Based on D70020 by serge-sans-paille.
The ELF spec says:
> Furthermore, there may be internal references among these sections that would not make sense if one of the sections were removed or replaced by a duplicate from another object. Therefore, such groups must be included or omitted from the linked object as a unit. A section cannot be a member of more than one group.
GNU ld has 2 behaviors that we don't have:
- Group members (nextInSectionGroup != nullptr) are subject to garbage collection.
This includes non-SHF_ALLOC SHT_NOTE sections.
In particular, discarding non-SHF_ALLOC SHT_NOTE sections is an expected behavior by the Annobin
project. See
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/02/20/annobin-storing-information-binaries/
for more information.
- Groups members are retained or discarded as a unit.
Members may have internal references that are not expressed as
SHF_LINK_ORDER, relocations, etc. It seems that we should be more conservative here:
if a section is marked live, mark all the other member within the
group.
Both behaviors are reasonable. This patch implements them.
A new field InputSectionBase::nextInSectionGroup tracks the next member
within a group. on ELF64, this increases sizeof(InputSectionBase) froms
144 to 152.
InputSectionBase::dependentSections tracks section dependencies, which
is used by both --gc-sections and /DISCARD/. We can't overload it for
the "next member" semantic, because we should allow /DISCARD/ to discard
sections independent of --gc-sections (GNU ld behavior). This behavior
may be reasonably used by `/DISCARD/ : { *(.ARM.exidx*) }` or `/DISCARD/
: { *(.note*) }` (new test `linkerscript/discard-group.s`).
Reviewed By: ruiu
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D70146
D67504 removed uses of `assigned` from OutputSection::addSection, which
makes `assigned` purely used in processSectionCommands() and its
callees. By replacing its references with `parent`, we can remove
`assigned`.
Reviewed By: grimar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D67531
llvm-svn: 372735
This patch is mechanically generated by clang-llvm-rename tool that I wrote
using Clang Refactoring Engine just for creating this patch. You can see the
source code of the tool at https://reviews.llvm.org/D64123. There's no manual
post-processing; you can generate the same patch by re-running the tool against
lld's code base.
Here is the main discussion thread to change the LLVM coding style:
https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-February/130083.html
In the discussion thread, I proposed we use lld as a testbed for variable
naming scheme change, and this patch does that.
I chose to rename variables so that they are in camelCase, just because that
is a minimal change to make variables to start with a lowercase letter.
Note to downstream patch maintainers: if you are maintaining a downstream lld
repo, just rebasing ahead of this commit would cause massive merge conflicts
because this patch essentially changes every line in the lld subdirectory. But
there's a remedy.
clang-llvm-rename tool is a batch tool, so you can rename variables in your
downstream repo with the tool. Given that, here is how to rebase your repo to
a commit after the mass renaming:
1. rebase to the commit just before the mass variable renaming,
2. apply the tool to your downstream repo to mass-rename variables locally, and
3. rebase again to the head.
Most changes made by the tool should be identical for a downstream repo and
for the head, so at the step 3, almost all changes should be merged and
disappear. I'd expect that there would be some lines that you need to merge by
hand, but that shouldn't be too many.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D64121
llvm-svn: 365595
We create several types of synthetic sections for loadable partitions, including:
- The dynamic symbol table. This allows code outside of the loadable partitions
to find entry points with dlsym.
- Creating a dynamic symbol table also requires the creation of several other
synthetic sections for the partition, such as the dynamic table and hash table
sections.
- The partition's ELF header is represented as a synthetic section in the
combined output file, and will be used by llvm-objcopy to extract partitions.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D62350
llvm-svn: 362819
This change causes us to read partition specifications from partition
specification sections and split output sections into partitions according
to their reachability from partition entry points.
This is only the first step towards a full implementation of partitions. Later
changes will add additional synthetic sections to each partition so that
they can be loaded independently.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60353
llvm-svn: 361925
The change broke some scenarios where debug information is still
needed, although MarkLive cannot see it, including the
Chromium/Android build. Reverting to unbreak that build.
llvm-svn: 360955
Summary:
We access Live and OutputOff (which may share the same memory location)
concurrently in 2 parallelForEachN loops. Separating them avoids subtle
data races like D41884/PR35788. This patch places Live and Hash
together.
2 reasons this is appealing:
1) Hash is immutable. Live is almost read-only - only written once in MarkLive.cpp where
Hash is not accessed
2) we already discard low bits of Hash to decide ShardID. It doesn't
matter much if we make 32-bit Hash to 31-bit.
For a huge internal clang -O3 executable (1.6GiB),
`Strings` in StringTableBuilder::finalizeStringTable contains at most 310253 elements.
