Re: [PATCH] Use linker sections to explicitly order functions for -fprofile-reorder-functions and -fipa-reorder-for-locality

[Prachi Godbole]

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> On 18 Dec 2025, at 9:03 PM, Prachi Godbole <pgodb...@nvidia.com> wrote:
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> A gentle ping
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>> On 9 Dec 2025, at 3:11 PM, Prachi Godbole <pgodb...@nvidia.com> wrote:
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>> Ping
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>>> On 30 Oct 2025, at 10:48 AM, Prachi Godbole <pgodb...@nvidia.com> wrote:
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>>> Ping
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>>>> On 9 Oct 2025, at 9:10 PM, Prachi Godbole <pgodb...@nvidia.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> This patch adds support to linker driven function reordering by creating 
>>>> function sections with a prefix '.text.sorted' which are then sorted using 
>>>> SORT in by the linker. Appropriate support for this is already present in 
>>>> binutils.
>>>> 
>>>> Bootstrapped and regtested on aarch64-linux-gnu. Ok for mainline?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Prachi
>>>> 
>>>> Signed-off-by: Prachi Godbole pgodb...@nvidia.com
>>>> 
>>>> gcc/ChangeLog:
>>>> 
>>>>    * cgraph.cc (cgraph_node::dump): Dump value of text_locality_order.
>>>>    * cgraph.h (struct cgraph_node): New variable text_locality_order.
>>>>    * cgraphclones.cc (cgraph_node::create_clone): Initialize
>>>>    text_locality_order.
>>>>    * cgraphunit.cc (expand_all_functions): Update text_locality_order.
>>>>    * ipa-locality-cloning.cc (get_default_locality_order): New function.
>>>>    (add_node_to_partition): Update text_locality_order.
>>>>    * lto-cgraph.cc (lto_output_node): Write text_locality_order to file.
>>>>    (input_node): Read text_locality_order.
>>>>    * varasm.cc (default_function_section): Create function sections based
>>>>    on text_locality_order.
>>>> 
>>>> <0001-PATCH-Use-linker-sections-to-explicitly-order-functi.patch>
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