hanchenye-llvm-project/llvm/docs
Hal Finkel 934361a4b8 Revert "r225811 - Revert "r225808 - [PowerPC] Add StackMap/PatchPoint support""
This re-applies r225808, fixed to avoid problems with SDAG dependencies along
with the preceding fix to ScheduleDAGSDNodes::RegDefIter::InitNodeNumDefs.
These problems caused the original regression tests to assert/segfault on many
(but not all) systems.

Original commit message:

This commit does two things:

 1. Refactors PPCFastISel to use more of the common infrastructure for call
    lowering (this lets us take advantage of this common code for lowering some
    common intrinsics, stackmap/patchpoint among them).

 2. Adds support for stackmap/patchpoint lowering. For the most part, this is
    very similar to the support in the AArch64 target, with the obvious differences
    (different registers, NOP instructions, etc.). The test cases are adapted
    from the AArch64 test cases.

One difference of note is that the patchpoint call sequence takes 24 bytes, so
you can't use less than that (on AArch64 you can go down to 16). Also, as noted
in the docs, we take the patchpoint address to be the actual code address
(assuming the call is local in the TOC-sharing sense), which should yield
higher performance than generating the full cross-DSO indirect-call sequence
and is likely just as useful for JITed code (if not, we'll change it).

StackMaps and Patchpoints are still marked as experimental, and so this support
is doubly experimental. So go ahead and experiment!

