The disadvantage is that we use uint64_t instad of uint32_t for some
value in 32 bit files. The advantage is a substantially simpler code,
faster builds and less code duplication.
llvm-svn: 286414
Previously, we do this piece of code to iterate over all input sections.
for (elf::ObjectFile<ELFT> *F : Symtab.getObjectFiles())
for (InputSectionBase<ELFT> *S : F->getSections())
It turned out that this mechanisms doesn't work well with synthetic
input sections because synthetic input sections don't belong to any
input file.
This patch defines a vector that contains all input sections including
synthetic ones.
llvm-svn: 286051
Previously, it didn't support the character class, so we couldn't
eliminate the use fo llvm::Regex. Now that it is supported, we
can remove compileGlobPattern, which converts a glob pattern to
a regex.
This patch contains optimization for exact/prefix/suffix matches.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26284
llvm-svn: 285949
This can speed up lld up to 5 times when linking applications
with large number of sections and using linker script.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26241
llvm-svn: 285895
With this patch we keep track of the fact that . is a position in the
file and therefore not absolute. This allow us to compute relative
relocations that involve symbol that are defined in linker scripts
with '.'.
This fixes https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=30406
There is still more work to track absoluteness over the various
expressions, but this should unblock linking the EFI bootloader.
llvm-svn: 285641
We parse linker scripts very early, but whether an expression is
absolute or not can depend on a symbol defined in a .o. Given that, we
have to delay the computation of IsAbsolute. We can do that by storing
an AST when parsing or by also making IsAbsolute a function like we do
for the expression value. This patch implements the second option.
llvm-svn: 285628
And as a token of the new feature, make ALIGNOF always absolute.
This is a step in making it possible to have non absolute symbols out
of output sections.
llvm-svn: 285608
Previously, we have a lot of BumpPtrAllocators, but all these
allocators virtually have the same lifetime because they are
not freed until the linker finishes its job. This patch aggregates
them into a single allocator.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26042
llvm-svn: 285452
If there is not sufficient address space, just give up and don't put
the header in the PT_LOAD.
This matches bfd behaviour and I found at least one script that
depends on having a section at address 0.
llvm-svn: 282750
The BYTE, SHORT, LONG, and QUAD commands store one, two, four, and eight bytes (respectively).
After storing the bytes, the location counter is incremented by the number of bytes
stored.
Previously our scripts handles these commands incorrectly. For example:
SECTIONS {
.foo : {
*(.foo.1)
BYTE(0x11)
...
We accepted the script above treating BYTE as input section description.
These commands are used in the wild though.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24830
llvm-svn: 282429
DEFINED(symbol)
Return 1 if symbol is in the linker global symbol table and is defined before
the statement using DEFINED in the script, otherwise return 0.
Can be used to define default values for symbols. Found it in the wild.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24858
llvm-svn: 282245
This is PR30442.
Previously we were failed to parce complex expressions like:
foo : { *(SORT_BY_NAME(bar) zed) }
Main idea of patch that globs and excludes can be wrapped in a SORT.
There is a difference in semanics of ld/gold:
ld likes:
*(SORT(EXCLUDE_FILE (*file1.o) .foo.1))
gold likes:
*(EXCLUDE_FILE (*file1.o) SORT(.foo.1))
Patch implements ld grammar, complex expressions like
next is not a problem anymore:
.abc : { *(SORT(.foo.* EXCLUDE_FILE (*file1.o) .bar.*) .bar.*) }
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24758
llvm-svn: 282078
This reverts commit r282021, bringing back r282015.
The problem was that the comparison function was not a strict weak
ordering anymore, which this patch fixes.
Original message:
Only restrict order if both sections are in the script.
This matches gold and bfd behavior and is required to handle some scripts.
The script has to assume where PT_LOADs start in order to align that
spot. If we don't allow section it doesn't know about to move to the
middle, we can need more PT_LOADs and those will not be aligned.
llvm-svn: 282035
With fix for 2 bots. Details about the fix performed is on a review page.
