-pie
--pic-executable
Create a position independent executable. This is currently only
supported on ELF platforms. Position independent executables are
similar to shared libraries in that they are relocated by the
dynamic linker to the virtual address the OS chooses for them
(which can vary between invocations). Like normal dynamically
linked executables they can be executed and symbols defined in the
executable cannot be overridden by shared libraries.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18183
llvm-svn: 263693
-warn-common
Warn when a common symbol is combined with another common symbol
or with a symbol definition. Unix linkers allow this somewhat
sloppy practice, but linkers on some other operating systems do
not. This option allows you to find potential problems from
combining global symbols.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17998
llvm-svn: 263413
This patch implements --build-id. After the linker creates an output file
in the memory buffer, it computes the FNV1 hash of the resulting file
and set the hash to the .note section as a build-id.
GNU ld and gold have the same feature, but their default choice of the
hash function is different. Their default is SHA1.
We made a deliberate choice to not use a secure hash function for the
sake of performance. Computing a secure hash is slow -- for example,
MD5 throughput is usually 400 MB/s or so. SHA1 is slower than that.
As a result, if you pass --build-id to gold, then the linker becomes about
10% slower than that without the option. We observed a similar degradation
in an experimental implementation of build-id for LLD. On the other hand,
we observed only 1-2% performance degradation with the FNV hash.
Since build-id is not for digital certificate or anything, we think that
a very small probability of collision is acceptable.
We considered using other signals such as using input file timestamps as
inputs to a secure hash function. But such signals would have an issue
with build reproducibility (if you build a binary from the same source
tree using the same toolchain, the build id should become the same.)
GNU linkers accepts --build-id=<style> option where style is one of
"MD5", "SHA1", or an arbitrary hex string. That option is out of scope
of this patch.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D18091
llvm-svn: 263292
This patch adds --thread option and use parallel_for_each to write
sections in regular OutputSections.
This is the first patch to use more than one threads.
Note that --thread is off by default because it is experimental.
At this moment I still want to focus on single thread performance
because multi-threading is not a magic wand to fix performance
problems after all. It is generally very hard to make a slow program
faster by threads. Therefore, I want to make the linker as efficient
as possible first and then look for opportunity to make it even faster
using more than one core.
Here are some numbers to link programs with and without --threads
and using GNU gold. Numbers are in seconds.
Clang
w/o --threads 0.697
w --threads 0.528
gold 1.643
Scylla
w/o --threads 5.032
w --threads 4.935
gold 6.791
GNU gold
w/o --threads 0.550
w --threads 0.551
gold 0.737
I limited the number of cores these processes can use to 4 using
perf command, so although my machine has 20 physical cores, the
performance gain I observed should be reproducible with a machine
which is not as beefy as mine.
llvm-svn: 263190
Summary:
This is useful for debugging issues with LTO.
The option follows the analogous option in ld64 and the gold plugin (per
Rafael's suggestion).
For starters, this only dumps the combined bitcode file.
In a future patch I will add dumping for the .o file.
The naming of the output follows ld64's convention which is slightly more
consistent IMO (consistent `.lto.<extension>` for all the files).
Reviewers: rafael, ruiu
Subscribers: joker.eph, Bigcheese, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18006
llvm-svn: 263055
It was causing errors like
/lib/libc.so.6 is incompatible with elf_x86_64
when linking on Fedora.
Every system has different default paths. It seems better to just trust
the driver to pass the correct -L options.
This reverts commit 262910.
llvm-svn: 262941
The variables corresponding to command line options are named mechanically.
Because the option for the variable is -noinhibit-exec and not -no-inhibit-exec,
it should be name this way.
llvm-svn: 262911
This patch implements the same algorithm as LLD/COFF's ICF. I'm
not going to repeat the same description about how it works, so you
want to read the comment in ICF.cpp in this patch if you want to know
the details. This algorithm should be more powerful than the ICF
algorithm implemented in GNU gold. It can even merge mutually-recursive
functions (which is harder than one might think).
ICF is a fairly effective size optimization. Here are some examples.
LLD: 37.14 MB -> 35.80 MB (-3.6%)
Clang: 59.41 MB -> 57.80 MB (-2.7%)
The lacking feature is "safe" version of ICF. This merges all
identical sections. That is not compatible with a C/C++ language
requirement that two distinct functions must have distinct addresses.
But as long as your program do not rely on the pointer equality
(which is in many cases true), your program should work with the
feature. LLD works fine for example.
GNU gold implements so-called "safe ICF" that identifies functions
that are safe to merge by heuristics -- for example, gold thinks
that constructors are safe to merge because there is no way to
take an address of a constructor in C++. We have a different idea
which David Majnemer suggested that we add NOPs at beginning of
merged functions so that two or more pointers can have distinct
values. We can do whichever we want, but this patch does not
include neither.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D17529
llvm-svn: 261912
-r, -relocatable - Generate relocatable output
Currently does not have support for files containing
relocation sections with entries that refer to local
symbols (like rel[a].eh_frame which refer to sections
and not to symbols)
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14382
llvm-svn: 261838
Previously, we had code for linker scripts in Writer. This patch
separates that as LinkerScript class. The class provides a few
functions to query linker scripts and is also a container of some
linker-script-specific information.
Hopefully, Writer will only implement the default behavior and let
the new class handle gotchas regarding linker scripts.
llvm-svn: 260591
-Bsymbolic-functions:
When creating a shared library, bind references to global
function symbols to the definition within the shared library, if any.
