Today, text section prefixes (none, .unlikely, .hot, and .unkown) are determined based on PGO profile. However, Propeller may deem a function hot when PGO doesn't. Besides, when -Wl,-keep-text-section-prefix=true Propeller cannot enforce a global section ordering as the linker can only reorder sections within each output section (.text, .text.hot, .text.unlikely).
This patch promotes all functions with Propeller profiles (functions listed in the basic-block-sections profile) to .text.hot. The feature is hidden behind the flag --bbsections-guided-section-prefix which defaults to true.
The new implementation refactors the parsing of basic block sections profile into a new BasicBlockSectionsProfileReader analysis pass. This allows us to use the information earlier in CodeGenPrepare in order to set the functions text prefix. BasicBlockSectionsProfileReader will be used both by BasicBlockSections pass and CodeGenPrepare.
Maybe add more details in help message - "Other functions won't be impacted, i.e., their prefixes are decided by FDO/AutoFDO profile."