llvm-mirror/runtime
Gordon Henriksen db4f51e1b9 With this patch, the LowerGC transformation becomes the
ShadowStackCollector, which additionally has reduced overhead with
no sacrifice in portability.

Considering a function @fun with 8 loop-local roots,
ShadowStackCollector introduces the following overhead
(x86):

; shadowstack prologue
        movl    L_llvm_gc_root_chain$non_lazy_ptr, %eax
        movl    (%eax), %ecx
        movl    $___gc_fun, 20(%esp)
        movl    $0, 24(%esp)
        movl    $0, 28(%esp)
        movl    $0, 32(%esp)
        movl    $0, 36(%esp)
        movl    $0, 40(%esp)
        movl    $0, 44(%esp)
        movl    $0, 48(%esp)
        movl    $0, 52(%esp)
        movl    %ecx, 16(%esp)
        leal    16(%esp), %ecx
        movl    %ecx, (%eax)

; shadowstack loop overhead
        (none)

; shadowstack epilogue
        movl    48(%esp), %edx
        movl    %edx, (%ecx)

; shadowstack metadata
        .align  3
___gc_fun:                              # __gc_fun
        .long   8
        .space  4

In comparison to LowerGC:

; lowergc prologue
        movl    L_llvm_gc_root_chain$non_lazy_ptr, %eax
        movl    (%eax), %ecx
        movl    %ecx, 48(%esp)
        movl    $8, 52(%esp)
        movl    $0, 60(%esp)
        movl    $0, 56(%esp)
        movl    $0, 68(%esp)
        movl    $0, 64(%esp)
        movl    $0, 76(%esp)
        movl    $0, 72(%esp)
        movl    $0, 84(%esp)
        movl    $0, 80(%esp)
        movl    $0, 92(%esp)
        movl    $0, 88(%esp)
        movl    $0, 100(%esp)
        movl    $0, 96(%esp)
        movl    $0, 108(%esp)
        movl    $0, 104(%esp)
        movl    $0, 116(%esp)
        movl    $0, 112(%esp)

; lowergc loop overhead
        leal    44(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 56(%esp)
        leal    40(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 64(%esp)
        leal    36(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 72(%esp)
        leal    32(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 80(%esp)
        leal    28(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 88(%esp)
        leal    24(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 96(%esp)
        leal    20(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 104(%esp)
        leal    16(%esp), %eax
        movl    %eax, 112(%esp)

; lowergc epilogue
        movl    48(%esp), %edx
        movl    %edx, (%ecx)

; lowergc metadata
        (none)

llvm-svn: 45670
2008-01-07 01:30:53 +00:00
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GC With this patch, the LowerGC transformation becomes the 2008-01-07 01:30:53 +00:00
libprofile remove attribution from a variety of miscellaneous files. 2007-12-29 22:59:10 +00:00
Makefile remove attributions from the rest of the llvm makefiles. 2007-12-29 20:11:13 +00:00
README.txt

This directory contains the various runtime libraries used by components of 
the LLVM compiler.  For example, the automatic pool allocation transformation
inserts calls to an external pool allocator library.  This runtime library is
an example of the type of library that lives in these directories.