Re: LLVM 16 (opaque pointers)

Mark Wong <markwkm@gmail.com>

From: Mark Wong <markwkm@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Ronan Dunklau <ronan.dunklau@aiven.io>, Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Date: 2023-10-23T23:05:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. jit: Adjust back-patch of f90b4a84 to 12 and 13.

  2. Log LLVM library version in configure output.

  3. jit: Changes for LLVM 17.

  4. jit: Supply LLVMGlobalGetValueType() for LLVM < 8.

  5. jit: Support opaque pointers in LLVM 16.

  6. jit: Reference function pointer types via llvmjit_types.c.

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 10:17:22AM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 4:27 AM Mark Wong <markwkm@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I haven't gotten around to disabling llvm on any of my animals with llvm
> > < 7 yet.  Do you still want to hold on that?
> 
> Yes, please disable --with-llvm on s390x and POWER animals with LLVM <
> 7 (see below).  Also, you have a bunch of machines with LLVM 16 that
> are failing to compile on REL_11_STABLE.  That is expected, because we
> agreed not to back-patch the LLVM 16 API changes into REL_11_STABLE:
> 
> > kingsnake: 16.0.6 Fedora Linux 38
> > krait: CentOS 16.0.6 Stream 8
> > lancehead: CentOS 16.0.6 Stream 8

I should have updated these to not use --with-llvm for REL_11_STABLE.

> These POWER machines fail as expected, and it's unfixable:
> 
> > elasmobranch: 5.0.1 openSUSE Leap 15.0
> > demoiselle: 5.0.1 openSUSE Leap 15.0
> > cavefish: 6.0.0 Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS

These should now be updated to not use --with-llvm at all.

> These s390x animals are failing, but don't show the layout complaint.
> I can see that LLVM 6 also lacked a case for s390x in
> llvm::orc::createLocalIndirectStubsManagerBuilder(), the thing that
> was fixed in 7 with the addition of a default case.  Therefore these
> presumably fail just like old LLVM on POWER, and it's unfixable.  So I
> suggest turning off --with-llvm on these two:
> 
> > cotinga: 6.0.0 Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS
> > perch: 6.0.0 Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS

Ok, I should have removed --with-llvm here too.

> This s390x animal doesn't actually have --with-llvm enabled so it
> passes, but surely it'd be just like lora:
> 
> > mamushi: 15.0.7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2

Oops, I think I added it now.


I think I made all the recommended changes, and trimmed out the lines
where I didn't need to do anything. :)

Andres pointed out to me that my animals aren't set up to collect core
file so I'm also trying to update that too...

Regards,
Mark