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36 changes: 36 additions & 0 deletions llvm/include/llvm/Transforms/Utils/ProfileVerify.h
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//===- ProfileVerify.h - Verify profile info for testing ----------*-C++-*-===//
//
// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
//
// Inject profile information, as part of tests, to verify passes don't
// accidentally drop it.
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
#ifndef LLVM_TRANSFORMS_UTILS_PROFILEVERIFY_H
#define LLVM_TRANSFORMS_UTILS_PROFILEVERIFY_H

#include "llvm/IR/Analysis.h"
#include "llvm/IR/PassManager.h"

namespace llvm {
/// Inject MD_prof metadata where it's missing. Used for testing that passes
/// don't accidentally drop this metadata.
class ProfileInjectorPass : public PassInfoMixin<ProfileInjectorPass> {
public:
PreservedAnalyses run(Function &F, FunctionAnalysisManager &FAM);
};

/// Checks that MD_prof is present on every instruction that supports it. Used
/// in conjunction with the ProfileInjectorPass. MD_prof "unknown" is considered
/// valid (i.e. !{!"unknown"})
class ProfileVerifierPass : public PassInfoMixin<ProfileVerifierPass> {
public:
PreservedAnalyses run(Function &F, FunctionAnalysisManager &FAM);
};

} // namespace llvm
#endif
1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions llvm/lib/Passes/PassBuilder.cpp
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#include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/MoveAutoInit.h"
#include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/NameAnonGlobals.h"
#include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/PredicateInfo.h"
#include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/ProfileVerify.h"
#include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/RelLookupTableConverter.h"
#include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/StripGCRelocates.h"
#include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/StripNonLineTableDebugInfo.h"
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions llvm/lib/Passes/PassRegistry.def
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FUNCTION_PASS("print<scalar-evolution>", ScalarEvolutionPrinterPass(errs()))
FUNCTION_PASS("print<stack-safety-local>", StackSafetyPrinterPass(errs()))
FUNCTION_PASS("print<uniformity>", UniformityInfoPrinterPass(errs()))
FUNCTION_PASS("prof-inject", ProfileInjectorPass())
FUNCTION_PASS("prof-verify", ProfileVerifierPass())
FUNCTION_PASS("reassociate", ReassociatePass())
FUNCTION_PASS("redundant-dbg-inst-elim", RedundantDbgInstEliminationPass())
FUNCTION_PASS("reg2mem", RegToMemPass())
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/CMakeLists.txt
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MoveAutoInit.cpp
NameAnonGlobals.cpp
PredicateInfo.cpp
ProfileVerify.cpp
PromoteMemoryToRegister.cpp
RelLookupTableConverter.cpp
ScalarEvolutionExpander.cpp
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116 changes: 116 additions & 0 deletions llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/ProfileVerify.cpp
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//===- ProfileVerify.cpp - Verify profile info for testing ----------------===//
//
// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//

#include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/ProfileVerify.h"
#include "llvm/ADT/DynamicAPInt.h"
#include "llvm/ADT/PostOrderIterator.h"
#include "llvm/ADT/STLExtras.h"
#include "llvm/Analysis/BranchProbabilityInfo.h"
#include "llvm/Analysis/LoopInfo.h"
#include "llvm/IR/Analysis.h"
#include "llvm/IR/Dominators.h"
#include "llvm/IR/Function.h"
#include "llvm/IR/Instructions.h"
#include "llvm/IR/LLVMContext.h"
#include "llvm/IR/MDBuilder.h"
#include "llvm/IR/ProfDataUtils.h"
#include "llvm/Support/BranchProbability.h"

using namespace llvm;
namespace {
class ProfileInjector {
Function &F;
FunctionAnalysisManager &FAM;

public:
static const Instruction *
getTerminatorBenefitingFromMDProf(const BasicBlock &BB) {
if (succ_size(&BB) < 2)
return nullptr;
auto *Term = BB.getTerminator();
return (isa<BranchInst>(Term) || isa<SwitchInst>(Term) ||
isa<IndirectBrInst>(Term) || isa<SelectInst>(Term) ||
isa<CallBrInst>(Term))
? Term
: nullptr;
}
static Instruction *getTerminatorBenefitingFromMDProf(BasicBlock &BB) {
return const_cast<Instruction *>(
getTerminatorBenefitingFromMDProf(const_cast<const BasicBlock &>(BB)));
}

