Previously, we created a .bss section when needed. We had a function
ensureBss() for that purpose. Turned out that was error-prone
because it was easy to forget to call that function before accessing
the .bss section.
This patch always make the BSS section. The section is added to the
output when it's not empty.
llvm-svn: 270527
Copy relocations are relocations to copy data from DSOs to
executable's .bss segment at runtime. It doesn't make sense to
create such relocations for zero-sized symbols.
GNU linkers don't agree with each other. ld rejects such
relocation/symbol pair. gold don't reject that but do not create
copy relocations as well. I took the former approach because
I don't think the latter is what user wants.
llvm-svn: 270525
.eh_frame_hdr assumes that there is only one .eh_frame and
ensures it by assertions. This patch makes .eh_frame a real
singleton object to simplify.
llvm-svn: 270445
This patch adds Size member to SectionPiece so that getRangeAndSize
can just return a SectionPiece instead of a std::pair<SectionPiece *, uint_t>.
Also renamed the function.
llvm-svn: 270346
We were using std::pair to represents pieces of splittable section
contents. It hurt readability because "first" and "second" are not
meaningful. This patch give them names.
One more thing is that piecewise liveness information is stored to
the second element of the pair as a special value of output section
offset. It was confusing, so I defiend a new bit, "Live", in the
new struct.
llvm-svn: 270340
This makes it explicit that each R_RELAX_TLS_* is equivalent to some
other expression.
With this I think we are at a sweet spot for how much is done in
Target.cpp. I did experiment with moving *all* the value math out of it.
It has the advantage that we know the final value in target independent
code, but it gets quite verbose.
llvm-svn: 270277
Lazy binding is quite important for use case like a shared build of
llvm. Also, if someone wants to disable it, it is better done in the
compiler (disable plt generation).
The only reason to keep it is to make it easier to add a new
architecture. But it doesn't really help much as it is possible to start
with non lazy relocation and plt code but still let the generic part
create a dedicated .got.plt and .rela.plt.
llvm-svn: 269982
New names reflect purpose of corresponding GOT entries better.
Both expression types related to entries allocated in the 'local'
part of MIPS GOT. R_MIPS_GOT_LOCAL_PAGE is for entries contain 'page'
addresses. R_MIPS_GOT_LOCAL is for entries contain 'full' address.
llvm-svn: 269597
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
The Elf_Rela has an explicit addend. It doesn't need the addend to be
written to the section being relocated.
Since relative relocations are very common in the output, this is a
noticeable speedup. The results I got were
chromium
master 4.778149487
patch 4.761120792 0.996436131802
chromium fast
master 1.896253636
patch 1.840990582 0.970856718241
the gold plugin
master 0.399337811
patch 0.392279276 0.982324401032
clang
master 0.666873675
patch 0.665895708 0.998533504865
llvm-as
master 0.037101095
patch 0.037123149 1.00059442989
the gold plugin fsds
master 0.422473396
patch 0.414192879 0.980399909016
clang fsds
master 0.747302008
patch 0.744843964 0.996710775599
llvm-as fsds
master 0.033146245
patch 0.033064531 0.997534743377
scylla
master 4.08857525
patch 4.082245184 0.998451767275
llvm-svn: 269417
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
In case of MIPS ABI relocation has R_GOTREL expression's type iif the
relocation type is either R_MIPS_GPREL16 or R_MIPS_GPREL32. So it is
enough to check expression's type only.
llvm-svn: 268741
We were creating the copy relocations just fine, but then thinking that
the .bss position could be preempted and creating a dynamic relocation
to it, which would crash at runtime since that memory is read only.
llvm-svn: 268668
This allows the combined LTO object to provide a definition with the same
name as a symbol that was internalized without causing a duplicate symbol
error. This normally happens during parallel codegen which externalizes
originally-internal symbols, for example.
In order to make this work, I needed to relax the undefined symbol error to
only report an error for symbols that are used in regular objects.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19954
llvm-svn: 268649
We were previously using an output offset of -1 for both GC'd and tail
merged pieces. We need to distinguish these two cases in order to filter
GC'd symbols from the symbol table -- we were previously asserting when we
asked for the VA of a symbol pointing into a dead piece, which would end
up asking the tail merging string table for an offset even though we hadn't
initialized it properly.
This patch fixes the bug by using an offset of -1 to exclusively mean GC'd
pieces, using 0 for tail merges, and distinguishing the tail merge case from
an offset of 0 by asking the output section whether it is tail merge.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19953
llvm-svn: 268604
We were already checking for non relative relocations.
