Use BOLT in CI to optimize LLVM

src/bootstrap/bolt.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+use std::path::Path;
+use std::process::Command;
+
+/// Uses the `llvm-bolt` binary to instrument the binary/library at the given `path` with BOLT.
+/// When the instrumented artifact is executed, it will generate BOLT profiles into
+/// `/tmp/prof.fdata.<pid>.fdata`.
+pub fn instrument_with_bolt_inplace(path: &Path) {
+    let dir = std::env::temp_dir();
+    let instrumented_path = dir.join("instrumented.so");
+
+    let status = Command::new("llvm-bolt")
+        .arg("-instrument")
+        .arg(&path)
+        // Make sure that each process will write its profiles into a separate file
+        .arg("--instrumentation-file-append-pid")
+        .arg("-o")
+        .arg(&instrumented_path)
+        .status()
+        .expect("Could not instrument artifact using BOLT");
+
+    if !status.success() {
+        panic!("Could not instrument {} with BOLT, exit code {:?}", path.display(), status.code());
+    }
+
+    std::fs::copy(&instrumented_path, path).expect("Cannot copy instrumented artifact");
+    std::fs::remove_file(instrumented_path).expect("Cannot delete instrumented artifact");
+}
+
+/// Uses the `llvm-bolt` binary to optimize the binary/library at the given `path` with BOLT,
+/// using merged profiles from `profile_path`.
+///
+/// The recorded profiles have to be merged using the `merge-fdata` tool from LLVM and the merged
+/// profile path should be then passed to this function.
+pub fn optimize_library_with_bolt_inplace(path: &Path, profile_path: &Path) {
+    let dir = std::env::temp_dir();
+    let optimized_path = dir.join("optimized.so");
+
+    let status = Command::new("llvm-bolt")
+        .arg(&path)
+        .arg("-data")
+        .arg(&profile_path)
+        .arg("-o")
+        .arg(&optimized_path)
+        // Reorder basic blocks within functions
+        .arg("-reorder-blocks=ext-tsp")
+        // Reorder functions within the binary
+        .arg("-reorder-functions=hfsort+")
+        // Split function code into hot and code regions
+        .arg("-split-functions=2")
+        // Split as many basic blocks as possible
+        .arg("-split-all-cold")
+        // Move jump tables to a separate section
+        .arg("-jump-tables=move")
+        // Use GNU_STACK program header for new segment (workaround for issues with strip/objcopy)
+        .arg("-use-gnu-stack")
+        // Fold functions with identical code
+        .arg("-icf=1")
+        // Update DWARF debug info in the final binary
+        .arg("-update-debug-sections")
+        // Print optimization statistics
+        .arg("-dyno-stats")
+        .status()
+        .expect("Could not optimize artifact using BOLT");
+
+    if !status.success() {
+        panic!("Could not optimize {} with BOLT, exit code {:?}", path.display(), status.code());
+    }
+
+    std::fs::copy(&optimized_path, path).expect("Cannot copy optimized artifact");
+    std::fs::remove_file(optimized_path).expect("Cannot delete optimized artifact");
+}

src/bootstrap/config.rs

@@ -159,6 +159,8 @@ pub struct Config {
     pub llvm_profile_use: Option<String>,
     pub llvm_profile_generate: bool,
     pub llvm_libunwind_default: Option<LlvmLibunwind>,
+    pub llvm_bolt_profile_generate: bool,
+    pub llvm_bolt_profile_use: Option<String>,
 
     pub build: TargetSelection,
     pub hosts: Vec<TargetSelection>,
@@ -803,6 +805,15 @@ impl Config {
         }
         config.llvm_profile_use = flags.llvm_profile_use;
         config.llvm_profile_generate = flags.llvm_profile_generate;
+        config.llvm_bolt_profile_generate = flags.llvm_bolt_profile_generate;
+        config.llvm_bolt_profile_use = flags.llvm_bolt_profile_use;
+
+        if config.llvm_bolt_profile_generate && config.llvm_bolt_profile_use.is_some() {
+            eprintln!(
+                "Cannot use both `llvm_bolt_profile_generate` and `llvm_bolt_profile_use` at the same time"
+            );
+            crate::detail_exit(1);
+        }
 
