We would crash if a SHF_LINK_ORDER section pointed to a non
InputSection section. Since those sections are not merged in order,
SHF_LINK_ORDER is pretty meaningless and we can error on that case.
llvm-svn: 304327
This is PR33052, "Bug 33052 - -r eats comdats ".
To fix it I stop removing group section from out when -r is given
and fixing SHT_GROUP content when writing it just like we do some
other fixup, e.g. for Rel[a]. (it needs fix for section indices that
are in group).
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D33485
llvm-svn: 304140
In this way, the content and the flag is always consistent, which I
think better than removing the bit when input sections reaches the Writer.
llvm-svn: 303926
Summary:
This is required on some platforms, as GNU libstdc++ std::call_once is known to be buggy.
This fixes operation of LLD on at least NetBSD and perhaps OpenBSD and Linux PowerPC.
The same change has been introduced to LLVM and LLDB.
Reviewers: ruiu
Reviewed By: ruiu
Subscribers: emaste, #lld
Tags: #lld
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D33508
llvm-svn: 303788
GetSection is a template because write calls relocate.
relocate has two parts. The non alloc code really has to be a
template, as it is looking a raw input file data.
The alloc part is only a template because of getSize.
This patch folds the value of getSize early, detemplates
getRelocTargetVA and splits relocate into a templated non alloc case
and a regular function for the alloc case. This has the nice advantage
of making sure we collect all the information we need for relocations
before getting to InputSection::relocateNonAlloc.
Since we know got is alloc, it can just call the function directly and
avoid the template.
llvm-svn: 303355
This change adds support for the R_ARM_SBREL32 relocation. The relocation
is a base relative relocation that is produced by clang/llvm when -frwpi
is used. The use case for the -frwpi option is position independent data
for embedded systems that do not have a GOT. With -frwpi all data is
accessed via an offset from a base register (usually r9), where r9 is set
at run time to where the data has been loaded. The base of the data is
known as the static base.
The ARM ABI defines the static base as:
B(S) is the addressing origin of the output segment defining the symbol S.
The origin is not required to be the base address of the segment. For
simplicity we choose to use the base address of the segment.
The ARM procedure call standard only defines a read write variant using
R_ARM_SBREL32 relocations. The read-only data is accessed via pc-relative
offsets from the code, this is implemented in clang as -fropi.
Fixes PR32924
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D33280
llvm-svn: 303337
We generally want to use uint64_t instead of uintX_t if the 64-bit
type works for both 32-bit and 64-bit because it is simpler than
the variable-size type.
llvm-svn: 300293
Previously we silently produced broken output for R_386_GOT32X/R_386_GOT32
relocations if they were used to compute the address of the symbol’s global
offset table entry without base register when position-independent code is disabled.
Situation happened because of recent ABI changes. Released ABI mentions that
R_386_GOT32X can be calculated in a two different ways (so we did not follow ABI here
before this patch), but draft ABI also mentions R_386_GOT32 relocation here.
We should use the same calculations for both relocations.
Problem is that we always calculated them as G + A - GOT (offset from end of GOT),
but for case when PIC is disabled, according to i386 ABI calculation should be G + A,
what should produce just an address in GOT finally.
ABI: https://github.com/hjl-tools/x86-psABI/wiki/intel386-psABI-draft.pdf (p36, p60).
llvm-svn: 299812
Previously, undefined symbol errors are one line like this
and wasn't easy to read.
/ssd/clang/bin/ld.lld: error: /ssd/llvm-project/lld/ELF/Writer.cpp:207: undefined symbol 'lld:🧝:EhFrameSection<llvm::object::ELFType<(llvm::support::endianness)0, true> >::addSection(lld:🧝:InputSectionBase*)'
This patch make it more structured like this.
bin/ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: lld:🧝:EhFrameSection<llvm::object::ELFType<(llvm::support::endianness)0, true>
>>> Referenced by Writer.cpp:207 (/ssd/llvm-project/lld/ELF/Writer.cpp:207)
>>> Writer.cpp.o in archive lib/liblldELF.a
Discussion thread:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-March/111459.html
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31481
llvm-svn: 299097
This is a shorthand for Config->Wordsize == 8. So this is not strictly
necessary but seems handy. "Is 64 bit?" is easier to read than "Is
wordsize 8 byte?"
llvm-svn: 298463
The patch introduces two new relocations expressions R_MIPS_GOT_GP and
R_MIPS_GOT_GP_PC. The first one represents a current value of `_gp`
pointer and used to calculate relocations against the `__gnu_local_gp`
symbol. The second one represents the offset between the beginning of
the function and the `_gp` pointer's value.
There are two motivations for introducing new expressions:
- It's better to keep all non-trivial relocation calculations in the
single place - `getRelocTargetVA` function.
- Relocations against both `_gp_disp` and `__gnu_local_gp` symbols
depend on the `_gp` value. It's a magical value points to the "middle"
of GOT. Now all relocations use a common `_gp` value. But in fact,
under some conditions each input file might require its own `_gp`
value. I'm going to implement it in the future patches. So it's
better to make `MipsGotSection` responsible for calculation of
the `_gp` value.
llvm-svn: 298306
We had a few Config member functions that returns configuration values.
For example, we had is64() which returns true if the target is 64-bit.
The return values of these functions are constant and never change.
This patch is to compute them only once to make it clear that they'll
never change.
llvm-svn: 298168
Synthetic sections don't belong to any input file, but still they
are input sections. Whenever problem occurs with relocations in
these sections lld crashes in error reporting, trying to print
input file name.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D30889
llvm-svn: 297711
With this we have a single section hierarchy. It is a bit less code,
but the main advantage will be in a future patch being able to handle
foo = symbol_in_obj;
in a linker script. Currently that fails since we try to find the
output section of symbol_in_obj. With this we should be able to just
return an InputSection from the expression.
llvm-svn: 297313
The list of all input sections was defined in SymbolTable class for a
historical reason. The list itself is not a template. However, because
SymbolTable class is a template, we needed to pass around ELFT to access
the list. This patch moves the list out of the class so that it doesn't
need ELFT.
llvm-svn: 296309
With this we complete the transition out of special output sections,
and with the previous patches it should be possible to merge
OutputSectionBase and OuputSection.
llvm-svn: 296023
With the current design an InputSection is basically anything that
goes directly in a OutputSection. That includes plain input section
but also synthetic sections, so this should probably not be a
template.
llvm-svn: 295993
We shouldn't report an error for R_*_NONE relocs since we're emitting
them when writing relocations to discarded sections.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D30279
llvm-svn: 295936
In the target dependent code we already always return a int64_t. In
the target independent code we carefully use uintX_t, which has the
same result given 2 complement rules.
