Also change some options that have different semantics (cause confusion) in llvm-readelf mode:
-s => -S
-t => --symbols
-sd => --section-data
llvm-svn: 359651
Three MIPS-specific sections `.reginfo`, `.MIPS.options`, and `.MIPS.abiflags`
are used by loader to read their contents and setup environment for running
a program. Loader looks up these data in the corresponding segments:
`PT_MIPS_REGINFO`, `PT_MIPS_OPTIONS`, and `PT_MIPS_ABIFLAGS` respectively.
This patch put these sections to separate segments like we do already
for ARM `SHT_ARM_EXIDX` section.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D58381
llvm-svn: 354468
MIPS ABIs require that if an executable file uses non-PIC model, the
EI_ABIVERSION entry in the ELF header should be incremented from 0 to 1.
That allows obsoleted / limited dynamic linkers refuse to link them.
llvm-svn: 325890
No difference in practice other than having sh_entsize in the output.
This should simplify the patch for handling SHF_MERGE in -r.
Based on a patch by George Rimar.
llvm-svn: 318306
_gp points to a position in the file, so it is not really absolute. It
is also simpler to not force it to be absolute, so if there is no
strong ABI requirement we should not do it.
llvm-svn: 313333
The sh_info field of the SHT_SYMTAB section holds the index for the
first non-local symbol. When there are global symbols that are output
with STB_LOCAL binding due to having hidden visibility or matching
the local version from a version script, the calculated value of
NumLocals + 1 does not account for them. This change accounts for
global symbols being output with local binding.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D28950
llvm-svn: 292910
On MIPS .got section cannot be included into the PT_GNU_RELRO segment.
Sometimes it might work, but in general it is unsupported. One of the
problem is that all sections marked by SHF_MIPS_GPREL should be grouped
together because data in these sections is addressable with a gp
relative address, but such sections might be writable.
This patch exclude mips .got from PT_GNU_RELRO segment and group
SHF_MIPS_GPREL sections.
llvm-svn: 292161
This is in preparation for my next change, which will introduce a relro
nobits section. That requires that relro sections appear at the end of the
progbits part of the r/w segment so that the relro nobits section can appear
contiguously.
Because of the amount of churn required in the test suite, I'm making this
change separately.
llvm-svn: 291523
The glibc dynamic loader rounds the size down, so without this the loader
will fail to change the memory protection for the last page.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D28267
llvm-svn: 290986
These MIPS specific symbols should be global because in general they can
have an arbitrary value. By default this value is a fixed offset from .got
section.
This patch adds more checks to the mips-gp-local.s test case but marks
it as XFAIL because LLD does not allow redefinition of absolute symbols
value by a linker script. This should be fixed by D27276.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27524
llvm-svn: 289025
Summary:
This patch adds a ".comment" section to an output. The comment
section contains the linker's version string. You can now
find out whether a binary is created by LLD or not using objdump
command like this.
$ objdump -s -j .comment foo
foo: file format elf64-x86-64
Contents of section .comment:
0000 00474343 3a202855 62756e74 7520342e .GCC: (Ubuntu 4.
0010 382e342d 32756275 6e747531 7e31342e 8.4-2ubuntu1~14.
...
00c0 766d2f74 72756e6b 20323835 38343629 vm/trunk 285846)
00d0 004c696e 6b65723a 204c4c44 20342e30 .Linker: LLD 4.0
00e0 2e302028 7472756e 6b203238 36343036 .0 (trunk 286406
00f0 2900 ).
Compilers emits .comment section as well, so the output contains
both compiler and linker information.
Alternative considered:
I first tried to add a SHT_NOTE section because GNU gold does that.
A NOTE section starts with a header which contains content type.
It turned out that ld.gold sets type NT_GNU_GOLD_VERSION to their
NOTE section. So the NOTE type is only for GNU gold (surprise!)
Next, I tried to create ".linker-version" section. However, it seems
that reusing the existing ".comment" section is better because 1)
other tools already know about .comment section and is able to strip
it and 2) the result contans not only linker info but also compiler
info.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26487
llvm-svn: 286496
Previously, we have both input and output sections for .reginfo and
.MIPS.options. Now for each such sections we have one synthetic input
sections: MipsReginfoSection and MipsOptionsSection respectively.