         // Infer the rest of the configuration.
 

src/bootstrap/dist.rs

@@ -2157,6 +2157,10 @@ impl Step for ReproducibleArtifacts {
             tarball.add_file(path, ".", 0o644);
             added_anything = true;
         }
+        if let Some(path) = builder.config.llvm_bolt_profile_use.as_ref() {
+            tarball.add_file(path, ".", 0o644);
+            added_anything = true;
+        }
         if added_anything { Some(tarball.generate()) } else { None }
     }
 }

src/bootstrap/flags.rs

@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ pub struct Flags {
     //
     // llvm_out/build/profiles/ is the location this writes to.
     pub llvm_profile_generate: bool,
+    pub llvm_bolt_profile_generate: bool,
+    pub llvm_bolt_profile_use: Option<String>,
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
@@ -255,6 +257,8 @@ To learn more about a subcommand, run `./x.py <subcommand> -h`",
         opts.optmulti("D", "", "deny certain clippy lints", "OPT");
         opts.optmulti("W", "", "warn about certain clippy lints", "OPT");
         opts.optmulti("F", "", "forbid certain clippy lints", "OPT");
+        opts.optflag("", "llvm-bolt-profile-generate", "generate BOLT profile for LLVM build");
+        opts.optopt("", "llvm-bolt-profile-use", "use BOLT profile for LLVM build", "PROFILE");
 
         // We can't use getopt to parse the options until we have completed specifying which
         // options are valid, but under the current implementation, some options are conditional on
@@ -691,6 +695,8 @@ Arguments:
             rust_profile_generate: matches.opt_str("rust-profile-generate"),
             llvm_profile_use: matches.opt_str("llvm-profile-use"),
             llvm_profile_generate: matches.opt_present("llvm-profile-generate"),
+            llvm_bolt_profile_generate: matches.opt_present("llvm-bolt-profile-generate"),
+            llvm_bolt_profile_use: matches.opt_str("llvm-bolt-profile-use"),
         }
     }
 }

src/bootstrap/lib.rs

@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ use crate::util::{
     check_run, exe, libdir, mtime, output, run, run_suppressed, try_run, try_run_suppressed, CiEnv,
 };
 
+mod bolt;
 mod builder;
 mod cache;
 mod cc_detect;

src/bootstrap/native.rs

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ use std::io;
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 use std::process::Command;
 
+use crate::bolt::{instrument_with_bolt_inplace, optimize_library_with_bolt_inplace};
 use crate::builder::{Builder, RunConfig, ShouldRun, Step};
 use crate::config::TargetSelection;
 use crate::util::get_clang_cl_resource_dir;
@@ -395,6 +396,12 @@ impl Step for Llvm {
         if let Some(path) = builder.config.llvm_profile_use.as_ref() {
             cfg.define("LLVM_PROFDATA_FILE", &path);
         }
+        if builder.config.llvm_bolt_profile_generate
+            || builder.config.llvm_bolt_profile_use.is_some()
+        {
+            // Relocations are required for BOLT to work.
+            ldflags.push_all("-Wl,-q");
+        }
 
         // Disable zstd to avoid a dependency on libzstd.so.
         cfg.define("LLVM_ENABLE_ZSTD", "OFF");
@@ -563,12 +570,34 @@ impl Step for Llvm {
             }
         }
 
