This is the other flag clang passes when calling clang with two -arch
flags (which means with this, `clang -arch x86_64 -arch arm64 -fuse-ld=lld ...`
now no longer prints any warnings \o/). Since clang calls the linker several
times in that setup, it's not clear to the user from which invocation the
errors are. The flag's help text is
Specifies that the linker should augment error and warning messages
with the architecture name.
In ld64, the only effect of the flag is that undefined symbols are prefaced
with
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
instead of the usual "Undefined symbols:". So for now, let's add this
only to undefined symbol errors too. That's probably the most common
linker diagnostic.
Another idea would be to prefix errors and warnings with "ld64.lld(x86_64):"
instead of the usual "ld64.lld:", but I'm not sure if people would
misunderstand that as a comment about the arch of ld itself.
But open to suggestions on what effect this flag should have :) And we
don't have to get it perfect now, we can iterate on it.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105450
This is one of two flags clang passes to the linker when giving calling
clang with multiple -arch flags.
I think it'd make sense to also use finalOutput instead of outputFile
in CodeSignatureSection() and when replacing @executable_path, but
ld64 doesn't do that, so I'll at least put those in separate commits.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105449
I think this is an old way for doing what is done with
-reexport_library these days, but it's e.g. still used in libunwind's
build (the opensource.apple.com one, not the llvm one).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105448
We have been creating many ConcatInputSections with identical values due
to .subsections_via_symbols. This diff factors out the identical values
into a Shared struct, to reduce memory consumption and make copying
cheaper.
I also changed `callSiteCount` from a uint32_t to a 31-bit field to save an
extra word.
All in all, this takes InputSection from 120 to 72 bytes (and
ConcatInputSection from 160 to 112 bytes), i.e. 30% size reduction in
ConcatInputSection.
Numbers for linking chromium_framework on my 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W:
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 4.14 4.24 4.18 4.183 0.027548999
+ 20 4.04 4.11 4.075 4.0775 0.018027756
Difference at 95.0% confidence
-0.1055 +/- 0.0149005
-2.52211% +/- 0.356215%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0232803)
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105305
This is a pretty big refactoring diff, so here are the motivations:
Previously, ICF ran after scanRelocations(), where we emitting
bind/rebase opcodes etc. So we had a bunch of redundant leftovers after
ICF. Having ICF run before Writer seems like a better design, and is
what LLD-ELF does, so this diff refactors it accordingly.
However, ICF had two dependencies on things occurring in Writer: 1) it
needs literals to be deduplicated beforehand and 2) it needs to know
which functions have unwind info, which was being handled by
`UnwindInfoSection::prepareRelocations()`.
In order to do literal deduplication earlier, we need to add literal
input sections to their corresponding output sections. So instead of
putting all input sections into the big `inputSections` vector, and then
filtering them by type later on, I've changed things so that literal
sections get added directly to their output sections during the 'gather'
phase. Likewise for compact unwind sections -- they get added directly
to the UnwindInfoSection now. This latter change is not strictly
necessary, but makes it easier for ICF to determine which functions have
unwind info.
Adding literal sections directly to their output sections means that we
can no longer determine `inputOrder` from iterating over
`inputSections`. Instead, we store that order explicitly on
InputSection. Bloating the size of InputSection for this purpose would
be unfortunate -- but LLD-ELF has already solved this problem: it reuses
`outSecOff` to store this order value.
One downside of this refactor is that we now make an additional pass
over the unwind info relocations to figure out which functions have
unwind info, since want to know that before `processRelocations()`. I've
made sure to run that extra loop only if ICF is enabled, so there should
be no overhead in non-optimizing runs of the linker.
The upside of all this is that the `inputSections` vector now contains
only ConcatInputSections that are destined for ConcatOutputSections, so
we can clean up a bunch of code that just existed to filter out other
elements from that vector.
I will test for the lack of redundant binds/rebases in the upcoming
cfstring deduplication diff. While binds/rebases can also happen in the
regular `.text` section, they're more common in `.data` sections, so it
seems more natural to test it that way.
