tree 7f7f4397ee13267263b476fb63f40ebd4a8ce165
parent b6d87cfe5fe6a902b8dd6eea8726bcf649d790f5
author Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> 1532393646 +0000
committer Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> 1532393646 +0000

Add PerfJITEventListener for perf profiling support.

This new JIT event listener supports generating profiling data for
the linux 'perf' profiling tool, allowing it to generate function and
instruction level profiles.

Currently this functionality is not enabled by default, but must be
enabled with LLVM_USE_PERF=yes.  Given that the listener has no
dependencies, it might be sensible to enable by default once the
initial issues have been shaken out.

I followed existing precedent in registering the listener by default
in lli. Should there be a decision to enable this by default on linux,
that should probably be changed.

Please note that until https://reviews.llvm.org/D47343 is resolved,
using this functionality with mcjit rather than orcjit will not
reliably work.

Disregarding the previous comment, here's an example:

$ cat /tmp/expensive_loop.c

bool stupid_isprime(uint64_t num)
{
        if (num == 2)
                return true;
        if (num < 1 || num % 2 == 0)
                return false;
        for(uint64_t i = 3; i < num / 2; i+= 2) {
                if (num % i == 0)
                        return false;
        }
        return true;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
        int numprimes = 0;

        for (uint64_t num = argc; num < 100000; num++)
        {
                if (stupid_isprime(num))
                        numprimes++;
        }

        return numprimes;
}

$ clang -ggdb -S -c -emit-llvm /tmp/expensive_loop.c -o
/tmp/expensive_loop.ll

$ perf record -o perf.data -g -k 1 ./bin/lli -jit-kind=mcjit /tmp/expensive_loop.ll 1

$ perf inject --jit -i perf.data -o perf.jit.data

$ perf report -i perf.jit.data
-   92.59%  lli      jitted-5881-2.so                   [.] stupid_isprime
     stupid_isprime
     main
     llvm::MCJIT::runFunction
     llvm::ExecutionEngine::runFunctionAsMain
     main
     __libc_start_main
     0x4bf6258d4c544155
+    0.85%  lli      ld-2.27.so                         [.] do_lookup_x

And line-level annotations also work:
       │              for(uint64_t i = 3; i < num / 2; i+= 2) {
       │1 30:   movq   $0x3,-0x18(%rbp)
  0.03 │1 38:   mov    -0x18(%rbp),%rax
  0.03 │        mov    -0x10(%rbp),%rcx
       │        shr    $0x1,%rcx
  3.63 │     ┌──cmp    %rcx,%rax
       │     ├──jae    6f
       │     │                if (num % i == 0)
  0.03 │     │  mov    -0x10(%rbp),%rax
       │     │  xor    %edx,%edx
 89.00 │     │  divq   -0x18(%rbp)
       │     │  cmp    $0x0,%rdx
  0.22 │     │↓ jne    5f
       │     │                        return false;
       │     │  movb   $0x0,-0x1(%rbp)
       │     │↓ jmp    73
       │     │        }
  3.22 │1 5f:│↓ jmp    61
       │     │        for(uint64_t i = 3; i < num / 2; i+= 2) {

Subscribers: mgorny, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44892

llvm-svn: 337789