During PHDR creation, the case where an output section does not require a
PT_LOAD header but still occupies memory in the current VMA region was not handled.
If such an output section interleaves two output sections that have the same
VMA and LMA regions set, we would previously re-use the existing PT_LOAD header
for the second output section.
However, since the memory region is not contiguous, we need to start a new PT_LOAD
segment.
This fixes https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50558
Reviewed By: MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103815
Currently, when reporting unresolved symbols in shared libraries, if an
undefined symbol is firstly seen in a regular object file that shadows
the reference for the same symbol in a shared object. As a result, the
error for the unresolved symbol in the shared library is not reported.
If referencing sections in regular object files are discarded because of
'--gc-sections', no reports about such symbols are generated, and the
linker finishes successfully, generating an output image that fails on
the run.
The patch fixes the issue by keeping symbols, which should be checked,
for each shared library separately.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101996
This reuses the approach (and some code) from LLD-ELF.
It's a decent win when linking chromium_framework on a Mac Pro (3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W):
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 4.58 4.83 4.66 4.6685 0.066591844
+ 20 4.42 4.61 4.5 4.505 0.04751731
Difference at 95.0% confidence
-0.1635 +/- 0.0370242
-3.5022% +/- 0.793064%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0578462)
The output binary is 381MB.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99279
`--shuffle-sections=<seed>` applies to all sections. The new
`--shuffle-sections=<section-glob>=<seed>` makes shuffling selective. To the
best of my knowledge, the option is only used as debugging, so just drop the
original form.
`--shuffle-sections '.init_array*=-1'` `--shuffle-sections '.fini_array*=-1'`.
reverses static constructors/destructors of the same priority.
Useful to detect some static initialization order fiasco.
`--shuffle-sections '.data*=-1'`
reverses `.data*` sections. Useful to detect unfunded pointer comparison results
of two unrelated objects.
If certain sections have an intrinsic order, the old form cannot be used.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98679
If the number of sections changes, which is common for re-links after
incremental updates, the section order may change drastically.
Special case -1 to reverse input sections. This is a stable transform.
The section order is more resilient to incremental updates. Usually the
code issue (e.g. Static Initialization Order Fiasco, assuming pointer
comparison result of two unrelated objects) is due to the relative order
between two problematic input files A and B. Checking the regular order
and the reversed order is sufficient.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98445
Fixes PR48523. When the linker errors with "output file too large",
one question that comes to mind is how the section sizes differ from
what they were previously. Unfortunately, this information is lost
when the linker exits without writing the output file. This change
makes it so that the error message includes the sizes of the largest
sections.
Reviewed By: MaskRay, grimar, jhenderson
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94560
We can reduce the number of "using" declarations.
`LLVM_ELF_IMPORT_TYPES_ELFT` was extended in D93801.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D93856
As mentioned in https://reviews.llvm.org/D67479#1667256 ,
* `--[no-]allow-shlib-undefined` control the diagnostic for an unresolved symbol in a shared object
* `-z defs/-z undefs` control the diagnostic for an unresolved symbol in a regular object file
* `--unresolved-symbols=` controls both bits.
In addition, make --warn-unresolved-symbols affect --no-allow-shlib-undefined.
This patch makes the behavior match GNU ld.
Reviewed By: psmith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91510
I noticed when running a large link with the --time-trace option that
there were several areas which were missing any specific time trace
categories (aside from the generic link/ExecuteLinker categories). This
patch adds new categories to fill most of the "gaps", or to provide more
detail than was previously provided.
Reviewed by: MaskRay, grimar, russell.gallop
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D90686
In the presence of a gap, the st_value field of a STT_SECTION symbol is the
address of the first input section (incorrect if there is a gap). Set it to the
output section address instead.
In -r mode, this bug can cause an incorrect non-zero st_value of a STT_SECTION
symbol (while output sections have zero addresses, input sections may have
non-zero outSecOff). The non-zero st_value can cause the final link to have
incorrect relocation computation (both GNU ld and LLD add st_value of the
STT_SECTION symbol to the output section address).
