When we have --icf=safe we should be able to define --icf=all as a
shorthand for --icf=safe --ignore-function-address-equality.
For now --ignore-function-address-equality is used only to control
access to non preemptable symbols in shared libraries.
llvm-svn: 322152
The ARM.exidx section contains a table of 8-byte entries with the first
word of each entry an offset to the function it describes and the second
word instructions for unwinding if an exception is thrown from that
function. The SHF_LINK_ORDER processing will order the table in ascending
order of the functions described by the exception table entries. As the
address range of an exception table entry is terminated by the next table
entry, it is possible to merge consecutive table entries that have
identical unwind instructions.
For this implementation we define a table entry to be identical if:
- Both entries are the special EXIDX_CANTUNWIND.
- Both entries have the same inline unwind instructions.
We do not attempt to establish if table entries that are references to
.ARM.extab sections are identical.
This implementation works at a granularity of a single .ARM.exidx
InputSection. If all entries in the InputSection are identical to the
previous table entry we can remove the InputSection. A more sophisticated
but more complex implementation would rewrite InputSection contents so that
duplicates within a .ARM.exidx InputSection can be merged.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D40967
llvm-svn: 320803
An internal linker has support for merging identical data and in some
cases it can be a significant win.
This is behind an off by default flag so it has to be requested
explicitly.
llvm-svn: 320448
Add a new file AArch64ErrataFix.cpp that implements the logic to scan for
the Cortex-A53 Erratum 843419. This involves finding all the executable
code, disassembling the instructions that might trigger the erratum and
reporting a message if the sequence is detected.
At this stage we do not attempt to fix the erratum, this functionality
will be added in a later patch. See D36749 for proposal.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D36742
llvm-svn: 319780
The Android relocation packing format is a more compact
format for dynamic relocations in executables and DSOs
that is based on delta encoding and SLEBs. An overview
of the format can be found in the Android source code:
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bionic/+/refs/heads/master/tools/relocation_packer/src/delta_encoder.h
This patch implements relocation packing using that format.
This implementation uses a more intelligent algorithm for compressing
relative relocations than Android's own relocation packer. As a
result it can generally create smaller relocation sections than
that packer. If I link Chromium for Android targeting ARM32 I get a
.rel.dyn of size 174693 bytes, as compared to 371832 bytes with gold
and the Android packer.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D39152
llvm-svn: 316775
It is PR34946.
Spec (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ld.1.html) tells about
--orphan-handling=MODE, option where MODE can be one of four:
"place", "discard", "warn", "error".
Currently we already report orphans when -verbose given,
what becomes excessive with option implemented.
Patch stops reporting orphans when -versbose is given,
and support "place", "warn" and "error" modes.
It is not yet clear that "discard" mode is useful so it is not supported.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D39000
llvm-svn: 316583
This is relative to PR30720.
Previously we ignored all --plugin-opt arguments.
Patch adds support for them.
Patch does not add any new LTO options,
and just implements mapping from --plugin-opt to existent ones.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D36227
llvm-svn: 310826
Eq helper allows to define `XXX` and `XXX=` options forms easily.
Patch adds testcases for few aliases.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D35619
llvm-svn: 308752
Summary:
If the linker is invoked with `--chroot /foo` and `/bar/baz.o`, it
tries to read the file from `/foo/bar/baz.o`. This feature is useful
when you are dealing with files created by the --reproduce option.
Reviewers: grimar
Subscribers: llvm-commits, emaste
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D35517
llvm-svn: 308646
This is PR33766.
-F name
--filter=name
When creating an ELF shared object, set the internal DT_FILTER field to the specified name. This tells the dynamic linker that the symbol table of the shared object which is being created should be used as a filter on the symbol table of the shared object name.
If you later link a program against this filter object, then, when you run the program, the dynamic linker will see the DT_FILTER field. The dynamic linker will resolve symbols according to the symbol table of the filter object as usual, but it will actually link to the definitions found in the shared object name. Thus the filter object can be used to select a subset of the symbols provided by the object name.