This just simplifies the code to use int64_t everywhere.
llvm-svn: 295263
This is a really horrible case. If a .eh_frame points to a discarded
section, it is not clear what is the correct thing to do.
It looks like ld.bfd discards the entire .eh_frame content and gold
discards the second relocation, leaving one frame with an fde that
refers to a bogus location. This is similar to what gold does.
llvm-svn: 295133
This reverts commit r295102.
In the link of seabios the assumption seems to be that the section has
an actual address, so this is not sufficient. Changing the assembly
code to add a "a" flag seems like the correct thing to do instead of
extending this hack.
Sorry about the noise.
Original message:
Relax the restriction on what relocations can be in a non-alloc section.
The main thing that they can't have is relocations that require the
creation of gots or plt. For now also accept R_PC.
Found while linking seabios.
llvm-svn: 295130
The main thing that they can't have is relocations that require the
creation of gots or plt. For now also accept R_PC.
Found while linking seabios.
llvm-svn: 295102
Unfortunately some consumers of our .o files produced with -r expect
only one section symbol per section. That is true of at least of go's
own linker.
Combining them is a somewhat convoluted process. We have to create a
symbol for every section since we don't know which ones will be
needed. The relocation sections also have to be written first to
handle the Elf_Rel addend.
I did consider a completely different approach:
We could remove the -r special case of relocation sections when
reading. We would instead have a copyRelocs function that is used
instead of scanRelocs. It would create a DynamicReloc for each
relocation and a RelocationSection for each input relocation section.
A complication of such change is that DynamicReloc would have to take
a section index and a input section instead of a symbol since with
-emit-relocs some DynamicReloc would hold relocations referring to the
dynamic symbol table and other to the static symbol table.
That would be a pretty big change, and if we do it it is probably
better to do it as a refactoring.
llvm-svn: 294816
with temporarily file name fix in testcase.
Original commit message:
-q, --emit-relocs - Generate relocations in output
Simplest implementation:
* no GC case,
* no "/DISCARD/" linkerscript command support.
This patch is extracted from D28612 / D29636,
Relative to PR31579.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D29663
llvm-svn: 294469
-q, --emit-relocs - Generate relocations in output
Simplest implementation:
* no GC case,
* no "/DISCARD/" linkerscript command support.
This patch is extracted from D28612 / D29636,
Relative to PR31579.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D29663
llvm-svn: 294464
With a synthetic merge section we can have, for example, a single
.rodata section with stings, fixed sized constants and non merge
constants.
I can be simplified further by not setting Entsize, but that is
probably better done is a followup patch.
This should allow some cleanup in the linker script code now that
every output section command maps to just one output section.
llvm-svn: 294005
Thunks are now implemented by redirecting the relocation to the
symbol S, to a symbol TS in a Thunk. The Thunk will transfer control
to S. This has the following implications:
- All the side-effects of Thunks happen within createThunks()
- Thunks are no longer stored in InputSections and Symbols no longer
need to hold a pointer to a Thunk
- The synthetic Thunk sections need to be merged into OutputSections
This implementation is almost a direct conversion of the existing
Thunks with the following exceptions:
- Mips LA25 Thunks are placed before the InputSection that defines
the symbol that needs a Thunk.
- All ARM Thunks are placed at the end of the OutputSection of the
first caller to the Thunk.
Range extension Thunks are not supported yet so it is optimistically
assumed that all Thunks can be reused.
This is a recommit of r293283 with a fixed comparison predicate as
std::merge requires a strict weak ordering.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D29327
llvm-svn: 293757
Thunks are now implemented by redirecting the relocation to the
symbol S, to a symbol TS in a Thunk. The Thunk will transfer control
to S. This has the following implications:
- All the side-effects of Thunks happen within createThunks()
- Thunks are no longer stored in InputSections and Symbols no longer
need to hold a pointer to a Thunk
- The synthetic Thunk sections need to be merged into OutputSections
This implementation is almost a direct conversion of the existing
Thunks with the following exceptions:
- Mips LA25 Thunks are placed before the InputSection that defines
the symbol that needs a Thunk.
- All ARM Thunks are placed at the end of the OutputSection of the
first caller to the Thunk.
Range extension Thunks are not supported yet so it is optimistically
assumed that all Thunks can be reused.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D29129
llvm-svn: 293283
Previously we stored kept locals in a KeptLocalSyms arrays,
belonged to files.
Patch makes SymbolTableSection to store locals in Symbols member,
that already present and was used for globals.
SymbolTableSection already had NumLocals counter member, so change
itself is trivial.
That allows to simplify handling of -r,
Body::DynsymIndex is no more used as "symbol table index" for relocatable
output.
Change was suggested during review of D28773 and opens road for D28612.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D29021
llvm-svn: 292789
Previously we just crashed when had user defined
section .shstrtab, for example. Which name equals to synthetic one,
but have different type.
Testcase reveals an issue.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D28559
llvm-svn: 291765
Intention of change is to get rid of code duplication.
Decompressor was introduced in D28105.
Change allows to get rid of few methods relative to decompression.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D28106
llvm-svn: 291758
I thought for a while about how to remove it, but it looks like we
can just copy the file for now. Of course I'm not happy about that,
but it's just less than 50 lines of code, and we already have
duplicate code in Error.h and some other places. I want to solve
them all at once later.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27819
llvm-svn: 290062
This change seems to make LLD 0.6% faster when linking Clang with
debug info. I don't want us to have lots of local optimizations,
but this function is very hot, and the improvement is small but
not negligible, so I think it's worth doing.
llvm-svn: 288757
Some elf producers (dtrace) put this flag in relocation sections and
some (MC) don't. If we don't ignore the flag we end up with multiple
relocation sections poiting to the same section, which we don't
support.
llvm-svn: 288585
When -O0 is specified, we do not do section merging.
