Summary:
While trying to make a linker script behave the same way with lld as it did
with bfd, I discovered that lld currently doesn't diagnose overlapping
output sections. I was getting very strange runtime failures which I
tracked down to overlapping sections in the resulting binary. When linking
with ld.bfd overlapping output sections are an error unless
--noinhibit-exec is passed and I believe lld should behave the same way
here to avoid surprising crashes at runtime.
The patch also uncovered an errors in the tests: arm-thumb-interwork-thunk
was creating a binary where .got.plt was placed at an address overlapping
with .got.
Reviewers: ruiu, grimar, rafael
Reviewed By: ruiu
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D41046
llvm-svn: 323856
Summary:
First, we need to explain the core of the vulnerability. Note that this
is a very incomplete description, please see the Project Zero blog post
for details:
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html
The basis for branch target injection is to direct speculative execution
of the processor to some "gadget" of executable code by poisoning the
prediction of indirect branches with the address of that gadget. The
gadget in turn contains an operation that provides a side channel for
reading data. Most commonly, this will look like a load of secret data
followed by a branch on the loaded value and then a load of some
predictable cache line. The attacker then uses timing of the processors
cache to determine which direction the branch took *in the speculative
execution*, and in turn what one bit of the loaded value was. Due to the
nature of these timing side channels and the branch predictor on Intel
processors, this allows an attacker to leak data only accessible to
a privileged domain (like the kernel) back into an unprivileged domain.
The goal is simple: avoid generating code which contains an indirect
branch that could have its prediction poisoned by an attacker. In many
cases, the compiler can simply use directed conditional branches and
a small search tree. LLVM already has support for lowering switches in
this way and the first step of this patch is to disable jump-table
lowering of switches and introduce a pass to rewrite explicit indirectbr
sequences into a switch over integers.
However, there is no fully general alternative to indirect calls. We
introduce a new construct we call a "retpoline" to implement indirect
calls in a non-speculatable way. It can be thought of loosely as
a trampoline for indirect calls which uses the RET instruction on x86.
Further, we arrange for a specific call->ret sequence which ensures the
processor predicts the return to go to a controlled, known location. The
retpoline then "smashes" the return address pushed onto the stack by the
call with the desired target of the original indirect call. The result
is a predicted return to the next instruction after a call (which can be
used to trap speculative execution within an infinite loop) and an
actual indirect branch to an arbitrary address.
On 64-bit x86 ABIs, this is especially easily done in the compiler by
using a guaranteed scratch register to pass the target into this device.
For 32-bit ABIs there isn't a guaranteed scratch register and so several
different retpoline variants are introduced to use a scratch register if
one is available in the calling convention and to otherwise use direct
stack push/pop sequences to pass the target address.
This "retpoline" mitigation is fully described in the following blog
post: https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7625886
We also support a target feature that disables emission of the retpoline
thunk by the compiler to allow for custom thunks if users want them.
These are particularly useful in environments like kernels that
routinely do hot-patching on boot and want to hot-patch their thunk to
different code sequences. They can write this custom thunk and use
`-mretpoline-external-thunk` *in addition* to `-mretpoline`. In this
case, on x86-64 thu thunk names must be:
```
__llvm_external_retpoline_r11
```
or on 32-bit:
```
__llvm_external_retpoline_eax
__llvm_external_retpoline_ecx
__llvm_external_retpoline_edx
__llvm_external_retpoline_push
```
And the target of the retpoline is passed in the named register, or in
the case of the `push` suffix on the top of the stack via a `pushl`
instruction.
There is one other important source of indirect branches in x86 ELF
binaries: the PLT. These patches also include support for LLD to
generate PLT entries that perform a retpoline-style indirection.
The only other indirect branches remaining that we are aware of are from
precompiled runtimes (such as crt0.o and similar). The ones we have
found are not really attackable, and so we have not focused on them
here, but eventually these runtimes should also be replicated for
retpoline-ed configurations for completeness.
