This patch is to basically move the functionality to construct Data Directory
from IdataPass to WriterPECOFF.
Data Directory is a part of the PE/COFF header and contains the addresses of
the import tables.
We used to represent the link from Data Directory to the import tables as
relocation references. The idea behind it is that, because relocation
references are processed by the Writer, we wouldn't have to do anything special
to fill the addresses of the import tables. I thought that the addresses would
be set "automatically".
But it turned out that that design made the pass and the writer rather
complicated. In order to make relocation references between Data Directory to
the import tables, these data structures needed to be represented as Atom.
However, because Data Directory is not a section content but a part of the
PE/COFF header, it did not fit well as an Atom. So we ended up having
complicated code both in IdataPass and the writer.
This patch simplifies it.
One side effect of this patch is that we now have ".idata.a", ".idata.d" and
"idata.t" sections for the import address table, the import directory table,
and the import lookup table. The writer looks for the sections by name to find
the start addresses of the sections. We probably should have a better way to
find a specific atom from the core linking result, but currently using the
section name seems to be the easiest way to do that. The Windows loader do not
care about the import table's section layout.
llvm-svn: 197016
If section size is not multiple of 512, the writer added NULL bytes at the end
of it to make it so. That is not required by the PE/COFF spec, and the MSVC's
linker does not do that too. So we don't need to do that, too.
llvm-svn: 197002
Code to create COFF section header was scattered across many member functions
of SectionChunk. Consolidate it to a member function of SectionHeaderTableChunk.
llvm-svn: 196895
/ALTERNATENAME is a rarely-used, undocumented command line option that is
needed to link LLD for release build. It seems that the option is for defining
an weak alias; /alternatename:foo=bar defines weak symbol "foo" for "bar".
If "foo" is defined in an input file, it'll be linked normally and the command
line option will have no effect. If it's not defined, "foo" will be handled
as an alias for "bar".
This patch implements the parser for the option. The actual weak alias handling
will be implemented in a separate patch.
llvm-svn: 196743
Because compare() and its heper functions no longer have to be members of
LayoutPass class, we can remove it from the class. No functionality change.
llvm-svn: 196715
The comparator used in the layout pass has many calls of map::find(). Because
std::sort runs the comparator N*log2(N) times, the maps are looked up with the
same key again and again. The map lookup is not a very fast operation. It made
the pass slow.
This patch eliminates the duplicate map lookups using decorate-sort-undecorate
idiom. The pass used to take 1.1 seconds when linking LLD with LLD on Windows,
but it now takes only 0.3 seconds. Overall performance gain in that case is from
6.1 seconds to 5.2 seconds.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2358
llvm-svn: 196714
GroupedSectionsPass was a complicated pass. That pass's job was to reorder
atoms by section name, so that the atoms with the same section prefix will be
emitted consecutively to the executable. The pass added layout edges to atoms,
and let the layout pass to actually reorder them.
This patch simplifies the design by making GroupedSectionPass to directly
reorder atoms, rather than adding layout edges. This resembles ELF's
ArrayOrderPass.
This patch improves the performance of LLD; it used to take 7.1 seconds to
link LLD with LLD on my Macbook Pro, but it now takes 6.1 seconds.
llvm-svn: 196628
Currently we do not de-duplicate library files specified by /defaultlib option.
As a result, the same files are added multiple times to the input graph. In
particular, some popular files, such as kernel32.lib or oldnames.lib, are added
more than 10 times during linking of LLD. That makes the linker slower, as it
needs to parse the same file again and again.
This patch solves the issue by de-duplicating. The same file will be added only
once to the input graph. This patch improved the LLD linking time from 10.5
seconds to 7.7 seconds on my 4-core Core i7 Macbook Pro.
llvm-svn: 196504
Emitting idata atoms to their own section would make debugging easier.
The Windows loader do not really care about whether the DLL import table is
in .rdata or its own .idata section, so there is no change in functionality.
llvm-svn: 196458
If /functionpadmin is specified, the linker is supposed to make room at the
beginning of each function, so that self-modifying program would easily
hotpatch existing functions. Since I'm not sure if this feature is really used,
I'll make LLD to ignore the option for now.
llvm-svn: 196363
/DEBUG option is to make the linker to emit debug information to the resulting
executable. It's not for enable debugging of the linker itself.
llvm-svn: 196040
This is a patch to let the PECOFF writer to use the information passed
by the parser for /section option. The implementation of /section should
now be complete.
llvm-svn: 195893
/MERGE option is a bit complicated for many reasons. Firstly, it takes both
positive and negative arguments. That means we have to have one of three
distinctive values (set, clear or unchange) for each permission bit. In this
patch we represent the three values using two bitmasks.
