Re: [PATCH v5] pgo: add clang's Profile Guided Optimization infrastructure

[Bill Wendling]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 9:26 AM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 1:39 PM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 3:32 AM Bill Wendling <morbo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 4:27 PM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > [ big snip ]
> > >
> > > [More snippage.]
> > >
> > > > [ CC Fangrui ]
> > > >
> > > > With the attached...
> > > >
> > > >    [PATCH v3] module: Ignore _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ when warning for
> > > > undefined symbols
> > > >
> > > > ...I was finally able to boot into a rebuild PGO-optimized Linux-kernel.
> > > > For details see ClangBuiltLinux issue #1250 "Unknown symbol
> > > > _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ loading kernel modules".
> > > >
> > > Thanks for confirming that this works with the above patch.
> > >
> > > > @ Bill Nick Sami Nathan
> > > >
> > > > 1, Can you say something of the impact passing "LLVM_IAS=1" to make?
> > >
> > > The integrated assembler and this option are more-or-less orthogonal
> > > to each other. One can still use the GNU assembler with PGO. If you're
> > > having an issue, it may be related to ClangBuiltLinux issue #1250.
> > >
> > > > 2. Can you please try Nick's DWARF v5 support patchset v5 and
> > > > CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5=y (see attachments)?
> > > >
> > > I know Nick did several tests with PGO. He may have looked into it
> > > already, but we can check.
> > >
> >
> > Reproducible.
> >
> > LLVM_IAS=1 + DWARF5 = Not bootable
> >
> > I will try:
> >
> > LLVM_IAS=1 + DWARF4
> >
>
> I was not able to boot into such a built Linux-kernel.
>
PGO will have no effect on debugging data. If this is an issue with
DWARF, then it's likely orthogonal to the PGO patch.

> For me worked: DWARF2 and LLVM_IAS=1 *not* set.
>
> Of course, this could be an issue with my system's LLVM/Clang.
>
> Debian clang version
> 12.0.0-++20210115111113+45ef053bd709-1~exp1~20210115101809.3724
>
Please use the official clang 11.0.1 release
(https://releases.llvm.org/download.html), modifying the
kernel/pgo/Kconfig as I suggested above. The reason we specify clang
12 for the minimal version is because of an issue that was recently
fixed.

> Can you give me a LLVM commit-id where you had success with LLVM_IAS=1
> and especially CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5=y?
> Success means I was able to boot in QEMU and/or bare metal.
>
The DWARF5 patch isn't in yet, so I don't want to rely upon it too much.

-bw