Re: JIT compiling with LLVM v9.0

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2018-02-02T08:50:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2018-02-02 18:22:34 +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> Is there something broken about my installation?  I see simple
> arithmetic expressions apparently compiling and working but I can
> easily find stuff that breaks... so far I think it's anything
> involving string literals:

That definitely should all work. Did you compile with lto and forced it
to internalize all symbols or such?


> postgres=# set jit_above_cost = 0;
> SET
> postgres=# select quote_ident('x');
> ERROR:  failed to resolve name MakeExpandedObjectReadOnlyInternal

...

> The clang that was used for bitcode was the system /usr/bin/clang,
> version 4.0.  Is it a problem that I used that for compiling the
> bitcode, but LLVM5 for JIT?

No, I did that locally without problems.


> I actually tried CLANG=/usr/local/llvm50/bin/clang but ran into weird
> failures I haven't got to the bottom of at ThinLink time so I couldn't
> get as far as a running system.

So you'd clang 5 level issues rather than with this patchset, do I
understand correctly?


> I installed llvm50 from a package.  I did need to make a tiny tweak by
> hand: in src/Makefile.global, llvm-config --system-libs had said
> -l/usr/lib/libexecinfo.so which wasn't linking and looks wrong to me
> so I changed it to -lexecinfo, noted that it worked and reported a bug
> upstream:  https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225621

Yea, that seems outside of my / our hands.

- Andres


Commits

  1. Improve JIT docs.

  2. Add documentation for the JIT feature.

  3. Add EXPLAIN support for JIT.

  4. Add inlining support to LLVM JIT provider.

  5. JIT tuple deforming in LLVM JIT provider.

  6. Add FIELDNO_* macro designating offset into structs required for JIT.

  7. Add expression compilation support to LLVM JIT provider.

  8. Expand list of synchronized types and functions in LLVM JIT provider.

  9. Add helpers for emitting LLVM IR.

  10. Basic planner and executor integration for JIT.

  11. Debugging and profiling support for LLVM JIT provider.

  12. Support for optimizing and emitting code in LLVM JIT provider.

  13. Add file containing extensions of the LLVM C API.

  14. Basic JIT provider and error handling infrastructure.

  15. Add configure infrastructure (--with-llvm) to enable LLVM support.

  16. Add C++ support to configure.

  17. Add PGAC_PROG_VARCC_VARFLAGS_OPT autoconf macro.

  18. Fix VM buffer pin management in heap_lock_updated_tuple_rec().

  19. Allow tupleslots to have a fixed tupledesc, use in executor nodes.

  20. Expression evaluation based aggregate transition invocation.

  21. Perform slot validity checks in a separate pass over expression.

  22. Rely on executor utils to build targetlist for DML RETURNING.

  23. Refer to OS X as "macOS", except for the port name which is still "darwin".