Though before this patch several sections were generated instead
of single, what is useless.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27041
llvm-svn: 288151
The MipsGotSection::getPageEntryOffset calculates index of GOT entry
with a "page" address. Previously this method changes the state
of MipsGotSection because it modifies PageIndexMap field. That leads
to the unpredictable results if getPageEntryOffset called from multiple threads.
The patch makes getPageEntryOffset constant. To do so it calculates GOT
entry index but does not update PageIndexMap field. Later in the
MipsGotSection::writeTo method linker calculates "page" addresses and
writes them to the output.
llvm-svn: 288129
They return new vectors, but at the same time they mutate other vectors,
so returning values doesn't make much sense. We should just mutate two
vectors.
llvm-svn: 287979
Uncompressing section contents and spliting mergeable section contents
into smaller chunks are heavy tasks. They scan entire section contents
and do CPU-intensive tasks such as uncompressing zlib-compressed data
or computing a hash value for each section piece.
Luckily, these tasks are independent to each other, so we can do that
in parallel_for_each. The number of input sections is large (as opposed
to the number of output sections), so there's a large parallelism here.
Actually the current design to call uncompress() and splitIntoPieces()
in batch was chosen with doing this in mind. Basically what we need to
do here is to replace `for` with `parallel_for_each`.
It seems this patch improves latency significantly if linked programs
contain debug info (which in turn contain lots of mergeable strings.)
For example, the latency to link Clang (debug build) improved by 20% on
my machine as shown below. Note that ld.gold took 19.2 seconds to do
the same thing.
Before:
30801.782712 task-clock (msec) # 3.652 CPUs utilized ( +- 2.59% )
104,084 context-switches # 0.003 M/sec ( +- 1.02% )
5,063 cpu-migrations # 0.164 K/sec ( +- 13.66% )
2,528,130 page-faults # 0.082 M/sec ( +- 0.47% )
85,317,809,130 cycles # 2.770 GHz ( +- 2.62% )
67,352,463,373 stalled-cycles-frontend # 78.94% frontend cycles idle ( +- 3.06% )
<not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
44,295,945,493 instructions # 0.52 insns per cycle
# 1.52 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 0.44% )
8,572,384,877 branches # 278.308 M/sec ( +- 0.66% )
141,806,726 branch-misses # 1.65% of all branches ( +- 0.13% )
8.433424003 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.20% )
After:
35523.764575 task-clock (msec) # 5.265 CPUs utilized ( +- 2.67% )
159,107 context-switches # 0.004 M/sec ( +- 0.48% )
8,123 cpu-migrations # 0.229 K/sec ( +- 23.34% )
2,372,483 page-faults # 0.067 M/sec ( +- 0.36% )
98,395,342,152 cycles # 2.770 GHz ( +- 2.62% )
79,294,670,125 stalled-cycles-frontend # 80.59% frontend cycles idle ( +- 3.03% )
<not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
46,274,151,813 instructions # 0.47 insns per cycle
# 1.71 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 0.47% )
8,987,621,670 branches # 253.003 M/sec ( +- 0.60% )
148,900,624 branch-misses # 1.66% of all branches ( +- 0.27% )
6.747548004 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.40% )
llvm-svn: 287946
The function was used only within Relocations.cpp, but now we are
using it in many places, so this patch moves it to a file that fits
to the functionality.
llvm-svn: 287943
Offset between beginning of a .got section and _gp symbols used in MIPS
GOT relocations calculations. Usually the expression looks like
VA + Offset - GP, where VA is the .got section address, Offset - offset
of the GOT entry, GP - offset between .got and _gp. Also there two "magic"
symbols _gp_disp and __gnu_local_gp which hold the offset mentioned above.
These symbols might be referenced by MIPS relocations.
Now the linker always defines _gp symbol and uses hardcoded value for
its initialization. So offset between .got and _gp is 0x7ff0. The _gp_disp
and __gnu_local_gp defined if required and initialized by 0x7ff0.
In fact that is not correct because _gp symbol might be defined by a linker
script and holds arbitrary value. In that case we need to use this value
in relocation calculation and initialize _gp_disp and __gnu_local_gp
properly.
The patch fixes the problem and completes fixing the bug #30311.
https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=30311
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27036
llvm-svn: 287832
We have different functions to stringize objects to construct
error messages. For InputFile, we have getFilename, and for
InputSection, we have getName. You had to memorize them.
I think this is the case where the function overloading comes in handy.
This patch defines toString() functions that are overloaded for all these
types, so that you just call it in error().
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27030
llvm-svn: 287787
MergeOutputSection class was a bit hard to use because it provdes
a series of finalize functions that have to be called in a right way
at a right time. It also intereacted with MergeInputSection, and the
logic was somewhat entangled between the two classes.
This patch simplifies it by providing only one finalize function.
Now, all you have to do is to call MergeOutputSection::finalize
when you have added all sections to the output section. Then, it
internally merges strings and initliazes StringPiece objects.
I think this is much easier to understand.
This patch also adds comments.
llvm-svn: 287314
MIPS GOT handling is very different from other targets so it is better
to keep the code in the separatre section class MipsGotSection. This
patch introduces the new section and moves all MIPS specific code from
GotSection to the new class. I did not rename fields and methods in the
MipsGotSection class to reduce the diff and plan to do that by the
separate commit.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26733
llvm-svn: 287150
Relocations are the last thing that we wore storing a raw section
pointer to and parsing on demand.
With this patch we parse it only once and store a pointer to the
actual data.
The patch also changes where we store it. It is now in
InputSectionBase. Not all sections have relocations, but most do and
this simplifies the logic. It also means that we now only support one
relocation section per section. Given that that constraint is
maintained even with -r with gold bfd and lld, I think it is OK.
llvm-svn: 286459
Previously, we have both input and output section for .MIPS.abiflags.
Now we have only one class for .MIPS.abiflags, which is MipsAbiFlagsSection.
This class is a synthetic input section.
