Snehasish Kumar d2696dec45 [llvm] Add -bbsections-cold-text-prefix to emit cold clusters to a different section. ...

This change adds an option to basic block sections to allow cold
clusters to be assigned a custom text prefix. With a custom prefix such
as ".text.split." (D87840), lld can place them in a separate output section.
The benefits are -

* Empirically shown to improve icache and itlb metrics by 3-5%
(absolute) compared to placing split parts in .text.unlikely.
* Mitigates against poor profiles, eg samplePGO profiles used with the
machine function splitter. Optimizations such as hugepage remapping can
make different decisions at the section granularity.
* Enables section granularity hotness monitoring (checking on the
decisions made during compilation vs sample data from production).

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87813

2020-09-24 15:26:15 -07:00

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