(https://linux.die.net/man/1/ld).
Shared Objects as Filters:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/817-3677/chapter4-31738/index.html
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D35352
llvm-svn: 308167
The --exclude-libs option is not a popular option, but at least some
programs in Android depend on it, so it's worth to support it.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34422
llvm-svn: 305920
When the -no-keep-memory option is given, BFD linker tries to save
memory in their own way. Since our internal architecture is completely
different from that linker, that option doesn't make sense to us.
llvm-svn: 301772
gnu ld description of option is:
--defsym=symbol=expression
Create a global symbol in the output file, containing the absolute address given
by expression. You may use this option as many times as necessary to define multiple
symbols in the command line. A limited form of arithmetic is supported for the
expression in this context: you may give a hexadecimal constant or the name of an
existing symbol, or use "+" and "-" to add or subtract hexadecimal constants or
symbols. If you need more elaborate expressions, consider using the linker command
language from a script. Note: there should be no white space between symbol,
the equals sign ("="), and expression.
In compare with D32082, this patch does not support math expressions and absolute
symbols. It implemented via code similar to --wrap. That covers 1 of 3 possible
--defsym cases.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D32171
llvm-svn: 301391
Patch implements --compress-debug-sections=zlib.
In compare with D20211 (a year old patch, abandoned), it implementation
uses streaming and fully reimplemented, does not support zlib-gnu for
simplification.
This is PR32308.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31941
llvm-svn: 300444
This patch causes us to use pruneCache() to prune the ThinLTO cache after
completing LTO. A new flag --thinlto-cache-policy allows users to configure
the policy.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31021
llvm-svn: 298036
Options can start with `-` or `--` unless they start with "o".
Any option that starts with `-o` should be interpreted as an output
file name. This is a quote from the GNU ld man page.
Note -- there is one exception to this rule. Multiple letter
options that start with a lower case 'o' can only be preceded by
two dashes. This is to reduce confusion with the -o option.
So for example -omagic sets the output file name to magic whereas
--omagic sets the NMAGIC flag on the output.
We didn't handle that properly before.
llvm-svn: 297508
This patch adds an option named --thinlto-cache-dir, which specifies the
path to a directory in which to cache native object files for ThinLTO
incremental builds.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D30509
llvm-svn: 296702
with temporarily file name fix in testcase.
Original commit message:
-q, --emit-relocs - Generate relocations in output
Simplest implementation:
* no GC case,
* no "/DISCARD/" linkerscript command support.
This patch is extracted from D28612 / D29636,
Relative to PR31579.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D29663
llvm-svn: 294469
-q, --emit-relocs - Generate relocations in output
Simplest implementation:
* no GC case,
* no "/DISCARD/" linkerscript command support.
This patch is extracted from D28612 / D29636,
Relative to PR31579.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D29663
llvm-svn: 294464
Currently ld.lld -r allocates space for common symbols, whereas ld.bfd
-r doesn't. As a result the OpenBSD makefile bits for creating libraries
fail as they use ld -X -r to strip local symbols, which results in
duplicate symbol errors because space for the common symbols has been
allocated.
The diff also implements the --define-commons option such that allocation
of commons can be forced even if -r is used.
Patch by Mark Kettenis.
llvm-svn: 292878
Previously, that was an alias to -color-diagnostics=auto. However,
Clang's -fcolor-diagnostics is an alias to -fcolor-diagnostics=always,
so that was confusing. This patch fixes that issue.
llvm-svn: 290332
--retain-symbols-file=filename
Retain only the symbols listed in the file filename, discarding all others.
filename is simply a flat file, with one symbol name per line. This option
is especially useful in environments (such as VxWorks) where a large global
symbol table is accumulated gradually, to conserve run-time memory.
Note: though documentation says "--retain-symbols-file does not discard
undefined symbols, or symbols needed for relocations.", both bfd and gold
do that, and this patch too, like testcase show.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27716
llvm-svn: 290122
It os used in work/emulators/qemu-user-static port.