The expected number of pair-wise collisions 2^(-31) * C(310253,2) ~= 22.41 is too small to have a negative impact on performance.
Actually, my benchmark shows there is actually a minor performance improvement.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60765
llvm-svn: 358645
Patch by Robert O'Callahan.
Rust projects tend to link in all object files from all dependent
libraries and rely on --gc-sections to strip unused code and data.
Unfortunately --gc-sections doesn't currently strip any debuginfo
associated with GC'ed sections, so lld links in the full debuginfo from
all dependencies even if almost all that code has been discarded. See
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/56068 for some details.
Properly stripping debuginfo for discarded sections would be difficult,
but a simple approach that helps significantly is to mark debuginfo
sections as live only if their associated object file has at least one
live code/data section. This patch does that. In a (contrived but not
totally artificial) Rust testcase linked above, it reduces the final
binary size from 46MB to 5.1MB.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54747
llvm-svn: 358069
This shaves another word off SectionBase and makes it possible to clone a
section using the implicit copy constructor.
This basically reverts r311056, which removed the mutex in order to
make the code easier to understand. On balance I think it's probably more
straightforward to have a mutex here than to have an unusual copy constructor
in SectionBase.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D59269
llvm-svn: 355966
- The Assigned bit was previously taking a word on its own. Move
it into the bit fields in SectionBase.
- NumRelocations and AreRelocsRela were previously also taking up
a word despite only using half of it. Move them into the alignment gap
after SectionBase's fields.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D59044
llvm-svn: 355622
to reflect the new license.
We understand that people may be surprised that we're moving the header
entirely to discuss the new license. We checked this carefully with the
Foundation's lawyer and we believe this is the correct approach.
Essentially, all code in the project is now made available by the LLVM
project under our new license, so you will see that the license headers
include that license only. Some of our contributors have contributed
code under our old license, and accordingly, we have retained a copy of
our old license notice in the top-level files in each project and
repository.
llvm-svn: 351636
Previously, we have a hash table containing strings and their offsets
to manage mergeable strings. Technically we can live without that, because
we can do binary search on a vector of mergeable strings to find a mergeable
strings.
We did have both the hash table and the binary search because we thought
that that is faster.
We recently observed that lld tend to consume more memory than gold when
building an output with debug info. A few percent of memory is consumed by
the hash table. So, we needed to reevaluate whether or not having the extra
hash table is a good CPU/memory tradeoff. I run a few benchmarks with and
without the hash table.
I got a mixed result for the benchmark. We observed a regression for some
programs by removing the hash table (that's what we expected), but we also
observed that performance imrpovements for some programs. This is perhaps
due to reduced memory usage.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D55234
llvm-svn: 348401
Previously, we uncompress all compressed sections before doing anything.
That works, and that is conceptually simple, but that could results in
a waste of CPU time and memory if uncompressed sections are then
discarded or just copied to the output buffer.
In particular, if .debug_gnu_pub{names,types} are compressed and if no
-gdb-index option is given, we wasted CPU and memory because we
uncompress them into newly allocated bufers and then memcpy the buffers
to the output buffer. That temporary buffer was redundant.
This patch changes how to uncompress sections. Now, compressed sections
are uncompressed lazily. To do that, `Data` member of `InputSectionBase`
is now hidden from outside, and `data()` accessor automatically expands
an compressed buffer if necessary.
If no one calls `data()`, then `writeTo()` directly uncompresses
compressed data into the output buffer. That eliminates the redundant
memory allocation and redundant memcpy.
This patch significantly reduces memory consumption (20 GiB max RSS to
15 Gib) for an executable whose .debug_gnu_pub{names,types} are in total
5 GiB in an uncompressed form.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52917
llvm-svn: 343979
Once we create .gdb_index contents, .zdebug_gnu_pub{names,types}
are useless, so there's no need to keep their uncompressed data
in memory.
I observed that for a test case in which lld creates a 3GB .gdb_index
section, the maximum resident set size reduced from 43GB to 29GB after
this patch.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52126
llvm-svn: 342297
Patch by PkmX.
This patch makes lld recognize RISC-V target and implements basic
relocation for RV32/RV64 (and RVC). This should be necessary for static
linking ELF applications.
The ABI documentation for RISC-V can be found at:
https://github.com/riscv/riscv-elf-psabi-doc/blob/master/riscv-elf.md.
Note that the documentation is far from complete so we had to figure out
some details from bfd.
