This is an entirely new embedded directive - extending the GNU ld
command line option --exclude-symbols to be usable in embedded
directives too.
(GNU ld.bfd also got support for the same new directive, currently in
the latest git version, after the 2.39 branch.)
This works as an inverse to the regular embedded dllexport directives,
for cases when autoexport of all eligible symbols is performed.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130120
This adds support for the existing GNU ld command line option, which
allows excluding individual symbols from autoexport (when linking a
DLL and no symbols are marked explicitly as dllexported).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130118
This was recently introduced in GNU linkers and it makes sense for
ld.lld to have the same support. This implementation omits checking if
the input string is valid json to reduce size bloat.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D131439
This just removes the code that gates the logic. The main issue here is
perf impact: without {D122258}, LLD takes a significant perf hit because
it now has to do a lot more work in the input parsing phase. But with
that change to eliminate unnecessary EH frames from input object files,
the perf overhead here is minimal. Concretely, here are the numbers for
some builds as measured on my 16-core Mac Pro:
**chromium_framework**
This is without the use of `-femit-dwarf-unwind=no-compact-unwind`:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.826 ± 0.019 1.962 ± 0.034 [ +6.5% .. +8.4%]
user_time 9.306 ± 0.054 9.926 ± 0.082 [ +6.2% .. +7.1%]
wall_time 8.225 ± 0.068 8.947 ± 0.128 [ +8.0% .. +9.6%]
samples 15 22
With that flag enabled, the regression mostly disappears, as hoped:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.839 ± 0.062 1.866 ± 0.068 [ -0.9% .. +3.8%]
user_time 9.452 ± 0.068 9.490 ± 0.067 [ -0.1% .. +0.9%]
wall_time 8.383 ± 0.127 8.452 ± 0.114 [ -0.1% .. +1.8%]
samples 17 21
**Unnamed internal app**
Without `-femit-dwarf-unwind`, this is the perf hit:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.372 ± 0.029 1.317 ± 0.024 [ -4.6% .. -3.5%]
user_time 2.835 ± 0.028 2.980 ± 0.027 [ +4.8% .. +5.4%]
wall_time 3.205 ± 0.079 3.383 ± 0.066 [ +4.9% .. +6.2%]
samples 102 83
With `-femit-dwarf-unwind`, the perf hit almost disappears:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.274 ± 0.026 1.270 ± 0.025 [ -0.9% .. +0.3%]
user_time 2.812 ± 0.023 2.822 ± 0.035 [ +0.1% .. +0.7%]
wall_time 3.166 ± 0.047 3.174 ± 0.059 [ -0.2% .. +0.7%]
samples 95 97
Just for fun, I measured the impact of `-femit-dwarf-unwind` on ld64
(`base` has the extra DWARF unwind info in the input object files,
`diff` doesn't):
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.128 ± 0.010 1.124 ± 0.023 [ -1.3% .. +0.6%]
user_time 7.176 ± 0.030 7.106 ± 0.094 [ -1.5% .. -0.4%]
wall_time 7.874 ± 0.041 7.795 ± 0.121 [ -1.7% .. -0.3%]
samples 16 25
And for LLD:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.315 ± 0.019 1.280 ± 0.019 [ -3.2% .. -2.0%]
user_time 2.980 ± 0.022 2.822 ± 0.016 [ -5.5% .. -5.0%]
wall_time 3.369 ± 0.038 3.175 ± 0.033 [ -6.2% .. -5.3%]
samples 47 47
So parsing the extra EH frames is a lot more expensive for us than for
ld64. But given that we are quite a lot faster than ld64 to begin with,
I guess this isn't entirely unexpected...
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D129540
Add FORCE_LLD_DIAGNOSTICS_CRASH inspired by the existing
FORCE_CLANG_DIAGNOSTICS_CRASH.
This is particularly useful for people customizing LLD as they may
want to modify the crash reporting behavior.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128195
`--time-trace=foo` has the same behavior as `--time-trace --time-trace-file=<file>`
had previously.
