[llvm-dev] RFC: LLVM Assembly format for ThinLTO Summary

Thu May 3 18:16:39 PDT 2018

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 6:03 PM Mehdi AMINI <joker.eph at gmail.com> wrote:

> Le jeu. 3 mai 2018 à 15:52, Peter Collingbourne <peter at pcc.me.uk> a
> écrit :
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>> On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 3:29 PM, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 3:08 PM Peter Collingbourne via llvm-dev <
>>> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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>>>> On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 2:44 PM, Mehdi AMINI <joker.eph at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Le mar. 1 mai 2018 à 16:50, Teresa Johnson <tejohnson at google.com> a
>>>>> écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Mehdi, thanks for the comments, responses and a tweaked proposal
>>>>>> below. Teresa
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Mehdi AMINI <joker.eph at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My main concern is this one:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > Currently, I am emitting the summary entries at the end, after the
>>>>>>> metadata nodes. Note that the ModuleSummaryIndex is not currently
>>>>>>> referenced from the Module, and isn’t currently created when parsing the
>>>>>>> Module IR bitcode (there is a separate derived class for reading the
>>>>>>> ModuleSummaryIndex from bitcode). This is because they are not currently
>>>>>>> used at the same time. However, in the future there is no reason why we
>>>>>>> couldn’t tag the global values in the Module’s LLVM assembly with the
>>>>>>> corresponding summary entry if the ModuleSummaryIndex is available when
>>>>>>> printing the Module in the assembly writer. I.e. we could do the following
>>>>>>> for “main” from the above example when printing the IR definition (note the
>>>>>>> “^3” at the end):
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I believe the reason that the ModuleSummaryIndex is not attached to
>>>>>>> the Module is that it is fundamentally not a piece of IR, but it is
>>>>>>> conceptually really an Analysis result.
>>>>>>> Usually other analyses don't serialize their result, we happen to
>>>>>>> serialize this one for an optimization purpose (reloading it and making the
>>>>>>> thin-link faster).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> True. My understanding is that the push for having it serialized via
>>>>>> assembly is due to the fact that it is emitted into the bitcode. I know
>>>>>> there is disagreement on this reasoning, I am hoping to have a proposal
>>>>>> that is acceptable to everyone. =)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The fundamental problem is that an analysis result has to be able to
>>>>>>> be invalidated with IR changes, attaching this directly to the module
>>>>>>> wouldn't achieve this. The risk is that when the IR and the summary get
>>>>>>> out-of-sync (`clang -O2 my_module_with_summaries.ll -emit-llvm -o
>>>>>>> my_optimized module_with_summaries.ll`) the summaries would be badly wrong.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Have you looked into what it'd take to make it a "real" analysis in
>>>>>>> the pass manager?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for raising this issue specifically, I hadn't addressed it in
>>>>>> my proposal and it is a big one. I am not proposing that we attempt to
>>>>>> maintain the summary through optimization passes, and definitely don't
>>>>>> think we should do that. IMO deserializing it should be for testing the
>>>>>> thin link and the combined summaries in the backends only. To that end, I
>>>>>> have an idea (below some background first).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Note that in some cases the module summary analysis is an analysis
>>>>>> pass. I.e. when invoked by "opt -module-summary=". However, some time ago
>>>>>> when Peter added the support for splitting the bitcode (for CFI purposes)
>>>>>> and therefore needed to generate a summary in each partition (Thin and
>>>>>> Regular), he added the ThinLTOBitcodeWriterPass, which invokes the module
>>>>>> summary builder directly (twice). This writer is what gets invoked now when
>>>>>> building via "clang -flto=thin", and with "opt -thinlto-bc". So there it is
>>>>>> not invoked/maintained as an analysis pass/result. It would be tricky to
>>>>>> figure out how to even split rather than recompute the module summary index
>>>>>> in that case. Even in the case where we are still invoking as an analysis
>>>>>> pass (opt -module-summary), we would need to figure out how to read in the
>>>>>> module summary to use as the analysis result when available (so that it
>>>>>> could be invalidated and recomputed when stale).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rather than add this plumbing, and just have it discarded if opt does
>>>>>> any optimization, I think we should focus at least for the time being on
>>>>>> supporting reading the summary from assembly exactly where we currently
>>>>>> read in the summary from bitcode:
>>>>>> 1) For the thin link (e.g. tools such as llvm-lto2 or llvm-lto, which
>>>>>> currently have to be preceded by "opt -module-summary/-thinlto-bc" to
>>>>>> generate an index, but could just build it from assembly instead).
