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Reenable dedup optimization for all AOT modes #20936

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As part of the fix for: dotnet/runtime#99248 we disabled dedup optimization in partial/hybrid AOT mode (when both interpreter and AOT compiler are enabled). This change got backported to .NET 8 and with the latest servicing release regressed build times and app sizes significantly as reported in: #20848

However, it turns out that disabling dedup optimization is not required to fix dotnet/runtime#99248 but instead we should correct the Xamarin SDK integration with this optimization which this PR is doing. The following section describes the initial problem in more details.

Overview of AOT modes and dedup optimization

When the repro project from dotnet/runtime#99248 is built with dedup enabled in hybrid AOT+interpreter mode, the app crashes with:

024-07-23 14:32:37.524110+0200 IvansApp[12711:20244208] debug: AOT NOT FOUND: (wrapper other) object:gsharedvt_out_sig (intptr).
2024-07-23 14:32:37.524120+0200 IvansApp[12711:20244208] error: * Assertion at /Users/ivan/repos/runtime-mono-iOS/src/mono/mono/mini/interp/interp.c:2667, condition `is_ok (error)' not met, function:init_jit_call_info, Attempting to JIT compile method '(wrapper other) void object:gsharedvt_out_sig (intptr)' while running in aot-only mode. See https://learn.microsoft.com/xamarin/ios/internals/limitations for more information.

To track down why these wrappers which are used to transition from interpreter to AOT code, are not generated we need to understand when they are compiled in different AOT modes with and without dedup optimization enabled:

  • In full AOT setup - all assemblies AOT compiled

    • gsharedvt_out_sig methods are never generated
  • In hybrid AOT + interpreter setup - all assemblies AOT compiled: MtouchInterpreter=-all

    • Dedup OFF:
      • gsharedvt_out_sig methods are generated in AOT images of every assembly (to enable interpreter calling into each specific assembly - here wrappers with same signatures are duplicated)
    • Dedup ON:
      • gsharedvt_out_sig methods are generated only in aot-instances AOT image
        • during AOT compilation of individual assemblies generation of gsharedvt_out_sig is skipped
        • during AOT compilation of aot-instances assembly we collect all gsharedvt_out_sig variants from the full program scope and generate code for them in aot-instances AOT image
  • In hybrid AOT + interpreter setup - all assemblies interpreted except a given assembly: MtouchInterpreter=all,-MyAssembly

    • Dedup OFF:
      • gsharedvt_out_sig methods are generated in AOT image of MyAssembly (to enable interpreter calling into it)
    • Dedup ON: <- $${\color{red} ISSUE }$$
      • gsharedvt_out_sig methods should be generated only in aot-instances AOT image, but the aot-instances image is missing
    • explanation:
      • what happens is that generation of gsharedvt_out_sig is skipped during AOT compilation of MyAssembly (as expected).
      • But, the build does not mark aot-instances assembly as the one that should be AOT compiled.
      • The reason for this is that we have a global _IsDedupEnabled flag, but when custom linker step analysis aot-instances.dll it does not see it as an assembly which should not be interpreted.
      • To explain that better: we mark all assemblies as to be interpreted (via: MtouchInterpreter=all), but exclude only MyAssembly (via: MtouchInterpreter=all,-MyAssembly).
      • So when custom linker step processes aot-instaces.dll it treats it as an assembly to be interpreted, so it does not mark it for AOT compilation.
      • This further results with aot-instances AOT image missing, and all the methods which we skipped during AOT compilation never get generated.

The fix

To fix this and address regressions reported in: #20848 we are reenabling dedup optimization whenever AOT compilation is requested and fixing the issue where the custom linker step for generating AOT parameters always treates the dedup assembly as the one to be AOTed.

Once approved this should be backported to .NET 8 as servicing releases are also affected with it.

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Thanks a lot for this! Looking good! 👍

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Backport Job to branch net9.0 Created! The magic is happening here

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…odes (#20940)

## Description

As part of the fix for: dotnet/runtime#99248
we disabled dedup optimization in partial/hybrid AOT mode (when both
interpreter and AOT compiler are enabled). This change got backported to
.NET 8 and with the latest servicing release regressed build times and
app sizes significantly as reported in:
#20848

However, it turns out that disabling dedup optimization is not required
to fix dotnet/runtime#99248 but instead we
should correct the Xamarin SDK integration with this optimization which
this PR is doing. The following section describes the initial problem in
more details.

