llvm-6502/lib
Andrew Lenharth 701f5ac73c Random sampling (aka Arnold and Ryder) profiling. This is still preliminary, but it works on spec on x86 and alpha. The idea is to allow profiling passes to remember what profiling they inserted, then a random sampling framework is inserted which consists of duplicated basic blocks (without profiling), such that at each backedge in the program and entry into every function, the framework chooses whether to use the instrumented code or the instrumentation free code. The goal of such a framework is to make it reasonably cheap to do random sampling of very expensive profiling products (such as load-value profiling).
The code is organized into 3 parts (2 passes)
1) a linked set of profiling passes, which implement an analysis group (linked, like alias analysis are).  These insert profiling into the program, and remember what they inserted, so that at a later time they can be queried about any instruction.

2) a pass that handles inserting the random sampling framework.  This also has options to control how random samples are choosen.  Currently implemented are Global counters, register allocated global counters, and read cycle counter (see? there was a reason for it).

The profiling passes are almost identical to the existing ones (block, function, and null profiling is supported right now), and they are valid passes without the sampling framework (hence the existing passes can be unified with the new ones, not done yet).

Some things are a bit ugly still, but that should be fixed up soon enough.

Other todo? making the counter values not "magic 2^16 -1" values, but dynamically choosable.


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Analysis post-dom-frontiers requires proper post-dominance 2005-11-18 07:28:26 +00:00
Archive DONT_BUILD_RELINKED is gone and implied by BUILD_ARCHIVE now 2005-10-24 02:26:13 +00:00
AsmParser regenerate 2005-11-12 18:22:38 +00:00
Bytecode trivial cleanup 2005-11-12 18:34:09 +00:00
CodeGen Check in code to scalarize arbitrarily wide packed types for some simple 2005-11-22 18:16:00 +00:00
Debugger tell selectiondag when we're debugging 2005-11-16 07:21:47 +00:00
ExecutionEngine Fix a nasty bug that was causing miscompilation of global variables 2005-10-23 23:54:56 +00:00
Linker DONT_BUILD_RELINKED is gone and implied by BUILD_ARCHIVE now 2005-10-24 02:26:13 +00:00
Support indicate when a tool is a debug build. 2005-11-16 06:36:47 +00:00
System instead of using mstats, use malloc_zone_statistics which returns numbers 2005-11-14 07:27:56 +00:00
Target Small tweaks noticed while on the plane. 2005-11-26 22:39:34 +00:00
Transforms Random sampling (aka Arnold and Ryder) profiling. This is still preliminary, but it works on spec on x86 and alpha. The idea is to allow profiling passes to remember what profiling they inserted, then a random sampling framework is inserted which consists of duplicated basic blocks (without profiling), such that at each backedge in the program and entry into every function, the framework chooses whether to use the instrumented code or the instrumentation free code. The goal of such a framework is to make it reasonably cheap to do random sampling of very expensive profiling products (such as load-value profiling). 2005-11-28 00:58:09 +00:00
VMCore Teach LLVM how to scalarize packed types. Currently, this only works on 2005-11-19 00:36:38 +00:00
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