The patch should be pretty straightforward. Some highlights:
- A new relocation Expr R_RISCV_PC_INDIRECT is added. This is needed as
the low part of a PC-relative relocation is linked to the corresponding
high part (auipc), see:
https://github.com/riscv/riscv-elf-psabi-doc/blob/master/riscv-elf.md#pc-relative-symbol-addresses
- LLVM's MC support for RISC-V is very incomplete (we are working on
this), so tests are given in objectyaml format with the original
assembly included in the comments. Once we have complete support for
RISC-V in MC, we can switch to llvm-as/llvm-objdump.
- We don't support linker relaxation for now as it requires greater
changes to lld that is beyond the scope of this patch. Once this is
accepted we can start to work on adding relaxation to lld.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D39322
llvm-svn: 339364
Note that this doesn't do the right thing in the case where there is
a linker script. We probably need to move output section assignment
before ICF to get the correct behaviour here.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47241
llvm-svn: 333052
The --keep-unique <symbol> option is taken from gold. The intention is that
<symbol> will be prevented from being folded by ICF. Although not
specifically mentioned in the documentation <symbol> only matches
global symbols, with a warning if the symbol is not found.
The implementation finds the Section defining <symbol> and removes it from
the set of sections considered for ICF.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D46755
llvm-svn: 332332
Now that getSectionPiece is fast (uses a hash) it is probably OK to
split merge sections early.
The reason I want to do this is to split eh_frame sections in the same
place.
This does mean that we have to decompress early. Given that the only
compressed sections are debug info, I don't think we are missing much.
It is a small improvement: 0.5% on the geometric mean.
llvm-svn: 331058
In the lld perf builder r328686 had a negative impact in
stalled-cycles-frontend. Somehow that stat is not showing on my
machine, but the attached patch shows an improvement on cache-misses,
which is probably a reasonable proxy.
My working theory is that given a large input the pieces vector is out
of cache by the time initOffsetMap runs.
Both finalizeContents implementation have a convenient location for
initializing the OffsetMap, so this seems the best solution.
llvm-svn: 329117
We normally avoid "switch (Config->EKind)", but in this case I think
it is worth it.
It is only executed when there is an error and it allows detemplating
a lot of code.
llvm-svn: 321404
It is currently in InputSectionBase. Only InputSections are used in
ICF, so Repl should be move to InputSection to clear the class
hierarchy or, like this patch does, to SectionBase for convenience.
The convenience of having it on the base class is that we can just
access the replacement without having to first check if it is an
InputSection. It is a bit less code and a bit faster as some of this
code is very hot.
I got up to 1.77% improvement in clang-gdb-index and no regressions
according to lnt.
llvm-svn: 320654
The size of an OutputSection is calculated early, to aid handling of compressed
debug sections. However, subsequent to this point, unused synthetic sections are
removed. In the event that an OutputSection, from which such an InputSection is
removed, is still required (e.g. because it has a symbol assignment), and no longer
has any InputSections, dot assignments, or BYTE()-family directives, the size
member is never updated when processing the commands. If the removed InputSection
had a non-zero size (such as a .got.plt section), the section ends up with the
wrong size in the output.
The fix is to reset the OutputSection size prior to processing the linker script
commands relating to that OutputSection. This ensures that the size is correct even
in the above situation.
Additionally, to reduce the risk of developers misusing OutputSection Size and
InputSection OutSecOff, they are set to simply the number of InputSections in an
OutputSection, and the corresponding index respectively. We cannot completely
stop using them, due to SHF_LINK_ORDER sections requiring them.
Compressed debug sections also require the full size. This is now calculated in
maybeCompress for these kinds of sections.
Reviewers: ruiu, rafael
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D38361
llvm-svn: 320472
Now that DefinedRegular is the only remaining derived class of
Defined, we can merge the two classes.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D39667
llvm-svn: 317448
Common symbols are now represented with a DefinedRegular that points
to a BssSection, even during symbol resolution.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D39666
llvm-svn: 317447
Now that we have only SymbolBody as the symbol class. So, "SymbolBody"
is a bit strange name now. This is a mechanical change generated by
perl -i -pe s/SymbolBody/Symbol/g $(git grep -l SymbolBody lld/ELF lld/COFF)
nd clang-format-diff.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D39459
llvm-svn: 317370
This is PR34826.
Currently LLD is unable to report line number when reporting
duplicate declaration of some variable.
That happens because for extracting line information we always use
.debug_line section content which describes mapping from machine
instructions to source file locations, what does not help for
variables as does not describe them.
In this patch I am taking the approproate information about
variables locations from the .debug_info section.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D38721
llvm-svn: 317080
This bit is to manage whether an input section has already been assigned
to some output section by linker scripts or not. So it logically belongs
to InputSectionBase. SectionBase is a common base class for input and
output sections, so that wasn't the right place to define the bit.
llvm-svn: 316879
Fangrui Song