This change is perf-neutral when linking chromium_framework.
Reviewed By: oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105044
Everything (including test) modified from ELF/COFF. Using the same syntax
(--lto-O3, etc) as ELF.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105223
Literal sections can be deduplicated before running ICF. That makes it
easy to compare them during ICF: we can tell if two literals are
constant-equal by comparing their offsets in their OutputSection.
LLD-ELF takes a similar approach.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104671
The variable used to need the wider scope, but doesn't after the
reland. See LC_LINKER_OPTIONS-related discussion on
https://reviews.llvm.org/D104353 for background.
We make it less than INT_MAX in order not to conflict with the ordering
of zerofill sections, which must always be placed at the end of their
segment.
This is the more structural fix for the issue addressed in {D104596}.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104607
findLibrary() returned a StringRef while findFramework & other helper
functions returned std::strings. Standardize on std::string.
(I initially tried making the helper functions all return StringRefs,
but I realized we shouldn't return input StringRefs since their
lifetimes would not be obvious from the calling code.)
The `icf` command-line option is not present in ld64, so it should use the LLD option syntax, which begins with double dashes and separates primary option from any suboption with the equal sign.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104548
ICF = Identical C(ode|OMDAT) Folding
This is the LLD ELF/COFF algorithm, adapted for MachO. So far, only `-icf all` is supported. In order to support `-icf safe`, we will need to port address-significance tables (`.addrsig` directives) to MachO, which will come in later diffs.
`check-{llvm,clang,lld}` have 0 regressions for `lld -icf all` vs. baseline ld64.
We only run ICF on `__TEXT,__text` for reasons explained in the block comment in `ConcatOutputSection.cpp`.
Here is the perf impact for linking `chromium_framekwork` on a Mac Pro (16-core Xeon W) for the non-ICF case vs. pre-ICF:
```
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 4.27 4.44 4.34 4.349 0.043029977
+ 20 4.37 4.46 4.405 4.4115 0.025188761
Difference at 95.0% confidence
0.0625 +/- 0.0225658
1.43711% +/- 0.518873%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0352566)
```
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, int3
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103292
We need to dedup archive loads (similar to what we do for dylib
loads).
I noticed this issue after building some Swift stuff that used
`-force_load_swift_libs`, as it caused some Swift archives to be loaded
many times.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis, MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104353
This is motivated by an upcoming diff in which the
WordLiteralInputSection ctor sets itself up based on the value of its
section flags. As such, it needs to be passed the `flags` value as part
of its ctor parameters, instead of having them assigned after the fact
in `parseSection()`. While refactoring code to make that possible, I
figured it would make sense for the other InputSections to also take
their initial values as ctor parameters.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103978
These fields currently live in the parent InputSection class,
but they should be specific to ConcatInputSection, since the other
InputSection classes (that contain literals) aren't atomically live or
dead -- rather their component string/int literals should have
individual liveness states. (An upcoming diff will add liveness bits for
StringPieces and fixed-sized literals.)
I also factored out some asserts for isCoalescedWeak() in MarkLive.cpp.
We now avoid putting coalesced sections in the `inputSections` vector,
so we don't have to check/assert against it everywhere.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103977
For debugging dylib loading, it's useful to have some insight into what
the linker is doing.
ld64 has the undocumented RC_TRACE_DYLIB_SEARCHING env var
for this printing dylib search candidates.
This adds a flag --print-dylib-search to make lld print the seame information.
It's useful for users, but also for writing tests. The output is formatted
slightly differently than ld64, but we still support RC_TRACE_DYLIB_SEARCHING
to offer at least a compatible way to trigger this.
ld64 has both `-print_statistics` and `-trace_symbol_output` to enable
diagnostics output. I went with "print" since that seems like a more
straightforward name.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103985
It causes libraries whose names start with "swift" to be force-loaded.