## Overview of AOT modes and dedup optimization

When the repro project from
dotnet/runtime#99248 is built with dedup
enabled in hybrid AOT+interpreter mode, the app crashes with:
```
024-07-23 14:32:37.524110+0200 IvansApp[12711:20244208] debug: AOT NOT FOUND: (wrapper other) object:gsharedvt_out_sig (intptr).
2024-07-23 14:32:37.524120+0200 IvansApp[12711:20244208] error: * Assertion at /Users/ivan/repos/runtime-mono-iOS/src/mono/mono/mini/interp/interp.c:2667, condition `is_ok (error)' not met, function:init_jit_call_info, Attempting to JIT compile method '(wrapper other) void object:gsharedvt_out_sig (intptr)' while running in aot-only mode. See https://learn.microsoft.com/xamarin/ios/internals/limitations for more information.
```

To track down why these wrappers which are used to transition from
interpreter to AOT code, are not generated we need to understand when
they are compiled in different AOT modes with and without dedup
optimization enabled:

- In full AOT setup - all assemblies AOT compiled
    - `gsharedvt_out_sig` methods are never generated

- In hybrid AOT + interpreter setup - all assemblies AOT compiled:
`MtouchInterpreter=-all`
    - Dedup OFF:
- `gsharedvt_out_sig` methods are generated in AOT images of every
assembly (to enable interpreter calling into each specific assembly -
here wrappers with same signatures are duplicated)
    - Dedup ON:
- `gsharedvt_out_sig` methods are generated only in `aot-instances` AOT
image
- during AOT compilation of individual assemblies generation of
`gsharedvt_out_sig` is skipped
- during AOT compilation of `aot-instances` assembly we collect all
`gsharedvt_out_sig` variants from the full program scope and generate
code for them in `aot-instances` AOT image

- In hybrid AOT + interpreter setup - all assemblies interpreted except
a given assembly: `MtouchInterpreter=all,-MyAssembly`
    - Dedup OFF:
- `gsharedvt_out_sig` methods are generated in AOT image of `MyAssembly`
(to enable interpreter calling into it)
    - Dedup ON: <- $${\color{red} ISSUE }$$ 
- `gsharedvt_out_sig` methods *should* be generated only in
`aot-instances` AOT image, but the `aot-instances` image is missing
    - explanation:
- what happens is that generation of `gsharedvt_out_sig` is skipped
during AOT compilation of `MyAssembly` (as expected).
- But, the build does not mark `aot-instances` assembly as the one that
should be AOT compiled.
- The reason for this is that we have a global `_IsDedupEnabled` flag,
but when custom linker step analysis `aot-instances.dll` it does not see
it as an assembly which should not be interpreted.
- To explain that better: we mark *all* assemblies as to be interpreted
(via: `MtouchInterpreter=all`), but exclude only `MyAssembly` (via:
`MtouchInterpreter=all,-MyAssembly`).
- So when custom linker step processes `aot-instaces.dll` it treats it
as an assembly to be interpreted, so it does not mark it for AOT
compilation.
- This further results with `aot-instances` AOT image missing, and all
the methods which we skipped during AOT compilation never get generated.

## The fix

To fix this and address regressions reported in:
#20848 we are reenabling
dedup optimization whenever AOT compilation is requested and fixing the
issue where the custom linker step for generating AOT parameters always
treates the dedup assembly as the one to be AOTed.

Once approved this should be backported to .NET 8 as servicing releases
are also affected with it.


Backport of #20936

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Co-authored-by: Ivan Povazan <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: GitHub Actions Autoformatter <[email protected]>
dalexsoto added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 26, 2024
Backport of #20936

---

## Description

As part of the fix for: dotnet/runtime#99248
we disabled dedup optimization in partial/hybrid AOT mode (when both
interpreter and AOT compiler are enabled). This change got backported to
.NET 8 and with the latest servicing release regressed build times and
app sizes significantly as reported in:
#20848

However, it turns out that disabling dedup optimization is not required
to fix dotnet/runtime#99248 but instead we
should correct the Xamarin SDK integration with this optimization which
this PR is doing. The following section describes the initial problem in
more details.

## Overview of AOT modes and dedup optimization

When the repro project from
dotnet/runtime#99248 is built with dedup
enabled in hybrid AOT+interpreter mode, the app crashes with:
```
024-07-23 14:32:37.524110+0200 IvansApp[12711:20244208] debug: AOT NOT FOUND: (wrapper other) object:gsharedvt_out_sig (intptr).
2024-07-23 14:32:37.524120+0200 IvansApp[12711:20244208] error: * Assertion at /Users/ivan/repos/runtime-mono-iOS/src/mono/mono/mini/interp/interp.c:2667, condition `is_ok (error)' not met, function:init_jit_call_info, Attempting to JIT compile method '(wrapper other) void object:gsharedvt_out_sig (intptr)' while running in aot-only mode. See https://learn.microsoft.com/xamarin/ios/internals/limitations for more information.
```