Also, for mac, make --time-trace-granularity *not* imply --time-trace, to match
behavior of the ELF port.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128451
.zdebug is unlikely used any longer: gcc -gz switched from legacy
.zdebug to SHF_COMPRESSED with binutils 2.26 (2016), which has been
several years. clang 14 dropped -gz=zlib-gnu support. According to
Debian Code Search (`gz=zlib-gnu`), no project uses -gz=zlib-gnu.
Remove .zdebug support to (a) simplify code and (b) allow removal of llvm-mc's
--compress-debug-sections=zlib-gnu.
In case the old object file `a.o` uses .zdebug, run `objcopy --decompress-debug-sections a.o`
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D126793
We picked common-page-size to match GNU ld. Recently, the resolution to GNU ld
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28824 (milestone: 2.39) switched
to max-page-size so that the last page can be protected by RELRO in case the
system page size is larger than common-page-size.
Thanks to our two RW PT_LOAD scheme (D58892), switching to max-page-size does
not change file size (while GNU ld's scheme may increase file size).
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D125410
D86142 introduced --fortran-common and defaulted it to true (matching GNU ld
but deviates from gold/macOS ld64). The default state was motivated by transparently
supporting some FORTRAN 77 programs (Fortran 90 deprecated common blocks).
Now I think it again. I believe we made a mistake to change the default:
* this is a weird and legacy rule, though the breakage is very small
* --fortran-common introduced complexity to parallel symbol resolution and will slow down it
* --fortran-common more likely causes issues when users mix COMMON and
STB_GLOBAL definitions (see https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/48570 and
https://maskray.me/blog/2022-02-06-all-about-common-symbols).
I have seen several issues in our internal projects and Android.
On the other hand, --no-fortran-common is safer since
COMMON/STB_GLOBAL have the same semantics related to archive member extraction.
Therefore I think we should switch back, not punishing the common uage.
A platform wanting --fortran-common can implement ld.lld as a shell script
wrapper around `lld -flavor gnu --fortran-common "$@"`.
Reviewed By: ikudrin, sfertile
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D122450
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/parallel-input-file-parsing/60164
initializeSymbols currently sets Defined::section and handles non-prevailing
COMDAT groups. Move the code to the parallel postParse to reduce work from the
single-threading code path and make parallel section initialization infeasible.
Postpone reporting duplicate symbol errors so that the messages have the
section information. (`Defined::section` is assigned in postParse and another
thread may not have the information).
* duplicated-synthetic-sym.s: BinaryFile duplicate definition (very rare) now
has no section information
* comdat-binding: `%t/w.o %t/g.o` leads to an undesired undefined symbol. This
is not ideal but we report a diagnostic to inform that this is unsupported.
(See release note)
* comdat-discarded-lazy.s: %tdef.o is unextracted. The new behavior (discarded
section error) makes more sense
* i386-comdat.s: switched to a better approach working around
.gnu.linkonce.t.__x86.get_pc_thunk.bx in glibc<2.32 for x86-32.
Drop the ancient no-longer-relevant workaround for __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx
Depends on D120640
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D120626
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/parallel-input-file-parsing/60164
initializeSymbols currently sets Defined::section and handles non-prevailing
COMDAT groups. Move the code to the parallel postParse to reduce work from the
single-threading code path and make parallel section initialization infeasible.
Postpone reporting duplicate symbol errors so that the messages have the
section information. (`Defined::section` is assigned in postParse and another
thread may not have the information).
* duplicated-synthetic-sym.s: BinaryFile duplicate definition (very rare) now
has no section information
* comdat-binding: `%t/w.o %t/g.o` leads to an undesired undefined symbol. This
is not ideal but we report a diagnostic to inform that this is unsupported.
(See release note)
* comdat-discarded-lazy.s: %tdef.o is unextracted. The new behavior (discarded
section error) makes more sense
Depends on D120640
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D120626
GNU ld 2.38 added -z pack-relative-relocs which is similar to
--pack-dyn-relocs=relr but synthesizes the `GLIBC_ABI_DT_RELR` version
dependency if a shared object named `libc.so.*` has a `GLIBC_2.*` version
dependency.
This is used to implement the (as some glibc folks call) version lockout
mechanism. Add this option, because glibc does not want to support
--pack-dyn-relocs=relr which does not add `GLIBC_ABI_DT_RELR`.
See https://maskray.me/blog/2021-10-31-relative-relocations-and-relr for
detail.
