It broke e.g. all tests under tools/llvm-exegesis/X86/ when libpfm is
not available, see comment on D74085.
This reverts commit b3576f60ebc8f660afad8120a72473be47517573 and
141915963b6ab36ee4e577d1b27673fa4d05b409.
Followup to D74085.
Replace the use of `report_fatal_error()` with returning the error to
`llvm-exegesis.cpp` and handling it there.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D74113
Fix inconsistencies in error reporting created by mixing
`report_fatal_error()` and `ExitOnErr()`, and add additional information
to the error message to make it more user friendly. Minimize the use
`report_fatal_error()` because it's meant for use in very rare cases and
it results in low information density of the error messages.
Summary of the new design:
* For command line argument errors output `llvm-exegesis: <error_message>`,
which is consistent with the error output format emitted by the backend
which checks correctness of the command line arguments.
* For other errors the format `llvm-exegesis error: <error_message>` is used.
** If the error occurred during file access `<error_message>` will have
of two parts: `'<file_name>': <rest_of_the_error_message>`
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D74085
Check if the appropriate counters for the specified mode are defined on
the target. This is checked before any other work is done.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D71927
Summary:
This adds a `-max-configs-per-opcode` option to limit the number of
configs per opcode.
Reviewers: gchatelet
Subscribers: tschuett, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D68642
llvm-svn: 374054
Summary:
Before this change the Executable function was made by duplicating the
snippet. This change adds a --repetion-mode={loop|duplicate} flag that
allows choosing between this behaviour and wrapping the snippet instructions
in a loop.
The new mode can help measurements when the snippet fits in the DSB by
short-cirtcuiting decoding. The loop adds a dec + jmp to the measurements, but
since these are not part of the critical path, they execute in parallel
with the measured code and do not impact measurements in practice.
Overview of the change:
- New SnippetRepetitor abstraction that handles repeating the snippet.
The assembler delegates repeating the instructions to this class.
- ExegesisTarget learns how to decrement loop counter and jump.
- Some refactoring of the assembler into FunctionFiller/BasicBlockFiller.
Reviewers: gchatelet
Subscribers: mgorny, tschuett, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D68125
llvm-svn: 373083
Summary: This helps building internal tools on top of the library.
Reviewers: gchatelet
Subscribers: tschuett, llvm-commits, bdb, ondrasej
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D62239
llvm-svn: 361385
Wanted to check if inablility to measure latency of CMOV32rm
is a regression from D60041 / D60138, but unable to do that
because the llvm-exegesis-{8,9} from debian sid fails
with that cryptic, unhelpful error.
I suspect this will be a better error.
llvm-svn: 357900
Summary:
This is an alternative to D59539.
Let's suppose we have measured 4 different opcodes, and got: `0.5`, `1.0`, `1.5`, `2.0`.
Let's suppose we are using `-analysis-clustering-epsilon=0.5`.
By default now we will start processing the `0.5` point, find that `1.0` is it's neighbor, add them to a new cluster.
Then we will notice that `1.5` is a neighbor of `1.0` and add it to that same cluster.
Then we will notice that `2.0` is a neighbor of `1.5` and add it to that same cluster.
So all these points ended up in the same cluster.
This may or may not be a correct implementation of dbscan clustering algorithm.
But this is rather horribly broken for the reasons of comparing the clusters with the LLVM sched data.
Let's suppose all those opcodes are currently in the same sched cluster.
If i specify `-analysis-inconsistency-epsilon=0.5`, then no matter
the LLVM values this cluster will **never** match the LLVM values,
and thus this cluster will **always** be displayed as inconsistent.
The solution is obviously to split off some of these opcodes into different sched cluster.
But how do i do that? Out of 4 opcodes displayed in the inconsistency report,
which ones are the "bad ones"? Which ones are the most different from the checked-in data?
I'd need to go in to the `.yaml` and look it up manually.
The trivial solution is to, when creating clusters, don't use the full dbscan algorithm,
but instead "pick some unclustered point, pick all unclustered points that are it's neighbor,
put them all into a new cluster, repeat". And just so as it happens, we can arrive
at that algorithm by not performing the "add neighbors of a neighbor to the cluster" step.
But that won't work well once we teach analyze mode to operate in on-1D mode
(i.e. on more than a single measurement type at a time), because the clustering would
depend on the order of the measurements.
Instead, let's just create a single cluster per opcode, and put all the points of that opcode into said cluster.