ProfileInjector(Function &F, FunctionAnalysisManager &FAM) : F(F), FAM(FAM) {}
bool inject();
};
} // namespace

bool ProfileInjector::inject() {
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Can SamplePGO's weight propagation be reused here?

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(capturing offline chat) this would be e.g. profi, and yes, we could use it in a number of ways:

  • instead of the perhaps more naive BPI estimator currently used (implicitly) here
  • as the way the BPI estimator handles MD_prof unknown cases (I think these 2 items basically amount to the same thing - improving the BPI estimator)
  • as a numerical validation heuristic (part "2" in the RFC)

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I think we should decouple the mechanism to inject synthetic weights from the heuristics to generate synthetic weights. For example, I imagine could have a base class ProfileWeightsGenerator which is derived by different generators such as the current heuristic, profi, fuzzing generated inputs etc. This class would then pick which generator to use when injecting profile weights. Wdyt?

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Yes, that's the intention, but no point in adding abstractions before we want to add a second profile source. Right now, the goal is to get what's needed to have the system described in the first phase in the RFC - checking profile data isn't dropped (so a binary check). In the next phase, when we want to evaluate its numerical preservation, we will start wanting to have such pluggability.

It's also debatable where that abstraction should live. I could see it be a mode of the BPI analysis rather.

auto &BPI = FAM.getResult<BranchProbabilityAnalysis>(F);

bool Changed = false;
for (auto &BB : F) {
auto *Term = getTerminatorBenefitingFromMDProf(BB);
if (!Term)
continue;
if (Term->getMetadata(LLVMContext::MD_prof))
continue;
SmallVector<BranchProbability> Probs;
Probs.reserve(Term->getNumSuccessors());
for (auto I = 0U, E = Term->getNumSuccessors(); I < E; ++I)
Probs.emplace_back(BPI.getEdgeProbability(&BB, Term->getSuccessor(I)));

const auto *FirstZeroDenominator =
find_if(Probs, [](const BranchProbability &P) {
return P.getDenominator() == 0;
});
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Guard with NDEBUG?

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ah, because only used in assert - done (something similar)

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You cast FirstZeroDenominator to void, which would suppress any unused warning. I was thinking of avoiding useless code execution... unless we can trust the compiler will optimize it out.

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The whole expression is const, so it should be optimizable out. I'd prefer relying on that, and fixing the DCE that if that's not the case.

(void)FirstZeroDenominator;
assert(FirstZeroDenominator == Probs.end());
const auto *FirstNonzeroNumerator =
find_if(Probs, [](const BranchProbability &P) {
return P.getNumerator() != 0;
});
assert(FirstNonzeroNumerator != Probs.end());
DynamicAPInt LCM(Probs[0].getDenominator());
DynamicAPInt GCD(FirstNonzeroNumerator->getNumerator());
for (const auto &Prob : drop_begin(Probs)) {
if (!Prob.getNumerator())
continue;
LCM = llvm::lcm(LCM, DynamicAPInt(Prob.getDenominator()));
GCD = llvm::lcm(GCD, DynamicAPInt(Prob.getNumerator()));
}
SmallVector<uint32_t> Weights;
Weights.reserve(Term->getNumSuccessors());
for (const auto &Prob : Probs) {
auto W = Prob.getNumerator() * LCM / GCD;
Weights.emplace_back(static_cast<int32_t>((int64_t)W));
}
setBranchWeights(*Term, Weights, false);
Changed = true;
}
return Changed;
}

