This reduces the time emitStabs() takes by about 275ms, or 3% of overall
linking time for the project I'm on. Although the parent function is run in
parallel, it's one of the slowest tasks in that concurrent batch (I have
another optimization for another slow task as well).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D126785
{D123302} got me looking deeper at `includeInSymtab`. I thought it was a
little odd that there were excluded (live) symbols for which
`includeInSymtab` was false; we shouldn't have so many different ways to
exclude a symbol. As such, this diff makes the `L`-prefixed-symbol
exclusion code use `includeInSymtab` too. (Note that as part of our
support for `__eh_frame`, we will also be excluding all `__eh_frame`
symbols from the symtab in a future diff.)
Another thing I noticed is that the `emitStabs` code never has to deal
with excluded symbols because `SymtabSection::finalize()` already
filters them out. As such, I've updated the comments and asserts from
{D123302} to reflect this.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123433
I was wondering if SymtabSection::emitStabs() should check
defined->includeInSymtab. Add asserts and comments explaining why that's not
necessary.
No behavior change.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123302
This matches ld64, and makes dsymutil work better with lld's output.
Fixes PR54783, see there for details.
Reduces time needed to run dsymutil on Chromium Framework from 8m30s
(which is already down from 26 min with D123218) to 6m30s and removes
many lines of "could not find object file symbol for symbol" from dsymutil output
(previously: several MB of those messages, now dsymutil is completely silent).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123252
Returning `std::array<uint8_t, N>` is better ergonomics for the hashing functions usage, instead of a `StringRef`:
* When returning `StringRef`, client code is "jumping through hoops" to do string manipulations instead of dealing with fixed array of bytes directly, which is more natural
* Returning `std::array<uint8_t, N>` avoids the need for the hasher classes to keep a field just for the purpose of wrapping it and returning it as a `StringRef`
As part of this patch also:
* Introduce `TruncatedBLAKE3` which is useful for using BLAKE3 as the hasher type for `HashBuilder` with non-default hash sizes.
* Make `MD5Result` inherit from `std::array<uint8_t, 16>` which improves & simplifies its API.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123100
Update DataInCode's calculation of `endAddr` to use `getSize()` instead
of `getFileSize()` -- while in practice they're the same for
non-zerofill sections (which code sections are), we still should treat
address sizes / offsets as distinct from file sizes / offsets.
All references to interposable symbols can be redirected at runtime to
point to a different symbol definition (with the same name). For
example, if both dylib A and B define symbol _foo, and we load A before
B at runtime, then all references to _foo within dylib B will point to
the definition in dylib A.
ld64 makes all extern symbols interposable when linking with
`-flat_namespace`.
TODO 1: Support `-interposable` and `-interposable_list`, which should
just be a matter of parsing those CLI flags and setting the
`Defined::interposable` bit.
TODO 2: Set Reloc::FinalDefinitionInLinkageUnit correctly with this info
(we are currently not setting it at all, so we're erring on the
conservative side, but we should help the LTO backend generate more
optimal code.)
Reviewed By: modimo, MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D119294
Previously, we only allowed this for DylibSymbols. However, in order to
properly support `-flat_namespace` as well as `-interposable`, we need
to allow this for Defined symbols too. Therefore we hoist the
`lazyBindOffset` and the `stubsHelperIndex` into the parent Symbol
class.
The actual change to support interposition under `-flat_namespace` is in
{D119294}; the NFC changes here have been split out for easier review.
Perf regression isn't stat sig on my 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W linking
chromium_framework:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.227 ± 0.021 1.234 ± 0.031 [ -0.3% .. +1.5%]
user_time 3.665 ± 0.036 3.674 ± 0.035 [ -0.2% .. +0.7%]
wall_time 4.596 ± 0.055 4.609 ± 0.064 [ -0.3% .. +0.9%]
samples 34 47
Max RSS regression is barely stat sig:
base diff difference (95% CI)
time 1003664356.324 ± 15404053.912 1010380403.613 ± 10578309.455 [ +0.0% .. +1.3%]
samples 37 31
Reviewed By: modimo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D121351
Previously, we aligned every cstring to 16 bytes as a temporary hack to
deal with https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/50135. However, it
was highly wasteful in terms of binary size.
To recap, in contrast to ELF, which puts strings that need different
alignments into different sections, `clang`'s Mach-O backend puts them
all in one section. Strings that need to be aligned have the .p2align
directive emitted before them, which simply translates into zero padding
in the object file. In other words, we have to infer the alignment of
the cstrings from their addresses.
