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
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
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
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: 267164
It turns out that this will read data from the section to properly
handle Elf_Rel implicit addends.
Sorry for the noise.
Original messages:
Try to fix Windows lld build.
Move getRelocTarget to ObjectFile.
It doesn't use anything from the InputSection.
llvm-svn: 267163
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
With this patch we use the first scan over the relocations to remember
the information we found about them: will them be relaxed, will a plt be
used, etc.
With that the actual relocation application becomes much simpler. That
is particularly true for the interfaces in Target.h.
This unfortunately means that we now do two passes over relocations for
non SHF_ALLOC sections. I think this can be solved by factoring out the
code that scans a single relocation. It can then be used both as a scan
that record info and for a dedicated direct relocation of non SHF_ALLOC
sections.
I also think it is possible to reduce the number of enum values by
representing a target with just an OutputSection and an offset (which
can be from the start or end).
This should unblock adding features like relocation optimizations.
llvm-svn: 266158
Our symbol representation was redundant, and some times would get out of
sync. It had an Elf_Sym, but some fields were copied to SymbolBody.
Different parts of the code were checking the bits in SymbolBody and
others were checking Elf_Sym.
There are two general approaches to fix this:
* Copy the required information and don't store and Elf_Sym.
* Don't copy the information and always use the Elf_Smy.
The second way sounds tempting, but has a big problem: we would have to
template SymbolBody. I started doing it, but it requires templeting
*everything* and creates a bit chicken and egg problem at the driver
where we have to find ELFT before we can create an ArchiveFile for
example.
As much as possible I compared the test differences with what gold and
bfd produce to make sure they are still valid. In most cases we are just
adding hidden visibility to a local symbol, which is harmless.
In most tests this is a small speedup. The only slowdown was scylla
(1.006X). The largest speedup was clang with no --build-id, -O3 or
--gc-sections (i.e.: focus on the relocations): 1.019X.
llvm-svn: 265293
Some targets might require creation of thunks. For example, MIPS targets
require stubs to call PIC code from non-PIC one. The patch implements
infrastructure for thunk code creation and provides support for MIPS
LA25 stubs. Any MIPS PIC code function is invoked with its address
in register $t9. So if we have a branch instruction from non-PIC code
to the PIC one we cannot make the jump directly and need to create a small
stub to save the target function address.
See page 3-38 ftp://www.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/doc/ABI/mipsabi.pdf
- In relocation scanning phase we ask target about thunk creation necessity
by calling `TagetInfo::needsThunk` method. The `InputSection` class
maintains list of Symbols requires thunk creation.
- Reassigning offsets performed for each input sections after relocation
scanning complete because position of each section might change due
thunk creation.
- The patch introduces new dedicated value for DefinedSynthetic symbols
DefinedSynthetic::SectionEnd. Synthetic symbol with that value always
points to the end of the corresponding output section. That allows to
escape updating synthetic symbols if output sections sizes changes after
relocation scanning due thunk creation.
- In the `InputSection::writeTo` method we write thunks after corresponding
input section. Each thunk is written by calling `TargetInfo::writeThunk` method.
- The patch supports the only type of thunk code for each target. For now,
it is enough.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17934
llvm-svn: 265059
The original comments were separated by new code that is irrelevant to
the comment. This patch moves the comment to the right place and update it.
llvm-svn: 264816
This simplifies a few things
* Read the value as early as possible, instead of passing a pointer to
the location.
* Print the warning for missing pair close to where we find out it is
missing.
* Don't pass the value to relocateOne.
llvm-svn: 264802
We want to make SymbolBody the central place to query symbol information.
This patch also renames canBePreempted to isPreemptible because I feel that
the latter is slightly better (the former is three words and the latter
is two words.)
llvm-svn: 263386
The patch does not reduce the size of the code but makes
InputSectionBase::relocate cleaner a bit.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18119
llvm-svn: 263381
which was reverted because included
unrelative changes by mistake.
Original commit message:
[ELF] - Change all messages to lowercase to be consistent.
That is directly opposite to http://reviews.llvm.org/D18045,
which was reverted.
This patch changes all messages to start from lowercase letter if
they were not before.
That is done to be consistent with clang.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18085
llvm-svn: 263337
That is directly opposite to http://reviews.llvm.org/D18045,
which was reverted.
This patch changes all messages to start from lowercase letter if
they were not before.
