Previously, we treated it as a regular ConcatInputSection. However, ld64
actually parses its contents and uses that to synthesize a single image
info struct, generating one 8-byte section instead of `8 * number of
object files with ObjC code`.
I'm not entirely sure what impact this section has on the runtime, so I
just tried to follow ld64's semantics as closely as possible in this
diff. My main motivation though was to reduce binary size.
No significant perf change on chromium_framework on my 16-core Mac Pro:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.764 ± 0.062 1.748 ± 0.032 [ -2.4% .. +0.5%]
user_time 5.112 ± 0.104 5.106 ± 0.046 [ -0.9% .. +0.7%]
wall_time 6.111 ± 0.184 6.085 ± 0.076 [ -1.6% .. +0.8%]
samples 30 32
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130125
This commit reduces the size of the emitted rebase sections by
generating the REBASE_OPCODE_DO_REBASE_ADD_ADDR_ULEB and
REBASE_OPCODE_DO_REBASE_ULEB_TIMES_SKIPPING_ULEB opcodes.
With this change, chromium_framework's rebase section is a 40% smaller
197 kilobytes, down from the previous 320 kB. That is 6 kB smaller than
what ld64 produces for the same input.
Performance figures from my M1 Mac mini:
x before
+ after
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 10 4.2269349 4.3300061 4.2689675 4.2690016 0.031151669
+ 10 4.219331 4.2914009 4.2398136 4.2448277 0.023817308
No difference proven at 95.0% confidence
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130180
An ADD_ADDR rebase opcode's argument can be encoded as an immediate if
the offset is less than 15 * word size. This change reduces the size of
chromium_framework by 100+ KiB.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128798
According to ministat, this is a small but measurable speedup
(using the repro in PR56121):
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 10 3.7439518 3.7783802 3.7730219 3.7655502 0.012375226
+ 10 3.6149218 3.692198 3.6519327 3.6502951 0.025905601
Difference at 95.0% confidence
-0.115255 +/- 0.0190746
-3.06078% +/- 0.506554%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0203008)
(Without 858e8b17f7, this change here to use parallelFor is an 18% speedup,
and doing 858e8b17f7 on top of this change is just a 2.55% +/- 0.58% win.
Doing both results in a total speedup of 20.85% +/- 0.44%.)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128298
The error used to look like this:
ld64.lld: error: undefined symbol: _foo
>>> referenced by /path/to/bar.o:(symbol _baz+0x4)
If DWARF line information is available, we now show where in the source
the references are coming from:
ld64.lld: error: unreferenced symbol: _foo
>>> referenced by: bar.cpp:42 (/path/to/bar.cpp:42)
>>> /path/to/bar.o:(symbol _baz+0x4)
The reland is identical to the first time this landed. The fix was in D128294.
This reverts commit 0cc7ad4175.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128184
It's in libSystem, so it doesn't bring in any new deps, and it's
currently much faster than LLVM's current SHA256 implementation.
Makes linking (arm64) Chromium Framework with ld64.lld 17% faster.
See also PR56121.
No behavior change.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128290
The error used to look like this:
ld64.lld: error: undefined symbol: _foo
>>> referenced by /path/to/bar.o:(symbol _baz+0x4)
If DWARF line information is available, we now show where in the source
the references are coming from:
ld64.lld: error: unreferenced symbol: _foo
>>> referenced by: bar.cpp:42 (/path/to/bar.cpp:42)
>>> /path/to/bar.o:(symbol _baz+0x4)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128184
This reduces the time emitStabs() takes by about 275ms, or 3% of overall
linking time for the project I'm on. Although the parent function is run in
parallel, it's one of the slowest tasks in that concurrent batch (I have
another optimization for another slow task as well).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D126785
{D123302} got me looking deeper at `includeInSymtab`. I thought it was a
little odd that there were excluded (live) symbols for which
`includeInSymtab` was false; we shouldn't have so many different ways to
exclude a symbol. As such, this diff makes the `L`-prefixed-symbol
exclusion code use `includeInSymtab` too. (Note that as part of our
support for `__eh_frame`, we will also be excluding all `__eh_frame`
symbols from the symtab in a future diff.)
Another thing I noticed is that the `emitStabs` code never has to deal
with excluded symbols because `SymtabSection::finalize()` already
filters them out. As such, I've updated the comments and asserts from
{D123302} to reflect this.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123433
I was wondering if SymtabSection::emitStabs() should check
defined->includeInSymtab. Add asserts and comments explaining why that's not
necessary.