.MIPS.abiflags sections are handled as regular sections until
the control reaches Writer. Writer then aggregates all sections
whose type is SHT_MIPS_ABIFLAGS to create a single synthesized
input section. The synthesized section is then processed normally
as if it came from an input file.
llvm-svn: 286398
Previously, we have both input and output sections for .reginfo and
.MIPS.options. Now for each such sections we have one synthetic input
sections: MipsReginfoSection and MipsOptionsSection respectively.
Both sections are handled as regular sections until the control reaches
Writer. Writer then aggregates all sections whose type is SHT_MIPS_REGINFO
or SHT_MIPS_OPTIONS to create a single synthesized input section. In that
moment Writer also save GP0 value to the MipsGp0 field of the corresponding
ObjectFile. This value required for R_MIPS_GPREL16 and R_MIPS_GPREL32
relocations calculation.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26444
llvm-svn: 286397
The ARM 32 and 64-bit ABI does not use 0 for undefined weak references
that are used in PC relative relocations. In particular:
- A branch relocation to an undefined weak resolves to the next
instruction. Effectively making the branch a no-op
- In all other cases the symbol resolves to the place so that S + A - P
resolves to A.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26240
llvm-svn: 286353
This is similar to what was done for InputSection.
With this the various fields are stored in host order and only
converted to target order when writing.
llvm-svn: 286327
A CommonInputSection is a section containing all common symbols.
That was an input section but was abstracted in a different way
than the synthetic input sections because it was written before
the synthetic input section was invented.
This patch rewrites CommonInputSection as a synthetic input section
so that it behaves better with other sections.
llvm-svn: 286053
We are going to have many more classes for linker-synthesized
input sections, so it's worth to be added to a separate file
than to the file for regular input sections.
llvm-svn: 285740
The example reported in PR30793 shows a case where gc reclaims
a SHF_TLS section, but it doesn't reclaim the section containing
the debug info for it.
This is expected, as we do not reclaim non-alloc sections
during the garbage collection phase (and this is not going to
change anytime soon, at least this is what I gathered last I
talked with Rafael about it).
So, we end up with a pending reference, thinking that the input
was invalid (which is not true, as it's GC that removed the
SHT_TLS section, and therefore didn't create the PT_TLS *segment*
for it). In cases like this, just assign a VA of zero at relocation
time instead of error'ing out (this is what gold does as well, FWIW).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26201
llvm-svn: 285735
Instead of storing a pointer, store the members we need.
The reason for doing this is that it makes it far easier to create
synthetic sections. It also avoids reading data from files multiple
times., which might help with cross endian linking and host
architectures with slow unaligned access.
There are obvious compacting opportunities, but this already has mixed
results even on native x86_64 linking.
There is also the possibility of better refactoring the code for
handling common symbols, but this already shows that a custom class is
not necessary.
llvm-svn: 285148
We were fairly inconsistent as to what information should be accessed
with getSectionHdr and what information (like alignment) was stored
elsewhere.
Now all section info has a dedicated getter. The code is also a bit
more compact.
llvm-svn: 285079
Some MIPS relocations used to access GOT entries are able to manipulate
16-bit index. The other ones like R_MIPS_CALL_HI16/LO16 can handle
32-bit indexes. 16-bit relocations are generated by default. The 32-bit
relocations are generated by -mxgot flag passed to compiler. Usually
these relocation are not mixed in the same code but files like crt*.o
contain 16-bit relocations so even if all "user's" code compiled with
-mxgot flag a few 16-bit relocations might come to the linking phase.
Now LLD does not differentiate local GOT entries accessed via a 16-bit
and 32-bit indexes. That might lead to relocation's overflow if 16-bit
entries are allocated to far from the beginning of the GOT.
The patch introduces new "part" of MIPS GOT dedicated to the local GOT
entries accessed by 32-bit relocations. That allows to put local GOT
entries accessed via a 16-bit index first and escape relocation's overflow.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D25833
llvm-svn: 284809
The R_ARM_PREL31 and R_ARM_NONE relocations should not be faulted in
shared libraries. In the case of R_ARM_NONE, we have moved the TLS
relaxation hint instruction to R_TLSDESC_CALL so that R_HINT can be used
without side-effects. In the case of R_ARM_PREL31 we permit it to be used
against PLT entries as the personality routines are imported when used in
shared libraries.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D25721
llvm-svn: 284710
Even with the hash table cache, binary search was still pretty
hot. This can be made even faster with prefetching.
Idea from http://cglab.ca/~morin/misc/arraylayout-v2/
I will suggest moving this to llvm.
llvm-svn: 284594
Summary:
Reclaiming the name 'CachedHashString' will let us add a type with that
name that owns its value.
Reviewers: timshen
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D25644
llvm-svn: 284434
Previously, we supported only SHF_COMPRESSED sections because it's
new and it's the ELF standard. But there are object files compressed
in the GNU style out there, so we had to support it.
Sections compressed in the GNU style start with ".zdebug_" and
contain different headers than the ELF standard's one. In this
patch, getRawCompressedData is responsible to handle it.
A tricky thing about GNU-style compressed sections is that we have
to rename them when creating output sections. ".zdebug_" prefix
implies the section is compressed. We need to rename ".zdebug_"
".debug" because our output sections are not compressed.
We do that in this patch.
llvm-svn: 284068
The .ARM.exidx sections contain a table. Each entry has two fields:
- PREL31 offset to the function the table entry describes
- Action to take, either cantunwind, inline unwind, or PREL31 offset to
.ARM.extab section
The table entries must be sorted in order of the virtual addresses the
first entry of the table describes. Traditionally this is implemented by
the SHF_LINK_ORDER dependency. Instead of implementing this directly we
sort the table entries post relocation.
The .ARM.exidx OutputSection is described by the PT_ARM_EXIDX program
header
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D25127
llvm-svn: 283730
I found that this check still may be useful in some cases.
At fact since we use uint32_t alignment, then maximum value
that is valid for us is 0x80000000. But some broken files,
for example file from testcase may have greater value.