>>>>>> 2) For the LTO backends (e.g. tools such as llvm-lto which can
>>>>>> consume a combined index and invoke the backends, or "clang
>>>>>> -fthinlto-index=" for distributed ThinLTO backend testing), where we could
>>>>>> build the combined summary index from assembly instead.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This greatly simplifies the reading side, as there are no
>>>>>> optimizations performed on the IR after the index is read in these cases
>>>>>> that would require invalidation. It also simplifies adding the parsing
>>>>>> support, since it gets invoked exactly where we expect to build an index
>>>>>> currently (i.e. since we don't currently build or store the
>>>>>> ModuleSummaryIndex when parsing the Module from bitcode). It doesn't
>>>>>> preclude someone from figuring out how to compute the module summary
>>>>>> analysis result from the assembly, and invalidating it after optimization,
>>>>>> when reading the Module IR via 'opt' in the future.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does this seem like a reasonable proposal to everyone?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sounds good to me.
>>>>>
>>>>> That would make .ll files quite convenient during debugging I think?
>>>>> We could disassemble, manually change summaries, and re-assemble a bitcode
>>>>> file before running the (thin-)link again.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, that seems more reasonable than what I thought you had in mind. If
>>>> the only consumer of this information is llvm-as, then the purpose of the
>>>> asm summary format is just to provide a way to create a .bc file for
>>>> testing purposes, which is certainly a useful capability.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That feels a bit surprising if ".ll -> llvm-as -> .bc -> <some other
>>> tool - opt, etc>" is different from ".ll -> <opt, etc>". Is that what we're
>>> talking about here? Any chance that can be avoided & feeding a .ll file
>>> works (in the sense of does the same thing/tests the same behavior) in all
>>> the same places that feeding a .bc file does? (as is the case with
>>> non-summary-based IR, to the best of my knowledge)
>>>
>>
>> I may be mistaken, but I don't think we have a lot of tools that can read
>> both .ll and .bc and end up using the summary if it is a .bc file. LTO
>> can't read .ll, for example. The only one that I can think of is clang and
>> presumably we could make that use whichever API we would use in llvm-as for
>> reading the summary from .ll. So the behaviour of most tools would be that
>> ".ll -> llvm-as -> .bc -> <some tool>" vs ".ll -> <some tool>" would end up
>> being the same in both cases: the summary gets discarded.
>>
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> There is still a discrepancy in that:
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>  .ll -> llvm-as -> .bc
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> would be different from:
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>  .ll -> opt -> .bc
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> The latter would drop the summary.
>

Though by the sounds of it .bc -> opt -> .bc drops the summary already? So
there's some consistency there.

But, yeah, it's not clear to me if it'd be better if that did something
else. This is mostly/purely for testing/development purposes anyway.

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> --
> Mehdi
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>> Peter
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>>>> Peter
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>>>>> Thanks,
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>>>>> --
>>>>> Mehdi
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Teresa
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Mehdi
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> Le mar. 1 mai 2018 à 11:10, Peter Collingbourne <peter at pcc.me.uk> a
>>>>>>> écrit :
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 9:00 AM, Teresa Johnson <
>>>>>>>> tejohnson at google.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 10:21 AM Peter Collingbourne <
>>>>>>>>> peter at pcc.me.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 8:32 AM, Teresa Johnson <
>>>>>>>>>> tejohnson at google.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Peter,
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for your comments, replies below.
>>>>>>>>>>> Teresa
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 2:08 PM Peter Collingbourne <
>>>>>>>>>>> peter at pcc.me.uk> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Teresa,
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for sending this proposal out.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I would again like to register my disagreement with the whole
>>>>>>>>>>>> idea of writing summaries in LLVM assembly format. In my view it is clear
>>>>>>>>>>>> that this is not the right direction, as it only invites additional
>>>>>>>>>>>> complexity and more ways for things to go wrong for no real benefit.