Note that unlike the more general `-force_load`, this flag only applies
to libraries specified via LC_LINKER_OPTIONS, and not those passed on
the command-line. This is what ld64 does.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103709
Our implementation draws heavily from LLD-ELF's, which in turn delegates
its string deduplication to llvm-mc's StringTableBuilder. The messiness of
this diff is largely due to the fact that we've previously assumed that
all InputSections get concatenated together to form the output. This is
no longer true with CStringInputSections, which split their contents into
StringPieces. StringPieces are much more lightweight than InputSections,
which is important as we create a lot of them. They may also overlap in
the output, which makes it possible for strings to be tail-merged. In
fact, the initial version of this diff implemented tail merging, but
I've dropped it for reasons I'll explain later.
**Alignment Issues**
Mergeable cstring literals are found under the `__TEXT,__cstring`
section. In contrast to ELF, which puts strings that need different
alignments into different sections, clang's Mach-O backend puts them all
in one section. Strings that need to be aligned have the `.p2align`
directive emitted before them, which simply translates into zero padding
in the object file.
I *think* ld64 extracts the desired per-string alignment from this data
by preserving each string's offset from the last section-aligned
address. I'm not entirely certain since it doesn't seem consistent about
doing this; but perhaps this can be chalked up to cases where ld64 has
to deduplicate strings with different offset/alignment combos -- it
seems to pick one of their alignments to preserve. This doesn't seem
correct in general; we can in fact can induce ld64 to produce a crashing
binary just by linking in an additional object file that only contains
cstrings and no code. See PR50563 for details.
Moreover, this scheme seems rather inefficient: since unaligned and
aligned strings are all put in the same section, which has a single
alignment value, it doesn't seem possible to tell whether a given string
doesn't have any alignment requirements. Preserving offset+alignments
for strings that don't need it is wasteful.
In practice, the crashes seen so far seem to stem from x86_64 SIMD
operations on cstrings. X86_64 requires SIMD accesses to be
16-byte-aligned. So for now, I'm thinking of just aligning all strings
to 16 bytes on x86_64. This is indeed wasteful, but implementation-wise
it's simpler than preserving per-string alignment+offsets. It also
avoids the aforementioned crash after deduplication of
differently-aligned strings. Finally, the overhead is not huge: using
16-byte alignment (vs no alignment) is only a 0.5% size overhead when
linking chromium_framework.
With these alignment requirements, it doesn't make sense to attempt tail
merging -- most strings will not be eligible since their overlaps aren't
likely to start at a 16-byte boundary. Tail-merging (with alignment) for
chromium_framework only improves size by 0.3%.
It's worth noting that LLD-ELF only does tail merging at `-O2`. By
default (at `-O1`), it just deduplicates w/o tail merging. @thakis has
also mentioned that they saw it regress compressed size in some cases
and therefore turned it off. `ld64` does not seem to do tail merging at
all.
**Performance Numbers**
CString deduplication reduces chromium_framework from 250MB to 242MB, or
about a 3.2% reduction.
Numbers for linking chromium_framework on my 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W:
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 3.91 4.03 3.935 3.95 0.034641016
+ 20 3.99 4.14 4.015 4.0365 0.0492336
Difference at 95.0% confidence
0.0865 +/- 0.027245
2.18987% +/- 0.689746%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0425673)
As expected, cstring merging incurs some non-trivial overhead.
When passing `--no-literal-merge`, it seems that performance is the
same, i.e. the refactoring in this diff didn't cost us.
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 3.91 4.03 3.935 3.95 0.034641016
+ 20 3.89 4.02 3.935 3.9435 0.043197831
No difference proven at 95.0% confidence
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102964
When a library "host"'s reexports change their installName with
`$ld$os10.11$install_name$host`, we used to write a load command for "host" but
write the version numbers of the reexport instead of "host". This fixes that.
I first thought that the rule is to take the version numbers from the library
that originally had that install name (implemented in D103819), but that's not
what ld64 seems to be doing: It takes the version number from the first dylib
with that install name it loads, and it loads the reexporting library before
the reexports. We already did most of that, we just added reexports before the
reexporter. After this change, we add the reexporter before the reexports.
