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Original commit message:
[ELF] - Do not crash with --emit-relocs and --icf=all together.
Previously we would crash because did not mark .rel[a] sections
as dead and they tried to access parent which was not live
after ICF and therefore was null.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D43241
llvm-svn: 325879
GNU gold doesn't print out ICF sections for -verbose. It only shows
them for -print-icf-sections. We printed out them for -verbose because
we didn't have -print-icf-sections. Now that we have the option, there's
no reason to print out for -verbose.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D43100
llvm-svn: 324755
Previously, multiple chunks of --print-icf-sections messages were interleaved
and didn't make sense. This is because forEachClass is multi-threaded.
llvm-svn: 324683
Currently ICF information is output through stderr if the "--verbose"
flag is used. This differs to Gold for example, which uses an explicit
flag to output this to stdout. This commit adds the
"--print-icf-sections" and "--no-print-icf-sections" flags and changes
the output message format for clarity and consistency with
"--print-gc-sections". These messages are still output to stderr if
using the verbose flag. However to avoid intermingled message output to
console, this will not occur when the "--print-icf-sections" flag is
used.
Existing tests have been modified to expect the new message format from
stderr.
Patch by Owen Reynolds.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D42375
Reviewers: ruiu, rafael
Reviewed by:
llvm-svn: 323976
When we have --icf=safe we should be able to define --icf=all as a
shorthand for --icf=safe --ignore-function-address-equality.
For now --ignore-function-address-equality is used only to control
access to non preemptable symbols in shared libraries.
llvm-svn: 322152
An internal linker has support for merging identical data and in some
cases it can be a significant win.
This is behind an off by default flag so it has to be requested
explicitly.
llvm-svn: 320448
Now that DefinedRegular is the only remaining derived class of
Defined, we can merge the two classes.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D39667
llvm-svn: 317448
Now that we have only SymbolBody as the symbol class. So, "SymbolBody"
is a bit strange name now. This is a mechanical change generated by
perl -i -pe s/SymbolBody/Symbol/g $(git grep -l SymbolBody lld/ELF lld/COFF)
nd clang-format-diff.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D39459
llvm-svn: 317370
Summary:
This will allow using the functionality from other linkers. It is also
a prerequisite for sharing the error logging code.
Reviewers: ruiu
Reviewed By: ruiu
Subscribers: emaste, mgorny, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D38822
llvm-svn: 315725
Computing section content hashes early seems like a win in terms of
performance. It increases a chance that two different sections will get
different class IDs from the beginning.
Without threads, this patch improves Chromium link time by about 0.3
seconds. With threads, by 0.1 seconds. That's less than 1% time saving
but not bad for a small patch.
llvm-svn: 314644
Relocations referring to merge sections are considered equal if they
resolve to the same offset in the same output section.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34094
llvm-svn: 305177
This creates a new library called BinaryFormat that has all of
the headers from llvm/Support containing structure and layout
definitions for various types of binary formats like dwarf, coff,
elf, etc as well as the code for identifying a file from its
magic.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D33843
llvm-svn: 304864
This is the only place we use threads for ICF. The intention of this code
was to split an input vector into 256 shards and process them in parallel.
What the code was actually doing was to split an input into 257 shards,
process the first 256 shards in parallel, and the remaining one in serial.
That means this code takes ceil(256/n)+1 instead of ceil(256/n) where n
is the number of available CPU cores. The former converges to 2 while
the latter converges to 1.
This patches fixes the above issue.
llvm-svn: 303797
ARM Exception Index Table sections .ARM.exidx have an implicit dependency
on code sections via SHF_LINK_ORDER. When code sections are folded by ICF
we must mark the unique .ARM.exidx table that describes it as not live
to prevent an illegal entry in the exception table.
Note that we do not try and follow the relocations from the .ARM.exidx
section to the .ARM.extab sections to mark these as not live. Leaving
these sections is not a correctness problem. In theory these could be
removed via an application of garbage collection.
Fixes https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32614
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31932
llvm-svn: 300182
We had a few Config member functions that returns configuration values.
For example, we had is64() which returns true if the target is 64-bit.
The return values of these functions are constant and never change.
This patch is to compute them only once to make it clear that they'll
never change.
llvm-svn: 298168
Previously, LLD merged all read-only sections. So the following
program prints out "true" if -icf=all is specified.
static const int foo = 1;
static const int bar = 1;
int main() { printf("%s\n", &foo == &bar ? "true" : "false"); }
This is somewhat counter-intuitive, and it actually caused nasty issues.
One example is https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=682773#c24.
This patch changes the way how it works. Now ICF merges only functions
(i.e. executable sections).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D30365
llvm-svn: 296534
The list of all input sections was defined in SymbolTable class for a
historical reason. The list itself is not a template. However, because
SymbolTable class is a template, we needed to pass around ELFT to access
the list. This patch moves the list out of the class so that it doesn't
need ELFT.
llvm-svn: 296309
With the current design an InputSection is basically anything that
goes directly in a OutputSection. That includes plain input section
but also synthetic sections, so this should probably not be a
template.
llvm-svn: 295993
If two sections contained relocations to absolute symbols with the same
value we would crash when trying to access their sections. Add a check that
both symbols point to sections before accessing their sections, and treat
absolute symbols as equal if their values are equal.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D28935
llvm-svn: 292578
I removed a wrong optimization for ICF in r288527. Sean Silva suggested
in a post commit review that the correct algorithm can be implemented
easily. So is this patch.
llvm-svn: 288620
This is a hack for single thread execution. We are using Color[0] and
Color[1] alternately on each iteration. This optimization is to look
at the next slot as opposted to the current slot to get recent results
early. Turns out that the assumption is wrong, because the other slots
are not always have the most recent values, but instead it may have
stale values of the previous iteration. This patch removes that
performance hack.
llvm-svn: 288527
The assertion asserted that colorable sections can never have
a reference to non-colorable sections, but that was simply wrong.