For kernels or other freestanding or fully static executables, the
compiler switch `-mretpoline` is sufficient to fully mitigate this
particular attack. For dynamic executables, you must compile *all*
libraries with `-mretpoline` and additionally link the dynamic
executable and all shared libraries with LLD and pass `-z retpolineplt`
(or use similar functionality from some other linker). We strongly
recommend also using `-z now` as non-lazy binding allows the
retpoline-mitigated PLT to be substantially smaller.
When manually apply similar transformations to `-mretpoline` to the
Linux kernel we observed very small performance hits to applications
running typical workloads, and relatively minor hits (approximately 2%)
even for extremely syscall-heavy applications. This is largely due to
the small number of indirect branches that occur in performance
sensitive paths of the kernel.
When using these patches on statically linked applications, especially
C++ applications, you should expect to see a much more dramatic
performance hit. For microbenchmarks that are switch, indirect-, or
virtual-call heavy we have seen overheads ranging from 10% to 50%.
However, real-world workloads exhibit substantially lower performance
impact. Notably, techniques such as PGO and ThinLTO dramatically reduce
the impact of hot indirect calls (by speculatively promoting them to
direct calls) and allow optimized search trees to be used to lower
switches. If you need to deploy these techniques in C++ applications, we
*strongly* recommend that you ensure all hot call targets are statically
linked (avoiding PLT indirection) and use both PGO and ThinLTO. Well
tuned servers using all of these techniques saw 5% - 10% overhead from
the use of retpoline.
We will add detailed documentation covering these components in
subsequent patches, but wanted to make the core functionality available
as soon as possible. Happy for more code review, but we'd really like to
get these patches landed and backported ASAP for obvious reasons. We're
planning to backport this to both 6.0 and 5.0 release streams and get
a 5.0 release with just this cherry picked ASAP for distros and vendors.
This patch is the work of a number of people over the past month: Eric, Reid,
Rui, and myself. I'm mailing it out as a single commit due to the time
sensitive nature of landing this and the need to backport it. Huge thanks to
everyone who helped out here, and everyone at Intel who helped out in
discussions about how to craft this. Also, credit goes to Paul Turner (at
Google, but not an LLVM contributor) for much of the underlying retpoline
design.
Reviewers: echristo, rnk, ruiu, craig.topper, DavidKreitzer
Subscribers: sanjoy, emaste, mcrosier, mgorny, mehdi_amini, hiraditya, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D41723
llvm-svn: 323155
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
lld assumes some ARM features that are not available in all Arm
processors. In particular:
- The blx instruction present for interworking.
- The movt/movw instructions are used in Thunks.
- The J1=1 J2=1 encoding of branch immediates to improve Thumb wide
branch range are assumed to be present.
This patch reads the ARM Attributes section to check for the
architecture the object file was compiled with. If none of the objects
have an architecture that supports either of these features a warning
will be given. This is most likely to affect armv6 as used in the first
Raspberry Pi.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D36823
llvm-svn: 319169
SymbolBody and Symbol were separated classes due to a historical reason.
Symbol used to be a pointer to a SymbolBody, and the relationship
between Symbol and SymbolBody was n:1.
r2681780 changed that. Since that patch, SymbolBody and Symbol are
allocated next to each other to improve memory locality, and they have
1:1 relationship now. So, the separation of Symbol and SymbolBody no
longer makes sense.
This patch merges them into one class. In order to avoid updating too
many places, I chose SymbolBody as a unified name. I'll rename it Symbol
in a follow-up patch.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D39406
llvm-svn: 317006
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
Summary:
The COFF linker and the ELF linker have long had similar but separate
Error.h and Error.cpp files to implement error handling. This change
introduces new error handling code in Common/ErrorHandler.h, changes the
COFF and ELF linkers to use it, and removes the old, separate
implementations.
Reviewers: ruiu
Reviewed By: ruiu
Subscribers: smeenai, jyknight, emaste, sdardis, nemanjai, nhaehnle, mgorny, javed.absar, kbarton, fedor.sergeev, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D39259
llvm-svn: 316624
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
Summary:
This will allow using the functionality from other linkers. It is also
a prerequisite for sharing the error logging code.