Which tries to use -Ttext-segment and then:
# In case ld does not support -Ttext-segment, edit the default linker
# script via sed to set the .text start addr. This is needed on FreeBSD
# at least.
<here it calls -verbose to extract and edit default bfd linker script.>
Actually now we are do not fully support -Ttext properly (see D27613),
but we also seems never will provide anything close to default script, like bfd do,
so at least this patch introduces proper alias handling.
llvm-svn: 289827
-N (-omagic)
Set the text and data sections to be readable and writable.
Also, do not page-align the data segment.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26888
llvm-svn: 288123
--no-rosegment: Do not put read-only non-executable sections in their own segment
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26889
llvm-svn: 288020
-color-diagnostics=auto is default because that's the same as
Clang's default. When color is enabled, error or warning messages
are colored like this.
error:
<bold>ld.lld</bold> <red>error:</red> foo.o: no such file
warning:
<bold>ld.lld</bold> <magenta>warning:</magenta> foo.o: no such file
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27117
llvm-svn: 287949
This is in the context of https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=31109.
When LLD prints out errors for relocations, it tends to print out
extremely large number of errors (like millions) because it would
print out one error per relocation.
This patch makes LLD bail out if it prints out more than 20 errors.
You can configure the limitation using -error-limit argument.
-error-limit=0 means no limit.
I chose the flag name because Clang has the same feature as -ferror-limit.
"f" doesn't make sense to us, so I omitted it.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26981
llvm-svn: 287789
GNU linkers disagree here.
Though both -version and -v are mentioned
in help to print the version information, GNU ld just normally exits,
while gold can continue linking. We are compatible with ld.bfd here.
This fixes PR31057.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26865
llvm-svn: 287448
-M, --print-map Write map file on standard output
-Map MAPFILENAME Write map file
--cref Output cross reference table
This is relative to PR30973.
Next FreeBSD ports were atm failing because of
lack of -Map, -M and --cref:
sysutils/openipmi
emulators/adamem
devel/jwasm
net/pimd
devel/k8048
textproc/libcrm114
lang/micropython
net/mrouted
print/openprinting
After this patch all of them can be link fine.
llvm-svn: 286831
Though the patch was technically correct,
the only FreeBSD port (noticed atm) that tried using it was
www/mod_jk. And it seems just passed gcc option to linker by mistake:
"-Wl,-L-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib -Wl,-fstack-protector -Wl,-fstack-protector -o mod_jk.la "
Given that it is an easy mistake to make, reverting for now.
llvm-svn: 286458
Patch allows to pass a symbols file to linker.
LLD will map symbols to sections and sort sections
in output according to symbol ordering file.
That can help to reduce the startup time and/or
amount of pagefaults during startup.
Also, interesting benchmark result was produced by Rafael Espíndola.
After applying the symbols file for clang he timed compiling
X86MCTargetDesc.ii to an object file.
The page faults went from just
56,988 to 56,946 since most faults are not in the binary.
Running time went from 4.403053515 to 4.178112244.
The speedup seems to be because of better cache
locality.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26130
llvm-svn: 286440
During link of devel/chrpath (FreeBSD port), found next issue:
/usr/bin/ld: error: unclosed comment in a linker script
/usr/bin/ld: error: line 1: unknown directive: �
/usr/bin/ld: error: ��
Problem was not obvious and the reason was that we did not accept
the separate form of -R. While invocation line contained it:
cc -Wl,-R /usr/local/lib -o prog prog.c
CPIO file produced contained /usr/local/lib file.
Which looks because of reasons above
contained inside the content of whole lib folder,
and it then was passed as an input and
proccessed as linker script.
llvm-svn: 286378
As the state of lld gets more complicated, shutting down gets more
expensive.
In a normal lld run we can just call _exit immediately after renaming
the temporary output file. We still want the ability to run a full
shutdown since that is useful for detecting memory leaks.
