Use a combination of !associated, comdat, @llvm.compiler.used and
custom sections to allow dead stripping of globals and their asan
metadata. Sometimes.
Currently this works on LLD, which supports SHF_LINK_ORDER with
sh_link pointing to the associated section.
This also works on BFD, which seems to treat comdats as
all-or-nothing with respect to linker GC. There is a weird quirk
where the "first" global in each link is never GC-ed because of the
section symbols.
At this moment it does not work on Gold (as in the globals are never
stripped).
This is a second re-land of r298158. This time, this feature is
limited to -fdata-sections builds.
llvm-svn: 301587
When possible, put ASan ctor/dtor in comdat.
The only reason not to is global registration, which can be
TU-specific. This is not the case when there are no instrumented
globals. This is also limited to ELF targets, because MachO does
not have comdat, and COFF linkers may GC comdat constructors.
The benefit of this is a lot less __asan_init() calls: one per DSO
instead of one per TU. It's also necessary for the upcoming
gc-sections-for-globals change on Linux, where multiple references to
section start symbols trigger quadratic behaviour in gold linker.
This is a second re-land of r298756. This time with a flag to disable
the whole thing to avoid a bug in the gold linker:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19002
llvm-svn: 301586
When possible, put ASan ctor/dtor in comdat.
The only reason not to is global registration, which can be
TU-specific. This is not the case when there are no instrumented
globals. This is also limited to ELF targets, because MachO does
not have comdat, and COFF linkers may GC comdat constructors.
The benefit of this is a lot less __asan_init() calls: one per DSO
instead of one per TU. It's also necessary for the upcoming
gc-sections-for-globals change on Linux, where multiple references to
section start symbols trigger quadratic behaviour in gold linker.
This is a rebase of r298756.
llvm-svn: 299696
When possible, put ASan ctor/dtor in comdat.
The only reason not to is global registration, which can be
TU-specific. This is not the case when there are no instrumented
globals. This is also limited to ELF targets, because MachO does
not have comdat, and COFF linkers may GC comdat constructors.
The benefit of this is a lot less __asan_init() calls: one per DSO
instead of one per TU. It's also necessary for the upcoming
gc-sections-for-globals change on Linux, where multiple references to
section start symbols trigger quadratic behaviour in gold linker.
llvm-svn: 298756
Evgeniy Stepanov