Unverified Commit db29f20f authored by Amir Ayupov's avatar Amir Ayupov Committed by GitHub
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[BOLT] Ignore returns in DataAggregator

Returns are ignored in perf/pre-aggregated/fdata profile reader (see
DataReader::convertBranchData). They are also omitted in
YAMLProfileWriter by virtue of not having the profile attached to them
in the reader, and YAMLProfileWriter converting the profile attached to
BinaryFunctions. Thus, return profile is universally ignored across all
profile types except BAT YAML.

To make returns ignored for YAML produced in BAT mode, we can:
1) ignore them in YAMLProfileReader,
2) omit them from YAML profile in profile conversion/writing.

The first option is prone to profile staleness issue, where the profiled
binary doesn't match the one to be optimized, and thus returns in the
profile can no longer be reliably detected (as we don't distinguish them
from calls in the profile).

The second option is robust to staleness but requires disassembling the
branch source instruction.

Test Plan: Updated bolt-address-translation-yaml.test

Reviewers: rafaelauler, dcci, ayermolo, maksfb

Reviewed By: maksfb

Pull Request: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/90807
parent a6b62370
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