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Commit 11d30742 authored by Ellis Hoag's avatar Ellis Hoag
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[InstrProf] Add single byte coverage mode

Use the llvm flag `-pgo-function-entry-coverage` to create single byte "counters" to track functions coverage. This mode has significantly less size overhead in both code and data because
  * We mark a function as "covered" with a store instead of an increment which generally requires fewer assembly instructions
  * We use a single byte per function rather than 8 bytes per block

The trade off of course is that this mode only tells you if a function has been covered. This is useful, for example, to detect dead code.

When combined with debug info correlation [0] we are able to create an instrumented Clang binary that is only 150M (the vanilla Clang binary is 143M). That is an overhead of 7M (4.9%) compared to the default instrumentation (without value profiling) which has an overhead of 31M (21.7%).

[0] https://groups.google.com/g/llvm-dev/c/r03Z6JoN7d4

Reviewed By: kyulee

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D116180
parent 936f247a
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