>>>>>>>>>>>> However, I don't have the energy to argue that point any further, so I
>>>>>>>>>>>> won't stand in the way here.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I assume you are most concerned with the
>>>>>>>>>>> re-assembly/deserialization of the summary. My main goal is to get this
>>>>>>>>>>> dumped into a text format, and I went this route since the last dumper RFC
>>>>>>>>>>> was blocked with the LLVM assembly direction pushed.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Yes, my main concern is with the deserialization. My view is that
>>>>>>>>>> it should only be allowed for combined summaries -- allowing it for
>>>>>>>>>> per-module is unnecessary as it creates the possibility of things gettting
>>>>>>>>>> out of sync. Given that, we don't actually need an assembly representation
>>>>>>>>>> and we can use whichever format is most convenient. But given the
>>>>>>>>>> opposition to this viewpoint I am willing to concede getting the format
>>>>>>>>>> (IMHO) right in favour of something that is acceptable to others, just so
>>>>>>>>>> that we can test things in a more reasonable way.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 7:43 AM, Teresa Johnson <
>>>>>>>>>>>> tejohnson at google.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I started working on a long-standing request to have the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> summary dumped in a readable format to text, and specifically to emit to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> LLVM assembly. Proposal below, please let me know your thoughts.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Teresa
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>>>>>>>>>>>>> *RFC: LLVM Assembly format for ThinLTO
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Summary========================================Background-----------------ThinLTO
>>>>>>>>>>>>> operates on small summaries computed during the compile step (i.e. with “-c
>>>>>>>>>>>>> -flto=thin”), which are then analyzed and updated during the Thin Link
>>>>>>>>>>>>> stage, and utilized to perform IR updates during the post-link ThinLTO
>>>>>>>>>>>>> backends. The summaries are emitted as LLVM Bitcode, however, not currently
>>>>>>>>>>>>> in the LLVM assembly.There are two ways to generate a bitcode file
>>>>>>>>>>>>> containing summary records for a module: 1. Compile with “clang -c
>>>>>>>>>>>>> -flto=thin”2. Build from LLVM assembly using “opt -module-summary”Either of
>>>>>>>>>>>>> these will result in the ModuleSummaryIndex analysis pass (which builds the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> summary index in memory for a module) to be added to the pipeline just
>>>>>>>>>>>>> before bitcode emission.Additionally, a combined index is created by
>>>>>>>>>>>>> merging all the per-module indexes during the Thin Link, which is
>>>>>>>>>>>>> optionally emitted as a bitcode file.Currently, the only way to view these
>>>>>>>>>>>>> records is via “llvm-bcanalyzer -dump”, then manually decoding the raw
>>>>>>>>>>>>> bitcode dumps.Relatedly, there is YAML reader/writer support for CFI
>>>>>>>>>>>>> related summary fields (-wholeprogramdevirt-read-summary and
>>>>>>>>>>>>> -wholeprogramdevirt-write-summary). Last summer, GSOC student Charles
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Saternos implemented support to dump the summary in YAML from llvm-lto2
>>>>>>>>>>>>> (D34080), including the rest of the summary fields (D34063), however, there
>>>>>>>>>>>>> was pushback on the related RFC for dumping via YAML or another format
>>>>>>>>>>>>> rather than emitting as LLVM assembly.Goals: 1. Define LLVM assembly format
>>>>>>>>>>>>> for summary index2. Define interaction between parsing of summary from LLVM
>>>>>>>>>>>>> assembly and synthesis of new summary index from IR.3. Implement printing
>>>>>>>>>>>>> and parsing of summary index LLVM assemblyProposed LLVM Assembly
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Format----------------------------------------------There are several top
>>>>>>>>>>>>> level data structures within the ModuleSummaryIndex: 1.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ModulePathStringTable: Holds the paths to the modules summarized in the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> index (only one entry for per-module indexes and multiple in the combined
>>>>>>>>>>>>> index), along with their hashes (for incremental builds and global
>>>>>>>>>>>>> promotion).2. GlobalValueMap: A map from global value GUIDs to the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> corresponding function/variable/alias summary (or summaries for the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> combined index and weak linkage).3. CFI-related data structures (TypeIdMap,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> CfiFunctionDefs, and CfiFunctionDecls)I have a WIP patch to AsmWriter.cpp
>>>>>>>>>>>>> to print the ModuleSummaryIndex that I was using to play with the format.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> It currently prints 1 and 2 above. I’ve left the CFI related summary data
>>>>>>>>>>>>> structures as a TODO for now, until the format is at least conceptually
