In D71281 a fix was put in to round up the size of a ThunkSection to the
nearest 4KiB when performing errata patching. This fixed a problem with a
very large instrumented program that had thunks and patches mutually
trigger each other. Unfortunately it triggers an assertion failure in an
AArch64 allyesconfig build of the kernel. There is a specific assertion
preventing an InputSectionDescription being larger than 4KiB. This will
always trigger if there is at least one Thunk needed in that
InputSectionDescription, which is possible for an allyesconfig build.
Abstractly the problem case is:
.text : {
*(.text) ;
...
. = ALIGN(SZ_4K);
__idmap_text_start = .;
*(.idmap.text)
__idmap_text_end = .;
...
}
The assertion checks that __idmap_text_end - __idmap_start is < 4 KiB.
Note that there is more than one InputSectionDescription in the
OutputSection so we can't just restrict the fix to OutputSections smaller
than 4 KiB.
The fix presented here limits the D71281 to InputSectionDescriptions that
meet the following conditions:
1.) The OutputSection is bigger than the thunkSectionSpacing so adding
thunks will affect the addresses of following code.
2.) The InputSectionDescription is larger than 4 KiB. This will prevent
any assertion failures that an InputSectionDescription is < 4 KiB
in size.
We do this at ThunkSection creation time as at this point we know that
the addresses are stable and up to date prior to adding the thunks as
assignAddresses() will have been called immediately prior to thunk
generation.
The fix reverts the two tests affected by D71281 to their original state
as they no longer need the 4KiB size roundup. I've added simpler tests to
check for D71281 when the OutputSection size is larger than the ThunkSection
spacing.
Fixes https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/812
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D72344
ThunkSection contains 4-byte instructions on all targets that use
thunks. Thunks should not be used in any performance sensitive places,
and locality/cache line/instruction fetching arguments should not apply.
We use 16 bytes as preferred function alignments for modern PowerPC cores.
In any case, 8 is not optimal.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D72819
On some edge cases such as Chromium compiled with full instrumentation we
have a .text section over twice the size of the maximum branch range and
the instrumented code generation containing many examples of the erratum
sequence. The combination of Thunks and many erratum sequences causes
finalizeAddressDependentContent() to not converge. We end up with:
start
- Thunk Creation (disturbs addresses after thunks, creating more patches)
- Patch Creation (disturbs addresses after patches, creating more thunks)
- goto start
In most images with few thunks and patches the mutual disturbance does not
cause convergence problems. As the .text size and number of patches go up
the risk increases.
A way to prevent the thunk creation from interfering with patch creation is
to round up the size of the thunks to a 4KiB boundary when the
erratum patch is enabled. As the erratum sequence only triggers when an
instruction sequence starts at 0xff8 or 0xffc modulo (4 KiB) by making the
thunks not affect addresses modulo (4 KiB) we prevent thunks from
interfering with the patch.
The patches themselves could be aggregated in the same way that Thunks are
within ThunkSections and we could round up the size in the same way. This
would reduce the number of patches created in a .text section size >
128 MiB but would not likely help convergence problems.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D71281
fixes (remaining part of) pr44071, other part in D71242
Old: PT_LOAD(.data | PT_GNU_RELRO(.data.rel.ro .bss.rel.ro) | .bss)
New: PT_LOAD(PT_GNU_RELRO(.data.rel.ro .bss.rel.ro) | .data .bss)
The placement of | indicates page alignment caused by PT_GNU_RELRO. The
new layout has simpler rules and saves space for many cases.
Old size: roundup(.data) + roundup(.data.rel.ro)
New size: roundup(.data.rel.ro + .bss.rel.ro) + .data
Other advantages:
* At runtime the 3 memory mappings decrease to 2.
* start(PT_TLS) = start(PT_GNU_RELRO) = start(RW PT_LOAD). This
simplifies binary manipulation tools.
GNU strip before 2.31 discards PT_GNU_RELRO if its
address is not equal to the start of its associated PT_LOAD.
This has been fixed by https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=f2731e0c374e5323ce4cdae2bcc7b7fe22da1a6f
But with this change, we will be compatible with GNU strip before 2.31
* Before, .got.plt (non-relro by default) was placed before .got (relro
by default), which made it impossible to have _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_
(start of .got.plt on x86-64) equal to the end of .got (R_GOT*_FROM_END)
(https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36555). With the new ordering, we
can improve on this regard if we'd like to.
Reviewers: ruiu, espindola, pcc
Subscribers: emaste, arichardson, llvm-commits, joerg, jdoerfert
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D56828
llvm-svn: 356117
We only need to exceed 128 Megabytes to provoke the generation of a range
extension thunk. This brings the file size down to just over 128 Megabytes.
llvm-svn: 320821
This patch provides the mechanism to fix instances of the instruction
sequence that may trigger the cortex-a53 843419 erratum. The fix is
provided by an alternative instruction sequence to remove one of the
erratum conditions. To reach this alternative instruction sequence we
replace the original instruction with a branch to the alternative
sequence. The alternative sequence is responsible for branching back to
the original.
As there is only erratum to fix the implementation is specific to
AArch64 and the specific erratum conditions. It should be generalizable
to other targets and erratum if needed.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D36749
llvm-svn: 320800
Add a new file AArch64ErrataFix.cpp that implements the logic to scan for
the Cortex-A53 Erratum 843419. This involves finding all the executable
code, disassembling the instructions that might trigger the erratum and
reporting a message if the sequence is detected.
At this stage we do not attempt to fix the erratum, this functionality
will be added in a later patch. See D36749 for proposal.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D36742
llvm-svn: 319780
Peter Smith