Fat LTO objects contain both LTO compatible IR, as well as generated object code. This allows users to defer the choice of whether to use LTO or not to link-time. This is a feature available in GCC for some time, and makes the existing -ffat-lto-objects flag functional in the same way as GCC's. Within LLVM, we add a new EmbedBitcodePass that serializes the module to the object file, and expose a new pass pipeline for compiling fat objects. The new pipeline initially clones the module and runs the selected (Thin)LTOPrelink pipeline, after which it will serialize the module into a `.llvm.lto` section of an ELF file. When compiling for (Thin)LTO, this normally the point at which the compiler would emit a object file containing the bitcode and metadata. After that point we compile the original module using the PerModuleDefaultPipeline used for non-LTO compilation. We generate standard object files at the end of this pipeline, which contain machine code and the new `.llvm.lto` section containing bitcode. Since the two pipelines operate on different copies of the module, we can be sure that the bitcode in the `.llvm.lto` section and object code in `.text` are congruent with the existing output produced by the default and LTO pipelines. Original RFC: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-ffat-lto-objects-support/63977 Earlier versions of this patch were missing REQUIRES lines for llc related tests in Transforms/EmbedBitcode. Those tests are now under CodeGen/X86, which should avoid running the check on unsupported platforms. The EmbedbBitcodePass also returned PreservedAnalyses::all when adding a metadata section, which failed expensive checks, since it modified the module. This is now corrected. Reviewed By: tejohnson, MaskRay, nikic Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D146776
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; RUN: opt --mtriple x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu < %s -passes="embed-bitcode" -S | FileCheck %s
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; RUN: opt --mtriple x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu < %s -passes="embed-bitcode<thinlto>" -S | FileCheck %s
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; RUN: opt --mtriple x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu < %s -passes="embed-bitcode<emit-summary>" -S | FileCheck %s
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; RUN: opt --mtriple x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu < %s -passes="embed-bitcode<thinlto;emit-summary>" -S | FileCheck %s
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@a = global i32 1
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; CHECK: @a = global i32 1
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;; Make sure the module is in the correct section.
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; CHECK: @llvm.embedded.object = private constant {{.*}}, section ".llvm.lto", align 1
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;; Ensure that the metadata is in llvm.compiler.used.
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; CHECK: @llvm.compiler.used = appending global [1 x ptr] [ptr @llvm.embedded.object], section "llvm.metadata"
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;; Make sure the metadata correlates to the .llvm.lto section.
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; CHECK: !llvm.embedded.objects = !{!1}
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; CHECK: !0 = !{}
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; CHECK: !{ptr @llvm.embedded.object, !".llvm.lto"}
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