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
In D105866, we used an intermediate container to store a list of opcodes. Here,
we use that data structure to help us perform optimization passes that would allow
a more efficient encoding of bind opcodes. Currently, the functionality mirrors the
optimization pass {1,2} done in ld64 for bind opcodes under optimization gate
to prevent slight regressions.
Reviewed By: int3, #lld-macho
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105867
This adds support for the lld-only `--thinlto-cache-policy` option, as well as
implementations for ld64's `-cache_path_lto`, `-prune_interval_lto`,
`-prune_after_lto`, and `-max_relative_cache_size_lto`.
Test is adapted from lld/test/ELF/lto/cache.ll
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105922
This implements the part of -export_dynamic that adds external
symbols as dead strip roots even for executables.
It does not yet implement the effect -export_dynamic has for LTO.
I tried just replacing `config->outputType != MH_EXECUTE` with
`(config->outputType != MH_EXECUTE || config->exportDynamic)` in
LTO.cpp, but then local symbols make it into the symbol table too,
which is too much (and also doesn't match ld64). So punt on this
for now until I understand it better.
(D91583 may or may not be related too).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105482
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
This is one of two flags clang passes to the linker when giving calling
clang with multiple -arch flags.
I think it'd make sense to also use finalOutput instead of outputFile
in CodeSignatureSection() and when replacing @executable_path, but
ld64 doesn't do that, so I'll at least put those in separate commits.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105449
I think this is an old way for doing what is done with
-reexport_library these days, but it's e.g. still used in libunwind's
build (the opensource.apple.com one, not the llvm one).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105448
Everything (including test) modified from ELF/COFF. Using the same syntax
(--lto-O3, etc) as ELF.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105223
ICF = Identical C(ode|OMDAT) Folding
This is the LLD ELF/COFF algorithm, adapted for MachO. So far, only `-icf all` is supported. In order to support `-icf safe`, we will need to port address-significance tables (`.addrsig` directives) to MachO, which will come in later diffs.
`check-{llvm,clang,lld}` have 0 regressions for `lld -icf all` vs. baseline ld64.
We only run ICF on `__TEXT,__text` for reasons explained in the block comment in `ConcatOutputSection.cpp`.
Here is the perf impact for linking `chromium_framekwork` on a Mac Pro (16-core Xeon W) for the non-ICF case vs. pre-ICF:
```
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 4.27 4.44 4.34 4.349 0.043029977
+ 20 4.37 4.46 4.405 4.4115 0.025188761
Difference at 95.0% confidence
0.0625 +/- 0.0225658
1.43711% +/- 0.518873%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0352566)
```
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, int3
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103292
For debugging dylib loading, it's useful to have some insight into what
the linker is doing.
ld64 has the undocumented RC_TRACE_DYLIB_SEARCHING env var
for this printing dylib search candidates.
This adds a flag --print-dylib-search to make lld print the seame information.
It's useful for users, but also for writing tests. The output is formatted
slightly differently than ld64, but we still support RC_TRACE_DYLIB_SEARCHING
to offer at least a compatible way to trigger this.
ld64 has both `-print_statistics` and `-trace_symbol_output` to enable
diagnostics output. I went with "print" since that seems like a more
straightforward name.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103985
It causes libraries whose names start with "swift" to be force-loaded.
Note that unlike the more general `-force_load`, this flag only applies
to libraries specified via LC_LINKER_OPTIONS, and not those passed on
the command-line. This is what ld64 does.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103709
Our implementation draws heavily from LLD-ELF's, which in turn delegates
its string deduplication to llvm-mc's StringTableBuilder. The messiness of
this diff is largely due to the fact that we've previously assumed that
all InputSections get concatenated together to form the output. This is
no longer true with CStringInputSections, which split their contents into
StringPieces. StringPieces are much more lightweight than InputSections,
which is important as we create a lot of them. They may also overlap in
the output, which makes it possible for strings to be tail-merged. In
fact, the initial version of this diff implemented tail merging, but
I've dropped it for reasons I'll explain later.
**Alignment Issues**
Mergeable cstring literals are found under the `__TEXT,__cstring`
section. In contrast to ELF, which puts strings that need different
alignments into different sections, clang's Mach-O backend puts them all
in one section. Strings that need to be aligned have the `.p2align`
directive emitted before them, which simply translates into zero padding
in the object file.
