This patch redefines the default optimization level as 1 and adds
new level 0. In the command line, it is -O0. The flag disables
costly but optional features so that the linker produces semantically
correct but larger output quickly. Currently it only disables
section merging.
This flag is not intended to be used for final production linking.
It is intended to be used in compile-link-test cycle.
Time to link clang with debug info is about 2x faster with the flag.
Head:
13.24 seconds
Output size: 1227189664 bytes
With this patch:
7.41 seconds
Output size: 2490281784 bytes
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19705
llvm-svn: 268056
Using multiple context used to be a really big memory saving because we
could free memory from each file while the linker proceeded with the
symbol resolution. We are getting lazier about reading data from the
bitcode, so I was curious if this was still a good tradeoff.
One thing that is a bit annoying is that we still have to copy the
symbol names. The problem is that the names are stored in the Module and
get freed when we move the module bits during linking.
Long term I think the solution is to add a symbol table to the bitcode.
That way IRObject file will not need to use a Module or a Context and we
can drop it while still keeping a StringRef to the names.
This patch is still be an interesting medium term improvement.
When linking llvm-as without debug info this patch is a small speedup:
master: 29.861877513 seconds
patch: 29.814533787 seconds
With debug info the numbers are
master: 34.765181469 seconds
patch: 34.563351584 seconds
The peak memory usage when linking llvm-as with debug info was
master: 599.10MB
patch: 600.13MB
llvm-svn: 267921
Relocations against sections with no SHF_ALLOC bit are R_ABS relocations.
Currently we are creating Relocations vector for them, but that is wasteful.
This patch is to skip vector construction and to directly apply relocations
in place.
This patch seems to be pretty effective for large executables with debug info.
r266158 (Rafael's patch to change the way how we apply relocations) caused a
temporary performance degradation for such executables, but this patch makes
it even faster than before.
Time to link clang with debug info (output size is 1070 MB):
before r266158: 15.312 seconds (0%)
r266158: 17.301 seconds (+13.0%)
Head: 16.484 seconds (+7.7%)
w/patch: 13.166 seconds (-14.0%)
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19645
llvm-svn: 267917
There seems to be no reason to keep st_size of undefined symbols.
This patch removes the member for it. This patch will change outputs
in cases that undefined symbols are copied to output, but I think
this is unimportant.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19574
llvm-svn: 267826
It is now used only for relocations that only set the low bits inside a
page. Everything else is handled by getRelExpr.
I will send a another review renaming and better documenting
isRelRelative.
llvm-svn: 267705
The semantics of the -u flag are to load the lazy symbol named by the flag. We
were previously relying on this behavior falling out of symbol resolution
against a synthetic undefined symbol, but that didn't quite give us the
correct behavior, so we needed a flag to mark symbols created with -u so
we could treat them specially in the writer. However, it's simpler and less
error prone to implement the required behavior directly and remove the flag.
This fixes an issue where symbols loaded with -u would receive hidden
visibility even when the definition in an object file had wider visibility.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19560
llvm-svn: 267639
When --reproduce <path> is given, then we need to concatenate input
file paths to the given path to save input files to the directory.
Previously, path concatenation didn't handle Windows drive letters
so it could generate invalid paths such as "C:\D:\foo". It also didn't
handle ".." path components, so it could produce some bad paths
such as "foo/../../etc/passwd".
In this patch, Windows drive letters and ".." are removed before
concatenating paths.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19551
llvm-svn: 267600
We were only doing it for .so and --export-dynamic, but those are not
the only ways a symbol ends up in the dynamic symbol table.
Problem diagnostic and earlier patch version by Peter Collingbourne.
llvm-svn: 267568
This remove a fixme, cleans up the weak undef interaction with archives and
lets us keep weak undefs still weak if they resolve to shared.
llvm-svn: 267555
--reproduce dumps the object files in a directory chosen
(preserving the file system layout) and the linker invocation
so that people can create an archive and upload for debugging.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19494
llvm-svn: 267497
MIPS is the only target requires GOT header. We already have MIPS
specific code in the `GotSection` class, so move MIPS GOT header
generation there and delete redundant stuff like `GotHeaderEntriesNum`
field and `writeGotHeader` method.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19465
llvm-svn: 267460
Rafael Espindola