Reviewers: ruiu
Reviewed By: ruiu
Subscribers: emaste, mgorny, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D38822
llvm-svn: 315725
When parsing linker scripts, LLD previously started with a '.' value of 0,
regardless of the internal default image base for the target, and regardless of
switches such as --image-base. It seems reasonable to use a different image base
value when using linker scripts and --image-base is specified, since otherwise the
switch has no effect. This change does this, as well as removing unnecessary
initialisation of Dot where it is not used.
The default image base should not be used when processing linker
scripts, because this will change the behaviour for existing linker script users,
and potentially result in invalid output being produced, as a subsequent assignment
to Dot could move the location counter backwards. Instead, we maintain the existing
behaviour of starting from 0 if --image-base is not specified.
Reviewers: ruiu
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D38360
llvm-svn: 315293
Its PR34712,
GNU linkers recently changed default values to "both" of "sysv".
Patch do the same for all targets except MIPS, where .gnu.hash
section is not yet supported.
Code suggested by Rui Ueyama.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D38407
llvm-svn: 315051
Currently LLD calls the `isMicroMips` routine to determine type of PLT entries
needs to be generated: regular or microMIPS. This routine checks ELF
header flags in the `FirstObj` to retrieve type of linked object files.
So if the first file does not contain microMIPS code, LLD will generate
PLT entries with regular (non-microMIPS) code only.
Ideally, if a PLT entry is referenced by microMIPS code only this entry
should contain microMIPS code, if a PLT entry is referenced by regular
code this entry should contain regular code. In a "mixed" case the PLT
entry can be either microMIPS or regular, but each "cross-mode-call" has
additional cost.
It's rather difficult to implement this ideal solution. But we can
assume that if there is an input object file with microMIPS code, the
most part of the code is microMIPS too. So we need to deduce type of PLT
entries based on finally calculated ELF header flags and do not check
only the first input object file.
This change implements this.
- The `getMipsEFlags` renamed to the `calcMipsEFlags`. The function
called from the `LinkerDriver::link`. Result is stored in
the Configuration::MipsEFlags field.
- The `isMicroMips` and `isMipsR6` routines access the `MipsEFlags`
field to get and check calculated ELF flags.
- New types of PLT records created when necessary.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D37747
llvm-svn: 314675
This fixes pr34301.
As the bug points out, we want to keep some relocations with undefined
weak symbols. This means that we cannot always claim that these
symbols are not preemptible as we do now.
Unfortunately, we cannot also just always claim that they are
preemptible. Doing so would, for example, cause us to try to create a
plt entry when we don't even have a dynamic symbol table.
What almost works is to say that weak undefined symbols are
preemptible if and only if we have a dynamic symbol table. Almost
because we don't want to fail the build trying to create a copy
relocation to a weak undefined.
llvm-svn: 313372
This allows combining --dynamic-list and version scripts too. The
version script controls which symbols are visible, and
--dynamic-list controls which of those are preemptible.
Unlike previous versions, undefined symbols are still considered
preemptible, which was the issue breaking the cfi tests.
This fixes pr34053.
llvm-svn: 312806
If --dynamic-list is given, only those symbols are preemptible.
This allows combining --dynamic-list and version scripts too. The
version script controls which symbols are visible, and --dynamic-list
controls which of those are preemptible.
This fixes pr34053.
llvm-svn: 312757
Patch by Rafael Espíndola.
This is PR34053.
The implementation is a bit of a hack, given the precise location where
IsPreemtible is set, it cannot be used from
SymbolTable::handleAnonymousVersion.
I could add another method to SymbolTable if you think that would be
better.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D36499
llvm-svn: 311468
Previously we handled this option implicitly, only
for infering unresolved symbols handling policy.
ld man says: "--noinhibit-exec Retain the executable
output file whenever it is still usable",
and we may want to handle other cases too.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D35793
llvm-svn: 309091
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
Previously, when symbol A is renamed B, both A and B end up having
the same name. This is because name is a symbol's attribute, and
we memcpy symbols for symbol renaming.
This pathc saves the original symbol name and restore it after memcpy
to keep the original name.