To track down why these wrappers which are used to transition from
interpreter to AOT code, are not generated we need to understand when
they are compiled in different AOT modes with and without dedup
optimization enabled:

- In full AOT setup - all assemblies AOT compiled
    - `gsharedvt_out_sig` methods are never generated

- In hybrid AOT + interpreter setup - all assemblies AOT compiled:
`MtouchInterpreter=-all`
    - Dedup OFF:
- `gsharedvt_out_sig` methods are generated in AOT images of every
assembly (to enable interpreter calling into each specific assembly -
here wrappers with same signatures are duplicated)
    - Dedup ON:
- `gsharedvt_out_sig` methods are generated only in `aot-instances` AOT
image
- during AOT compilation of individual assemblies generation of
`gsharedvt_out_sig` is skipped
- during AOT compilation of `aot-instances` assembly we collect all
`gsharedvt_out_sig` variants from the full program scope and generate
code for them in `aot-instances` AOT image

- In hybrid AOT + interpreter setup - all assemblies interpreted except
a given assembly: `MtouchInterpreter=all,-MyAssembly`
    - Dedup OFF:
- `gsharedvt_out_sig` methods are generated in AOT image of `MyAssembly`
(to enable interpreter calling into it)
    - Dedup ON: <- $${\color{red} ISSUE }$$ 
- `gsharedvt_out_sig` methods *should* be generated only in
`aot-instances` AOT image, but the `aot-instances` image is missing
    - explanation:
- what happens is that generation of `gsharedvt_out_sig` is skipped
during AOT compilation of `MyAssembly` (as expected).
- But, the build does not mark `aot-instances` assembly as the one that
should be AOT compiled.
- The reason for this is that we have a global `_IsDedupEnabled` flag,
but when custom linker step analysis `aot-instances.dll` it does not see
it as an assembly which should not be interpreted.
- To explain that better: we mark *all* assemblies as to be interpreted
(via: `MtouchInterpreter=all`), but exclude only `MyAssembly` (via:
`MtouchInterpreter=all,-MyAssembly`).
- So when custom linker step processes `aot-instaces.dll` it treats it
as an assembly to be interpreted, so it does not mark it for AOT
compilation.
- This further results with `aot-instances` AOT image missing, and all
the methods which we skipped during AOT compilation never get generated.

## The fix

To fix this and address regressions reported in:
#20848 we are reenabling
dedup optimization whenever AOT compilation is requested and fixing the
issue where the custom linker step for generating AOT parameters always
treates the dedup assembly as the one to be AOTed.

Once approved this should be backported to .NET 8 as servicing releases
are also affected with it.

---------

Co-authored-by: Ivan Povazan <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: GitHub Actions Autoformatter <[email protected]>
dalexsoto added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 26, 2024
…talyst-x64` (#20946)

Backport of #20945

---

## Description

This is a follow-up PR to:
#20936

We should not enable dedup when targeting `maccatalyst-x64` because in
case when the project file specifies
`MtouchInterpreter=all,-System.Private.CoreLib`, the build will run the
full AOT compiler with interpreter enabled.

In this setup the runtime is configured to run in interp only mode:
https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/blob/97a91cc4e3bf7cf8a4c657ca00ece620f2e28e91/tools/common/Target.cs#L812-L813

which means that during runtime, AOT images will be ignored - aot
runtime will load them but mark them as unusuable since they are
compiled with `full` compiler switch and the code falls back to
interpreter (ref:
https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/efebf202a4a9bd78702bf4bf28a027f093e15d89/src/mono/mono/mini/aot-runtime.c#L2131-L2148
)

This is problematic for the `aot-instances` container image, which has a
special handling at the runtime and does not accept it to be marked as
unusable (we might want to revisit this in the future):

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/efebf202a4a9bd78702bf4bf28a027f093e15d89/src/mono/mono/mini/aot-runtime.c#L2527-L2529

## Changes

This PR disables dedup optimization when targeting `maccatalyst-x64` and
updates the required tests to match the behavior.

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Co-authored-by: Ivan Povazan <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: GitHub Actions Autoformatter <[email protected]>
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## Description

This is a follow-up PR to:
#20936

We should not enable dedup when targeting `maccatalyst-x64` because in
case when the project file specifies
`MtouchInterpreter=all,-System.Private.CoreLib`, the build will run the
full AOT compiler with interpreter enabled.