If we ever decide to add support for rw text segments this means we will
have a single spot to add the flag.
llvm-svn: 268558
MIPS N64 ABI introduces .MIPS.options section which specifies miscellaneous
options to be applied to an object/shared/executable file. LLVM as well as
modern versions of GNU tools read and write the only type of the options -
ODK_REGINFO. It is exact copy of .reginfo section used by O32 ABI.
llvm-svn: 268485
Weak undefined symbols resolve to the image base. This is a little strange,
but it allows us to link function calls to such symbols. Normally such a
call will be guarded with a comparison, which will load a zero from the GOT.
There's one example of such a function call in crti.o in Linux's CRT.
As part of this change, I also needed to make the synthetic start and end
symbols image base relative in the case where their sections were empty,
so that PC-relative references to those symbols would continue to work.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19844
llvm-svn: 268350
This change simplifies the BuildId classes by removing a few member
functions and variables from them. It should also make it easy to
parallelize hash computation in future because now each BuildId object
see all inputs rather than one at a time.
llvm-svn: 268333
This patch implements a new design for the symbol table that stores
SymbolBodies within a memory region of the Symbol object. Symbols are mutated
by constructing SymbolBodies in place over existing SymbolBodies, rather
than by mutating pointers. As mentioned in the initial proposal [1], this
memory layout helps reduce the cache miss rate by improving memory locality.
Performance numbers:
old(s) new(s)
Without debug info:
chrome 7.178 6.432 (-11.5%)
LLVMgold.so 0.505 0.502 (-0.5%)
clang 0.954 0.827 (-15.4%)
llvm-as 0.052 0.045 (-15.5%)
With debug info:
scylla 5.695 5.613 (-1.5%)
clang 14.396 14.143 (-1.8%)
Performance counter results show that the fewer required indirections is
indeed the cause of the improved performance. For example, when linking
chrome, stalled cycles decreases from 14,556,444,002 to 12,959,238,310, and
instructions per cycle increases from 0.78 to 0.83. We are also executing
many fewer instructions (15,516,401,933 down to 15,002,434,310), probably
because we spend less time allocating SymbolBodies.
The new mechanism by which symbols are added to the symbol table is by calling
add* functions on the SymbolTable.
In this patch, I handle local symbols by storing them inside "unparented"
SymbolBodies. This is suboptimal, but if we do want to try to avoid allocating
these SymbolBodies, we can probably do that separately.
I also removed a few members from the SymbolBody class that were only being
used to pass information from the input file to the symbol table.
This patch implements the new design for the ELF linker only. I intend to
prepare a similar patch for the COFF linker.
[1] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-April/098832.html
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19752
llvm-svn: 268178
These would just crash at runtime.
If we ever decide to support rw text segments this should make it easier
to implement as there is now a single point where we notice the problem.
I have tested this with a freebsd buildworld. It found a non pic
assembly file being linked into a .so,. With that fixed, buildworld
finished.
llvm-svn: 268149
Relocations against sections with no SHF_ALLOC bit are R_ABS relocations.
Currently we are creating Relocations vector for them, but that is wasteful.
This patch is to skip vector construction and to directly apply relocations
in place.
This patch seems to be pretty effective for large executables with debug info.
r266158 (Rafael's patch to change the way how we apply relocations) caused a
temporary performance degradation for such executables, but this patch makes
it even faster than before.
Time to link clang with debug info (output size is 1070 MB):
before r266158: 15.312 seconds (0%)
r266158: 17.301 seconds (+13.0%)
Head: 16.484 seconds (+7.7%)
w/patch: 13.166 seconds (-14.0%)
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19645
llvm-svn: 267917
It is now used only for relocations that only set the low bits inside a
page. Everything else is handled by getRelExpr.
I will send a another review renaming and better documenting
isRelRelative.
llvm-svn: 267705
The semantics of the -u flag are to load the lazy symbol named by the flag. We
were previously relying on this behavior falling out of symbol resolution
against a synthetic undefined symbol, but that didn't quite give us the
correct behavior, so we needed a flag to mark symbols created with -u so
we could treat them specially in the writer. However, it's simpler and less
error prone to implement the required behavior directly and remove the flag.
This fixes an issue where symbols loaded with -u would receive hidden
visibility even when the definition in an object file had wider visibility.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19560
llvm-svn: 267639
This remove a fixme, cleans up the weak undef interaction with archives and
lets us keep weak undefs still weak if they resolve to shared.
llvm-svn: 267555
The fix is to handle local symbols referring to SHF_MERGE sections.
Original message:
GC entries of SHF_MERGE sections.
