Earlier in LLD's evolution, I tried to create the illusion that
subsections were indistinguishable from "top-level" sections. Thus, even
though the subsections shared many common field values, I hid those
common values away in a private Shared struct (see D105305). More
recently, however, @gkm added a public `Section` struct in D113241 that
served as an explicit way to store values that are common to an entire
set of subsections (aka InputSections). Now that we have another "common
value" struct, `Shared` has been rendered redundant. All its fields can
be moved into `Section` instead, and the pointer to `Shared` can be replaced
with a pointer to `Section`.
This `Section` pointer also has the advantage of letting us inspect other
subsections easily, simplifying the implementation of {D118798}.
P.S. I do think that having both `Section` and `InputSection` makes for
a slightly confusing naming scheme. I considered renaming `InputSection`
to `Subsection`, but that would break the symmetry with `OutputSection`.
It would also make us deviate from LLD-ELF's naming scheme.
This change is perf-neutral on my 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W machine:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.258 ± 0.031 1.248 ± 0.023 [ -1.6% .. +0.1%]
user_time 3.659 ± 0.047 3.658 ± 0.041 [ -0.5% .. +0.4%]
wall_time 4.640 ± 0.085 4.625 ± 0.063 [ -1.0% .. +0.3%]
samples 49 61
There's also no stat sig change in RSS (as measured by `time -l`):
base diff difference (95% CI)
time 998038627.097 ± 13567305.958 1003327715.556 ± 15210451.236 [ -0.2% .. +1.2%]
samples 31 36
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118797
Added some comments (particularly around finalize() and
finalizeContents()) as well as doing some rephrasing / grammar fixes for
existing comments.
Also did some minor style fixups, such as by putting methods together in
a class definition and having fields of similar types next to each
other.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118714
In ld.lld, when an ObjFile/BitcodeFile is read in --start-lib state, the file is
given archive semantics. --end-lib closes the previous --start-lib. A build
system can use this feature as an alternative to archives. This patch ports
the feature to lld-macho.
--start-lib and --end-lib are positional, unlike usual ld64 options.
I think the slight drawback does not matter as (a) reusing option names
make build systems convenient (b) `--start-lib a.o b.o --end-lib` conveys more
information than an alternative design: `-objlib a.o -objlib b.o` because
--start-lib makes it clear which objects are in the same conceptual archive.
This provides flexibility (c) `-objlib`/`-filelist` interaction may be weird.
Close https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/52931
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, Jez Ng, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D116913
Depends on D112160
This adds the new options `--call-graph-profile-sort` (default),
`--no-call-graph-profile-sort` and `--print-symbol-order=`. If call graph
profile sorting is enabled, reads `__LLVM,__cg_profile` sections from object
files and uses the resulting graph to put callees and callers close to each
other in the final binary via the C3 clustering heuristic.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112164
1. After D113241, we have the section address easily accessible and no
longer need to iterate across the LC_SEGMENT commands to emit
LC_DATA_IN_CODE.
2. There's no need to store a pointer to the data in code entries during
the parse step; we can just look it up as part of the output step.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D115556
In order to keep signal:noise high for the `__eh_frame` diff, I have teased-out the NFC changes and put them here.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D114017
This is an NFC diff that prepares for pruning & relocating `__eh_frame`.
Along the way, I made the following changes to ...
* clarify usage of `section` vs. `subsection`
* remove `map` & `vec` from type names
* disambiguate class `Section` from template parameter `SectionHeader`.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D113241
We need to reset global state between runs, similar to the other ports.
There's some file-static state which needs to be reset as well and we
need to add some new helpers for that.
With this change, most LLD Mach-O tests pass with `LLD_IN_TEST=2` (which
runs the linker twice on each test). Some tests will be fixed by the
remainder of this stack, and the rest are fundamentally incompatible
with that mode (e.g. they intentionally throw fatal errors).
Fixes PR52070.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, int3
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112878
Compact unwind entries (CUEs) contain pointers to their respective
function symbols. However, during the link process, it's far more useful
to have pointers from the function symbol to the CUE than vice versa.
This diff adds that pointer in the form of `Defined::compactUnwind`.
In particular, when doing dead-stripping, we want to mark CUEs live when
their function symbol is live; and when doing ICF, we want to dedup
sections iff the symbols in that section have identical CUEs. In both
cases, we want to be able to locate the symbols within a given section,
as well as locate the CUEs belonging to those symbols. So this diff also
adds `InputSection::symbols`.
