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1 //===-- BasicBlockSections.cpp ---=========--------------------------------===//
2 //
3 // Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
4 // See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
5 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
6 //
7 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
8 //
9 // BasicBlockSections implementation.
10 //
11 // The purpose of this pass is to assign sections to basic blocks when
12 // -fbasic-block-sections= option is used. Further, with profile information
13 // only the subset of basic blocks with profiles are placed in separate sections
14 // and the rest are grouped in a cold section. The exception handling blocks are
15 // treated specially to ensure they are all in one seciton.
16 //
17 // Basic Block Sections
18 // ====================
19 //
20 // With option, -fbasic-block-sections=list, every function may be split into
21 // clusters of basic blocks. Every cluster will be emitted into a separate
22 // section with its basic blocks sequenced in the given order. To get the
23 // optimized performance, the clusters must form an optimal BB layout for the
24 // function. We insert a symbol at the beginning of every cluster's section to
25 // allow the linker to reorder the sections in any arbitrary sequence. A global
26 // order of these sections would encapsulate the function layout.
27 // For example, consider the following clusters for a function foo (consisting
28 // of 6 basic blocks 0, 1, ..., 5).
29 //
30 // 0 2
31 // 1 3 5
32 //
33 // * Basic blocks 0 and 2 are placed in one section with symbol `foo`
34 //   referencing the beginning of this section.
35 // * Basic blocks 1, 3, 5 are placed in a separate section. A new symbol
36 //   `foo.__part.1` will reference the beginning of this section.
37 // * Basic block 4 (note that it is not referenced in the list) is placed in
38 //   one section, and a new symbol `foo.cold` will point to it.
39 //
40 // There are a couple of challenges to be addressed:
41 //
42 // 1. The last basic block of every cluster should not have any implicit
43 //    fallthrough to its next basic block, as it can be reordered by the linker.
44 //    The compiler should make these fallthroughs explicit by adding
45 //    unconditional jumps..
46 //
47 // 2. All inter-cluster branch targets would now need to be resolved by the
48 //    linker as they cannot be calculated during compile time. This is done
49 //    using static relocations. Further, the compiler tries to use short branch
50 //    instructions on some ISAs for small branch offsets. This is not possible
51 //    for inter-cluster branches as the offset is not determined at compile
52 //    time, and therefore, long branch instructions have to be used for those.
53 //
54 // 3. Debug Information (DebugInfo) and Call Frame Information (CFI) emission
55 //    needs special handling with basic block sections. DebugInfo needs to be
56 //    emitted with more relocations as basic block sections can break a
57 //    function into potentially several disjoint pieces, and CFI needs to be
58 //    emitted per cluster. This also bloats the object file and binary sizes.
59 //
60 // Basic Block Labels
61 // ==================
62 //
63 // With -fbasic-block-sections=labels, we encode the offsets of BB addresses of
64 // every function into the .llvm_bb_addr_map section. Along with the function
65 // symbols, this allows for mapping of virtual addresses in PMU profiles back to
66 // the corresponding basic blocks. This logic is implemented in AsmPrinter. This
67 // pass only assigns the BBSectionType of every function to ``labels``.
68 //
69 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
70 
71 #include "llvm/ADT/SmallVector.h"
72 #include "llvm/ADT/StringRef.h"
73 #include "llvm/CodeGen/BasicBlockSectionUtils.h"
74 #include "llvm/CodeGen/BasicBlockSectionsProfileReader.h"
75 #include "llvm/CodeGen/MachineFunction.h"
76 #include "llvm/CodeGen/MachineFunctionPass.h"
77 #include "llvm/CodeGen/Passes.h"
78 #include "llvm/CodeGen/TargetInstrInfo.h"
79 #include "llvm/InitializePasses.h"
80 #include "llvm/Target/TargetMachine.h"
81 #include <optional>
82 
83 using namespace llvm;
84 
85 // Placing the cold clusters in a separate section mitigates against poor
86 // profiles and allows optimizations such as hugepage mapping to be applied at a
87 // section granularity. Defaults to ".text.split." which is recognized by lld
88 // via the `-z keep-text-section-prefix` flag.
