Summary:
Removing the dropped symbols will prevent indirect call promotion in the
ThinLTO Backend from adding a new reference to a symbol, which can
result in linker unsats. This can happen when we compile with a sample
profile collected from one binary by used for another, which may have
profiled targets that aren't used in the new binary.
Note that until dropDeadSymbols handles variables and aliases (in
progress), we may not be able to remove the declaration and can still
have an issue.
Reviewers: grimar, davidxl
Subscribers: mehdi_amini, inglorion, llvm-commits, eraman
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D42816
llvm-svn: 324299
This fixes PR36187.
Patch teaches ThinLTO to drop non-prevailing variables,
just like we recently did for functions (in r323633).
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D42798
llvm-svn: 324075
While updating clang tests for having clang set dso_local I noticed
that:
- There are *a lot* of tests to update.
- Many of the updates are redundant.
They are redundant because a GV is "obviously dso_local". This patch
starts formalizing that a bit by requiring that internal and private
GVs be dso_local too. Since they all are, we don't have to print
dso_local to the textual representation, making it a bit more compact
and easier to read.
llvm-svn: 322317
Now that we have a way to mark GlobalValues as local we can use the symbol
resolutions that the linker plugin provides as part of lto/thinlto link
step to refine the compilers view on what symbols will end up being local.
Originally commited as r317374, but reverted in r317395 to update some missed
tests.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D35702
llvm-svn: 317408
Summary:
ELF linkers generate __start_<secname> and __stop_<secname> symbols
when there is a value in a section <secname> where the name is a valid
C identifier. If dead stripping determines that the values declared
in section <secname> are dead, and we then internalize (and delete)
such a symbol, programs that reference the corresponding start and end
section symbols will get undefined reference linking errors.
To fix this, add the section name to the IRSymtab entry when a symbol is
defined in a specific section. Then use this in the gold-plugin to mark
the symbol as external and visible from outside the summary when the
section name is a valid C identifier.
Reviewers: pcc
Subscribers: mehdi_amini, inglorion, eraman, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D35639
llvm-svn: 309009
Teresa Johnson