This prepares for an upcoming change to make --print-imm-hex the default
behavior of llvm-objdump. These tests were updated in a semi-automatic
fashion.
See D136972 for details.
We currently process one OutputSection at a time and for each OutputSection
write contained input sections in parallel. This strategy does not leverage
multi-threading well. Instead, parallelize writes of different OutputSections.
The default TaskSize for parallelFor often leads to inferior sharding. We
prepare the task in the caller instead.
* Move llvm::parallel::detail::TaskGroup to llvm::parallel::TaskGroup
* Add llvm::parallel::TaskGroup::execute.
* Change writeSections to declare TaskGroup and pass it to writeTo.
Speed-up with --threads=8:
* clang -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: 1.11x as fast
* clang -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug: 1.10x as fast
* chrome -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: 1.04x as fast
* scylladb build/release: 1.09x as fast
On M1, many benchmarks are a small fraction of a percentage faster. Mozilla showed the largest difference with the patch being about 1.03x as fast.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D131247
For 1 != 1 <= 1 ? 1 : 2, the current code incorrectly considers that ?
has a higher precedence than != (minPrec).
Also, add a test for right associativity.
GNU ld does not allow `.foo : { (*foo) }`, but we may recognize it as three
input section descriptions: file "(" with any section name, file "*foo" with
any section name, file ")" with any section name. Disallow the error-prone usage.
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D125523
Placing a non-SHT_NOBITS input section in an output section specified with
(NOLOAD) is fishy but used by some projects. D118840 changed the output type to
SHT_PROGBITS, but using the specified type seems to make more sense and improve
GNU ld compatibility: `(NOLOAD)` seems to change the output section type
regardless of input.
I think we should keep the current type mismatch warning as it does indicate an
error-prone usage.
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D125074
We currently hard code RELRO sections. When a custom section is between
DATA_SEGMENT_ALIGN and DATA_SEGMENT_RELRO_END, we may report a spurious
`error: section: ... is not contiguous with other relro sections`. GNU ld
makes such sections RELRO.
glibc recently switched to default --with-default-link=no. This configuration
places `__libc_atexit` and others between DATA_SEGMENT_ALIGN and
DATA_SEGMENT_RELRO_END. This patch allows such a ld.bfd --verbose
linker script to be fed into lld.
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D124656
Linux kernel arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S discards .dynsym . D123985 triggers
a spurious assertion failure. Detect the case with
`!mainPart->dynSymTab->getParent()`.
Making a (NOLOAD) section SHT_PROGBITS is fishy (the user may expect all-zero
content, but the linker does not check that), but some projects (e.g. Linux
kernel https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1597) traditionally rely
on the behavior. Issue a warning to not break them.
The current output section type allows to set the ELF section type to
SHT_PROGBITS or SHT_NOLOAD. This patch allows an arbitrary section value
to be specified. Some common SHT_* literal names are supported as well.
```
SECTIONS {
note (TYPE=SHT_NOTE) : { BYTE(8) *(note) }
init_array ( TYPE=14 ) : { QUAD(14) }
fini_array (TYPE = SHT_FINI_ARRAY) : { QUAD(15) }
}
```
When `sh_type` is specified, it is an error if an input section has a different type.
Our syntax is compatible with GNU ld 2.39 (https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28841).
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118840
See the updated insert-before.test for the effects: many synthetic
sections are SHF_ALLOC|SHF_WRITE. If they are discarded, we don't want
to propagate their flags to subsequent output section descriptions.
`getFirstInputSection(sec) == nullptr` can technically be merged into
`isDiscardable` but I'd like to postpone that as not sharing code may give more
refactoring opportunity.
Depends on D118529.
Reviewed By: peter.smith, bluca
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118530
adjustSectionsBeforeSorting updates some output section attributes
(alignment/flags) and removes discardable empty sections. When it is called,
INSERT commands have not been processed. Therefore the flags propagation rule
may not affect output sections defined in an INSERT command properly.