Close https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/53775
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D120701
This relands 73e585e44d (and 0574b5fc65), with a fix for
the failing test (by using Optional<StringRef>s instead of
making StringRef::empty() mean absence of value).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118070
Makes lld-link work in a non-MSVC shell by autodetecting MSVC toolchain. Also
adds support for /winsysroot and a few other switches.
All this is done by refactoring to share code with clang-cl's existing support
for the same.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118070
https://maskray.me/blog/2022-02-06-all-about-common-symbols#no-define-common
In GNU ld, -dc only affects -r links and causes COMMON symbols to be allocated.
--no-define-common is defined to make COMMON symbols undefined for -shared.
AIUI --no-define-common is a workaround around glibc 2.1 time and not really useful.
gold confuses --define-common with -d/FORCE_COMMON_ALLOCATION and implements
--define-common with -d semantics. Its --no-define-common is incompatible with
GNU ld.
In ld.lld, b2a23cf3c0 fixed the default -r
behavior for COMMON symbols but ported the incompatible gold
--[no-]define-common. To the best of my knowledge, no project uses -dp
--[no-]define-common. So just remove these options.
-d/-dc are used by the following projects:
* grub grub-core/genmod.sh.in uses -Wl,-r,-d (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2022-02/msg00088.html)
* FreeBSD crunchgen uses -Wl,-dc (https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34215)
A no-op implementation works for them. Only when a program inspects relocatable
output by itself and does not recognize COMMON symbols, there may be a problem.
This is an extremely unlikely case.
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D119108
This updates all the non-runtime project release notes to use the
version number from CMake instead of the hard-coded version numbers
in conf.py.
It also hides warnings about pre-releases when the git suffix
is dropped from the LLVM version in CMake.
Reviewed By: MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112181
The deduplication requires a DenseMap of the same size of the local part of
.strtab . I optimized it in e205445434 but it is
still quite slow.
For Release build of clang, deduplication makes .strtab 1.1% smaller and makes the link 3% slower.
For chrome, deduplication makes .strtab 0.1% smaller and makes the link 6% slower.
I suggest that we only perform the optimization with -O2 (default is -O1).
Not deduplicating local symbol names will simplify parallel symbol table write.
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118577
The current TLSDESC optimization code assumes:
```
leaq x@tlsdesc(%rip), %rax
call *x@tlscall(%rax) # adjacent
```
From https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/5665 , it seems that the
two instructions may not be adjacent in GCC 10's output:
```
leaq x@tlsdesc(%rip), %rax
something else
call *x@tlscall(%rax)
```
This patch supports the case. While here, support non-RAX registers for
R_X86_64_GOTPC32_TLSDESC, in case the compiler generates inefficient:
```
leaq x@tlsdesc(%rip), %rcx # or %rdx, %rbx, %rdi, ...
movq %rcx, %rax
call *x@tlscall(%rax) # GNU ld/gold error for non-RAX
```
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D114416
This brings back the original version of D81359.
I have found several use cases now.
* Unlike GNU ld, LLD's relocation processing is one pass. If we decide to
optimize(relax) R_X86_64_{,REX_}GOTPCRELX, we will suppress GOT generation and
cannot undo the decision later. Optimizing R_X86_64_REX_GOTPCRELX can usually
make it easy to hit `relocation R_X86_64_REX_GOTPCRELX out of range` because
the distance to GOT is usually shorter. Without --no-relax, the user has to
recompile with `-Wa,-mrelax-relocations=no`.
* The option would help during my investigationg of the root cause of https://git.kernel.org/linus/09e43968db40c33a73e9ddbfd937f46d5c334924
* There is need for relaxation for AArch64 & RISC-V. Implementing this for
x86-64 improves consistency with little target-specific cost (two-line
X86_64.cpp change).
Reviewed By: alexander-shaposhnikov
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D113615
Similar to D69607 but for archive member extraction unrelated to GC. This patch adds --why-extract=.
Prior art:
GNU ld -M prints
```
Archive member included to satisfy reference by file (symbol)
a.a(a.o) main.o (a)
b.a(b.o) (b())
```
-M is mainly for input section/symbol assignment <-> output section mapping
(often huge output) and the information may appear ad-hoc.