This patch adds a --full-shutdown flag and changes lit to use it.
llvm-svn: 285224
In this patch partial gdb_index section is created.
For costructing the .gdb_index section 6 steps should be performed (details are in
SplitDebugInfo.cpp file header), this patch do first 3:
Creates proper section header.
Fills list of compilation units.
Types CU list area is not supposed to be supported, so it is ignored and therefore
can be treated as implemented either.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24706
llvm-svn: 284708
The R_ARM_TARGET2 relocation is used in ARM exception tables to encode
a data dependency that will only be dereferenced by code in the
run-time support library. In a similar way to R_ARM_TARGET1 the
handling of the relocation is target specific, it maps to one of
R_ARM_ABS32, R_ARM_REL32 or R_ARM_GOT_PREL. The choice depends on the
run-time library. R_ARM_GOT_PREL is used for linux and BSD,
R_ARM_ABS32 and R_ARM_REL32 are used for bare-metal.
The command line option --target2=<target> can be used to select the
relocation used for R_ARM_TARGET2. The default is R_ARM_GOT_PREL.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D25684
llvm-svn: 284404
--section-start=sectionname=org
Locate a section in the output file at the absolute address given by org.
You may use this option as many times as necessary to locate multiple sections in the command line.
org must be a single hexadecimal integer; for compatibility with other linkers,
you may omit the leading `0x' usually associated with hexadecimal values.
Note: there should be no white space between sectionname, the equals sign (“<=>”), and org.
-Tbss=org
-Tdata=org
-Ttext=org
Same as --section-start, with .bss, .data or .text as the sectionname.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24294
llvm-svn: 281458
Implemented by building an ELF file in memory.
elf, default, and binary match gold behavior.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24060
llvm-svn: 281108
Usually, options that are longer than one character can be preceded
either by "-" or "--", but options starting with "o" are exceptions
because they conflict with "-o" option. They have to be preceded by
"--".
llvm-svn: 281004
GCC passes it by default on powerpc64 on FreeBSD. GNU ld claims "this
option is ignored for SVR4 compatibility", so we can ignore it too.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24313
llvm-svn: 280864
This flag is supported by both BFD ld and gold and is occasionally
used to negate the effect of -gc-sections flag.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24270
llvm-svn: 280729
FreeBSD's libstdc++ build (used on tier-2 architectures) uses GNU ld's
-f <name> option, which sets the DT_AUXILIARY field to the specified name.
Multiple -f options may be specified and the DT_AUXILIARY entries
will be added in the order in which they appear.
Patch implements that option.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24139
llvm-svn: 280475
-oformat output-format
`-oformat' option can be used to specify the binary format for the output object file.
Patch implements binary format output type.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23769
llvm-svn: 279726
In general, we accept both -foo and --foo as command line options,
but if an option is a single letter option, we don't want to allow
double dashes because GNU linkers don't accept such combination.
llvm-svn: 274219
Option has next description (http://linux.die.net/man/1/ld):
"--unresolved-symbols=method
Determine how to handle unresolved symbols. There are four possible values for method
according to documentation:
ignore-all: Do not report any unresolved symbols.
report-all: Report all unresolved symbols. This is the default.
ignore-in-object-files: Report unresolved symbols that are contained in shared libraries, but ignore them if they come from regular object files.
ignore-in-shared-libs: Report unresolved symbols that come from regular object files, but ignore them if they come from shared libraries."
Since report-all is default and we traditionally do not report about undefined symbols in lld,
report-all does not report about undefines from DSO.
ignore-in-object-files also does not do that. Handling of that option differs from what gnu linkers do.
Option works in next way in lld:
ignore-all: Do not report any unresolved symbols.
report-all: Report all unresolved symbols except symbols from DSOs. This is the default.
ignore-in-object-files: The same as ignore-all.
gnore-in-shared-libs: The same as report-all.
This is PR24524.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21794
llvm-svn: 274123
Option checks for cases where a version script explicitly lists
a symbol, but the symbol is not defined and errors out such
cases if any.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21745
llvm-svn: 273998
Patch by Shridhar Joshi.
