This change simplifies the BuildId classes by removing a few member
functions and variables from them. It should also make it easy to
parallelize hash computation in future because now each BuildId object
see all inputs rather than one at a time.
llvm-svn: 268333
This patch implements a new design for the symbol table that stores
SymbolBodies within a memory region of the Symbol object. Symbols are mutated
by constructing SymbolBodies in place over existing SymbolBodies, rather
than by mutating pointers. As mentioned in the initial proposal [1], this
memory layout helps reduce the cache miss rate by improving memory locality.
Performance numbers:
old(s) new(s)
Without debug info:
chrome 7.178 6.432 (-11.5%)
LLVMgold.so 0.505 0.502 (-0.5%)
clang 0.954 0.827 (-15.4%)
llvm-as 0.052 0.045 (-15.5%)
With debug info:
scylla 5.695 5.613 (-1.5%)
clang 14.396 14.143 (-1.8%)
Performance counter results show that the fewer required indirections is
indeed the cause of the improved performance. For example, when linking
chrome, stalled cycles decreases from 14,556,444,002 to 12,959,238,310, and
instructions per cycle increases from 0.78 to 0.83. We are also executing
many fewer instructions (15,516,401,933 down to 15,002,434,310), probably
because we spend less time allocating SymbolBodies.
The new mechanism by which symbols are added to the symbol table is by calling
add* functions on the SymbolTable.
In this patch, I handle local symbols by storing them inside "unparented"
SymbolBodies. This is suboptimal, but if we do want to try to avoid allocating
these SymbolBodies, we can probably do that separately.
I also removed a few members from the SymbolBody class that were only being
used to pass information from the input file to the symbol table.
This patch implements the new design for the ELF linker only. I intend to
prepare a similar patch for the COFF linker.
[1] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-April/098832.html
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19752
llvm-svn: 268178
These would just crash at runtime.
If we ever decide to support rw text segments this should make it easier
to implement as there is now a single point where we notice the problem.
I have tested this with a freebsd buildworld. It found a non pic
assembly file being linked into a .so,. With that fixed, buildworld
finished.
llvm-svn: 268149
Relocations against sections with no SHF_ALLOC bit are R_ABS relocations.
Currently we are creating Relocations vector for them, but that is wasteful.
This patch is to skip vector construction and to directly apply relocations
in place.
This patch seems to be pretty effective for large executables with debug info.
r266158 (Rafael's patch to change the way how we apply relocations) caused a
temporary performance degradation for such executables, but this patch makes
it even faster than before.
Time to link clang with debug info (output size is 1070 MB):
before r266158: 15.312 seconds (0%)
r266158: 17.301 seconds (+13.0%)
Head: 16.484 seconds (+7.7%)
w/patch: 13.166 seconds (-14.0%)
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19645
llvm-svn: 267917
It is now used only for relocations that only set the low bits inside a
page. Everything else is handled by getRelExpr.
I will send a another review renaming and better documenting
isRelRelative.
llvm-svn: 267705
The semantics of the -u flag are to load the lazy symbol named by the flag. We
were previously relying on this behavior falling out of symbol resolution
against a synthetic undefined symbol, but that didn't quite give us the
correct behavior, so we needed a flag to mark symbols created with -u so
we could treat them specially in the writer. However, it's simpler and less
error prone to implement the required behavior directly and remove the flag.
This fixes an issue where symbols loaded with -u would receive hidden
visibility even when the definition in an object file had wider visibility.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19560
llvm-svn: 267639
This remove a fixme, cleans up the weak undef interaction with archives and
lets us keep weak undefs still weak if they resolve to shared.
llvm-svn: 267555
The fix is to handle local symbols referring to SHF_MERGE sections.
Original message:
GC entries of SHF_MERGE sections.
It is a fairly direct extension of the gc algorithm. For merge sections
instead of remembering just a live bit, we remember which offsets
were used.
This reduces the .rodata sections in chromium from 9648861 to 9477472
bytes.
llvm-svn: 267233
These are properties of a symbol name, rather than a particular instance
of a symbol in an object file. We can simplify the code by collecting these
properties in Symbol.
The MustBeInDynSym flag has been renamed ExportDynamic, as its semantics
have been changed to be the same as those of --dynamic-list and
--export-dynamic-symbol, which do not cause hidden symbols to be exported.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19400
llvm-svn: 267183
I noticed that I was looking for the definition of SymPair when hacking
the Writer, only to find that it is just a pair of DefinedRegular symbols.
I don't think it provides more values than the cost of using brainpower
to memorize the type. I didn't roll back r266317, which introduced SymPair,
because the patch removes code repetitions. I ported that change to new
code.
llvm-svn: 267047
MIPS ABI turns using of GOT and dynamic relocations inside out. While
regular ABI uses dynamic relocations to fill up GOT entries MIPS ABI
requires dynamic linker to fills up GOT entries using specially sorted
dynamic symbol table. This affects even dynamic relocations against
symbols which do not require GOT entries creation explicitly, i.e. do
not have any GOT-relocations. So if a preemptible symbol has a dynamic
relocation we anyway have to create a GOT entry for it.
If a non-preemptible symbol has a dynamic relocation against it, dynamic
linker takes it st_value, adds offset and writes down result of the
dynamic relocation. In case of preemptible symbol dynamic linker
performs symbol resolution, writes the symbol value to the GOT entry and
reads the GOT entry when it needs to perform a dynamic relocation.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18948
llvm-svn: 266921
Originally, linker scripts were basically an alternative way to specify
options to the command line options. But as we add more features to hanlde
symbols and sections, many member functions needed to be templated.
Now most the members are templated. It is probably time to template the
entire class.
Previously, LinkerScript is an executor of the linker script as well as
a storage of linker script configurations. This is not suitable to template
the class because when we are reading linker script files, we don't know
the ELF type yet, so we can't instantiate ELF-templated classes.
In this patch, I defined a new class, ScriptConfiguration, to store
linker script configurations. ScriptParser writes parse results to it,
and LinkerScript uses them.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19302
llvm-svn: 266908
It is now redundant. Writer.cpp can reason that 2 dynamic relocations
are needed: one to find the final got entry address and one to fill the
got entry.
llvm-svn: 266876
This requires adding a few more expression types, but is already a small
simplification. Having Writer.cpp know the exact expression will also
allow further simplifications.
llvm-svn: 266604
* Do script driven layout only if SECTIONS section exist.
Initial commit message:
[ELF] - Implemented basic location counter support.
This patch implements location counter support.
It also separates assign addresses for sections to assignAddressesScript() if it scipt exists.
Main testcase is test/ELF/linkerscript-locationcounter.s, It contains some work with location counter. It is basic now.
Implemented location counter assignment and '+' operations.
Patch by myself with LOTS of comments and design suggestions from Rui Ueyama.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18499
llvm-svn: 266526
Rui Ueyama