When constructing global address literals while targeting the RWPI
relocation model. LLVM currently only uses literal pools. If MOVW/MOVT
instructions are available we can use these instead. Beside being more
efficient it allows -arm-execute-only to work with
-relocation-model=RWPI as well.
When we generate MOVW/MOVT for global addresses when targeting the RWPI
relocation model, we need to use base relative relocations. This patch
does the needed plumbing in MC to generate these for MOVW/MOVT.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D29487
Change-Id: I446786e43a6f5aa9b6a5bb2cd216d60d41c7755d
llvm-svn: 294298
This patch adds support for some new relocation models to the ARM
backend:
* Read-only position independence (ROPI): Code and read-only data is accessed
PC-relative. The offsets between all code and RO data sections are known at
static link time. This does not affect read-write data.
* Read-write position independence (RWPI): Read-write data is accessed relative
to the static base register (r9). The offsets between all writeable data
sections are known at static link time. This does not affect read-only data.
These two modes are independent (they specify how different objects
should be addressed), so they can be used individually or together. They
are otherwise the same as the "static" relocation model, and are not
compatible with SysV-style PIC using a global offset table.
These modes are normally used by bare-metal systems or systems with
small real-time operating systems. They are designed to avoid the need
for a dynamic linker, the only initialisation required is setting r9 to
an appropriate value for RWPI code.
I have only added support to SelectionDAG, not FastISel, because
FastISel is currently disabled for bare-metal targets where these modes
would be used.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23195
llvm-svn: 278015
Christof Douma