llvm-svn: 225909
2015-01-14 01:07:51 +00:00
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CommandGuide [llvm-symbolizer] Introduce the -dsym-hint option. 2014-10-17 00:50:19 +00:00
HistoricalNotes
TableGen Remove neverHasSideEffects support from TableGen CodeGenInstruction. Everyone should use hasSideEffects now. 2014-11-26 04:11:14 +00:00
_static
_templates
_themes/llvm-theme
tutorial The Kaleidoscope tutorial should be using "mcjit" for the library, 2015-01-08 19:07:01 +00:00
ARM-BE-bitcastfail.png [ARM64-BE] Add sphinx documentation for the ARM64 NEON implementation. 2014-05-12 15:13:39 +00:00
ARM-BE-bitcastsuccess.png [ARM64-BE] Add sphinx documentation for the ARM64 NEON implementation. 2014-05-12 15:13:39 +00:00
ARM-BE-ld1.png [ARM64-BE] Add sphinx documentation for the ARM64 NEON implementation. 2014-05-12 15:13:39 +00:00
ARM-BE-ldr.png [ARM64-BE] Add sphinx documentation for the ARM64 NEON implementation. 2014-05-12 15:13:39 +00:00
AliasAnalysis.rst Update some AliasAnalysis pass docs for getAdjustedAnalysisPointer. 2014-05-22 19:38:25 +00:00
Atomics.rst [sphinx cleanup] Fix unexpected indentation warning introduced by r218937 2014-10-03 12:28:48 +00:00
BigEndianNEON.rst Fix typos 2014-05-15 01:52:21 +00:00
BitCodeFormat.rst Prologue support 2014-12-03 02:08:38 +00:00
BlockFrequencyTerminology.rst Fix typos 2014-05-15 01:52:21 +00:00
BranchWeightMetadata.rst blockfreq: Document BlockFrequencyInfo terminology 2014-04-11 23:21:07 +00:00
Bugpoint.rst [docs] Fix up some links to the preferred style. 2014-04-08 21:06:22 +00:00
CMake.rst Fix grammar-o. 2014-12-03 20:58:23 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt [OCaml] Move Llvm.clone_module to its own Llvm_transform_utils module. 2014-12-01 19:50:39 +00:00
CodeGenerator.rst [sphinx cleanup] 2014-09-10 20:43:03 +00:00
CodingStandards.rst Introduce Go coding standards for LLVM. 2014-10-14 00:40:53 +00:00
CommandLine.rst Update the example of using a command-line option custom parser to 2014-10-13 21:11:22 +00:00
CompilerWriterInfo.rst Update documentation with link to Sea Islands documentation 2014-10-06 18:31:09 +00:00
CoverageMappingFormat.rst Docs: add documentation for the coverage mapping format. 2014-08-19 17:05:58 +00:00
DebuggingJITedCode.rst
DeveloperPolicy.rst Document what backwards compatibility we provide for bitcode. 2014-07-23 22:43:22 +00:00
Dummy.html
ExceptionHandling.rst Exception handling docs: Clarify how the llvm.eh.* intrinsics are used 2014-03-28 17:08:57 +00:00
ExtendedIntegerResults.txt
ExtendingLLVM.rst Correct path to regression tests in ExtendingLLVM 2014-11-24 19:40:07 +00:00
Extensions.rst ARM: add VLA extension for WoA Itanium ABI 2014-06-09 20:18:42 +00:00
FAQ.rst remove an old entry whose link is broken anyway 2014-03-02 06:37:03 +00:00
GarbageCollection.rst Remove the TargetMachine forwards for TargetSubtargetInfo based 2014-08-04 21:25:23 +00:00
GetElementPtr.rst [docs] Clean up some more llvm-gcc stuff 2014-02-19 00:12:34 +00:00
GettingStarted.rst Require python 2.7. 2014-12-12 15:29:31 +00:00
GettingStartedVS.rst Require python 2.7. 2014-12-12 15:29:31 +00:00
GoldPlugin.rst Docs: give binutils/gold instructions for CMake too. 2014-11-04 02:16:03 +00:00
HowToAddABuilder.rst
HowToBuildOnARM.rst Adding some info about stability of ARM boards 2013-11-15 08:42:14 +00:00
HowToCrossCompileLLVM.rst [docs] Some typographical fixes. 2013-09-09 19:05:03 +00:00
HowToReleaseLLVM.rst docs: Update relaease documents to include the patch number in the RELEASE tags 2014-07-21 14:28:31 +00:00
HowToSetUpLLVMStyleRTTI.rst [C++11] Replace LLVM-style type traits with C++11 standard ones. 2014-03-07 14:42:25 +00:00
HowToSubmitABug.rst Delete -std-compile-opts. 2014-10-16 20:00:02 +00:00
HowToUseAttributes.rst
HowToUseInstrMappings.rst
InAlloca.rst inalloca: *Really* fix the docs 2014-03-27 01:38:48 +00:00
LLVMBuild.rst [docs] Fix some links 2014-04-07 22:46:40 +00:00
LLVMBuild.txt
LangRef.rst AsmParser/Bitcode: Add support for MDLocation 2015-01-13 21:10:44 +00:00
Lexicon.rst [docs] Document what "NFC" means in a commit message. 2014-09-06 00:19:16 +00:00
LinkTimeOptimization.rst Fix a typo in the documentation of LTO 2014-12-03 07:32:36 +00:00
MCJIT-creation.png Adding a document to describe the MCJIT execution engine implementation. 2013-08-21 22:15:09 +00:00
MCJIT-dyld-load.png Adding a document to describe the MCJIT execution engine implementation. 2013-08-21 22:15:09 +00:00
MCJIT-engine-builder.png Adding a document to describe the MCJIT execution engine implementation. 2013-08-21 22:15:09 +00:00
MCJIT-load-object.png Adding a document to describe the MCJIT execution engine implementation. 2013-08-21 22:15:09 +00:00
MCJIT-load.png Adding a document to describe the MCJIT execution engine implementation. 2013-08-21 22:15:09 +00:00
MCJIT-resolve-relocations.png Adding a document to describe the MCJIT execution engine implementation. 2013-08-21 22:15:09 +00:00
MCJITDesignAndImplementation.rst Minor typo. 2014-09-05 04:56:43 +00:00
Makefile [OCaml] PR14083, PR9606: Only pick *.odoc files from current build target. 2014-10-28 22:45:25 +00:00
Makefile.sphinx Revert "Treat warnings in Sphinx as errors. The reasons for doing this are..." 2014-07-22 18:09:17 +00:00
MakefileGuide.rst Remove projects/sample. 2014-03-12 22:40:22 +00:00
MarkedUpDisassembly.rst undo test commit (whitespace only) 2014-06-30 08:09:35 +00:00
MergeFunctions.rst Added documentation for MergeFunctions pass: 2014-12-10 17:42:01 +00:00
NVPTXUsage.rst Fix documentation typos 2013-12-20 00:33:39 +00:00
Packaging.rst
Passes.rst Added documentation for MergeFunctions pass: 2014-12-10 17:42:01 +00:00
Phabricator.rst Phabricator calls it "subscriber" not "cc" 2015-01-13 00:50:31 +00:00
ProgrammersManual.rst Update my previous commit to fit 80 cols... 2014-09-25 10:58:16 +00:00
Projects.rst Remove projects/sample. 2014-03-12 22:40:22 +00:00
R600Usage.rst R600/SI: Start implementing an assembler 2014-11-14 14:08:00 +00:00
README.txt [docs] Add a note to docs/README.txt 2014-04-22 21:47:53 +00:00
ReleaseNotes.rst Added a Mips lld milestone to the release notes for the 3.6 release. 2015-01-13 15:17:00 +00:00
ReleaseProcess.rst
SegmentedStacks.rst Move the segmented stack switch to a function attribute 2014-04-10 22:58:43 +00:00
SourceLevelDebugging.rst Update dwarf::ApplePropertyAttributes enum to meaningful values. 2014-10-08 14:59:44 +00:00
SphinxQuickstartTemplate.rst
StackMaps.rst Revert "r225811 - Revert "r225808 - [PowerPC] Add StackMap/PatchPoint support"" 2015-01-14 01:07:51 +00:00
Statepoints.rst Reformat statepoint documentation and fix a couple of typos 2015-01-02 19:46:49 +00:00
SystemLibrary.rst
TableGenFundamentals.rst Recover TableGen/LangRef, make it official 2014-04-01 09:51:49 +00:00
TestSuiteMakefileGuide.rst
TestingGuide.rst Require python 2.7. 2014-12-12 15:29:31 +00:00
Vectorizers.rst Vectorization documentation for loop hint pragmas and Rpass diagnostics. 2014-06-27 18:30:08 +00:00
WritingAnLLVMBackend.rst configure.ac lives in autoconf/, not autotools/ 2014-11-10 22:36:04 +00:00
WritingAnLLVMPass.rst docs: Modernize some examples in WritingAnLLVMPass 2014-11-18 05:22:39 +00:00
YamlIO.rst [YAML] Add an optional argument `EnumMask` to the `yaml::IO::bitSetCase()`. 2014-05-23 08:07:09 +00:00
conf.py Update LLVM version: 3.5 => 3.6 2014-07-28 22:10:52 +00:00
doxygen.cfg.in [docs] Teach CMake docs build how to generate Qt Creator help/documentation files. 2014-03-07 19:19:28 +00:00
doxygen.css
doxygen.footer Update the copyright credits -- Happy new year 2014! 2014-01-01 08:27:31 +00:00
doxygen.header
doxygen.intro
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index.rst Add link to Go bindings documentation. 2015-01-13 18:49:42 +00:00
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README.txt