Apple ld64
```
__Z1bv forced load of b.a(b.o)
_a forced load of a.a(a.o)
```
It doesn't say the reference file.
Arm's proprietary linker
```
Selecting member vsnprintf.o(c_wfu.l) to define vsnprintf.
...
Loading member vsnprintf.o from c_wfu.l.
definition: vsnprintf
reference : _printf_a
```
---
--why-extract= gives the user the full data (which is much shorter than GNU ld
-Map). It is easy to track a chain of references to one archive member with a
one-liner, e.g.
```
% ld.lld main.o a_b.a b_c.a c.a -o /dev/null --why-extract=- | tee stdout
reference extracted symbol
main.o a_b.a(a_b.o) a
a_b.a(a_b.o) b_c.a(b_c.o) b()
b_c.a(b_c.o) c.a(c.o) c()
% ruby -ane 'BEGIN{p={}}; p[$F[1]]=[$F[0],$F[2]] if $.>1; END{x="c.a(c.o)"; while y=p[x]; puts "#{y[0]} extracts #{x} to resolve #{y[1]}"; x=y[0] end}' stdout
b_c.a(b_c.o) extracts c.a(c.o) to resolve c()
a_b.a(a_b.o) extracts b_c.a(b_c.o) to resolve b()
main.o extracts a_b.a(a_b.o) to resolve a
```
Archive member extraction happens before --gc-sections, so this may not be a live path
under --gc-sections, but I think it is a good approximation in practice.
* Specifying a file avoids output interleaving with --verbose.
* Required `=` prevents accidental overwrite of an input if the user forgets `=`. (Most of compiler drivers' long options accept `=` but not ` `)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D109572
This is available in GNU ld 2.35 and can be seen as a shortcut for multiple
--export-dynamic-symbol, or a --dynamic-list variant without the symbolic intention.
In the long term, this option probably should be preferred over --dynamic-list.
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D107317
This option is a subset of -Bsymbolic-functions. It applies to STB_GLOBAL
STT_FUNC definitions.
The address of a vague linkage function (STB_WEAK STT_FUNC, e.g. an inline
function, a template instantiation) seen by a -Bsymbolic-functions linked
shared object may be different from the address seen from outside the shared
object. Such cases are uncommon. (ELF/Mach-O programs may use
`-fvisibility-inlines-hidden` to break such pointer equality. On Windows,
correct dllexport and dllimport are needed to make pointer equality work.
Windows link.exe enables /OPT:ICF by default so different inline functions may
have the same address.)
```
// a.cc -> a.o -> a.so (-Bsymbolic-functions)
inline void f() {}
void *g() { return (void *)&f; }
// b.cc -> b.o -> exe
// The address is different!
inline void f() {}
```
-Bsymbolic-non-weak-functions is a safer (C++ conforming) subset of
-Bsymbolic-functions, which can make such programs work.
Implementations usually emit a vague linkage definition in a COMDAT group. We
could detect the group (with more code) but I feel that we should just check
STB_WEAK for simplicity. A weak definition will thus serve as an escape hatch
for rare cases when users want interposition on definitions.
GNU ld feature request: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27871
Longer write-up: https://maskray.me/blog/2021-05-16-elf-interposition-and-bsymbolic
If Linux distributions migrate to protected non-vague-linkage external linkage
functions by default, the linker option can still be handy because it allows
rapid experiment without recompilation. Protected function addresses currently
have deep issues in GNU ld.
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102570
This implements https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26404
An `OVERWRITE_SECTIONS` command is a `SECTIONS` variant which contains several
output section descriptions. The output sections do not have specify an order.
Similar to `INSERT [BEFORE|AFTER]`, `LinkerScript::hasSectionsCommand` is not
set, so the built-in rules (see `docs/ELF/linker_script.rst`) still apply.
`OVERWRITE_SECTIONS` can be more convenient than `INSERT` because it does not
need an anchor section.
The initial syntax is intentionally narrow to facilitate backward compatible
extensions in the future. Symbol assignments cannot be used.