This option provides names of all the link time modules which define and
reference symbols requested by user. This helps to speed up application
development by detecting references causing undefined symbols.
It also helps in detecting symbols being resolved to wrong (unintended)
definitions in case of applications containing multiple definitions for
same symbols with different types, bindings.
Implements PR28226.
llvm-svn: 273536
This is a follow-up patch to r273218. GNU ld accepts both "--" and "-"
for all multi-letter options except "-o". This patch makes lld compatible
with that behavior.
llvm-svn: 273256
GNU ld's manual page says that all options whose names are
multiple letters, except those who start with "o", can start
either with one or two dashes.
llvm-svn: 273218
We would previously accept `--threads=4`, but this option just turns on
threading and does not specify a number of threads.
I ran into this by accident because I was passing `--threads=<n>` but
the number didn't seem to affect anything.
llvm-svn: 270963
--reproduce dumps the object files in a directory chosen
(preserving the file system layout) and the linker invocation
so that people can create an archive and upload for debugging.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19494
llvm-svn: 267497
This patch is to remove -lto-no-discard-value-names flag and
instead to use -save-temps as we discussed in the post-commit
review thread for r267020.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19437
llvm-svn: 267230
This patch only implements support for version scripts of the form:
{ [ global: symbol1; symbol2; [...]; symbolN; ] local: *; };
No wildcards are supported, other than for the local entry. Symbol versioning
is also not supported.
It works by introducing a new Symbol flag which tracks whether a symbol
appears in the global section of a version script.
This patch also simplifies the logic in SymbolBody::isPreemptible(), and
teaches it to handle the case where symbols with default visibility in DSOs
do not appear in the dynamic symbol table because of a version script.
Fixes PR27482.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19430
llvm-svn: 267208
GNU ld and gold only support the discard-all and discard-locals with two dashes.
Retain the compatibility with the one dash spelling, but also accept the two
dashed form.
llvm-svn: 267032
`--add-needed` and `--no-add-needed` have been deprecated due to the similarity
of their spelling to `--as-needed` and `--no-as-needed`. They have been renamed
to `--copy-dt-needed-entries` and `--no-copy-dt-needed-entries`.
llvm-svn: 267031
Rafael reported on the mailing list that this reduces peak memory
usage while linking llvm-as by 15%. It makes sense to make it
the default, and introduce an inverse knob -lto-no-discard-value-names
for those who want to restore the old behavior.
llvm-svn: 267020
Parallelism level can be chosen using the new --lto-jobs=K option
where K is the number of threads used for CodeGen. It currently
defaults to 1.
llvm-svn: 266484
This patch implements the --dynamic-list option, which adds a list of
global symbol that either should not be bounded by default definition
when creating shared libraries, or add in dynamic symbol table in the
case of creating executables.
The patch modifies the ScriptParserBase class to use a list of Token
instead of StringRef, which contains information if the token is a
quoted or unquoted strings. It is used to use a faster search for
exact match symbol name.
The input file follow a similar format of linker script with some
simplifications (it does not have scope or node names). It leads
to a simplified parser define in DynamicList.{cpp,h}.
Different from ld/gold neither glob pattern nor mangled names
(extern 'C++') are currently supported.
llvm-svn: 266227
Previously, we supported only one hash function, FNV-1, so
BuildIdSection directly handled hash computation. In this patch,
I made BuildIdSection an abstract class and defined two subclasses,
BuildIdFnv1 and BuildIdMd5.
llvm-svn: 265737
start-lib and end-lib are options to link object files in the same
semantics as archive files. If an object is in start-lib and end-lib,
the object is linked only when the file is needed to resolve
undefined symbols. That means, if an object is in start-lib and end-lib,
it behaves as if it were in an archive file.