Because of that offset calculation overflow and crash happens.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D25324
llvm-svn: 283544
This spreads out computing the hash and using it in a hash table. The
speedups are:
firefox
master 6.811232891
patch 6.559280249 1.03841162939x faster
chromium
master 4.369323666
patch 4.33171853 1.00868134338x faster
chromium fast
master 1.856679971
patch 1.850617741 1.00327578725x faster
the gold plugin
master 0.32917962
patch 0.325711944 1.01064645023x faster
clang
master 0.558015452
patch 0.550284165 1.01404962652x faster
llvm-as
master 0.032563515
patch 0.032152077 1.01279662275x faster
the gold plugin fsds
master 0.356221362
patch 0.352772162 1.00977741549x faster
clang fsds
master 0.635096494
patch 0.627249229 1.01251060127x faster
llvm-as fsds
master 0.030183188
patch 0.029889544 1.00982430511x faster
scylla
master 3.071448906
patch 2.938484138 1.04524944215x faster
This seems to be because we don't stall as much. When linking firefox
stalled-cycles-frontend goes from 57.56% to 55.55%.
With -O2 the difference is even more significant since we avoid
recomputing the hash. For firefox we go from 9.990295265 to
9.149627521 seconds (1.09x faster).
llvm-svn: 283367
It is pretty easy to get the data from the InputSection, so we don't
have to store it.
This opens the way for storing the hash instead.
llvm-svn: 283357
Previously lld would hang in infinite loop in this case,
patch fixes the issue. Object was found during AFL run.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D25229
llvm-svn: 283208
Follow-up to r282716. Reject input files with non-zero GP0 value only in
case of relocatable object generation. In other case we can handle
arbitrary GP0 value so it does not have a sense to make the restriction
so wide.
llvm-svn: 283194
Case was revealed by id_000010,sig_08,src_000000,op_havoc,rep_4 from PR30540.
Out implementation uses uint32 for storing section alignment value,
what seems reasonable, though if value exceeds 32 bits bounds we have
truncation and final value of 0.
Patch fixes the issue.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D25082
llvm-svn: 283097
We would crash when a non-alloca section pointed to a gced part of a
merge section.
That can happen when a C/c++ constant in put in a merge section and
debug info is present.
llvm-svn: 282845
LLD does not update relocations addends when generate a relocatable
object. That is why we should not write a non-zero GP0 value into
the .reginfo and .MIPS.options sections. And we should not accept input
object files with non-zero GP0 value because we cannot handle them
properly.
llvm-svn: 282716
If we pass --gc-sections to lld and .tbss is not referenced,
the section is reclaimed and lld doesn't create a TLS program header.
R_TLS tries to access the program header -> lld crashes.
Mimic what bfd/gold do in this case and resolve a weak undefined
TLS symbol to the base of the TLS block, i.e. give it a value of zero.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24832
llvm-svn: 282279
This simplifies error handling as there is now only one place in the
code that needs to consider the possibility that the name is
corrupted. Before we would do it in every access.
llvm-svn: 280937
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
This is fix for PR28976.
Problem was that in scanRelocs, we computed relocation offset too early
for case when linkerscript was used. Patch fixes the issue
delaying the calculation.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23655
llvm-svn: 279264
This section supersedes .reginfo and .MIPS.options sections. But for now
we have to support all three sections for ABI transition period.
llvm-svn: 278482
All other singleton instances are accessible globally.
CommonInputSection shouldn't be an exception.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22935
llvm-svn: 277034
Not all relocations from a .eh_frame that point to an executable
section should be ignored. In particular, the relocation finding the
personality function should not.
This is a reduction from trying to bootstrap a static lld on linux.
llvm-svn: 276329
We no longer need it for relocations in .eh_frame.
The only relocations that point to .eh_frame are the ones trying to
find the output .eh_frame.
This actually fixes a bug in the symbol value code. It was not
handling -1 as an indicator for a piece not being included in the
output.
llvm-svn: 276175
We will need to do something like this to support range extension
thunks since that process is iterative.
Doing this also has the advantage that when doing the regular
relocation scan the offset in the output section is known and we can
just store that. This reduces the number of times we have to run
getOffset and I think will allow a more specialized .eh_frame
representation.
By itself this is already a performance win.
firefox
master 7.295045737
patch 7.209466989 0.98826892235
chromium
master 4.531254468
patch 4.509221804 0.995137623774
chromium fast
master 1.836928973
patch 1.823805241 0.992855612714
the gold plugin
master 0.379768791
patch 0.380043405 1.00072310839
clang
master 0.642698284
patch 0.642215663 0.999249070657
llvm-as
master 0.036665467
patch 0.036456225 0.994293213284
the gold plugin fsds
master 0.40395817
patch 0.404384555 1.0010555177
clang fsds
master 0.722045545
patch 0.720946135 0.998477367518
llvm-as fsds
master 0.03292646
patch 0.032759965 0.994943428477
scylla
master 3.427376378
patch 3.368316181 0.98276810292
llvm-svn: 276146
Creating sections on linkerscript side requires some methods
that can be reused if are exported from writer.
Patch implements that change.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D20104
llvm-svn: 275162
The TinyPtrVector of const Thunk<ELFT>* in InputSections.h can cause
build failures on certain compiler/library combinations when Thunk<ELFT>
is not a complete type or is an abstract class. Fixed by making Thunk<ELFT>
non Abstract.
type or is an abstract class
llvm-svn: 274863
Generalise the Mips LA25 Thunk code and implement ARM and Thumb
interworking Thunks.
- Introduce a new module Thunks.cpp to store the Target Specific Thunk
implementations.
- DefinedRegular and Shared have a ThunkData field to record Thunk.
- A Target can have more than one type of Thunk.
- Support PC-relative calls to Thunks.
- Support Thunks to PLT entries.
- Existing Mips LA25 Thunk code integrated.
- Support for ARMv7A interworking Thunks.
Limitations:
- Only one Thunk per SymbolBody, this is sufficient for all currently
implemented Thunks.
- ARM thunks assume presence of V6T2 MOVT and MOVW instructions.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21891
llvm-svn: 274836
Previously, ch_size was read in host byte order, so if a host and
a target are different in byte order, we would produce a corrupted
output.
llvm-svn: 274729
Patch implements support of zlib style compressed sections.