+        // After LLVM is built, we modify (instrument or optimize) the libLLVM.so library file
+        // in place. This is fine, because currently we do not support incrementally rebuilding
+        // LLVM after a configuration change, so to rebuild it the build files have to be removed,
+        // which will also remove these modified files.
+        if builder.config.llvm_bolt_profile_generate {
+            instrument_with_bolt_inplace(&get_built_llvm_lib_path(&build_llvm_config));
+        }
+        if let Some(path) = &builder.config.llvm_bolt_profile_use {
+            optimize_library_with_bolt_inplace(
+                &get_built_llvm_lib_path(&build_llvm_config),
+                &Path::new(path),
+            );
+        }
+
         t!(stamp.write());
 
         build_llvm_config
     }
 }
 
+/// Returns path to a built LLVM library (libLLVM.so).
+/// Assumes that we have built LLVM into a single library file.
+fn get_built_llvm_lib_path(llvm_config_path: &Path) -> PathBuf {
+    let mut cmd = Command::new(llvm_config_path);
+    cmd.arg("--libfiles");
+    PathBuf::from(output(&mut cmd).trim())
+}
+
 fn check_llvm_version(builder: &Builder<'_>, llvm_config: &Path) {
     if !builder.config.llvm_version_check {
         return;

src/ci/docker/host-x86_64/dist-x86_64-linux/build-clang.sh

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ INC="/rustroot/include:/usr/include"
 
 # We need compiler-rt for the profile runtime (used later to PGO the LLVM build)
 # but sanitizers aren't currently building. Since we don't need those, just
-# disable them.
+# disable them. BOLT is used for optimizing LLVM.
 hide_output \
     cmake ../llvm \
       -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=/rustroot/bin/gcc \
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ hide_output \
       -DLLVM_INCLUDE_BENCHMARKS=OFF \
       -DLLVM_INCLUDE_TESTS=OFF \
       -DLLVM_INCLUDE_EXAMPLES=OFF \
-      -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="clang;lld;compiler-rt" \
+      -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="clang;lld;compiler-rt;bolt" \
       -DC_INCLUDE_DIRS="$INC"
 
 hide_output make -j$(nproc)

src/ci/pgo.sh

@@ -190,11 +190,40 @@ rm -r $RUSTC_PROFILE_DIRECTORY_ROOT
 # directories ourselves.
 rm -r $BUILD_ARTIFACTS/llvm $BUILD_ARTIFACTS/lld
 
-# This produces the actual final set of artifacts, using both the LLVM and rustc
-# collected profiling data.
-$@ \
-    --rust-profile-use=${RUSTC_PROFILE_MERGED_FILE} \
-    --llvm-profile-use=${LLVM_PROFILE_MERGED_FILE}
+if isLinux; then
+  # Gather BOLT profile (BOLT is currently only available on Linux)
+  python3 ../x.py build --target=$PGO_HOST --host=$PGO_HOST \
+      --stage 2 library/std \
+      --llvm-profile-use=${LLVM_PROFILE_MERGED_FILE} \
+      --llvm-bolt-profile-generate
+
+  BOLT_PROFILE_MERGED_FILE=/tmp/bolt.profdata
+
+  # Here we're profiling Bolt.
+  gather_profiles "Check,Debug,Opt" "Full" \
+  "syn-1.0.89,serde-1.0.136,ripgrep-13.0.0,regex-1.5.5,clap-3.1.6,hyper-0.14.18"
+
+  merge-fdata /tmp/prof.fdata* > ${BOLT_PROFILE_MERGED_FILE}
+
+  echo "BOLT statistics"
+  du -sh /tmp/prof.fdata*
+  du -sh ${BOLT_PROFILE_MERGED_FILE}
+  echo "Profile file count"
+  find /tmp/prof.fdata* -type f | wc -l
+
+  rm -r $BUILD_ARTIFACTS/llvm $BUILD_ARTIFACTS/lld
+
+  # This produces the actual final set of artifacts, using both the LLVM and rustc
+  # collected profiling data.
+  $@ \
+      --rust-profile-use=${RUSTC_PROFILE_MERGED_FILE} \
+      --llvm-profile-use=${LLVM_PROFILE_MERGED_FILE} \
+      --llvm-bolt-profile-use=${BOLT_PROFILE_MERGED_FILE}
+else
+  $@ \
+      --rust-profile-use=${RUSTC_PROFILE_MERGED_FILE} \
+      --llvm-profile-use=${LLVM_PROFILE_MERGED_FILE}
+fi
 
 echo "Rustc binary size"
 ls -la ./build/$PGO_HOST/stage2/bin