Program slicing is a technique for simplifying programs by focusing on selected aspects of their behavior.Current mainstream static slicing methods operate on dependence graph PDG(program dependence graph)or SDG(syste...Program slicing is a technique for simplifying programs by focusing on selected aspects of their behavior.Current mainstream static slicing methods operate on dependence graph PDG(program dependence graph)or SDG(system dependence graph),but these friendly graph representations may be a bit expensive for some users.In this paper we attempt to study a light-weight approach of static program slicing,called Symbolic Program Slicing(SymPas),which works as a dataflow analysis on LLVM(low-level virtual machine).In our SymPas approach,slices are stored in symbolic forms,not in procedures being re-analyzed(cf.procedure summaries).Instead of re-analyzing a procedure multiple times to find its slices for each callling context,we calculate a single symbolic slice which can be instantiated at call sites avoiding re-analysis;SymPas is implemented with LLVM to perform slicing on LLVM intermediate representation(IR).For comparison,we systematically adapt IFDS(interprocedural finite distributive subset)analysis and the SDG-based slicing method(SDGIFDS)to statically slice IR programs.Evaluated on open-source and benchmark programs,our backward SymPas shows a factor-of-6 reduction in time cost and a factor-of-4 reduction in space cost,compared with backward SDG-IFDS,thus being more efficient.In addition,the result shows that after studying slices from 66 programs,ranging up to 336800 IR instructions in size,SymPas is highly size-scalable.展开更多
国防科技大学自主研制的高性能加速器采用中央处理器(CPU)+通用数字信号处理器(GPDSP)的片上异构融合架构,使用超长指令集(VLIW)+单指令多数据流(SIMD)的向量化结构的GPDSP是峰值性能主要支撑的加速核。主流编译器在密集的数据计算指令...国防科技大学自主研制的高性能加速器采用中央处理器(CPU)+通用数字信号处理器(GPDSP)的片上异构融合架构,使用超长指令集(VLIW)+单指令多数据流(SIMD)的向量化结构的GPDSP是峰值性能主要支撑的加速核。主流编译器在密集的数据计算指令排布、为指令静态分配硬件执行单元、GPDSP特有的向量指令等方面不能很好地支持高性能加速器。基于低级虚拟器(LLVM)编译框架,在前寄存器分配调度阶段,结合峰值寄存器压力感知方法(PERP)、蚁群优化(ACO)算法与GPDSP结构特点,优化代价模型,设计支持寄存器压力感知的指令调度模块;在后寄存器分配阶段提出支持静态功能单元分配的指令调度策略,通过冲突检测机制保证功能单元分配的正确性,为指令并行执行提供软件基础;在后端封装一系列丰富且规整的向量指令接口,实现对GPDSP向量指令的支持。实验结果表明,所提出的LLVM编译架构优化方法从功能和性能上实现了对GPDSP的良好支撑,GCC testsuite测试整体性能平均加速比为4.539,SPEC CPU 2017浮点测试整体性能平均加速比为4.49,SPEC CPU 2017整型测试整体性能平均加速比为3.24,使用向量接口的向量程序实现了平均97.1%的性能提升率。展开更多
基金The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.60973046 and 61300054the Qing Lan Project of Jiangsu Province of Chinathe 1311 Talent Program Funding of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
文摘Program slicing is a technique for simplifying programs by focusing on selected aspects of their behavior.Current mainstream static slicing methods operate on dependence graph PDG(program dependence graph)or SDG(system dependence graph),but these friendly graph representations may be a bit expensive for some users.In this paper we attempt to study a light-weight approach of static program slicing,called Symbolic Program Slicing(SymPas),which works as a dataflow analysis on LLVM(low-level virtual machine).In our SymPas approach,slices are stored in symbolic forms,not in procedures being re-analyzed(cf.procedure summaries).Instead of re-analyzing a procedure multiple times to find its slices for each callling context,we calculate a single symbolic slice which can be instantiated at call sites avoiding re-analysis;SymPas is implemented with LLVM to perform slicing on LLVM intermediate representation(IR).For comparison,we systematically adapt IFDS(interprocedural finite distributive subset)analysis and the SDG-based slicing method(SDGIFDS)to statically slice IR programs.Evaluated on open-source and benchmark programs,our backward SymPas shows a factor-of-6 reduction in time cost and a factor-of-4 reduction in space cost,compared with backward SDG-IFDS,thus being more efficient.In addition,the result shows that after studying slices from 66 programs,ranging up to 336800 IR instructions in size,SymPas is highly size-scalable.
文摘国防科技大学自主研制的高性能加速器采用中央处理器(CPU)+通用数字信号处理器(GPDSP)的片上异构融合架构,使用超长指令集(VLIW)+单指令多数据流(SIMD)的向量化结构的GPDSP是峰值性能主要支撑的加速核。主流编译器在密集的数据计算指令排布、为指令静态分配硬件执行单元、GPDSP特有的向量指令等方面不能很好地支持高性能加速器。基于低级虚拟器(LLVM)编译框架,在前寄存器分配调度阶段,结合峰值寄存器压力感知方法(PERP)、蚁群优化(ACO)算法与GPDSP结构特点,优化代价模型,设计支持寄存器压力感知的指令调度模块;在后寄存器分配阶段提出支持静态功能单元分配的指令调度策略,通过冲突检测机制保证功能单元分配的正确性,为指令并行执行提供软件基础;在后端封装一系列丰富且规整的向量指令接口,实现对GPDSP向量指令的支持。实验结果表明,所提出的LLVM编译架构优化方法从功能和性能上实现了对GPDSP的良好支撑,GCC testsuite测试整体性能平均加速比为4.539,SPEC CPU 2017浮点测试整体性能平均加速比为4.49,SPEC CPU 2017整型测试整体性能平均加速比为3.24,使用向量接口的向量程序实现了平均97.1%的性能提升率。