This patch shouldn't change program's meaning, but names in symbol
tables make more sense than before.
llvm-svn: 306036
This creates a new library called BinaryFormat that has all of
the headers from llvm/Support containing structure and layout
definitions for various types of binary formats like dwarf, coff,
elf, etc as well as the code for identifying a file from its
magic.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D33843
llvm-svn: 304864
procedural optimizations to prevent dropping symbols and allow the linker
to process re-directs.
PR33145: --wrap doesn't work with lto.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D33621
llvm-svn: 304719
The .dynamic section of an ELF almost doesn't need to be written to with
the exception of the DT_DEBUG entry. For several reasons having a read
only .dynamic section would be useful. This change adds the -z keyword
"rodynamic" which forces .dynamic to be read-only. In this case DT_DEBUG
will not be emited.
Patch by Jake Ehrlich
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D33251
llvm-svn: 304024
This reverts changes introduced in r302414 "[ELF] - Set DF_STATIC_TLS flag for i386 target."
Because DF_STATIC_TLS does not look to be used by glibc or anything else.
llvm-svn: 302884
This is PR32437.
DF_STATIC_TLS
If set in a shared object or executable, this flag instructs the
dynamic linker to reject attempts to load this file dynamically.
It indicates that the shared object or executable contains code
using a static thread-local storage scheme. Implementations need
not support any form of thread-local storage.
Patch checks if IE/LE relocations were used to check if code uses
static model. If so it sets the DF_STATIC_TLS flag.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D32354
llvm-svn: 302414
It seems virtually everyone who tries to do LTO build with Clang and
LLD was hit by a mistake to forget using llvm-ar command to create
archive files. I wasn't an exception. Since this is an annoying common
issue, it is probably better to handle that gracefully rather than
reporting an error and tell the user to redo build with different
configuration.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D32721
llvm-svn: 302083
For an option -foo-bar-baz, we have Config->FooBarBaz. Since -rpath is
-rpath and not -r-path, it should be Config->Rpath instead Config->RPath.
llvm-svn: 301759
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 is a shorthand for Config->Wordsize == 8. So this is not strictly
necessary but seems handy. "Is 64 bit?" is easier to read than "Is
wordsize 8 byte?"
llvm-svn: 298463
We had a few Config member functions that returns configuration values.
For example, we had is64() which returns true if the target is 64-bit.
The return values of these functions are constant and never change.
This patch is to compute them only once to make it clear that they'll
never change.
llvm-svn: 298168
Summary:
When we perform LTO builds with a version of ar that does not
understand LLVM bitcode objects, we end up with undefined references,
because our archive files do not list the bitcode symbols in their
indices. The error messages do not make it clear what the real problem
is. This change adds a note that points out the likely problem and
solution. It is similar in spirit to r282633, but aims to avoid false
positives by only triggering when we see both undefined references and
archives without symbols in their indices.
Fixes PR32281.
Reviewers: davide, ruiu, tejohnson
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31011
llvm-svn: 298124
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
Patch introduces Config->is64Bit() and with help of that detemplates
GotPltSection and IgotPltSection sections
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D30944
llvm-svn: 297813
gold linker manual describes them as:
-z text Do not permit relocations in read-only segments
-z notext Permit relocations in read-only segments (default)
In LLD default is to not permit them. Patch implements -z notext.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D30530
llvm-svn: 297366
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
Now reportUndefined only has to look at Config->UnresolvedSymbols and
the symbol. getUnresolvedSymbolOption does all the hard work of
mapping options like -shared and -z defs to one of the
UnresolvedPolicy enum entries.
The critical fix is that now "-z defs --warn-unresolved-symbols" only
warns.
llvm-svn: 293290
It now uses the same infrastructure as symbol versions. This fixes us
creating a dynamic relocation without a corresponding dynamic symbol.
This also means that unlike gold and bfd we keep a STB_LOCAL in the
static symbol table. It seems an odd feature to offer precise control
over what is in a symbol table that is not used by the dynamic
linker. We can bring this back if needed, but it would probably be
better to just have --discard option that tells the linker to keep in
the static symbol table only what is in the dynamic one.
Should fix the eog build.
llvm-svn: 293093
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
That variable was of type DenseMap<StringRef, unsigned>, but the
unsigned numbers needed to be monotonicly increasing numbers because
the implementation that used the variable depended on that fact.