>>>>>>>>>>>>> agreed, but from looking at those I don’t see an issue with using the same
>>>>>>>>>>>>> format (with a note/question for Peter on CFI type test representation
>>>>>>>>>>>>> below).I modeled the proposed format on metadata, with a few key
>>>>>>>>>>>>> differences noted below. Like metadata, I propose enumerating the entries
>>>>>>>>>>>>> with the SlotTracker, and prefixing them with a special character. Avoiding
>>>>>>>>>>>>> characters already used in some fashion (i.e. “!” for metadata and “#” for
>>>>>>>>>>>>> attributes), I initially have chosen “^”. Open to suggestions
>>>>>>>>>>>>> though.Consider the following example:extern void foo();int X;int bar() {
>>>>>>>>>>>>>  foo();  return X;}void barAlias() __attribute__ ((alias ("bar")));int
>>>>>>>>>>>>> main() {  barAlias();  return bar();}The proposed format has one entry per
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ModulePathStringTable entry and one per GlobalValueMap/GUID, and looks
>>>>>>>>>>>>> like:^0 = module: {path: testA.o, hash: 5487197307045666224}^1 = gv: {guid:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1881667236089500162, name: X, summaries: {variable: {module: ^0, flags:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> {linkage: common, notEligibleToImport: 0, live: 0, dsoLocal: 1}}}}^2 = gv:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> {guid: 6699318081062747564, name: foo}^3 = gv: {guid: 15822663052811949562,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> name: main, summaries: {function: {module: ^0, flags: {linkage: extern,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> notEligibleToImport: 1, live: 0, dsoLocal: 1}, insts: 5, funcFlags:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> {readNone: 0, readOnly: 0, noRecurse: 0, returnDoesNotAlias: 0}, calls:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> {{callee: ^5, hotness: unknown}, {callee: ^4, hotness: unknown}}}}}^4 = gv:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> {guid: 16434608426314478903, name: bar, summaries: {function: {module: ^0,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> flags: {linkage: extern, notEligibleToImport: 1, live: 0, dsoLocal: 1},
>>>>>>>>>>>>> insts: 3, funcFlags: {readNone: 0, readOnly: 0, noRecurse: 0,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> returnDoesNotAlias: 0}, calls: {{callee: ^2, hotness: unknown}}, refs:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> {^1}}}}^5 = gv: {guid: 18040127437030252312, name: barAlias, summaries:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> {alias: {module: ^0, flags: {linkage: extern, notEligibleToImport: 0, live:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 0, dsoLocal: 1}, aliasee: ^4}}}Like metadata, the fields are tagged
>>>>>>>>>>>>> (currently using lower camel case, maybe upper camel case would be
>>>>>>>>>>>>> preferable).The proposed format has a structure that reflects the data
>>>>>>>>>>>>> structures in the summary index. For example, consider the entry “^4”. This
>>>>>>>>>>>>> corresponds to the function “bar”. The entry for that GUID in the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> GlobalValueMap contains a list of summaries. For per-module summaries such
>>>>>>>>>>>>> as this, there will be at most one summary (with no summary list for an
>>>>>>>>>>>>> external function like “foo”). In the combined summary there may be
>>>>>>>>>>>>> multiple, e.g. in the case of linkonce_odr functions which have definitions
>>>>>>>>>>>>> in multiple modules. The summary list for bar (“^4”) contains a
>>>>>>>>>>>>> FunctionSummary, so the summary is tagged “function:”. The FunctionSummary
>>>>>>>>>>>>> contains both a flags structure (inherited from the base GlobalValueSummary
>>>>>>>>>>>>> class), and a funcFlags structure (specific to FunctionSummary). It
>>>>>>>>>>>>> therefore contains a brace-enclosed list of flag tags/values for each.Where
>>>>>>>>>>>>> a global value summary references another global value summary (e.g. via a
>>>>>>>>>>>>> call list, reference list, or aliasee), the entry is referenced by its
>>>>>>>>>>>>> slot. E.g. the alias “barAlias” (“^5”) references its aliasee “bar” as
>>>>>>>>>>>>> “^4”.Note that in comparison metadata assembly entries tend to be much more
>>>>>>>>>>>>> decomposed since many metadata fields are themselves metadata (so then
>>>>>>>>>>>>> entries tend to be shorter with references to other metadata
>>>>>>>>>>>>> nodes).Currently, I am emitting the summary entries at the end, after the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> metadata nodes. Note that the ModuleSummaryIndex is not currently
>>>>>>>>>>>>> referenced from the Module, and isn’t currently created when parsing the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Module IR bitcode (there is a separate derived class for reading the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ModuleSummaryIndex from bitcode). This is because they are not currently
>>>>>>>>>>>>> used at the same time. However, in the future there is no reason why we
