If a local_unnamed_addr attribute is attached to a global, the address
is known to be insignificant within the module. It is distinct from the
existing unnamed_addr attribute in that it only describes a local property
of the module rather than a global property of the symbol.
This attribute is intended to be used by the code generator and LTO to allow
the linker to decide whether the global needs to be in the symbol table. It is
possible to exclude a global from the symbol table if three things are true:
- This attribute is present on every instance of the global (which means that
the normal rule that the global must have a unique address can be broken without
being observable by the program by performing comparisons against the global's
address)
- The global has linkonce_odr linkage (which means that each linkage unit must have
its own copy of the global if it requires one, and the copy in each linkage unit
must be the same)
- It is a constant or a function (which means that the program cannot observe that
the unique-address rule has been broken by writing to the global)
Although this attribute could in principle be computed from the module
contents, LTO clients (i.e. linkers) will normally need to be able to compute
this property as part of symbol resolution, and it would be inefficient to
materialize every module just to compute it.
See:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20160509/356401.htmlhttp://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20160516/356738.html
for earlier discussion.
Part of the fix for PR27553.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D20348
llvm-svn: 272709
This test was crashing, and currently it breaks bootstrapping clang with debuginfo
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D20008
From: Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini@apple.com>
llvm-svn: 268715
Summary:
Refine the workaround from r266877 that attempts to prevent
renaming of locals in inline assembly, so that in addition to looking
for a llvm.used local value, that there is at least one inline assembly
call in the module. Otherwise, debug functions added to the llvm.used
can block importing/exporting unnecessarily.
Reviewers: joker.eph
Subscribers: llvm-commits, joker.eph
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19573
llvm-svn: 267717
Summary:
This patch prevents importing from (and therefore exporting from) any
module with a "llvm.used" local value. Local values need to be promoted
and renamed when importing, and their presense on the llvm.used variable
indicates that there are opaque uses that won't see the rename. One such
example is a use in inline assembly.
See also the discussion at:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-April/098047.html
As part of this, move collectUsedGlobalVariables out of Transforms/Utils
and into IR/Module so that it can be used more widely. There are several
other places in LLVM that used copies of this code that can be cleaned
up as a follow on NFC patch.
Reviewers: joker.eph
Subscribers: pcc, llvm-commits, joker.eph
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18986
llvm-svn: 266877
This linkage is *not* intended to express that a declaration refers
to a weak symbol, but that the symbol might not be present at link
time. I don't believe it was the intent.
From: Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini@apple.com>
llvm-svn: 266856
This is more robust to changes in the link ordering.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18946
From: Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini@apple.com>
llvm-svn: 266018
Summary:
ThinLTO is relying on linkInModule to import selected function.
However a lot of "magic" was hidden in linkInModule and the IRMover,
who would rename and promote global variables on the fly.
This is moving to an approach where the steps are decoupled and the
client is reponsible to specify the list of globals to import.
As a consequence some test are changed because they were relying on
the previous behavior which was importing the definition of *every*
single global without control on the client side.
Now the burden is on the client to decide if a global has to be imported
or not.
Reviewers: tejohnson
Subscribers: joker.eph, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18122
From: Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini@apple.com>
llvm-svn: 263863
(Resubmitting after fixing missing file issue)
With the changes in r263275, there are now more than just functions in
the summary. Completed the renaming of data structures (started in
r263275) to reflect the wider scope. In particular, changed the
FunctionIndex* data structures to ModuleIndex*, and renamed related
variables and comments. Also renamed the files to reflect the changes.
A companion clang patch will immediately succeed this patch to reflect
this renaming.
llvm-svn: 263513
With the changes in r263275, there are now more than just functions in
the summary. Completed the renaming of data structures (started in
r263275) to reflect the wider scope. In particular, changed the
FunctionIndex* data structures to ModuleIndex*, and renamed related
variables and comments. Also renamed the files to reflect the changes.
A companion clang patch will immediately succeed this patch to reflect
this renaming.
llvm-svn: 263490
Summary:
As discussed on IRC, move the ThinLTOGlobalProcessing code out of
the linker, and into TransformUtils. The name of the class is changed
to FunctionImportGlobalProcessing.
Reviewers: joker.eph, rafael
Subscribers: joker.eph, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17081
llvm-svn: 260395
Peter Collingbourne