That was an implementation detail and shouldn't have leaked into Config.
This patch simplifies its type to std::vector<StringRef>.
llvm-svn: 290151
--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
Use of CachedHashStringRef makes sense only when we reuse hash values.
Sprinkling it to all DenseMap has no benefits and just complicates data types.
Basically we shouldn't use CachedHashStringRef unless there is a strong
reason to to do so.
llvm-svn: 290076
The feature is documented as
-----------------------------
The format of the dynamic list is the same as the version node
without scope and node name. See *note VERSION:: for more
information.
--------------------------------
And indeed qt uses a dynamic list with an 'extern "C++"' in it. With
this patch we support that
The change to gc-sections-shared makes us match bfd. Just because we
kept bar doesn't mean it has to be in the dynamic symbol table.
The changes to invalid-dynamic-list.test and reproduce.s are because
of the new parser.
The changes to version-script.s are the only case where we change
behavior with regards to bfd, but I would like to see a mix of
--version-script and --dynamic-list used in the wild before
complicating the code.
llvm-svn: 289082
Shared libraries should have entry set following the same rules as for
regular binaries. The only difference is that in case the default entry
point (_start or __start) isn't found (unless it was set explicitly), we
shouldn't give a warning as in case of regular binaries.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27497
llvm-svn: 288878
-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
This change separates all versioned locals to be a separate list in config,
that was suggested by Rafael and simplifies the logic a bit.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26754
llvm-svn: 287132
Previously we did not support anything except "local: *", patch changes that.
Actually GNU rules of proccessing wildcards are more complex than that (http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/300):
There are 2 iteration for wildcards, at first iteration "*" wildcards are ignored and handled at second iteration.
Since we previously decided not to implement such complex rules,
I suggest solution that is implemented in this patch. So for "local: *" case nothing changes,
but if we have wildcarded locals,
they are processed before wildcarded globals.
This should fix several FreeBSD ports, one of them is jpeg-turbo-1.5.1 and
currently blocks about 5k of ports.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26395
llvm-svn: 286713
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
In short the patch introduces support for linking object file conform
MIPS N32 ABI [1]. This ABI is similar to N64 ABI but uses 32-bit
pointer size.
The most non-trivial requirement of this ABI is one more relocation
packing format. N64 ABI puts multiple relocation type into the single
relocation record. The N32 ABI uses series of successive relocations
with the same offset for this purpose. In this patch, new function
`mergeMipsN32RelTypes` handle this case and "convert" N32 relocation to
the N64 relocation so the rest of the code keep unchanged.
For now, linker does not support series of relocations applied to sections
without SHF_ALLOC bit. Probably later I will add the support or insert
some sort of assert into the `relocateNonAlloc` routine to catch this
case.
[1] ftp://www.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/doc/ABI/MIPS-N32-ABI-Handbook.pdf
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26298
llvm-svn: 286052
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
Previously, we were checking the existence of an entry symbol
too early. It was done before the linker script processor creates
symbols defined in scripts. Fixes bug 30743.
llvm-svn: 284676
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
-z wxneeded creates a PHDR PT_OPENBSD_WXNEEDED.
PT_OPENBSD_WXNEEDED
The array element specifies that a process executing this file may need to be able to map or protect memory regions as simultaneously executable and writable. If the system is unable or unwilling to permit that for this executable then it may fail immediately. This segment type is meaningful only for executable files and is ignored in other objects.
http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man5/elf.5
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D25472
llvm-svn: 284226
--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
Fixed code that was not checked before on windows for me, because of testcases that are
disabled on that platform atm.
Inital commit message:
"[ELF] - Versionscript: do not treat non-wildcarded names as wildcards."
Previously we incorrectly handled cases when symbol name in extern c++ tag
was enclosed in quotes. Next case was treated as wildcard:
GLIBCXX_3.4 {
extern "C++" {
"aaa*"
}
But it should have not. Quotes around aaa here means that we should have do exact
name matching.
That is PR30268 which has name with pointer is interpreted as wildcard by lld:
extern "C++" {
"operator delete[](void*)";
Patch fixes the issue.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24229
llvm-svn: 281049
Fixed code that was not checked by testcases that are disabled on windows.