That is done to be consistent with clang.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18085
llvm-svn: 263252
It is really odd that Mips differentiates symbols that are born local
and those that become local because of hidden visibility. I don't know
enough mips to known if this is a bug or not.
llvm-svn: 263228
It was a badly specified hack for when a tls relocation should be
propagated to the dynamic relocation table.
This replaces it with a not as bad hack of saying that a local dynamic
tls relocation is never preempted.
I will try to remove even that second hack in the next patch.
llvm-svn: 262955
Get rid of few accessors in that class, and replace
them with direct fields access.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17879
llvm-svn: 262796
The rules for when we can relax tls relocations are target independent.
The only things that are target dependent are the relocation values.
llvm-svn: 262748
SymbolBody constructor and friends take isFunc and isTLS boolean arguments.
ELF symbols have already a type so than be easily passed as argument.
If we want to support another type, this scheme is not good enough, that is,
the current code logic would require passing another `bool isObject` around.
Up to two argument, this stretching exercise was a little bit goofy but
still acceptable, but with more types to support, is just too much, IMHO.
Change the code so that the type is passed instead.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17871
llvm-svn: 262684
There was a known limitation for -r option:
relocations against local symbols were not supported.
For example rel[a].eh_frame sections contained relocations against sections
and that was not supported for -r before. Patch fixes that.
Differential review: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17813
llvm-svn: 262590
For shared libraries we allow any weak undefined symbol to eventually be
resolved, even if we never see a definition in another .so. This matches
the behavior when handling other undefined symbols in a shared library.
For executables, we require seeing a definition in a .so or resolve it
to zero. This is also similar to how non weak symbols are handled.
llvm-svn: 262017
R_MIPS_GOT16 relocation against local symbol requires index of a local
GOT entry which contains page address corresponds to sum of the symbol
address and addend. The addend in that case is calculated using addends
from the R_MIPS_GOT16 and paired R_MIPS_LO16 relocations.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17610
llvm-svn: 261930
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
"Discarded" section is a marker for discarded sections, and we do not
use the instance except for checking its identity. In that sense, it
is just another type of a "null" pointer for InputSectionBase. So,
it doesn't have to be a real instance of InputSectionBase class.
In this patch, we no longer instantiate Discarded section but instead
use -1 as a pointer value. This eliminates a global variable which
needed initialization at startup.
llvm-svn: 261761
This is a preparation for ICF. If we merge two sections, we want to
align the merged section at the largest alignment requirement.
That means we want to update the alignment value, which was
impossible before this patch because Header is a const value.
llvm-svn: 261712
The previous names contained "Local" and "Current", but what we
are handling is always local and current, so they were redundant.
TlsIndex comes from "tls_index" struct that Ulrich Drepper is using
in this document to describe this data structure in GOT.
llvm-svn: 259852
Symbol does not need an entry i the 'global' part of GOT if it cannot be
preempted. So canBePreempted fully satisfies us at least for now.
llvm-svn: 259779
Previously, the methods to get symbol addresses were somewhat scattered
in many places. You can use getEntryAddr returns the address of the symbol,
but if you want to get the GOT address for the symbol, you needed to call
Out<ELFT>::Got->getEntryAddr(Sym). This change adds new functions, getVA,
getGotVA, getGotPltVA, and getPltVA to SymbolBody, so that you can use
SymbolBody as the central place to ask about symbols.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D16710
llvm-svn: 259404
This function is a predicate that a given relocation can be relaxed.
The previous name implied that it returns true if a given relocation
has already been optimized away.
llvm-svn: 259128
In many situations, we don't want to exit at the first error even in the
process model. For example, it is better to report all undefined symbols
rather than reporting the first one that the linker picked up randomly.
In order to handle such errors, we don't need to wrap everything with
ErrorOr (thanks for David Blaikie for pointing this out!) Instead, we
can set a flag to record the fact that we found an error and keep it
going until it reaches a reasonable checkpoint.
This idea should be applicable to other places. For example, we can
ignore broken relocations and check for errors after visiting all relocs.
In this patch, I rename error to fatal, and introduce another version of
error which doesn't call exit. That function instead sets HasError to true.
Once HasError becomes true, it stays true, so that we know that there
was an error if it is true.
I think introducing a non-noreturn error reporting function is by itself
a good idea, and it looks to me that this also provides a gradual path
towards lld-as-a-library (or at least embed-lld-to-your-program) without
sacrificing code readability with lots of ErrorOr's.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D16641
llvm-svn: 259069
In InputSection.cpp it was possible to dereference null.
