From 315ad8780a129e82e2c5c65ee6e970d91a577acb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rong Xu Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2024 10:51:08 -0700 Subject: kbuild: Add AutoFDO support for Clang build Add the build support for using Clang's AutoFDO. Building the kernel with AutoFDO does not reduce the optimization level from the compiler. AutoFDO uses hardware sampling to gather information about the frequency of execution of different code paths within a binary. This information is then used to guide the compiler's optimization decisions, resulting in a more efficient binary. Experiments showed that the kernel can improve up to 10% in latency. The support requires a Clang compiler after LLVM 17. This submission is limited to x86 platforms that support PMU features like LBR on Intel machines and AMD Zen3 BRS. Support for SPE on ARM 1, and BRBE on ARM 1 is part of planned future work. Here is an example workflow for AutoFDO kernel: 1) Build the kernel on the host machine with LLVM enabled, for example, $ make menuconfig LLVM=1 Turn on AutoFDO build config: CONFIG_AUTOFDO_CLANG=y With a configuration that has LLVM enabled, use the following command: scripts/config -e AUTOFDO_CLANG After getting the config, build with $ make LLVM=1 2) Install the kernel on the test machine. 3) Run the load tests. The '-c' option in perf specifies the sample event period. We suggest using a suitable prime number, like 500009, for this purpose. For Intel platforms: $ perf record -e BR_INST_RETIRED.NEAR_TAKEN:k -a -N -b -c \ -o -- For AMD platforms: The supported system are: Zen3 with BRS, or Zen4 with amd_lbr_v2 For Zen3: $ cat proc/cpuinfo | grep " brs" For Zen4: $ cat proc/cpuinfo | grep amd_lbr_v2 $ perf record --pfm-events RETIRED_TAKEN_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS:k -a \ -N -b -c -o -- 4) (Optional) Download the raw perf file to the host machine. 5) To generate an AutoFDO profile, two offline tools are available: create_llvm_prof and llvm_profgen. The create_llvm_prof tool is part of the AutoFDO project and can be found on GitHub (https://github.com/google/autofdo), version v0.30.1 or later. The llvm_profgen tool is included in the LLVM compiler itself. It's important to note that the version of llvm_profgen doesn't need to match the version of Clang. It needs to be the LLVM 19 release or later, or from the LLVM trunk. $ llvm-profgen --kernel --binary= --perfdata= \ -o or $ create_llvm_prof --binary= --profile= \ --format=extbinary --out= Note that multiple AutoFDO profile files can be merged into one via: $ llvm-profdata merge -o ... 6) Rebuild the kernel using the AutoFDO profile file with the same config as step 1, (Note CONFIG_AUTOFDO_CLANG needs to be enabled): $ make LLVM=1 CLANG_AUTOFDO_PROFILE= Co-developed-by: Han Shen Signed-off-by: Han Shen Signed-off-by: Rong Xu Suggested-by: Sriraman Tallam Suggested-by: Krzysztof Pszeniczny Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian Tested-by: Yonghong Song Tested-by: Yabin Cui Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Tested-by: Peter Jung Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada --- tools/objtool/check.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'tools') diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c index 6604f5d038aa..4c5229991e1e 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/check.c +++ b/tools/objtool/check.c @@ -4557,6 +4557,7 @@ static int validate_ibt(struct objtool_file *file) !strcmp(sec->name, "__jump_table") || !strcmp(sec->name, "__mcount_loc") || !strcmp(sec->name, ".kcfi_traps") || + !strcmp(sec->name, ".llvm.call-graph-profile") || strstr(sec->name, "__patchable_function_entries")) continue; -- cgit v1.2.3