In this patch, I introduced a new notion, LazyObjectFile. That is
analogous to Archive file type, but that works for a single object
file instead of for an archive file.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D18814
llvm-svn: 265710
Stack is not executable by default in LLD-built executables unless
you pass -z execstack option. So --warn-execstack option does not make
sense to us.
llvm-svn: 265619
So, there are some cases when the IR Linker produces a broken
module (which doesn't pass the verifier) and we end up asserting
inside the verifier. I think it's always a bug producing a module
which does not pass the verifier but there are some cases in which
people can live with the broken module (e.g. if only DebugInfo
metadata are broken). The gold plugin has something similar.
This commit is motivated by a situation I found in the
wild. It seems that somebody else discovered it independently
and reported in PR24923.
llvm-svn: 265258
GNU ld seems to write a PT_INTERP header into executables containing a
default (read: bogus) value if --dynamic-linker flag is not provided.
LLD is different in the sense that it omits it unless --dynamic-linker
is provided, which seems fair.
Binutils 2.26 added a new flag, --no-dynamic-linker, that can be used to
generate binaries without PT_INTERP. Let's go ahead and also add this
flag to LLD, so that we can invoke the linker in a portable way.
Reviewed by: ruiu
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18723
llvm-svn: 265246
Just ignore the -rpath-link command line
option in the same way like gold do.
Behavior of lld/gold differs from gnu ld here.
GNU ld tries to resolve undefined symbols in all
shared object files at link time.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18269
llvm-svn: 263876
This is required to get 'clang -flto' to work transparently
with lld. Please refer to the short comment in the code
for a more detailed explanation.
llvm-svn: 263862
-pie
--pic-executable
Create a position independent executable. This is currently only
supported on ELF platforms. Position independent executables are
similar to shared libraries in that they are relocated by the
dynamic linker to the virtual address the OS chooses for them
(which can vary between invocations). Like normal dynamically
linked executables they can be executed and symbols defined in the
executable cannot be overridden by shared libraries.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18183
llvm-svn: 263693
-warn-common
Warn when a common symbol is combined with another common symbol
or with a symbol definition. Unix linkers allow this somewhat
sloppy practice, but linkers on some other operating systems do
not. This option allows you to find potential problems from
combining global symbols.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17998
llvm-svn: 263413
This patch implements --build-id. After the linker creates an output file
in the memory buffer, it computes the FNV1 hash of the resulting file
and set the hash to the .note section as a build-id.
GNU ld and gold have the same feature, but their default choice of the
hash function is different. Their default is SHA1.
We made a deliberate choice to not use a secure hash function for the
sake of performance. Computing a secure hash is slow -- for example,
MD5 throughput is usually 400 MB/s or so. SHA1 is slower than that.
As a result, if you pass --build-id to gold, then the linker becomes about
10% slower than that without the option. We observed a similar degradation
in an experimental implementation of build-id for LLD. On the other hand,
we observed only 1-2% performance degradation with the FNV hash.
Since build-id is not for digital certificate or anything, we think that
a very small probability of collision is acceptable.
We considered using other signals such as using input file timestamps as
inputs to a secure hash function. But such signals would have an issue
with build reproducibility (if you build a binary from the same source
tree using the same toolchain, the build id should become the same.)
GNU linkers accepts --build-id=<style> option where style is one of
"MD5", "SHA1", or an arbitrary hex string. That option is out of scope
of this patch.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D18091
llvm-svn: 263292
This patch adds --thread option and use parallel_for_each to write
sections in regular OutputSections.
This is the first patch to use more than one threads.
Note that --thread is off by default because it is experimental.
At this moment I still want to focus on single thread performance
because multi-threading is not a magic wand to fix performance
problems after all. It is generally very hard to make a slow program
faster by threads. Therefore, I want to make the linker as efficient
as possible first and then look for opportunity to make it even faster
using more than one core.
Here are some numbers to link programs with and without --threads
and using GNU gold. Numbers are in seconds.
