The way prelink used to work was
* The compiler decides if a given section only has relocations that
are know to point to the same DSO. If so, it names it
.data.rel.ro.local<something>.
* The static linker puts all of these together.
* The prelinker program assigns addresses to each library and resolves
the local relocations.
There are many problems with this:
* It is incompatible with address space randomization.
* The information passed by the compiler is redundant. The linker
knows if a given relocation is in the same DSO or not. If could sort
by that if so desired.
* There are newer ways of speeding up DSO (gnu hash for example).
* Even if we want to implement this again in the compiler, the previous
implementation is pretty broken. It talks about relocations that are
"resolved by the static linker". If they are resolved, there are none
left for the prelinker. What one needs to track is if an expression
will require only dynamic relocations that point to the same DSO.
At this point it looks like the prelinker is an historical curiosity.
For example, fedora has retired it because it failed to build for two
releases
(http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/prelink.git/commit/?id=eb43100a8331d91c801ee3dcdb0a0bb9babfdc1f)
This patch removes support for it. That is, it stops printing the
".local" sections.
llvm-svn: 253280
The current SystemZ back-end only supports the local-exec TLS access model.
This patch adds all required CodeGen support for the other TLS models, which
means in particular:
- Expand initial-exec TLS accesses by loading TLS offsets from the GOT
using @indntpoff relocations.
- Expand general-dynamic and local-dynamic accesses by generating the
appropriate calls to __tls_get_offset. Note that this routine has
a non-standard ABI and requires loading the GOT pointer into %r12,
so the patch also adds support for the GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE ISD node.
- Add a new platform-specific optimization pass to remove redundant
__tls_get_offset calls in the local-dynamic model (modeled after
the corresponding X86 pass).
- Add test cases verifying all access models and optimizations.
llvm-svn: 229654
This adds the actual lib/Target/SystemZ target files necessary to
implement the SystemZ target. Note that at this point, the target
cannot yet be built since the configure bits are missing. Those
will be provided shortly by a follow-on patch.
This version of the patch incorporates feedback from reviews by
Chris Lattner and Anton Korobeynikov. Thanks to all reviewers!
Patch by Richard Sandiford.
llvm-svn: 181203
Rafael Espindola