Currently we mark every shared symbol as STB_WEAK.
That is a hack to make it easy to decide when a .so is needed or not
because of a reference to a given symbol.
That hack leaks when we create copy relocations as shown by the update
to relocation-copy-alias.s.
This patch stores the original binding when we first read a shared
symbol. We still have to update the binding to weak if we see a weak
undef, but I find the logic easier to read where it is now.
llvm-svn: 319127
Its PR34712,
GNU linkers recently changed default values to "both" of "sysv".
Patch do the same for all targets except MIPS, where .gnu.hash
section is not yet supported.
Code suggested by Rui Ueyama.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D38407
llvm-svn: 315051
This patch implements a new design for the symbol table that stores
SymbolBodies within a memory region of the Symbol object. Symbols are mutated
by constructing SymbolBodies in place over existing SymbolBodies, rather
than by mutating pointers. As mentioned in the initial proposal [1], this
memory layout helps reduce the cache miss rate by improving memory locality.
Performance numbers:
old(s) new(s)
Without debug info:
chrome 7.178 6.432 (-11.5%)
LLVMgold.so 0.505 0.502 (-0.5%)
clang 0.954 0.827 (-15.4%)
llvm-as 0.052 0.045 (-15.5%)
With debug info:
scylla 5.695 5.613 (-1.5%)
clang 14.396 14.143 (-1.8%)
Performance counter results show that the fewer required indirections is
indeed the cause of the improved performance. For example, when linking
chrome, stalled cycles decreases from 14,556,444,002 to 12,959,238,310, and
instructions per cycle increases from 0.78 to 0.83. We are also executing
many fewer instructions (15,516,401,933 down to 15,002,434,310), probably
because we spend less time allocating SymbolBodies.
The new mechanism by which symbols are added to the symbol table is by calling
add* functions on the SymbolTable.
In this patch, I handle local symbols by storing them inside "unparented"
SymbolBodies. This is suboptimal, but if we do want to try to avoid allocating
these SymbolBodies, we can probably do that separately.
I also removed a few members from the SymbolBody class that were only being
used to pass information from the input file to the symbol table.
This patch implements the new design for the ELF linker only. I intend to
prepare a similar patch for the COFF linker.
[1] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-April/098832.html
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19752
llvm-svn: 268178
This remove a fixme, cleans up the weak undef interaction with archives and
lets us keep weak undefs still weak if they resolve to shared.
llvm-svn: 267555
For each copy relocation that we create, look through the DSO's symbol table
for aliases and create a dynamic symbol for each one. This causes the copy
relocation to correctly interpose any aliases.
Copy relocations are relatively uncommon (on my machine, 56% of binaries in
/usr/bin have no copy relocations probably due to being PIEs, 97% of them
have <10, and the binary with the largest number of them has 97) so it's
probably fine to do this in a relatively inefficient way.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18731
llvm-svn: 265354
Rafael Espindola