>>>>>>>>>>>>> couldn’t tag the global values in the Module’s LLVM assembly with the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> corresponding summary entry if the ModuleSummaryIndex is available when
>>>>>>>>>>>>> printing the Module in the assembly writer. I.e. we could do the following
>>>>>>>>>>>>> for “main” from the above example when printing the IR definition (note the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> “^3” at the end):define  dso_local i32 @main() #0 !dbg !17 ^3 {For CFI data
>>>>>>>>>>>>> structures, the format would be similar. It appears that TypeIds are
>>>>>>>>>>>>> referred to by string name in the top level TypeIdMap (std::map indexed by
>>>>>>>>>>>>> std::string type identifier), whereas they are referenced by GUID within
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the FunctionSummary class (i.e. the TypeTests vector and the VFuncId
>>>>>>>>>>>>> structure). For the LLVM assembly I think there should be a top level entry
>>>>>>>>>>>>> for each TypeIdMap, which lists both the type identifier string and its
>>>>>>>>>>>>> GUID (followed by its associated information stored in the map), and the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> TypeTests/VFuncId references on the FunctionSummary entries can reference
>>>>>>>>>>>>> it by summary slot number. I.e. something like:^1 = typeid: {guid: 12345,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> identifier: name_of_type, …^2 = gv: {... {function: {.... typeTests: {^1,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> …Peter - is that correct and does that sound ok?*
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I don't think that would work because the purpose of the
>>>>>>>>>>>> top-level TypeIdMap is to contain resolutions for each type identifier, and
>>>>>>>>>>>> per-module summaries do not contain resolutions (only the combined summary
>>>>>>>>>>>> does). What that means in practice is that we would not be able to recover
>>>>>>>>>>>> and write out a type identifier name for per-module summaries as part of ^1
>>>>>>>>>>>> in your example (well, we could in principle, because the name is stored
>>>>>>>>>>>> somewhere in the function's IR, but that could get complicated).
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Ah ok. I guess the top-level map then is generated by the
>>>>>>>>>>> regular LTO portion of the link (since it presumably requires IR during the
>>>>>>>>>>> Thin Link to get into the combined summary)?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Yes, we fill in the map during the LowerTypeTests and
>>>>>>>>>> WholeProgramDevirt passes in the regular LTO part of the link, e.g. here:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> http://llvm-cs.pcc.me.uk/lib/Transforms/IPO/LowerTypeTests.cpp#823
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Probably the easiest thing to do is to keep the type identifiers
>>>>>>>>>>>> as GUIDs in the function summaries and write out the mapping of type
>>>>>>>>>>>> identifiers as a top-level entity.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> To confirm, you mean during the compile step create a top-level
>>>>>>>>>>> entity that maps GUID -> identifier?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I mean that you could represent this with something like:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> ^typeids = {^1, ^2, ^3}
>>>>>>>>>> ^1 = typeid: {identifier: typeid1, ...}
>>>>>>>>>> ^2 = typeid: {identifier: typeid2, ...}
>>>>>>>>>> ^3 = typeid: {identifier: typeid3, ...}
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> There's no need to store the GUIDs here because they can be
>>>>>>>>>> computed from the type identifiers. The GUIDs would only be stored in the
>>>>>>>>>> typeTests (etc.) fields in each function summary.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I suppose we don't need to store the GUIDs at the top level in the
>>>>>>>>> in-memory summary. But I think it would be good to emit the GUIDs in the
>>>>>>>>> typeid assembly entries because it makes the association in the assembly
>>>>>>>>> much more obvious. I.e. going back to my original example:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ^1 = typeid: {guid: 12345, identifier: name_of_type, …
>>>>>>>>> ^2 = gv: {... {function: {.... typeTests: {^1, …
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If we didn't include the GUID in the typeid entry, but rather just
>>>>>>>>> the identifier, and put the GUID in the typeTest list in the GV's entry, it
>>>>>>>>> wouldn't be obvious at all from the assembly listing which typeid goes with
>>>>>>>>> which typeTest. It's also less compact to include the GUID in each
>>>>>>>>> typeTests list.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I get that, but my point was that in a per-module summary the
>>>>>>>> TypeIdMap is empty, so there will be no names, only GUIDs.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> For "making the association more obvious" we might just want to
>>>>>>>> have the assembly writer emit the GUID of a name as a comment.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Or perhaps we are saying the same thing - I can't tell from your