Clang
w/o --threads 0.697
w --threads 0.528
gold 1.643
Scylla
w/o --threads 5.032
w --threads 4.935
gold 6.791
GNU gold
w/o --threads 0.550
w --threads 0.551
gold 0.737
I limited the number of cores these processes can use to 4 using
perf command, so although my machine has 20 physical cores, the
performance gain I observed should be reproducible with a machine
which is not as beefy as mine.
llvm-svn: 263190
Summary:
This is useful for debugging issues with LTO.
The option follows the analogous option in ld64 and the gold plugin (per
Rafael's suggestion).
For starters, this only dumps the combined bitcode file.
In a future patch I will add dumping for the .o file.
The naming of the output follows ld64's convention which is slightly more
consistent IMO (consistent `.lto.<extension>` for all the files).
Reviewers: rafael, ruiu
Subscribers: joker.eph, Bigcheese, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18006
llvm-svn: 263055
It was causing errors like
/lib/libc.so.6 is incompatible with elf_x86_64
when linking on Fedora.
Every system has different default paths. It seems better to just trust
the driver to pass the correct -L options.
This reverts commit 262910.
llvm-svn: 262941
This patch implements the same algorithm as LLD/COFF's ICF. I'm
not going to repeat the same description about how it works, so you
want to read the comment in ICF.cpp in this patch if you want to know
the details. This algorithm should be more powerful than the ICF
algorithm implemented in GNU gold. It can even merge mutually-recursive
functions (which is harder than one might think).
ICF is a fairly effective size optimization. Here are some examples.
LLD: 37.14 MB -> 35.80 MB (-3.6%)
Clang: 59.41 MB -> 57.80 MB (-2.7%)
The lacking feature is "safe" version of ICF. This merges all
identical sections. That is not compatible with a C/C++ language
requirement that two distinct functions must have distinct addresses.
But as long as your program do not rely on the pointer equality
(which is in many cases true), your program should work with the
feature. LLD works fine for example.
GNU gold implements so-called "safe ICF" that identifies functions
that are safe to merge by heuristics -- for example, gold thinks
that constructors are safe to merge because there is no way to
take an address of a constructor in C++. We have a different idea
which David Majnemer suggested that we add NOPs at beginning of
merged functions so that two or more pointers can have distinct
values. We can do whichever we want, but this patch does not
include neither.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D17529
llvm-svn: 261912
-r, -relocatable - Generate relocatable output
Currently does not have support for files containing
relocation sections with entries that refer to local
symbols (like rel[a].eh_frame which refer to sections
and not to symbols)
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14382
llvm-svn: 261838
-Bsymbolic-functions:
When creating a shared library, bind references to global
function symbols to the definition within the shared library, if any.
This patch also fixed behavior of already existent -Bsymbolic:
previously PLT entries were created even if -Bsymbolic was specified.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D16411
llvm-svn: 259481
Added check for terminator CIE/FDE which has zero data size.
void EHOutputSection<ELFT>::addSectionAux(
...
// If CIE/FDE data length is zero then Length is 4, this
// shall be considered a terminator and processing shall end.
if (Length == 4)
break;
...
After this "Bug 25923 - lld/ELF2 linked application crashes if exceptions were used." is fixed for me. Self link of clang also works.
Initial commit message:
[ELF] - implemented --eh-frame-hdr command line option.
--eh-frame-hdr
Request creation of ".eh_frame_hdr" section and ELF "PT_GNU_EH_FRAME" segment header.
Both gold and the GNU linker support an option --eh-frame-hdr which tell them to construct a header for all the .eh_frame sections. This header is placed in a section named .eh_frame_hdr and also in a PT_GNU_EH_FRAME segment. At runtime the unwinder can find all the PT_GNU_EH_FRAME segments by calling dl_iterate_phdr.
This section contains a lookup table for quick binary search of FDEs.
Detailed info can be found here:
http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/462
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15712
llvm-svn: 257889
--eh-frame-hdr
Request creation of ".eh_frame_hdr" section and ELF "PT_GNU_EH_FRAME" segment header.
