In GNU ld, --no-relax can disable x86-64 GOTPCRELX relaxation.
It is not useful, so we don't implement it.
For RISC-V, --no-relax disables linker relaxations which have larger
impact.
Linux kernel specifies --no-relax when CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE is specified
(since http://git.kernel.org/linus/a1d2a6b4cee858a2f27eebce731fbf1dfd72cb4e ).
LLD has not implemented the relaxations, so this option is a no-op.
Reviewed By: grimar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D81359
Summary:
Add a flag `F_no_mmap` to `FileOutputBuffer` to support
`--[no-]mmap-output-file` in ELF LLD. LLD currently explicitly ignores
this flag for compatibility with GNU ld and gold.
We need this flag to speed up link time for large binaries in certain
scenarios. When we link some of our larger binaries we find that LLD
takes 50+ GB of memory, which causes memory pressure. The memory
pressure causes the VM to flush dirty pages of the output file to disk.
This is normally okay, since we should be flushing cold pages. However,
when using BtrFS with compression we need to write 128KB at a time when
we flush a page. If any page in that 128KB block is written again, then
it must be flushed a second time, and so on. Since LLD doesn't write
sequentially this causes write amplification. The same 128KB block will
end up being flushed multiple times, causing the linker to many times
more IO than necessary. We've observed 3-5x faster builds with
-no-mmap-output-file when we hit this scenario.
The bad scenario only applies to compressed filesystems, which group
together multiple pages into a single compressed block. I've tested
BtrFS, but the problem will be present for any compressed filesystem
on Linux, since it is caused by the VM.
Silently ignoring --no-mmap-output-file caused a silent regression when
we switched from gold to lld. We pass --no-mmap-output-file to fix this
edge case, but since lld silently ignored the flag we didn't realize it
wasn't being respected.
Benchmark building a 9 GB binary that exposes this edge case. I linked 3
times with --mmap-output-file and 3 times with --no-mmap-output-file and
took the average. The machine has 24 cores @ 2.4 GHz, 112 GB of RAM,
BtrFS mounted with -compress-force=zstd, and an 80% full disk.
| Mode | Time |
|---------|-------|
| mmap | 894 s |
| no mmap | 126 s |
When compression is disabled, BtrFS performs just as well with and
without mmap on this benchmark.
I was unable to reproduce the regression with any binaries in
lld-speed-test.
Reviewed By: ruiu, MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D69294
Some options are implemented now:
--no-warn-common : r263413
--allow-shlib-undefined : r352826
Some are ignored but were not reflected in this test.
llvm-svn: 368837
Many -static/-no-pie/-shared/-pie applications linked against glibc or musl
should work with this patch. This also helps FreeBSD PowerPC64 to migrate
their lib32 (PR40888).
* Fix default image base and max page size.
* Support new-style Secure PLT (see below). Old-style BSS PLT is not
implemented, so it is not suitable for FreeBSD rtld now because it doesn't
support Secure PLT yet.
* Support more initial relocation types:
R_PPC_ADDR32, R_PPC_REL16*, R_PPC_LOCAL24PC, R_PPC_PLTREL24, and R_PPC_GOT16.
The addend of R_PPC_PLTREL24 is special: it decides the call stub PLT type
but it should be ignored for the computation of target symbol VA.
* Support GNU ifunc
* Support .glink used for lazy PLT resolution in glibc
* Add a new thunk type: PPC32PltCallStub that is similar to PPC64PltCallStub.
It is used by R_PPC_REL24 and R_PPC_PLTREL24.
A PLT stub used in -fPIE/-fPIC usually loads an address relative to
.got2+0x8000 (-fpie/-fpic code uses _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ relative
addresses).
Two .got2 sections in two object files have different addresses, thus a PLT stub
can't be shared by two object files. To handle this incompatibility,
change the parameters of Thunk::isCompatibleWith to
`const InputSection &, const Relocation &`.
PowerPC psABI specified an old-style .plt (BSS PLT) that is both
writable and executable. Linkers don't make separate RW- and RWE segments,
which causes all initially writable memory (think .data) executable.
This is a big security concern so a new PLT scheme (secure PLT) was developed to
address the security issue.
TLS will be implemented in D62940.
glibc older than ~2012 requires .rela.dyn to include .rela.plt, it can
not handle the DT_RELA+DT_RELASZ == DT_JMPREL case correctly. A hack
(not included in this patch) in LinkerScript.cpp addOrphanSections() to
work around the issue:
if (Config->EMachine == EM_PPC) {
// Older glibc assumes .rela.dyn includes .rela.plt
Add(In.RelaDyn);
if (In.RelaPlt->isLive() && !In.RelaPlt->Parent)
In.RelaDyn->getParent()->addSection(In.RelaPlt);
}
Reviewed By: ruiu
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D62464
llvm-svn: 362721
The linux kernel uses an old flag -p/-no-pipeline-knowledge that is
accepted by bfd and gold but ignored by modern versions of them. The
original option is very old and is pre-ABI, it sometimes comes up in
code-bases that had support for pre ABI toolchains. The Linux kernel uses
it in 3 places in the ARM specific section.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D58540
llvm-svn: 354769
This is an option to print out a table of symbols and filenames.
The output format of this option is the same as GNU, so that it can be
processed by the same scripts as before after migrating from GNU to lld.
This option is mildly useful; we can live without it. But it is pretty
convenient sometimes, and it can be implemented in 50 lines of code, so
I think lld should support this option.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44336
llvm-svn: 327565
Fangrui Song