SHF_COMPRESSED flag is used to recognize that decompression is required.
After that decompression is performed and flag is removed from output.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D20272
llvm-svn: 273661
The patch adds one more partition to the MIPS GOT. This time it is for
TLS related GOT entries. Such entries are located after 'local' and 'global'
ones. We cannot get a final offset for these entries at the time of
creation because we do not know size of 'local' and 'global' partitions.
So we have to adjust the offset later using `getMipsTlsOffset()` method.
All MIPS TLS relocations which need GOT entries operates MIPS style GOT
offset - 'offset from the GOT's beginning' - MipsGPOffset constant. That
is why I add new types of relocation expressions.
One more difference from othe ABIs is that the MIPS ABI does not support
any TLS relocation relaxations. I decided to make a separate function
`handleMipsTlsRelocation` and put MIPS TLS relocation handling code
there. It is similar to `handleTlsRelocation` routine and duplicates its
code. But it allows to make the code cleaner and prevent pollution of
the `handleTlsRelocation` by MIPS 'if' statements.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21606
llvm-svn: 273569
Peter Smith found while trying to support thunk creation for ARM that
LLD sometimes creates broken thunks for MIPS. The cause of the bug is
that we assign file offsets to input sections too early. We need to
create all sections and then assign section offsets because appending
thunks changes file offsets for all following sections.
This patch separates the pass to assign file offsets from thunk
creation pass. This effectively reverts r265673.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21598
llvm-svn: 273532
There are two motivations for this patch. The first one is a preparation
for support MIPS TLS relocations. It might sound like a joke but for GOT
entries related to TLS relocations MIPS ABI uses almost regular approach
with creation of dynamic relocations for each GOT enty etc. But we need
to separate these 'regular' TLS related entries from MIPS specific local
and global parts of GOT. ABI declare simple solution - all TLS related
entries allocated at the end of GOT after local/global parts. The second
motivation it to support GOT relocations for non-preemptible symbols
with addends. If we have more than one GOT relocations against symbol S
with different addends we need to create GOT entries for each unique
Symbol/Addend pairs.
So we store all MIPS GOT entries in separate containers. For non-preemptible
symbols we have to maintain two data structures. The first one is MipsLocal
vector. Each entry corresponds to the GOT entry from the 'local' part
of the GOT contains the symbol's address plus addend. The second one
is MipsLocalMap. It is a map from Symbol/Addend pair to the GOT index.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21297
llvm-svn: 273127
I think it is me who named these variables, but I always find that
they are slightly confusing because align is a verb.
Adding four letters is worth it.
llvm-svn: 272984
This is mostly extracted from http://reviews.llvm.org/D18960.
The general idea for tlsdesc is that the two GD got entries are used
for a function pointer and its argument. The dynamic linker sets
both. In the non-dlopen case the dynamic linker sets the function to
the identity and the argument to the offset in the tls block.
All that the static linker has to do in the non-dlopen case is
relocate the code to point to the got entries and create a dynamic
relocation.
The dlopen case is more complicated, but can be implemented in another patch.
llvm-svn: 271569
Patch implements next relaxation from latest ABI:
"Convert memory operand of test and binop into immediate operand, where binop is one of adc, add, and, cmp, or,
sbb, sub, xor instructions, when position-independent code is disabled."
It is described in System V Application Binary Interface AMD64 Architecture Processor
Supplement Draft Version 0.99.8 (https://github.com/hjl-tools/x86-psABI/wiki/x86-64-psABI-r249.pdf,
B.2 "B.2 Optimize GOTPCRELX Relocations").
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D20793
llvm-svn: 271405
MergedInputSection::getOffset is the busiest function in LLD if string
merging is enabled and input files have lots of mergeable sections.
It is usually the case when creating executable with debug info,
so it is pretty common.
The reason why it is slow is because it has to do faily complex
computations. For non-mergeable sections, section contents are
contiguous in output, so in order to compute an output offset,
we only have to add the output section's base address to an input
offset. But for mergeable strings, section contents are split for
merging, so they are not contigous. We've got to do some lookups.
We used to do binary search on the list of section pieces.
It is slow because I think it's hostile to branch prediction.
This patch replaces it with hash table lookup. Seems it's working
pretty well. Below is "perf stat -r10" output when linking clang
with debug info. In this case this patch speeds up about 4%.
Before:
6584.153205 task-clock (msec) # 1.001 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.09% )
238 context-switches # 0.036 K/sec ( +- 6.59% )
0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec ( +- 50.92% )
1,067,675 page-faults # 0.162 M/sec ( +- 0.15% )
18,369,931,470 cycles # 2.790 GHz ( +- 0.09% )
9,640,680,143 stalled-cycles-frontend # 52.48% frontend cycles idle ( +- 0.18% )
<not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
21,206,747,787 instructions # 1.15 insns per cycle
# 0.45 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 0.04% )
3,817,398,032 branches # 579.786 M/sec ( +- 0.04% )
132,787,249 branch-misses # 3.48% of all branches ( +- 0.02% )
6.579106511 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.09% )
After:
6312.317533 task-clock (msec) # 1.001 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.19% )
221 context-switches # 0.035 K/sec ( +- 4.11% )
1 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec ( +- 45.21% )
1,280,775 page-faults # 0.203 M/sec ( +- 0.37% )
17,611,539,150 cycles # 2.790 GHz ( +- 0.19% )
10,285,148,569 stalled-cycles-frontend # 58.40% frontend cycles idle ( +- 0.30% )
<not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
18,794,779,900 instructions # 1.07 insns per cycle
# 0.55 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 0.03% )
3,287,450,865 branches # 520.799 M/sec ( +- 0.03% )
72,259,605 branch-misses # 2.20% of all branches ( +- 0.01% )
6.307411828 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.19% )
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D20645
llvm-svn: 270999
MIPS .reginfo and .MIPS.options sections are consumed by the linker, and
the linker produces a single output section. But it is possible that
input files contain section symbol points to the corresponding input
section. In case of generation a relocatable output we need to write
such symbols to the output file.