PreservedAnalyses ProfileInjectorPass::run(Function &F,
FunctionAnalysisManager &FAM) {
ProfileInjector PI(F, FAM);
if (!PI.inject())
return PreservedAnalyses::all();

return PreservedAnalyses::none();
}

PreservedAnalyses ProfileVerifierPass::run(Function &F,
FunctionAnalysisManager &FAM) {
for (const auto &BB : F)
if (const auto *Term =
ProfileInjector::getTerminatorBenefitingFromMDProf(BB))
if (!Term->getMetadata(LLVMContext::MD_prof))
F.getContext().emitError("Profile verification failed");

return PreservedAnalyses::none();
}
20 changes: 20 additions & 0 deletions llvm/test/Transforms/PGOProfile/prof-verify-as-needed.ll
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; Test that prof-inject only injects missing metadata

; RUN: opt -passes=prof-inject %s -S -o - | FileCheck %s

define void @foo(i32 %i) {
%c = icmp eq i32 %i, 0
br i1 %c, label %yes, label %no, !prof !0
yes:
br i1 %c, label %yes2, label %no
yes2:
ret void
no:
ret void
}

!0 = !{!"branch_weights", i32 1, i32 2}
; CHECK: br i1 %c, label %yes, label %no, !prof !0
; CHECK: br i1 %c, label %yes2, label %no, !prof !1
; CHECK: !0 = !{!"branch_weights", i32 1, i32 2}
; CHECK: !1 = !{!"branch_weights", i32 429496729, i32 715827882}
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Can you conceptually explain to me where these weights come from, or give me a link? I didn't follow the calculation in inject.

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In inject, we get the Branch Probability Info. If there's no profile info, that analysis will compute some guesstimate (we can use profi later, but same idea). Inject will turn around and insert those branch probabilities as metadata.

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I was looking for an explanation of the guesstimate. Because I don't understand inject's calculation, these new branch weights look arbitrary to me.

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Oh! I'd look at BranchProbabilityInfo::estimateBlockWeights for the guesstimate, see also https://reviews.llvm.org/D79485. I'm not deeply familiar with the heuristic, and the goal of this patch isn't dependent on it - we just care about presence/absence. Later, we can make the heuristic pluggable (I was mentioning profi earlier), if we want to do any quantitative analysis.

So right now these are those numbers passes would see when looking at BPI, serialized in metadata.

21 changes: 21 additions & 0 deletions llvm/test/Transforms/PGOProfile/prof-verify-existing.ll
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; Test that prof-inject does not modify existing metadata (incl. "unknown")

; RUN: opt -passes=prof-inject %s -S -o - | FileCheck %s
; RUN: opt -passes=prof-verify %s -S --disable-output

define void @foo(i32 %i) {
%c = icmp eq i32 %i, 0
br i1 %c, label %yes, label %no, !prof !0
yes:
br i1 %c, label %yes2, label %no, !prof !1
yes2:
ret void
no:
ret void
}

!0 = !{!"branch_weights", i32 1, i32 2}
!1 = !{!"unknown"}
; CHECK: br i1 %c, label %yes, label %no, !prof !0
; CHECK: !0 = !{!"branch_weights", i32 1, i32 2}
; CHECK: !1 = !{!"unknown"}
19 changes: 19 additions & 0 deletions llvm/test/Transforms/PGOProfile/prof-verify.ll
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; Test prof-inject and prof-verify

; RUN: opt -passes=prof-inject %s -S -o - | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=INJECT
; RUN: not opt -passes=prof-verify %s -S -o - 2>&1 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=VERIFY
; RUN: opt -passes=prof-inject,prof-verify %s --disable-output

define void @foo(i32 %i) {
%c = icmp eq i32 %i, 0
br i1 %c, label %yes, label %no
yes:
ret void
no:
ret void
}

; INJECT: br i1 %c, label %yes, label %no, !prof !0
; INJECT: !0 = !{!"branch_weights", i32 429496729, i32 715827882}

; VERIFY: Profile verification failed