And simultaneously check that every point in that cluster is a neighbor of every other point in the cluster,
and if they are not, the cluster (==opcode) is unstable.
This is //yet another// step to bring me closer to being able to continue cleanup of bdver2 sched model..
Fixes [[ https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40880 | PR40880 ]].
Reviewers: courbet, gchatelet
Reviewed By: courbet
Subscribers: tschuett, jdoerfert, RKSimon, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D59820
llvm-svn: 357152
Results in much nicer -help output:
```
$ ./bin/llvm-exegesis -help
USAGE: llvm-exegesis [options]
OPTIONS:
Color Options:
-color - Use colors in output (default=autodetect)
General options:
-enable-cse-in-irtranslator - Should enable CSE in irtranslator
-enable-cse-in-legalizer - Should enable CSE in Legalizer
Generic Options:
-help - Display available options (-help-hidden for more)
-help-list - Display list of available options (-help-list-hidden for more)
-version - Display the version of this program
llvm-exegesis analysis options:
-analysis-clustering-epsilon=<number> - dbscan epsilon for benchmark point clustering
-analysis-clusters-output-file=<string> -
-analysis-display-unstable-clusters - if there is more than one benchmark for an opcode, said benchmarks may end up not being clustered into the same cluster if the measured performance characteristics are different. by default all such opcodes are filtered out. this flag will instead show only such unstable opcodes
-analysis-inconsistencies-output-file=<string> -
-analysis-inconsistency-epsilon=<number> - epsilon for detection of when the cluster is different from the LLVM schedule profile values
-analysis-numpoints=<uint> - minimum number of points in an analysis cluster
llvm-exegesis benchmark options:
-ignore-invalid-sched-class - ignore instructions that do not define a sched class
-mode=<value> - the mode to run
=latency - Instruction Latency
=inverse_throughput - Instruction Inverse Throughput
=uops - Uop Decomposition
=analysis - Analysis
-num-repetitions=<uint> - number of time to repeat the asm snippet
-opcode-index=<int> - opcode to measure, by index
-opcode-name=<string> - comma-separated list of opcodes to measure, by name
-snippets-file=<string> - code snippets to measure
llvm-exegesis options:
-benchmarks-file=<string> - File to read (analysis mode) or write (latency/uops/inverse_throughput modes) benchmark results. “-” uses stdin/stdout.
-mcpu=<string> - cpu name to use for pfm counters, leave empty to autodetect
```
llvm-svn: 356364
This patch removes hidden codegen flag -print-schedule effectively reverting the
logic originally committed as r300311
(https://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?view=revision&revision=300311).
Flag -print-schedule was originally introduced by r300311 to address PR32216
(https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32216). That bug was about adding "Better
testing of schedule model instruction latencies/throughputs".
These days, we can use llvm-mca to test scheduling models. So there is no longer
a need for flag -print-schedule in LLVM. The main use case for PR32216 is
now addressed by llvm-mca.
Flag -print-schedule is mainly used for debugging purposes, and it is only
actually used by x86 specific tests. We already have extensive (latency and
throughput) tests under "test/tools/llvm-mca" for X86 processor models. That
means, most (if not all) existing -print-schedule tests for X86 are redundant.
When flag -print-schedule was first added to LLVM, several files had to be
modified; a few APIs gained new arguments (see for example method
MCAsmStreamer::EmitInstruction), and MCSubtargetInfo/TargetSubtargetInfo gained
a couple of getSchedInfoStr() methods.
Method getSchedInfoStr() had to originally work for both MCInst and
MachineInstr. The original implmentation of getSchedInfoStr() introduced a
subtle layering violation (reported as PR37160 and then fixed/worked-around by
r330615).
In retrospect, that new API could have been designed more optimally. We can
always query MCSchedModel to get the latency and throughput. More importantly,
the "sched-info" string should not have been generated by the subtarget.
Note, r317782 fixed an issue where "print-schedule" didn't work very well in the
presence of inline assembly. That commit is also reverted by this change.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D57244
llvm-svn: 353043
Summary:
Up until the point i have looked in the source, i didn't even understood that
i can disable 'cluster' output. I have always silenced it via ` &> /dev/null`.
(And hoped it wasn't contributing much of the run time.)
While i expect that it has it's use-cases i never once needed it so far.
If i forget to silence it, console is completely flooded with that output.
