clang may place dynamic initializations for explicitly specialized class
template static data members in comdat.
Such in-comdat SHT_INIT_ARRAY was an abuse but we have to work around it for a while.
This generalizes D70146 (SHT_NOTE) to more reserved sections and makes our rules
more consistent. Now SHF_GROUP is more similar to SHF_LINK_ORDER.
For SHT_INIT_ARRAY/SHT_FINI_ARRAY, the rule will be closer to PE/COFF link.exe.
Previously sanitizers use llvm.global_ctors to make module_ctor a GC
root, which is considered an abuse.
https://groups.google.com/g/generic-abi/c/TpleUEkNoQI
We can squeak through on compatibility issues because compilers otherwise don't
use SHF_GROUP special sections.
This change introduces support for zero flag ELF section groups to lld.
lld already supports COMDAT sections, which in ELF are a special type of
ELF section groups. These are generally useful to enable linker GC where
you want a group of sections to always travel together, that is to be
either retained or discarded as a whole, but without the COMDAT
semantics. Other ELF linkers already support zero flag ELF section
groups and this change helps us reach feature parity.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D96636
clang/gcc -fdebug-type-sections places .debug_types and
.rela.debug_types in a section group, with a signature symbol which
represents the type signature. The section group is for deduplication
purposes.
After D70146, we will discard such section groups. Refine the rule so
that we will retain the group if no member has the SHF_ALLOC flag.
GNU ld has a similar rule to retain the group if all members have the
SEC_DEBUGGING flag. We try to be more general for future-proof purposes:
if other non-SHF_ALLOC sections have deduplication needs, they may be
placed in a section group. Don't discard them.
Reviewed By: grimar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D71157
Based on D70020 by serge-sans-paille.
The ELF spec says:
> Furthermore, there may be internal references among these sections that would not make sense if one of the sections were removed or replaced by a duplicate from another object. Therefore, such groups must be included or omitted from the linked object as a unit. A section cannot be a member of more than one group.
GNU ld has 2 behaviors that we don't have:
- Group members (nextInSectionGroup != nullptr) are subject to garbage collection.
This includes non-SHF_ALLOC SHT_NOTE sections.
In particular, discarding non-SHF_ALLOC SHT_NOTE sections is an expected behavior by the Annobin
project. See
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/02/20/annobin-storing-information-binaries/
for more information.
- Groups members are retained or discarded as a unit.
Members may have internal references that are not expressed as
SHF_LINK_ORDER, relocations, etc. It seems that we should be more conservative here:
if a section is marked live, mark all the other member within the
group.
Both behaviors are reasonable. This patch implements them.
A new field InputSectionBase::nextInSectionGroup tracks the next member
within a group. on ELF64, this increases sizeof(InputSectionBase) froms
144 to 152.
InputSectionBase::dependentSections tracks section dependencies, which
is used by both --gc-sections and /DISCARD/. We can't overload it for
the "next member" semantic, because we should allow /DISCARD/ to discard
sections independent of --gc-sections (GNU ld behavior). This behavior
may be reasonably used by `/DISCARD/ : { *(.ARM.exidx*) }` or `/DISCARD/
: { *(.note*) }` (new test `linkerscript/discard-group.s`).
Reviewed By: ruiu
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D70146
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