They can have references to non-colorable sections. If that's the
case, referenced sections must be the same in terms of pointer
comparison.
llvm-svn: 288511
r288228 seems to have regressed ICF performance in some cases in which
a lot of sections are actually mergeable. In r288228, I made a change
to create a Range object for each new color group. So every time we
split a group, we allocated and added a new group to a list of groups.
This patch essentially reverted r288228 with an improvement to
parallelize the original algorithm.
Now the ICF main loop is entirely allocation-free and lock-free.
Just like pre-r288228, we search for group boundaries by linear scan
instead of managing the information using Range class. r288228 was
neutral in performance-wise, and so is this patch.
I confirmed that this produces the exact same result as before
using chromium and clang as tests.
llvm-svn: 288480
ICF is short for Identical Code Folding. It is a size optimization to
identify two or more functions that happened to have the same contents
to merges them. It usually reduces output size by a few percent.
ICF is slow because it is computationally intensive process. I tried
to paralellize it before but failed because I couldn't make a
parallelized version produce consistent outputs. Although it didn't
create broken executables, every invocation of the linker generated
slightly different output, and I couldn't figure out why.
I think I now understand what was going on, and also came up with a
simple algorithm to fix it. So is this patch.
The result is very exciting. Chromium for example has 780,662 input
sections in which 20,774 are reducible by ICF. LLD previously took
7.980 seconds for ICF. Now it finishes in 1.065 seconds.
As a result, LLD can now link a Chromium binary (output size 1.59 GB)
in 10.28 seconds on my machine with ICF enabled. Compared to gold
which takes 40.94 seconds to do the same thing, this is an amazing
number.
From here, I'll describe what we are doing for ICF, what was the
previous problem, and what I did in this patch.
In ICF, two sections are considered identical if they have the same
section flags, section data, and relocations. Relocations are tricky,
becuase two relocations are considered the same if they have the same
relocation type, values, and if they point to the same section _in
terms of ICF_.
Here is an example. If foo and bar defined below are compiled to the
same machine instructions, ICF can (and should) merge the two,
although their relocations point to each other.
void foo() { bar(); }
void bar() { foo(); }
This is not an easy problem to solve.
What we are doing in LLD is some sort of coloring algorithm. We color
non-identical sections using different colors repeatedly, and sections
in the same color when the algorithm terminates are considered
identical. Here is the details:
1. First, we color all sections using their hash values of section
types, section contents, and numbers of relocations. At this moment,
relocation targets are not taken into account. We just color
sections that apparently differ in different colors.
2. Next, for each color C, we visit sections having color C to see
if their relocations are the same. Relocations are considered equal
if their targets have the same color. We then recolor sections that
have different relocation targets in new colors.
3. If we recolor some section in step 2, relocations that were
previously pointing to the same color targets may now be pointing to
different colors. Therefore, repeat 2 until a convergence is
obtained.
Step 2 is a heavy operation. For Chromium, the first iteration of step
2 takes 2.882 seconds, and the second iteration takes 1.038 seconds,
and in total it needs 23 iterations.
Parallelizing step 1 is easy because we can color each section
independently. This patch does that.
Parallelizing step 2 is tricky. We could work on each color
independently, but we cannot recolor sections in place, because it
will break the invariance that two possibly-identical sections must
have the same color at any moment.
Consider sections S1, S2, S3, S4 in the same color C, where S1 and S2
are identical, S3 and S4 are identical, but S2 and S3 are not. Thread
A is about to recolor S1 and S2 in C'. After thread A recolor S1 in
C', but before recolor S2 in C', other thread B might observe S1 and
S2. Then thread B will conclude that S1 and S2 are different, and it
will split thread B's sections into smaller groups wrongly. Over-
splitting doesn't produce broken results, but it loses a chance to
merge some identical sections. That was the cause of indeterminism.
To fix the problem, I made sections have two colors, namely current
color and next color. At the beginning of each iteration, both colors
are the same. Each thread reads from current color and writes to next
color. In this way, we can avoid threads from reading partial
results. After each iteration, we flip current and next.
This is a very simple solution and is implemented in less than 50
lines of code.
I tested this patch with Chromium and confirmed that this parallelized
ICF produces the identical output as the non-parallelized one.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27247
llvm-svn: 288373
Previously, on each iteration in ICF, we scan the entire vector of
input sections to find boundaries of groups having the same ID.
This patch changes the algorithm so that we now have a vector of ranges.
Each range contains a starting index and an ending index of the group.
So we no longer have to search boundaries on each iteration.
Performance-wise, this seems neutral. Instead of searching boundaries,
we now have to maintain ranges. But I think this is more readable
than the previous implementation.
Moreover, this makes easy to parallelize the main loop of ICF,
which I'll do in a follow-up patch.
llvm-svn: 288228
Also this patch uses file-scope functions instead of class member function.
Now that ICF class is not visible from outside, InputSection class
can no longer be "friend" of it. So I removed the friend relation
and just make it expose the features to public.
llvm-svn: 287480
George Rimar