In this setup the runtime is configured to run in interp only mode:
https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/blob/97a91cc4e3bf7cf8a4c657ca00ece620f2e28e91/tools/common/Target.cs#L812-L813

which means that during runtime, AOT images will be ignored - aot
runtime will load them but mark them as unusuable since they are
compiled with `full` compiler switch and the code falls back to
interpreter (ref:
https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/efebf202a4a9bd78702bf4bf28a027f093e15d89/src/mono/mono/mini/aot-runtime.c#L2131-L2148
)

This is problematic for the `aot-instances` container image, which has a
special handling at the runtime and does not accept it to be marked as
unusable (we might want to revisit this in the future):

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/efebf202a4a9bd78702bf4bf28a027f093e15d89/src/mono/mono/mini/aot-runtime.c#L2527-L2529

## Changes

This PR disables dedup optimization when targeting `maccatalyst-x64` and
updates the required tests to match the behavior.

---

Backports:

- [x] #20946
- [x] Original reenabling of dedup for .NET 9 already includes these
changes: #20941

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## Description

As part of the fix for: dotnet/runtime#99248
we disabled dedup optimization in partial/hybrid AOT mode (when both
interpreter and AOT compiler are enabled). This change got backported to
.NET 8 and with the latest servicing release regressed build times and
app sizes significantly as reported in:
#20848

However, it turns out that disabling dedup optimization is not required
to fix dotnet/runtime#99248 but instead we
should correct the Xamarin SDK integration with this optimization which
this PR is doing. The following section describes the initial problem in
more details.

## Overview of AOT modes and dedup optimization

When the repro project from
dotnet/runtime#99248 is built with dedup
enabled in hybrid AOT+interpreter mode, the app crashes with:
```
024-07-23 14:32:37.524110+0200 IvansApp[12711:20244208] debug: AOT NOT FOUND: (wrapper other) object:gsharedvt_out_sig (intptr).
2024-07-23 14:32:37.524120+0200 IvansApp[12711:20244208] error: * Assertion at /Users/ivan/repos/runtime-mono-iOS/src/mono/mono/mini/interp/interp.c:2667, condition `is_ok (error)' not met, function:init_jit_call_info, Attempting to JIT compile method '(wrapper other) void object:gsharedvt_out_sig (intptr)' while running in aot-only mode. See https://learn.microsoft.com/xamarin/ios/internals/limitations for more information.
```

To track down why these wrappers which are used to transition from
interpreter to AOT code, are not generated we need to understand when
they are compiled in different AOT modes with and without dedup
optimization enabled:

- In full AOT setup - all assemblies AOT compiled
    - `gsharedvt_out_sig` methods are never generated

- In hybrid AOT + interpreter setup - all assemblies AOT compiled:
`MtouchInterpreter=-all`
    - Dedup OFF:
- `gsharedvt_out_sig` methods are generated in AOT images of every
assembly (to enable interpreter calling into each specific assembly -
here wrappers with same signatures are duplicated)
    - Dedup ON:
- `gsharedvt_out_sig` methods are generated only in `aot-instances` AOT
image
- during AOT compilation of individual assemblies generation of
`gsharedvt_out_sig` is skipped
- during AOT compilation of `aot-instances` assembly we collect all
`gsharedvt_out_sig` variants from the full program scope and generate
code for them in `aot-instances` AOT image

- In hybrid AOT + interpreter setup - all assemblies interpreted except
a given assembly: `MtouchInterpreter=all,-MyAssembly`
    - Dedup OFF:
- `gsharedvt_out_sig` methods are generated in AOT image of `MyAssembly`
(to enable interpreter calling into it)
    - Dedup ON: <- $${\color{red} ISSUE }$$ 
- `gsharedvt_out_sig` methods *should* be generated only in
`aot-instances` AOT image, but the `aot-instances` image is missing
    - explanation:
- what happens is that generation of `gsharedvt_out_sig` is skipped
during AOT compilation of `MyAssembly` (as expected).
- But, the build does not mark `aot-instances` assembly as the one that
should be AOT compiled.
- The reason for this is that we have a global `_IsDedupEnabled` flag,
but when custom linker step analysis `aot-instances.dll` it does not see
it as an assembly which should not be interpreted.
- To explain that better: we mark *all* assemblies as to be interpreted
(via: `MtouchInterpreter=all`), but exclude only `MyAssembly` (via:
`MtouchInterpreter=all,-MyAssembly`).
- So when custom linker step processes `aot-instaces.dll` it treats it
as an assembly to be interpreted, so it does not mark it for AOT
compilation.
- This further results with `aot-instances` AOT image missing, and all
the methods which we skipped during AOT compilation never get generated.

## The fix

To fix this and address regressions reported in:
#20848 we are reenabling
dedup optimization whenever AOT compilation is requested and fixing the
issue where the custom linker step for generating AOT parameters always
treates the dedup assembly as the one to be AOTed.

Once approved this should be backported to .NET 8 as servicing releases
are also affected with it.

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Co-authored-by: GitHub Actions Autoformatter <[email protected]>
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