By default LLD will generate position independent Thunks when the --pie or
--shared option is used. Reference to absolute addresses is permitted in
other cases. For some embedded systems position independent thunks are
needed for code that executes before the MMU has been set up. The option
--pic-veneer is used by ld.bfd to force position independent thunks.
The patch adds --pic-veneer as the option is needed for the Linux kernel
on Arm.
fixes pr39886
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D55505
llvm-svn: 351326
`--plugin-opt=emit-llvm` is an option for LTO. It makes the linker to
combine all bitcode files and write the result to an output file without
doing codegen. Gold LTO plugin has this option.
This option is being used for some post-link code analysis tools that
have to see a whole program but don't need to see them in the native
machine code.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D55717
llvm-svn: 349198
Recommitting https://reviews.llvm.org/rL344544 after fixing undefined behavior
from left-shifting a negative value. Original commit message:
This support is slightly different then the X86_64 implementation in that calls
to __morestack don't need to get rewritten to calls to __moresatck_non_split
when a split-stack caller calls a non-split-stack callee. Instead the size of
the stack frame requested by the caller is adjusted prior to the call to
__morestack. The size the stack-frame will be adjusted by is tune-able through a
new --split-stack-adjust-size option.
llvm-svn: 344622
This reverts commit https://reviews.llvm.org/rL344544, which causes failures on
a undefined behaviour sanitizer bot -->
lld/ELF/Arch/PPC64.cpp:849:35: runtime error: left shift of negative value -1
llvm-svn: 344551
This support is slightly different then the X86_64 implementation in that calls
to __morestack don't need to get rewritten to calls to __moresatck_non_split
when a split-stack caller calls a non-split-stack callee. Instead the size of
the stack frame requested by the caller is adjusted prior to the call to
__morestack. The size the stack-frame will be adjusted by is tune-able through a
new --split-stack-adjust-size option.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52099
llvm-svn: 344544
Summary:
This patch adds a new flag, --warn-ifunc-textrel, to work around a glibc bug. When a code with ifunc symbols is used to produce an object file with text relocations, lld always succeeds. However, if that object file is linked using an old version of glibc, the resultant binary just crashes with segmentation fault when it is run (The bug is going to be corrected as of glibc 2.19).
Since there is no way to tell beforehand what library the object file will be linked against in the future, there does not seem to be a fool-proof way for lld to give an error only in cases where the binary will crash. So, with this change (dated 2018-09-25), lld starts to give a warning, contingent on a new command line flag that does not have a gnu counter part. The default value for --warn-ifunc-textrel is false, so lld behaviour will not change unless the user explicitly asks lld to give a warning. Users that link with a glibc library with version 2.19 or newer, or does not use ifunc symbols, or does not generate object files with text relocations do not need to take any action. Other users may consider to start passing warn-ifunc-textrel to lld to get early warnings.
Reviewers: ruiu, espindola
Reviewed By: ruiu
Subscribers: grimar, MaskRay, markj, emaste, arichardson, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52430
llvm-svn: 343628
The access sequence for global variables in the medium and large code models use
2 instructions to add an offset to the toc-pointer. If the offset fits whithin
16-bits then the instruction that sets the high 16 bits is redundant.
This patch adds the --toc-optimize option, (on by default) and enables rewriting
of 2 instruction global variable accesses into 1 when the offset from the
TOC-pointer to the variable (or .got entry) fits in 16 signed bits. eg
addis %r3, %r2, 0 --> nop
addi %r3, %r3, -0x8000 --> addi %r3, %r2, -0x8000
This rewriting can be disabled with the --no-toc-optimize flag
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D49237
llvm-svn: 342602
Summary:
This adds an LLD flag to mark executable LOAD segments execute-only for AArch64 targets.
In AArch64 the expectation is that code is execute-only compatible, so this just adds a linker option to enforce this.
Patch by: ivanlozano (Ivan Lozano)
Reviewers: srhines, echristo, peter.smith, eugenis, javed.absar, espindola, ruiu
Reviewed By: ruiu
Subscribers: dokyungs, emaste, arichardson, kristof.beyls, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D49456
llvm-svn: 338271
Summary:
This adds support to option -plugin-opt=dwo_dir=${DIR}. This option is used to specify the directory to store the .dwo files when LTO and debug fission is used
at the same time.
