[compiler-rt] [compiler-rt][ctx_profile] Add the instrumented contextual profiling APIs (PR #89838)

[Snehasish Kumar via llvm-commits]

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@@ -51,5 +53,189 @@ class Arena final {
   const uint64_t Size;
 };
 
+/// The contextual profile is a directed tree where each node has one parent. A
+/// node (ContextNode) corresponds to a function activation. The root of the
+/// tree is at a function that was marked as entrypoint to the compiler. A node
+/// stores counter values for edges and a vector of subcontexts. These are the
+/// contexts of callees. The index in the subcontext vector corresponds to the
+/// index of the callsite (as was instrumented via llvm.instrprof.callsite). At
+/// that index we find a linked list, potentially empty, of ContextNodes. Direct
+/// calls will have 0 or 1 values in the linked list, but indirect callsites may
+/// have more.
+///
+/// The ContextNode has a fixed sized header describing it - the GUID of the
+/// function, the size of the counter and callsite vectors. It is also an
+/// (intrusive) linked list for the purposes of the indirect call case above.
+///
+/// Allocation is expected to happen on an Arena. The allocation lays out inline
+/// the counter and subcontexts vectors. The class offers APIs to correctly
+/// reference the latter.
+///
+/// The layout is as follows:
+///
+/// [[statically-declared fields][counters vector][subcontexts vector]]
+///
+/// See also documentation on the counters and subContexts members below.
+///
+/// The structure of the ContextNode is known to LLVM, because LLVM needs to:
+///   (1) increment counts, and
+///   (2) form a GEP for the position in the subcontext list of a callsite
+/// This means changes to LLVM contextual profile lowering and changes here
+/// must be coupled.
+/// Note: the header content isn't interesting to LLVM (other than its size)
+///
+/// Part of contextual collection is the notion of "scratch contexts". These are
+/// buffers that are "large enough" to allow for memory-safe acceses during
+/// counter increments - meaning the counter increment code in LLVM doesn't need
+/// to be concerned with memory safety. Their subcontexts never get populated,
+/// though. The runtime code here produces and recognizes them.
+class ContextNode final {
+  const GUID Guid;
+  ContextNode *const Next;
+  const uint32_t NrCounters;
+  const uint32_t NrCallsites;
+
+public:
+  ContextNode(GUID Guid, uint32_t NrCounters, uint32_t NrCallsites,
+              ContextNode *Next = nullptr)
+      : Guid(Guid), Next(Next), NrCounters(NrCounters),
+        NrCallsites(NrCallsites) {}
+  static inline ContextNode *alloc(char *Place, GUID Guid, uint32_t NrCounters,
+                                   uint32_t NrCallsites,
+                                   ContextNode *Next = nullptr);
+
+  static inline size_t getAllocSize(uint32_t NrCounters, uint32_t NrCallsites) {
+    return sizeof(ContextNode) + sizeof(uint64_t) * NrCounters +
+           sizeof(ContextNode *) * NrCallsites;
+  }
+
+  // The counters vector starts right after the static header.
+  uint64_t *counters() {
+    ContextNode *addr_after = &(this[1]);
+    return reinterpret_cast<uint64_t *>(reinterpret_cast<char *>(addr_after));
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snehasish wrote:

Why is the additional reinterpret_cast to char* required?

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/89838