[llvm] [PGO] Sampled instrumentation in PGO to speed up instrumentation binary (PR #69535)

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@@ -412,30 +424,91 @@ PreservedAnalyses InstrProfiling::run(Module &M, ModuleAnalysisManager &AM) {
   return PreservedAnalyses::none();
 }
 
+// Perform instrumentation sampling.
+// We transform:
+//   Increment_Instruction;
+// to:
+//   if (__llvm_profile_sampling__ <= SampleDuration) {
+//     Increment_Instruction;
+//   }
+//   __llvm_profile_sampling__ += 1;
+//
+// "__llvm_profile_sampling__" is a thread-local global shared by all PGO
+// instrumentation variables (value-instrumentation and edge instrumentation).
+// It has a unsigned short type and will wrapper around when overflow.
+//
+// Note that, the code snippet after the transformation can still be
+// counter promoted. But I don't see a reason for that because the
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xur-llvm wrote:

ack.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/69535