remarkutil - Remark utility — LLVM 21.0.0git documentation (original) (raw)

Synopsis

llvm-remarkutil [_subcommmand_] [_options_]

Description

Utility for displaying information from, and converting between differentremark formats.

Subcommands

bitstream2yaml

USAGE: llvm-remarkutil bitstream2yaml -o

Summary

Takes a bitstream remark file as input, and reserializes that file as YAML.

yaml2bitstream

USAGE: llvm-remarkutil yaml2bitstream -o

Summary

Takes a YAML remark file as input, and reserializes that file in the bitstream format.

instruction-count

USAGE: llvm-remarkutil instruction-count –parser=<bitstream|yaml> [–use-debug-loc] -o

Summary

Outputs instruction count remarks for every function. Instruction count remarks encode the number of instructions in a function at assembly printing time.

Instruction count remarks require asm-printer remarks.

CSV format is as follows:

Function,InstructionCount foo,123

if –use-debug-loc is passed then the CSV will include the source path, line number and column.

Source,Function,InstructionCount path:line:column,foo,3

annotation-count

USAGE: llvm-remarkutil annotation-count –parser=<bitstream|yaml> –annotation-type= [–use-debug-loc] -o

Summary

Outputs a count for annotation-type remark for every function. The count expresses the number of remark checks inserted at the function.

Annotation count remarks require AnnotationRemarksPass remarks.

CSV format is as follows:

if –use-debug-loc is passed then the CSV will include the source path, line number and column.

Source,Function,Count path:line:column,foo,3

count

USAGE: llvm-remarkutil count [_options_]

Summary

llvm-remarkutil count counts remarks based on specified properties. By default the tool counts remarks based on how many occur in a source file or function or total for the generated remark file. The tool also supports collecting count based on specific remark arguments. The specified arguments should have an integer value to be able to report a count.

The tool contains utilities to filter the remark count based on remark name, pass name, argument value and remark type.

Options

--parser=<yaml|bitstream>

Select the type of input remark parser. Required.

--count-by=

Select option to collect remarks by.

--group-by=

group count of remarks by property.

--args[=arguments]

If count-by is set to arg this flag can be used to collect from specified remark arguments represented as a comma separated string. The arguments must have a numeral value to be able to count remarks by

--rargs[=arguments]

If count-by is set to arg this flag can be used to collect from specified remark arguments using regular expression. The arguments must have a numeral value to be able to count remarks by

--pass-name[=]

Filter count by pass name.

--rpass-name[=]

Filter count by pass name using regular expressions.

--remark-name[=]

Filter count by remark name.

--rremark-name[=]

Filter count by remark name using regular expressions.

--filter-arg-by[=]

Filter count by argument value.

--rfilter-arg-by[=]

Filter count by argument value using regular expressions.

--remark-type=

Filter remarks by type with the following options.

size-diff

USAGE: llvm-remarkutil size-diff [_options_] file_a file_b –parser parser

Summary

llvm-remarkutil size-diff diffs size remarks in two remark files: file_aand file_b.

llvm-remarkutil size-diff can be used to gain insight into which functions were impacted the most by code generation changes.

In most common use-cases file_a and file_b will be remarks output by compiling a fixed source with differing compilers ordiffering optimization settings.

llvm-remarkutil size-diff handles bothYAML andbitstreamremarks.

Options

--parser=<yaml|bitstream>

Select the type of input remark parser. Required.

--report-style=<human|json>

Output style.

--pretty

Pretty-print JSON output. Optional.

If output is not set to JSON, this does nothing.

-o=

Output file for the report. Outputs to stdout by default.

Human-Readable Output

The human-readable format for llvm-remarkutil size-diff is composed of two sections:

Changed Function Section

Suppose you are comparing two remark files OLD and NEW.

For each function with a changed instruction count in OLD and NEW,llvm-remarkutil size-diff will emit a line like below:

(++|--|==) (>|<) function_name, N instrs, M stack B

A breakdown of the format is below:

(++|--|==)

Which of OLD and NEW the function_name is present in.

(>|<)

Denotes if function_name has more instructions or fewer instructions in the second file.

function_name

The name of the changed function.

N instrs

Second file instruction count - first file instruction count.

M stack B

Second file stack byte count - first file stack byte count.

Summary Section

llvm-remarkutil size-diff will output a high-level summary after printing all changed functions.

instruction count: N (inst_pct_change%) stack byte usage: M (sb_pct_change%)

N

Sum of all instruction count changes between the second and first file.

inst_pct_change%

Percent increase or decrease in instruction count between the second and first file.

M

Sum of all stack byte count changes between the second and first file.

sb_pct_change%

Percent increase or decrease in stack byte usage between the second and first file.

JSON OUTPUT

High-Level view

Suppose we are comparing two files, OLD and NEW.

llvm-remarkutil size-diff will output JSON as follows.

"Files": [ "A": "path/to/OLD", "B": "path/to/NEW" ]

"InBoth": [ ... ],

"OnlyInA": [ ... ],

"OnlyInB": [ ... ]

Files

Original paths to remark files.

InBoth

Functions present in both files.

OnlyInA

Functions only present in the first file.

OnlyInB

Functions only present in the second file.

Function JSON

The InBoth, OnlyInA, and OnlyInB sections contain size information for each function in the input remark files.

{ "FunctionName" : "function_name" "InstCount": [ INST_COUNT_A, INST_COUNT_B ], "StackSize": [ STACK_BYTES_A, STACK_BYTES_B ], }

FunctionName

Name of the function.

InstCount

Instruction counts for the function.

StackSize

Stack byte counts for the function.

Computing Diffs From Function JSON

Function JSON does not contain the diffs. Tools consuming JSON output fromllvm-remarkutil size-diff are responsible for computing the diffs separately.

To compute the diffs:

EXIT STATUS

llvm-remarkutil size-diff returns 0 on success, and a non-zero value otherwise.

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