The ultimate goal of this refactor is to have ICF support dedup'ing
functions with unwind info, but that will be handled in subsequent
diffs. This diff focuses on simplifying `-dead_strip` --
`findFunctionsWithUnwindInfo` is no longer necessary, and
`Defined::isLive()` is now a lot simpler. Moreover, UnwindInfoSection no
longer has to check for dead CUEs -- we simply avoid adding them in the
first place.
Additionally, we now support stripping of dead LSDAs, which follows
quite naturally since `markLive()` can now reach them via the CUEs.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D109944
The previous logic was duplicated between symbol-initiated
archive loads versus flag-initiated loads (i.e. `-force_load` and
`-ObjC`). This resulted in code duplication as well as redundant work --
we would create Archive instances twice whenever we had one of those
flags; once in `getArchiveMembers` and again when we constructed the
ArchiveFile.
This was motivated by an upcoming diff where we load archive members
containing ObjC-related symbols before loading those containing
ObjC-related sections, as well as before performing symbol resolution.
Without this refactor, it would be difficult to do that while avoiding
loading the same archive member twice.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D108780
Ported from COFF/ELF; test is adapted from
test/COFF/thinlto-archivecollision.ll
LTO expects every bitcode file to have a unique name. If given multiple bitcode
files with the same name, it errors with "Expected at most one ThinLTO module
per bitcode file".
This change incorporates the archive name, to disambiguate members with the
same name in different archives and the offset in archive to disambiguate
members with the same name in the same archive.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D106179
The mappings we were using had a small number of keys, so a vector is
probably better. This allows us to remove the last usage of std::map in
our codebase.
I also used `removeSimulator` to simplify the code a bit further.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105786
I wanted to see if we would get any perf wins out of this, but
it doesn't seem to be the case. But it still seems worth committing.
Reviewed By: MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104200
Our implementation draws heavily from LLD-ELF's, which in turn delegates
its string deduplication to llvm-mc's StringTableBuilder. The messiness of
this diff is largely due to the fact that we've previously assumed that
all InputSections get concatenated together to form the output. This is
no longer true with CStringInputSections, which split their contents into
StringPieces. StringPieces are much more lightweight than InputSections,
which is important as we create a lot of them. They may also overlap in
the output, which makes it possible for strings to be tail-merged. In
fact, the initial version of this diff implemented tail merging, but
I've dropped it for reasons I'll explain later.
**Alignment Issues**
Mergeable cstring literals are found under the `__TEXT,__cstring`
section. In contrast to ELF, which puts strings that need different
alignments into different sections, clang's Mach-O backend puts them all
in one section. Strings that need to be aligned have the `.p2align`
directive emitted before them, which simply translates into zero padding
in the object file.
I *think* ld64 extracts the desired per-string alignment from this data
by preserving each string's offset from the last section-aligned
address. I'm not entirely certain since it doesn't seem consistent about
doing this; but perhaps this can be chalked up to cases where ld64 has
to deduplicate strings with different offset/alignment combos -- it
seems to pick one of their alignments to preserve. This doesn't seem
correct in general; we can in fact can induce ld64 to produce a crashing
binary just by linking in an additional object file that only contains
cstrings and no code. See PR50563 for details.
Moreover, this scheme seems rather inefficient: since unaligned and
aligned strings are all put in the same section, which has a single
alignment value, it doesn't seem possible to tell whether a given string
doesn't have any alignment requirements. Preserving offset+alignments
for strings that don't need it is wasteful.
In practice, the crashes seen so far seem to stem from x86_64 SIMD
operations on cstrings. X86_64 requires SIMD accesses to be
16-byte-aligned. So for now, I'm thinking of just aligning all strings
to 16 bytes on x86_64. This is indeed wasteful, but implementation-wise
it's simpler than preserving per-string alignment+offsets. It also
avoids the aforementioned crash after deduplication of
differently-aligned strings. Finally, the overhead is not huge: using
16-byte alignment (vs no alignment) is only a 0.5% size overhead when
linking chromium_framework.
With these alignment requirements, it doesn't make sense to attempt tail
merging -- most strings will not be eligible since their overlaps aren't
likely to start at a 16-byte boundary. Tail-merging (with alignment) for
chromium_framework only improves size by 0.3%.
It's worth noting that LLD-ELF only does tail merging at `-O2`. By
default (at `-O1`), it just deduplicates w/o tail merging. @thakis has
also mentioned that they saw it regress compressed size in some cases
and therefore turned it off. `ld64` does not seem to do tail merging at
all.
