The existing coverage tracker counts the number of records that were used
from the input profile. An alternative view of coverage is to check how
many available samples were applied.
This way, if the profile contains several records with few samples, it
doesn't really matter much that they were not applied. The more
interesting records to apply are the ones that contribute many samples.
llvm-svn: 253912
Previously, subprograms contained a metadata reference to the function they
described. Because most clients need to get or set a subprogram for a given
function rather than the other way around, this created unneeded inefficiency.
For example, many passes needed to call the function llvm::makeSubprogramMap()
to build a mapping from functions to subprograms, and the IR linker needed to
fix up function references in a way that caused quadratic complexity in the IR
linking phase of LTO.
This change reverses the direction of the edge by storing the subprogram as
function-level metadata and removing DISubprogram's function field.
Since this is an IR change, a bitcode upgrade has been provided.
Fixes PR23367. An upgrade script for textual IR for out-of-tree clients is
attached to the PR.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14265
llvm-svn: 252219
This adds the flag -mllvm -sample-profile-check-coverage=N to the
SampleProfile pass. N is the percent of input sample records that the
user expects to apply. If the pass does not use N% (or more) of the
sample records in the input, it emits a warning.
This is useful to detect some forms of stale profiles. If the code has
drifted enough from the original profile, there will be records that do
not match the IR anymore.
This will not detect cases where a sample profile record for line L is
referring to some other instructions that also used to be at line L.
llvm-svn: 251568