Reviewed By: grimar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D90520
".text.split." holds symbols which are split out from functions in
other input sections. For example, with -fsplit-machine-functions,
placing the cold parts in .text.split instead of .text.unlikely mitigates
against poor profile inaccuracy. Techniques such as hugepage remapping can
make conservative decisions at the section granularity.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87840
I have noticed that a 374MiB powerpc64le 'ld.lld' requires 11 passes to link.
There is a ThunkSection (whose parent OutputSection is ".text" of 169MiB) with 12867 thunks.
* GNU ld places non-SHF_ALLOC sections after SHF_ALLOC sections. This has the
advantage that the file offsets of a non-SHF_ALLOC cannot be contained in
a PT_LOAD. This patch matches the behavior.
* For non-SHF_ALLOC non-orphan sections, GNU ld may assign non-zero sh_addr and
treat them similar to SHT_NOBITS (not advance location counter). This
is an alternative approach to what we have done in D85100.
By placing non-SHF_ALLOC sections at the end, we can drop special
cases in createSection and findOrphanPos added by D85100.
Different from GNU ld, we set sh_addr to 0 for non-SHF_ALLOC sections. 0
arguably is better because non-SHF_ALLOC sections don't appear in the memory
image.
ELF spec says:
> sh_addr - If the section will appear in the memory image of a process, this
> member gives the address at which the section's first byte should
> reside. Otherwise, the member contains 0.
D85100 appeared to take a detour. If we take a combined view on D85100 and this
patch, the overall complexity slightly increases (one more 3-line loop) and
compatibility with GNU ld improves.
The behavior we don't want to match is the special treatment of .symtab
.shstrtab .strtab: they can be matched in LLD but not in GNU ld.
Reviewed By: jhenderson, psmith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85867
LLD currently does not allow non-contiguous SHF_LINK_ORDER components in an
output section. This makes it infeasible to add SHF_LINK_ORDER to an existing
metadata section if backward compatibility with older object files are
concerned.
We did not allow mixed components (like GNU ld) and D77007 relaxed to allow
non-contiguous SHF_LINK_ORDER components. This patch allows arbitrary mix, with
sorting performed within an InputSectionDescription. For example,
`.rodata : {*(.rodata.foo) *(.rodata.bar)}`, has two InputSectionDescription's.
If there is at least one SHF_LINK_ORDER and at least one non-SHF_LINK_ORDER in
.rodata.foo, they are ordered within `*(.rodata.foo)`: we arbitrarily place
SHF_LINK_ORDER components before non-SHF_LINK_ORDER components (like Solaris ld).
`*(.rodata.bar)` is ordered similarly, but the two InputSectionDescription's
don't interact. It can be argued that this is more reasonable than the previous
behavior where written order was not respected.
It would be nice if the two different semantics (ordering requirement & garbage
collection) were not overloaded on one section flag, however, it is probably
difficult to obtain a generic flag at this point
(https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/generic-abi/hgx_m1aXqUo
"SHF_LINK_ORDER's original semantics make upgrade difficult").
(Actually, without the GC semantics, SHF_LINK_ORDER would still have the
sh_link!=0 & sh_link=0 issue. It is just that people find the GC semantics more
useful and tend to use the feature more often.)
GNU ld feature request: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16833
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D84001
GNU ld allows sections after a non-SHF_ALLOC section to be covered by PT_LOAD
(PR37607) and assigns addresses to non-SHF_ALLOC output sections (similar to
SHF_ALLOC NOBITS sections. The location counter is not advanced).
This patch tries to fix PR37607 (remove a special case in
`Writer<ELFT>::createPhdrs`). To make the created PT_LOAD meaningful, we cannot
reset dot to 0 for a middle non-SHF_ALLOC output section. This results in
removal of two special cases in LinkerScript::assignOffsets. Non-SHF_ALLOC
non-orphan sections can have non-zero addresses like in GNU ld.