Fixes bug 27878.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D20688
llvm-svn: 270910
System V Application Binary Interface AMD64 Architecture Processor Supplement Draft Version 0.99.8
(https://github.com/hjl-tools/x86-psABI/wiki/x86-64-psABI-r249.pdf, B.2 "B.2 Optimize GOTPCRELX Relocations")
introduces possible relaxations for R_X86_64_GOTPCRELX and R_X86_64_REX_GOTPCRELX.
That patch implements the next relaxation:
mov foo@GOTPCREL(%rip), %reg => lea foo(%rip), %reg
and also opens door for implementing all other ones.
Implementation was suggested by Rafael Ávila de Espíndola with few additions and testcases by myself.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15779
llvm-svn: 270705
Previously, mergeable section's constructors did more than just
setting member variables; it split section contents into small
pieces. It is not always computationally cheap task because if
the section is a mergeable string section, it needs to scan the
entire section to split them by NUL characters.
If a section would be thrown away by GC, that cost ended up
being a waste of time. It is going to be larger problem if the
section is compressed -- the whole time to uncompress it and
split it up is going to be a waste.
Luckily, we can defer section splitting after GC. We just have
to remember which offsets are in use during GC and apply that later.
This patch implements it.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D20516
llvm-svn: 270455
This patch adds Size member to SectionPiece so that getRangeAndSize
can just return a SectionPiece instead of a std::pair<SectionPiece *, uint_t>.
Also renamed the function.
llvm-svn: 270346
We were using std::pair to represents pieces of splittable section
contents. It hurt readability because "first" and "second" are not
meaningful. This patch give them names.
One more thing is that piecewise liveness information is stored to
the second element of the pair as a special value of output section
offset. It was confusing, so I defiend a new bit, "Live", in the
new struct.
llvm-svn: 270340
This makes it explicit that each R_RELAX_TLS_* is equivalent to some
other expression.
With this I think we are at a sweet spot for how much is done in
Target.cpp. I did experiment with moving *all* the value math out of it.
It has the advantage that we know the final value in target independent
code, but it gets quite verbose.
llvm-svn: 270277
This adds direct support for computing offsets from the thread pointer
for both variants. Of the architectures we support, variant 1 is used
only by aarch64 (but that doesn't seem to be documented anywhere.)
llvm-svn: 270243
New names reflect purpose of corresponding GOT entries better.
Both expression types related to entries allocated in the 'local'
part of MIPS GOT. R_MIPS_GOT_LOCAL_PAGE is for entries contain 'page'
addresses. R_MIPS_GOT_LOCAL is for entries contain 'full' address.
llvm-svn: 269597
We were previously using an output offset of -1 for both GC'd and tail
merged pieces. We need to distinguish these two cases in order to filter
GC'd symbols from the symbol table -- we were previously asserting when we
asked for the VA of a symbol pointing into a dead piece, which would end
up asking the tail merging string table for an offset even though we hadn't
initialized it properly.
This patch fixes the bug by using an offset of -1 to exclusively mean GC'd
pieces, using 0 for tail merges, and distinguishing the tail merge case from
an offset of 0 by asking the output section whether it is tail merge.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19953
llvm-svn: 268604
MIPS N64 ABI introduces .MIPS.options section which specifies miscellaneous
options to be applied to an object/shared/executable file. LLVM as well as
modern versions of GNU tools read and write the only type of the options -
ODK_REGINFO. It is exact copy of .reginfo section used by O32 ABI.
llvm-svn: 268485
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
The fix is to handle local symbols referring to SHF_MERGE sections.
Original message:
GC entries of SHF_MERGE sections.
It is a fairly direct extension of the gc algorithm. For merge sections
instead of remembering just a live bit, we remember which offsets
were used.
This reduces the .rodata sections in chromium from 9648861 to 9477472
bytes.
llvm-svn: 267233
It is a fairly direct extension of the gc algorithm. For merge sections
instead of remembering just a live bit, we remember which offsets were
used.
This reduces the .rodata sections in chromium from 9648861 to 9477472
bytes.
llvm-svn: 267164
It turns out that this will read data from the section to properly
handle Elf_Rel implicit addends.
Sorry for the noise.
Original messages:
Try to fix Windows lld build.
Move getRelocTarget to ObjectFile.
It doesn't use anything from the InputSection.
llvm-svn: 267163
This requires adding a few more expression types, but is already a small
simplification. Having Writer.cpp know the exact expression will also
allow further simplifications.
llvm-svn: 266604
With this patch we use the first scan over the relocations to remember
the information we found about them: will them be relaxed, will a plt be
used, etc.
With that the actual relocation application becomes much simpler. That
is particularly true for the interfaces in Target.h.
This unfortunately means that we now do two passes over relocations for
non SHF_ALLOC sections. I think this can be solved by factoring out the
code that scans a single relocation. It can then be used both as a scan
that record info and for a dedicated direct relocation of non SHF_ALLOC
sections.
I also think it is possible to reduce the number of enum values by
representing a target with just an OutputSection and an offset (which
can be from the start or end).
This should unblock adding features like relocation optimizations.
llvm-svn: 266158
Our symbol representation was redundant, and some times would get out of
sync. It had an Elf_Sym, but some fields were copied to SymbolBody.
Different parts of the code were checking the bits in SymbolBody and
others were checking Elf_Sym.
There are two general approaches to fix this:
* Copy the required information and don't store and Elf_Sym.
* Don't copy the information and always use the Elf_Smy.
The second way sounds tempting, but has a big problem: we would have to
template SymbolBody. I started doing it, but it requires templeting
*everything* and creates a bit chicken and egg problem at the driver
where we have to find ELFT before we can create an ArchiveFile for
example.
As much as possible I compared the test differences with what gold and
bfd produce to make sure they are still valid. In most cases we are just
adding hidden visibility to a local symbol, which is harmless.
In most tests this is a small speedup. The only slowdown was scylla
(1.006X). The largest speedup was clang with no --build-id, -O3 or
--gc-sections (i.e.: focus on the relocations): 1.019X.
llvm-svn: 265293
Some targets might require creation of thunks. For example, MIPS targets
require stubs to call PIC code from non-PIC one. The patch implements
infrastructure for thunk code creation and provides support for MIPS
LA25 stubs. Any MIPS PIC code function is invoked with its address
in register $t9. So if we have a branch instruction from non-PIC code
to the PIC one we cannot make the jump directly and need to create a small
stub to save the target function address.
