This patch implements collection and dumping of statistics about SILModules, SILFunctions and memory consumption during the execution of SIL optimization pipelines.
The following statistics can be collected:
* For SILFunctions: the number of SIL basic blocks, the number of SIL instructions, the number of SIL instructions of a specific kind, duration of a pass
* For SILModules: the number of SIL basic blocks, the number of SIL instructions, the number of SIL instructions of a specific kind, the number of SILFunctions, the amount of memory used by the compiler, duration of a pass
By default, any collection of statistics is disabled to avoid affecting compile times.
One can enable the collection of statistics and dumping of these statistics for the whole SILModule and/or for SILFunctions.
To reduce the amount of produced data, one can set thresholds in such a way that changes in the statistics are only reported if the delta between the old and the new values are at least X%. The deltas are computed as using the following formula:
Delta = (NewValue - OldValue) / OldValue
Thresholds provide a simple way to perform a simple filtering of the collected statistics during the compilation. But if there is a need for a more complex analysis of collected data (e.g. aggregation by a pipeline stage or by the type of a transformation), it is often better to dump as much data as possible into a file using e.g. -sil-stats-dump-all -sil-stats-modules -sil-stats-functions and then e.g. use the helper scripts to store the collected data into a database and then perform complex queries on it. Many kinds of analysis can be then formulated pretty easily as SQL queries.
"Accessibility" has a different meaning for app developers, so we've
already deliberately excised it from our diagnostics in favor of terms
like "access control" and "access level". Do the same in the compiler
now that we aren't constantly pulling things into the release branch.
Rename AccessibilityAttr to AccessControlAttr and
SetterAccessibilityAttr to SetterAccessAttr, then track down the last
few uses of "accessibility" that don't have to do with
NSAccessibility. (I left the SourceKit XPC API alone because that's
supposed to be more stable.)
This commit contains:
-) adding the new instructions + infrastructure, like parsing, printing, etc.
-) support in IRGen to generate global object-variables (i.e. "heap" objects) which are statically initialized in the data section.
-) IRGen for global_value which lazily initializes the object header and returns a reference to the object.
For details see the documentation of the new instructions in SIL.rst.
Static initializers are now represented by a list of literal and aggregate instructions in a SILGlobalVariable.
For details see SIL.rst.
This representation is cleaner than what we did so far (point to the initializer function and do some pattern matching).
One implication of that change is that now (a subset of) instructions not necessarily have a parent function.
Regarding the generated code it's a NFC.
Also the swift module format didn't change because so far we don't serializer global variables.
There is no need for us to manually call the abstract base class. The
visitor pattern will do that for us.
Also, make SILNodes.def and SILInstruction.h agree about the parent type
of the strong pin/unpin instructions.
Remove the cast consumption kind from all unconditional casts. It
doesn't make sense for unconditional casts, complicates SIL ownership,
and wasn't fully supported for all variants. Copies should be
explicit.
We compile with a pedantic warning that complains about these things,
and the massive flood of warnings is actually causing problems for the
build infrastructure.
Consider a class hierarchy like the following:
class Base {
func m1() {}
func m2() {}
}
class Derived : Base {
override func m2() {}
func m3() {}
}
The SIL vtable for 'Derived' now records that the entry for m1
is inherited, the entry for m2 is an override, and the entry
for m3 is a new entry:
sil_vtable Derived {
#Base.m1!1: (Base) -> () -> () : _T01a4BaseC2m1yyF [inherited]
#Base.m2!1: (Base) -> () -> () : _T01a7DerivedC2m2yyF [override]
#Derived.m3!1: (Derived) -> () -> () : _T01a7DerivedC2m3yyF
}
This additional information will allow IRGen to emit the vtable
for Derived resiliently, without referencing the symbol for
the inherited method m1() directly.
This removes the function body, but preserves the SILFunction object, which may be still referenced by different kinds of meta-information e.g. debug info for inlined functions, generic specializations information, etc.
Doing this unconditionally simplifies the code and makes it less error-prone to reference SILFunctions from any kind of meta-information. It just works. No need to set any special flags, etc.
This marker can be used e.g. when a function is referenced from the generic specialization information (or any other kind of metadata) to indicate that this SIL function should not be completely eliminated by the dead function elimination pass even if it is not referenced by any function_ref instruction anymore. Such a function will be preserved in a zombie list instead if it needs to be eliminated.
GenericSpecializationInformation contains information regarding how a given specialized function was created, e.g. which caller function triggered this specialization, which substitutions were used, etc. Provide some debugging flags to dump the collected specialization information.
The information about generic specializations is referenced by the specialized functions and by call-sites originating from specialized functions.
This information can be created/used by the generic specializer to detect generic call-sites whose specialization would result in non-terminating sequence of subsequent generic specializations.