Addresses https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49800#c11 part 1.
(ld64 seems to add reexports after processing _all_ files on the command line,
while we add them right after the reexporter. For the common case of reexport +
$ld$ symbol changing back to the exporter name, this doesn't make a difference,
but you can construct a case where it does. I expect this to not make a
difference in practice though.)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103821
Also adds support for live_support sections, no_dead_strip sections,
.no_dead_strip symbols.
Chromium Framework 345MB unstripped -> 250MB stripped
(vs 290MB unstripped -> 236M stripped with ld64).
Doing dead stripping is a bit faster than not, because so much less
data needs to be processed:
% ministat lld_*
x lld_nostrip.txt
+ lld_strip.txt
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 10 3.929414 4.07692 4.0269079 4.0089678 0.044214794
+ 10 3.8129408 3.9025559 3.8670411 3.8642573 0.024779651
Difference at 95.0% confidence
-0.144711 +/- 0.0336749
-3.60967% +/- 0.839989%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0358398)
This interacts with many parts of the linker. I tried to add test coverage
for all added `isLive()` checks, so that some test will fail if any of them
is removed. I checked that the test expectations for the most part match
ld64's behavior (except for live-support-iterations.s, see the comment
in the test). Interacts with:
- debug info
- export tries
- import opcodes
- flags like -exported_symbol(s_list)
- -U / dynamic_lookup
- mod_init_funcs, mod_term_funcs
- weak symbol handling
- unwind info
- stubs
- map files
- -sectcreate
- undefined, dylib, common, defined (both absolute and normal) symbols
It's possible it interacts with more features I didn't think of,
of course.
I also did some manual testing:
- check-llvm check-clang check-lld work with lld with this patch
as host linker and -dead_strip enabled
- Chromium still starts
- Chromium's base_unittests still pass, including unwind tests
Implemenation-wise, this is InputSection-based, so it'll work for
object files with .subsections_via_symbols (which includes all
object files generated by clang). I first based this on the COFF
implementation, but later realized that things are more similar to ELF.
I think it'd be good to refactor MarkLive.cpp to look more like the ELF
part at some point, but I'd like to get a working state checked in first.
Mechanical parts:
- Rename canOmitFromOutput to wasCoalesced (no behavior change)
since it really is for weak coalesced symbols
- Add noDeadStrip to Defined, corresponding to N_NO_DEAD_STRIP
(`.no_dead_strip` in asm)
Fixes PR49276.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103324
We used to not print dylibs referenced by other dylibs in `-t` mode. This
affected reexports, and with `-flat_namespace` also just dylibs loaded by
dylibs. Now we print them.
Fixes PR49514.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103428
In all of these cases, the functions could simply return a nullptr instead of {}.
There is no case where Optional<nullptr> has a special meaning.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103489
This omits load commands for unreferenced dylibs if:
- the dylib was loaded implicitly,
- it is marked MH_DEAD_STRIPPABLE_DYLIB
- or -dead_strip_dylibs is passed
This matches ld64.
Currently, the "is dylib referenced" state is computed before dead code
stripping and is not updated after dead code stripping. This too matches ld64.
We should do better here.
With this, clang-format linked with lld (like with ld64) no longer has
libobjc.A.dylib in `otool -L` output. (It was implicitly loaded as a reexport
of CoreFoundation.framework, but it's not needed.)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103430
lld/MachO/Driver.cpp and lld/MachO/SyntheticSections.cpp include
llvm/Config/config.h which doesn't exist when building standalone lld.
This patch replaces llvm/Config/config.h include with llvm/Config/llvm-config.h
just like it is in lld/ELF/Driver.cpp and HAVE_LIBXAR with LLVM_HAVE_LIXAR and
moves LLVM_HAVE_LIBXAR from config.h to llvm-config.h
Also it adds LLVM_HAVE_LIBXAR to LLVMConfig.cmake and links liblldMachO2.so
with XAR_LIB if LLVM_HAVE_LIBXAR is set.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102084
That way, it's done only once instead of every time shouldExportSymbol() is
called.