The zero address rule for non-SHF_ALLOC sections is weakened to apply to orphan
only. This results in a special case in createSection and findOrphanPos, respectively.
Reviewed By: jhenderson
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85100
Part of https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41734
The semantics of SHF_LINK_ORDER have been extended to represent metadata
sections associated with some other sections (usually text).
The associated text section may be discarded (e.g. LTO) and we want the
metadata section to have sh_link=0 (D72899, D76802).
Normally the metadata section is only referenced by the associated text
section. sh_link=0 means the associated text section is discarded, and
the metadata section will be garbage collected. If there is another
section (.gc_root) referencing the metadata section, the metadata
section will be retained. It's the .gc_root consumer's job to validate
the metadata sections.
# This creates a SHF_LINK_ORDER .meta with sh_link=0
.section .meta,"awo",@progbits,0
1:
.section .meta,"awo",@progbits,foo
2:
.section .gc_root,"a",@progbits
.quad 1b
.quad 2b
Reviewed By: pcc, jhenderson
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D72904
GNU ld allows sections after a non-SHF_ALLOC section to be covered by PT_LOAD
(PR37607) and assigns addresses to non-SHF_ALLOC output sections (similar to
SHF_ALLOC NOBITS sections. The location counter is not advanced).
This patch tries to fix PR37607 (remove a special case in
`Writer<ELFT>::createPhdrs`). To make the created PT_LOAD meaningful, we cannot
reset dot to 0 for a middle non-SHF_ALLOC output section. This results in
removal of two special cases in LinkerScript::assignOffsets. Non-SHF_ALLOC
non-orphan sections can have non-zero addresses like in GNU ld.
The zero address rule for non-SHF_ALLOC sections is weakened to apply to orphan
only. This results in a special case in createSection and findOrphanPos, respectively.
Reviewed By: jhenderson
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85100
--oformat=binary is rare (used in a few places in FreeBSD, see `stand/i386/mbr/Makefile` `LDFLAGS_BIN`)
The result should be identical to a normal output transformed by `objcopy -O binary`.
The current implementation ignores addresses and lays out sections by
respecting output section alignments. It can fail when an output section
address is specified, e.g. `.rodata ALIGN(16) :` (PR33651).
Fix PR33651 by respecting LMA. The code is similar to
`tools/llvm-objcop/ELF/Object.cpp` BinaryWriter::finalize after D71035 and D79229.
Unforunately for an output section without PT_LOAD, we assume its LMA is equal
to its VMA. So the result is still incorrect when an output section LMA
(`AT(...)`) is specified
Also drop `alignTo(off, config->wordsize)`. GNU ld does not round up the file size.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85086
Fixes PR46348.
ObjFile<ELFT>::initializeSymbols contains two symbol iteration loops:
```
for each symbol
if non-inheriting && non-local
fill in this->symbols[i]
for each symbol
if local
fill in this->symbols[i]
else
symbol resolution
```
Symbol resolution can trigger a duplicate symbol error which will call
InputSectionBase::getObjMsg to iterate over InputFile::symbols. If a
non-local symbol appears after the non-local symbol being resolved
(violating ELF spec), its `this->symbols[i]` entry has not been filled
in, InputSectionBase::getObjMsg will crash due to
`dyn_cast<Defined>(nullptr)`.
To fix the bug, reorganize the two loops to ensure this->symbols is
complete before symbol resolution. This enforces the invariant:
InputFile::symbols has none null entry when InputFile::getSymbols() is called.
```
for each symbol
if non-inheriting
fill in this->symbols[i]
for each symbol starting from firstGlobal
if non-local
symbol resolution
```
Additionally, move the (non-local symbol in local part of .symtab)
diagnostic from Writer<ELFT>::copyLocalSymbols() to initializeSymbols().
