If there is no readonly section, we map:
* The ELF header at imageBase+maxPageSize
* Program headers at imageBase+maxPageSize+sizeof(Ehdr)
* The first section .text at imageBase+maxPageSize+sizeof(Ehdr)+sizeof(program headers)
Due to the interaction between Writer<ELFT>::fixSectionAlignments and
LinkerScript::allocateHeaders,
`alignDown(p_vaddr(R PT_LOAD)) = alignDown(p_vaddr(RX PT_LOAD))`.
The RX PT_LOAD will override the R PT_LOAD at runtime, which is not ideal:
```
// PHDR at 0x401034, should be 0x400034
PHDR 0x000034 0x00401034 0x00401034 0x000a0 0x000a0 R 0x4
// R PT_LOAD contains just Ehdr and program headers.
// At 0x401000, should be 0x400000
LOAD 0x000000 0x00401000 0x00401000 0x000d4 0x000d4 R 0x1000
LOAD 0x0000d4 0x004010d4 0x004010d4 0x00001 0x00001 R E 0x1000
```
* createPhdrs allocates the headers to the R PT_LOAD.
* fixSectionAlignments assigns `imageBase+maxPageSize+sizeof(Ehdr)+sizeof(program headers)` (formula: `alignTo(dot, maxPageSize) + dot % config->maxPageSize`) to addrExpr of .text
* allocateHeaders computes the minimum address among SHF_ALLOC sections, i.e. addr(.text)
* allocateHeaders sets address of ELF header to `addr(.text)-sizeof(Ehdr)-sizeof(program headers) = imageBase+maxPageSize`
The main observation is that when the SECTIONS command is not used, we
don't have to call allocateHeaders. This requires an assumption that
the presence of PT_PHDR and addresses of headers can be decided
regardless of address information.
This may seem natural because dot is not manipulated by a linker script.
The other thing is that we have to drop the special rule for -T<section>
in `getInitialDot`. If -Ttext is smaller than the image base, the headers
will not be allocated with the old behavior (allocateHeaders is called)
but always allocated with the new behavior.
The behavior change is not a problem. Whether and where headers are
allocated can vary among linkers, or ld.bfd across different versions
(--enable-separate-code or not). It is thus advised to use a linker
script with the PHDRS command to have a consistent behavior across
linkers. If PT_PHDR is needed, an explicit --image-base can be a simpler
alternative.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D67325
llvm-svn: 371957
Ported the D64906 technique to AArch64. It deletes 3 alignments at
PT_LOAD boundaries for the default case: the size of an aarch64 binary
decreases by at most 192kb.
If `sh_addralign(.tdata) < sh_addralign(.tbss)`,
we can potentially make `p_vaddr(PT_TLS)%p_align(PT_TLS) != 0`.
ld.so that are known to have problems if p_vaddr%p_align!=0:
* musl<=1.1.22
* FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT (and before) rtld-elf arm64
New test aarch64-tls-vaddr-align.s checks that our workaround makes p_vaddr%p_align = 0.
Reviewed By: ruiu
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D64930
llvm-svn: 369344
This patch
1) adds -z separate-code and -z noseparate-code (default).
2) changes the condition that the last page of last PF_X PT_LOAD is
padded with trap instructions.
Current condition (after D33630): if there is no `SECTIONS` commands.
After this change: if -z separate-code is specified.
-z separate-code was introduced to ld.bfd in 2018, to place the text
segment in its own pages. There is no overlap in pages between an
executable segment and a non-executable segment:
1) RX cannot load initial contents from R or RW(or non-SHF_ALLOC).
2) R and RW(or non-SHF_ALLOC) cannot load initial contents from RX.
lld's current status:
- Between R and RX: in `Writer<ELFT>::fixSectionAlignments()`, the start of a
segment is always aligned to maxPageSize, so the initial contents loaded by R
and RX do not overlap. I plan to allow overlaps in D64906 if -z noseparate-code
is in effect.
- Between RX and RW(or non-SHF_ALLOC if RW doesn't exist):
we currently unconditionally pad the last page to commonPageSize
(defaults to 4096 on all targets we support).
This patch will make it effective only if -z separate-code is specified.
-z separate-code is a dubious feature that intends to reduce the number
of ROP gadgets (which is actually ineffective because attackers can find
plenty of gadgets in the text segment, no need to find gadgets in
non-code regions).
With the overlapping PT_LOAD technique D64906, -z noseparate-code
removes two more alignments at segment boundaries than -z separate-code.
This saves at most defaultCommonPageSize*2 bytes, which are significant
on targets with large defaultCommonPageSize (AArch64/MIPS/PPC: 65536).