LLVM Documentation
==================

LLVM's documentation is written in reStructuredText, a lightweight
plaintext markup language (file extension `.rst`). While the
reStructuredText documentation should be quite readable in source form, it
is mostly meant to be processed by the Sphinx documentation generation
system to create HTML pages which are hosted on <http://llvm.org/docs/> and
updated after every commit. Manpage output is also supported, see below.

If you instead would like to generate and view the HTML locally, install
Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org/> and then do:

    cd docs/
    make -f Makefile.sphinx
    $BROWSER _build/html/index.html

The mapping between reStructuredText files and generated documentation is
`docs/Foo.rst` <-> `_build/html/Foo.html` <-> `http://llvm.org/docs/Foo.html`.

If you are interested in writing new documentation, you will want to read
`SphinxQuickstartTemplate.rst` which will get you writing documentation
very fast and includes examples of the most important reStructuredText
markup syntax.

Manpage Output
===============

Building the manpages is similar to building the HTML documentation. The
primary difference is to use the `man` makefile target, instead of the
default (which is `html`). Sphinx then produces the man pages in the
directory `_build/man/`.

    cd docs/
    make -f Makefile.sphinx man
    man -l _build/man/FileCheck.1

The correspondence between .rst files and man pages is
`docs/CommandGuide/Foo.rst` <-> `_build/man/Foo.1`.
These .rst files are also included during HTML generation so they are also
viewable online (as noted above) at e.g.
`http://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/Foo.html`.

Checking links
==============

The reachibility of external links in the documentation can be checked by
running:

    cd docs/
    make -f Makefile.sphinx linkcheck