We differ slightly from ld64 in how we've chosen to align these
cstrings. Both LLD and ld64 preserve the number of trailing zeros in
each cstring's address in the input object files. When deduplicating
identical cstrings, both linkers pick the cstring whose address has more
trailing zeros, and preserve the alignment of that address in the final
binary. However, ld64 goes a step further and also preserves the offset
of the cstring from the last section-aligned address. I.e. if a cstring
is at offset 18 in the input, with a section alignment of 16, then both
LLD and ld64 will ensure the final address is 2-byte aligned (since
`18 == 16 + 2`). But ld64 will also ensure that the final address is of
the form 16 * k + 2 for some k (which implies 2-byte alignment).
Note that ld64's heuristic means that a dedup'ed cstring's final address is
dependent on the order of the input object files. E.g. if in addition to the
cstring at offset 18 above, we have a duplicate one in another file with a
`.cstring` section alignment of 2 and an offset of zero, then ld64 will pick
the cstring from the object file earlier on the command line (since both have
the same number of trailing zeros in their address). So the final cstring may
either be at some address `16 * k + 2` or at some address `2 * k`.
I've opted not to follow this behavior primarily for implementation
simplicity, and secondarily to save a few more bytes. It's not clear to me
that preserving the section alignment + offset is ever necessary, and there
are many cases that are clearly redundant. In particular, if an x86_64 object
file contains some strings that are accessed via SIMD instructions, then the
.cstring section in the object file will be 16-byte-aligned (since SIMD
requires its operand addresses to be 16-byte aligned). However, there will
typically also be other cstrings in the same file that aren't used via SIMD
and don't need this alignment. They will be emitted at some arbitrary address
`A`, but ld64 will treat them as being 16-byte aligned with an offset of
`16 % A`.
I have verified that the two repros in https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/50135
work well with the new alignment behavior.
Fixes https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/54036.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D121342
Earlier in LLD's evolution, I tried to create the illusion that
subsections were indistinguishable from "top-level" sections. Thus, even
though the subsections shared many common field values, I hid those
common values away in a private Shared struct (see D105305). More
recently, however, @gkm added a public `Section` struct in D113241 that
served as an explicit way to store values that are common to an entire
set of subsections (aka InputSections). Now that we have another "common
value" struct, `Shared` has been rendered redundant. All its fields can
be moved into `Section` instead, and the pointer to `Shared` can be replaced
with a pointer to `Section`.
This `Section` pointer also has the advantage of letting us inspect other
subsections easily, simplifying the implementation of {D118798}.
P.S. I do think that having both `Section` and `InputSection` makes for
a slightly confusing naming scheme. I considered renaming `InputSection`
to `Subsection`, but that would break the symmetry with `OutputSection`.
It would also make us deviate from LLD-ELF's naming scheme.
This change is perf-neutral on my 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W machine:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.258 ± 0.031 1.248 ± 0.023 [ -1.6% .. +0.1%]
user_time 3.659 ± 0.047 3.658 ± 0.041 [ -0.5% .. +0.4%]
wall_time 4.640 ± 0.085 4.625 ± 0.063 [ -1.0% .. +0.3%]
samples 49 61
There's also no stat sig change in RSS (as measured by `time -l`):
base diff difference (95% CI)
time 998038627.097 ± 13567305.958 1003327715.556 ± 15210451.236 [ -0.2% .. +1.2%]
samples 31 36
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118797
If you're building this on macOS 12.x+ this produces a deprecation
warning. I'm not sure what this means for the bitcode format going
forward, but it seems safe to silence for now.
Do we need to worry about GCC for this?
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D117718
Move all variables at file-scope or function-static-scope into a hosting structure (lld::CommonLinkerContext) that lives at lldMain()-scope. Drivers will inherit from this structure and add their own global state, in the same way as for the existing COFFLinkerContext.
See discussion in https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2021-June/151184.html
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D108850
Tail merge is slow and of low value. With regular string deduplication, we can
just use the return value of StringTableBuilder::add.
There is no noticeable performance increase because without deduplication
`__cstring` is quite small (7.6MiB for chromium_framework).
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, Jez Ng
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D117273
The PlatformKind/PlatformType enums contain the same information, which requires
them to be kept in-sync. This commit changes over to PlatformType as the sole
source of truth, which allows the removal of the redundant PlatformKind.
The majority of the changes were in LLD and TextAPI.