Issues/feedback on alignment at segment boundaries to help understand
the implication:
* binutils PR24490 (the situation on ld.bfd is worse because they have
two R-- on both sides of R-E so more alignments.)
* In binutils, the 2018-02-27 commit "ld: Add --enable-separate-code" made -z separate-code the default on Linux.
d969dea983
In musl-cross-make, binutils is configured with --disable-separate-code
to address size regressions caused by -z separate-code. (lld actually has the same
issue, which I plan to fix in a future patch. The ld.bfd x86 status is
worse because they default to max-page-size=0x200000).
* https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237676 people want
smaller code size. This patch will remove one alignment boundary.
* Stef O'Rear: I'm opposed to any kind of page alignment at the
text/rodata line (having a partial page of text aliased as rodata and
vice versa has no demonstrable harm, and I actually care about small
systems).
So, make -z noseparate-code the default.
Reviewed By: ruiu
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D64903
llvm-svn: 367537
Also change some options that have different semantics (cause confusion) in llvm-readelf mode:
-s => -S
-t => --symbols
-sd => --section-data
llvm-svn: 359651
Summary:
As for x86_64, the default image base for AArch64 and i386 should be
aligned to a superpage appropriate for the architecture.
On AArch64, this is 2 MiB, on i386 it is 4 MiB.
Reviewers: emaste, grimar, javed.absar, espindola, ruiu, peter.smith, srhines, rprichard
Reviewed By: ruiu, peter.smith
Subscribers: jfb, markj, arichardson, krytarowski, kristof.beyls, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D50297
llvm-svn: 342746
No difference in practice other than having sh_entsize in the output.
This should simplify the patch for handling SHF_MERGE in -r.
Based on a patch by George Rimar.
llvm-svn: 318306
When the data segment is the last segment, it is correct to leave
it unaligned. However, when the code segment is the last segment,
it should be aligned to the page boundary to avoid loading the
non-segment parts of the ELF file at the end of the file.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D33630
llvm-svn: 309829
Summary:
This patch adds a ".comment" section to an output. The comment
section contains the linker's version string. You can now
find out whether a binary is created by LLD or not using objdump
command like this.
$ objdump -s -j .comment foo
foo: file format elf64-x86-64
Contents of section .comment:
0000 00474343 3a202855 62756e74 7520342e .GCC: (Ubuntu 4.
0010 382e342d 32756275 6e747531 7e31342e 8.4-2ubuntu1~14.
...
00c0 766d2f74 72756e6b 20323835 38343629 vm/trunk 285846)
00d0 004c696e 6b65723a 204c4c44 20342e30 .Linker: LLD 4.0
00e0 2e302028 7472756e 6b203238 36343036 .0 (trunk 286406
00f0 2900 ).
Compilers emits .comment section as well, so the output contains
both compiler and linker information.
Alternative considered:
I first tried to add a SHT_NOTE section because GNU gold does that.
A NOTE section starts with a header which contains content type.
It turned out that ld.gold sets type NT_GNU_GOLD_VERSION to their
NOTE section. So the NOTE type is only for GNU gold (surprise!)
Next, I tried to create ".linker-version" section. However, it seems
that reusing the existing ".comment" section is better because 1)
other tools already know about .comment section and is able to strip
it and 2) the result contans not only linker info but also compiler
info.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26487
llvm-svn: 286496
String tables in unstripped executable files are fairly large in size.
For example, lld's executable file is about 34.4 MB in my environment,
and of which 3.5 MB is the string table. Efficiency of string table
construction matters.
Previously, the string table was built in an inefficient way. We used
StringTableBuilder to build that and enabled string tail merging,
although tail merging is not effective for the symbol table (you can
only make the string table 0.3% smaller for lld.) Tail merging is
computation intensive task and slow.
This patch eliminates string tail merging.
I changed the way of adding strings to the string table in this patch
too. Previously, strings were added using add() and the same strings
were then passed to getOffset() to get their offsets in the string table.
In this way, getOffset() needs to look up a hash table to get offsets
for given strings. This is a violation of "we look up the symbol table
(or a hash table) only once for each symbol" dogma of the new LLD's
design. Hash table lookup for long C++ mangled names is slow.
I eliminated that lookup in this patch.
In total, this patch improves link time of lld itself about 12%
(3.50 seconds -> 3.08 seconds.)
llvm-svn: 257017
With this patch, lld creates PT_GNU_STACK segments only when all input
files have .note.GNU-stack sections. This is in line with other linkers
with a minor difference (we don't care about .note.GNU-stack rwx bits as
you can always remove .note.GNU-stack sections instead of setting x bit.)
At least, NetBSD loader does not understand PT_GNU_STACK segments and
reject any executables that have the section. This patch makes lld
compatible with such operating systems.
llvm-svn: 253797
Fangrui Song