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
D77522 changed --warn-backrefs to not warn for linking sandwich
problems (-ldef1 -lref -ldef2). This removed lots of false positives.
However, glibc still has some problems. libc.a defines some symbols
which are normally in libm.a and libpthread.a, e.g. __isnanl/raise.
For a linking order `-lm -lpthread -lc`, I have seen:
```
// different resolutions: GNU ld/gold select libc.a(s_isnan.o) as the definition
backward reference detected: __isnanl in libc.a(printf_fp.o) refers to libm.a(m_isnanl.o)
// different resolutions: GNU ld/gold select libc.a(raise.o) as the definition
backward reference detected: raise in libc.a(abort.o) refers to libpthread.a(pt-raise.o)
```
To facilitate deployment of --warn-backrefs, add --warn-backrefs-exclude= so that
certain known issues (which may be impractical to fix) can be whitelisted.
Deliberate choices:
* Not a comma-separated list (`--warn-backrefs-exclude=liba.a,libb.a`).
-Wl, splits the argument at commas, so we cannot use commas.
--export-dynamic-symbol is similar.
* Not in the style of `--warn-backrefs='*' --warn-backrefs=-liba.a`.
We just need exclusion, not inclusion. For easier build system
integration, we should avoid order dependency. With the current
scheme, we enable --warn-backrefs, and indivial libraries can add
--warn-backrefs-exclude=<glob> to their LDFLAGS.
Reviewed By: psmith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D77512
--no-threads is a name copied from gold.
gold has --no-thread, --thread-count and several other --thread-count-*.
There are needs to customize the number of threads (running several lld
processes concurrently or customizing the number of LTO threads).
Having a single --threads=N is a straightforward replacement of gold's
--no-threads + --thread-count.
--no-threads is used rarely. So just delete --no-threads instead of
keeping it for compatibility for a while.
If --threads= is specified (ELF,wasm; COFF /threads: is similar),
--thinlto-jobs= defaults to --threads=,
otherwise all available hardware threads are used.
There is currently no way to override a --threads={1,2,...}. It is still
a debate whether we should use --threads=all.
Reviewed By: rnk, aganea
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D76885
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
LLD implements Linker Scripts as they are described in the GNU ld manual.
This description is far from a specification, with the only true reference
the GNU ld implementation, which has undocumented behaviour that can vary
from release to release.
To make it easy for people to switch between linkers we try to follow GNU
ld implementation details wherever possible. We reserve the right to make
our own decisions where the undocumented GNU ld behaviour is not
appropriate for LLD. We don't have a place to document these decisions and
it can be difficult for users to find out this information.
This file is a statement of the LLD implementation policy and will contain
intentional deviations from GNU ld.
The first patch that will add concrete details to this file is D75724
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75921
Summary:
Places orphan sections into a unique output section. This prevents the merging of orphan sections of the same name.
Matches behaviour of GNU ld --unique. --unique=pattern is not implemented.
Motivated user case shown in the test has 2 local symbols as they would appear if C++ source has been compiled with -ffunction-sections. The merging of these sections in the case of a partial link (-r) may limit the effectiveness of -gc-sections of a subsequent link.
Reviewers: espindola, jhenderson, bd1976llvm, edd, andrewng, JonChesterfield, MaskRay, grimar, ruiu, psmith
Reviewed By: MaskRay, grimar
Subscribers: emaste, arichardson, MaskRay, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75536
Summary:
This option causes lld to shuffle sections by assigning different
priorities in each run.
The use case for this is to introduce randomization in benchmarks. The
idea is inspired by the paper "Producing Wrong Data Without Doing
Anything Obviously Wrong!"
(https://www.inf.usi.ch/faculty/hauswirth/publications/asplos09.pdf). Unlike
the paper, we shuffle individual sections, not just input files.
Doing this in lld is particularly convenient as the --reproduce option
makes it easy to collect all the necessary bits for relinking the
program being benchmarked. Once that it is done, all that is needed is
to add --shuffle-sections=0 to the response file and relink before each
run of the benchmark.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D74791
This patch is a joint work by Rui Ueyama and me based on D58102 by Xiang Zhang.
It adds Intel CET (Control-flow Enforcement Technology) support to lld.
The implementation follows the draft version of psABI which you can
download from https://github.com/hjl-tools/x86-psABI/wiki/X86-psABI.
CET introduces a new restriction on indirect jump instructions so that
you can limit the places to which you can jump to using indirect jumps.
In order to use the feature, you need to compile source files with
-fcf-protection=full.
* IBT is enabled if all input files are compiled with the flag. To force enabling ibt, pass -z force-ibt.
* SHSTK is enabled if all input files are compiled with the flag, or if -z shstk is specified.
IBT-enabled executables/shared objects have two PLT sections, ".plt" and
".plt.sec". For the details as to why we have two sections, please read
the comments.
Reviewed By: xiangzhangllvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D59780
This is equivalent to the existing `import_name` and `import_module`
attributes which control the import names in the final wasm binary
produced by lld.