How about not expecting users to opt-out of analyses,
but to explicitly specify the analyses that should be performed?
Reviewers: courbet, gchatelet
Reviewed By: courbet
Subscribers: tschuett, RKSimon, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D57648
llvm-svn: 353021
to reflect the new license.
We understand that people may be surprised that we're moving the header
entirely to discuss the new license. We checked this carefully with the
Foundation's lawyer and we believe this is the correct approach.
Essentially, all code in the project is now made available by the LLVM
project under our new license, so you will see that the license headers
include that license only. Some of our contributors have contributed
code under our old license, and accordingly, we have retained a copy of
our old license notice in the top-level files in each project and
repository.
llvm-svn: 351636
Summary:
The pfm counters are now in the ExegesisTarget rather than the
MCSchedModel (PR39165).
This also compresses the pfm counter tables (PR37068).
Reviewers: RKSimon, gchatelet
Subscribers: mgrang, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52932
llvm-svn: 345243
Summary:
This allows simplifying references of llvm::foo with foo when the needs
come in the future.
Reviewers: courbet, gchatelet
Reviewed By: gchatelet
Subscribers: javed.absar, tschuett, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D53455
llvm-svn: 344922
Summary:
We try to recover gracefully on instructions that would crash the
program.
This includes some refactoring of runMeasurement() implementations.
Reviewers: gchatelet
Subscribers: tschuett, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D53371
llvm-svn: 344695
Summary: This is a NFC in preparation of exporting the initial registers as part of the YAML dump
Reviewers: courbet
Reviewed By: courbet
Subscribers: mgorny, tschuett, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52427
llvm-svn: 342967
Summary:
This is a step towards fixing PR38048.
Note that right now the measurements are given per instruction. We'll
need to give measurements a per code snippet and update the analysis (PR38731).
Reviewers: gchatelet
Subscribers: tschuett, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52041
llvm-svn: 342947
Summary:
The snippet-generation part goes to the SnippetGenerator class.
This will allow benchmarking arbitrary code (see PR38437).
Reviewers: gchatelet
Subscribers: mgorny, tschuett, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D51979
llvm-svn: 342117
Currently the cycle counter is taken from the subtarget schedule model, which
isn't any use if the subtarget doesn't have one. Delegate the decision to the
target benchmark runner, as it may know better what to do in that case, with
the default being the current behaviour.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D48779
llvm-svn: 336099
Summary:
This allows targets to override code generation for some instructions.
As an example of override, this also moves ad-hoc instruction filtering
for X86 into the X86 ExegesisTarget.
Reviewers: gchatelet
Subscribers: mgorny, tschuett, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D48587
llvm-svn: 335582
Summary: This is a step towards implementing memory operands and X87.
Reviewers: gchatelet
Subscribers: mgorny, tschuett, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D48210
llvm-svn: 335038
Summary:
On hover, the whole asm snippet is displayed, including operands.
This requires the actual assembly output instead of just the MCInsts:
This is because some pseudo-instructions get lowered to actual target
instructions during codegen (e.g. ABS_Fp32 -> SSE or X87).
Reviewers: gchatelet
Subscribers: mgorny, tschuett, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D48164
llvm-svn: 334805
This breaks the OpenFlags enumeration into two separate
enumerations: OpenFlags and CreationDisposition. The first
controls the behavior of the API depending on whether or not
the target file already exists, and is not a flags-based
enum. The second controls more flags-like values.
This yields a more easy to understand API, while also allowing
flags to be passed to the openForRead api, where most of the
values didn't make sense before. This also makes the apis more
testable as it becomes easy to enumerate all the configurations
which make sense, so I've added many new tests to exercise all
the different values.
llvm-svn: 334221
Summary: BenchmarkRunner subclasses can now create many configurations - although this patch still generates one.
Reviewers: courbet
Subscribers: tschuett, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47877
llvm-svn: 334197
Summary: BenchmarkResult IO functions now return an Error or Expected so caller can deal take proper action.
Reviewers: courbet
Subscribers: tschuett, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47868
llvm-svn: 334167
We want llvm-exegesis to explore instructions (effect of initial register values, effect of operand selection). To enable this a BenchmarkResult muststore all the relevant data in its key. This patch starts adding such data. Here we simply allow to store the generated instructions, following patches will add operands and initial values for registers.
https://reviews.llvm.org/D47764
Authored by: Guilluame Chatelet
llvm-svn: 334008