>>>>>>>>> above example if the GUID is also emitted in the "typeid:" entries.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> No, it wouldn't be.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm not sure there is a need for the:
>>>>>>>>> ^typeids = {^1, ^2, ^3}
>>>>>>>>> We can just build the typeids list on the fly as " = typeid: "
>>>>>>>>> entries are read in.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That's true. Given that nothing actually needs to refer to them, we
>>>>>>>> can just represent the typeids as something like
>>>>>>>> typeid: {identifier: typeid1, ...} ; guid = 123
>>>>>>>> typeid: {identifier: typeid2, ...} ; guid = 456
>>>>>>>> typeid: {identifier: typeid3, ...} ; guid = 789
>>>>>>>> without an associated number.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Peter
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>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Teresa
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>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Peter
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>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>> Teresa
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>>>>>>>>>>>> Peter
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>>>>>>>>>>>>> *Issues when Parsing of Summaries from
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Assembly--------------------------------------------------------------------When
>>>>>>>>>>>>> reading an LLVM assembly file containing module summary entries, a
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ModuleSummaryIndex will be created from the entries.Things to consider are
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the behavior when: - Invoked with “opt -module-summary” (which currently
>>>>>>>>>>>>> builds a new summary index from the IR). Options:1. recompute summary and
>>>>>>>>>>>>> throw away summary in the assembly file2. ignore -module-summary and build
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the summary from the LLVM assembly3. give an error4. compare the two
>>>>>>>>>>>>> summaries (one created from the assembly and the new one created by the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> analysis phase from the IR), and error if they are different.My opinion is
>>>>>>>>>>>>> to do a),  so that the behavior using -module-summary doesn’t change. We
>>>>>>>>>>>>> also need a way to force building of a fresh module summary for cases where
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the user has modified the LLVM assembly of the IR (see below). - How to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> handle older LLVM assembly files that don’t contain new summary fields.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Options:1. Force the LLVM assembly file to be recreated with a new summary.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I.e. “opt -module-summary -o - | llvm-dis”.2. Auto-upgrade, by silently
>>>>>>>>>>>>> creating conservative values for the new summary entries.I lean towards b)
>>>>>>>>>>>>> (when possible) for user-friendliness and to reduce required churn on test
>>>>>>>>>>>>> inputs. - How to handle partial or incorrect LLVM assembly summary entries.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> How to handle partial summaries depends in part on how we answer the prior
>>>>>>>>>>>>> question about auto-upgrading. I think the best option like there is to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> handle it automatically when possible. However, I do think we should error
>>>>>>>>>>>>> on glaring errors like obviously missing information. For example, when
>>>>>>>>>>>>> there is summary data in the LLVM assembly, but summary entries are missing
>>>>>>>>>>>>> for some global values. E.g. if the user modified the assembly to add a
>>>>>>>>>>>>> function but forgot to add a corresponding summary entry. We could still
>>>>>>>>>>>>> have subtle issues (e.g. user adds a new call but forgets to update the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> caller’s summary call list), but it will be harder to detect those.*
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Teresa Johnson |  Software Engineer |  tejohnson at google.com |
>>>>>>>>>>>>>  408-460-2413 <(408)%20460-2413>
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>>>>>>>>>>>> --
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>>>>>>>>>>>> Peter
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>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>> Teresa Johnson |  Software Engineer |  tejohnson at google.com |
>>>>>>>>>>> 408-460-2413 <(408)%20460-2413>
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>>>>>>>>>> Peter
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> Teresa Johnson |  Software Engineer |  tejohnson at google.com |
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>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Peter
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Teresa Johnson |  Software Engineer |  tejohnson at google.com |
>>>>>> 408-460-2413 <(408)%20460-2413>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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