See page 3-38 ftp://www.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/doc/ABI/mipsabi.pdf
- In relocation scanning phase we ask target about thunk creation necessity
by calling `TagetInfo::needsThunk` method. The `InputSection` class
maintains list of Symbols requires thunk creation.
- Reassigning offsets performed for each input sections after relocation
scanning complete because position of each section might change due
thunk creation.
- The patch introduces new dedicated value for DefinedSynthetic symbols
DefinedSynthetic::SectionEnd. Synthetic symbol with that value always
points to the end of the corresponding output section. That allows to
escape updating synthetic symbols if output sections sizes changes after
relocation scanning due thunk creation.
- In the `InputSection::writeTo` method we write thunks after corresponding
input section. Each thunk is written by calling `TargetInfo::writeThunk` method.
- The patch supports the only type of thunk code for each target. For now,
it is enough.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17934
llvm-svn: 265059
The original comments were separated by new code that is irrelevant to
the comment. This patch moves the comment to the right place and update it.
llvm-svn: 264816
This simplifies a few things
* Read the value as early as possible, instead of passing a pointer to
the location.
* Print the warning for missing pair close to where we find out it is
missing.
* Don't pass the value to relocateOne.
llvm-svn: 264802
We want to make SymbolBody the central place to query symbol information.
This patch also renames canBePreempted to isPreemptible because I feel that
the latter is slightly better (the former is three words and the latter
is two words.)
llvm-svn: 263386
The patch does not reduce the size of the code but makes
InputSectionBase::relocate cleaner a bit.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18119
llvm-svn: 263381
which was reverted because included
unrelative changes by mistake.
Original commit message:
[ELF] - Change all messages to lowercase to be consistent.
That is directly opposite to http://reviews.llvm.org/D18045,
which was reverted.
This patch changes all messages to start from lowercase letter if
they were not before.
That is done to be consistent with clang.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18085
llvm-svn: 263337
That is directly opposite to http://reviews.llvm.org/D18045,
which was reverted.
This patch changes all messages to start from lowercase letter if
they were not before.
That is done to be consistent with clang.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18085
llvm-svn: 263252
It is really odd that Mips differentiates symbols that are born local
and those that become local because of hidden visibility. I don't know
enough mips to known if this is a bug or not.
llvm-svn: 263228
It was a badly specified hack for when a tls relocation should be
propagated to the dynamic relocation table.
This replaces it with a not as bad hack of saying that a local dynamic
tls relocation is never preempted.
I will try to remove even that second hack in the next patch.
llvm-svn: 262955
Get rid of few accessors in that class, and replace
them with direct fields access.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17879
llvm-svn: 262796
The rules for when we can relax tls relocations are target independent.
The only things that are target dependent are the relocation values.
llvm-svn: 262748
SymbolBody constructor and friends take isFunc and isTLS boolean arguments.
ELF symbols have already a type so than be easily passed as argument.
If we want to support another type, this scheme is not good enough, that is,
the current code logic would require passing another `bool isObject` around.
Up to two argument, this stretching exercise was a little bit goofy but
still acceptable, but with more types to support, is just too much, IMHO.
Change the code so that the type is passed instead.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17871
llvm-svn: 262684
There was a known limitation for -r option:
relocations against local symbols were not supported.
For example rel[a].eh_frame sections contained relocations against sections
and that was not supported for -r before. Patch fixes that.
Differential review: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17813
llvm-svn: 262590
For shared libraries we allow any weak undefined symbol to eventually be
resolved, even if we never see a definition in another .so. This matches
the behavior when handling other undefined symbols in a shared library.
For executables, we require seeing a definition in a .so or resolve it
to zero. This is also similar to how non weak symbols are handled.
llvm-svn: 262017
R_MIPS_GOT16 relocation against local symbol requires index of a local
GOT entry which contains page address corresponds to sum of the symbol
address and addend. The addend in that case is calculated using addends
from the R_MIPS_GOT16 and paired R_MIPS_LO16 relocations.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17610
llvm-svn: 261930
This patch implements the same algorithm as LLD/COFF's ICF. I'm
not going to repeat the same description about how it works, so you
want to read the comment in ICF.cpp in this patch if you want to know
the details. This algorithm should be more powerful than the ICF
algorithm implemented in GNU gold. It can even merge mutually-recursive
functions (which is harder than one might think).
ICF is a fairly effective size optimization. Here are some examples.
LLD: 37.14 MB -> 35.80 MB (-3.6%)
Clang: 59.41 MB -> 57.80 MB (-2.7%)
The lacking feature is "safe" version of ICF. This merges all
identical sections. That is not compatible with a C/C++ language
requirement that two distinct functions must have distinct addresses.
But as long as your program do not rely on the pointer equality
(which is in many cases true), your program should work with the
feature. LLD works fine for example.
GNU gold implements so-called "safe ICF" that identifies functions
that are safe to merge by heuristics -- for example, gold thinks
that constructors are safe to merge because there is no way to
take an address of a constructor in C++. We have a different idea
which David Majnemer suggested that we add NOPs at beginning of
merged functions so that two or more pointers can have distinct
values. We can do whichever we want, but this patch does not
include neither.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D17529
llvm-svn: 261912
-r, -relocatable - Generate relocatable output
Currently does not have support for files containing
relocation sections with entries that refer to local
symbols (like rel[a].eh_frame which refer to sections
and not to symbols)
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14382
llvm-svn: 261838
"Discarded" section is a marker for discarded sections, and we do not
use the instance except for checking its identity. In that sense, it
is just another type of a "null" pointer for InputSectionBase. So,
it doesn't have to be a real instance of InputSectionBase class.
In this patch, we no longer instantiate Discarded section but instead
use -1 as a pointer value. This eliminates a global variable which
needed initialization at startup.
llvm-svn: 261761
This is a preparation for ICF. If we merge two sections, we want to
align the merged section at the largest alignment requirement.
That means we want to update the alignment value, which was
impossible before this patch because Header is a const value.
llvm-svn: 261712
Rafael Espindola