I *think* ld64 extracts the desired per-string alignment from this data
by preserving each string's offset from the last section-aligned
address. I'm not entirely certain since it doesn't seem consistent about
doing this; but perhaps this can be chalked up to cases where ld64 has
to deduplicate strings with different offset/alignment combos -- it
seems to pick one of their alignments to preserve. This doesn't seem
correct in general; we can in fact can induce ld64 to produce a crashing
binary just by linking in an additional object file that only contains
cstrings and no code. See PR50563 for details.
Moreover, this scheme seems rather inefficient: since unaligned and
aligned strings are all put in the same section, which has a single
alignment value, it doesn't seem possible to tell whether a given string
doesn't have any alignment requirements. Preserving offset+alignments
for strings that don't need it is wasteful.
In practice, the crashes seen so far seem to stem from x86_64 SIMD
operations on cstrings. X86_64 requires SIMD accesses to be
16-byte-aligned. So for now, I'm thinking of just aligning all strings
to 16 bytes on x86_64. This is indeed wasteful, but implementation-wise
it's simpler than preserving per-string alignment+offsets. It also
avoids the aforementioned crash after deduplication of
differently-aligned strings. Finally, the overhead is not huge: using
16-byte alignment (vs no alignment) is only a 0.5% size overhead when
linking chromium_framework.
With these alignment requirements, it doesn't make sense to attempt tail
merging -- most strings will not be eligible since their overlaps aren't
likely to start at a 16-byte boundary. Tail-merging (with alignment) for
chromium_framework only improves size by 0.3%.
It's worth noting that LLD-ELF only does tail merging at `-O2`. By
default (at `-O1`), it just deduplicates w/o tail merging. @thakis has
also mentioned that they saw it regress compressed size in some cases
and therefore turned it off. `ld64` does not seem to do tail merging at
all.
**Performance Numbers**
CString deduplication reduces chromium_framework from 250MB to 242MB, or
about a 3.2% reduction.
Numbers for linking chromium_framework on my 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W:
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 3.91 4.03 3.935 3.95 0.034641016
+ 20 3.99 4.14 4.015 4.0365 0.0492336
Difference at 95.0% confidence
0.0865 +/- 0.027245
2.18987% +/- 0.689746%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0425673)
As expected, cstring merging incurs some non-trivial overhead.
When passing `--no-literal-merge`, it seems that performance is the
same, i.e. the refactoring in this diff didn't cost us.
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 3.91 4.03 3.935 3.95 0.034641016
+ 20 3.89 4.02 3.935 3.9435 0.043197831
No difference proven at 95.0% confidence
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102964
This diff adds first bits to support special symbols $ld$previous* in LLD.
$ld$* symbols modify properties/behavior of the library
(e.g. its install name, compatibility version or hide/add symbols)
for specific target versions.
Test plan: make check-lld-macho
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103505
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
This would cause us to pull in symbols (and code) that should
be unused.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102137
ld64 automatically renames many sections depending on output type and assorted flags. Here, we implement the most common configs. We can add more obscure flags and behaviors as needed.
Depends on D101393
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101395
This load command records a range spanning from the end of the load
commands to the end of the `__TEXT` segment. Presumably the kernel will encrypt
all this data.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100973
This diff adds initial support for the legacy LC_VERSION_MIN_* load commands.
Test plan: make check-lld-macho
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100523
This diff creates an empty XAR file and copies it into
`__LLVM,__bundle`. Follow-up work will actually populate the contents of
that XAR.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100650
Swift builds seem to use it. All it requires is emitting the
corresponding paths as STABS.
Fixes llvm.org/PR49385.
Reviewed By: clayborg
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100076
The test is loosely based off LLD-ELF's `thinlto.ll`. However, I
found that test questionable because the the -save_temps behavior it
checks for is identical regardless of whether we are running in single-
or multi-threaded mode. I tried writing a test based on `--time-trace`
but couldn't get it to run deterministically... so I've opted to just
skip checking that behavior for now.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99356
TextAPI/ELF has moved out into InterfaceStubs, so theres no longer a
need to seperate out TextAPI between formats.
Reviewed By: ributzka, int3, #lld-macho
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99811
Summary: We needed to use `Joined` instead of `Flag`. This wasn't caught
because the relevant test that was copied from LLD-ELF was still
invoking LLD-ELF instead of LLD-MachO...
