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gh-xxxx: overhaul build rules for optimized binaries
This commit overhauls the make-based build system's rules for building optimized binaries. Along the way it fixes a myriad of bugs and shortcomings with the prior approach. The old way of producing optimized binaries had various limitations: * `make [all]` would do work when PGO was enabled because the phony `profile-opt` rule was non-empty. This prevented no-op PGO builds from working at all. This meant workflows like `make; make install` either incurred extra work or failed due to race conditions. * Same thing for BOLT, as its `bolt-opt` rule was also non-empty and always ran during `make [all]`. * BOLT could not be run multiple times without a full rebuild because `llvm-bolt` can't instrument binaries that have already received BOLT optimizations. * It was difficult to run BOLT on its own because of how various make targets and their dependencies were structured. * I found the old way that configure and make communicated the default targets to be confusing and hard to understand. There are essentially 2 major changes going on in this commit: 1. A rework of the high-level make targets for performing a build and how they are defined. 2. A rework of all the make logic related to profile-based optimization (read: PGO and BOLT). Build Target Rework ====================== Before, we essentially had `build_all`, `profile-opt`, `bolt-opt` and `build_wasm` as our 3 targets for performing a build. `all` would alias to one of these, as appropriate. And there was another definition for which _simple_ make target to evaluate for non-optimized builds. This was likely `build_all` or `all`. In the rework, we introduce 2 new high-level targets: * `build-plain` - Perform a build without optimizations. * `build-optimized` - Perform a build with optimizations. `build-plain` is aliased to `build_all` in all configurations except WASM, where it is `build_wasm`. `build-optimized` by default is aliased to a target that prints an error message when optimizations aren't enabled. If PGO or BOLT are enabled, it is aliased to their respective target. `build-optimized` is the logical successor to `profile-opt`. I felt it best to delete `profile-opt` completely, as the new `build-*` high-level targets feel more friendly to use. But if people lament its loss, we can add a `profile-opt: build-optimized` to achieve almost the same result. Profiled-Based Optimization Rework ================================== Most of the make logic related to profile-based optimization (read: PGO and BOLT) has been touched in this change. A major issue with the old way of doing things was we used phony, always-executed make rules. This is a bad practice in make because it undermines no-op builds. Another issue is that the separation between the rules and what order they ran in wasn't always clear. Both PGO and BOLT consist of the same 4 phase solution: instrument, run, analyze, and apply. However, these steps weren't clearly expressed in the make logic. This is especially true for BOLT, which only had 1 make rule. Another issue with BOLT is that it was really easy to get things into a bad state. e.g. if you applied BOLT to `pythonX.Y` you could not run BOLT again unless you rebuilt `pythonX.Y` from source. In the new world, we have separate `profile-<tool>-<stage>-stamp` rules defining the 4 distinct `instrument`, `run`, `analyze`, and `apply` stages for both PGO and BOLT. Each of these stages is tracked by a _stamp_ semaphore file so progress can be captured. This should all be pretty straightforward. There is some minimal complexity here to handle BOLT's optional dependency on PGO, as BOLT either depends on `build_all` or `profile-pgo-apply-stamp`. As part of the refactor to BOLT we also preserve the original input binary before BOLT is applied. This original file is restored if BOLT runs again. This greatly simplifies repeated BOLT invocations, as make doesn't perform needless work. However, this is all best effort, as it is possible for some make target evaluations to still get things in a bad state. Other Remarks ============= If this change perturbs any bugs, they are likely around cleaning behavior. The cleaning rules are a bit complicated and not clearly documented. And I'm unsure which targets CPython developers often iterate on. It is highly possible that state cleanup of PGO and/or BOLT files isn't as robust as it needs to be. I explicitly deleted some calls to PGO cleanup because those calls prevented no-op `make [all]` from working. It is certainly possible something somewhere (release automation?) relied on these files being deleted when they no longer are. We still have targets to purge profile files and it should be trivial to add these to appropriate make rules.
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# Rules
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# Default target
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all: @DEF_MAKE_ALL_RULE@
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# Default target.
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# Likely either `build-plain` or `build-optimized`.
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all: @MAKE_TARGET_ALL@
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# First target in Makefile is implicit default. So .PHONY needs to come after
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# all.
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.PHONY: all
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# Build without any optimizations or instrumented binaries.
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.PHONY: build-plain
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build-plain: @MAKE_TARGET_BUILD_PLAIN@
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# Build with optimizations (PGO, BOLT, etc).
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.PHONY: build-optimized
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build-optimized: @MAKE_TARGET_BUILD_OPTIMIZED@
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.PHONY: build-optimized-not-enabled
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build-optimized-not-enabled:
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@echo "build-optimized requires --enable-optimizations in configure; aborting"
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@exit 1
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.PHONY: build_all
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build_all: check-clean-src $(BUILDPYTHON) platform sharedmods \
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# Profile generation build must start from a clean tree.
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# Profile-based optimization.
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#
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# PGO and BOLT profile-based optimization is supported. For each optimization,
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# roughly the following steps are done:
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#
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# 1. "Instrument" binaries with run-time data collection (e.g. build or modify
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# a variant of the binary.)
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# 2. "Run" instrumented binaries (via subset of test suite) to collect data.
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# 3. "Analyze" / collect / merge data files from previous step.
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# 4. "Apply" collected data from above. (e.g. rebuild or modify a binary).
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#
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# 0, 1, or multiple profile based optimizations can be enabled.
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#
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# We track the progress of profile-based optimization using various "stamp"
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# files. An empty stamp file tracks the stage of optimization we're in.
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# Each *-stamp rule that follows is defined in execution / dependency order.
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# Remove files produced by or used for tracking profile-guided optimization.
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.PHONY: profile-remove
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profile-remove: clean-bolt
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find . -name '*.gc??' -exec rm -f {} ';'
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find . -name '*.profclang?' -exec rm -f {} ';'
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find . -name '*.dyn' -exec rm -f {} ';'
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rm -f $(COVERAGE_INFO)
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rm -rf $(COVERAGE_REPORT)
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# Remove all progress tracking stamps to ensure a clean slate.
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rm -f profile-*-stamp
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# Profile-based optimization requires a fresh build environment.
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profile-clean-stamp:
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# Compile with profile generation enabled.
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profile-gen-stamp: profile-clean-stamp
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# Build with PGO instrumentation enabled.
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profile-pgo-instrument-stamp: profile-clean-stamp
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@if [ $(LLVM_PROF_ERR) = yes ]; then \
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$(MAKE) @DEF_MAKE_RULE@ CFLAGS_NODIST="$(CFLAGS_NODIST) $(PGO_PROF_GEN_FLAG)" LDFLAGS_NODIST="$(LDFLAGS_NODIST) $(PGO_PROF_GEN_FLAG)" LIBS="$(LIBS)"
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$(MAKE) @MAKE_TARGET_BUILD_PLAIN@ CFLAGS_NODIST="$(CFLAGS_NODIST) $(PGO_PROF_GEN_FLAG)" LDFLAGS_NODIST="$(LDFLAGS_NODIST) $(PGO_PROF_GEN_FLAG)" LIBS="$(LIBS)"
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