No behavior change.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123302
This matches ld64, and makes dsymutil work better with lld's output.
Fixes PR54783, see there for details.
Reduces time needed to run dsymutil on Chromium Framework from 8m30s
(which is already down from 26 min with D123218) to 6m30s and removes
many lines of "could not find object file symbol for symbol" from dsymutil output
(previously: several MB of those messages, now dsymutil is completely silent).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123252
Returning `std::array<uint8_t, N>` is better ergonomics for the hashing functions usage, instead of a `StringRef`:
* When returning `StringRef`, client code is "jumping through hoops" to do string manipulations instead of dealing with fixed array of bytes directly, which is more natural
* Returning `std::array<uint8_t, N>` avoids the need for the hasher classes to keep a field just for the purpose of wrapping it and returning it as a `StringRef`
As part of this patch also:
* Introduce `TruncatedBLAKE3` which is useful for using BLAKE3 as the hasher type for `HashBuilder` with non-default hash sizes.
* Make `MD5Result` inherit from `std::array<uint8_t, 16>` which improves & simplifies its API.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123100
Update DataInCode's calculation of `endAddr` to use `getSize()` instead
of `getFileSize()` -- while in practice they're the same for
non-zerofill sections (which code sections are), we still should treat
address sizes / offsets as distinct from file sizes / offsets.
All references to interposable symbols can be redirected at runtime to
point to a different symbol definition (with the same name). For
example, if both dylib A and B define symbol _foo, and we load A before
B at runtime, then all references to _foo within dylib B will point to
the definition in dylib A.
ld64 makes all extern symbols interposable when linking with
`-flat_namespace`.
TODO 1: Support `-interposable` and `-interposable_list`, which should
just be a matter of parsing those CLI flags and setting the
`Defined::interposable` bit.
TODO 2: Set Reloc::FinalDefinitionInLinkageUnit correctly with this info
(we are currently not setting it at all, so we're erring on the
conservative side, but we should help the LTO backend generate more
optimal code.)
Reviewed By: modimo, MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D119294
Previously, we only allowed this for DylibSymbols. However, in order to
properly support `-flat_namespace` as well as `-interposable`, we need
to allow this for Defined symbols too. Therefore we hoist the
`lazyBindOffset` and the `stubsHelperIndex` into the parent Symbol
class.
The actual change to support interposition under `-flat_namespace` is in
{D119294}; the NFC changes here have been split out for easier review.
Perf regression isn't stat sig on my 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W linking
chromium_framework:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.227 ± 0.021 1.234 ± 0.031 [ -0.3% .. +1.5%]
user_time 3.665 ± 0.036 3.674 ± 0.035 [ -0.2% .. +0.7%]
wall_time 4.596 ± 0.055 4.609 ± 0.064 [ -0.3% .. +0.9%]
samples 34 47
Max RSS regression is barely stat sig:
base diff difference (95% CI)
time 1003664356.324 ± 15404053.912 1010380403.613 ± 10578309.455 [ +0.0% .. +1.3%]
samples 37 31
Reviewed By: modimo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D121351
Previously, we aligned every cstring to 16 bytes as a temporary hack to
deal with https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/50135. However, it
was highly wasteful in terms of binary size.
To recap, in contrast to ELF, which puts strings that need different
alignments into different sections, `clang`'s Mach-O backend puts them
all in one section. Strings that need to be aligned have the .p2align
directive emitted before them, which simply translates into zero padding
in the object file. In other words, we have to infer the alignment of
the cstrings from their addresses.
We differ slightly from ld64 in how we've chosen to align these
cstrings. Both LLD and ld64 preserve the number of trailing zeros in
each cstring's address in the input object files. When deduplicating
identical cstrings, both linkers pick the cstring whose address has more
trailing zeros, and preserve the alignment of that address in the final
binary. However, ld64 goes a step further and also preserves the offset
of the cstring from the last section-aligned address. I.e. if a cstring
is at offset 18 in the input, with a section alignment of 16, then both
LLD and ld64 will ensure the final address is 2-byte aligned (since
`18 == 16 + 2`). But ld64 will also ensure that the final address is of
the form 16 * k + 2 for some k (which implies 2-byte alignment).
Note that ld64's heuristic means that a dedup'ed cstring's final address is
dependent on the order of the input object files. E.g. if in addition to the
cstring at offset 18 above, we have a duplicate one in another file with a
`.cstring` section alignment of 2 and an offset of zero, then ld64 will pick
the cstring from the object file earlier on the command line (since both have
the same number of trailing zeros in their address). So the final cstring may
either be at some address `16 * k + 2` or at some address `2 * k`.