Possibly a bit faster:
% ministat at_main at_symtodo
x at_main
+ at_symtodo
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 30 3.9732189 4.114846 4.024621 4.0304692 0.037022865
+ 30 3.93766 4.0510042 3.9973931 3.991469 0.028472565
Difference at 95.0% confidence
-0.0390002 +/- 0.0170714
-0.967635% +/- 0.423559%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0330256)
In other runs with n=30 it makes no perf difference, so maybe it's just noise.
But being able to quickly and conveniently answer "is this symbol exported?"
is useful for fixing PR50373 and for implementing -dead_strip, so this seems
like a good change regardless.
No behavior change.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102661
Has the effect that `__mh_execute_header` stays in the symbol table of
outputs even after running `strip` on the output. I don't know if that's
important for anything -- my motivation for the patch is just is to make
the output more similar to ld64.
(Corresponds to symbolTableInAndNeverStrip in ld64.)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102619
Extend the range of calls beyond an architecture's limited branch range by first calling a thunk, which loads the far address into a scratch register (x16 on ARM64) and branches through it.
Other ports (COFF, ELF) use multiple passes with successively-refined guesses regarding the expansion of text-space imposed by thunk-space overhead. This MachO algorithm places thunks during MergedOutputSection::finalize() in a single pass using exact thunk-space overheads. Thunks are kept in a separate vector to avoid the overhead of inserting into the `inputs` vector of `MergedOutputSection`.
FIXME:
* arm64-stubs.s test is broken
* add thunk tests
* Handle thunks to DylibSymbol in MergedOutputSection::finalize()
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100818
We had a hardcoded check and a stale TODO, written back when we only had
support for one architecture.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102154
In particular, we should apply the `-undefined` behavior to all
such symbols, include those that are specified via the command line
(i.e. `-e`, `-u`, and `-exported_symbol`). ld64 supports this too.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102143
This would cause us to pull in symbols (and code) that should
be unused.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102137
Symbols explicitly exported via command-line options `--exported_symbol SYM` and `--exported_symbols_list FILE` must be defined. Before this fix, lazy symbols defined in archives would be left to languish. We now force them to be included in the linked output.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102100
We need to account for path rerooting when generating the response
file. We could either reroot the paths before generating the file, or pass
through the original filenames and change just the syslibroot. I've opted for
the latter, in order that the reproduction run more closely mirrors the
original.
We must also be careful *not* to make an absolute path relative if it is
shadowed by a rerooted path. See repro6.tar in reroot-path.s for
details.
I've moved the call to `createResponseFile()` after the initialization of
`config->systemLibraryRoots`, since it now needs to know what those roots are.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101224
ld64 automatically renames many sections depending on output type and assorted flags. Here, we implement the most common configs. We can add more obscure flags and behaviors as needed.
Depends on D101393
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101395
@thakis pointed out that `mach_header` and `mach_header_64`
actually have the same set of (used) fields, with the 64-bit version
having extra padding. So we can access the fields we need using the
single `mach_header` type instead of using templates to switch between
the two.
I also spotted a potential issue where hasObjCSection tries to parse a
file w/o checking if it does indeed match the target arch... As such,
I've added a quick magic number check to ensure we don't access invalid
memory during `findCommand()`.
Addresses PR50180.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101724
This just parses the `-arch armv7` and emits the right header flags.
The rest will be slowly fleshed out in upcoming diffs.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101557
Modern versions of macOS (>= 10.7) and in general all modern Mach-O
target archs want PIEs by default. ld64 defaults to PIE for iOS >= 4.3,
as well as for all versions of watchOS and simulators. Basically all the
platforms LLD is likely to target want PIE. So instead of cluttering LLD's
code with legacy version checks, I think it's simpler to just default to
PIE for everything.
Note that `-no_pie` still works, so users can still opt out of it.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis, MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101513
Add option to limit (or remove limits) on the number of errors printed before exiting. This option exists in the other lld ports: COFF & ELF.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101274