Secondly, the permissions specified by the parameter is bitwise or-ed with the
default permissions of a section. There is an exception for that rule; if one
of READ, WRITE or EXECUTE bit is specified, unspecified bits need to be
cleared. (So if you specify only WRITE for example, the resulting section will
not have WRITE nor EXECUTE bits.)
Lastly, multiple /merge options are allowed.
llvm-svn: 195882
Atom ordinals are the indeces in a file. Currently the PECOFF reader assigns
ordinals for each section, so it's (incorrectly) assigning duplicate ordinals.
llvm-svn: 195852
Instead of having multiple SectionChunks for each section (.text, .data,
.rdata and .bss), we could have one chunk writer that can emit any sections.
This patch does that -- removing all section-sepcific chunk writers and
replace them with one "generic" writer.
This change should simplify the code because it eliminates similar-but-
slightly-different classes.
It also fixes an issue in the previous design. Before this patch, we could
emit only limited set of sections (i.e. .text, .data, .rdata and .bss). With
this patch, we can emit any sections.
llvm-svn: 195797
According to the PE/COFF spec, a section with IMAGE_SCN_LNK_INFO should only
appear in an object file, and not allowed in an executable. So I believe
treating it as the same way as IMAGE_SCN_LNK_INFO is the right thing.
llvm-svn: 195692
This patch won't change the output because the layout of linker internal
atoms is forced by layout-{before,after} references. Ordinals of the linker
internal atoms are not currently used. (That's why it's working even if there
are atoms having the same ordinals.)
llvm-svn: 195610
Change the attribute from sectionBasedOnContent to sectionCustomRequired
because its the right attribute for atoms read from COFF files to have.
COFF atoms should basically be emitted to the section having the same name
as input. Permissions/attributes should not affect that.
There's no functionality change because the writer doesn't yet use the
section name. The writer will be modified in a following patch, so that atoms
are written to its customSectionName()'s section.
llvm-svn: 195595
Looks like -L paths are not positional. They need to be added to a list of
search paths and those needs to be searched when lld looks for a library.
llvm-svn: 195594
If /subsystem option is not specified, the linker needs to infer it from the
entry point function. If "main" or "wmain" is defined, it's a console
application. If "WinMain" or "wWinMain" is defined, it's a GUI application.
llvm-svn: 195592
This adds LinkerScript support by creating a type Script which is of type
FileNode in the InputGraph. Once the LinkerScript Parser converts the
LinkerScript into a sequence of command, the commands are handled by the
equivalent LinkerScript node for the current Flavor/Target. For ELF, a
ELFGNULdScript gets created which converts the commands to ELF nodes and ELF
control nodes(ELFGroup for handling Group nodes).
Since the Inputfile type has to be determined in the Driver, the Driver needs
to determine the complete path of the file that needs to be processed by the
Linker. Due to this, few tests have been removed since the Driver uses paths
that doesnot exist.
llvm-svn: 195583
Hidden nodes could be a result of expansion, where a flavor might decide to keep
the node that we want to expand but discard it from being processed by the
resolver.
Verifies with unittests.
llvm-svn: 195516
Flavors may like to expand InputGraph nodes, when a filenode after parsing
results in more elements. One such example is while parsing GNU linker scripts.
The linker scripts after parsing would result in a lot of filenodes and probably
controlnodes too.
Adds unittests to verify functionality.
llvm-svn: 195515
This adds functionality to limit shared library undefined atoms to be added
only once by the Resolver.
Dynamic libraries may be processed more than once if they exist within a
Group.
Also adds a test to verify the change.
llvm-svn: 195307
It's allowed to specify library files *before* object files in the command
line. Object files seems to be processed first, and then their undefined
symbols are resolved from the libraries. This patch implements the compatible
behavior.
llvm-svn: 195295
Rui Ueyama