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99313
Pretty simple code-wise. Also threw in some refactoring:
* Put the functionStartSection under Writer instead of InStruct, since
it doesn't need to be accessed outside of Writer
* Adjusted the test to put all files under the temp dir instead of at
the top-level
* Added some CHECK-LABELs to make it clearer where the function starts
data is
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99112
I added just enough to allow us to see a top-level breakdown of time taken. This
is the result of loading the time-trace output into `chrome:://tracing`:
ef5e8234f3/tracing.png
Reviewed By: oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99311
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
This is the minimal port from ELF. Any extension should easy from here
Test plan: ninja check-all-macho
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98419
lld doesn't read MH_DEAD_STRIPPABLE_DYLIB to strip dead dylibs yet,
but now it can produce dylibs with it set.
While here, also switch an existing test that looks only at the main Mach-O
header from --all-headers to --private-header.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98262
Implement command-line options to alter a dylib's exported-symbols list:
* `-exported_symbol*` options override the default export list. The export list is compiled according to the command-line option(s) only.
* `-unexported_symbol*` options hide otherwise public symbols.
* `-*exported_symbol PATTERN` options specify a single literal or glob pattern.
* `-*exported_symbols_list FILE` options specify a file containing a series of lines containing symbol literals or glob patterns. Whitespace and `#`-prefix comments are stripped.
Note: This is a simple implementation of the primary use case. ld64 has much more complexity surrounding interactions with other options, many of which are obscure and undocumented. We will start simple and complexity as necessary.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98223
Previously, lld/mac only ad-hoc codesigned executables on arm64.
Matches ld64 behavior. Part of PR49443. Fixes 14 of 17 failures when running
check-llvm with lld as host linker on an M1 MBP.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97994
Previously, we were loading re-exports without checking whether
they were compatible with our target. Prior to {D97209}, it meant that
we were defining dylib symbols that were invalid -- usually a silent
failure unless our binary actually used them. D97209 exposed this as an
explicit error.
Along the way, I've extended our TAPI compatibility check to cover the
platform as well, instead of just checking the arch. To this end, I've
replaced MachO::Architecture with MachO::Target in our Config struct.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97867
See discussion on https://reviews.llvm.org/D93263
-flat_namespace isn't implemented yet, and neither is -undefined dynamic,
so this makes -undefined pretty pointless in lld/MachO for now. But once
we implement -flat_namespace (which we need to do anyways to get check-llvm
to pass with lld as host linker), the code's already there.
Follow-up to https://reviews.llvm.org/D93263#2491865
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D96963
Since we emit diagnostics for undefineds in Writer::scanRelocations()
and symbols referenced by -u flags aren't referenced by any relocations,
this needs some manual code (similar to the entry point).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94371
Run the ObjCARCContractPass during LTO. The legacy LTO backend (under
LTO/ThinLTOCodeGenerator.cpp) already does this; this diff just adds that
behavior to the new LTO backend. Without that pass, the objc.clang.arc.use
intrinsic will get passed to the instruction selector, which doesn't know how to
handle it.
In order to test both the new and old pass managers, I've also added support for
the `--[no-]lto-legacy-pass-manager` flags.
P.S. Not sure if the ordering of the pass within the pipeline matters...
Reviewed By: fhahn
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94547
TREATMENT can be `error`, `warning`, `suppress`, or `dynamic_lookup`
The `dymanic_lookup` remains unimplemented for now.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D93263
Dylibs that are "public" -- i.e. top-level system libraries -- are considered
implicitly linked when another library re-exports them. That is, we should load
them & bind directly to their symbols instead of via their re-exporting
umbrella library. This diff implements that behavior by default, as well as an
opt-out flag.
In theory, this is just a performance optimization, but in practice it seems
that it's needed for correctness.
Fixes llvm.org/PR48395.
Reviewed By: thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D93000
This makes it possible for STABS entries to reference the debug info
contained in the LTO-compiled output.
I'm not sure how to test the file mtime within llvm-lit -- GNU and BSD
`stat` take different command-line arguments. I've omitted the check for
now.
Reviewed By: clayborg
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D92537
The problem was that `sym` became replaced in the call
to make<ObjFile> and referring to it afer that read memory that now
stored a different kind of symbol (a Defined instead of a LazySymbol).
Since this happens only once per archive, just copy the symbol to the
stack before make<ObjFile> and read the copy instead.
Originally reviewed at https://reviews.llvm.org/D92496
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