Initial commit message:
This is PR30387:
From PR description:
We fail to parse
SECTIONS
{
foo :
{
*(sec0 EXCLUDE_FILE (zed1.o) sec1 EXCLUDE_FILE (zed2.o) sec2 )
}
}
The semantics according to bfd are:
Include sec1 from every file but zed1.o
Include sec2 from every file but zed2.o
Include sec0 from every file
Patch implements the support.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24650
llvm-svn: 281754
This fixes pr30367, but more importantly, it changes how we compute offsets.
Now offset computation in a walk over linker script commands, like the
rest of assignAddresses. IMHO this is simpler to understand and if we
ever have to create multiple outputsections or chunks to change how we
handle test/ELF/linkerscript/alternate-sections.s it should be easier
to do it.
llvm-svn: 281736
This is PR30387:
From PR description:
We fail to parse
SECTIONS
{
foo :
{
*(sec0 EXCLUDE_FILE (zed1.o) sec1 EXCLUDE_FILE (zed2.o) sec2 )
}
}
The semantics according to bfd are:
Include sec1 from every file but zed1.o
Include sec2 from every file but zed2.o
Include sec0 from every file
Patch implements the support.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24650
llvm-svn: 281721
This is PR30386,
SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY is a keyword can be used to sort sections by numerical value of the
GCC init_priority attribute encoded in the section name.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24611
llvm-svn: 281646
Absence of it caused a clang warning:
warning: 'lld:🧝:LinkerScriptBase' has virtual functions but non-virtual destructor [-Wnon-virtual-dtor]
At fact we don't need it here because do not destroy this object by
base pointer.
llvm-svn: 280916
Previous way of accessing templated methods was a bit bulky,
Patch introduces small interface based solution.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23872
llvm-svn: 280910
Use std::regex instead of hand written matcher.
Patch based on code and ideas of Rui Ueyama.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23829
llvm-svn: 280544
Previously we used LayoutInputSection class to correctly assign
symbols defined in linker script. This patch removes it and uses
pointer to preceding input section in SymbolAssignment class instead.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23661
llvm-svn: 280348
Symbol assignments outside of SECTIONS command need to be created
even when SECTIONS command is not used.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23751
llvm-svn: 280252
Patch removes VersionScriptParser class and moves the members to ScriptParser
It opens road for implementation of VERSION linkerscript command.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23774
llvm-svn: 280212
You can force input section alignment within an output section by using SUBALIGN. The
value specified overrides any alignment given by input sections, whether larger or smaller.
SUBALIGN is used in many projects in the wild.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23063
llvm-svn: 279256
The linker will normally set the LMA equal to the VMA.
You can change that by using the AT keyword.
The expression lma that follows the AT keyword specifies
the load address of the section.
Patch implements this keyword.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D19272
llvm-svn: 278911
Previously filtering that was used worked incorrectly.
For example for next script it would just remove both sections completely:
SECTIONS {
. = 0x1000;
.aaa : ONLY_IF_RW { *(.aaa.*) }
. = 0x2000;
.aaa : ONLY_IF_RO { *(.aaa.*) }
}
Patch fixes above issues and adds testcase showing the issue. Testcase is a subset of
FreeBSD script which has:
.eh_frame : ONLY_IF_RO { KEEP (*(.eh_frame)) }
...
.eh_frame : ONLY_IF_RW { KEEP (*(.eh_frame)) }
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23326
llvm-svn: 278486
Previously, we created two or more output sections if there are
input sections with the same name but with different attributes.
That is a wrong behavior. This patch fixes the issue.
One thing we need to do is to merge output section attributes.
Currently, we create an output section based on the first input
section's attributes. This may make a wrong output section
attributes. What we need to do is to bitwise-OR attributes.
We'll do it in a follow-up patch.
llvm-svn: 278461
SIZEOF_HEADERS - Return the size in bytes of the output file’s headers.
It is is a feature used in FreeBsd script, for example.
There is a discussion on PR28688 page about it.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23165
llvm-svn: 278204
Summary:
The comparator function to compare input sections as instructed by
SORT command was a bit too complicated because it needed to handle
four different cases. This patch split it into two function calls.
This patch also simplifies the parser.