Had to change signature of relocateTlsOptimize to accept pointer instead of reference.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D16466
llvm-svn: 258508
Some MIPS relocation (for now R_MIPS_GOT16) requires creation of GOT
entries for symbol not included in the dynamic symbol table. They are
local symbols and non-local symbols with 'local' visibility. Local GOT
entries occupy continuous block between GOT header and regular GOT
entries.
The patch adds initial support for handling local GOT entries. The main
problem is allocating local GOT entries for local symbols. Such entries
should be initialized by high 16-bit of the symbol value. In ideal world
there should be no duplicated entries with the same values. But at the
moment of the `Writer::scanRelocs` call we do not know a value of the
symbol. In this patch we create new local GOT entry for each relocation
against local symbol, though we can exhaust GOT quickly. That needs to
be optimized later. When we calculate relocation we know a final symbol
value and request local GOT entry index. To do that we maintain map
between addresses and local GOT entry indexes. If we start to calculate
relocations in parallel we will have to serialize access to this map.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D16324
llvm-svn: 258388
R_X86_64_PLT32 is handled in the same way as R_X86_64_PC32 by
relocateOne(), so this function does not seems to be needed.
Without this code, all tests still pass.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D15971
llvm-svn: 257203
All non-trivial relocation decisions need explanations like this
to help readers understand not only how relocations are handled but
why they are handled these ways. This is a start.
llvm-svn: 257119
MipsReginfoInputSection is basically just a container of Elf_Mips_Reginfo
struct. This patch makes that struct directly accessible from others.
llvm-svn: 256984
The R_MIPS_GPREL16 / R_MIPS_GPREL32 relocations use the following
expressions for calculations:
```
local symbol: S + A + GP0 - GP
global symbol: S + A - GP
GP - Represents the final gp value, i.e. _gp symbol
GP0 - Represents the gp value used to create the relocatable object
```
The GP0 value is taken from the .reginfo data section defined by an object
file. To implement that I keep a reference to `MipsReginfoInputSection`
in the `ObjectFile` class. This reference is used by the
`ObjectFile::getMipsGp0` method to return the GP0 value.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15760
llvm-svn: 256416
The file crtbeginT.o has relocations pointing to the start of an empty
.eh_frame that is known to be the first in the link. It does that to
identify the start of the output .eh_frame. Handle this special case.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15610
llvm-svn: 256414
There are 3 symbol types that a .bc can provide during lto: defined,
undefined, common.
Defined and undefined symbols have already been refactored. I was
working on common and noticed that absolute symbols would become an
oddity: They would be the only symbol type present in a .o but not in
a.bc.
Looking a bit more, other than the special section number they were only
used for special rules for computing values. In that way they are
similar to TLS, and we don't have a DefinedTLS.
This patch deletes it. With it we have a reasonable rule of the thumb
for having a symbol kind: It exists if it has special resolution
semantics.
llvm-svn: 256383
This patch changes sequence of applying relocations, moving tls optimized relocation handling code before code for other locals.
Without that change relocation @GOTTPOFF against local symbol caused runtime error ("unrecognized reloc ...").
That change also should fix other tls optimized relocations, but I did not check them, that's a field for another patch.
R_X86_64_GOTTPOFF relocations against locals can be found when linking against libc.a(malloc.o):
000000000036 000600000016 R_X86_64_GOTTPOFF 0000000000000000 libc_tsd_MALLOC - 4
000000000131 000600000016 R_X86_64_GOTTPOFF 0000000000000000 libc_tsd_MALLOC - 4
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15581
llvm-svn: 256145
MIPS .reginfo section provides information on the registers used by
the code in the object file. Linker should collect this information and
write .reginfo section in the output file. This section contains a union
of used registers masks taken from input .reginfo sections and final
value of the `_gp` symbol.
For details see the "Register Information" section in Chapter 4 in the
following document:
ftp://www.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/doc/ABI/mipsabi.pdf
The patch implements .reginfo sections handling with a couple missed
features: a) it does not put output .reginfo section into the separate
REGINFO segment; b) it does not merge `ri_cprmask` masks from input
section. These features will be implemented later.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15669
llvm-svn: 256119
@indntpoff is similar to @gotntpoff, but for use in position dependent code. While @gotntpoff resolves to GOT slot address relative to the
start of the GOT in the movl or addl instructions, @indntpoff resolves to the
absolute GOT slot address. ("ELF Handling For Thread-Local Storage", Ulrich Drepper).
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15494
llvm-svn: 255884
Simon Atanasyan