This maps the existing
This attribute currently requires a string rather than using the
symbol name for a couple of reasons:
1. Avoid confusion with static and dynamic linking which is
based on symbol name. Exporting a function from a wasm module using
this directive is orthogonal to both static and dynamic linking.
2. Avoids name mangling.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D70520
Add a new '-z nognustack' option that suppresses emitting PT_GNU_STACK
segment. This segment is not supported at all on NetBSD (stack is
always non-executable), and the option is meant to be used to disable
emitting it.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D56554
This reverts commit r371729 because /linkrepro option also exists
in Microsoft link.exe and their linker takes not a filename but a
directory name as an argument for /linkrepro.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D68378
llvm-svn: 373703
D64906 allows PT_LOAD to have overlapping p_offset ranges. In the
default R RX RW RW layout + -z noseparate-code case, we do not tail pad
segments when transiting to another segment. This can save at most
3*maxPageSize bytes.
a) Before D64906, we tail pad R, RX and the first RW.
b) With -z separate-code, we tail pad R and RX, but not the first RW (RELRO).
In some cases, b) saves one file page. In some cases, b) wastes one
virtual memory page. The waste is a concern on Fuchsia. Because it uses
compressed binaries, it doesn't benefit from the saved file page.
This patch adds -z separate-loadable-segments to restore the behavior before
D64906. It can affect section addresses and can thus be used as a
debugging mechanism (see PR43214 and ld.so partition bug in
crbug.com/998712).
Reviewed By: jakehehrlich, ruiu
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D67481
llvm-svn: 372807
This is useful for enforcing that builds are independent of the
environment; it can be used when all system library paths are added
via /libpath: already. It's similar ot cl.exe's /X flag.
Since it should also affect %LINK% (the other caller of
`Process::GetEnv` in lld/COFF), the early-option-parsing needs
to move around a bit. The options are:
- Add a manual loop over the argv ArrayRef and look for "/lldignoreenv".
This repeats the name of the flag in both Options.td and in
DriverUtils.cpp.
- Add yet another table.ParseArgs() call just for /lldignoreenv before
adding %LINK%.
- Use the existing early ParseArgs() that's there for --rsp-quoting and use
it for /lldignoreenv for %LINK% as well. This means --rsp-quoting
and /lldignoreenv can't be passed via %LINK%.
I went with the third approach.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D67456
llvm-svn: 371852
This makes lld-link behave like ld.lld. I don't see a reason for
the two drivers to have different behavior here.
While here, also make lld-link add a version.txt to the tar, like
ld.lld does.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D67461
llvm-svn: 371729
This patch implements support for the NO_STRIP flag, which will allow
__attribute__((used)) to be implemented.
This accompanies https://reviews.llvm.org/D62542, which moves to setting the
NO_STRIP flag, and will continue to set EXPORTED for Emscripten targets for
compatibility.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D66968
llvm-svn: 370416
Building on D60557 mention the name of the linker generated contents of
the reproduce archive, response.txt and version.txt.
Also write a shorter description in the ld.lld --help that is closer to
the documentation.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D66641
llvm-svn: 369762
I think --reproduce is no longer a debug-only option but a useful
option that a common user may want to use. So, this patch updates
the description of the option in the manual page.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60557
llvm-svn: 369740
This patch adds new command line option `--undefined-glob` to lld.
That option is a variant of `--undefined` but accepts wildcard
patterns so that all symbols that match with a given pattern are
handled as if they were given by `-u`.
`-u foo` is to force resolve symbol foo if foo is not a defined symbol
and there's a static archive that contains a definition of symbol foo.
Now, you can specify a wildcard pattern as an argument for `--undefined-glob`.
So, if you want to include all JNI symbols (which start with "Java_"), you
can do that by passing `--undefined-glob "Java_*"` to the linker, for example.
In this patch, I use the same glob pattern matcher as the version script
processor is using, so it does not only support `*` but also `?` and `[...]`.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D63244
llvm-svn: 363396
Branch Target Identification (BTI) and Pointer Authentication (PAC) are
architecture features introduced in v8.5a and 8.3a respectively. The new
instructions have been added in the hint space so that binaries take
advantage of support where it exists yet still run on older hardware. The
impact of each feature is:
BTI: For executable pages that have been guarded, all indirect branches
must have a destination that is a BTI instruction of the appropriate type.
For the static linker, this means that PLT entries must have a "BTI c" as
the first instruction in the sequence. BTI is an all or nothing
property for a link unit, any indirect branch not landing on a valid
destination will cause a Branch Target Exception.
PAC: The dynamic loader encodes with PACIA the address of the destination
that the PLT entry will load from the .plt.got, placing the result in a
subset of the top-bits that are not valid virtual addresses. The PLT entry
may authenticate these top-bits using the AUTIA instruction before
branching to the destination. Use of PAC in PLT sequences is a contract
between the dynamic loader and the static linker, it is independent of
whether the relocatable objects use PAC.
