Use a combination of !associated, comdat, @llvm.compiler.used and
custom sections to allow dead stripping of globals and their asan
metadata. Sometimes.
Currently this works on LLD, which supports SHF_LINK_ORDER with
sh_link pointing to the associated section.
This also works on BFD, which seems to treat comdats as
all-or-nothing with respect to linker GC. There is a weird quirk
where the "first" global in each link is never GC-ed because of the
section symbols.
At this moment it does not work on Gold (as in the globals are never
stripped).
This is a second re-land of r298158. This time, this feature is
limited to -fdata-sections builds.
llvm-svn: 301587
This way, when the linker adds padding between globals, we can skip over
the zero padding bytes and reliably find the start of the next metadata
global.
llvm-svn: 288096
Summary:
This is similar to what was done for Darwin in rL264645 /
http://reviews.llvm.org/D16737, but it uses COFF COMDATs to achive the
same result instead of relying on new custom linker features.
As on MachO, this creates one metadata global per instrumented global.
The metadata global is placed in the custom .ASAN$GL section, which the
ASan runtime will iterate over during initialization. There are no other
references to the metadata, so normal linker dead stripping would
discard it. However, the metadata is put in a COMDAT group with the
instrumented global, so that it will be discarded if and only if the
instrumented global is discarded.
I didn't update the ASan ABI version check since this doesn't affect
non-Windows platforms, and the WinASan ABI isn't really stable yet.
Implementing this for ELF will require extending LLVM IR and MC a bit so
that we can use non-COMDAT section groups.
Reviewers: pcc, kcc, mehdi_amini, kubabrecka
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26770
llvm-svn: 287576
Evgeniy Stepanov