Document legacy pass manager extension points

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D64093

llvm-svn: 365142

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.rst b/llvm/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.rst
index 7e2cabb9e8f..386f3d61d0e 100644
--- a/llvm/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.rst
+++ b/llvm/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.rst
@@ -178,6 +178,18 @@ without modifying it then the third argument is set to ``true``; if a pass is
 an analysis pass, for example dominator tree pass, then ``true`` is supplied as
 the fourth argument.
 
+If we want to register the pass as a step of an existing pipeline, some extension
+points are provided, e.g. ``PassManagerBuilder::EP_EarlyAsPossible`` to apply our
+pass before any optimization, or ``PassManagerBuilder::EP_FullLinkTimeOptimizationLast``
+to apply it after Link Time Optimizations.
+
+.. code-block:: c++
+
+    static llvm::RegisterStandardPasses Y(
+        llvm::PassManagerBuilder::EP_EarlyAsPossible,
+        [](const llvm::PassManagerBuilder &Builder,
+           llvm::legacy::PassManagerBase &PM) { PM.add(new Hello()); });
+
 As a whole, the ``.cpp`` file looks like:
 
 .. code-block:: c++
@@ -185,9 +197,12 @@ As a whole, the ``.cpp`` file looks like:
   #include "llvm/Pass.h"
   #include "llvm/IR/Function.h"
   #include "llvm/Support/raw_ostream.h"
-  
+
+  #include "llvm/IR/LegacyPassManager.h"
+  #include "llvm/Transforms/IPO/PassManagerBuilder.h"
+
   using namespace llvm;
-  
+
   namespace {
   struct Hello : public FunctionPass {
     static char ID;
@@ -200,12 +215,17 @@ As a whole, the ``.cpp`` file looks like:
     }
   }; // end of struct Hello
   }  // end of anonymous namespace
-  
+
   char Hello::ID = 0;
   static RegisterPass<Hello> X("hello", "Hello World Pass",
                                false /* Only looks at CFG */,
                                false /* Analysis Pass */);
 
+  static RegisterStandardPasses Y(
+      PassManagerBuilder::EP_EarlyAsPossible,
+      [](const PassManagerBuilder &Builder,
+         legacy::PassManagerBase &PM) { PM.add(new Hello()); });
+
 Now that it's all together, compile the file with a simple "``gmake``" command
 from the top level of your build directory and you should get a new file
 "``lib/LLVMHello.so``".  Note that everything in this file is