For RISC-V it is desirable to have relaxation happen in the linker once
addresses are known, and as such the size between two instructions/byte
sequences in a section could change.
For most assembler expressions, this is fine, as the absolute address results
in the expression being converted to a fixup, and finally relocations.
However, for expressions such as .quad .L2-.L1, the assembler folds this down
to a constant once fragments are laid out, under the assumption that the
difference can no longer change, although in the case of linker relaxation the
differences can change at link time, so the constant is incorrect. One place
where this commonly appears is in debug information, where the size of a
function expression is in a form similar to the above.
This patch extends the assembler to allow an AsmBackend to declare that it
does not want the assembler to fold down this expression, and instead generate
a pair of relocations that allow the linker to carry out the calculation. In
this case, the expression is not folded, but when it comes to emitting a
fixup, the generic FK_Data_* fixups are converted into a pair, one for the
addition half, one for the subtraction, and this is passed to the relocation
generating methods as usual. I have named these FK_Data_Add_* and
FK_Data_Sub_* to indicate which half these are for.
For RISC-V, which supports this via e.g. the R_RISCV_ADD64, R_RISCV_SUB64 pair
of relocations, these are also set to always emit relocations relative to
local symbols rather than section offsets. This is to deal with the fact that
if relocations were calculated on e.g. .text+8 and .text+4, the result 12
would be stored rather than 4 as both addends are added in the linker.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45181
Patch by Simon Cook.
llvm-svn: 333079
With this we gain a little flexibility in how the generic object
writer is created.
Part of PR37466.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47045
llvm-svn: 332868
To make this work I needed to add an endianness field to MCAsmBackend
so that writeNopData() implementations know which endianness to use.
Part of PR37466.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47035
llvm-svn: 332857
For RISCV branch instructions, we need to preserve relocation types when linker
relaxation enabled, so then linker could modify offset when the branch offsets
changed.
We preserve relocation types by define shouldForceRelocation.
IsResolved return by evaluateFixup will always false when shouldForceRelocation
return true. It will make RISCV MC Branch Relaxation always relax 16-bit
branches to 32-bit form, even if the symbol actually could be resolved.
To avoid 16-bit branches always relax to 32-bit form when linker relaxation
enabled, we add a new parameter WasForced to indicate that the symbol actually
couldn't be resolved and not forced by shouldForceRelocation return true.
RISCVAsmBackend::fixupNeedsRelaxationAdvanced could relax branches with
unresolved symbols by (!IsResolved && !WasForced).
RISCV MC Branch Relaxation is needed because RISCV could perform 32-bit
to 16-bit transformation in MC layer.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D46350
llvm-svn: 332696
Infrastructure designed for padding code with nop instructions in key places such that preformance improvement will be achieved.
The infrastructure is implemented such that the padding is done in the Assembler after the layout is done and all IPs and alignments are known.
This patch by itself in a NFC. Future patches will make use of this infrastructure to implement required policies for code padding.
Reviewers:
aaboud
zvi
craig.topper
gadi.haber
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34393
Change-Id: I92110d0c0a757080a8405636914a93ef6f8ad00e
llvm-svn: 316413
I did this a long time ago with a janky python script, but now
clang-format has built-in support for this. I fed clang-format every
line with a #include and let it re-sort things according to the precise
LLVM rules for include ordering baked into clang-format these days.
I've reverted a number of files where the results of sorting includes
isn't healthy. Either places where we have legacy code relying on
particular include ordering (where possible, I'll fix these separately)
or where we have particular formatting around #include lines that
I didn't want to disturb in this patch.
This patch is *entirely* mechanical. If you get merge conflicts or
anything, just ignore the changes in this patch and run clang-format
over your #include lines in the files.
Sorry for any noise here, but it is important to keep these things
stable. I was seeing an increasing number of patches with irrelevant
re-ordering of #include lines because clang-format was used. This patch
at least isolates that churn, makes it easy to skip when resolving
conflicts, and gets us to a clean baseline (again).
llvm-svn: 304787
Assembler directives .dtprelword, .dtpreldword, .tprelword, and
.tpreldword generates relocations R_MIPS_TLS_DTPREL32, R_MIPS_TLS_DTPREL64,
R_MIPS_TLS_TPREL32, and R_MIPS_TLS_TPREL64 respectively.
The main motivation for this patch is to be able to write test cases
for checking correctness of the LLD linker's behaviour.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23669
llvm-svn: 279439
We'd disabled them on x86 because back in the early days some host tools
couldn't handle the new load commands. This no longer holds: anyone capable of
deploying Clang should be able to deploy its copies of ar/ranlib/etc.
rdar://25254790
llvm-svn: 267075
Summary:
Support for R_MIPS_NONE allows us to parse MIPS16's usage of .reloc.
R_MIPS_32 was included to be able to better test the directive.
Targets can add their relocations by overriding MCAsmBackend::getFixupKind().
Subscribers: grosbach, rafael, majnemer, dsanders, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D13659
llvm-svn: 252888
The function hasReliableSymbolDifference had exactly one use in the MachO
writer. It is also only true for X86_64. In fact, the comments refers to
"Darwin x86_64" and everything else, so this makes the code match the
comment.
If this is to be abstracted again, it should be a property of
TargetObjectWriter, like useAggressiveSymbolFolding.
llvm-svn: 203605
The target backend can support data-in-code load commands even when
the assembler doesn't, or vice-versa. Allow targets to opt-in for
direct-to-object.
PR13973.
llvm-svn: 164974
Alex Bradbury