Both sections are handled as regular sections until the control reaches
Writer. Writer then aggregates all sections whose type is SHT_MIPS_REGINFO
or SHT_MIPS_OPTIONS to create a single synthesized input section. In that
moment Writer also save GP0 value to the MipsGp0 field of the corresponding
ObjectFile. This value required for R_MIPS_GPREL16 and R_MIPS_GPREL32
relocations calculation.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26444
llvm-svn: 286397
This section supersedes .reginfo and .MIPS.options sections. But for now
we have to support all three sections for ABI transition period.
llvm-svn: 278482
LLD still does not produce a correct combination of MIPS ELF flags if
input files have different sets of ELF flags (i.e. EF_MIPS_ARCH_32 and
EF_MIPS_ARCH_32R2). But now we do not stick to "R2" ABI version and can
emit EF_MIPS_ARCH_32R6 for example.
llvm-svn: 276172
As requested by Rafael Espindola in his post-commit comments on r268036. This
makes the previous behaviour the default while still allowing verification of
IAS.
llvm-svn: 268496
This simplifies the code by allowing us to remove the visibility argument
to functions that create synthetic symbols.
The only functional change is that the visibility of the MIPS "_gp" symbol
is now hidden. Because this symbol is defined in every executable or DSO, it
would be difficult to observe a visibility change here.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19033
llvm-svn: 266208
The _gp* family of symbols is defined as an offset in .got, and it is
not at all clear what should happen when .got is not defined.
This will allow some simplifications on how these symbols are handled.
llvm-svn: 266063
Our symbol representation was redundant, and some times would get out of
sync. It had an Elf_Sym, but some fields were copied to SymbolBody.
Different parts of the code were checking the bits in SymbolBody and
others were checking Elf_Sym.
There are two general approaches to fix this:
* Copy the required information and don't store and Elf_Sym.
* Don't copy the information and always use the Elf_Smy.
The second way sounds tempting, but has a big problem: we would have to
template SymbolBody. I started doing it, but it requires templeting
*everything* and creates a bit chicken and egg problem at the driver
where we have to find ELFT before we can create an ArchiveFile for
example.
As much as possible I compared the test differences with what gold and
bfd produce to make sure they are still valid. In most cases we are just
adding hidden visibility to a local symbol, which is harmless.
In most tests this is a small speedup. The only slowdown was scylla
(1.006X). The largest speedup was clang with no --build-id, -O3 or
--gc-sections (i.e.: focus on the relocations): 1.019X.
llvm-svn: 265293
String tables in unstripped executable files are fairly large in size.
For example, lld's executable file is about 34.4 MB in my environment,
and of which 3.5 MB is the string table. Efficiency of string table
construction matters.
Previously, the string table was built in an inefficient way. We used
StringTableBuilder to build that and enabled string tail merging,
although tail merging is not effective for the symbol table (you can
only make the string table 0.3% smaller for lld.) Tail merging is
computation intensive task and slow.
This patch eliminates string tail merging.
I changed the way of adding strings to the string table in this patch
too. Previously, strings were added using add() and the same strings
were then passed to getOffset() to get their offsets in the string table.
In this way, getOffset() needs to look up a hash table to get offsets
for given strings. This is a violation of "we look up the symbol table
(or a hash table) only once for each symbol" dogma of the new LLD's
design. Hash table lookup for long C++ mangled names is slow.
I eliminated that lookup in this patch.
In total, this patch improves link time of lld itself about 12%
(3.50 seconds -> 3.08 seconds.)
llvm-svn: 257017
MIPS .reginfo section provides information on the registers used by
the code in the object file. Linker should collect this information and
write .reginfo section in the output file. This section contains a union
of used registers masks taken from input .reginfo sections and final
value of the `_gp` symbol.
For details see the "Register Information" section in Chapter 4 in the
following document:
ftp://www.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/doc/ABI/mipsabi.pdf
The patch implements .reginfo sections handling with a couple missed
features: a) it does not put output .reginfo section into the separate
REGINFO segment; b) it does not merge `ri_cprmask` masks from input
section. These features will be implemented later.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15669
llvm-svn: 256119
The patch configure ELF header flags for MIPS target. For now the flags
are hard coded. In fact they depends on ELF flags of input object files
and selected emulation.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15575
llvm-svn: 256089
With this patch, lld creates PT_GNU_STACK segments only when all input
files have .note.GNU-stack sections. This is in line with other linkers
with a minor difference (we don't care about .note.GNU-stack rwx bits as
you can always remove .note.GNU-stack sections instead of setting x bit.)
At least, NetBSD loader does not understand PT_GNU_STACK segments and
reject any executables that have the section. This patch makes lld
compatible with such operating systems.
llvm-svn: 253797