Reviewed By: grimar, jhenderson
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D81988
--no-allow-shlib-undefined (enabled by default when linking an
executable) rejects unresolved references in shared objects.
Users may be confused by the common diagnostics of unresolved symbols in
object files (LLD: "undefined symbol: foo"; GNU ld/gold: "undefined reference to")
Learn from GCC/clang " [-Wfoo]": append the option name to the
diagnostics. Users can find relevant information by searching
"--no-allow-shlib-undefined". It should also be obvious to them that
the positive form --allow-shlib-undefined can suppress the error.
Also downgrade the error to a warning if --noinhibit-exec is used (compatible
with GNU ld and gold).
Reviewed By: grimar, psmith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D81028
In the 64-bit ELF V2 API Specification: Power Architecture, 2.3.3.1. GPR
Save and Restore Functions defines some special functions which may be
referenced by GCC produced assembly (LLVM does not reference them).
With GCC -Os, when the number of call-saved registers exceeds a certain
threshold, GCC generates `_savegpr0_* _restgpr0_*` calls and expects the
linker to define them. See
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2002-February/017444.html and
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2004-August/036765.html . This
is weird because libgcc.a would be the natural place. However, the linker
generation approach has the advantage that the linker can generate
multiple copies to avoid long branch thunks. We don't consider the
advantage significant enough to complicate our trunk implementation, so
we take a simple approach.
* Check whether `_savegpr0_{14..31}` are used
* If yes, define needed symbols and add an InputSection with the code sequence.
`_savegpr1_*` `_restgpr0_*` and `_restgpr1_*` are similar.
Reviewed By: sfertile
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79977
For sampleFDO, because the optimized build uses profile generated from previous
release, often we couldn't tell a function without profile was truely cold or
just newly created so we had to treat them conservatively and put them in .text
section instead of .text.unlikely. The result was when we persue the best
performance by locking .text.hot and .text in memory, we wasted a lot of memory
to keep cold functions inside. This problem has been largely solved for regular
sampleFDO using profile-symbol-list (https://reviews.llvm.org/D66374), but for
the case when we use partial profile, we still waste a lot of memory because
of it.
In https://reviews.llvm.org/D62540, we propose to save functions with unknown
hotness information in a special section called ".text.unknown", so that
compiler will treat those functions as luck-warm, but runtime can choose not
to mlock the special section in memory or use other strategy to save memory.
That will solve most of the memory problem even if we use a partial profile.
The patch adds the support in lld for the special section.For sampleFDO,
because the optimized build uses profile generated from previous release,
often we couldn't tell a function without profile was truely cold or just
newly created so we had to treat them conservatively and put them in .text
section instead of .text.unlikely. The result was when we persue the best
performance by locking .text.hot and .text in memory, we wasted a lot of
memory to keep cold functions inside. This problem has been largely solved
for regular sampleFDO using profile-symbol-list
(https://reviews.llvm.org/D66374), but for the case when we use partial
profile, we still waste a lot of memory because of it.
In https://reviews.llvm.org/D62540, we propose to save functions with unknown
hotness information in a special section called ".text.unknown", so that
compiler will treat those functions as luck-warm, but runtime can choose not
to mlock the special section in memory or use other strategy to save memory.
That will solve most of the memory problem even if we use a partial profile.
The patch adds the support in lld for the special section.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79590
Essentially takes the lld/Common/Threads.h wrappers and moves them to
the llvm/Support/Paralle.h algorithm header.
The changes are:
- Remove policy parameter, since all clients use `par`.
- Rename the methods to `parallelSort` etc to match LLVM style, since
they are no longer C++17 pstl compatible.
- Move algorithms from llvm::parallel:: to llvm::, since they have
"parallel" in the name and are no longer overloads of the regular
algorithms.
