We were fetching archive symbols too eagerly, bloating binary size as well as
just screwing up binaries that expected to look up certain symbols only at
runtime.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D115092
autohide symbols behaves similarly to private_extern symbols.
However, LD64 allows exporting autohide symbols. LLD currently does not.
This patch allows LLD to export them.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D113167
PR/52372
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112977
New changes:
- use llvm-otool instead of `otool` which doesn't in exist on non-OSX platforms
- add llvm-otool to the set of tools used by test so that the bot will use the <build_dir>/bin/llvm-otool instead of the unqualified `llvm-otool` (which may not exist)
- update tests since the latest (TOT) llvm-otool prints a space between two bytes and the old one doesn't.
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
These symbols are somewhat interesting in that they create non-existing
segments, which as far as I know is the only way to create segments
that don't contain any sections.
Final part of part of PR50760. Like D106629, but for segments instead
of sections. I'm not aware of anything that needs this in practice.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D106767
With this, libclang_rt.profile_osx.a can be linked, that is coverage
and PGO-instrumented builds should now work with lld.
section$start and section$end symbols can create non-existing sections.
They're also undefined symbols that are only magic if there isn't a
regular symbol with their name, which means the need to be handled
in treatUndefined() instead of just looping over all existing
sections and adding start and end symbols like the ELF port does.
To represent the actual symbols, this uses absolute symbols that
get their value updated once an output section is layed out.
segment$start and segment$end are still missing for now, but they produce a
nicer error message after this patch.
Main part of PR50760.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D106629
In ld64, `-U section$start$FOO$bar` handles `section$start$FOO$bar`
as a regular `section$start` symbol, that is section$start processing
happens before -U processing.
Likely, nobody uses that in practice so it doesn't seem very important
to be compatible with this, but it also moves the -U handling code next
to the `-undefined dynamic_lookup` handling code, which is nice because
they do the same thing. And, in fact, this did identify a bug in a corner
case in the intersection of `-undefined dynamic_lookup` and dead-stripping
(fix for that in D106565).
Vaguely related to PR50760.
No interesting behavior change.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D106566
This is the other flag clang passes when calling clang with two -arch
flags (which means with this, `clang -arch x86_64 -arch arm64 -fuse-ld=lld ...`
now no longer prints any warnings \o/). Since clang calls the linker several
times in that setup, it's not clear to the user from which invocation the
errors are. The flag's help text is
Specifies that the linker should augment error and warning messages
with the architecture name.
In ld64, the only effect of the flag is that undefined symbols are prefaced
with
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
instead of the usual "Undefined symbols:". So for now, let's add this
only to undefined symbol errors too. That's probably the most common
linker diagnostic.
Another idea would be to prefix errors and warnings with "ld64.lld(x86_64):"
instead of the usual "ld64.lld:", but I'm not sure if people would
misunderstand that as a comment about the arch of ld itself.
But open to suggestions on what effect this flag should have :) And we
don't have to get it perfect now, we can iterate on it.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105450
We have been creating many ConcatInputSections with identical values due
to .subsections_via_symbols. This diff factors out the identical values
into a Shared struct, to reduce memory consumption and make copying
cheaper.
I also changed `callSiteCount` from a uint32_t to a 31-bit field to save an
extra word.
All in all, this takes InputSection from 120 to 72 bytes (and
ConcatInputSection from 160 to 112 bytes), i.e. 30% size reduction in
ConcatInputSection.
Numbers for linking chromium_framework on my 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W:
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 4.14 4.24 4.18 4.183 0.027548999
+ 20 4.04 4.11 4.075 4.0775 0.018027756
Difference at 95.0% confidence
-0.1055 +/- 0.0149005
-2.52211% +/- 0.356215%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0232803)
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105305
These fields currently live in the parent InputSection class,
but they should be specific to ConcatInputSection, since the other
InputSection classes (that contain literals) aren't atomically live or
dead -- rather their component string/int literals should have
individual liveness states. (An upcoming diff will add liveness bits for
StringPieces and fixed-sized literals.)
I also factored out some asserts for isCoalescedWeak() in MarkLive.cpp.