I've opted not to follow this behavior primarily for implementation
simplicity, and secondarily to save a few more bytes. It's not clear to me
that preserving the section alignment + offset is ever necessary, and there
are many cases that are clearly redundant. In particular, if an x86_64 object
file contains some strings that are accessed via SIMD instructions, then the
.cstring section in the object file will be 16-byte-aligned (since SIMD
requires its operand addresses to be 16-byte aligned). However, there will
typically also be other cstrings in the same file that aren't used via SIMD
and don't need this alignment. They will be emitted at some arbitrary address
`A`, but ld64 will treat them as being 16-byte aligned with an offset of
`16 % A`.
I have verified that the two repros in https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/50135
work well with the new alignment behavior.
Fixes https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/54036.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D121342
Earlier in LLD's evolution, I tried to create the illusion that
subsections were indistinguishable from "top-level" sections. Thus, even
though the subsections shared many common field values, I hid those
common values away in a private Shared struct (see D105305). More
recently, however, @gkm added a public `Section` struct in D113241 that
served as an explicit way to store values that are common to an entire
set of subsections (aka InputSections). Now that we have another "common
value" struct, `Shared` has been rendered redundant. All its fields can
be moved into `Section` instead, and the pointer to `Shared` can be replaced
with a pointer to `Section`.
This `Section` pointer also has the advantage of letting us inspect other
subsections easily, simplifying the implementation of {D118798}.
P.S. I do think that having both `Section` and `InputSection` makes for
a slightly confusing naming scheme. I considered renaming `InputSection`
to `Subsection`, but that would break the symmetry with `OutputSection`.
It would also make us deviate from LLD-ELF's naming scheme.
This change is perf-neutral on my 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W machine:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.258 ± 0.031 1.248 ± 0.023 [ -1.6% .. +0.1%]
user_time 3.659 ± 0.047 3.658 ± 0.041 [ -0.5% .. +0.4%]
wall_time 4.640 ± 0.085 4.625 ± 0.063 [ -1.0% .. +0.3%]
samples 49 61
There's also no stat sig change in RSS (as measured by `time -l`):
base diff difference (95% CI)
time 998038627.097 ± 13567305.958 1003327715.556 ± 15210451.236 [ -0.2% .. +1.2%]
samples 31 36
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118797
If you're building this on macOS 12.x+ this produces a deprecation
warning. I'm not sure what this means for the bitcode format going
forward, but it seems safe to silence for now.
Do we need to worry about GCC for this?
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D117718
Move all variables at file-scope or function-static-scope into a hosting structure (lld::CommonLinkerContext) that lives at lldMain()-scope. Drivers will inherit from this structure and add their own global state, in the same way as for the existing COFFLinkerContext.
See discussion in https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2021-June/151184.html
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D108850
Tail merge is slow and of low value. With regular string deduplication, we can
just use the return value of StringTableBuilder::add.
There is no noticeable performance increase because without deduplication
`__cstring` is quite small (7.6MiB for chromium_framework).
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, Jez Ng
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D117273
The PlatformKind/PlatformType enums contain the same information, which requires
them to be kept in-sync. This commit changes over to PlatformType as the sole
source of truth, which allows the removal of the redundant PlatformKind.
The majority of the changes were in LLD and TextAPI.
Reviewed By: cishida
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D117163
1. After D113241, we have the section address easily accessible and no
longer need to iterate across the LC_SEGMENT commands to emit
LC_DATA_IN_CODE.
2. There's no need to store a pointer to the data in code entries during
the parse step; we can just look it up as part of the output step.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D115556
Follup-up to D107533, where we replaced local syms with non-local.
It doesn't make sense to replace local symbol with lazy.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D110040
This is an NFC diff that prepares for pruning & relocating `__eh_frame`.
Along the way, I made the following changes to ...
* clarify usage of `section` vs. `subsection`
* remove `map` & `vec` from type names
* disambiguate class `Section` from template parameter `SectionHeader`.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D113241
Having to remember to call `canonical()` all over the place is
error-prone; let's do it in a centralized location instead. It also
appears to improve performance slightly.