- Add range overloads
- Use the sequential algorithm directly when 1 thread is requested
(skips task grouping)
- Fix the index type of parallelForEachN to size_t. Nobody in LLVM was
using any other parameter, and it made overload resolution hard for
for_each_n(par, 0, foo.size(), ...) because 0 is int, not size_t.
Remove Threads.h and update LLD for that.
This is a prerequisite for parallel public symbol processing in the PDB
library, which is in LLVM.
Reviewed By: MaskRay, aganea
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79390
Sections with the SHF_LINK_ORDER flag must be ordered in the same relative
order as the Sections they have a link to. When using a linker script an
arbitrary expression may be used for the virtual address of the
OutputSection. In some cases the virtual address does not monotonically
increase as the OutputSection index increases, so if we base the ordering
of the SHF_LINK_ORDER sections on the index then we can get the order
wrong. We fix this by moving SHF_LINK_ORDER resolution till after we have
created OutputSection virtual addresses.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79286
The current implementation assumes that R_PPC64_TOC16_HA is always followed
by R_PPC64_TOC16_LO_DS. This can break with R_PPC64_TOC16_LO:
// Load the address of the TOC entry, instead of the value stored at that address
addis 3, 2, .LC0@tloc@ha # R_PPC64_TOC16_HA
addi 3, 3, .LC0@tloc@l # R_PPC64_TOC16_LO
blr
which is used by boringssl's util/fipstools/delocate/delocate.go
https://github.com/google/boringssl/blob/master/crypto/fipsmodule/FIPS.md has some documentation.
In short, this tool converts an assembly file to avoid any potential relocations.
The distance to an input .toc is not a constant after linking, so it cannot use an `addis;ld` pair.
Instead, it jumps to a stub which loads the TOC entry address with `addis;addi`.
This patch checks the presence of R_PPC64_TOC16_LO and suppresses
toc-indirect to toc-relative relaxation if R_PPC64_TOC16_LO is seen.
This approach is conservative and loses some relaxation opportunities but is easy to implement.
addis 3, 2, .LC0@toc@ha # no relaxation
addi 3, 3, .LC0@toc@l # no relaxation
li 9, 0
addis 4, 2, .LC0@toc@ha # can relax but suppressed
ld 4, .LC0@toc@l(4) # can relax but suppressed
Also note that interleaved R_PPC64_TOC16_HA and R_PPC64_TOC16_LO_DS is
possible and this patch accounts for that.
addis 3, 2, .LC1@toc@ha # can relax
addis 4, 2, .LC2@toc@ha # can relax
ld 3, .LC1@toc@l(3) # can relax
ld 4, .LC2@toc@l(4) # can relax
Reviewed By: #powerpc, sfertile
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D78431
gold has an option --print-symbol-counts= which prints:
// For each archive
archive $archive $members $fetched_members
// For each object file
symbols $object $defined_symbols $used_defined_symbols
In most cases, `$defined_symbols = $used_defined_symbols` unless weak
symbols are present. Strangely `$used_defined_symbols` includes symbols defined relative to --gc-sections discarded sections.
The `symbols` lines do not appear to be useful.
`archive` lines are useful: `$fetched_members=0` lines correspond to
unused archives. The information can be used to trim dependencies.
This patch implements --print-archive-stats= which prints the number of
members and the number of fetched members for each archive.
Reviewed By: grimar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D78983
GNU tools generate mapping symbols "$d" for .ARM.exidx sections. The
symbols are added to the symbol table much earlier than the merging
takes place, and after that, they become dangling. Before the patch,
LLD output those symbols as SHN_ABS with the value of 0. The patch
removes such symbols from the symbol table.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D78820
When discarding local symbols with --discard-all or --discard-locals,
the ones which are used in relocations should be preserved. LLD used
the simplest approach and just ignored those switches when -r or
--emit-relocs was specified.
