This is an alternative to the continous mode that was implemented in
D68351. This mode relies on padding and the ability to mmap a file over
the existing mapping which is generally only available on POSIX systems
and isn't suitable for other platforms.
This change instead introduces the ability to relocate counters at
runtime using a level of indirection. On every counter access, we add a
bias to the counter address. This bias is stored in a symbol that's
provided by the profile runtime and is initially set to zero, meaning no
relocation. The runtime can mmap the profile into memory at abitrary
location, and set bias to the offset between the original and the new
counter location, at which point every subsequent counter access will be
to the new location, which allows updating profile directly akin to the
continous mode.
The advantage of this implementation is that doesn't require any special
OS support. The disadvantage is the extra overhead due to additional
instructions required for each counter access (overhead both in terms of
binary size and performance) plus duplication of counters (i.e. one copy
in the binary itself and another copy that's mmapped).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D69740
Add support for continuously syncing profile counter updates to a file.
The motivation for this is that programs do not always exit cleanly. On
iOS, for example, programs are usually killed via a signal from the OS.
Running atexit() handlers after catching a signal is unreliable, so some
method for progressively writing out profile data is necessary.
The approach taken here is to mmap() the `__llvm_prf_cnts` section onto
a raw profile. To do this, the linker must page-align the counter and
data sections, and the runtime must ensure that counters are mapped to a
page-aligned offset within a raw profile.
Continuous mode is (for the moment) incompatible with the online merging
mode. This limitation is lifted in https://reviews.llvm.org/D69586.
Continuous mode is also (for the moment) incompatible with value
profiling, as I'm not sure whether there is interest in this and the
implementation may be tricky.
As I have not been able to test extensively on non-Darwin platforms,
only Darwin support is included for the moment. However, continuous mode
may "just work" without modification on Linux and some UNIX-likes. AIUI
the default value for the GNU linker's `--section-alignment` flag is set
to the page size on many systems. This appears to be true for LLD as
well, as its `no_nmagic` option is on by default. Continuous mode will
not "just work" on Fuchsia or Windows, as it's not possible to mmap() a
section on these platforms. There is a proposal to add a layer of
indirection to the profile instrumentation to support these platforms.
rdar://54210980
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D68351
