A more efficient PLT sequence can be used when the distance between the
.plt and the end of the .plt.got is less than 128 Megabytes, which is
frequently true. We fall back to the old sequence when the offset is larger
than 128 Megabytes. This gives us an alternative to forcing the longer
entries with --long-plt as we gracefully fall back to it as needed.
See ELF for the ARM Architecture Appendix A for details of the PLT sequence.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D41246
llvm-svn: 320987
We add dynamic section entries both in the ctor of the class and
DynamicSection::finalizeContents(). Some entries need to be added early
in the ctor because they add strings to .dynstr. Other entries were
intended to be added in finalizeContents(). However, some entries are
added in the ctor even though they don't add strings. This patch
fix the issue.
llvm-svn: 320851
I noticed that the continue this patch deletes was not tested. Trying
to add a test I realized that we never put a VER_NDX_LOCAL symbol in
the dynamic symbol table. There doesn't seem to be any reason for a
linker to use VER_NDX_LOCAL for a defined shared symbol.
llvm-svn: 320817
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
This patch provides the mechanism to fix instances of the instruction
sequence that may trigger the cortex-a53 843419 erratum. The fix is
provided by an alternative instruction sequence to remove one of the
erratum conditions. To reach this alternative instruction sequence we
replace the original instruction with a branch to the alternative
sequence. The alternative sequence is responsible for branching back to
the original.
As there is only erratum to fix the implementation is specific to
AArch64 and the specific erratum conditions. It should be generalizable
to other targets and erratum if needed.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D36749
llvm-svn: 320800
Specifically, libwidevinecdm.so in Chrome has such bad symbol.
It seems the BFD linker handles them as local symbols, so instead
of inserting them to the symbol table, we should skip them too.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D41257
llvm-svn: 320770
We might crash in 'ARMExidxSentinelSection::writeTo()' because it expected
the sentinel entry to be put in the same 'InputSectionDescription' as
the last real entry. This assumption fails if the last output section command
for .ARM.exidx is anything but an input section description, because in this
case 'OutputSection::addSection()' creates a new 'InputSectionDescription'.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D41105
llvm-svn: 320668
It is currently in InputSectionBase. Only InputSections are used in
ICF, so Repl should be move to InputSection to clear the class
hierarchy or, like this patch does, to SectionBase for convenience.
The convenience of having it on the base class is that we can just
access the replacement without having to first check if it is an
InputSection. It is a bit less code and a bit faster as some of this
code is very hot.
I got up to 1.77% improvement in clang-gdb-index and no regressions
according to lnt.
llvm-svn: 320654
Having a SectionBase method check Repl is inconsistent with how we
handle other section information.
For example, if a section is replaced, Sec->Live is false and it is
natural for Sec->getOutputSection() to be null.
It is the symbol that is moved to the replacement section.
llvm-svn: 320599
Moving the SHF_LINK_ORDER processing out of OutputSection::finalize()
means that we no longer need to copy all InputSections as we now only need
the first one.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D40966
llvm-svn: 320478
By moving this step before thunk creation and other processing that depends
on the size of sections, we permit removal of duplicates in the .ARM.exidx
section.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D40964
llvm-svn: 320477
The size of an OutputSection is calculated early, to aid handling of compressed
debug sections. However, subsequent to this point, unused synthetic sections are
removed. In the event that an OutputSection, from which such an InputSection is
removed, is still required (e.g. because it has a symbol assignment), and no longer
has any InputSections, dot assignments, or BYTE()-family directives, the size
member is never updated when processing the commands. If the removed InputSection
had a non-zero size (such as a .got.plt section), the section ends up with the
wrong size in the output.
The fix is to reset the OutputSection size prior to processing the linker script
commands relating to that OutputSection. This ensures that the size is correct even
in the above situation.
Additionally, to reduce the risk of developers misusing OutputSection Size and
InputSection OutSecOff, they are set to simply the number of InputSections in an
OutputSection, and the corresponding index respectively. We cannot completely
stop using them, due to SHF_LINK_ORDER sections requiring them.
Compressed debug sections also require the full size. This is now calculated in
maybeCompress for these kinds of sections.
Reviewers: ruiu, rafael
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D38361
llvm-svn: 320472
By using an index instead of a pointer for verdef we can put the index
next to the alignment field. This uses the otherwise wasted area and
reduces the shared symbol size.
By itself the performance change of this is in the noise, but I have a
followup patch to remove another 8 bytes that improves performance
when combined with this.
llvm-svn: 320449
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
When an output section has no byte commands and has no input sections then it
would be ideal if the type of the section is SHT_NOBITS so that the file can
take up less space. This change sets the default type of of output sections to
SHT_NOBITS instead of SHT_PROGBITS to allow this. This required some minor test
changes (which double as tests for this new behavior) but extend-pt-load.s had
be changed in a non-trivial way. Since it seems to me that the point of the
test is to point out the consequences of how flags are assigned to output
sections that don't have input sections I changed the test to work and still
show how the memsize of the executable segment was changed.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D41082
llvm-svn: 320437
The PPC port doesn't support PLT yet, but the architecture independent
code optimizes PLT access for non preemptible symbols, which is
exactly what returning R_PC was trying to implement.
llvm-svn: 320430
Rafael Espindola