**Performance Numbers**
CString deduplication reduces chromium_framework from 250MB to 242MB, or
about a 3.2% reduction.
Numbers for linking chromium_framework on my 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W:
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 3.91 4.03 3.935 3.95 0.034641016
+ 20 3.99 4.14 4.015 4.0365 0.0492336
Difference at 95.0% confidence
0.0865 +/- 0.027245
2.18987% +/- 0.689746%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0425673)
As expected, cstring merging incurs some non-trivial overhead.
When passing `--no-literal-merge`, it seems that performance is the
same, i.e. the refactoring in this diff didn't cost us.
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 3.91 4.03 3.935 3.95 0.034641016
+ 20 3.89 4.02 3.935 3.9435 0.043197831
No difference proven at 95.0% confidence
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102964
Also adjust a few comments, and move the DylibFile comment talking about
umbrella next to the parameter again.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103783
The flag to set it is called `-install_name`, and it's called `installName` in tbd files.
No behavior change.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103776
This diff adds first bits to support special symbols $ld$previous* in LLD.
$ld$* symbols modify properties/behavior of the library
(e.g. its install name, compatibility version or hide/add symbols)
for specific target versions.
Test plan: make check-lld-macho
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103505
D103423 neglected to call `parseReexports()` for nested TBD
documents, leading to symbol resolution failures when trying to look up
a symbol nested more than one level deep in a TBD file. This fixes the
regression and adds a test.
It also appears that `umbrella` wasn't being set properly when calling
`parseLoadCommands` -- it's supposed to resolve to `this` if `nullptr`
is passed. I didn't write a failing test case for this but I've made
`umbrella` a member so the previous behavior should be preserved.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103586
This omits load commands for unreferenced dylibs if:
- the dylib was loaded implicitly,
- it is marked MH_DEAD_STRIPPABLE_DYLIB
- or -dead_strip_dylibs is passed
This matches ld64.
Currently, the "is dylib referenced" state is computed before dead code
stripping and is not updated after dead code stripping. This too matches ld64.
We should do better here.
With this, clang-format linked with lld (like with ld64) no longer has
libobjc.A.dylib in `otool -L` output. (It was implicitly loaded as a reexport
of CoreFoundation.framework, but it's not needed.)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103430
loadDylib() keeps a name->DylibFile cache, but it only writes
to the cache once the DylibFile constructor has completed.
So dylib loads done recursively from the DylibFile constructor
wouldn't use the cache.
Now, we load additional dylibs after writing to the cache,
which means the cache now gets used for dylibs loaded because
they're referenced from other dylibs.
Related to PR49514 and PR50101, but no dramatic behavior change in itself.
(Technically we no longer crash when a tbd file reexports itself,
but that doesn't happen in practice. We now accept it silently instead
of crashing; ld64 has a diag for the reexport cycle.)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103423
ld64 can emit dylibs that support more than one platform (typically macOS and
macCatalyst). This diff allows LLD to read in those dylibs. Note that this is a
super bare-bones implementation -- in particular, I haven't added support for
LLD to emit those multi-platform dylibs, nor have I added a variety of
validation checks that ld64 does. Until we have a use-case for emitting zippered
dylibs, I think this is good enough.
Fixes PR49597.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101954
@thakis pointed out that `mach_header` and `mach_header_64`
actually have the same set of (used) fields, with the 64-bit version
having extra padding. So we can access the fields we need using the
single `mach_header` type instead of using templates to switch between
the two.
I also spotted a potential issue where hasObjCSection tries to parse a
file w/o checking if it does indeed match the target arch... As such,
I've added a quick magic number check to ensure we don't access invalid
memory during `findCommand()`.
Addresses PR50180.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101724
We were taking a reference to a value in `loadedDylibs`, which in turn
called `make<DylibFile>()`, which could then recursively call
`loadDylibs`, which would then potentially resize `loadedDylibs` and
invalidate that reference.
Fixes PR50101.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101175
This diff adds initial support for the legacy LC_VERSION_MIN_* load commands.
Test plan: make check-lld-macho
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100523
We bikeshedded about it here: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98837#inline-931557
I initially suggested SubsectionMapping, but I thought the discussion
landed on doing `std::vector<SubsectionEntry>`. @alexshap went and did
both, but on hindsight I regret adding 3 more characters to an already
long name, and I think SubsectionEntry is descriptive enough...