The patch implements handling the --discard-* switches for the cases
when relocations are kept by identifying used local symbols and allowing
removing only unused ones. This makes the behavior of LLD compatible
with GNU linkers.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D77807
Fixed error detected by msan. The size field of the .ARM.exidx synthetic
section needs to be initialized to at least estimation level before
calling assignAddresses as that will use the size field.
This was previously reverted in 1ca16fc4f5.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D78422
This reverts commit f969c2aa65.
There are some msan buildbot failures sanitzer-x86_64-linux-fast that
I need to investigate.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D78422
The contents of the .ARM.exidx section must be ordered by SHF_LINK_ORDER
rules. We don't need to know the precise address for this order, but we
do need to know the relative order of sections. We have been using the
sectionIndex for this purpose, this works when the OutputSection order
has a monotonically increasing virtual address, but it is possible to
write a linker script with non-monotonically increasing virtual address.
For these cases we need to evaluate the base address of the OutputSection
so that we can order the .ARM.exidx sections properly.
This change moves the finalisation of .ARM.exidx till after the first
call to AssignAddresses. This permits us to sort on virtual address which
is linker script safe. It also permits a fix for part of pr44824 where
we generate .ARM.exidx section for the vector table when that table is so
far away it is out of range of the .ARM.exidx section. This fix will come
in a follow up patch.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D78422
This fixes a bug as exposed by D77807.
Add tests for {--emit-relocs,-r} x {--discard-locals,--discard-all}. They add coverage for previously undertested cases:
* STT_SECTION associated to GCed sections (`gc`)
* STT_SECTION associated to retained sections (`text`)
* STT_SECTION associated to non-SHF_ALLOC sections (`.comment`)
* STB_LOCAL in GCed sections (`unused_gc`)
Reviewed By: grimar, ikudrin
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D78389
This is part of the Propeller framework to do post link code layout
optimizations. Please see the RFC here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/llvm-dev/ef3mKzAdJ7U/1shV64BYBAAJ and the
detailed RFC doc here:
https://github.com/google/llvm-propeller/blob/plo-dev/Propeller_RFC.pdf
This patch adds lld support for basic block sections and performs relaxations
after the basic blocks have been reordered.
After the linker has reordered the basic block sections according to the
desired sequence, it runs a relaxation pass to optimize jump instructions.
Currently, the compiler emits the long form of all jump instructions. AMD64 ISA
supports variants of jump instructions with one byte offset or a four byte
offset. The compiler generates jump instructions with R_X86_64 32-bit PC
relative relocations. We would like to use a new relocation type for these jump
instructions as it makes it easy and accurate while relaxing these instructions.
The relaxation pass does two things:
First, it deletes all explicit fall-through direct jump instructions between
adjacent basic blocks. This is done by discarding the tail of the basic block
section.
Second, If there are consecutive jump instructions, it checks if the first
conditional jump can be inverted to convert the second into a fall through and
delete the second.
The jump instructions are relaxed by using jump instruction mods, something
like relocations. These are used to modify the opcode of the jump instruction.
Jump instruction mods contain three values, instruction offset, jump type and
size. While writing this jump instruction out to the final binary, the linker
uses the jump instruction mod to determine the opcode and the size of the
modified jump instruction. These mods are required because the input object
files are memory-mapped without write permissions and directly modifying the
object files requires copying these sections. Copying a large number of basic
block sections significantly bloats memory.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D68065
The default GNU linker script uses the following idiom for the array
sections. I'll use .init_array here, but this also applies to
.preinit_array and .fini_array sections.
.init_array :
{
PROVIDE_HIDDEN (__init_array_start = .);
KEEP (*(.init_array))
PROVIDE_HIDDEN (__init_array_end = .);
}
The C-library will take references to the _start and _end symbols to
process the array. This will make LLD keep the OutputSection even if there
are no .init_array sections. As the current check for RELRO uses the
section type for .init_array the above example with no .init_array
InputSections fails the checks as there are no .init_array sections to give
the OutputSection a type of SHT_INIT_ARRAY. This often leads to a
non-contiguous RELRO error message.
