llvm dev - Nov 2021 - Where does doInitialization() fit into the new PassManager model?

Hi:
In my legacy pass, I usually use doInitialization() to call Module::createRNG()
to create a RandomNumberGenerator, which my FunctionPass later uses.
How does this model fit into the new PassManager interface? Creating my new pass
as run(Function&F ....) and re-create my RNG each time doesn't
preserve its internal state, but using run(Module& M) seems a bit
overkill to me?
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Yeah there's currently no equivalent of doInitialization() in the new pass
manager. Creating a per-module RNG to work on functions seems a bit weird
to me. Module::createRNG() attempts to be consistent based on the module
name + a per-call site salt, but that makes so changes in one function
affect functions visited after. It would make more sense to me to use a
per-function RNG salted with the module name and function name. Or if you
really want a per-module RNG you could just lazily initialize it in the
run(Function &). (Also Module::createRNG() isn't used in tree AFAICT)

On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 7:59 PM Zhang via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at
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> Hi:
> In my legacy pass, I usually use doInitialization() to call
> Module::createRNG() to create a RandomNumberGenerator, which my
> FunctionPass later uses.
> How does this model fit into the new PassManager interface? Creating my
> new pass as run(Function&F ....) and re-create my RNG each time
doesn't
> preserve its internal state, but using run(Module& M) seems a bit
overkill
> to me?
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