This diff also renames `subsectionMap` to `subsecMap` for consistency
with other variable names in the codebase.
TextAPI/ELF has moved out into InterfaceStubs, so theres no longer a
need to seperate out TextAPI between formats.
Reviewed By: ributzka, int3, #lld-macho
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99811
The main challenge was handling the different on-disk structures (e.g.
`mach_header` vs `mach_header_64`). I tried to strike a balance between
sprinkling `target->wordSize == 8` checks everywhere (branchy = slow, and ugly)
and templatizing everything (causes code bloat, also ugly). I think I struck a
decent balance by judicious use of type erasure.
Note that LLD-ELF has a similar architecture, though it seems to use more templating.
Linking chromium_framework takes about the same time before and after this
change:
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 4.52 4.67 4.595 4.5945 0.044423204
+ 20 4.5 4.71 4.575 4.582 0.056344803
No difference proven at 95.0% confidence
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99633
This diff is a preparation for fixing FunStabs (incorrect size calculation).
std::map<uint32_t, InputSection*> (SubsectionMap) is replaced with
a sorted vector + binary search. If .subsections_via_symbols is set
this vector will contain the list of subsections, otherwise,
the offsets will be used for calculating the symbols sizes.
Test plan: make check-all
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98837
Previously, SyntheticSections.cpp did not have a top-level `using namespace
llvm::MachO` because it caused a naming conflict: `llvm::MachO::Symbol` would
collide with `lld::macho::Symbol`.
`MachO::Symbol` represents the symbols defined in InterfaceFiles (TBDs). By
moving the inclusion of InterfaceFile.h into our .cpp files, we can avoid this
name collision in other files where we are only dealing with LLD's own symbols.
Along the way, I removed all unnecessary "MachO::" prefixes in our code.
Cons of this approach: If TextAPI/MachO/Symbol.h gets included via some other
header file in the future, we could run into this collision again.
Alternative 1: Have either TextAPI/MachO or BinaryFormat/MachO.h use a different
namespace. Most of the benefit of `using namespace llvm::MachO` comes from being
able to use things in BinaryFormat/MachO.h conveniently; if TextAPI was under a
different (and fully-qualified) namespace like `llvm::tapi` that would solve our
problems. Cons: lots of files across llvm-project will need to be updated, and
folks who own the TextAPI code need to agree to the name change.
Alternative 2: Rename our Symbol to something like `LldSymbol`. I think this is
ugly.
Personally I think alternative #1 is ideal, but I'm not sure the effort to do it is
worthwhile, this diff's halfway solution seems good enough to me. Thoughts?
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo, MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98149
This reverts diff D97610 (commit 0223ab035c) and adds a one-line fix to verify that a `MemoryBufferRef` has sufficient length before reading a 4-byte magic number.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97757
Bifurcate the `readFile()` API into ...
* `readRawFile()` which performs no checks, and
* `readLinkableFile()` which enforces minimum length of 20 bytes, same as ld64
There are no new tests because tweaks to existing tests are sufficient.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97610
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D95913
Usage: -bundle_loader <executable>
This option specifies the executable that will load the build output file being linked.
When building a bundle, users can use the --bundle_loader to specify an executable
that contains symbols referenced, but not implemented in the bundle.
Note that dylibs without *any* refs will still be loaded in the usual
(strong) fashion.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D93435
We were not setting forceWeakImport for file paths given by
`-weak_library` if we had already loaded the file. This diff fixes that
by having `loadDylib` return a cached DylibFile instance even if we have
already loaded that file.
We still avoid emitting multiple LC_LOAD_DYLIBs, but we achieve this by
making inputFiles a SetVector instead of relying on the `loadedDylibs`
cache.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, smeenai
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D93255
This was causing a crash as we were attempting to look up the
nonexistent parent OutputSection of the debug sections. We didn't detect
it earlier because there was no test for PIEs with debug info (PIEs
require us to emit rebases for X86_64_RELOC_UNSIGNED).
This diff filters out the debug sections while loading the ObjFiles. In
addition to fixing the above problem, it also lets us avoid doing
redundant work -- we no longer parse / apply relocations / attempt to
emit dyld opcodes for these sections that we don't emit.
Fixes llvm.org/PR48392.
Reviewed By: thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D92904
Additionally:
1. Move the helper functions in InputSection.h below the definition of
`InputSection`, so the important stuff is on top
2. Remove unnecessary `explicit`
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, compnerd
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D92453
Jez Ng