Patch by Mark Johnston!
Summary:
When the option is configured, ifunc calls do not go through the PLT;
rather, they appear as regular function calls with relocations
referencing the ifunc symbol, and the resolver is invoked when
applying the relocation. This is intended for use in freestanding
environments where text relocations are permissible and is incompatible
with the -z text option. The option is motivated by ifunc usage in the
FreeBSD kernel, where ifuncs are used to elide CPU feature flag bit
checks in hot paths. Instead of replacing the cost of a branch with that
of an indirect function call, the -z ifunc-noplt option is used to ensure
that ifunc calls carry no hidden overhead relative to normal function
calls.
Test Plan:
I added a couple of regression tests and tested the FreeBSD kernel
build using the latest lld sources.
To demonstrate the effects of the change, I used a micro-benchmark
which results in frequent invocations of a FreeBSD kernel ifunc. The
benchmark was run with and without IBRS enabled, and with and without
-zifunc-noplt configured. The observed speedup is small and consistent,
and is significantly larger with IBRS enabled:
https://people.freebsd.org/~markj/ifunc-noplt/noibrs.txthttps://people.freebsd.org/~markj/ifunc-noplt/ibrs.txt
Reviewed By: ruiu, MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D61613
llvm-svn: 360685
The -n (--nmagic) disables page alignment, and acts as a -Bstatic
The -N (--omagic) does what -n does but also marks the executable segment as
writeable. As page alignment is disabled headers are not allocated unless
explicit in the linker script.
To disable page alignment in LLD we choose to set the page sizes to 1 so
that any alignment based on the page size does nothing. To set the
Target->PageSize to 1 we implement -z common-page-size, which has the side
effect of allowing the user to set the value as well.
Setting the page alignments to 1 does mean that any use of
CONSTANT(MAXPAGESIZE) or CONSTANT(COMMONPAGESIZE) in a linker script will
return 1, unlike in ld.bfd. However given that -n and -N disable paging
these probably shouldn't be used in a linker script where -n or -N is in
use.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D61688
llvm-svn: 360593
As a side benefit, lld-link now reports more than one duplicate resource
entry before exiting with an error even if the new flag is not passed.
llvm-svn: 359829
Fixes small typos in WebAssembly documentation. I first noticed the
sub-heading "Bahavior", and then decided to review the whole file.
Patch by Christoph Siedentop!
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60987
llvm-svn: 359103
When faced with command line options such as "crtbegin.o appmain.o
-lsomelib crtend.o", GNU ld pulls in all necessary object files from
somelib before proceeding to crtend.o.
LLD operates differently, only loading object files from any
referenced static libraries after processing all input object files.
This uses a similar hack as in the ELF linker. Here, it moves crtend.o
to the end of the vector of object files. This makes sure that
terminator chunks for sections such as .eh_frame gets ordered last,
fixing DWARF exception handling for libgcc and gcc's crtend.o.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60628
llvm-svn: 358394
Currently we have -Rpass for filtering the remarks that are displayed as
diagnostics, but when using -fsave-optimization-record, there is no way
to filter the remarks while generating them.
This adds support for filtering remarks by passes using a regex.
Ex: `clang -fsave-optimization-record -foptimization-record-passes=inline`
will only emit the remarks coming from the pass `inline`.
This adds:
* `-fsave-optimization-record` to the driver
* `-opt-record-passes` to cc1
* `-lto-pass-remarks-filter` to the LTOCodeGenerator
* `--opt-remarks-passes` to lld
* `-pass-remarks-filter` to llc, opt, llvm-lto, llvm-lto2
* `-opt-remarks-passes` to gold-plugin
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D59268
Original llvm-svn: 355964
llvm-svn: 355984
Currently we have -Rpass for filtering the remarks that are displayed as
diagnostics, but when using -fsave-optimization-record, there is no way
to filter the remarks while generating them.
This adds support for filtering remarks by passes using a regex.
Ex: `clang -fsave-optimization-record -foptimization-record-passes=inline`
will only emit the remarks coming from the pass `inline`.
This adds:
* `-fsave-optimization-record` to the driver
* `-opt-record-passes` to cc1
* `-lto-pass-remarks-filter` to the LTOCodeGenerator
* `--opt-remarks-passes` to lld
* `-pass-remarks-filter` to llc, opt, llvm-lto, llvm-lto2
* `-opt-remarks-passes` to gold-plugin
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D59268
llvm-svn: 355964
Previously we could emit a warning and generate a potentially invalid
wasm module (due to call sites and functions having conflicting
signatures). Now, rather than create invalid binaries we handle such
cases by creating stub functions containing unreachable, effectively
turning these into runtime errors rather than validation failures.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D57909
llvm-svn: 354528
Summary:
This follows the ld.bfd/gold behavior.