Reviewers: ruiu, espindola, pcc
Reviewed By: pcc
Subscribers: eraman, dexonsmith, mehdi_amini, emaste, arichardson, steven_wu, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47904
llvm-svn: 337195
Patch by Rahul Chaudhry!
This change adds experimental support for SHT_RELR sections, proposed
here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/generic-abi/bX460iggiKg
Pass '--pack-dyn-relocs=relr' to enable generation of SHT_RELR section
and DT_RELR, DT_RELRSZ, and DT_RELRENT dynamic tags.
Definitions for the new ELF section type and dynamic array tags, as well
as the encoding used in the new section are all under discussion and are
subject to change. Use with caution!
Pass '--use-android-relr-tags' with '--pack-dyn-relocs=relr' to use
SHT_ANDROID_RELR section type instead of SHT_RELR, as well as
DT_ANDROID_RELR* dynamic tags instead of DT_RELR*. The generated
section contents are identical.
'--pack-dyn-relocs=android+relr --use-android-relr-tags' enables both
'--pack-dyn-relocs=android' and '--pack-dyn-relocs=relr': lld will
encode the relative relocations in a SHT_ANDROID_RELR section, and pack
the rest of the dynamic relocations in a SHT_ANDROID_REL(A) section.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D48247
llvm-svn: 336594
Almost all entries inside MIPS GOT are referenced by signed 16-bit
index. Zero entry lies approximately in the middle of the GOT. So the
total number of GOT entries cannot exceed ~16384 for 32-bit architecture
and ~8192 for 64-bit architecture. This limitation makes impossible to
link rather large application like for example LLVM+Clang. There are two
workaround for this problem. The first one is using the -mxgot
compiler's flag. It enables using a 32-bit index to access GOT entries.
But each access requires two assembly instructions two load GOT entry
index to a register. Another workaround is multi-GOT. This patch
implements it.
Here is a brief description of multi-GOT for detailed one see the
following link https://dmz-portal.mips.com/wiki/MIPS_Multi_GOT.
If the sum of local, global and tls entries is less than 64K only single
got is enough. Otherwise, multi-got is created. Series of primary and
multiple secondary GOTs have the following layout:
```
- Primary GOT
Header
Local entries
Global entries
Relocation only entries
TLS entries
- Secondary GOT
Local entries
Global entries
TLS entries
...
```
All GOT entries required by relocations from a single input file
entirely belong to either primary or one of secondary GOTs. To reference
GOT entries each GOT has its own _gp value points to the "middle" of the
GOT. In the code this value loaded to the register which is used for GOT
access.
MIPS 32 function's prologue:
```
lui v0,0x0
0: R_MIPS_HI16 _gp_disp
addiu v0,v0,0
4: R_MIPS_LO16 _gp_disp
```
MIPS 64 function's prologue:
```
lui at,0x0
14: R_MIPS_GPREL16 main
```
Dynamic linker does not know anything about secondary GOTs and cannot
use a regular MIPS mechanism for GOT entries initialization. So we have
to use an approach accepted by other architectures and create dynamic
relocations R_MIPS_REL32 to initialize global entries (and local in case
of PIC code) in secondary GOTs. But ironically MIPS dynamic linker
requires GOT entries and correspondingly ordered dynamic symbol table
entries to deal with dynamic relocations. To handle this problem
relocation-only section in the primary GOT contains entries for all
symbols referenced in global parts of secondary GOTs. Although the sum
of local and normal global entries of the primary got should be less
than 64K, the size of the primary got (including relocation-only entries
can be greater than 64K, because parts of the primary got that overflow
the 64K limit are used only by the dynamic linker at dynamic link-time
and not by 16-bit gp-relative addressing at run-time.
The patch affects common LLD code in the following places:
- Added new hidden -mips-got-size flag. This flag required to set low
maximum size of a single GOT to be able to test the implementation using
small test cases.
- Added InputFile argument to the getRelocTargetVA function. The same
symbol referenced by GOT relocation from different input file might be
allocated in different GOT. So result of relocation depends on the file.
- Added new ctor to the DynamicReloc class. This constructor records
settings of dynamic relocation which used to adjust address of 64kb page
lies inside a specific output section.