We now avoid putting coalesced sections in the `inputSections` vector,
so we don't have to check/assert against it everywhere.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103977
Also adds support for live_support sections, no_dead_strip sections,
.no_dead_strip symbols.
Chromium Framework 345MB unstripped -> 250MB stripped
(vs 290MB unstripped -> 236M stripped with ld64).
Doing dead stripping is a bit faster than not, because so much less
data needs to be processed:
% ministat lld_*
x lld_nostrip.txt
+ lld_strip.txt
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 10 3.929414 4.07692 4.0269079 4.0089678 0.044214794
+ 10 3.8129408 3.9025559 3.8670411 3.8642573 0.024779651
Difference at 95.0% confidence
-0.144711 +/- 0.0336749
-3.60967% +/- 0.839989%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0358398)
This interacts with many parts of the linker. I tried to add test coverage
for all added `isLive()` checks, so that some test will fail if any of them
is removed. I checked that the test expectations for the most part match
ld64's behavior (except for live-support-iterations.s, see the comment
in the test). Interacts with:
- debug info
- export tries
- import opcodes
- flags like -exported_symbol(s_list)
- -U / dynamic_lookup
- mod_init_funcs, mod_term_funcs
- weak symbol handling
- unwind info
- stubs
- map files
- -sectcreate
- undefined, dylib, common, defined (both absolute and normal) symbols
It's possible it interacts with more features I didn't think of,
of course.
I also did some manual testing:
- check-llvm check-clang check-lld work with lld with this patch
as host linker and -dead_strip enabled
- Chromium still starts
- Chromium's base_unittests still pass, including unwind tests
Implemenation-wise, this is InputSection-based, so it'll work for
object files with .subsections_via_symbols (which includes all
object files generated by clang). I first based this on the COFF
implementation, but later realized that things are more similar to ELF.
I think it'd be good to refactor MarkLive.cpp to look more like the ELF
part at some point, but I'd like to get a working state checked in first.
Mechanical parts:
- Rename canOmitFromOutput to wasCoalesced (no behavior change)
since it really is for weak coalesced symbols
- Add noDeadStrip to Defined, corresponding to N_NO_DEAD_STRIP
(`.no_dead_strip` in asm)
Fixes PR49276.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103324
This omits load commands for unreferenced dylibs if:
- the dylib was loaded implicitly,
- it is marked MH_DEAD_STRIPPABLE_DYLIB
- or -dead_strip_dylibs is passed
This matches ld64.
Currently, the "is dylib referenced" state is computed before dead code
stripping and is not updated after dead code stripping. This too matches ld64.
We should do better here.
With this, clang-format linked with lld (like with ld64) no longer has
libobjc.A.dylib in `otool -L` output. (It was implicitly loaded as a reexport
of CoreFoundation.framework, but it's not needed.)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103430
Has the effect that `__mh_execute_header` stays in the symbol table of
outputs even after running `strip` on the output. I don't know if that's
important for anything -- my motivation for the patch is just is to make
the output more similar to ld64.
(Corresponds to symbolTableInAndNeverStrip in ld64.)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102619
In particular, we should apply the `-undefined` behavior to all
such symbols, include those that are specified via the command line
(i.e. `-e`, `-u`, and `-exported_symbol`). ld64 supports this too.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102143
Before this, if an inline function was defined in several input files,
lld would write each copy of the inline function the output. With this
patch, it only writes one copy.
Reduces the size of Chromium Framework from 378MB to 345MB (compared
to 290MB linked with ld64, which also does dead-stripping, which we
don't do yet), and makes linking it faster:
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 10 3.9957051 4.3496981 4.1411121 4.156837 0.10092097
+ 10 3.908154 4.169318 3.9712729 3.9846753 0.075773012
Difference at 95.0% confidence
-0.172162 +/- 0.083847
-4.14165% +/- 2.01709%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0892373)
Implementation-wise, when merging two weak symbols, this sets a
"canOmitFromOutput" on the InputSection belonging to the weak symbol not put in
the symbol table. We then don't write InputSections that have this set, as long
as they are not referenced from other symbols. (This happens e.g. for object
files that don't set .subsections_via_symbols or that use .alt_entry.)