Reviewed By: cishida
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D117163
1. After D113241, we have the section address easily accessible and no
longer need to iterate across the LC_SEGMENT commands to emit
LC_DATA_IN_CODE.
2. There's no need to store a pointer to the data in code entries during
the parse step; we can just look it up as part of the output step.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D115556
Follup-up to D107533, where we replaced local syms with non-local.
It doesn't make sense to replace local symbol with lazy.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D110040
This is an NFC diff that prepares for pruning & relocating `__eh_frame`.
Along the way, I made the following changes to ...
* clarify usage of `section` vs. `subsection`
* remove `map` & `vec` from type names
* disambiguate class `Section` from template parameter `SectionHeader`.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D113241
Having to remember to call `canonical()` all over the place is
error-prone; let's do it in a centralized location instead. It also
appears to improve performance slightly.
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 0.984 ± 0.009 0.983 ± 0.014 [ -0.8% .. +0.6%]
user_time 6.508 ± 0.035 6.475 ± 0.036 [ -0.8% .. -0.2%]
wall_time 5.321 ± 0.034 5.300 ± 0.033 [ -0.7% .. -0.1%]
samples 36 23
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112687
There are a couple internal builds that require the use of this flag.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, int3
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112594
**Context:**
This is a second attempt at introducing signature regeneration to llvm-objcopy. In this diff: https://reviews.llvm.org/D109840, a script was introduced to test
the validity of a code signature. In this diff: https://reviews.llvm.org/D109803 (now reverted), an effort was made to extract the signature generation behavior out of LLD into a common location for use in llvm-objcopy. In this diff: https://reviews.llvm.org/D109972 it was decided that there was no appropriate common location and that a small amount of duplication to bring signature generation to llvm-objcopy would be better. This diff introduces this duplication.
**Summary**
Prior to this change, if a LC_CODE_SIGNATURE load command
was included in the binary passed to llvm-objcopy, the command and
associated section were simply copied and included verbatim in the
new binary. If rest of the binary was modified at all, this results
in an invalid Mach-O file. This change regenerates the signature
rather than copying it.
The code_signature_lc.test test was modified to include the yaml
representation of a small signed MachO executable in order to
effectively test the signature generation.
Reviewed By: alexander-shaposhnikov, #lld-macho
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D111164
Compact unwind entries (CUEs) contain pointers to their respective
function symbols. However, during the link process, it's far more useful
to have pointers from the function symbol to the CUE than vice versa.
This diff adds that pointer in the form of `Defined::compactUnwind`.
In particular, when doing dead-stripping, we want to mark CUEs live when
their function symbol is live; and when doing ICF, we want to dedup
sections iff the symbols in that section have identical CUEs. In both
cases, we want to be able to locate the symbols within a given section,
as well as locate the CUEs belonging to those symbols. So this diff also
adds `InputSection::symbols`.
The ultimate goal of this refactor is to have ICF support dedup'ing
functions with unwind info, but that will be handled in subsequent
diffs. This diff focuses on simplifying `-dead_strip` --
`findFunctionsWithUnwindInfo` is no longer necessary, and
`Defined::isLive()` is now a lot simpler. Moreover, UnwindInfoSection no
longer has to check for dead CUEs -- we simply avoid adding them in the
first place.
Additionally, we now support stripping of dead LSDAs, which follows
quite naturally since `markLive()` can now reach them via the CUEs.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D109944
We were previously always emitting the GOT into `__DATA_CONST`, even for
target platforms where it should end up in `__DATA`.
I stumbled onto this while trying to use the `class-dump` tool -- with
the wrong segment names, it fails to locate the ObjC runtime info and
therefore fails to dump any classes.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112500
prepareSymbolRelocation() in Writer.cpp adds both symbols that need binding and
symbols relocated with a pointer relocation to the got.
Pointer relocations are emitted for non-movq GOTPCREL(%rip) loads. (movqs
become GOT_LOADs so that the linker knows they can be relaxed to leaqs, while
others, such as addq, become just GOT -- a pointer relocation -- since they
can't be relaxed in that way).
For example, this C file produces a private_extern GOT relocation when
compiled with -O2 with clang:
extern const char kString[];
const char* g(int a) { return kString + a; }
Linkers need to put pointer-relocated symbols into the GOT, but ld64 marks them
as LOCAL in the indirect symbol table. This matters, since `strip -x` looks at
the indirect symbol table when deciding what to strip.
The indirect symtab emitting code was assuming that only symbols that need
binding are in the GOT, but pointer relocations where there too. Hence, the
code needs to explicitly check if a symbol is a private extern.