With the patch LLD is able to link all LLVM+Clang+LLD applications and
libraries for MIPS 32/64 targets.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31528
llvm-svn: 334390
Clang passes --plugin /path/to/LLVMgold.so to the linker when -flto is
passed. After r333607 we only ignore --plugin as a joined argument,
which means that the following argument (/path/to/LLVMgold.so) is
interpreted as an input file. This means that either every LTO'd
program ends up being linked with the gold plugin or we error out
if the plugin does not exist. The fix is to use Eq to ignore both
--plugin=foo and --plugin foo as before.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47657
llvm-svn: 333793
Since aliases don't actually need name, I removed it from Options.td
to keep the definitions concise.
Before:
-( Ignored for compatibility with GNU unless you pass --warn-backrefs
-) Ignored for compatibility with GNU unless you pass --warn-backrefs
--allow-multiple-definition Allow multiple definitions
--apply-dynamic-relocs Apply dynamic relocations to place
--as-needed Only set DT_NEEDED for shared libraries if used
--auxiliary=<value> Set DT_AUXILIARY field to the specified name
--Bdynamic Link against shared libraries
--Bshareable Build a shared object
...
After:
-( Alias for --start-group
-) Alias for --end-group
--allow-multiple-definition Allow multiple definitions
--apply-dynamic-relocs Apply dynamic relocations to place
--as-needed Only set DT_NEEDED for shared libraries if used
--auxiliary=<value> Set DT_AUXILIARY field to the specified name
--Bdynamic Link against shared libraries (default)
--Bshareable Alias for --shared
...
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47588
llvm-svn: 333694
Summary:
After r333596, rpath-link no longer consumes the following argument, and
the path argument left by it confuses LLD.
Reviewers: espindola, ruiu
Reviewed By: ruiu
Subscribers: ruiu, emaste, arichardson, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47591
llvm-svn: 333686
--push-state implemented in this patch saves the states of --as-needed,
--whole-archive and --static. It saves less number of flags than GNU linkers.
Since even GNU linkers save different flags, no one seems to care about the
details. In this patch, I tried to save the minimal number of flags to not
complicate the implementation and the siutation.
I'm not personally happy about adding the --{push,pop}-state flags though.
That options seem too hacky to me. However, gcc started using the options
since GCC 8 when GNU ld is available at the build time. Therefore, lld
is no longer a drop-in replacmenet for GNU linker for that machine
without supporting the flags.
Fixes https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34567
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47542
llvm-svn: 333646
Previously, we printed out two lines of help messages for `--foo bar`
and `--foo=bar` like this:
--soname=<value> Set DT_SONAME
--soname <value> Set DT_SONAME
--sort-section=<value> Specifies sections sorting rule when linkerscript is used
--sort-section <value> Specifies sections sorting rule when linkerscript is used
This change eliminates duplicate lines that doesn't contain `=` for such
options like this.
--soname=<value> Set DT_SONAME
--sort-section=<value> Specifies sections sorting rule when linkerscript is used
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47558
llvm-svn: 333596
Previously, we had a loop to iterate over options starting with
`--plugin-opt=` and parse them by hand. But we can make OptTable
do that job for us.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47167
llvm-svn: 332935
The --keep-unique <symbol> option is taken from gold. The intention is that
<symbol> will be prevented from being folded by ICF. Although not
specifically mentioned in the documentation <symbol> only matches
global symbols, with a warning if the symbol is not found.
The implementation finds the Section defining <symbol> and removes it from
the set of sections considered for ICF.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D46755
llvm-svn: 332332
This is most useful when using lld-link on a non-Win host (but it might become
useful on Windows too if lld also grows a fansi-escape-codes flag).
Also make the help for --color-diagnostic mention the valid values in ELF and
wasm, and print the flag name with two dashes in diags, since the one-dash form
is seen as a list of many one-letter flags in some contexts.
https://reviews.llvm.org/D46693
llvm-svn: 332012
The input file for this option should contain a list of symbols, not a
list of sections, so explicitly refer to ordering symbols (but keep the
reference to laying out sections, since that's how the option must
operate). Referring to the file itself as the "symbol ordering file" is
consistent with --warn-symbol-ordering and less ambiguous than "symbol
file" (albeit slightly redundant).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D46099
llvm-svn: 331000
I'm proposing a new command line flag, --warn-backrefs in this patch.
The flag and the feature proposed below don't exist in GNU linkers
nor the current lld.