Some restrictions:
- not yet done for bitcode inputs
- no "comdat" handling (`kindNoneGroupSubordinate*` in ld64) --
Frame Descriptor Entries (FDEs), Language Specific Data Areas (LSDAs)
(that is, catch block unwind information) and Personality Routines
associated with weak functions still not stripped. This is wasteful,
but harmless.
- However, this does strip weaks from __unwind_info (which is needed for
correctness and not just for size)
- This nopes out on InputSections that are referenced form more than
one symbol (eg from .alt_entry) for now
Things that work based on symbols Just Work:
- map files (change in MapFile.cpp is no-op and not needed; I just
found it a bit more explicit)
- exports
Things that work with inputSections need to explicitly check if
an inputSection is written (e.g. unwind info).
This patch is useful in itself, but it's also likely also a useful foundation
for dead_strip.
I used to have a "canoncialRepresentative" pointer on InputSection instead of
just the bool, which would be handy for ICF too. But I ended up not needing it
for this patch, so I removed that again for now.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102076
This allows LLVM's LTO to internalize symbols that are not referenced
directly by regular objects. Naturally, this means we need to track
which symbols are referenced by regular objects. The approach taken here
is similar to LLD-COFF's: like the COFF port, we extend
`SymbolTable::insert()` to set the isVisibleToRegularObj bit. (LLD-ELF
relies on the Symbol constructor and `Symbol::mergeProperties()`, but
the Mach-O port does not have a `mergeProperties()` equivalent.)
From what I can tell, ld64 (which uses libLTO) doesn't do this
optimization at all. I'm not even sure libLTO provides a way to do this.
Not having ld64's behavior as a reference implementation is unfortunate;
instead, I am relying on LLD-ELF/COFF's behavior as references while
erring on the conservative side. In particular, LLD-MachO will only do
this optimization for executables right now.
We also don't attempt it when `-flat_namespace` is used -- otherwise
we'd need scan the symbol table to find matches for every un-namespaced
symbol reference, which is expensive.
internalize.ll is based off the LLD-ELF tests `internalize-basic.ll` and
`internalize-undef.ll`. Looks like @davide added some of LLD-ELF's internalize
tests, so adding him as a reviewer...
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99105
I noticed two problems with the previous implementation:
* N_ALT_ENTRY symbols weren't being handled correctly -- they should
determine the size of the previous symbol, even though they don't
cause a new section to be created
* The last symbol in a section had its size calculated wrongly;
the first subsection's size was used instead of the last one
I decided to take the opportunity to refactor things as well, mainly to
realize my observation
[here](https://reviews.llvm.org/D98837#inline-931511) that we could
avoid doing a binary search to match symbols with subsections. I think
the resulting code is a bit simpler too.
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 4.31 4.43 4.37 4.3775 0.034162922
+ 20 4.32 4.43 4.38 4.3755 0.02799906
No difference proven at 95.0% confidence
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, alexshap
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99972
This diff addresses FIXME in SyntheticSections.cpp and removes
the dependency of emitEndFunStab on .subsections_via_symbols.
Test plan: make check-lld-macho
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99054
This fixes defects in D98223 [lld-macho] implement options -(un)exported_symbol(s_list):
* disallow export of hidden symbols
* verify that whitelisted literal names are defined in the symbol table
* reflect export-status overrides in `nlist` attribute of `N_EXT` or `N_PEXT`
Thanks to @thakis for raising these issues
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98381
Previously, it was difficult to write code that handled both synthetic
and regular sections generically. We solve this problem by creating a
fake InputSection at the start of every SyntheticSection.
This refactor allows us to handle DSOHandle like a regular Defined
symbol (since Defined symbols must be attached to an InputSection), and
paves the way for supporting `__mh_*header` symbols. Additionally, it
simplifies our binding/rebase code.
I did have to extend Defined a little -- it now has a `linkerInternal`
flag, to indicate that `___dso_handle` should not be in the final symbol
table.
I've also added some additional testing for `___dso_handle`.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98545
lld policy discourages `auto`. Replace it with a type name whenever reasonable. Retain `auto` to avoid ...
