[llvm-dev] how to add my own passes to LTO pass

[Teresa Johnson via llvm-dev]

cc-ed llvm-dev back so others can hopefully help. I don't load passes via
plugins so this is outside my area of expertise. But I have seen some
recent patches fly by that are working on this.

I saw from an earlier question you posted that you are using gold. There is
a patch under development/review to get pass plugins to work for LTO
through gold. See https://reviews.llvm.org/D77704.

Eli (added) was working on adding support as well, here are a couple of
patches he recently landed for this in LTO and lld:
https://reviews.llvm.org/D75879 (lld)
https://reviews.llvm.org/D76866 (LTO)

I'm not completely sure what the status is at this point though. Eli is
probably the best person to answer.

Teresa

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 7:50 PM y liu <ly820nha at gmail.com> wrote:

> I‘m using LLVM 10, and register my pass by following code:
> char MyModulePass::ID = 0;
> static RegisterPass<MyModulePass> X("MyModule", "MyModule pass");
> static void registerMyModulePass(const PassManagerBuilder &,
>                          legacy::PassManagerBase &PM) {
>   PM.add(new MyModulePass());
> }
> static RegisterStandardPasses
>   RegisterMyPass(PassManagerBuilder::EP_FullLinkTimeOptimizationLast,
>                  registerMyModulePass);
> MyModulePass reles on helper.c.
> I want to use it for optimization after the link is compelte.
> Now, I compile it manually with opt.
> For example:
>
> Target: fun1.c fun2.c fun3.c main.c
> Pass: Mypass.so
> Dependency: helper.c
>
> fun1.c fun2.c fun3.c main.c ---> target.bc
>                    helper.c ---> helper.o
>
> target.bc helper.o ---> target-link.bc ----> opt Mypass.so  --->
> target-opt.bc ---> target
>
> I want to achieve my goals by LTO.
>
> Teresa Johnson <tejohnson at google.com>于2020年4月22日 周三23:11写道：
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 5:12 AM y liu via llvm-dev <
>> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I have a module pass and I hope to use it to optimize a real-world
>>> program.
>>> I need LTO，and I have got LTO plugin.
>>>
>>
>> Do you mean the LLVM gold plugin (relevant when doing LTO links with gold
>> or gnu ld), or are you trying to load your new pass via a pass plugin?
>>
>  Yes, it’s gold plugin, I need it to link .bc and .o files. I want to
>> optimize the target after linking.
>>
> But How can I add my passes to LTO Pass. I can't find solution.
>>> What should I do?
>>>
>>
>> This depends on whether you are trying to add via a pass plugin
>> dynamically via the command line (I believe the support for this is work in
>> progress), or by manually modifying the pass pipeline within LLVM.
>> Have you implemented as an old pass manager pass (the current default) or
>> the new pass manager or both?
>> Is it an LTO specific pass, or do you also want to run for non-LTO
>> optimizing compiles (most optimizing passes should run in all cases).
>>
>> Assuming the latter, and also assuming you are using the default old pass
>> manager, you would want to look at the following places in
>> PassManagerBuilder.cpp:
>>
>> regular (full) LTO: PassManagerBuilder::addLTOOptimizationPasses
>>
>> ThinLTO: PassManagerBuilder::populateModulePassManager, which is used
>> both by the pre-LTO compile and by the LTO linking ThinLTO compiles. If you
>> want to insert your pass for both, just put it in the relevant place in
>> this file, if you want to only do during the LTO link portion of the
>> ThinLTO compile, then guard it with a check for "PerformThinLTO".
>>
>> For the new pass manager, it would be added to PassBuilder.cpp (that is
>> structured a bit differently so let me know and I can point you in the
>> right direction). If you are planning to send upstream it should be
>> supported by both pass managers.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Teresa
>>
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>>
>

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