Fix this by moving processInsertCommands before adjustSectionsBeforeSorting.
adjustSectionsBeforeSorting is somewhat misnamed. The order between it and
sortInputSections does not matter. With the pass shuffle, the name of
adjustSectionsBeforeSorting becomes wrong. Therefore rename it. The new
name is not set into stone. The function mixes several tasks and the
code may be refactored in a way that we may give them more meaningful
names.
With this patch, I think the behavior of attribute propagation becomes more
reasonable. In particular, in the absence of non-INSERT SECTIONS,
inserting a section after a SHF_ALLOC one will give us a SHF_ALLOC section,
not a non-SHF_ALLOC one (see linkerscript/insert-after.test).
Reviewed By: peter.smith, bluca
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118529
db08df0570 does not work because part.relrDyn is
a unique_ptr and `reset` destroys the object which may still be referenced.
This commit uses the D114180 approach. Also improve the test to check that there
is no R_X86_64_RELATIVE.
to prepare for D116838, otherwise for linkerscript/discard-section-err.s,
there will be a null pointer dereference in `part.relrDyn->getParent()->size`
in `finalizeSynthetic(part.relrDyn.get())`.
I added `PPC32Got2Section` D62464 to support .got2 but did not implement .got2
in another output section.
PR52799 has a linker script placing .got2 in .rodata, which causes a null
pointer dereference because a MergeSyntheticSection's file is nullptr.
Add the support.
The attribute 'r' allows (or disallows for the negative case) read-only
sections, i.e. ones without the SHF_WRITE flag, to be assigned to the
memory region. Before the patch, lld could put a section in the wrong
region or fail with "error: no memory region specified for section".
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D113771
Fix a null pointer dereference when .got.plt is discarded.
This also adds a test for discarding `.plt`.
Reviewed By: ikudrin
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D114180
When aligning the start address of an output section introduces a gap between the current dot pointer
and the new aligned address, we were already properly expanding the memory region, if available.
D74286 introduced a new behavior to also align the LMA address if an LMA region is specified.
However, this did not expand the corresponding LMA region.
Now, we also expand the LMA region if it is set.
This fixes PR52510.
Reviewed By: MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D114166
Non-allocatable sections are not part of the memory image of the
program, so there is no need to find memory regions for them either
matching properties or handling explicit assignments. The early test
and return help to simplify LinkerScript::findMemoryRegion() a bit.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D113768
An orphan section should be placed in the same memory region as its
anchor section if the latter specifies the memory region explicitly.
If there is no explicit assignment for the anchor section in the linker
script, its memory region is selected by matching attributes, and the
same should be done for the orphan section.
Before the patch, some scripts that were handled smoothly in GNU ld
caused an "error: no memory region specified for section" in lld.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112925
The hint does not pull its weight:
* adding -Wl,-z,notext often won't work (relocation types other than `symbolRel`, e.g. `R_AARCH64_LDST32_ABS_LO12_NC`)
* for pure (no assembly) C/C++ projects, the "-fPIC" hint is sufficient
If segments are defined in a linker script, placing an orphan section
before the found closest-rank section can result in adding it in a
previous segment and changing flags of that segment. This happens if
the orphan section has a lower sort rank than the found section. To
avoid that, the patch forces orphan sections to be moved after the
found section if segments are explicitly defined.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D111717
PT_LOAD segments in the program header must be sorted by their virtual
addresses, so they should be defined in a similar order as the
associated sections.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D111068
GNU ld doesn't support multiple SHF_TLS SHT_NOBITS output sections (it restores
the address after an SHF_TLS SHT_NOBITS section, so consecutive SHF_TLS
SHT_NOBITS sections will have conflicting address ranges).
That said, `threadBssOffset` implements limited support for consecutive SHF_TLS
SHT_NOBITS sections. (SHF_TLS SHT_PROGBITS following a SHF_TLS SHT_NOBITS can still be
incorrect.)
`.` in an output section description of an SHF_TLS SHT_NOBITS section is
incorrect. (https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2021-July/151974.html)
This patch saves the end address of the previous tbss section in
`ctx->tbssAddr`, changes `dot` in the beginning of `assignOffset` so
that `.` evaluation will be correct.
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D107208