89 cl::opt<std::string> llvm::BBSectionsColdTextPrefix(
90     "bbsections-cold-text-prefix",
91     cl::desc("The text prefix to use for cold basic block clusters"),
92     cl::init(".text.split."), cl::Hidden);
93 
94 static cl::opt<bool> BBSectionsDetectSourceDrift(
95     "bbsections-detect-source-drift",
96     cl::desc("This checks if there is a fdo instr. profile hash "
97              "mismatch for this function"),
98     cl::init(true), cl::Hidden);
99 
100 namespace {
101 
102 class BasicBlockSections : public MachineFunctionPass {
103 public:
104   static char ID;
105 
106   BasicBlockSectionsProfileReader *BBSectionsProfileReader = nullptr;
107 
108   BasicBlockSections() : MachineFunctionPass(ID) {
109     initializeBasicBlockSectionsPass(*PassRegistry::getPassRegistry());
110   }
111 
112   StringRef getPassName() const override {
113     return "Basic Block Sections Analysis";
114   }
115 
116   void getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage &AU) const override;
117 
118   /// Identify basic blocks that need separate sections and prepare to emit them
119   /// accordingly.
120   bool runOnMachineFunction(MachineFunction &MF) override;
121 };
122 
123 } // end anonymous namespace
124 
125 char BasicBlockSections::ID = 0;
126 INITIALIZE_PASS_BEGIN(
127     BasicBlockSections, "bbsections-prepare",
128     "Prepares for basic block sections, by splitting functions "
129     "into clusters of basic blocks.",
130     false, false)
131 INITIALIZE_PASS_DEPENDENCY(BasicBlockSectionsProfileReader)
132 INITIALIZE_PASS_END(BasicBlockSections, "bbsections-prepare",
133                     "Prepares for basic block sections, by splitting functions "
134                     "into clusters of basic blocks.",
135                     false, false)
136 
137 // This function updates and optimizes the branching instructions of every basic
138 // block in a given function to account for changes in the layout.
139 static void
140 updateBranches(MachineFunction &MF,
141                const SmallVector<MachineBasicBlock *> &PreLayoutFallThroughs) {
142   const TargetInstrInfo *TII = MF.getSubtarget().getInstrInfo();
143   SmallVector<MachineOperand, 4> Cond;
144   for (auto &MBB : MF) {
145     auto NextMBBI = std::next(MBB.getIterator());
146     auto *FTMBB = PreLayoutFallThroughs[MBB.getNumber()];
147     // If this block had a fallthrough before we need an explicit unconditional
148     // branch to that block if either
149     //     1- the block ends a section, which means its next block may be
150     //        reorderd by the linker, or
151     //     2- the fallthrough block is not adjacent to the block in the new
152     //        order.
153     if (FTMBB && (MBB.isEndSection() || &*NextMBBI != FTMBB))
154       TII->insertUnconditionalBranch(MBB, FTMBB, MBB.findBranchDebugLoc());
155 
156     // We do not optimize branches for machine basic blocks ending sections, as
157     // their adjacent block might be reordered by the linker.
158     if (MBB.isEndSection())
159       continue;
160 
161     // It might be possible to optimize branches by flipping the branch
162     // condition.
163     Cond.clear();
164     MachineBasicBlock *TBB = nullptr, *FBB = nullptr; // For analyzeBranch.
165     if (TII->analyzeBranch(MBB, TBB, FBB, Cond))
166       continue;
167     MBB.updateTerminator(FTMBB);
168   }
169 }
170 
171 // This function provides the BBCluster information associated with a function.
172 // Returns true if a valid association exists and false otherwise.
173 bool getBBClusterInfoForFunction(
174     const MachineFunction &MF,
175     BasicBlockSectionsProfileReader *BBSectionsProfileReader,
176     DenseMap<unsigned, BBClusterInfo> &V) {
177 
178   // Find the assoicated cluster information.
179   std::pair<bool, SmallVector<BBClusterInfo, 4>> P =
180       BBSectionsProfileReader->getBBClusterInfoForFunction(MF.getName());
181   if (!P.first)
182     return false;
183 
184   if (P.second.empty()) {
185     // This indicates that sections are desired for all basic blocks of this
186     // function. We clear the BBClusterInfo vector to denote this.
187     V.clear();
188     return true;
189   }
190 
191   for (const BBClusterInfo &BBCI : P.second)
192     V[BBCI.BBID] = BBCI;
193   return true;
194 }
195 
196 // This function sorts basic blocks according to the cluster's information.
197 // All explicitly specified clusters of basic blocks will be ordered
198 // accordingly. All non-specified BBs go into a separate "Cold" section.
199 // Additionally, if exception handling landing pads end up in more than one
200 // clusters, they are moved into a single "Exception" section. Eventually,
201 // clusters are ordered in increasing order of their IDs, with the "Exception"
202 // and "Cold" succeeding all other clusters.
203 // FuncBBClusterInfo represent the cluster information for basic blocks. It
204 // maps from BBID of basic blocks to their cluster information. If this is
205 // empty, it means unique sections for all basic blocks in the function.
