LLVM-PROFDATA(1) LLVM LLVM-PROFDATA(1) NAME llvm-profdata - Profile data tool SYNOPSIS llvm-profdata command [args...] DESCRIPTION The llvm-profdata tool is a small utility for working with profile data files. COMMANDS * merge * show * overlap * order MERGE SYNOPSIS llvm-profdata merge [options] [filename...] DESCRIPTION llvm-profdata merge takes several profile data files generated by PGO in- strumentation and merges them together into a single indexed profile data file. By default profile data is merged without modification. This means that the relative importance of each input file is proportional to the number of samples or counts it contains. In general, the input from a longer training run will be interpreted as relatively more important than a shorter run. Depending on the nature of the training runs it may be useful to adjust the weight given to each input file by using the -weighted-input option. Profiles passed in via -weighted-input, -input-files, or via positional ar- guments are processed once for each time they are seen. OPTIONS --help Print a summary of command line options. --output=<output>, -o Specify the output file name. Output cannot be - as the resulting indexed profile data can't be written to standard output. --weighted-input=<weight,filename> Specify an input file name along with a weight. The profile counts of the supplied filename will be scaled (multiplied) by the supplied weight, where weight is a decimal integer >= 1. Input files speci- fied without using this option are assigned a default weight of 1. Examples are shown below. --input-files=<path>, -f Specify a file which contains a list of files to merge. The entries in this file are newline-separated. Lines starting with '#' are skipped. Entries may be of the form <filename> or <weight>,<file- name>. --remapping-file=<path>, -r Specify a file which contains a remapping from symbol names in the input profile to the symbol names that should be used in the output profile. The file should consist of lines of the form <input-symbol> <output-symbol>. Blank lines and lines starting with # are skipped. The llvm-cxxmap tool can be used to generate the symbol remapping file. --instr (default) Specify that the input profile is an instrumentation-based profile. --sample Specify that the input profile is a sample-based profile. The format of the generated file can be generated in one of three ways: --binary (default) Emit the profile using a binary encoding. For instrumentation-based profile the output format is the indexed binary format. --extbinary Emit the profile using an extensible binary encoding. This option can only be used with sample-based profile. The extensible binary encoding can be more compact with compression enabled and can be loaded faster than the default binary encoding. --text Emit the profile in text mode. This option can also be used with both sample-based and instrumentation-based profile. When this op- tion is used the profile will be dumped in the text format that is parsable by the profile reader. --gcc Emit the profile using GCC's gcov format (Not yet supported). --sparse[=true|false] Do not emit function records with 0 execution count. Can only be used in conjunction with -instr. Defaults to false, since it can in- hibit compiler optimization during PGO. --num-threads=<N>, -j Use N threads to perform profile merging. When N=0, llvm-profdata auto-detects an appropriate number of threads to use. This is the default. --failure-mode=[any|all] Set the failure mode. There are two options: 'any' causes the merge command to fail if any profiles are invalid, and 'all' causes the merge command to fail only if all profiles are invalid. If 'all' is set, information from any invalid profiles is excluded from the fi- nal merged product. The default failure mode is 'any'. --prof-sym-list=<path> Specify a file which contains a list of symbols to generate profile symbol list in the profile. This option can only be used with sam- ple-based profile in extbinary format. The entries in this file are newline-separated. --compress-all-sections=[true|false] Compress all sections when writing the profile. This option can only be used with sample-based profile in extbinary format. --use-md5=[true|false] Use MD5 to represent string in name table when writing the profile. This option can only be used with sample-based profile in extbinary format. --gen-partial-profile=[true|false] Mark the profile to be a partial profile which only provides partial profile coverage for the optimized target. This option can only be used with sample-based profile in extbinary format. --split-layout=[true|false] Split