Inital commit message:
"[ELF] - Versionscript: do not treat non-wildcarded names as wildcards."
Previously we incorrectly handled cases when symbol name in extern c++ tag
was enclosed in quotes. Next case was treated as wildcard:
GLIBCXX_3.4 {
extern "C++" {
"aaa*"
}
But it should have not. Quotes around aaa here means that we should have do exact
name matching.
That is PR30268 which has name with pointer is interpreted as wildcard by lld:
extern "C++" {
"operator delete[](void*)";
Patch fixes the issue.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24229
llvm-svn: 281045
Previously we incorrectly handled cases when symbol name in extern c++ tag
was enclosed in quotes. Next case was treated as wildcard:
GLIBCXX_3.4 {
extern "C++" {
"aaa*"
}
But it should have not. Quotes around aaa here means that we should have do exact
name matching.
That is PR30268 which has name with pointer is interpreted as wildcard by lld:
extern "C++" {
"operator delete[](void*)";
Patch fixes the issue.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24229
llvm-svn: 281038
"Error" looks like it is indicating a parse error. "Error" actually
instructs the later process to report an error if there's an error
condition. Thus the new name.
llvm-svn: 280529
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
DiscardPolicy is enum replacing several boolean options.
This approach is not only consistent with what we use for
unresolveds (UnresolvedPolicy), but also should help to solve a problem
of options with opposing meanings, mentioned in PR28843
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23868
llvm-svn: 280209
This approach is not only consistent with UnresolvedPolicy,
but also should help to solve a problem
of options with opposing meanings, mentioned in PR28843
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23869
llvm-svn: 280206
-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
Versions can be assigned to symbols in two different ways.
One is the usual version scripts, and the other is special
symbol suffix '@'. If a symbol contains '@', the string after
that is considered to specify a version name.
Previously, we look for '@' for all symbols.
Anything that works on every symbol can be expensive because
the linker has to handle a lot of symbols. The search for '@'
was not an exception.
In this patch, I made two optimizations.
The first optimization is to handle '@' only when at least one
version is defined. If no versions are defined, no versions can
be assigned to any symbols, so it's waste of time to search for '@'.
The second optimization is to scan only suffixes of symbol names
instead of entire symbol names. Symbol names can be very long, but
symbol versions are usually short, so scanning entire symbol names
is waste of time, too.
There are some error cases which we no longer be able to detect
with this patch. I don't think it's a major drawback because they
are minor errors. Speed is more important.
This change improves LLD with debug info self-link time from
6.6993 seconds to 6.3426 seconds (or -5.3%).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22433
llvm-svn: 275711
The identifier `Version` was used too often in the code to handle
symbol versions. The struct that contains version definitions is
named `Version`. Local variables for version ID are named `Version`.
Local varaible for version string are named `Version`.
This patch give them different names.
llvm-svn: 275673
Config members are named after corresponding command line options.
This patch renames VAStart ImageBase so that they are in line with
--image-base.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D22277
llvm-svn: 275298
Patch implements 'extern' version script tag.
Currently only values in quotes(") are supported.
Matching of externs is performed in the same pass as exact match of globals.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21930
llvm-svn: 275257
That helps to avoid expressions like I + 2 in code
that assigns version number to symbols.
Change was suggested by Rui Ueyama.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D22086
llvm-svn: 275159
When building executable usually version script is absent.
Before this patch error was shown in the case when
symbol name contained version and there was no script to match it.
Instead of error out patch allows
to create new version declaration in this case and use it.
gnu linkers do the same.
That is PR28359.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21890
llvm-svn: 274828
This is PR28358
According to
https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf
"The fourth point, the VERS 1.0 version being referred to in the VERS 2.0 definition, is not really important in symbol versioning. It marks the predecessor relationship of the two versions and it is done to maintain the similar- ities with Solaris’ internal versioning. It does not cause any problem it might in fact be useful to a human reader so predecessors should always be mentioned."
Patch partially reverts 273423 "[ELF] - Implemented version script hierarchies.",
version references are just ignored now.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21888
llvm-svn: 274345
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
Patch implements hierarchies for version scripts.
