This patch implements a limited form of autolinking primarily designed to allow
either the --dependent-library compiler option, or "comment lib" pragmas (
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/preprocessor/comment-c-cpp?view=vs-2017) in
C/C++ e.g. #pragma comment(lib, "foo"), to cause an ELF linker to automatically
add the specified library to the link when processing the input file generated
by the compiler.
Currently this extension is unique to LLVM and LLD. However, care has been taken
to design this feature so that it could be supported by other ELF linkers.
The design goals were to provide:
- A simple linking model for developers to reason about.
- The ability to to override autolinking from the linker command line.
- Source code compatibility, where possible, with "comment lib" pragmas in other
environments (MSVC in particular).
Dependent library support is implemented differently for ELF platforms than on
the other platforms. Primarily this difference is that on ELF we pass the
dependent library specifiers directly to the linker without manipulating them.
This is in contrast to other platforms where they are mapped to a specific
linker option by the compiler. This difference is a result of the greater
variety of ELF linkers and the fact that ELF linkers tend to handle libraries in
a more complicated fashion than on other platforms. This forces us to defer
handling the specifiers to the linker.
In order to achieve a level of source code compatibility with other platforms
we have restricted this feature to work with libraries that meet the following
"reasonable" requirements:
1. There are no competing defined symbols in a given set of libraries, or
if they exist, the program owner doesn't care which is linked to their
program.
2. There may be circular dependencies between libraries.
The binary representation is a mergeable string section (SHF_MERGE,
SHF_STRINGS), called .deplibs, with custom type SHT_LLVM_DEPENDENT_LIBRARIES
(0x6fff4c04). The compiler forms this section by concatenating the arguments of
the "comment lib" pragmas and --dependent-library options in the order they are
encountered. Partial (-r, -Ur) links are handled by concatenating .deplibs
sections with the normal mergeable string section rules. As an example, #pragma
comment(lib, "foo") would result in:
.section ".deplibs","MS",@llvm_dependent_libraries,1
.asciz "foo"
For LTO, equivalent information to the contents of a the .deplibs section can be
retrieved by the LLD for bitcode input files.
LLD processes the dependent library specifiers in the following way:
1. Dependent libraries which are found from the specifiers in .deplibs sections
of relocatable object files are added when the linker decides to include that
file (which could itself be in a library) in the link. Dependent libraries
behave as if they were appended to the command line after all other options. As
a consequence the set of dependent libraries are searched last to resolve
symbols.
2. It is an error if a file cannot be found for a given specifier.
3. Any command line options in effect at the end of the command line parsing apply
to the dependent libraries, e.g. --whole-archive.
4. The linker tries to add a library or relocatable object file from each of the
strings in a .deplibs section by; first, handling the string as if it was
specified on the command line; second, by looking for the string in each of the
library search paths in turn; third, by looking for a lib<string>.a or
lib<string>.so (depending on the current mode of the linker) in each of the
library search paths.
5. A new command line option --no-dependent-libraries tells LLD to ignore the
dependent libraries.
Rationale for the above points:
1. Adding the dependent libraries last makes the process simple to understand
from a developers perspective. All linkers are able to implement this scheme.
2. Error-ing for libraries that are not found seems like better behavior than
failing the link during symbol resolution.
3. It seems useful for the user to be able to apply command line options which
will affect all of the dependent libraries. There is a potential problem of
surprise for developers, who might not realize that these options would apply
to these "invisible" input files; however, despite the potential for surprise,
this is easy for developers to reason about and gives developers the control
that they may require.
4. This algorithm takes into account all of the different ways that ELF linkers
find input files. The different search methods are tried by the linker in most
obvious to least obvious order.
5. I considered adding finer grained control over which dependent libraries were
ignored (e.g. MSVC has /nodefaultlib:<library>); however, I concluded that this
is not necessary: if finer control is required developers can fall back to using
the command line directly.
RFC thread: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-March/131004.html.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60274
llvm-svn: 360984
The 3-field form was introduced by D3499 in 2014 and the legacy 2-field
form was planned to be removed in LLVM 4.0
For the textual format, this patch migrates the existing 2-field form to
use the 3-field form and deletes the compatibility code.
test/Verifier/global-ctors-2.ll checks we have a friendly error message.
For bitcode, lib/IR/AutoUpgrade UpgradeGlobalVariables will upgrade the
2-field form (add i8* null as the third field).
Reviewed By: rnk, dexonsmith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D61547
llvm-svn: 360742
The new fptrunc and fpext intrinsics are constrained versions of the
regular fptrunc and fpext instructions.
Reviewed by: Andrew Kaylor, Craig Topper, Cameron McInally, Conner Abbot
Approved by: Craig Topper
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D55897
llvm-svn: 360581
A call to @llvm.trap can be expected to be cold (i.e. unlikely to be
reached in a normal program execution).
Outlining paths which unconditionally trap is an important memory
saving. As the hot/cold splitting pass (imho) should not treat all
noreturn calls as cold, explicitly mark @llvm.trap cold so that it can
be outlined.