* redundancy, as for decls such as `auto *t = mumble_cast<TYPE *>` or similar that specifies the result type on the RHS
* verbosity, as for iterators
* gratuitous suffering, as for lambdas
Along the way, add `const` when appropriate.
Note: a future diff will ...
* add more `const` qualifiers
* remove `opt::` when we are already `using llvm::opt`
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98313
This adds support for `-undefined dynamic_lookup`, and for
`-undefined warning` and `-undefined suppress` with `-flat_namespace`.
We just replace undefined symbols with a DynamicLookup when we hit them.
With this, `check-llvm` passes when using ld64.lld.darwinnew as host linker.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97642
-flat_namespace makes lld emit binaries that use name lookup that's more in
line with other POSIX systems: Instead of looking up symbols as (dylib,name)
pairs by dyld, they're instead looked up just by name.
-flat_namespace has three effects:
1. MH_TWOLEVEL and MH_NNOUNDEFS are no longer set in the Mach-O header
2. All symbols use BIND_SPECIAL_DYLIB_FLAT_LOOKUP as ordinal
3. When a dylib is added to the link, its dependent dylibs are also added,
so that lld can verify that no undefined symbols remain at the end of
a link with -flat_namespace. These transitive dylibs are added for symbol
resolution, but they are not emitted in LC_LOAD_COMMANDs.
-undefined with -flat_namespace still isn't implemented. Before this change,
it was impossible to hit that combination because -flat_namespace caused a
diagnostic. Now that it no longer does, emit a dedicated temporary diagnostic
when both flags are used.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97641
Dynamic lookup symbols are symbols that work like dynamic symbols
in ELF: They're not bound to a dylib like normal Mach-O twolevel lookup
symbols, but they live in a global pool and dyld resolves them against
exported symbols from all loaded dylibs.
This adds support for dynamical lookup symbols to lld/mac. They are
represented as DylibSymbols with file set to nullptr.
This also uses this support to implement the -U flag, which makes
a specific symbol that's undefined at the end of the link a
dynamic lookup symbol.
For -U, it'd be sufficient to just to a pass over remaining undefined symbols
at the end of the link and to replace them with dynamic lookup symbols then.
But I'd like to use this code to implement flat_namespace too, and that will
require real support for resolving dynamic lookup symbols in SymbolTable. So
this patch adds this now already.
While writing tests for this, I noticed that we didn't set N_WEAK_DEF in the
symbol table for DylibSymbols, so this fixes that too.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97521
This makes our error messages more informative. But the bigger motivation is for
LTO symbol resolution, which will be in an upcoming diff. The changes in this
one are largely mechanical.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, smeenai
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94316
Private extern symbols are used for things scoped to the linkage unit.
They cause duplicate symbol errors (so they're in the symbol table,
unlike TU-scoped truly local symbols), but they don't make it into the
export trie. They are created e.g. by compiling with
-fvisibility=hidden.
If two weak symbols have differing privateness, the combined symbol is
non-private external. (Example: inline functions and some TUs that
include the header defining it were built with
-fvisibility-inlines-hidden and some weren't).
A weak private external symbol implicitly has its "weak" dropped and
behaves like a regular strong private external symbol: Weak is an export
trie concept, and private symbols are not in the export trie.
If a weak and a strong symbol have different privateness, the strong
symbol wins.
If two common symbols have differing privateness, the larger symbol
wins. If they have the same size, the privateness of the symbol seen
later during the link wins (!) -- this is a bit lame, but it matches
ld64 and this behavior takes 2 lines less to implement than the less
surprising "result is non-private external), so match ld64.
(Example: `int a` in two .c files, both built with -fcommon,
one built with -fvisibility=hidden and one without.)
This also makes `__dyld_private` a true TU-local symbol, matching ld64.
To make this work, make the `const char*` StringRefZ ctor to correctly
set `size` (without this, writing the string table crashed when calling
getName() on the __dyld_private symbol).
Mention in CommonSymbol's comment that common symbols are now disabled
by default in clang.
