llvm dev - Nov 2015 - re-compile a function

Dear All

Is there is a way to recompile a function at runtime?

It seems that I need to -like - invalidate the recompiled function to force the
MCJIT to recompile it, cause when I just call runFunction, it neglects any
modifications in the function code.

Thanks in advance.


Regards,
Marwa Yusuf
Teaching Assistant - Computer Engineering Department
Faculty of Engineering - Benha University
E-JUST PhD Student
Computer Science & Engineering Dept.
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Hi Marwa,

MCJIT doesn't provide any support for recompilation. The best you can do is
use multiple MCJIT instances and destroy whichever one contains the
function "foo" that you want to recompile. MCJIT does not do any
dependence
tracking either, so you'll also need to destroy and recompile any direct
callers of "foo" (and their direct callers, and so on). If you know
you
want to be able to recompile a function it may be best to only call it
indirectly - that way all you have to do is delete the containing MCJIT
instance, create a new MCJIT instance, and update your function pointer.

You may find the Orc APIs a better fit for what you're doing: they at least
support removing individual modules from the JIT session, so you don't have
to maintain multiple JIT instances yourself. You'll still need to manage
the invalidation and/or function pointer update. If you come up with a
scheme for that though we could look at adding it in-tree. You might also
be able to make some use of the utilities in
include/llvm/ExecutionEngine/Orc/IndirectionUtils.h.

In case it's useful, I've attached an example that uses the Orc APIs to
do
recompilation at higher optimization levels, based on the Kaleidoscope
tutorials. This was motivated by the following mailing list discussion:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2015-July/087776.html, which may
also be related to what you want to do.

Cheers,
Lang.


On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 11:05 AM, marwayusuf at feng.bu.edu.eg via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Dear All
>
> Is there is a way to recompile a function at runtime?
>
> It seems that I need to -like - invalidate the recompiled function to
> force the MCJIT to recompile it, cause when I just call runFunction, it
> neglects any modifications in the function code.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Regards,
> Marwa Yusuf
> Teaching Assistant - Computer Engineering Department
> Faculty of Engineering - Benha University
> E-JUST PhD Student
> Computer Science & Engineering Dept.
>
> _______________________________________________
> LLVM Developers mailing list
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
> http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev
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Thanks a million.


Regards,
Marwa Yusuf
Teaching Assistant - Computer Engineering Department
Faculty of Engineering - Benha University
E-JUST PhD Student
Computer Science & Engineering Dept.


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From: Lang Hames <lhames at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2015 11:29 PM
To: marwayusuf at feng.bu.edu.eg
Cc: llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] re-compile a function

Hi Marwa,

MCJIT doesn't provide any support for recompilation. The best you can do is
use multiple MCJIT instances and destroy whichever one contains the function
"foo" that you want to recompile. MCJIT does not do any dependence
tracking either, so you'll also need to destroy and recompile any direct
callers of "foo" (and their direct callers, and so on). If you know
you want to be able to recompile a function it may be best to only call it
indirectly - that way all you have to do is delete the containing MCJIT
instance, create a new MCJIT instance, and update your function pointer.

You may find the Orc APIs a better fit for what you're doing: they at least
support removing individual modules from the JIT session, so you don't have
to maintain multiple JIT instances yourself. You'll still need to manage the
invalidation and/or function pointer update. If you come up with a scheme for
that though we could look at adding it in-tree. You might also be able to make
some use of the utilities in
include/llvm/ExecutionEngine/Orc/IndirectionUtils.h.

In case it's useful, I've attached an example that uses the Orc APIs to
do recompilation at higher optimization levels, based on the Kaleidoscope
tutorials. This was motivated by the following mailing list discussion:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2015-July/087776.html, which may also
be related to what you want to do.

Cheers,
Lang.


On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 11:05 AM, marwayusuf at
feng.bu.edu.eg<mailto:marwayusuf at feng.bu.edu.eg> via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org<mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>>
wrote:

Dear All

Is there is a way to recompile a function at runtime?

It seems that I need to -like - invalidate the recompiled function to force the
MCJIT to recompile it, cause when I just call runFunction, it neglects any
modifications in the function code.

Thanks in advance.


Regards,
Marwa Yusuf
Teaching Assistant - Computer Engineering Department
Faculty of Engineering - Benha University
E-JUST PhD Student
Computer Science & Engineering Dept.

_______________________________________________
LLVM Developers mailing list
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org<mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev


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Hi Lang,

Is there any detailed instructions or tutorial for using orc layers?

Thanks in advance.


Regards,
Marwa Yusuf
Teaching Assistant - Computer Engineering Department
Faculty of Engineering - Benha University
E-JUST PhD Student
Computer Science & Engineering Dept.


________________________________
From: Lang Hames <lhames at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2015 11:29 PM
To: marwayusuf at feng.bu.edu.eg
Cc: llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] re-compile a function

Hi Marwa,

MCJIT doesn't provide any support for recompilation. The best you can do is
use multiple MCJIT instances and destroy whichever one contains the function
"foo" that you want to recompile. MCJIT does not do any dependence
tracking either, so you'll also need to destroy and recompile any direct
callers of "foo" (and their direct callers, and so on). If you know
you want to be able to recompile a function it may be best to only call it
indirectly - that way all you have to do is delete the containing MCJIT
instance, create a new MCJIT instance, and update your function pointer.

You may find the Orc APIs a better fit for what you're doing: they at least
support removing individual modules from the JIT session, so you don't have
to maintain multiple JIT instances yourself. You'll still need to manage the
invalidation and/or function pointer update. If you come up with a scheme for
that though we could look at adding it in-tree. You might also be able to make
some use of the utilities in
include/llvm/ExecutionEngine/Orc/IndirectionUtils.h.

In case it's useful, I've attached an example that uses the Orc APIs to
do recompilation at higher optimization levels, based on the Kaleidoscope
tutorials. This was motivated by the following mailing list discussion:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2015-July/087776.html, which may also
be related to what you want to do.

Cheers,
Lang.


On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 11:05 AM, marwayusuf at
feng.bu.edu.eg<mailto:marwayusuf at feng.bu.edu.eg> via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org<mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>>
wrote:

Dear All

Is there is a way to recompile a function at runtime?

It seems that I need to -like - invalidate the recompiled function to force the
MCJIT to recompile it, cause when I just call runFunction, it neglects any
modifications in the function code.

Thanks in advance.


Regards,
Marwa Yusuf
Teaching Assistant - Computer Engineering Department
Faculty of Engineering - Benha University
E-JUST PhD Student
Computer Science & Engineering Dept.

_______________________________________________
LLVM Developers mailing list
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org<mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev


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