[MC] Function stack size section.
authorSean Eveson <eveson.sean@gmail.com>
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:05:14 +0000 (13:05 +0000)
committerSean Eveson <eveson.sean@gmail.com>
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:05:14 +0000 (13:05 +0000)
commita6bcd53d5229db563d0ba25b6385e3ca5d0820de
tree7cef0a8088cba473cf19d7eb789bad9521ea4687
parent661e4fbf83887a074ab3ab06ae41470cce4ff45c
[MC] Function stack size section.

Re applying after fixing issues in the diff, sorry for any painful conflicts/merges!

Original RFC: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-August/117028.html

This change adds a '.stack-size' section containing metadata on function stack sizes to output ELF files behind the new -stack-size-section flag. The section contains pairs of function symbol references (8 byte) and stack sizes (unsigned LEB128).

The contents of this section can be used to measure changes to stack sizes between different versions of the compiler or a source base. The advantage of having a section is that we can extract this information when examining binaries that we didn't build, and it allows users and tools easy access to that information just by referencing the binary.

There is a follow up change to add an option to clang.

Thanks.

Reviewers: hfinkel, MatzeB

Reviewed By: MatzeB

Subscribers: thegameg, asb, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D39788

llvm-svn: 319430
llvm/docs/CodeGenerator.rst
llvm/docs/CommandGuide/llc.rst
llvm/include/llvm/CodeGen/AsmPrinter.h
llvm/include/llvm/CodeGen/CommandFlags.def
llvm/include/llvm/MC/MCObjectFileInfo.h
llvm/include/llvm/Target/TargetOptions.h
llvm/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/AsmPrinter.cpp
llvm/lib/MC/MCObjectFileInfo.cpp
llvm/test/CodeGen/X86/stack-size-section.ll [new file with mode: 0644]