[clang][modules] Timestamp PCM files when writing

Clang uses timestamp files to track the last time an implicitly-built PCM file was verified to be up-to-date with regard to its inputs. With `-fbuild-session-{file,timestamp}=` and  `-fmodules-validate-once-per-build-session` this reduces the number of times a PCM file is checked per "build session".

The behavior I'm seeing with the current scheme is that when lots of Clang instances wait for the same PCM to be built, they race to validate it as soon as the file lock gets released, causing lots of concurrent IO.

This patch makes it so that the timestamp is written by the same Clang instance responsible for building the PCM while still holding the lock. This makes it so that whenever a PCM file gets compiled, it's never re-validated in the same build session.

I believe this is as sound as the current scheme. One thing to be aware of is that there might be a time interval between accessing input file N and writing the timestamp file, where changes to input files 0..<N would not result in a rebuild. Since this is the case current scheme too, I'm not too concerned about that.

I've seen this speed up `clang-scan-deps` by ~27%.

Author: jansvoboda11

clang/include/clang/Serialization/ModuleFile.h

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #define LLVM_CLANG_SERIALIZATION_MODULEFILE_H
 
 #include "clang/Basic/FileManager.h"
+#include "clang/Basic/LLVM.h"
 #include "clang/Basic/Module.h"
 #include "clang/Basic/SourceLocation.h"
 #include "clang/Serialization/ASTBitCodes.h"
@@ -144,8 +145,8 @@ class ModuleFile {
   /// The base directory of the module.
   std::string BaseDirectory;
 
-  std::string getTimestampFilename() const {
-    return FileName + ".timestamp";
+  static std::string getTimestampFilename(StringRef FileName) {
+    return (FileName + ".timestamp").str();
   }
 
   /// The original source file name that was used to build the

clang/lib/Serialization/ASTCommon.cpp

@@ -15,7 +15,10 @@
 #include "clang/AST/DeclObjC.h"
 #include "clang/Basic/IdentifierTable.h"
 #include "clang/Serialization/ASTDeserializationListener.h"
+#include "clang/Serialization/ModuleFile.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/DJB.h"
+#include "llvm/Support/FileSystem.h"
+#include "llvm/Support/raw_ostream.h"
 
 using namespace clang;
 
@@ -503,3 +506,15 @@ bool serialization::needsAnonymousDeclarationNumber(const NamedDecl *D) {
     return false;
   return isa<TagDecl, FieldDecl>(D);
 }
+
+void serialization::updateModuleTimestamp(StringRef ModuleFilename) {
+  // Overwrite the timestamp file contents so that file's mtime changes.
+  std::error_code EC;
+  llvm::raw_fd_ostream OS(ModuleFile::getTimestampFilename(ModuleFilename), EC,
+                          llvm::sys::fs::OF_TextWithCRLF);
+  if (EC)
+    return;
+  OS << "Timestamp file\n";
+  OS.close();
+  OS.clear_error(); // Avoid triggering a fatal error.
+}

clang/lib/Serialization/ASTCommon.h

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 
 #include "clang/AST/ASTContext.h"
 #include "clang/AST/DeclFriend.h"
+#include "clang/Basic/LLVM.h"
 #include "clang/Serialization/ASTBitCodes.h"
 
 namespace clang {
@@ -100,6 +101,8 @@ inline bool isPartOfPerModuleInitializer(const Decl *D) {
   return false;
 }
 
+void updateModuleTimestamp(StringRef ModuleFilename);
+
 } // namespace serialization
 
 } // namespace clang

clang/lib/Serialization/ASTReader.cpp

@@ -4416,19 +4416,6 @@ bool ASTReader::isGlobalIndexUnavailable() const {
          !hasGlobalIndex() && TriedLoadingGlobalIndex;
 }
 
-static void updateModuleTimestamp(ModuleFile &MF) {
-  // Overwrite the timestamp file contents so that file's mtime changes.
-  std::string TimestampFilename = MF.getTimestampFilename();
-  std::error_code EC;
-  llvm::raw_fd_ostream OS(TimestampFilename, EC,
-                          llvm::sys::fs::OF_TextWithCRLF);
-  if (EC)
-    return;
-  OS << "Timestamp file\n";
-  OS.close();
-  OS.clear_error(); // Avoid triggering a fatal error.
-}
-
 /// Given a cursor at the start of an AST file, scan ahead and drop the
 /// cursor into the start of the given block ID, returning false on success and
 /// true on failure.
@@ -4707,7 +4694,7 @@ ASTReader::ASTReadResult ASTReader::ReadAST(StringRef FileName, ModuleKind Type,
       ImportedModule &M = Loaded[I];
       if (M.Mod->Kind == MK_ImplicitModule &&
           M.Mod->InputFilesValidationTimestamp < HSOpts.BuildSessionTimestamp)
-        updateModuleTimestamp(*M.Mod);
+        updateModuleTimestamp(M.Mod->FileName);
     }
   }
 

clang/lib/Serialization/ASTWriter.cpp

@@ -4905,6 +4905,10 @@ ASTFileSignature ASTWriter::WriteAST(Sema &SemaRef, StringRef OutputFile,
   this->BaseDirectory.clear();
 
   WritingAST = false;
+
+  if (WritingModule)
+    updateModuleTimestamp(OutputFile);
+
   if (ShouldCacheASTInMemory) {
     // Construct MemoryBuffer and update buffer manager.
     ModuleCache.addBuiltPCM(OutputFile,

clang/lib/Serialization/ModuleManager.cpp

@@ -170,7 +170,8 @@ ModuleManager::addModule(StringRef FileName, ModuleKind Type,
   NewModule->InputFilesValidationTimestamp = 0;
 
   if (NewModule->Kind == MK_ImplicitModule) {
-    std::string TimestampFilename = NewModule->getTimestampFilename();
+    std::string TimestampFilename =
+        ModuleFile::getTimestampFilename(NewModule->FileName);
     llvm::vfs::Status Status;
     // A cached stat value would be fine as well.
     if (!FileMgr.getNoncachedStatValue(TimestampFilename, Status))