[LLVMdev] (Very) small patch for the jit event listener

[Kaylor, Andrew]

Hi Gaël,

I'm not familiar enough with the details of the old JIT engine and its event interface to comment on whether or not your changes are appropriate, but I'm not sure anyone is so the patch is probably OK as is.  I don't see any obvious problems with it.

However, your description of the changes raises a bigger issue in my mind.  I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but we're planning to deprecate the old JIT engine in a future release -- possibly as soon as LLVM 3.5.  In order to do so we need to make sure the MCJIT engine is capable of meeting the needs of current JIT users, and I'm not sure we've got your case fully covered yet.

Can you tell me a little bit more about the details of how you are using the JIT engine?  I'm putting together a document describing various models for MCJIT use and if your model isn't covered by one of the cases I've got now I'd like to add it.

Also, have you looked at the recently added Stackmap and Patchpoint intrinsics.  Without knowing a lot about either your case or those intrinsics, I think that there may be a possible match there.  The thing that raised a red flag for me in your message was that MCJIT doesn't maintain mappings between the generated code and the LLVM classes from which it is produced, so we'll probably need a different way to handle your safepoints.

(BTW, it's probably appropriate to move further discussion to the LLVMDev list rather than llvm-commits.)

Thanks,
Andy


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From: llvm-commits-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:llvm-commits-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu] On Behalf Of Gaël Thomas
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 6:09 AM
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Subject: (Very) small patch for the jit event listener

Hi all,

We have a small problem for vmkit. We rely on the JITEventListener to register the safepoints generated for the garbage collector, and for that purpose, we have to use the JITCodeEmitter (the
MachineCodeEmitter) that was used to generate the MachineFunction in order to find the physical address of the safepoints (aka, the MCSymbols). A long time ago, it was not a problem as the JIT class was in the llvm interface, but today, the header is hidden inside the lib directory and not installed by llvm. Currently, we directly use this header, but it means that during the compilation of vmkit, we need the sources of llvm. But, as we are currently developing a debian package of vmkit, we would like to avoid the installation of the llvm sources to compile vmkit.

So, I made a small patch that just adds a new MachineCodeEmitter field in JITEvent_EmittedFunctionDetails and fill it in JITCodeEmitter. As the patch only adds a new field in the JITEvent_EmittedFunctionDetails, it should not break anything. At least, my llvm and my vmkit are still running :) (by the way, I had to execute a make clean before recompiling llvm because I think that a dependency is missing)

As it is my first patch, I hope that I have used the llvm coding style...

See you,
Gaël






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