Add a counter-function insertion pass

As discussed in https://reviews.llvm.org/D22666, our current mechanism to
support -pg profiling, where we insert calls to mcount(), or some similar
function, is fundamentally broken. We insert these calls in the frontend, which
means they get duplicated when inlining, and so the accumulated execution
counts for the inlined-into functions are wrong.

Because we don't want the presence of these functions to affect optimizaton,
they should be inserted in the backend. Here's a pass which would do just that.
The knowledge of the name of the counting function lives in the frontend, so
we're passing it here as a function attribute. Clang will be updated to use
this mechanism.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22825

llvm-svn: 280347
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Hal Finkel
2016-09-01 09:42:39 +00:00
parent 1ab16f8c2d
commit 40d7f5c277
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@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ void llvm::initializeCodeGen(PassRegistry &Registry) {
initializeAtomicExpandPass(Registry);
initializeBranchFolderPassPass(Registry);
initializeCodeGenPreparePass(Registry);
initializeCountingFunctionInserterPass(Registry);
initializeDeadMachineInstructionElimPass(Registry);
initializeDetectDeadLanesPass(Registry);
initializeDwarfEHPreparePass(Registry);