Both gold and the GNU linker support an option --eh-frame-hdr which tell them to construct a header for all the .eh_frame sections. This header is placed in a section named .eh_frame_hdr and also in a PT_GNU_EH_FRAME segment. At runtime the unwinder can find all the PT_GNU_EH_FRAME segments by calling dl_iterate_phdr.
This section contains a lookup table for quick binary search of FDEs.
Detailed info can be found here:
http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/462
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15712
llvm-svn: 257753
In this patch, all symbols are resolved normally and then wrap options
are applied. Renaming is implemented by mutating `Body` pointers of
Symbols. (As a result, Symtab.find(SymbolName)->getName() may return
a string that's different from SymbolName, but that is by design.
I designed the symbol and the symbol table to allow this kind of
operations.)
http://reviews.llvm.org/D15896
llvm-svn: 257075
List all sections removed by garbage collection. This option is only effective if garbage collection has been enabled via the `--gc-sections' option.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15327
llvm-svn: 255235
GNU linkers accept both variants and at least for MIPS target gcc passes
joined variant of the '-m' option.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14133
llvm-svn: 251497
This matches ld.bfd and ld.gold behavior. The change is simple enough
and avoid trouble to consumers (they don't have to change their Makefiles).
Side note: found while trying to build FreeBSD base system with lld.
llvm-svn: 251408
Section garbage collection is a feature to remove unused sections
from outputs. Unused sections are sections that cannot be reachable
from known GC-root symbols or sections. Naturally the feature is
implemented as a mark-sweep garbage collector.
In this patch, I added Live bit to InputSectionBase. If and only
if Live bit is on, the section will be written to the output.
Starting from GC-root symbols or sections, a new function, markLive(),
visits all reachable sections and sets their Live bits. Writer then
ignores sections whose Live bit is off, so that such sections are
excluded from the output.
This change has small negative impact on performance if you use
the feature because making sections means more work. The time to
link Clang changes from 0.356s to 0.386s, or +8%.
It reduces Clang size from 57,764,984 bytes to 55,296,600 bytes.
That is 4.3% reduction.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D13950
llvm-svn: 251043
This patch implements --hash-style command line switch.
* By default, or with "sysv" or "both" parameters, the linker generates
a standard ELF hash section.
* With "gnu" or "both", it produces a GNU-style hash section.
That section requires the symbols in the dynamic symbol table section, which
are referenced in the GNU hash section, to be placed after not hashed ones and
to be sorted to correspond the order of hash buckets in the GNU Hash section.
The division function, as well as estimations for the section's parameters,
are just the first rough attempt and the subjects for further adjustments.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D13815
llvm-svn: 251000
This patch adds AsNeeded and IsUsed bool fields to SharedFile. AsNeeded bit
is set if the DSO is enclosed with --as-needed and --no-as-needed. IsUsed
bit is off by default. When we adds a symbol to the symbol table for dynamic
linking, we set its SharedFile's IsUsed bit.
If AsNeeded is set but IsUsed is not set, we don't want to write that
file's SO name to DT_NEEDED field.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D13579
llvm-svn: 249998
When generating an executable or shared library, mark it to tell the dynamic linker to resolve all symbols when the program is started, or when the shared library is linked to using dlopen, instead of deferring function call resolution to the point when the function is first called.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D13468
llvm-svn: 249551
Parse and apply emulation given with -m option.
Check input files to match ELF type and machine architecture provided with -m.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D13055
llvm-svn: 249529
The entries are added if there are "_init" or "_fini" entries in
the symbol table respectively. According to the behavior of ld,
entries are inserted even for undefined symbols.
Symbol names can be overridden by using -init and -fini command
line switches. If used, these switches neither add new symbol table
entries nor require those symbols to be resolved.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D13385
llvm-svn: 249297
Add symbol specified with -u as undefined which may cause additional
object files from archives to be linked into the resulting binary.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D13345
llvm-svn: 249295
Found while testing a FreeBSD base system build with lld. Ignored for
now while we continue to identify missing options and functionality.
llvm-svn: 249144
Ed Maste