It is a fairly direct extension of the gc algorithm. For merge sections
instead of remembering just a live bit, we remember which offsets
were used.
This reduces the .rodata sections in chromium from 9648861 to 9477472
bytes.
llvm-svn: 267233
These are properties of a symbol name, rather than a particular instance
of a symbol in an object file. We can simplify the code by collecting these
properties in Symbol.
The MustBeInDynSym flag has been renamed ExportDynamic, as its semantics
have been changed to be the same as those of --dynamic-list and
--export-dynamic-symbol, which do not cause hidden symbols to be exported.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19400
llvm-svn: 267183
I noticed that I was looking for the definition of SymPair when hacking
the Writer, only to find that it is just a pair of DefinedRegular symbols.
I don't think it provides more values than the cost of using brainpower
to memorize the type. I didn't roll back r266317, which introduced SymPair,
because the patch removes code repetitions. I ported that change to new
code.
llvm-svn: 267047
MIPS ABI turns using of GOT and dynamic relocations inside out. While
regular ABI uses dynamic relocations to fill up GOT entries MIPS ABI
requires dynamic linker to fills up GOT entries using specially sorted
dynamic symbol table. This affects even dynamic relocations against
symbols which do not require GOT entries creation explicitly, i.e. do
not have any GOT-relocations. So if a preemptible symbol has a dynamic
relocation we anyway have to create a GOT entry for it.
If a non-preemptible symbol has a dynamic relocation against it, dynamic
linker takes it st_value, adds offset and writes down result of the
dynamic relocation. In case of preemptible symbol dynamic linker
performs symbol resolution, writes the symbol value to the GOT entry and
reads the GOT entry when it needs to perform a dynamic relocation.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18948
llvm-svn: 266921
Originally, linker scripts were basically an alternative way to specify
options to the command line options. But as we add more features to hanlde
symbols and sections, many member functions needed to be templated.
Now most the members are templated. It is probably time to template the
entire class.
Previously, LinkerScript is an executor of the linker script as well as
a storage of linker script configurations. This is not suitable to template
the class because when we are reading linker script files, we don't know
the ELF type yet, so we can't instantiate ELF-templated classes.
In this patch, I defined a new class, ScriptConfiguration, to store
linker script configurations. ScriptParser writes parse results to it,
and LinkerScript uses them.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19302
llvm-svn: 266908
It is now redundant. Writer.cpp can reason that 2 dynamic relocations
are needed: one to find the final got entry address and one to fill the
got entry.
llvm-svn: 266876
This requires adding a few more expression types, but is already a small
simplification. Having Writer.cpp know the exact expression will also
allow further simplifications.
llvm-svn: 266604
* Do script driven layout only if SECTIONS section exist.
Initial commit message:
[ELF] - Implemented basic location counter support.
This patch implements location counter support.
It also separates assign addresses for sections to assignAddressesScript() if it scipt exists.
Main testcase is test/ELF/linkerscript-locationcounter.s, It contains some work with location counter. It is basic now.
Implemented location counter assignment and '+' operations.
Patch by myself with LOTS of comments and design suggestions from Rui Ueyama.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18499
llvm-svn: 266526
This patch implements location counter support.
It also separates assign addresses for sections to assignAddressesScript() if it scipt exists.
Main testcase is test/ELF/linkerscript-locationcounter.s, It contains some work with location counter. It is basic now.
Implemented location counter assignment and '+' operations.
Patch by myself with LOTS of comments and design suggestions from Rui Ueyama.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18499
llvm-svn: 266457
The _gp_disp symbol designates offset between start of function and 'gp'
pointer into GOT. The following code is a typical MIPS function preamble
used to setup $gp register:
lui $gp, %hi(_gp_disp)
addi $gp, $gp, %lo(_gp_disp)
To calculate R_MIPS_HI16 / R_MIPS_LO16 relocations results we use
the following formulas:
%hi(_gp - P + A)
%lo(_gp - P + A + 4),
where _gp is a value of _gp symbol, A is addend, and P current address.
The R_MIPS_LO16 relocation references _gp_disp symbol is always the second
instruction. That is why we need four byte adjustments. The patch assigns
R_PC type for R_MIPS_LO16 relocation and adjusts its addend by 4. That fix
R_MIPS_LO16 calculation.
For details see p. 4-19 at ftp://www.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/doc/ABI/mipsabi.pdf
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19115
llvm-svn: 266368
We never need to iterate over the K,V pairs, so we can avoid copying the
key as MapVector does.
This is a small speedup on most benchmarks.
llvm-svn: 266364
Rui Ueyama