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 0.984 ± 0.009 0.983 ± 0.014 [ -0.8% .. +0.6%]
user_time 6.508 ± 0.035 6.475 ± 0.036 [ -0.8% .. -0.2%]
wall_time 5.321 ± 0.034 5.300 ± 0.033 [ -0.7% .. -0.1%]
samples 36 23
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112687
There are a couple internal builds that require the use of this flag.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, int3
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112594
**Context:**
This is a second attempt at introducing signature regeneration to llvm-objcopy. In this diff: https://reviews.llvm.org/D109840, a script was introduced to test
the validity of a code signature. In this diff: https://reviews.llvm.org/D109803 (now reverted), an effort was made to extract the signature generation behavior out of LLD into a common location for use in llvm-objcopy. In this diff: https://reviews.llvm.org/D109972 it was decided that there was no appropriate common location and that a small amount of duplication to bring signature generation to llvm-objcopy would be better. This diff introduces this duplication.
**Summary**
Prior to this change, if a LC_CODE_SIGNATURE load command
was included in the binary passed to llvm-objcopy, the command and
associated section were simply copied and included verbatim in the
new binary. If rest of the binary was modified at all, this results
in an invalid Mach-O file. This change regenerates the signature
rather than copying it.
The code_signature_lc.test test was modified to include the yaml
representation of a small signed MachO executable in order to
effectively test the signature generation.
Reviewed By: alexander-shaposhnikov, #lld-macho
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D111164
Compact unwind entries (CUEs) contain pointers to their respective
function symbols. However, during the link process, it's far more useful
to have pointers from the function symbol to the CUE than vice versa.
This diff adds that pointer in the form of `Defined::compactUnwind`.
In particular, when doing dead-stripping, we want to mark CUEs live when
their function symbol is live; and when doing ICF, we want to dedup
sections iff the symbols in that section have identical CUEs. In both
cases, we want to be able to locate the symbols within a given section,
as well as locate the CUEs belonging to those symbols. So this diff also
adds `InputSection::symbols`.
The ultimate goal of this refactor is to have ICF support dedup'ing
functions with unwind info, but that will be handled in subsequent
diffs. This diff focuses on simplifying `-dead_strip` --
`findFunctionsWithUnwindInfo` is no longer necessary, and
`Defined::isLive()` is now a lot simpler. Moreover, UnwindInfoSection no
longer has to check for dead CUEs -- we simply avoid adding them in the
first place.
Additionally, we now support stripping of dead LSDAs, which follows
quite naturally since `markLive()` can now reach them via the CUEs.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D109944
We were previously always emitting the GOT into `__DATA_CONST`, even for
target platforms where it should end up in `__DATA`.
I stumbled onto this while trying to use the `class-dump` tool -- with
the wrong segment names, it fails to locate the ObjC runtime info and
therefore fails to dump any classes.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112500
prepareSymbolRelocation() in Writer.cpp adds both symbols that need binding and
symbols relocated with a pointer relocation to the got.
Pointer relocations are emitted for non-movq GOTPCREL(%rip) loads. (movqs
become GOT_LOADs so that the linker knows they can be relaxed to leaqs, while
others, such as addq, become just GOT -- a pointer relocation -- since they
can't be relaxed in that way).
For example, this C file produces a private_extern GOT relocation when
compiled with -O2 with clang:
extern const char kString[];
const char* g(int a) { return kString + a; }
Linkers need to put pointer-relocated symbols into the GOT, but ld64 marks them
as LOCAL in the indirect symbol table. This matters, since `strip -x` looks at
the indirect symbol table when deciding what to strip.
The indirect symtab emitting code was assuming that only symbols that need
binding are in the GOT, but pointer relocations where there too. Hence, the
code needs to explicitly check if a symbol is a private extern.
Fixes https://crbug.com/1242638, which has some more information in comments 14
and 15. With this patch, the output of `nm -U` on Chromium Framework after
stripping now contains just two symbols when using lld, just like with ld64.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D111852
Without such wrapping, linking lld fails with missing symbols because of
C++ symbol mangling with older versions of the MacOSX SDK, in which
xar.h doesn't have an extern "C" block itself.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D110224
Move the functionality in lld that handles writing of the LC_CODE_SIGNATURE load command and associated data section to a central reusable location.
This change is in preparation for another change that modifies llvm-objcopy to reproduce the LC_CODE_SIGNATURE load command and corresponding
data section to maintain the validity of signed macho object files passed through llvm-objcopy.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, int3, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D109803
segment$start$/segment$end$ symbols allow creating segments without
sections, so getting the segment address off the first section
won't work there. Storing the address on the segment is arguably a
bit simpler too.
No behavior change, part of PR50760.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D106665
Fangrui Song