[polly] r259767 - Add 'Using Polly with Clang' to Spinx

Wed Feb 3 23:45:32 PST 2016

Author: grosser
Date: Thu Feb  4 01:45:32 2016
New Revision: 259767

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=259767&view=rev
Log:
Add 'Using Polly with Clang' to Spinx

Added:
    polly/trunk/docs/UsingPollyWithClang.rst
Modified:
    polly/trunk/docs/index.rst

Added: polly/trunk/docs/UsingPollyWithClang.rst
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/polly/trunk/docs/UsingPollyWithClang.rst?rev=259767&view=auto
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--- polly/trunk/docs/UsingPollyWithClang.rst (added)
+++ polly/trunk/docs/UsingPollyWithClang.rst Thu Feb  4 01:45:32 2016
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+======================
+Using Polly with Clang
+======================
+
+This documentation discusses how Polly can be used in Clang to automatically
+optimize C/C++ code during compilation.
+
+
+.. warning::
+
+  Warning: clang/LLVM/Polly need to be in sync (compiled from the same SVN
+  revision).
+
+Make Polly available from Clang
+===============================
+
+By default Polly is configured as a shared library plugin that is loaded in
+tools like clang, opt, and bugpoint when they start their execution. By loading
+Polly into clang (or opt) the Polly options become automatically available. You
+can load Polly either by adding the relevant commands to the CPPFLAGS or by
+creating an alias.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  $ export CPPFLAGS="-Xclang -load -Xclang ${POLLY_BUILD_DIR}/lib/LLVMPolly.so"
+
+or
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  $ alias pollycc clang -Xclang -load -Xclang ${POLLY_BUILD_DIR}/lib/LLVMPolly.so
+
+To avoid having to load Polly in the tools, Polly can optionally be configured
+with cmake to be statically linked in the tools:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  $ cmake -D LINK_POLLY_INTO_TOOLS:Bool=ON
+
+Optimizing with Polly
+=====================
+
+Optimizing with Polly is as easy as adding -O3 -mllvm -polly to your compiler
+flags (Polly is only available at -O3).
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  pollycc -O3 -mllvm -polly file.c
+
+Automatic OpenMP code generation
+================================
+
+To automatically detect parallel loops and generate OpenMP code for them you
+also need to add -mllvm -polly-parallel -lgomp to your CFLAGS.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  pollycc -O3 -mllvm -polly -mllvm -polly-parallel -lgomp file.c
+
+Automatic Vector code generation
+================================
+
+Automatic vector code generation can be enabled by adding -mllvm
+-polly-vectorizer=stripmine to your CFLAGS.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  pollycc -O3 -mllvm -polly -mllvm -polly-vectorizer=stripmine file.c
+
+Extract a preoptimized LLVM-IR file
+===================================
+
+Often it is useful to derive from a C-file the LLVM-IR code that is actually
+optimized by Polly. Normally the LLVM-IR is automatically generated from the C
+code by first lowering C to LLVM-IR (clang) and by subsequently applying a set
+of preparing transformations on the LLVM-IR. To get the LLVM-IR after the
+preparing transformations have been applied run Polly with '-O0'.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  pollycc -O0 -mllvm -polly -S -emit-llvm file.c
+
+Further options
+===============
+Polly supports further options that are mainly useful for the development or the
+analysis of Polly. The relevant options can be added to clang by appending
+-mllvm -option-name to the CFLAGS or the clang command line.
+
+Limit Polly to a single function
+--------------------------------
+
+To limit the execution of Polly to a single function, use the option
+-polly-only-func=functionname.
+
+Disable LLVM-IR generation
+--------------------------
+
+Polly normally regenerates LLVM-IR from the Polyhedral representation. To only
+see the effects of the preparing transformation, but to disable Polly code
+generation add the option polly-no-codegen.
+
+Graphical view of the SCoPs
+---------------------------
+Polly can use graphviz to show the SCoPs it detects in a program. The relevant
+options are -polly-show, -polly-show-only, -polly-dot and -polly-dot-only. The
+'show' options automatically run dotty or another graphviz viewer to show the
+scops graphically. The 'dot' options store for each function a dot file that
+highlights the detected SCoPs. If 'only' is appended at the end of the option,
+the basic blocks are shown without the statements the contain.
+
+Change/Disable the Optimizer
+----------------------------
+
+Polly uses by default the isl scheduling optimizer. The isl optimizer optimizes
+for data-locality and parallelism using the Pluto algorithm. For research it is
+also possible to run PoCC as external optimizer. PoCC provides access to the
+original Pluto implementation. To use PoCC add -polly-optimizer=pocc to the
+command line (only available if Polly was compiled with scoplib support)
+[removed after LLVM 3.4.2]. To disable the optimizer entirely use the option
+-polly-optimizer=none.
+
+Disable tiling in the optimizer
+-------------------------------
+
+By default both optimizers perform tiling, if possible. In case this is not
+wanted the option -polly-tiling=false can be used to disable it. (This option
+disables tiling for both optimizers).
+
+Ignore possible aliasing
+------------------------
+
+By default we only detect scops, if we can prove that the different array
+bases can not alias. This is correct do if we optimize automatically. However,
+without special user annotations like 'restrict' we can often not prove that
+no aliasing is possible. In case the user knows no aliasing can happen in the
+code the -polly-ignore-aliasing can be used to disable the check for possible
+aliasing.
+
+Import / Export
+---------------
+
+The flags -polly-import and -polly-export allow the export and reimport of the
+polyhedral representation. By exporting, modifying and reimporting the
+polyhedral representation externally calculated transformations can be
+applied. This enables external optimizers or the manual optimization of
+specific SCoPs. 

Modified: polly/trunk/docs/index.rst
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/polly/trunk/docs/index.rst?rev=259767&r1=259766&r2=259767&view=diff
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--- polly/trunk/docs/index.rst (original)
+++ polly/trunk/docs/index.rst Thu Feb  4 01:45:32 2016
@@ -7,6 +7,14 @@
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
 
+Using Polly
+===========
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   UsingPollyWithClang
+
 Indices and tables
 ==================
 