the profile data section to two with one containing sample profiles with inlined functions and the other not. This option can only be used with sample-based profile in extbinary format. --convert-sample-profile-layout=[nest|flat] Convert the merged profile into a profile with a new layout. Sup- ported layout are nest (Nested profile, the input should be CS flat profile) and flat (Profile with nested inlinees flattened out). --supplement-instr-with-sample=<file> Supplement an instrumentation profile with sample profile. The sam- ple profile is the input of the flag. Output will be in instrumenta- tion format (only works with -instr). --zero-counter-threshold=<float> For the function which is cold in instr profile but hot in sample profile, if the ratio of the number of zero counters divided by the total number of counters is above the threshold, the profile of the function will be regarded as being harmful for performance and will be dropped. --instr-prof-cold-threshold=<int> User specified cold threshold for instr profile which will override the cold threshold got from profile summary. --suppl-min-size-threshold=<int> If the size of a function is smaller than the threshold, assume it can be inlined by PGO early inliner and it will not be adjusted based on sample profile. --debug-info=<path> Specify the executable or .dSYM that contains debug info for the raw profile. When --debug-info-correlate or --profile-correlate=de- bug-info was used for instrumentation, use this option to correlate the raw profile. --binary-file=<path> Specify the executable that contains profile data and profile name sections for the raw profile. When -profile-correlate=binary was used for instrumentation, use this option to correlate the raw pro- file. --debuginfod Use debuginfod to find the associated executables that contain pro- file data and name sections for the raw profiles to correlate them. When -profile-correlate=binary was used for instrumentation, this option can be used for correlation. --debug-file-directory=<dir> Use provided local directories to search for executables that con- tain profile data and name sections for the raw profiles to corre- late them. When -profile-correlate=binary was used for instrumenta- tion, this option can be used for correlation. --correlate=<kind> Specify the correlation kind (debug_info or binary) to use when -de- buginfod or -debug-file-directory=<dir> option is provided. --temporal-profile-trace-reservoir-size The maximum number of temporal profile traces to be stored in the output profile. If more traces are added, we will use reservoir sam- pling to select which traces to keep. Note that changing this value between different merge invocations on the same indexed profile could result in sample bias. The default value is 100. --temporal-profile-max-trace-length The maximum number of functions in a single temporal profile trace. Longer traces will be truncated. The default value is 1000. --function=<string> Only keep functions matching the regex in the output, all others are erased from the profile. --no-function=<string> Remove functions matching the regex from the profile. If both --function and --no-function are specified and a function matches both, it is removed. EXAMPLES Basic Usage Merge three profiles: llvm-profdata merge foo.profdata bar.profdata baz.profdata -output merged.profdata Weighted Input The input file foo.profdata is especially important, multiply its counts by 10: llvm-profdata merge --weighted-input=10,foo.profdata bar.profdata baz.profdata --output merged.profdata Exactly equivalent to the previous invocation (explicit form; useful for programmatic invocation): llvm-profdata merge --weighted-input=10,foo.profdata --weighted-input=1,bar.profdata --weighted-input=1,baz.profdata --output merged.profdata SHOW SYNOPSIS llvm-profdata show [options] [filename] DESCRIPTION llvm-profdata show takes a profile data file and displays the information about the profile counters for this file and for any of the specified func- tion(s). If filename is omitted or is -, then llvm-profdata show reads its input from standard input. OPTIONS --all-functions Print details for every function. --binary-ids Print embedded binary ids in a profile. --counts Print the counter values for the displayed functions. --show-format=<text|json|yaml> Emit output in the selected format if supported by the provided pro- file type. --function=<string> Print details for a function if the function's name contains the given string. --help Print a summary of command line options. --output=<output>, -o Specify the output file name. If