Text section prefix is created in CodeGenPrepare, it's file format independent implementation, text section name is written into object file in TargetLoweringObjectFile, it's file format dependent implementation, port code of adding text section prefix to text section name from ELF to COFF.
Different with ELF that use '.' as concatenation character, COFF use '$' as concatenation character. That is, concatenation character is variable, so split concatenation character from text section prefix.
Text section prefix is existing feature of ELF, it can help to reduce icache and itlb misses, it's also make possible aggregate other compilers e.g. v8 created same prefix sections. Furthermore, the recent feature Machine Function Splitter (basic block level text prefix section) is based on text section prefix.
Reviewed By: pengfei, rnk
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D92073
GNU ld's internal linker script uses (https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=add44f8d5c5c05e08b11e033127a744d61c26aee)
.text :
{
*(.text.unlikely .text.*_unlikely .text.unlikely.*)
*(.text.exit .text.exit.*)
*(.text.startup .text.startup.*)
*(.text.hot .text.hot.*)
*(SORT(.text.sorted.*))
*(.text .stub .text.* .gnu.linkonce.t.*)
/* .gnu.warning sections are handled specially by elf.em. */
*(.gnu.warning)
}
Because `*(.text.exit .text.exit.*)` is ordered before `*(.text .text.*)`, in a -ffunction-sections build, the C library function `exit` will be placed before other functions.
gold's `-z keep-text-section-prefix` has the same problem.
In lld, `-z keep-text-section-prefix` recognizes `.text.{exit,hot,startup,unlikely,unknown}.*`, but not `.text.{exit,hot,startup,unlikely,unknown}`, to avoid the strange placement problem.
In -fno-function-sections or -fno-unique-section-names mode, a function whose `function_section_prefix` is set to `.exit"`
will go to the output section `.text` instead of `.text.exit` when linked by lld.
To address the problem, append a dot to become `.text.exit.`
Reviewed By: grimar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79600
Pan, Tao