The simple fix is to a textual section match as well as a section type
match.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D76915
Currently, `error: incompatible section flags for .rodata` is reported
when we mix SHF_LINK_ORDER and non-SHF_LINK_ORDER sections in an output section.
This is overconstrained. This patch allows mixed flags with the
requirement that SHF_LINK_ORDER sections must be contiguous. Mixing
flags is used by Linux aarch64 (https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/953)
.init.data : { ... KEEP(*(__patchable_function_entries)) ... }
When the integrated assembler is enabled, clang's -fpatchable-function-entry=N[,M]
implementation sets the SHF_LINK_ORDER flag (D72215) to fix a number of
garbage collection issues.
Strictly speaking, the ELF specification does not require contiguous
SHF_LINK_ORDER sections but for many current uses of SHF_LINK_ORDER like
.ARM.exidx/__patchable_function_entries there has been a requirement for
the sections to be contiguous on top of the requirements of the ELF
specification.
This patch also imposes one restriction: SHF_LINK_ORDER sections cannot
be separated by a symbol assignment or a BYTE command. Not allowing BYTE
is a natural extension that a non-SHF_LINK_ORDER cannot be a separator.
Symbol assignments can delimiter the contents of SHF_LINK_ORDER
sections. Allowing SHF_LINK_ORDER sections across symbol assignments
(especially __start_/__stop_) can make things hard to explain. The
restriction should not be a problem for practical use cases.
Reviewed By: psmith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D77007
This behavior matches GNU ld and seems reasonable.
```
// If a SECTIONS command is not specified
.text.* -> .text
.rodata.* -> .rodata
.init_array.* -> .init_array
```
A proposed Linux feature CONFIG_FG_KASLR may depend on the GNU ld behavior.
Reword a comment about -z keep-text-section-prefix and a comment about
CommonSection (deleted by rL286234).
Reviewed By: grimar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75225
Hexagon ABI specifies that call x@gdplt is transformed to call __tls_get_addr.
Example:
call x@gdplt
is changed to
call __tls_get_addr
When x is an external tls variable.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D74443
-M output can be useful when diagnosing an "error: output file too large" problem (emitted in openFile()).
I just ran into such a situation where I had to debug an erronerous
Linux kernel linker script. It tried to create a file larger than
INT64_MAX bytes.
This patch could have helped https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44715 as well.
Reviewed By: grimar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75966
See `docs/ELF/linker_script.rst` for the new computation for sh_addr and sh_addralign.
`ALIGN(section_align)` now means: "increase alignment to section_align"
(like yet another input section requirement).
The "start of section .foo changes from 0x11 to 0x20" warning no longer
makes sense. Change it to warn if sh_addr%sh_addralign!=0.
To decrease the alignment from the default max_input_align,
use `.output ALIGN(8) : {}` instead of `.output : ALIGN(8) {}`
See linkerscript/section-address-align.test as an example.
When both an output section address and ALIGN are set (can be seen as an
"undefined behavior" https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2020-03/msg00115.html),
lld may align more than GNU ld, but it makes a linker script working
with GNU ld hard to break with lld.
This patch can be considered as restoring part of the behavior before D74736.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75724
This makes --orphan-handling= less noisy.
This change also improves our compatibility with GNU ld.
GNU ld special cases .symtab, .strtab and .shstrtab . We need output section
descriptions for .symtab, .strtab and .shstrtab to suppress:
<internal>:(.symtab) is being placed in '.symtab'
<internal>:(.shstrtab) is being placed in '.shstrtab'
<internal>:(.strtab) is being placed in '.strtab'
With --strip-all, .symtab and .strtab can be omitted (note, --strip-all is not compatible with --emit-relocs).
Reviewed By: nickdesaulniers
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75149
With this --shuffle-sections=seed produces the same result in every
host.
Reviewed By: grimar, MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D74971
Konstantin Schwarz