206 static void
207 assignSections(MachineFunction &MF,
208                const DenseMap<unsigned, BBClusterInfo> &FuncBBClusterInfo) {
209   assert(MF.hasBBSections() && "BB Sections is not set for function.");
210   // This variable stores the section ID of the cluster containing eh_pads (if
211   // all eh_pads are one cluster). If more than one cluster contain eh_pads, we
212   // set it equal to ExceptionSectionID.
213   std::optional<MBBSectionID> EHPadsSectionID;
214 
215   for (auto &MBB : MF) {
216     // With the 'all' option, every basic block is placed in a unique section.
217     // With the 'list' option, every basic block is placed in a section
218     // associated with its cluster, unless we want individual unique sections
219     // for every basic block in this function (if FuncBBClusterInfo is empty).
220     if (MF.getTarget().getBBSectionsType() == llvm::BasicBlockSection::All ||
221         FuncBBClusterInfo.empty()) {
222       // If unique sections are desired for all basic blocks of the function, we
223       // set every basic block's section ID equal to its original position in
224       // the layout (which is equal to its number). This ensures that basic
225       // blocks are ordered canonically.
226       MBB.setSectionID(MBB.getNumber());
227     } else {
228       auto I = FuncBBClusterInfo.find(*MBB.getBBID());
229       if (I != FuncBBClusterInfo.end()) {
230         MBB.setSectionID(I->second.ClusterID);
231       } else {
232         // BB goes into the special cold section if it is not specified in the
233         // cluster info map.
234         MBB.setSectionID(MBBSectionID::ColdSectionID);
235       }
236     }
237 
238     if (MBB.isEHPad() && EHPadsSectionID != MBB.getSectionID() &&
239         EHPadsSectionID != MBBSectionID::ExceptionSectionID) {
240       // If we already have one cluster containing eh_pads, this must be updated
241       // to ExceptionSectionID. Otherwise, we set it equal to the current
242       // section ID.
243       EHPadsSectionID = EHPadsSectionID ? MBBSectionID::ExceptionSectionID
244                                         : MBB.getSectionID();
245     }
246   }
247 
248   // If EHPads are in more than one section, this places all of them in the
249   // special exception section.
250   if (EHPadsSectionID == MBBSectionID::ExceptionSectionID)
251     for (auto &MBB : MF)
252       if (MBB.isEHPad())
253         MBB.setSectionID(*EHPadsSectionID);
254 }
255 
256 void llvm::sortBasicBlocksAndUpdateBranches(
257     MachineFunction &MF, MachineBasicBlockComparator MBBCmp) {
258   [[maybe_unused]] const MachineBasicBlock *EntryBlock = &MF.front();
259   SmallVector<MachineBasicBlock *> PreLayoutFallThroughs(MF.getNumBlockIDs());
260   for (auto &MBB : MF)
261     PreLayoutFallThroughs[MBB.getNumber()] = MBB.getFallThrough();
262 
263   MF.sort(MBBCmp);
264   assert(&MF.front() == EntryBlock &&
265          "Entry block should not be displaced by basic block sections");
266 
267   // Set IsBeginSection and IsEndSection according to the assigned section IDs.
268   MF.assignBeginEndSections();
269 
270   // After reordering basic blocks, we must update basic block branches to
271   // insert explicit fallthrough branches when required and optimize branches
272   // when possible.
273   updateBranches(MF, PreLayoutFallThroughs);
274 }
275 
276 // If the exception section begins with a landing pad, that landing pad will
277 // assume a zero offset (relative to @LPStart) in the LSDA. However, a value of
278 // zero implies "no landing pad." This function inserts a NOP just before the EH
279 // pad label to ensure a nonzero offset.
280 void llvm::avoidZeroOffsetLandingPad(MachineFunction &MF) {
281   for (auto &MBB : MF) {
282     if (MBB.isBeginSection() && MBB.isEHPad()) {
283       MachineBasicBlock::iterator MI = MBB.begin();
284       while (!MI->isEHLabel())
285         ++MI;
286       MF.getSubtarget().getInstrInfo()->insertNoop(MBB, MI);
287     }
288   }
289 }
290 
291 // This checks if the source of this function has drifted since this binary was
292 // profiled previously.  For now, we are piggy backing on what PGO does to
293 // detect this with instrumented profiles.  PGO emits an hash of the IR and
294 // checks if the hash has changed.  Advanced basic block layout is usually done
295 // on top of PGO optimized binaries and hence this check works well in practice.