BTI and PAC are independent features that can be combined. So we can have
several combinations of PLT:
- Standard with no BTI or PAC
- BTI PLT with "BTI c" as first instruction.
- PAC PLT with "AUTIA1716" before the indirect branch to X17.
- BTIPAC PLT with "BTI c" as first instruction and "AUTIA1716" before the
first indirect branch to X17.
The use of BTI and PAC in relocatable object files are encoded by feature
bits in the .note.gnu.property section in a similar way to Intel CET. There
is one AArch64 specific program property GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_AND
and two target feature bits defined:
- GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_BTI
-- All executable sections are compatible with BTI.
- GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_PAC
-- All executable sections have return address signing enabled.
Due to the properties of FEATURE_1_AND the static linker can tell when all
input relocatable objects have the BTI and PAC feature bits set. The static
linker uses this to enable the appropriate PLT sequence.
Neither -> standard PLT
GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_BTI -> BTI PLT
GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_PAC -> PAC PLT
Both properties -> BTIPAC PLT
In addition to the .note.gnu.properties there are two new command line
options:
--force-bti : Act as if all relocatable inputs had
GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_BTI and warn for every relocatable object
that does not.
--pac-plt : Act as if all relocatable inputs had
GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_PAC. As PAC is a contract between the loader
and static linker no warning is given if it is not present in an input.
Two processor specific dynamic tags are used to communicate that a non
standard PLT sequence is being used.
DTI_AARCH64_BTI_PLT and DTI_AARCH64_BTI_PAC.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D62609
llvm-svn: 362793
Summary:
This updates all places in documentation that refer to "Mac OS X", "OS X", etc.
to instead use the modern name "macOS" when no specific version number is
mentioned.
If a specific version is mentioned, this attempts to use the OS name at the time
of that version:
* Mac OS X for 10.0 - 10.7
* OS X for 10.8 - 10.11
* macOS for 10.12 - present
Reviewers: JDevlieghere
Subscribers: mgorny, christof, arphaman, cfe-commits, lldb-commits, libcxx-commits, llvm-commits
Tags: #clang, #lldb, #libc, #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D62654
llvm-svn: 362113
Patch by Mark Johnston!
Summary:
When the option is configured, ifunc calls do not go through the PLT;
rather, they appear as regular function calls with relocations
referencing the ifunc symbol, and the resolver is invoked when
applying the relocation. This is intended for use in freestanding
environments where text relocations are permissible and is incompatible
with the -z text option. The option is motivated by ifunc usage in the
FreeBSD kernel, where ifuncs are used to elide CPU feature flag bit
checks in hot paths. Instead of replacing the cost of a branch with that
of an indirect function call, the -z ifunc-noplt option is used to ensure
that ifunc calls carry no hidden overhead relative to normal function
calls.
Test Plan:
I added a couple of regression tests and tested the FreeBSD kernel
build using the latest lld sources.
To demonstrate the effects of the change, I used a micro-benchmark
which results in frequent invocations of a FreeBSD kernel ifunc. The
benchmark was run with and without IBRS enabled, and with and without
-zifunc-noplt configured. The observed speedup is small and consistent,
and is significantly larger with IBRS enabled:
https://people.freebsd.org/~markj/ifunc-noplt/noibrs.txthttps://people.freebsd.org/~markj/ifunc-noplt/ibrs.txt
Reviewed By: ruiu, MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D61613
llvm-svn: 360685
The -n (--nmagic) disables page alignment, and acts as a -Bstatic
The -N (--omagic) does what -n does but also marks the executable segment as
writeable. As page alignment is disabled headers are not allocated unless
explicit in the linker script.
To disable page alignment in LLD we choose to set the page sizes to 1 so
that any alignment based on the page size does nothing. To set the
Target->PageSize to 1 we implement -z common-page-size, which has the side
effect of allowing the user to set the value as well.
Setting the page alignments to 1 does mean that any use of
CONSTANT(MAXPAGESIZE) or CONSTANT(COMMONPAGESIZE) in a linker script will
return 1, unlike in ld.bfd. However given that -n and -N disable paging
these probably shouldn't be used in a linker script where -n or -N is in
use.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D61688
llvm-svn: 360593
As a side benefit, lld-link now reports more than one duplicate resource
entry before exiting with an error even if the new flag is not passed.
llvm-svn: 359829
Fixes small typos in WebAssembly documentation. I first noticed the
sub-heading "Bahavior", and then decided to review the whole file.
Patch by Christoph Siedentop!
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60987
llvm-svn: 359103
When faced with command line options such as "crtbegin.o appmain.o
-lsomelib crtend.o", GNU ld pulls in all necessary object files from
somelib before proceeding to crtend.o.
LLD operates differently, only loading object files from any
referenced static libraries after processing all input object files.
This uses a similar hack as in the ELF linker. Here, it moves crtend.o
to the end of the vector of object files. This makes sure that
terminator chunks for sections such as .eh_frame gets ordered last,
fixing DWARF exception handling for libgcc and gcc's crtend.o.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60628
llvm-svn: 358394
Fangrui Song