--warn-backrefs is an option to detect reverse or cyclic dependencies
between static archives, and it can be used to keep your program
compatible with GNU linkers after you switch to lld. I'll explain the
feature and why you may find it useful below.
lld's symbol resolution semantics is more relaxed than traditional
Unix linkers. Therefore,
ld.lld foo.a bar.o
succeeds even if bar.o contains an undefined symbol that have to be
resolved by some object file in foo.a. Traditional Unix linkers
don't allow this kind of backward reference, as they visit each
file only once from left to right in the command line while
resolving all undefined symbol at the moment of visiting.
In the above case, since there's no undefined symbol when a linker
visits foo.a, no files are pulled out from foo.a, and because the
linker forgets about foo.a after visiting, it can't resolve
undefined symbols that could have been resolved otherwise.
That lld accepts more relaxed form means (besides it makes more
sense) that you can accidentally write a command line or a build
file that works only with lld, even if you have a plan to
distribute it to wider users who may be using GNU linkers. With
--check-library-dependency, you can detect a library order that
doesn't work with other Unix linkers.
The option is also useful to detect cyclic dependencies between
static archives. Again, lld accepts
ld.lld foo.a bar.a
even if foo.a and bar.a depend on each other. With --warn-backrefs
it is handled as an error.
Here is how the option works. We assign a group ID to each file. A
file with a smaller group ID can pull out object files from an
archive file with an equal or greater group ID. Otherwise, it is a
reverse dependency and an error.
A file outside --{start,end}-group gets a fresh ID when
instantiated. All files within the same --{start,end}-group get the
same group ID. E.g.
ld.lld A B --start-group C D --end-group E
A and B form group 0, C, D and their member object files form group
1, and E forms group 2. I think that you can see how this group
assignment rule simulates the traditional linker's semantics.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45195
llvm-svn: 329636
This is an option to print out a table of symbols and filenames.
The output format of this option is the same as GNU, so that it can be
processed by the same scripts as before after migrating from GNU to lld.
This option is mildly useful; we can live without it. But it is pretty
convenient sometimes, and it can be implemented in 50 lines of code, so
I think lld should support this option.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44336
llvm-svn: 327565
GNU linkers by convention supports both `--foo bar` and `--foo=bar` styles
for all long options that take arguments.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D43972
llvm-svn: 326506
This reverts commit r325679 that was committed without discussion.
Actually, in the discussion thread, most people opposed to have this
option in lld. Reverting that change doesn't mean that this is a
final decision, but that needs to be discussed first.
llvm-svn: 325714
In r324043, --nopie was renamed to --no-pie to presumably fix a typo.
As it turns out, "nopie" wasn't a typo but the spelling used by
OpenBSD's binutils ld. Gold on the other hand spells the flag "no-pie".
(Vanilla binutils doesn't have a flag like this at all.)
Since they do the same thing, let's support both spellings.
llvm-svn: 325679
We are running lld tests with "--full-shutdown" option because we don't
want to call _exit() in lld if it is running tests. Regular shutdown
is needed for leak sanitizer.
This patch changes the way how we tell lld that it is running tests.
Now "--full-shutdown" is removed, and LLD_IN_TEST environment variable
is used instead.
This patch enables full shutdown on all ports, e.g. ELF, COFF and wasm.
Previously, we enabled it only for ELF.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D43410
llvm-svn: 325413
There are a number of different situations when symbols are requested
to be ordered in the --symbol-ordering-file that cannot be ordered for
some reason. To assist with identifying these symbols, and either
tidying up the order file, or the inputs, a number of warnings have
been added. As some users may find these warnings unhelpful, due to how
they use the symbol ordering file, a switch has also been added to
disable these warnings.
The cases where we now warn are:
* Entries in the order file that don't correspond to any symbol in the input
* Undefined symbols
* Absolute symbols
* Symbols imported from shared objects
* Symbols that are discarded, due to e.g. --gc-sections or /DISCARD/ linker script sections
* Multiple of the same entry in the order file
Reviewed by: rafael, ruiu
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D42475
llvm-svn: 325125
When resolving dynamic RELA relocations the addend is taken from the
relocation and not the place being relocated. Accordingly lld does not
write the addend field to the place like it would for a REL relocation.
Unfortunately there is some system software, in particlar dynamic loaders
such as Bionic's linker64 that use the value of the place prior to
relocation to find the offset that they have been loaded at. Both gold
and bfd control this behavior with the --[no-]apply-dynamic-relocs option.
This change implements the option and defaults it to true for compatibility
with gold and bfd.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D42797
llvm-svn: 324221