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> On 2 Jun 2026, at 11:16 am, Kugan Vivekanandarajah <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
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> Ping?
> 
> Thanks
> Kugan
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>> On 19 May 2026, at 10:30 am, Kugan Vivekanandarajah 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> 
>> This is another attempt to prevent head_count of 0 with AFDO profile. This 
>> is causing ICE with LTO:
>> 
>> during IPA pass: modref
>> lto1: internal compiler error: in apply_scale, at profile-count.h:1192
>> 0x2292433 internal_error(char const*, ...)
>> /var/jenkins/workspace/GCC_oss-main/gcc/diagnostic-global-context.cc:787
>> 0x8a2ba7 fancy_abort(char const*, int, char const*)
>> /var/jenkins/workspace/GCC_oss-main/gcc/diagnostics/context.cc:1813
>> 0x98efcf profile_count::apply_scale(profile_count, profile_count) const
>> /var/jenkins/workspace/GCC_oss-main/gcc/profile-count.h:1192
>> 0xd2536f ipa_merge_profiles(cgraph_node*, cgraph_node*, bool)
>> /var/jenkins/workspace/GCC_oss-main/gcc/ipa-utils.cc:637
>> 0x8fc01b lto_symtab_merge_symbols_1
>> /var/jenkins/workspace/GCC_oss-main/gcc/lto/lto-symtab.cc:934
>> 0x8fc01b lto_symtab_merge_symbols()
>> /var/jenkins/workspace/GCC_oss-main/gcc/lto/lto-symtab.cc:996
>> 0x90b7f7 read_cgraph_and_symbols(unsigned int, char const**)
>> /var/jenkins/workspace/GCC_oss-main/gcc/lto/lto-common.cc:3003
>> 0x8e8abf lto_main()
>> /var/jenkins/workspace/GCC_oss-main/gcc/lto/lto.cc:663 <http://lto.cc:663/>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> When afdo_adjust_guessed_profile runs scale_bbs, the entry block can be
>> scaled to 0 (auto FDO) while inner basic blocks keep nonzero AFDO
>> counts.
>> 
>> Example from profile annotation (stats.ii, _M_get_insert_unique_pos):
>>  ... total:264 head:-1
>>  bb 0 count updated 118111600 (estimated locally) -> 0 (auto FDO)
>> Example ICE at LTO (WPA merge of comdat clones):
>>  Merging profiles of _M_get_insert_unique_pos/10 count:64711123189
>> (auto FDO)
>>                      to _M_get_insert_unique_pos/1 count:0 (auto FDO)
>>  during IPA pass: modref
>>  lto1: internal compiler error: in apply_scale, at profile-count.h:1192
>>    ipa_merge_profiles (dstnum, dstden)
>> 
>> Fix by calling afdo_fixup_entry_after_scale immediately after each
>> scale_bbs in afdo_adjust_guessed_profile when max_count_in_fn is nonzero
>> but the entry block count is still zero.
>> 
>> gcc/ChangeLog:
>>  * auto-profile.cc (afdo_fixup_entry_after_scale): New.
>>  (afdo_adjust_guessed_profile): Call it after scale_bbs.
>> 
>> Regression tested on aarch64-linux-gnu with no new regressions. Is this OK 
>> for trunk?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Kugan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> <0001-AutoFDO-Do-not-leave-entry-block-at-zero-after-guess.patch>
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