Fixes https://crbug.com/1242638, which has some more information in comments 14
and 15. With this patch, the output of `nm -U` on Chromium Framework after
stripping now contains just two symbols when using lld, just like with ld64.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D111852
Without such wrapping, linking lld fails with missing symbols because of
C++ symbol mangling with older versions of the MacOSX SDK, in which
xar.h doesn't have an extern "C" block itself.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D110224
Move the functionality in lld that handles writing of the LC_CODE_SIGNATURE load command and associated data section to a central reusable location.
This change is in preparation for another change that modifies llvm-objcopy to reproduce the LC_CODE_SIGNATURE load command and corresponding
data section to maintain the validity of signed macho object files passed through llvm-objcopy.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, int3, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D109803
segment$start$/segment$end$ symbols allow creating segments without
sections, so getting the segment address off the first section
won't work there. Storing the address on the segment is arguably a
bit simpler too.
No behavior change, part of PR50760.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D106665
Implement pass 3 of bind opcodes from ld64 (which supports both 32-bit and 64-bit).
Pass 3 implementation condenses BIND_OPCODE_DO_BIND_ADD_ADDR_ULEB opcode
to BIND_OPCODE_DO_BIND_ADD_ADDR_IMM_SCALED. This change is already behind an
O2 flag so it shouldn't impact current performance. I verified ld64's output with x86_64 LLD
and they were both emitting the same optimized bind opcodes (although in a slightly different
order). Tested with arm64_32 LLD and compared that with x86 LLD that the order of the bind
opcodes are the same (offset values are different which should be expected).
Reviewed By: int3, #lld-macho, MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D106128
This reverts commit 321b2bef09.
`for (BindIR *p = &opcodes[0]; p->opcode != BIND_OPCODE_DONE; ++p) {` has a heap-buffer-overflow with test/MachO/bind-opcodes.
Implement pass 3 of bind opcodes from ld64 (which supports both 32-bit and 64-bit).
Pass 3 implementation condenses BIND_OPCODE_DO_BIND_ADD_ADDR_ULEB opcode
to BIND_OPCODE_DO_BIND_ADD_ADDR_IMM_SCALED. This change is already behind an
O2 flag so it shouldn't impact current performance. I verified ld64's output with x86_64 LLD
and they were both emitting the same optimized bind opcodes (although in a slightly different
order). Tested with arm64_32 LLD and compared that with x86 LLD that the order of the bind
opcodes are the same (offset values are different which should be expected).
Reviewed By: int3, #lld-macho
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D106128
ICF previously operated only within a given OutputSection. We would
merge all CFStrings first, then merge all regular code sections in a
second phase. This worked fine since CFStrings would never reference
regular `__text` sections. However, I would like to expand ICF to merge
functions that reference unwind info. Unwind info references the LSDA
section, which can in turn reference the `__text` section, so we cannot
perform ICF in phases.
In order to have ICF operate on InputSections spanning multiple
OutputSections, we need a way to distinguish InputSections that are
destined for different OutputSections, so that we don't fold across
section boundaries. We achieve this by creating OutputSections early,
and setting `InputSection::parent` to point to them. This is what
LLD-ELF does. (This change should also make it easier to implement the
`section$start$` symbols.)
This diff also folds InputSections w/o checking their flags, which I
think is the right behavior -- if they are destined for the same
OutputSection, they will have the same flags in the output (even if
their input flags differ). I.e. the `parent` pointer check subsumes the
`flags` check. In practice this has nearly no effect (ICF did not become
any more effective on chromium_framework).
I've also updated ICF.cpp's block comment to better reflect its current
status.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, smeenai
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105641
In D105866, we used an intermediate container to store a list of opcodes. Here,
we use that data structure to help us perform optimization passes that would allow
a more efficient encoding of bind opcodes. Currently, the functionality mirrors the
optimization pass {1,2} done in ld64 for bind opcodes under optimization gate
to prevent slight regressions.
Reviewed By: int3, #lld-macho
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105867
We want to incorporate some of the optimization passes in bind opcodes from ld64.
This revision makes no functional changes but to start storing opcodes in intermediate
containers in preparation for implementing the optimization passes in a follow-up revision.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105866
This is for aesthetic reasons, I'm not aware of anything that needs
this in practice. It does have a few effects:
- `-undefined dynamic_lookup` now has an effect for dyld_stub_binder.
This matches ld64.
- `-U dyld_stub_binder` now works like you'd expect (it doesn't work in ld64).
