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
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
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
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
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
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
Currently we have -Rpass for filtering the remarks that are displayed as
diagnostics, but when using -fsave-optimization-record, there is no way
to filter the remarks while generating them.
This adds support for filtering remarks by passes using a regex.
Ex: `clang -fsave-optimization-record -foptimization-record-passes=inline`
will only emit the remarks coming from the pass `inline`.
This adds:
* `-fsave-optimization-record` to the driver
* `-opt-record-passes` to cc1
* `-lto-pass-remarks-filter` to the LTOCodeGenerator
* `--opt-remarks-passes` to lld
* `-pass-remarks-filter` to llc, opt, llvm-lto, llvm-lto2
* `-opt-remarks-passes` to gold-plugin
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D59268
Original llvm-svn: 355964
llvm-svn: 355984
Currently we have -Rpass for filtering the remarks that are displayed as
diagnostics, but when using -fsave-optimization-record, there is no way
to filter the remarks while generating them.
This adds support for filtering remarks by passes using a regex.
Ex: `clang -fsave-optimization-record -foptimization-record-passes=inline`
will only emit the remarks coming from the pass `inline`.
This adds:
* `-fsave-optimization-record` to the driver
* `-opt-record-passes` to cc1
* `-lto-pass-remarks-filter` to the LTOCodeGenerator
* `--opt-remarks-passes` to lld
* `-pass-remarks-filter` to llc, opt, llvm-lto, llvm-lto2
* `-opt-remarks-passes` to gold-plugin
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D59268
llvm-svn: 355964
Summary:
This follows the ld.bfd/gold behavior.
The error check is useful as it captures a common type of ld.so undefined symbol errors as link-time errors:
// a.cc => a.so (not linked with -z defs)
void f(); // f is undefined
void g() { f(); }
// b.cc => executable with a DT_NEEDED entry on a.so
void g();
int main() { g(); }
// ld.so errors when g() is executed (lazy binding) or when the program is started (-z now)
// symbol lookup error: ... undefined symbol: f
Reviewers: ruiu, grimar, pcc, espindola
Reviewed By: ruiu
Subscribers: llvm-commits, emaste, arichardson
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D57569
llvm-svn: 352943
to reflect the new license.
We understand that people may be surprised that we're moving the header
entirely to discuss the new license. We checked this carefully with the
Foundation's lawyer and we believe this is the correct approach.
Essentially, all code in the project is now made available by the LLVM
project under our new license, so you will see that the license headers
include that license only. Some of our contributors have contributed
code under our old license, and accordingly, we have retained a copy of
our old license notice in the top-level files in each project and
repository.
llvm-svn: 351636
By default LLD will generate position independent Thunks when the --pie or
--shared option is used. Reference to absolute addresses is permitted in
other cases. For some embedded systems position independent thunks are
needed for code that executes before the MMU has been set up. The option
--pic-veneer is used by ld.bfd to force position independent thunks.
The patch adds --pic-veneer as the option is needed for the Linux kernel
on Arm.
fixes pr39886
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D55505
llvm-svn: 351326
This is https://bugs.llvm.org//show_bug.cgi?id=38978
Spec says that:
"Objects may be built with the -z nodefaultlib option to
suppress any search of the default locations at runtime.
Use of this option implies that all the dependencies of an
object can be located using its runpaths.
Without this option, which is the most common case, no
matter how you augment the runtime linker's library
search path, its last element is always /usr/lib for 32-bit
objects and /usr/lib/64 for 64-bit objects."
The patch implements this option.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54577
llvm-svn: 347647
Summary:
This patch adds a new flag, --warn-ifunc-textrel, to work around a glibc bug. When a code with ifunc symbols is used to produce an object file with text relocations, lld always succeeds. However, if that object file is linked using an old version of glibc, the resultant binary just crashes with segmentation fault when it is run (The bug is going to be corrected as of glibc 2.19).
Since there is no way to tell beforehand what library the object file will be linked against in the future, there does not seem to be a fool-proof way for lld to give an error only in cases where the binary will crash. So, with this change (dated 2018-09-25), lld starts to give a warning, contingent on a new command line flag that does not have a gnu counter part. The default value for --warn-ifunc-textrel is false, so lld behaviour will not change unless the user explicitly asks lld to give a warning. Users that link with a glibc library with version 2.19 or newer, or does not use ifunc symbols, or does not generate object files with text relocations do not need to take any action. Other users may consider to start passing warn-ifunc-textrel to lld to get early warnings.
Reviewers: ruiu, espindola
Reviewed By: ruiu
Subscribers: grimar, MaskRay, markj, emaste, arichardson, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52430
llvm-svn: 343628
-z interpose sets the DF_1_INTERPOSE flag, marking the object as an
interposer.
Via FreeBSD PR 230604, linking Valgrind with lld failed.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52094
llvm-svn: 342239
--push-state implemented in this patch saves the states of --as-needed,
--whole-archive and --static. It saves less number of flags than GNU linkers.
Since even GNU linkers save different flags, no one seems to care about the
details. In this patch, I tried to save the minimal number of flags to not
complicate the implementation and the siutation.
I'm not personally happy about adding the --{push,pop}-state flags though.
That options seem too hacky to me. However, gcc started using the options
since GCC 8 when GNU ld is available at the build time. Therefore, lld
is no longer a drop-in replacmenet for GNU linker for that machine
without supporting the flags.
Fixes https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34567
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47542
llvm-svn: 333646
Also remove the space between --lto-O and value, as the option with a
space is not accepted at present.
Leave --opt-remarks-filename as it does not currently accept the = form.
llvm.org/pr36563
llvm-svn: 326536
The argument is section=address, not just address.
(For compatibility with GNU linkers we need to, but do not yet, accept
--section-start=section=address.)
llvm-svn: 326463
We intend to maintain compatibility with GNU ld, and in the GNU world
long options are conventionally specified as --long-option=value. For
whatever reason GNU ld.bfd accepts both --long-option value and
--long-option=value, but documents the former. Follow suit.
Some lld long options do not accept the = form; this is probably a bug
to be fixed (along with a man page update).
Reported by Ingo Schwarze, for --entry.
llvm-svn: 326459
Initial ld.lld.1 man page commit in r324512 crossed paths with r324502
which added --build-id=fast, allowing --build-id to be documented as a
synonym for --build-id=fast. Catch up with that change in the man page.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D43039
llvm-svn: 324528
Fangrui Song