Summary: This will allow us to remove the AMDGPU support from old ELF.
Reviewers: rafael, ruiu
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15895
llvm-svn: 257023
String tables in unstripped executable files are fairly large in size.
For example, lld's executable file is about 34.4 MB in my environment,
and of which 3.5 MB is the string table. Efficiency of string table
construction matters.
Previously, the string table was built in an inefficient way. We used
StringTableBuilder to build that and enabled string tail merging,
although tail merging is not effective for the symbol table (you can
only make the string table 0.3% smaller for lld.) Tail merging is
computation intensive task and slow.
This patch eliminates string tail merging.
I changed the way of adding strings to the string table in this patch
too. Previously, strings were added using add() and the same strings
were then passed to getOffset() to get their offsets in the string table.
In this way, getOffset() needs to look up a hash table to get offsets
for given strings. This is a violation of "we look up the symbol table
(or a hash table) only once for each symbol" dogma of the new LLD's
design. Hash table lookup for long C++ mangled names is slow.
I eliminated that lookup in this patch.
In total, this patch improves link time of lld itself about 12%
(3.50 seconds -> 3.08 seconds.)
llvm-svn: 257017
The linker has to create __tls_get_addr, end and _end symbols.
Previously, these symbols were created in createSections().
But they are not actually related to creating output sections.
This patch moves code out of the function.
llvm-svn: 256441
Previously, this code was directly written in createSections()
function. This patch moves some code out of that function to a
new class.
llvm-svn: 256438
The number of output sections is usually limited, so the cost
of allocating them is not a bottleneck. This patch simplifies
the code by removing the allocators.
llvm-svn: 256437
OutputSectionBase already has virtual member functions.
This patch makes addSection() a virtual function to remove code
from Writer::createSections().
llvm-svn: 256436
This function was longer than 250 lines, which is way too long
in my own standard. This patch reduces the size. It is still
too long, but this patch should be toward the right direction.
llvm-svn: 256411
There are 3 symbol types that a .bc can provide during lto: defined,
undefined, common.
Defined and undefined symbols have already been refactored. I was
working on common and noticed that absolute symbols would become an
oddity: They would be the only symbol type present in a .o but not in
a.bc.
Looking a bit more, other than the special section number they were only
used for special rules for computing values. In that way they are
similar to TLS, and we don't have a DefinedTLS.
This patch deletes it. With it we have a reasonable rule of the thumb
for having a symbol kind: It exists if it has special resolution
semantics.
llvm-svn: 256383
Before this patch sections that go after relro sequence were placed at
the same memory page with relro ones. It caused segmentation fault on
freebsd.
Fixes PR25790.
Patch by George Rimar with some tweaks by myself.
llvm-svn: 256334
I am working on adding LTO support to the new ELF lld.
In order to do that, it will be necessary to represent defined and
undefined symbols that are not from ELF files. One way to do it is to
change the symbol hierarchy to look like
Defined : SymbolBody
Undefined : SymbolBody
DefinedElf<ELFT> : Defined
UndefinedElf<ELFT> : Undefined
Another option would be to use bogus Elf_Sym, but I think that is
getting a bit too hackish.
This patch does the Undefined/UndefinedElf. Split. The next one
will do the Defined/DefinedElf split.
llvm-svn: 256289
This relocation is similar to R_*_RELATIVE except that the value used in this relocation is the program address returned by the function, which takes no arguments, at the address of
the result of the corresponding R_*_RELATIVE relocation as specified in the processor-specific ABI. The purpose of this relocation to avoid name lookup for locally defined STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols at load-time.
More info can be found in ifunc.txt from https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/documents.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15235
llvm-svn: 256144
R_386_GOTOFF is calculated as S + A - GOT, where:
S - Represents the value of the symbol whose index resides in the relocation entry.
A - Represents the addend used to compute the value of the relocatable field.
GOT - Represents the address of the global offset table.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15383
llvm-svn: 256143
MIPS .reginfo section provides information on the registers used by
the code in the object file. Linker should collect this information and
write .reginfo section in the output file. This section contains a union
of used registers masks taken from input .reginfo sections and final
value of the `_gp` symbol.
For details see the "Register Information" section in Chapter 4 in the
following document:
ftp://www.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/doc/ABI/mipsabi.pdf
The patch implements .reginfo sections handling with a couple missed
features: a) it does not put output .reginfo section into the separate
REGINFO segment; b) it does not merge `ri_cprmask` masks from input
section. These features will be implemented later.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15669
llvm-svn: 256119
The patch configure ELF header flags for MIPS target. For now the flags
are hard coded. In fact they depends on ELF flags of input object files
and selected emulation.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15575
llvm-svn: 256089
@indntpoff is similar to @gotntpoff, but for use in position dependent code. While @gotntpoff resolves to GOT slot address relative to the
start of the GOT in the movl or addl instructions, @indntpoff resolves to the
absolute GOT slot address. ("ELF Handling For Thread-Local Storage", Ulrich Drepper).
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15494
llvm-svn: 255884
Previously, OffsetInBSS is -1 if it has no information about copy
relocation, 0 if it needs a copy relocation, and >0 if its offset
in BSS has been assigned. These flags were too subtle. This patch
adds a new flag, NeedsCopy, to carry information about whether
a shared symbol needs a copy relocation or not.
llvm-svn: 255865
The function was used only in Writer.cpp and did not depend on SymbolTable.
There is no reason to have that function in SymbolTable.cpp.
llvm-svn: 255850