The error check is useful as it captures a common type of ld.so undefined symbol errors as link-time errors:
// a.cc => a.so (not linked with -z defs)
void f(); // f is undefined
void g() { f(); }
// b.cc => executable with a DT_NEEDED entry on a.so
void g();
int main() { g(); }
// ld.so errors when g() is executed (lazy binding) or when the program is started (-z now)
// symbol lookup error: ... undefined symbol: f
Reviewers: ruiu, grimar, pcc, espindola
Reviewed By: ruiu
Subscribers: llvm-commits, emaste, arichardson
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D57569
llvm-svn: 352943
This fixes most references to the paths:
llvm.org/svn/
llvm.org/git/
llvm.org/viewvc/
github.com/llvm-mirror/
github.com/llvm-project/
reviews.llvm.org/diffusion/
to instead point to https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.
This is *not* a trivial substitution, because additionally, all the
checkout instructions had to be migrated to instruct users on how to
use the monorepo layout, setting LLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS instead of
checking out various projects into various subdirectories.
I've attempted to not change any scripts here, only documentation. The
scripts will have to be addressed separately.
Additionally, I've deleted one document which appeared to be outdated
and unneeded:
lldb/docs/building-with-debug-llvm.txt
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D57330
llvm-svn: 352514
to reflect the new license.
We understand that people may be surprised that we're moving the header
entirely to discuss the new license. We checked this carefully with the
Foundation's lawyer and we believe this is the correct approach.
Essentially, all code in the project is now made available by the LLVM
project under our new license, so you will see that the license headers
include that license only. Some of our contributors have contributed
code under our old license, and accordingly, we have retained a copy of
our old license notice in the top-level files in each project and
repository.
llvm-svn: 351636
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
- fix minor grammar stuff (I'm not a native speaker either, but it's hopefully a net improvement)
- mention that lld/coff is used in production
- update AArch64, ARM to production quality
- remove lld/include/lld/Core/TODO.txt which looks outdated
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D56600
llvm-svn: 351030
Summary:
This is a common error, and because many people don't know what the key
function is, it is sometimes very confusing.
The doc was originally written by Brooks Moses and slightly edited by me.
Reviewers: MaskRay, espindola
Subscribers: emaste, llvm-commits, arichardson
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D55968
llvm-svn: 349941
This is an reland of rL343155 which got reverted because
of a sphinx failure on the buildbot.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54982
llvm-svn: 347830
This is https://bugs.llvm.org//show_bug.cgi?id=38978
Spec says that:
"Objects may be built with the -z nodefaultlib option to
suppress any search of the default locations at runtime.
Use of this option implies that all the dependencies of an
object can be located using its runpaths.
Without this option, which is the most common case, no
matter how you augment the runtime linker's library
search path, its last element is always /usr/lib for 32-bit
objects and /usr/lib/64 for 64-bit objects."
The patch implements this option.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54577
llvm-svn: 347647
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
-z interpose sets the DF_1_INTERPOSE flag, marking the object as an
interposer.
Via FreeBSD PR 230604, linking Valgrind with lld failed.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52094
llvm-svn: 342239
--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
Also remove the space between --lto-O and value, as the option with a
space is not accepted at present.
Leave --opt-remarks-filename as it does not currently accept the = form.
llvm.org/pr36563
llvm-svn: 326536
The argument is section=address, not just address.
(For compatibility with GNU linkers we need to, but do not yet, accept
--section-start=section=address.)
llvm-svn: 326463
We intend to maintain compatibility with GNU ld, and in the GNU world
long options are conventionally specified as --long-option=value. For
whatever reason GNU ld.bfd accepts both --long-option value and
--long-option=value, but documents the former. Follow suit.
Some lld long options do not accept the = form; this is probably a bug
to be fixed (along with a man page update).
Reported by Ingo Schwarze, for --entry.
llvm-svn: 326459
Initial ld.lld.1 man page commit in r324512 crossed paths with r324502
which added --build-id=fast, allowing --build-id to be documented as a
synonym for --build-id=fast. Catch up with that change in the man page.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D43039
llvm-svn: 324528
One of the FreeBSD requirements for enabling lld as the system linker is
that it has a man page. Other FreeBSD developers and I created one using
lld's --help output as a starting point. This is an expanded and
improved version of that.
This man page would benefit from additional content, but it provides
basic user-facing coverage of lld's options and serves as a good
starting point.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D42963
llvm-svn: 324512
This linker backend is still a work in progress but is
enough to link simple programs including linking against
library archives.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34851
llvm-svn: 318539
SymbolBody and Symbol were separated classes due to a historical reason.
Symbol used to be a pointer to a SymbolBody, and the relationship
between Symbol and SymbolBody was n:1.
r2681780 changed that. Since that patch, SymbolBody and Symbol are
allocated next to each other to improve memory locality, and they have
1:1 relationship now. So, the separation of Symbol and SymbolBody no
longer makes sense.
This patch merges them into one class. In order to avoid updating too
many places, I chose SymbolBody as a unified name. I'll rename it Symbol
in a follow-up patch.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D39406
llvm-svn: 317006
New lld's files are spread under lib subdirectory, and it isn't easy
to find which files are actually maintained. This patch moves maintained
files to Common subdirectory.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D37645
llvm-svn: 314719
The /appcontainer flag was added in r299728, and the lib.exe dependency
for creating import libraries was removed in r275242. Update the docs
accordingly.
The PDB support also needs updating, but I'll leave that for someone
who's more familiar with the current status (probably rnk).
llvm-svn: 307998
Fangrui Song