5 is going slow.<br>
><br>
> GNOMETOYS<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Robinson, Paul via llvm-dev <<br>
> <a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Thanks for providing the experimental data! It clearly shows the value<br>
>> of type sections in DWARF.<br>
>><br>
>> Regarding why type sections are off by default, aside from the issue of<br>
>> consumers needing to understand them, there is a size penalty to type<br>
>> sections that becomes more evident in smaller projects (meaning, fewer<br>
>> compilation units). The size penalty can be balanced against the amount of<br>
>> deduplication for a net win, if you have enough duplicates that you can<br>
>> eliminate. But it is a tradeoff.<br>
>><br>
>> In Sony's case, it is not uncommon for studios to do what are called<br>
>> "unity" builds, where you have basically one master .cpp file that does<br>
>> #include of each other .cpp file, giving you an LTO-like build. In this<br>
>> case the debug-info production will automatically produce only one copy of<br>
>> each type, and so using type sections would probably make the net debug<br>
>> info bigger. And of course an LTO build will deduplicate type info at the<br>
>> metadata level, with a similar effect.<br>
>><br>
>> So, I think whether type sections help or hurt will depend on how a<br>
>> particular project's build procedure is set up. Clang/LLVM are set up to<br>
>> do lots of smaller compilations and link them all together, in a fairly<br>
>> traditional model, and that is where type sections will provide the most<br>
>> benefit. Your data, then, is essentially for a best-case scenario. Other<br>
>> kinds of projects will not benefit as much.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Regarding DWARF 5 and emitting type sections into the .debug_info section<br>
>> rather than the .debug_types section: The work to support DWARF 5 in LLVM<br>
>> has not gotten very far yet. Conforming to the standard in this respect is<br>
>> certainly on my list, however there are other features that Sony considers<br>
>> higher priority. If you or someone else wants to contribute that feature<br>
>> sooner, that would be excellent! Otherwise, we will get to it in due time.<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks,<br>
>><br>
>> --paulr<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> *From:* llvm-dev [mailto:<a href="mailto:llvm-dev-bounces@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev-bounces@<wbr>lists.llvm.org</a>] *On Behalf Of *George<br>
>> Rimar via llvm-dev<br>
>> *Sent:* Monday, December 04, 2017 7:11 AM<br>
>> *To:* <a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a><br>
>> *Subject:* [llvm-dev] [RFC] - Deduplication of debug information in<br>
>> linkers (LLD).<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Hi all !<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> We have an issue with LLD, it is "relocation R_X86_64_32 out of range"<br>
>> (PR31109)<br>
>><br>
>> which occurs during resolving relocations in debug sections. It looks<br>
>> happens<br>
>><br>
>> because .debug_info section can be too large sometimes and 32x relocation<br>
>> is not enough<br>
>><br>
>> to represent the value. One of possible solutions looks to be to<br>
>> deduplicate information<br>
>><br>
>> to reduce .debug_info size.<br>
>><br>
>> The rest of mail contains information about experiments I did, the<br>
>> obtained results and<br>
>><br>
>> some questions and suggestions as well.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> I was investigating idea to deduplicate debug types information. Idea is<br>
>> described at<br>
>><br>
>> p276 of DWARF4 specification (<a href="http://www.dwarfstd.org/doc/DWARF4.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.dwarfstd.org/doc/<wbr>DWARF4.pdf</a>).<br>
>> It suggests<br>
>><br>
>> to split types information out of .debug_info and emit multiple<br>
>> .debug_types sections<br>
>><br>
>> with use of COMDATs. Both clang and gcc I tested implements<br>
>> -fdebug-types-section flag for that:<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> -fdebug-types-section, -fno-debug-types-section<br>
>><br>
>> Place debug types in their own section (ELF Only)<br>
>><br>
>> gcc's description is here:<br>
>> <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-6.4.0/gcc/Debugging-Options.html#Debugging-Options" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gcc.gnu.org/<wbr>onlinedocs/gcc-6.4.0/gcc/<wbr>Debugging-Options.html#<wbr>Debugging-Options</a><br>
>> .<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> This flag is disabled by default. I compared clang binaries to see the<br>
>> difference<br>
>><br>
>> with and without the linker side optimisation.<br>
>><br>
>> 1) Clang built with -g has size of 1.7 GB, .debug_info section size is<br>
>> 894.5 Mb.<br>
>><br>
>> 2) Clang built with -g -fdebug-types-section has size of 1.0 GB.<br>
>><br>
>> .debug_types size is 26.267 MB, .debug_info size is 227.7 MB.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Difference is huge and I believe shows (though probably for most of<br>
>> readers here it was<br>
>><br>
>> already obvious) that optimization can be useful. Though<br>
>> -fdebug-types-section is disabled by default.<br>
>><br>
>> Looks it was initially disabled because not all of DWARF consumers were<br>
>> aware of .debug_types section.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Now in 2017 situation is different. I think most of DWARF consumers knows<br>
>> about .debug_types, but:<br>
>><br>
>> 1) DWARF5 specification explicitly eliminates the .debug_types section<br>
>> introduced in DWARF4:<br>
>><br>
>> p8, "1.4 Changes from Version 4 to Version 5"<br>
>> <a href="http://dwarfstd.org/doc/DWARF5.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://dwarfstd.org/doc/<wbr>DWARF5.pdf</a><br>
>><br>
>> 2) Instead of emiting multiple .debug_types it suggests to emit multiple<br>
>> .debug_info COMDAT<br>
>><br>
>> sections. (p375, p376).<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> And it seems currently there is no way to make clang to emit multiple<br>
>> .debug_info with type information<br>
>><br>
>> like DWARF5 suggests. I tried command line below:<br>
>><br>
>> -g -fdebug-types-section -gdwarf-5<br>
>><br>
>> It still emits .debug_types and does not look there is a flag for emiting<br>
>> multiple .debug_info.<br>
>><br>
>> Looking at whole LLVM code (lib/mc, lib/CodeGen) actually it seems it is<br>
>> just always assumed .debug_info is<br>
>><br>
>> a unique section in object.<br>
>><br>
>> (also not sure why clang emits .debug_types when -gdwarf-5 flag is set,<br>
>> as this section is incompatible with v5,<br>
>><br>
>> probably it is a bug).<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> So my questions are following:<br>
>><br>
>> 1) Do we want to try to implement multiple .debug_info approach ? As it<br>
>> seems can be very useful sometimes.<br>
>><br>
>> 2) For now in LLD may be we may want to extend our error message from<br>
>> "relocation X out of range" to something<br>
>><br>
>> suggesting to use -fdebug-types-section (only for relocations in debug<br>
>> sections) ?<br>
>><br>
>> 3) Why -fdebug-types-section is disabled by default ?<br>
>><br>
>> <br>
>><br>
>> Best regards,<br>
>> George | Developer | Access Softek, Inc<br>
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