This allows to handle script files with dependencies, like next one has:
LIBSAMPLE_1.0{
global:
a;
};
LIBSAMPLE_2.0
{
global:
b;
}LIBSAMPLE_1.0;
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21556
llvm-svn: 273423
With fix:
-soname flag was not set in testcase. Hash calculated for base def was different on local
and bot machines because filename fos used for calculating.
Initial commit message:
Patch implements basic support of versioned symbols.
There is no wildcards patterns matching except local: *;
There is no support for hierarchies.
There is no support for symbols overrides (@ vs @@ not handled).
This patch allows programs that using simple scripts to link and run.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21018
llvm-svn: 273152
Patch implements basic support of versioned symbols.
There is no wildcards patterns matching except local: *;
There is no support for hierarchies.
There is no support for symbols overrides (@ vs @@ not handled).
This patch allows programs that using simple scripts to link and run.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21018
llvm-svn: 273143
Doing that in an anonymous version is a bit silly, but this opens the
way for supporting it in general.
Since we don't support actual versions, for now we just disable the
version script if we detect that it is missing a local.
llvm-svn: 273000
If you specify the option in the form of --build-id=0x<hexstring>,
that hexstring is set as a build ID. We observed that the feature
is actually in use in some builds, so we want this feature.
llvm-svn: 269495
Just do not allow to link shared library if there are
undefined symbols.
This fixes PR27447
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D20169
llvm-svn: 269183
This is the option which sorts relocs to optimize dynamic linker performance.
-z combelocs is the default in gold, also it ignores -z nocombreloc,
this patch do the same.
Patch sorts relocations by symbols only and do not create any
DT_REL[A]COUNT entries. That is different with what gold/bfd do.
More information about option is here:
http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/186http://people.redhat.com/jakub/prelink.pdf, p.2
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19528
llvm-svn: 269066
--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
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
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
c:\b\slave\sanitizer-windows\llvm\tools\lld\elf\Config.h(94) : error C2797: 'lld:🧝:Configuration::MLlvm': list initialization inside member initializer list or non-static data member initializer is not implemented
llvm-svn: 265207
-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
The variables corresponding to command line options are named mechanically.
Because the option for the variable is -noinhibit-exec and not -no-inhibit-exec,
it should be name this way.
llvm-svn: 262911
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
Previously, we had code for linker scripts in Writer. This patch
separates that as LinkerScript class. The class provides a few
functions to query linker scripts and is also a container of some
linker-script-specific information.
Hopefully, Writer will only implement the default behavior and let
the new class handle gotchas regarding linker scripts.
llvm-svn: 260591
-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
The `_gp_disp` is a magic symbol designates offset between start of
function and gp pointer into GOT. Only `R_MIPS_HI16` and `R_MIPS_LO16`
relocations are permitted with `_gp_disp`. The patch adds the `_gp_disp`
as an ignored symbol and adjusts symbol value before call the `relocateOne`
for `R_MIPS_HI16/LO16` relocations.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15480
llvm-svn: 255768
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
Partial (-z relro) and full (-z relro, -z now) relro cases are implemented.
Partial relro:
The ELF sections are reordered so that the ELF internal data sections (.got, .dtors, etc.) precede the program's data sections (.data and .bss).
.got is readonly, .got.plt is still writeable.
Full relro:
Supports all the features of partial RELRO, .got.plt is also readonly.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14218
llvm-svn: 253967
With this patch, lld creates PT_GNU_STACK segments only when all input
files have .note.GNU-stack sections. This is in line with other linkers
with a minor difference (we don't care about .note.GNU-stack rwx bits as
you can always remove .note.GNU-stack sections instead of setting x bit.)
At least, NetBSD loader does not understand PT_GNU_STACK segments and
reject any executables that have the section. This patch makes lld
compatible with such operating systems.
llvm-svn: 253797
PT_GNU_STACK is a entry in the elf file format which contains the access rights (read, write, execute) of the stack,
it is always generated now. By default stack is not executable in this implementation.
-z execstack can be used to make executable.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14571
llvm-svn: 253145
Alexander Richardson