[ARM] Make GlobalMerge merge extern globals by default

Enabling merging of extern globals appears to be generally either beneficial or
harmless. On some benchmarks suites (on Cortex-M4F, Cortex-A9, and Cortex-A57)
it gives improvements in the 1-5% range, but in the rest the overall effect is
zero.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10966

llvm-svn: 243874

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMTargetMachine.cpp b/llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMTargetMachine.cpp
index 93495d6..0778ec3 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMTargetMachine.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMTargetMachine.cpp
@@ -348,7 +348,13 @@ bool ARMPassConfig::addPreISel() {
     // tricky when doing code gen per function.
     bool OnlyOptimizeForSize = (TM->getOptLevel() < CodeGenOpt::Aggressive) &&
                                (EnableGlobalMerge == cl::BOU_UNSET);
-    addPass(createGlobalMergePass(TM, 127, OnlyOptimizeForSize));
+    // Merging of extern globals is enabled by default on non-Mach-O as we
+    // expect it to be generally either beneficial or harmless. On Mach-O it
+    // is disabled as we emit the .subsections_via_symbols directive which
+    // means that merging extern globals is not safe.
+    bool MergeExternalByDefault = !TM->getTargetTriple().isOSBinFormatMachO();
+    addPass(createGlobalMergePass(TM, 127, OnlyOptimizeForSize,
+                                  MergeExternalByDefault));
   }
 
   return false;