This feature is versatile. To list a few usage:
* Use `section : { KEEP(...) }` to retain input sections under GC
* Define encapsulation symbols (start/end) for an output section
* Use `section : ALIGN(...) : { ... }` to overalign an output section (similar to ld64 `-sectalign`)
When an output section is specified by both `OVERWRITE_SECTIONS` and
`INSERT`, `INSERT` is processed after overwrite sections. To make this work,
this patch changes `InsertCommand` to use name based matching instead of pointer
based matching. (This may cause a difference when `INSERT` moves one output
section more than once. Such duplicate commands should not be used in practice
(seems that in GNU ld the output sections may just disappear).)
A linker script can be used without -T/--script. The traditional `SECTIONS`
commands are concatenated, so a wrong rule can be more noticeable from the
section order. This feature if misused can be less noticeable, just like
`INSERT`.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103303
This option will be available in GNU ld 2.27 (https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27834).
This option can cancel previously specified -Bsymbolic and
-Bsymbolic-functions. This is useful for excluding some links when the
default uses -Bsymbolic-functions.
Reviewed By: jhenderson, peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102383
`--shuffle-sections=<seed>` applies to all sections. The new
`--shuffle-sections=<section-glob>=<seed>` makes shuffling selective. To the
best of my knowledge, the option is only used as debugging, so just drop the
original form.
`--shuffle-sections '.init_array*=-1'` `--shuffle-sections '.fini_array*=-1'`.
reverses static constructors/destructors of the same priority.
Useful to detect some static initialization order fiasco.
`--shuffle-sections '.data*=-1'`
reverses `.data*` sections. Useful to detect unfunded pointer comparison results
of two unrelated objects.
If certain sections have an intrinsic order, the old form cannot be used.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98679
Make it possible for lld users to provide a custom script that would help to
find missing libraries. A possible scenario could be:
% clang /tmp/a.c -fuse-ld=lld -loauth -Wl,--error-handling-script=/tmp/addLibrary.py
unable to find library -loauth
looking for relevant packages to provides that library
liboauth-0.9.7-4.el7.i686
liboauth-devel-0.9.7-4.el7.i686
liboauth-0.9.7-4.el7.x86_64
liboauth-devel-0.9.7-4.el7.x86_64
pix-1.6.1-3.el7.x86_64
Where addLibrary would be called with the missing library name as first argument
(in that case addLibrary.py oauth)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87758
GNU ld from binutils 2.35 onwards will likely support
--export-dynamic-symbol but with different semantics.
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2020-May/111302.html
Differences:
1. -export-dynamic-symbol is not supported
2. --export-dynamic-symbol takes a glob argument
3. --export-dynamic-symbol can suppress binding the references to the definition within the shared object if (-Bsymbolic or -Bsymbolic-functions)
4. --export-dynamic-symbol does not imply -u
I don't think the first three points can affect any user.
For the fourth point, Not implying -u can lead to some archive members unfetched.
Add -u foo to restore the previous behavior.
Exact semantics:
* -no-pie or -pie: matched non-local defined symbols will be added to the dynamic symbol table.
* -shared: matched non-local STV_DEFAULT symbols will not be bound to definitions within the shared object
even if they would otherwise be due to -Bsymbolic, -Bsymbolic-functions, or --dynamic-list.
Reviewed By: psmith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D80487
This reverts commit r371729 because /linkrepro option also exists
in Microsoft link.exe and their linker takes not a filename but a
directory name as an argument for /linkrepro.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D68378
llvm-svn: 373703
This is useful for enforcing that builds are independent of the
environment; it can be used when all system library paths are added
via /libpath: already. It's similar ot cl.exe's /X flag.
Since it should also affect %LINK% (the other caller of
`Process::GetEnv` in lld/COFF), the early-option-parsing needs
to move around a bit. The options are:
- Add a manual loop over the argv ArrayRef and look for "/lldignoreenv".
This repeats the name of the flag in both Options.td and in
DriverUtils.cpp.
- Add yet another table.ParseArgs() call just for /lldignoreenv before
adding %LINK%.
- Use the existing early ParseArgs() that's there for --rsp-quoting and use
it for /lldignoreenv for %LINK% as well. This means --rsp-quoting
and /lldignoreenv can't be passed via %LINK%.
I went with the third approach.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D67456
llvm-svn: 371852
Martin Storsjö