Split out of https://reviews.llvm.org/D54244.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54329
llvm-svn: 346885
The plan had always been to move towards using this rather than so much
in-pass simplification within the loop pipeline, but we never got around
to it.... until only a couple months after it was removed due to disuse.
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This commit is just a pure revert of the removal. I will add tests and
do some basic cleanup in follow-up commits. Then I'll wire it into the
loop pass pipeline.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47353
llvm-svn: 333250
LoopInstSimplify is unused and untested. Reading through the commit
history the pass also seems to have a high maintenance burden.
It would be best to retire the pass for now. It should be easy to
recover if we need something similar in the future.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44053
llvm-svn: 327329
These were introduced in r323783 and use an X86 triple. I'll follow up
on the list to check if it would make more sense to remove the triple
and mark them REQUIRES: default_triple instead.
llvm-svn: 323847
Introduce an extension to support passing linker options to the linker.
These would be ignored by older linkers, but newer linkers which support
this feature would be able to process the linker.
Emit a special discarded section `.linker-option`. The content of this
section is a pair of strings (key, value). The key is a type identifier for
the parameter. This allows for an argument free parameter that will be
processed by the linker with the value being the parameter. As an example,
`lib` identifies a library to be linked against, traditionally the `-l`
argument for Unix-based linkers with the parameter being the library name.
Thanks to James Henderson, Cary Coutant, Rafael Espinolda, Sean Silva
for the valuable discussion on the design of this feature.
llvm-svn: 323783
The lowering isn't really an optimization, so optnone shouldn't make a
difference. ARM relies on the pass running when using "-mthread-model
single", because in that mode, it doesn't run AtomicExpand. See bug for
more details.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D37040
llvm-svn: 311565
It served us well, helped kick-start much of the vectorization efforts
in LLVM, etc. Its time has come and past. Back in 2014:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2014-November/079091.html
Time to actually let go and move forward. =]
I've updated the release notes both about the removal and the
deprecation of the corresponding C API.
llvm-svn: 306797
also a discussion about exactly what we should do prior to re-enabling
it.
The current bug is http://llvm.org/PR32821 and the discussion about this
is in the review thread for r300200.
llvm-svn: 301505
This commit introduces a set of experimental intrinsics intended to prevent
optimizations that make assumptions about the rounding mode and floating point
exception behavior. These intrinsics will later be extended to specify
flush-to-zero behavior. More work is also required to model instruction
dependencies in machine code and to generate these instructions from clang
(when required by pragmas and/or command line options that are not currently
supported).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27028
llvm-svn: 293226
GVN-Hoist appears to miscompile llvm-testsuite
SingleSource/Benchmarks/Misc/fbench.c at the moment.
I filed http://llvm.org/PR28880
This reverts commit r277786.
llvm-svn: 277909
Summary:
Adding a flag to diable GVN Hoisting by default.
Note: The GVN Hoist Pass causes some Halide tests to hang. Halide will disable the pass while investigating.
Reviewers: llvm-commits, chandlerc, spop, dberlin
Subscribers: mehdi_amini
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22639
llvm-svn: 276479
Summary:
The llvm.invariant.start and llvm.invariant.end intrinsics currently
support specifying invariant memory objects only in the default address
space.
With this change, these intrinsics are overloaded for any adddress space
for memory objects
and we can use these llvm invariant intrinsics in non-default address
spaces.
Example: llvm.invariant.start.p1i8(i64 4, i8 addrspace(1)* %ptr)
This overloaded intrinsic is needed for representing final or invariant
memory in managed languages.
Reviewers: apilipenko, reames
Subscribers: llvm-commits
llvm-svn: 276447
Summary:
The llvm.invariant.start and llvm.invariant.end intrinsics currently
support specifying invariant memory objects only in the default address space.
With this change, these intrinsics are overloaded for any adddress space for memory objects
and we can use these llvm invariant intrinsics in non-default address spaces.
Example: llvm.invariant.start.p1i8(i64 4, i8 addrspace(1)* %ptr)
This overloaded intrinsic is needed for representing final or invariant memory in managed languages.
Reviewers: tstellarAMD, reames, apilipenko
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22519
llvm-svn: 276316
If a local_unnamed_addr attribute is attached to a global, the address
is known to be insignificant within the module. It is distinct from the
existing unnamed_addr attribute in that it only describes a local property
of the module rather than a global property of the symbol.
This attribute is intended to be used by the code generator and LTO to allow
the linker to decide whether the global needs to be in the symbol table. It is
possible to exclude a global from the symbol table if three things are true:
- This attribute is present on every instance of the global (which means that
the normal rule that the global must have a unique address can be broken without
being observable by the program by performing comparisons against the global's
address)
- The global has linkonce_odr linkage (which means that each linkage unit must have
its own copy of the global if it requires one, and the copy in each linkage unit
must be the same)
- It is a constant or a function (which means that the program cannot observe that
the unique-address rule has been broken by writing to the global)
Although this attribute could in principle be computed from the module
contents, LTO clients (i.e. linkers) will normally need to be able to compute
this property as part of symbol resolution, and it would be inefficient to
materialize every module just to compute it.
See:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20160509/356401.htmlhttp://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20160516/356738.html
for earlier discussion.
Part of the fix for PR27553.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D20348
llvm-svn: 272709
An oddity of the .ll syntax is that the "@var = " in
@var = global i32 42
is optional. Writing just
global i32 42
is equivalent to
@0 = global i32 42
This means that there is a pretty big First set at the top level. The
current implementation maintains it manually. I was trying to refactor
it, but then started wondering why keep it a all. I personally find the
above syntax confusing. It looks like something is missing.
This patch removes the feature and simplifies the parser.
llvm-svn: 269096
Summary:
I've completed my audit of all the code that looks at noduplicate and
added handling of convergent where appropriate, so we no longer need
noduplicate on these intrinsics.
Reviewers: jholewinski
Subscribers: llvm-commits, jholewinski
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18168
llvm-svn: 264107
Summary:
This is intended to be a performance flag, on the same level as clang
cc1 option "--disable-free". LLVM will never initialize it by default,
it will be up to the client creating the LLVMContext to request this
behavior. Clang will do it by default in Release build (just like
--disable-free).
"opt" and "llc" can opt-in using -disable-named-value command line
option.
When performing LTO on llvm-tblgen, the initial merging of IR peaks
at 92MB without this patch, and 86MB after this patch,setNameImpl()
drops from 6.5MB to 0.5MB.
The total link time goes from ~29.5s to ~27.8s.
Compared to a compile-time flag (like the IRBuilder one), it performs
very close. I profiled on SROA and obtain these results:
420ms with IRBuilder that preserve name
372ms with IRBuilder that strip name
375ms with IRBuilder that preserve name, and a runtime flag to strip
Reviewers: chandlerc, dexonsmith, bogner
Subscribers: joker.eph, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17946
From: Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini@apple.com>
llvm-svn: 263086
In general, memory restrictions on a called function (e.g. readnone)
cannot be transferred to a CallSite that has operand bundles. It is
possible to make this inference smarter, but lets fix the behavior to be
correct first.
llvm-svn: 260193
Summary:
This is the attribute purpose-made for e.g. __syncthreads. It appears
that NoDuplicate may not be sufficient to prevent Sink from touching a
call to __syncthreads.
Reviewers: jingyue, hfinkel
Subscribers: llvm-commits, jholewinski, jhen, rnk, tra, majnemer
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D16941
llvm-svn: 260005
Summary:
Funclet EH personalities require a tree-like nesting among funclets
(enforced by the ParentPad linkage in the IR), and also require that
unwind edges conform to certain rules with respect to the tree:
- An unwind edge may exit 0 or more ancestor pads
- An unwind edge must enter exactly one EH pad, which must be distinct
from any exited pads
- A cleanupret's edge must exit its cleanuppad
Describe these rules in the LangRef, and enforce them in the verifier.
Reviewers: rnk, majnemer, andrew.w.kaylor
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15961
llvm-svn: 257272
It turns out that terminatepad gives little benefit over a cleanuppad
which calls the termination function. This is not sufficient to
implement fully generic filters but MSVC doesn't support them which
makes terminatepad a little over-designed.
Depends on D15478.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15479
llvm-svn: 255522
While we have successfully implemented a funclet-oriented EH scheme on
top of LLVM IR, our scheme has some notable deficiencies:
- catchendpad and cleanupendpad are necessary in the current design
but they are difficult to explain to others, even to seasoned LLVM
experts.
- catchendpad and cleanupendpad are optimization barriers. They cannot
be split and force all potentially throwing call-sites to be invokes.
This has a noticable effect on the quality of our code generation.
- catchpad, while similar in some aspects to invoke, is fairly awkward.
It is unsplittable, starts a funclet, and has control flow to other
funclets.
- The nesting relationship between funclets is currently a property of
control flow edges. Because of this, we are forced to carefully
analyze the flow graph to see if there might potentially exist illegal
nesting among funclets. While we have logic to clone funclets when
they are illegally nested, it would be nicer if we had a
representation which forbade them upfront.
Let's clean this up a bit by doing the following:
- Instead, make catchpad more like cleanuppad and landingpad: no control
flow, just a bunch of simple operands; catchpad would be splittable.
- Introduce catchswitch, a control flow instruction designed to model
the constraints of funclet oriented EH.
- Make funclet scoping explicit by having funclet instructions consume
the token produced by the funclet which contains them.
- Remove catchendpad and cleanupendpad. Their presence can be inferred
implicitly using coloring information.
N.B. The state numbering code for the CLR has been updated but the
veracity of it's output cannot be spoken for. An expert should take a
look to make sure the results are reasonable.
Reviewers: rnk, JosephTremoulet, andrew.w.kaylor
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15139
llvm-svn: 255422
Petr Hosek