The Elf_Rela has an explicit addend. It doesn't need the addend to be
written to the section being relocated.
Since relative relocations are very common in the output, this is a
noticeable speedup. The results I got were
chromium
master 4.778149487
patch 4.761120792 0.996436131802
chromium fast
master 1.896253636
patch 1.840990582 0.970856718241
the gold plugin
master 0.399337811
patch 0.392279276 0.982324401032
clang
master 0.666873675
patch 0.665895708 0.998533504865
llvm-as
master 0.037101095
patch 0.037123149 1.00059442989
the gold plugin fsds
master 0.422473396
patch 0.414192879 0.980399909016
clang fsds
master 0.747302008
patch 0.744843964 0.996710775599
llvm-as fsds
master 0.033146245
patch 0.033064531 0.997534743377
scylla
master 4.08857525
patch 4.082245184 0.998451767275
llvm-svn: 269417
We currently don't do a good job of diagnosing inputs that would require
dynamic relocations to be applied to read only segments.
I am about to improve lld in that area, but unfortunately we developed
tests that depend on the current behavior.
To make clear what is actually changing, this first patch just updates
tests to not depend on the current behavior. In most cases this just
means using a rw section instead of a ro one, but that unfortunately
changes many addresses.
llvm-svn: 268145
Relocations against sections with no SHF_ALLOC bit are R_ABS relocations.
Currently we are creating Relocations vector for them, but that is wasteful.
This patch is to skip vector construction and to directly apply relocations
in place.
This patch seems to be pretty effective for large executables with debug info.
r266158 (Rafael's patch to change the way how we apply relocations) caused a
temporary performance degradation for such executables, but this patch makes
it even faster than before.
Time to link clang with debug info (output size is 1070 MB):
before r266158: 15.312 seconds (0%)
r266158: 17.301 seconds (+13.0%)
Head: 16.484 seconds (+7.7%)
w/patch: 13.166 seconds (-14.0%)
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19645
llvm-svn: 267917
Rafael Espindola