Mention in -keep_private_externs's HelpText that the flag only has an
effect with `-r` (which we don't implement yet -- so this patch here
doesn't regress any behavior around -r + -keep_private_externs)). ld64
doesn't explicitly document it, but the commit text of
http://reviews.llvm.org/rL216146 does, and ld64's
OutputFile::buildSymbolTable() checks `_options.outputKind() ==
Options::kObjectFile` before calling `_options.keepPrivateExterns()`
(the only reference to that function).
Fixes PR48536.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D93609
TREATMENT can be `error`, `warning`, `suppress`, or `dynamic_lookup`
The `dymanic_lookup` remains unimplemented for now.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D93263
Weak references need not necessarily be satisfied at runtime (but they must
still be satisfied at link time). So symbol resolution still works as per usual,
but we now pass around a flag -- ultimately emitting it in the bind table -- to
indicate if a given dylib symbol is a weak reference.
ld64's behavior for symbols that have both weak and strong references is
a bit bizarre. For non-function symbols, it will emit a weak import. For
function symbols (those referenced by BRANCH relocs), it will emit a
regular import. I'm not sure what value there is in that behavior, and
since emulating it will make our implementation more complex, I've
decided to treat regular weakrefs like function symbol ones for now.
Fixes PR48511.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D93369
They operate like Defined symbols but with no associated InputSection.
Note that `ld64` seems to treat the weak definition flag like a no-op for
absolute symbols, so I have replicated that behavior.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, smeenai
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87909
Handle the case where there are both common and non-common definitions
of the same symbol. Add a bunch of tests to ensure compatibility with ld64.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D86910
On Unix, it is traditionally allowed to write variable definitions without
initialization expressions (such as "int foo;") to header files. These are
called tentative definitions.
The compiler creates common symbols when it sees tentative definitions. When
linking the final binary, if there are remaining common symbols after name
resolution is complete, the linker converts them to regular defined symbols in
a `__common` section.
This diff implements most of that functionality, though we do not yet handle
the case where there are both common and non-common definitions of the same
symbol.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D86909
These opcodes tell dyld to coalesce the overridden weak dysyms to this
particular symbol definition.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, smeenai
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D86575
Previously, we were only emitting regular bindings to weak
dynamic symbols; this diff adds support for the weak bindings too, which
can overwrite the regular bindings at runtime. We also treat weak
defined global symbols similarly -- since they can also be interposed at
runtime, they need to be treated as potentially dynamic symbols.
Note that weak bindings differ from regular bindings in that they do not
specify the dylib to do the lookup in (i.e. weak symbol lookup happens
in a flat namespace.)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D86572
References to symbols in dylibs work very similarly regardless of
whether the symbol is a TLV. The main difference is that we have a
separate `__thread_ptrs` section that acts as the GOT for these
thread-locals.
We can identify thread-locals in dylibs by a flag in their export trie
entries, and we cross-check it with the relocations that refer to them
to ensure that we are not using a GOT relocation to reference a
thread-local (or vice versa).
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, smeenai
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85081
The C++ ABI requires dylibs to pass a pointer to __cxa_atexit which does
e.g. cleanup of static global variables. The C++ spec says that the pointer
can point to any address in one of the dylib's segments, but in practice
ld64 seems to set it to point to the header, so that's what's implemented
here.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, smeenai
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D83603
This diff adds support for weak definitions, though it doesn't handle weak
symbols in dylibs quite correctly -- we need to emit binding opcodes for them
in the weak binding section rather than the lazy binding section.
What *is* covered in this diff:
1. Reading the weak flag from symbol table / export trie, and writing it to the
export trie
2. Refining the symbol table's rules for choosing one symbol definition over
another. Wrote a few dozen test cases to make sure we were matching ld64's
behavior.
We can now link basic C++ programs.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, compnerd
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D83532
With this change, basic archive files can be linked together. Input
section discovery has been refactored into a function since archive
files lazily resolve their symbols / the object files containing those
symbols.
Reviewed By: int3, smeenai
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D78342
Summary:
Otherwise we get undefined symbol errors depending on the order of
arguments on the command line.
Depends on D78270.
Reviewers: ruiu, pcc, MaskRay, smeenai, alexshap, gkm, Ktwu, christylee
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79114
Jez Ng