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1 //===--- MisExpect.cpp - Check the use of llvm.expect with PGO data -------===//
2 //
3 // Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
4 // See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
5 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
6 //
7 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
8 //
9 // This contains code to emit warnings for potentially incorrect usage of the
10 // llvm.expect intrinsic. This utility extracts the threshold values from
11 // metadata associated with the instrumented Branch or Switch instruction. The
12 // threshold values are then used to determine if a warning should be emmited.
13 //
14 // MisExpect's implementation relies on two assumptions about how branch weights
15 // are managed in LLVM.
16 //
17 // 1) Frontend profiling weights are always in place before llvm.expect is
18 // lowered in LowerExpectIntrinsic.cpp. Frontend based instrumentation therefore
19 // needs to extract the branch weights and then compare them to the weights
20 // being added by the llvm.expect intrinsic lowering.
21 //
22 // 2) Sampling and IR based profiles will *only* have branch weight metadata
23 // before profiling data is consulted if they are from a lowered llvm.expect
24 // intrinsic. These profiles thus always extract the expected weights and then
25 // compare them to the weights collected during profiling to determine if a
26 // diagnostic message is warranted.
27 //
28 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
29 
30 #include "llvm/Transforms/Utils/MisExpect.h"
31 #include "llvm/ADT/Twine.h"
32 #include "llvm/Analysis/OptimizationRemarkEmitter.h"
33 #include "llvm/IR/DiagnosticInfo.h"
34 #include "llvm/IR/Instruction.h"
35 #include "llvm/IR/Instructions.h"
36 #include "llvm/IR/LLVMContext.h"
37 #include "llvm/IR/ProfDataUtils.h"
38 #include "llvm/Support/BranchProbability.h"
39 #include "llvm/Support/CommandLine.h"
40 #include "llvm/Support/FormatVariadic.h"
41 #include <algorithm>
42 #include <cstdint>
43 #include <functional>
44 #include <numeric>
45 
46 #define DEBUG_TYPE "misexpect"
47 
48 using namespace llvm;
49 using namespace misexpect;
50 
51 namespace llvm {
52 
53 // Command line option to enable/disable the warning when profile data suggests
54 // a mismatch with the use of the llvm.expect intrinsic
55 static cl::opt<bool> PGOWarnMisExpect(
56     "pgo-warn-misexpect", cl::init(false), cl::Hidden,
57     cl::desc("Use this option to turn on/off "
58              "warnings about incorrect usage of llvm.expect intrinsics."));
59 
60 // Command line option for setting the diagnostic tolerance threshold
61 static cl::opt<uint32_t> MisExpectTolerance(
62     "misexpect-tolerance", cl::init(0),
63     cl::desc("Prevents emitting diagnostics when profile counts are "
64              "within N% of the threshold.."));
65 
66 } // namespace llvm
67 
68 namespace {
69 
70 bool isMisExpectDiagEnabled(LLVMContext &Ctx) {
71   return PGOWarnMisExpect || Ctx.getMisExpectWarningRequested();
72 }
73 
74 uint32_t getMisExpectTolerance(LLVMContext &Ctx) {
75   return std::max(static_cast<uint32_t>(MisExpectTolerance),
76                   Ctx.getDiagnosticsMisExpectTolerance());
77 }
78 
79 Instruction *getInstCondition(Instruction *I) {
80   assert(I != nullptr && "MisExpect target Instruction cannot be nullptr");
81   Instruction *Ret = nullptr;
82   if (auto *B = dyn_cast<BranchInst>(I)) {
83     Ret = dyn_cast<Instruction>(B->getCondition());
84   }
85   // TODO: Find a way to resolve condition location for switches
86   // Using the condition of the switch seems to often resolve to an earlier
87   // point in the program, i.e. the calculation of the switch condition, rather
88   // than the switch's location in the source code. Thus, we should use the
89   // instruction to get source code locations rather than the condition to
90   // improve diagnostic output, such as the caret. If the same problem exists
91   // for branch instructions, then we should remove this function and directly
92   // use the instruction
93   //
94   else if (auto *S = dyn_cast<SwitchInst>(I)) {
95     Ret = dyn_cast<Instruction>(S->getCondition());
96   }
97   return Ret ? Ret : I;
98 }
99 
100 void emitMisexpectDiagnostic(Instruction *I, LLVMContext &Ctx,
101                              uint64_t ProfCount, uint64_t TotalCount) {
102   double PercentageCorrect = (double)ProfCount / TotalCount;
103   auto PerString =
104       formatv("{0:P} ({1} / {2})", PercentageCorrect, ProfCount, TotalCount);
105   auto RemStr = formatv(
106       "Potential performance regression from use of the llvm.expect intrinsic: "
107       "Annotation was correct on {0} of profiled executions.",
108       PerString);
109   Instruction *Cond = getInstCondition(I);
110   if (isMisExpectDiagEnabled(Ctx))
111     Ctx.diagnose(DiagnosticInfoMisExpect(Cond, Twine(PerString)));
112   OptimizationRemarkEmitter ORE(I->getParent()->getParent());
113   ORE.emit(OptimizationRemark(DEBUG_TYPE, "misexpect", Cond) << RemStr.str());
114 }
115 
116 } // namespace
117 
118 namespace llvm {
119 namespace misexpect {
120 
121 void verifyMisExpect(Instruction &I, ArrayRef<uint32_t> RealWeights,
122                      ArrayRef<uint32_t> ExpectedWeights) {
123   // To determine if we emit a diagnostic, we need to compare the branch weights
124   // from the profile to those added by the llvm.expect intrinsic.