Reviewers: grimar
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23140
llvm-svn: 277780
ASSERT(exp, message)
Ensure that exp is non-zero. If it is zero, then exit the linker with an error
code, and print message.
ASSERT is useful and was seen in few projects in the wild.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22912
llvm-svn: 277710
Previously we supported only sorting by name.
When there are nested section sorting commands in linker script, there can be at most 1
level of nesting for section sorting commands.
SORT_BY_NAME (SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT (wildcard section pattern)). It will sort the input
sections by name first, then by alignment if 2 sections have the same name.
SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT (SORT_BY_NAME (wildcard section pattern)). It will sort the input
sections by alignment first, then by name if 2 sections have the same alignment.
SORT_BY_NAME (SORT_BY_NAME (wildcard section pattern)) is treated the same as SORT_
BY_NAME (wildcard section pattern).
SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT (SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT (wildcard section pattern)) is treated the
same as SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT (wildcard section pattern).
All other nested section sorting commands are invalid.
Patch implements that all above.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23019
llvm-svn: 277583
Previously, Ignore flag is set if we don't want to assign
a value to symbols. It happens if a symbol assingment is in
PROVIDE() and there's already a symbol with the same name.
The previous code had a subtle but that we assume that the
existing symbol is an absolute symbol even if it is not.
This patch fixes the issue by always overwriting an absolute
symbol.
llvm-svn: 277115
All other singleton instances are accessible globally.
CommonInputSection shouldn't be an exception.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22935
llvm-svn: 277034
createSections function is getting longer, so it is time to split it
into small functions. The reason why the function is long is because
it has deeply nested for-loops. This patch constructs temporary data
to reduce nesting level.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22786
llvm-svn: 276706
Previously, we handled an expression as a vector of tokens. In other
words, an expression was a vector of uncooked raw StringRefs.
When we need a value of an expression, we used ExprParser to run
the expression.
The separation was needed essentially because parse time is too
early to evaluate an expression. In order to evaluate an expression,
we need to finalize section sizes. Because linker script parsing
is done at very early stage of the linking process, we can't
evaluate expressions while parsing.
The above mechanism worked fairly well, but there were a few
drawbacks.
One thing is that we sometimes have to parse the same expression
more than once in order to find the end of the expression.
In some contexts, linker script expressions have no clear end marker.
So, we needed to recognize balanced expressions and ternary operators.
The other is poor error reporting. Since expressions are parsed
basically twice, and some information that is available at the first
stage is lost in the second stage, it was hard to print out
apprpriate error messages.
This patch fixes the issues with a new approach.
Now the expression parsing is integrated into ScriptParser.
ExprParser class is removed. Expressions are represented as lambdas
instead of vectors of tokens. Lambdas captures information they
need to run themselves when they are created.
In this way, ends of expressions are naturally detected, and
errors are handled in the usual way. This patch also reduces
the amount of code.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22728
llvm-svn: 276574
LinkerScript<ELFT>::assignAddresses is becoming larger and looks
it can be good time for splitting. I expect to can more SectionsCommand's there,
and dispatching some of them separatelly can help to keep method smaller either.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22506
llvm-svn: 276300
This adds InputSectionDescription command to represent
the input section declaration.
This leads to next cleanup:
SectionRule removed.
ScriptConfiguration::Sections mamber removed.
LinkerScript<ELFT>::getOutputSection() removed.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22617
llvm-svn: 276283
Approach uses LLVM-style RTTI for representing the linker script
commands in a form of tree for future simplification of parsing.
Core idea and code sample belongs to Rui Ueyama.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22604
llvm-svn: 276243
This patch simplifies output section management by making
Factory class have ownership of sections that creates.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22575
llvm-svn: 276141
In a linker script, `.` is a special symbol indicating a counter.
Previously, we had two expression types, ExprKind and SymbolAssignmentKind
for `.` and all the other symbol names, respectively. But we could merge
them because the former is a special case of the latter.
llvm-svn: 275527
Example:
VERSION_1.0 {
global: foo*;
local: *; }
now correctly matches all the symbols which name starts with
`foo`.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21732
llvm-svn: 274091
I will eventually make `evaluate` function a usual parse function
rather than a function that works on a separate token list.
