Weak functions can be replaced by other functions at link time. Previously it
was assumed that no matter what the weak callee function was replaced with it
would still share the same TOC as the caller. This is no longer true as a weak
callee with a TOC setup can be replaced by another function that was compiled
with PC Relative and does not have a TOC at all.
This patch makes sure that all calls to functions defined as weak from a caller
that has a valid TOC have a nop after the call to allow a place for the linker
to restore the TOC.
Reviewed By: NeHuang
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91983
Currently we do not represent runtime preemption in the IR, which has several
drawbacks:
1) The semantics of GlobalValues differ depending on the object file format
you are targeting (as well as the relocation-model and -fPIE value).
2) We have no way of disabling inlining of run time interposable functions,
since in the IR we only know if a function is link-time interposable.
Because of this llvm cannot support elf-interposition semantics.
3) In LTO builds of executables we will have extra knowledge that a symbol
resolved to a local definition and can't be preemptable, but have no way to
propagate that knowledge through the compiler.
This patch adds preemptability specifiers to the IR with the following meaning:
dso_local --> means the compiler may assume the symbol will resolve to a
definition within the current linkage unit and the symbol may be accessed
directly even if the definition is not within this compilation unit.
dso_preemptable --> means that the compiler must assume the GlobalValue may be
replaced with a definition from outside the current linkage unit at runtime.
To ease transitioning dso_preemptable is treated as a 'default' in that
low-level codegen will still do the same checks it did previously to see if a
symbol should be accessed indirectly. Eventually when IR producers emit the
specifiers on all Globalvalues we can change dso_preemptable to mean 'always
access indirectly', and remove the current logic.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D20217
llvm-svn: 316668
Stefan Pintilie