125   // So first, we extract the "likely" and "unlikely" weights from
126   // ExpectedWeights And determine the correct weight in the profile to compare
127   // against.
128   uint64_t LikelyBranchWeight = 0,
129            UnlikelyBranchWeight = std::numeric_limits<uint32_t>::max();
130   size_t MaxIndex = 0;
131   for (size_t Idx = 0, End = ExpectedWeights.size(); Idx < End; Idx++) {
132     uint32_t V = ExpectedWeights[Idx];
133     if (LikelyBranchWeight < V) {
134       LikelyBranchWeight = V;
135       MaxIndex = Idx;
136     }
137     if (UnlikelyBranchWeight > V) {
138       UnlikelyBranchWeight = V;
139     }
140   }
141 
142   const uint64_t ProfiledWeight = RealWeights[MaxIndex];
143   const uint64_t RealWeightsTotal =
144       std::accumulate(RealWeights.begin(), RealWeights.end(), (uint64_t)0,
145                       std::plus<uint64_t>());
146   const uint64_t NumUnlikelyTargets = RealWeights.size() - 1;
147 
148   uint64_t TotalBranchWeight =
149       LikelyBranchWeight + (UnlikelyBranchWeight * NumUnlikelyTargets);
150 
151   // Failing this assert means that we have corrupted metadata.
152   assert((TotalBranchWeight >= LikelyBranchWeight) && (TotalBranchWeight > 0) &&
153          "TotalBranchWeight is less than the Likely branch weight");
154 
155   // To determine our threshold value we need to obtain the branch probability
156   // for the weights added by llvm.expect and use that proportion to calculate
157   // our threshold based on the collected profile data.
158   auto LikelyProbablilty = BranchProbability::getBranchProbability(
159       LikelyBranchWeight, TotalBranchWeight);
160 
161   uint64_t ScaledThreshold = LikelyProbablilty.scale(RealWeightsTotal);
162 
163   // clamp tolerance range to [0, 100)
164   auto Tolerance = getMisExpectTolerance(I.getContext());
165   Tolerance = std::clamp(Tolerance, 0u, 99u);
166 
167   // Allow users to relax checking by N%  i.e., if they use a 5% tolerance,
168   // then we check against 0.95*ScaledThreshold
169   if (Tolerance > 0)
170     ScaledThreshold *= (1.0 - Tolerance / 100.0);
171 
172   // When the profile weight is below the threshold, we emit the diagnostic
173   if (ProfiledWeight < ScaledThreshold)
174     emitMisexpectDiagnostic(&I, I.getContext(), ProfiledWeight,
175                             RealWeightsTotal);
176 }
177 
178 void checkBackendInstrumentation(Instruction &I,
179                                  const ArrayRef<uint32_t> RealWeights) {
180   // Backend checking assumes any existing weight comes from an `llvm.expect`
181   // intrinsic. However, SampleProfiling + ThinLTO add branch weights  multiple
182   // times, leading to an invalid assumption in our checking. Backend checks
183   // should only operate on branch weights that carry the "!expected" field,
184   // since they are guaranteed to be added by the LowerExpectIntrinsic pass.
185   if (!hasBranchWeightOrigin(I))
186     return;
187   SmallVector<uint32_t> ExpectedWeights;
188   if (!extractBranchWeights(I, ExpectedWeights))
189     return;
190   verifyMisExpect(I, RealWeights, ExpectedWeights);
191 }
192 
193 void checkFrontendInstrumentation(Instruction &I,
194                                   const ArrayRef<uint32_t> ExpectedWeights) {
195   SmallVector<uint32_t> RealWeights;
196   if (!extractBranchWeights(I, RealWeights))
197     return;
198   verifyMisExpect(I, RealWeights, ExpectedWeights);
199 }
200 
201 void checkExpectAnnotations(Instruction &I,
202                             const ArrayRef<uint32_t> ExistingWeights,
203                             bool IsFrontend) {
204   if (IsFrontend) {
205     checkFrontendInstrumentation(I, ExistingWeights);
206   } else {
207     checkBackendInstrumentation(I, ExistingWeights);
208   }
209 }
210 
211 } // namespace misexpect
212 } // namespace llvm
213 #undef DEBUG_TYPE
214