output is - or it isn't specified, then the output is sent to standard output. --instr (default) Specify that the input profile is an instrumentation-based profile. --text Instruct the profile dumper to show profile counts in the text for- mat of the instrumentation-based profile data representation. By de- fault, the profile information is dumped in a more human readable form (also in text) with annotations. --topn=<n> Instruct the profile dumper to show the top n functions with the hottest basic blocks in the summary section. By default, the topn functions are not dumped. --sample Specify that the input profile is a sample-based profile. --memop-sizes Show the profiled sizes of the memory intrinsic calls for shown functions. --value-cutoff=<n> Show only those functions whose max count values are greater or equal to n. By default, the value-cutoff is set to 0. --list-below-cutoff Only output names of functions whose max count value are below the cutoff value. --profile-version Print profile version. --showcs Only show context sensitive profile counts. The default is to filter all context sensitive profile counts. --show-prof-sym-list=[true|false] Show profile symbol list if it exists in the profile. This option is only meaningful for sample-based profile in extbinary format. --show-sec-info-only=[true|false] Show basic information about each section in the profile. This op- tion is only meaningful for sample-based profile in extbinary for- mat. --debug-info=<path> Specify the executable or .dSYM that contains debug info for the raw profile. When --debug-info-correlate or --profile-correlate=de- bug-info was used for instrumentation, use this option to show the correlated functions from the raw profile. --covered Show only the functions that have been executed, i.e., functions with non-zero counts. OVERLAP SYNOPSIS llvm-profdata overlap [options] [base profile file] [test profile file] DESCRIPTION llvm-profdata overlap takes two profile data files and displays the overlap of counter distribution between the whole files and between any of the specified functions. In this command, overlap is defined as follows: Suppose base profile file has the following counts: {c1_1, c1_2, ..., c1_n, c1_u_1, c2_u_2, ..., c2_u_s}, and test profile file has {c2_1, c2_2, ..., c2_n, c2_v_1, c2_v_2, ..., c2_v_t}. Here c{1|2}_i (i = 1 .. n) are matched counters and c1_u_i (i = 1 .. s) and c2_v_i (i = 1 .. v) are unmatched counters (or counters only existing in) base profile file and test profile file, respectively. Let sum_1 = c1_1 + c1_2 + ... + c1_n + c1_u_1 + c2_u_2 + ... + c2_u_s, and sum_2 = c2_1 + c2_2 + ... + c2_n + c2_v_1 + c2_v_2 + ... + c2_v_t. overlap = min(c1_1/sum_1, c2_1/sum_2) + min(c1_2/sum_1, c2_2/sum_2) + ... + min(c1_n/sum_1, c2_n/sum_2). The result overlap distribution is a percentage number, ranging from 0.0% to 100.0%, where 0.0% means there is no overlap and 100.0% means a perfect overlap. Here is an example, if base profile file has counts of {400, 600}, and test profile file has matched counts of {60000, 40000}. The overlap is 80%. OPTIONS --function=<string> Print details for a function if the function's name contains the given string. --help Print a summary of command line options. --output=<output>, -o Specify the output file name. If output is - or it isn't specified, then the output is sent to standard output. --value-cutoff=<n> Show only those functions whose max count values are greater or equal to n. By default, the value-cutoff is set to max of unsigned long long. --cs Only show overlap for the context sensitive profile counts. The de- fault is to show non-context sensitive profile counts. ORDER SYNOPSIS llvm-profdata order [options] [filename] DESCRIPTION llvm-profdata order uses temporal profiling traces from a profile and finds a function order that reduces the number of page faults for those traces. This output can be directly passed to lld via --symbol-ordering-file= for ELF or -order-file for Mach-O. If the traces found in the profile are rep- resentative of the real world, then this order should improve startup per- formance. OPTIONS --help Print a summary of command line options. --output=<output>, -o Specify the output file name. If output is - or it isn't specified, then the output is sent to standard output. EXIT STATUS llvm-profdata returns 1 if the command is omitted or is invalid, if it can- not read input files, or if there is a mismatch between their data. AUTHOR Maintained by the LLVM Team (https://llvm.org/). COPYRIGHT 2003-2026, LLVM Project 21 2026-08-27 LLVM-PROFDATA(1)
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