See http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-April/140549.html
For the record, GNU ld changed to 64k max page size in 2014
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=7572ca8989ead4c3425a1500bc241eaaeffa2c89
"[RFC] ld/ARM: Increase maximum page size to 64kB"
Android driver forced 4k page size in AArch64 (D55029) and ARM (D77746).
A binary linked with max-page-size=4096 does not run on a system with a
higher page size configured. There are some systems out there that do
this and it leads to the binary getting `Killed!` by the kernel.
In the non-linker-script cases, when linked with -z noseparate-code
(default), the max-page-size increase should not cause any size
difference. There may be some VMA usage differences, though.
Reviewed By: psmith, MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D77330
Port the D64906 technique to ARM. It deletes 3 alignments at
PT_LOAD boundaries for the default case: the size of an arm binary
decreases by at most 12kb.
Reviewed By: grimar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D66749
llvm-svn: 370049
Recommit r356666 with fixes for buildbot failure, as well as handling for
--emit-relocs, which we decide not to emit any relocation sections as the
table is already position independent and an offline tool can deduce the
relocations.
Instead of creating extra Synthetic .ARM.exidx sections to account for
gaps in the table, create a single .ARM.exidx SyntheticSection that can
derive the contents of the gaps from a sorted list of the executable
InputSections. This has the benefit of moving the ARM specific code for
SyntheticSections in SHF_LINK_ORDER processing and the table merging code
into the ARM specific SyntheticSection. This also makes it easier to create
EXIDX_CANTUNWIND table entries for executable InputSections that don't
have an associated .ARM.exidx section.
Fixes pr40277
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D59216
llvm-svn: 357160
There is a reproducible buildbot failure (segfault) on the 2 stage
clang-cmake-armv8-lld bot. Reverting while I investigate.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D59216
llvm-svn: 356684
Instead of creating extra Synthetic .ARM.exidx sections to account for
gaps in the table, create a single .ARM.exidx SyntheticSection that can
derive the contents of the gaps from a sorted list of the executable
InputSections. This has the benefit of moving the ARM specific code for
SyntheticSections in SHF_LINK_ORDER processing and the table merging code
into the ARM specific SyntheticSection. This also makes it easier to create
EXIDX_CANTUNWIND table entries for executable InputSections that don't
have an associated .ARM.exidx section.
Fixes pr40277
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D59216
llvm-svn: 356666
The ARM.exidx section contains a table of 8-byte entries with the first
word of each entry an offset to the function it describes and the second
word instructions for unwinding if an exception is thrown from that
function. The SHF_LINK_ORDER processing will order the table in ascending
order of the functions described by the exception table entries. As the
address range of an exception table entry is terminated by the next table
entry, it is possible to merge consecutive table entries that have
identical unwind instructions.
For this implementation we define a table entry to be identical if:
- Both entries are the special EXIDX_CANTUNWIND.
- Both entries have the same inline unwind instructions.
We do not attempt to establish if table entries that are references to
.ARM.extab sections are identical.
This implementation works at a granularity of a single .ARM.exidx
InputSection. If all entries in the InputSection are identical to the
previous table entry we can remove the InputSection. A more sophisticated
but more complex implementation would rewrite InputSection contents so that
duplicates within a .ARM.exidx InputSection can be merged.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D40967
llvm-svn: 320803