- The error message for a missing dyld_stub_binder symbol now looks like
other undefined reference symbols, it changes from
symbol dyld_stub_binder not found (normally in libSystem.dylib). Needed to perform lazy binding.
to
error: undefined symbol: dyld_stub_binder
>>> referenced by lazy binding (normally in libSystem.dylib)
Also add test coverage for that error message.
But in practice, this should have no interesting effects since everything links
in dyld_stub_binder via libSystem anyways.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105781
This is one of two flags clang passes to the linker when giving calling
clang with multiple -arch flags.
I think it'd make sense to also use finalOutput instead of outputFile
in CodeSignatureSection() and when replacing @executable_path, but
ld64 doesn't do that, so I'll at least put those in separate commits.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105449
Size-wise, BIND_OPCODE_SET_SYMBOL_TRAILING_FLAGS_IMM is the most
expensive opcode, since it comes with an associated symbol string. We
were previously emitting it once per binding, instead of once per
symbol. This diff groups all bindings for a given symbol together and
ensures we only emit one such opcode per symbol. This matches ld64's
behavior.
While this is a relatively small win on chromium_framework (-72KiB), for
programs that have more dynamic bindings, the difference can be quite
large.
This change is perf-neutral when linking chromium_framework.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105075
We have been creating many ConcatInputSections with identical values due
to .subsections_via_symbols. This diff factors out the identical values
into a Shared struct, to reduce memory consumption and make copying
cheaper.
I also changed `callSiteCount` from a uint32_t to a 31-bit field to save an
extra word.
All in all, this takes InputSection from 120 to 72 bytes (and
ConcatInputSection from 160 to 112 bytes), i.e. 30% size reduction in
ConcatInputSection.
Numbers for linking chromium_framework on my 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W:
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 4.14 4.24 4.18 4.183 0.027548999
+ 20 4.04 4.11 4.075 4.0775 0.018027756
Difference at 95.0% confidence
-0.1055 +/- 0.0149005
-2.52211% +/- 0.356215%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0232803)
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105305
This is a pretty big refactoring diff, so here are the motivations:
Previously, ICF ran after scanRelocations(), where we emitting
bind/rebase opcodes etc. So we had a bunch of redundant leftovers after
ICF. Having ICF run before Writer seems like a better design, and is
what LLD-ELF does, so this diff refactors it accordingly.
However, ICF had two dependencies on things occurring in Writer: 1) it
needs literals to be deduplicated beforehand and 2) it needs to know
which functions have unwind info, which was being handled by
`UnwindInfoSection::prepareRelocations()`.
In order to do literal deduplication earlier, we need to add literal
input sections to their corresponding output sections. So instead of
putting all input sections into the big `inputSections` vector, and then
filtering them by type later on, I've changed things so that literal
sections get added directly to their output sections during the 'gather'
phase. Likewise for compact unwind sections -- they get added directly
to the UnwindInfoSection now. This latter change is not strictly
necessary, but makes it easier for ICF to determine which functions have
unwind info.
Adding literal sections directly to their output sections means that we
can no longer determine `inputOrder` from iterating over
`inputSections`. Instead, we store that order explicitly on
InputSection. Bloating the size of InputSection for this purpose would
be unfortunate -- but LLD-ELF has already solved this problem: it reuses
`outSecOff` to store this order value.
One downside of this refactor is that we now make an additional pass
over the unwind info relocations to figure out which functions have
unwind info, since want to know that before `processRelocations()`. I've
made sure to run that extra loop only if ICF is enabled, so there should
be no overhead in non-optimizing runs of the linker.
The upside of all this is that the `inputSections` vector now contains
only ConcatInputSections that are destined for ConcatOutputSections, so
we can clean up a bunch of code that just existed to filter out other
elements from that vector.
I will test for the lack of redundant binds/rebases in the upcoming
cfstring deduplication diff. While binds/rebases can also happen in the
regular `.text` section, they're more common in `.data` sections, so it
seems more natural to test it that way.
This change is perf-neutral when linking chromium_framework.
Reviewed By: oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105044
Previously, we only applied the renames to
ConcatOutputSections.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105079
Fixes PR50637.
Downstream bug: https://crbug.com/1218958
Currently, we split __cstring along symbol boundaries with .subsections_via_symbols
when not deduplicating, and along null bytes when deduplicating. This change splits
along null bytes unconditionally, and preserves original alignment in the non-
deduplicated case.
Removing subsections-section-relocs.s because with this change, __cstring
is never reordered based on the order file.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104919