This is the first step toward that.
llvm-svn: 267083
You can instruct the linker to not discard sections even if they
are unused and --gc-sections option is given. The linker script
command for doing that is KEEP. The syntax is KEEP(foo) where foo
is a section name. KEEP commands are written in SECTIONS command,
so you can specify the order of sections *and* which sections
will be kept.
Each sub-command in SECTIONS command are translated into SectionRule
object. Previously, each SectionRule has `Keep` bit. However,
if you think about it, this hid information in too deep in elements
of a list. Semantically, KEEP commands aren't really related to
SECTIONS subcommands. We can keep the section list for KEEP in a
separate list. This patch does that.
llvm-svn: 267065
SectionOrder vector was a part of LinkerScript class.
It can be removed because Commands vector contains the
same information and SectiorOrder is just a subset.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19171
llvm-svn: 266974
Originally, linker scripts were basically an alternative way to specify
options to the command line options. But as we add more features to hanlde
symbols and sections, many member functions needed to be templated.
Now most the members are templated. It is probably time to template the
entire class.
Previously, LinkerScript is an executor of the linker script as well as
a storage of linker script configurations. This is not suitable to template
the class because when we are reading linker script files, we don't know
the ELF type yet, so we can't instantiate ELF-templated classes.
In this patch, I defined a new class, ScriptConfiguration, to store
linker script configurations. ScriptParser writes parse results to it,
and LinkerScript uses them.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19302
llvm-svn: 266908
This patch is based heavily on George Rimor's patch
http://reviews.llvm.org/D19221.
In the linker script, you can write expressions to compute addresses.
Currently we only support "+" operator. This adds a few more operators.
Since this patch adds * and /, we need to handle operator precedences
properly. I implemented that using the operator-precedence grammar.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19237
llvm-svn: 266798
* Do script driven layout only if SECTIONS section exist.
Initial commit message:
[ELF] - Implemented basic location counter support.
This patch implements location counter support.
It also separates assign addresses for sections to assignAddressesScript() if it scipt exists.
Main testcase is test/ELF/linkerscript-locationcounter.s, It contains some work with location counter. It is basic now.
Implemented location counter assignment and '+' operations.
Patch by myself with LOTS of comments and design suggestions from Rui Ueyama.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18499
llvm-svn: 266526
This patch implements location counter support.
It also separates assign addresses for sections to assignAddressesScript() if it scipt exists.
Main testcase is test/ELF/linkerscript-locationcounter.s, It contains some work with location counter. It is basic now.
Implemented location counter assignment and '+' operations.
Patch by myself with LOTS of comments and design suggestions from Rui Ueyama.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18499
llvm-svn: 266457
BSD linker scripts contain special cases to add NOP
padding to code sections. Syntax is next:
.init:
{
KEEP (*(.init))
} =0x90909090
(0x90 is NOP)
This patch implements that functionality.
llvm-svn: 262020
When link-time garbage collection is in use (-gc-sections), it is
often useful to mark sections that should not be eliminated.
This is accomplished by surrounding an input section's wildcard
entry with KEEP(). Patch implements that command.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17242
llvm-svn: 261616
Each rule in SECTIONS commands is something like ".foo *(.baz.*)",
which instructs the linker to collect all sections whose name matches
".baz.*" from all files and put them into .foo section.
Previously, we didn't recognize the wildcard character. This patch
adds that feature.
Performance impact is a bit concerning because a linker script can
contain hundreds of SECTIONS rules, and doing pattern matching against
each rule would be too expensive. We could merge all patterns into
single DFA so that it takes O(n) to the input size. However, it is
probably too much at this moment -- we don't know whether the
performance of pattern matching matters or not. So I chose to
implement the simplest algorithm in this patch. I hope this simple
pattern matcher is sufficient.
llvm-svn: 260745
Previously, we had code for linker scripts in Writer. This patch
separates that as LinkerScript class. The class provides a few
functions to query linker scripts and is also a container of some
linker-script-specific information.
Hopefully, Writer will only implement the default behavior and let
the new class handle gotchas regarding linker scripts.
llvm-svn: 260591
Rafael Espindola