This patch also fixed behavior of already existent -Bsymbolic:
previously PLT entries were created even if -Bsymbolic was specified.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D16411
llvm-svn: 259481
Added check for terminator CIE/FDE which has zero data size.
void EHOutputSection<ELFT>::addSectionAux(
...
// If CIE/FDE data length is zero then Length is 4, this
// shall be considered a terminator and processing shall end.
if (Length == 4)
break;
...
After this "Bug 25923 - lld/ELF2 linked application crashes if exceptions were used." is fixed for me. Self link of clang also works.
Initial commit message:
[ELF] - implemented --eh-frame-hdr command line option.
--eh-frame-hdr
Request creation of ".eh_frame_hdr" section and ELF "PT_GNU_EH_FRAME" segment header.
Both gold and the GNU linker support an option --eh-frame-hdr which tell them to construct a header for all the .eh_frame sections. This header is placed in a section named .eh_frame_hdr and also in a PT_GNU_EH_FRAME segment. At runtime the unwinder can find all the PT_GNU_EH_FRAME segments by calling dl_iterate_phdr.
This section contains a lookup table for quick binary search of FDEs.
Detailed info can be found here:
http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/462
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15712
llvm-svn: 257889
--eh-frame-hdr
Request creation of ".eh_frame_hdr" section and ELF "PT_GNU_EH_FRAME" segment header.
Both gold and the GNU linker support an option --eh-frame-hdr which tell them to construct a header for all the .eh_frame sections. This header is placed in a section named .eh_frame_hdr and also in a PT_GNU_EH_FRAME segment. At runtime the unwinder can find all the PT_GNU_EH_FRAME segments by calling dl_iterate_phdr.
This section contains a lookup table for quick binary search of FDEs.
Detailed info can be found here:
http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/462
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15712
llvm-svn: 257753
The `_gp_disp` is a magic symbol designates offset between start of
function and gp pointer into GOT. Only `R_MIPS_HI16` and `R_MIPS_LO16`
relocations are permitted with `_gp_disp`. The patch adds the `_gp_disp`
as an ignored symbol and adjusts symbol value before call the `relocateOne`
for `R_MIPS_HI16/LO16` relocations.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15480
llvm-svn: 255768
List all sections removed by garbage collection. This option is only effective if garbage collection has been enabled via the `--gc-sections' option.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15327
llvm-svn: 255235
Partial (-z relro) and full (-z relro, -z now) relro cases are implemented.
Partial relro:
The ELF sections are reordered so that the ELF internal data sections (.got, .dtors, etc.) precede the program's data sections (.data and .bss).
.got is readonly, .got.plt is still writeable.
Full relro:
Supports all the features of partial RELRO, .got.plt is also readonly.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14218
llvm-svn: 253967
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
PT_GNU_STACK is a entry in the elf file format which contains the access rights (read, write, execute) of the stack,
it is always generated now. By default stack is not executable in this implementation.
-z execstack can be used to make executable.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14571
llvm-svn: 253145
Section garbage collection is a feature to remove unused sections
from outputs. Unused sections are sections that cannot be reachable
from known GC-root symbols or sections. Naturally the feature is
implemented as a mark-sweep garbage collector.
In this patch, I added Live bit to InputSectionBase. If and only
if Live bit is on, the section will be written to the output.
Starting from GC-root symbols or sections, a new function, markLive(),
visits all reachable sections and sets their Live bits. Writer then
ignores sections whose Live bit is off, so that such sections are
excluded from the output.
This change has small negative impact on performance if you use
the feature because making sections means more work. The time to
link Clang changes from 0.356s to 0.386s, or +8%.
It reduces Clang size from 57,764,984 bytes to 55,296,600 bytes.
That is 4.3% reduction.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D13950
llvm-svn: 251043
This patch implements --hash-style command line switch.
* By default, or with "sysv" or "both" parameters, the linker generates
a standard ELF hash section.
* With "gnu" or "both", it produces a GNU-style hash section.
That section requires the symbols in the dynamic symbol table section, which
are referenced in the GNU hash section, to be placed after not hashed ones and
to be sorted to correspond the order of hash buckets in the GNU Hash section.
The division function, as well as estimations for the section's parameters,
are just the first rough attempt and the subjects for further adjustments.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D13815
llvm-svn: 251000
The reason of collecting all undefines in vector is that during reading files we already need to have Symtab created. Or like was done in that patch - to put undefines from scripts somewhere to delay Symtab.addUndefinedOpt() call.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D13870
llvm-svn: 250711
If one file is MIPS64EL, all files are MIPS64EL, and vice versa.
We do not have to look up MIPS-ness for each file. Currently we
do not support 64-bit MIPS, so the config value is always false.
llvm-svn: 250566
If an argument for --entry is a number, that's not a symbol name but
an absolute address. If that's the case, the address is directly set
to ELF header's e_entry.
llvm-svn: 250334
This patch adds AsNeeded and IsUsed bool fields to SharedFile. AsNeeded bit
is set if the DSO is enclosed with --as-needed and --no-as-needed. IsUsed
bit is off by default. When we adds a symbol to the symbol table for dynamic
linking, we set its SharedFile's IsUsed bit.
If AsNeeded is set but IsUsed is not set, we don't want to write that
file's SO name to DT_NEEDED field.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D13579
llvm-svn: 249998
In the linker script, -l and = have the same meaning as in the command line.
In addition to that, if a path is not absolute, the path needs to be searched
from the search paths. This patch implements them.
llvm-svn: 249967
SymbolTable was not a right place for initialization. We had to do that
because Driver didn't know what type of ELF objects are being handled.
We taught Driver that, so we can now move this code to Driver.
llvm-svn: 249904
George Rimar