Rewrite lto-symtab to work on symbol table

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 17:14:00 GMT 2012


On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 03:35:45PM +0200, Jan Hubicka wrote:
>> Hi,
>> this patch reorganize lto-symtab to work across symtab's symbol table instead
>> of building its own.  This simplifies things a bit and with the previous
>> changes it is rather straighforward - i.e. replace all uses of
>> lto_symtab_entry_t by symtab_node.
>>
>> There are few differences in between the symtab as built by lto-symtab and
>> our symbol table.  In one direction the declarations that are not going to be
>> output to final assembly (i.e. are used by debug info and such) are not in
>> symbol table and consequentely they no longer get merged.  I think this is fine.
>>
>> Other difference is that symbol table contains some symbols that are not really
>> symbols in classical definition - such as inline clones or functions held in
>> table only for purposes of materialization.  I added symtab_real_symbol_p
>> predicate for this.  It would make more sense to exclude those from the
>> assembler name hash and drop checks I added to lto-symtab.c.  I plan to work on
>> this incrementally - it is not completely trivial. The symbol can become
>> non-real in several ways and it will need bit of work to get this consistent.
>>
>> Bootstrapped/regtested x86_64-linux, tested by building Mozilla, Qt and other
>> stuff with LTO. OK?
>>
>> Honza
>>
>>       * symtab.c (insert_to_assembler_name_hash): Do not insert
>>       register vars.
>>       (unlink_from_assembler_name_hash): NULL out pointers of unlinked
>>       var.
>>       (symtab_prevail_in_asm_name_hash): New.
>>       (symtab_initialize_asm_name_hash): Break out from ...
>>       (symtab_node_for_asm): ... here.
>>       (dump_symtab_base): Dump LTO file data.
>>       (verify_symtab_base): Register vars are not in symtab.
>>       * cgraph.h (symtab_initialize_asm_name_hash,
>>       symtab_prevail_in_asm_name_hash): New functions.
>>       (symtab_real_symbol_p): New inline.
>>       * lto-symtab.c: Do not include gt-lto-symtab.h.
>>       (lto_symtab_entry_def): Remove.
>>       (lto_symtab_entry_t): Remove.
>>       (lto_symtab_identifiers): Remove.
>>       (lto_symtab_free): Remove.
>>       (lto_symtab_entry_hash): Remove.
>>       (lto_symtab_entry_eq): Remove.
>>       (lto_symtab_entry_marked_p): Remove.
>>       (lto_symtab_maybe_init_hash_table): Remove.
>>       (resolution_guessed_p, set_resolution_guessed): New functions.
>>       (lto_symtab_register_decl): Only set resolution info.
>>       (lto_symtab_get, lto_symtab_get_resolution): Remove.
>>       (lto_symtab_merge): Reorg to work across symtab; do nothing if decls
>>       are same.
>>       (lto_symtab_resolve_replaceable_p): Reorg to work on symtab.
>>       (lto_symtab_resolve_can_prevail_p): Likewise; only real symbols can
>>       prevail.
>>       (lto_symtab_resolve_symbols): Reorg to work on symtab.
>>       (lto_symtab_merge_decls_2): Likewise.
>>       (lto_symtab_merge_decls_1): Likewise; add debug dumps.
>>       (lto_symtab_merge_decls): Likewise; do not merge at ltrans stage.
>>       (lto_symtab_merge_cgraph_nodes_1): Reorg to work on symtab.
>>       (lto_symtab_merge_cgraph_nodes): Likewise; do not merge at ltrans stage.
>>       (lto_symtab_prevailing_decl): Rewrite to lookup into symtab.
>>       * lto-streaer.h (lto_symtab_free): Remove.
>>       * lto-cgraph.c (add_references): Cleanup.
>>       * varpool.c (varpool_assemble_decl): Skip hard regs.
>>
>>       * lto.c (lto_materialize_function): Update confused comment.
>>       (read_cgraph_and_symbols): Do not free symtab.
>
> Unfortunately, this patch breaks SPEC2006 povray LTO build for me.
> I'm getting:
>
> In file included from :168:0:
> lighting.cpp: In function 'InitMallocPools':
> lighting.cpp:5971:13: error: address taken, but ADDRESSABLE bit not set
>  static void InitMallocPools(void)
>              ^
> PHI argument
> &Frame.Number_Of_Light_Sources;
> for PHI node
> _191 = PHI <&Frame.Number_Of_Light_Sources(100), &D.7040(101)>
> lighting.cpp:5971:13: internal compiler error: verify_ssa failed
>
> I'm currently a bit too busy to try to reduce this,  I hope you'll be
> able to reproduce the issue yourself easily though.  If not, ping me
> on IRC.
>
> Thanks,
>

Many of SPEC CPU 2K/2006 benchmarks failed with LTO:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-regression/2012-09/msg00419.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-regression/2012-09/msg00392.html


-- 
H.J.



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