296 static bool hasInstrProfHashMismatch(MachineFunction &MF) {
297   if (!BBSectionsDetectSourceDrift)
298     return false;
299 
300   const char MetadataName[] = "instr_prof_hash_mismatch";
301   auto *Existing = MF.getFunction().getMetadata(LLVMContext::MD_annotation);
302   if (Existing) {
303     MDTuple *Tuple = cast<MDTuple>(Existing);
304     for (const auto &N : Tuple->operands())
305       if (N.equalsStr(MetadataName))
306         return true;
307   }
308 
309   return false;
310 }
311 
312 bool BasicBlockSections::runOnMachineFunction(MachineFunction &MF) {
313   auto BBSectionsType = MF.getTarget().getBBSectionsType();
314   assert(BBSectionsType != BasicBlockSection::None &&
315          "BB Sections not enabled!");
316 
317   // Check for source drift.  If the source has changed since the profiles
318   // were obtained, optimizing basic blocks might be sub-optimal.
319   // This only applies to BasicBlockSection::List as it creates
320   // clusters of basic blocks using basic block ids. Source drift can
321   // invalidate these groupings leading to sub-optimal code generation with
322   // regards to performance.
323   if (BBSectionsType == BasicBlockSection::List &&
324       hasInstrProfHashMismatch(MF))
325     return true;
326   // Renumber blocks before sorting them. This is useful for accessing the
327   // original layout positions and finding the original fallthroughs.
328   MF.RenumberBlocks();
329 
330   if (BBSectionsType == BasicBlockSection::Labels) {
331     MF.setBBSectionsType(BBSectionsType);
332     return true;
333   }
334 
335   BBSectionsProfileReader = &getAnalysis<BasicBlockSectionsProfileReader>();
336 
337   // Map from BBID of blocks to their cluster information.
338   DenseMap<unsigned, BBClusterInfo> FuncBBClusterInfo;
339   if (BBSectionsType == BasicBlockSection::List &&
340       !getBBClusterInfoForFunction(MF, BBSectionsProfileReader,
341                                    FuncBBClusterInfo))
342     return true;
343   MF.setBBSectionsType(BBSectionsType);
344   assignSections(MF, FuncBBClusterInfo);
345 
346   // We make sure that the cluster including the entry basic block precedes all
347   // other clusters.
348   auto EntryBBSectionID = MF.front().getSectionID();
349 
350   // Helper function for ordering BB sections as follows:
351   //   * Entry section (section including the entry block).
352   //   * Regular sections (in increasing order of their Number).
353   //     ...
354   //   * Exception section
355   //   * Cold section
356   auto MBBSectionOrder = [EntryBBSectionID](const MBBSectionID &LHS,
357                                             const MBBSectionID &RHS) {
358     // We make sure that the section containing the entry block precedes all the
359     // other sections.
360     if (LHS == EntryBBSectionID || RHS == EntryBBSectionID)
361       return LHS == EntryBBSectionID;
362     return LHS.Type == RHS.Type ? LHS.Number < RHS.Number : LHS.Type < RHS.Type;
363   };
364 
365   // We sort all basic blocks to make sure the basic blocks of every cluster are
366   // contiguous and ordered accordingly. Furthermore, clusters are ordered in
367   // increasing order of their section IDs, with the exception and the
368   // cold section placed at the end of the function.
369   auto Comparator = [&](const MachineBasicBlock &X,
370                         const MachineBasicBlock &Y) {
371     auto XSectionID = X.getSectionID();
372     auto YSectionID = Y.getSectionID();
373     if (XSectionID != YSectionID)
374       return MBBSectionOrder(XSectionID, YSectionID);
375     // If the two basic block are in the same section, the order is decided by
376     // their position within the section.
377     if (XSectionID.Type == MBBSectionID::SectionType::Default)
378       return FuncBBClusterInfo.lookup(*X.getBBID()).PositionInCluster <
379              FuncBBClusterInfo.lookup(*Y.getBBID()).PositionInCluster;
380     return X.getNumber() < Y.getNumber();
381   };
382 
383   sortBasicBlocksAndUpdateBranches(MF, Comparator);
384   avoidZeroOffsetLandingPad(MF);
385   return true;
386 }
387 
388 void BasicBlockSections::getAnalysisUsage(AnalysisUsage &AU) const {
389   AU.setPreservesAll();
390   AU.addRequired<BasicBlockSectionsProfileReader>();
391   MachineFunctionPass::getAnalysisUsage(AU);
392 }
393 
394 MachineFunctionPass *llvm::createBasicBlockSectionsPass() {
395   return new BasicBlockSections();
396 }
397