Previously, `makeSyntheticInputSection` would create a new
`ConcatInputSection` without setting `live` explicitly for it. Without
`-dead_strip` this would be OK since `live` would default to `true`.
However, with `-dead_strip`, `live` would default to false, and it would
remain set to `false`.
This hasn't resulted in any issues so far since no code paths that
exposed this issue were present.
However a recent change - ObjC relative method lists
(https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/86231) exposes this issue by
creating relocations to the `SyntheticInputSection`.
When these relocations are attempted to be written, this ends up with a
crash(assert), since the `SyntheticInputSection` they refer to is marked
as dead (`live` = `false`).
With this change, we set the correct behavior - `live` will always be
`true`. We add a test case that before this change would trigger an
assert in the linker.
The MachO format supports relative offsets for ObjC method lists. This
support is present already in ld64. With this change we implement this
support in lld also.
Relative method lists can be identified by a specific flag (0x80000000)
in the method list header. When this flag is present, the method list
will contain 32-bit relative offsets to the current Program Counter
(PC), instead of absolute pointers.
Additionally, when relative method lists are used, the offset to the
selector name will now be relative and point to the selector reference
(selref) instead of the name itself.
Before this change, after `InputSection` objects are created, they need
to be added to the appropriate container for tracking.
The logic for selecting the appropriate container lives in `Driver.cpp`
/ `gatherInputSections`, where the `InputSection` is added to the
matching container depending on the input config and the type of
`InputSection`.
Also, multiple other locations also insert directly into `inputSections`
array - assuming that that is the appropriate container for the
`InputSection`'s they create. Currently this is the correct assumption,
however an upcoming feature will change this.
For an upcoming feature (relative method lists), we need to route
`InputSection`'s either to `inputSections` array or to a synthetic
section, depending on weather the relative method list optimization is
enabled or not.
We can achieve the above either by duplicating some of the logic or
refactoring the routing and `InputSection`'s and reusing that.
The refactoring & code sharing approach seems the correct way to go - as
such this diff performs the refactoring while not introducing any
functional changes. Later on we can just call `addInputSection` and not
have to worry about routing logic.
---------
This change adds a flag to lld to enable category merging for MachoO +
ObjC.
It adds the '-objc_category_merging' flag for enabling this option and
uses the existing '-no_objc_category_merging' flag for disabling it.
In ld64, this optimization is enabled by default, but in lld, for now,
we require explicitly passing the '-objc_category_merging' flag in order
to enable it.
Behavior: if in the same link unit, multiple categories are extending
the same class, then they get merged into a single category.
Ex: Cat1(method1+method2,protocol1) + Cat2(method3+method4,protocol2,
property1) = Cat1_2(method1+method2+method3+method4,
protocol1+protocol2, property1)
Notes on implementation decisions made in this diff:
There is a possibility to further improve the current implementation by
directly merging the category data into the base class (if the base
class is present in the link unit) - this improvement may be done as a
follow-up. This improved functionality is already present in ld64.
We do the merging on the raw inputSections - after dead-stripping
(categories can't be dead stripped anyway).
The changes are mostly self-contained to ObjC.cpp, except for adding a
new flag (linkerOptimizeReason) to ConcatInputSection and StringPiece to
mark that this data has been optimized away. Another way to do it would
have been to just mark the pieces as not 'live' but this would cause the
old symbols to show up in the linker map as being dead-stripped - even
if dead-stripping is disabled. This flag allows us to match the ld64
behavior.
Note: This is a re-land of
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/82928 after fixing using
already freed memory in `generatedSectionData`. This issue was detected
by ASAN build.
---------
Co-authored-by: Alex B <alexborcan@meta.com>
This change adds a flag to lld to enable category merging for MachoO +
ObjC.
It adds the '-objc_category_merging' flag for enabling this option and
uses the existing '-no_objc_category_merging' flag for disabling it.
In ld64, this optimization is enabled by default, but in lld, for now,
we require explicitly passing the '-objc_category_merging' flag in order
to enable it.
Behavior: if in the same link unit, multiple categories are extending
the same class, then they get merged into a single category.
Ex: `Cat1(method1+method2,protocol1) + Cat2(method3+method4,protocol2,
property1) = Cat1_2(method1+method2+method3+method4,
protocol1+protocol2, property1)`
Notes on implementation decisions made in this diff:
1. There is a possibility to further improve the current implementation
by directly merging the category data into the base class (if the base
class is present in the link unit) - this improvement may be done as a
follow-up. This improved functionality is already present in ld64.
2. We do the merging on the raw inputSections - after dead-stripping
(categories can't be dead stripped anyway).
3. The changes are mostly self-contained to ObjC.cpp, except for adding
a new flag (linkerOptimizeReason) to ConcatInputSection and StringPiece
to mark that this data has been optimized away. Another way to do it
would have been to just mark the pieces as not 'live' but this would
cause the old symbols to show up in the linker map as being
dead-stripped - even if dead-stripping is disabled. This flag allows us
to match the ld64 behavior.
---------
Co-authored-by: Alex B <alexborcan@meta.com>
This implements ld64's checks for duplicate method names in categories &
classes.
In addition, this sets us up for implementing Obj-C category merging.
This diff handles the most of the parsing work; what's left is rewriting
those category / class structures.
Numbers for chromium_framework:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 2.182 ± 0.027 2.200 ± 0.047 [ -0.2% .. +1.8%]
user_time 6.451 ± 0.034 6.479 ± 0.062 [ -0.0% .. +0.9%]
wall_time 6.841 ± 0.048 6.885 ± 0.105 [ -0.1% .. +1.4%]
samples 33 22
Fixes https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/54912.
Issues seen with the previous land will be fixed in the next commit.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thevinster, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D142916
This implements ld64's checks for duplicate method names in categories &
classes.
In addition, this sets us up for implementing Obj-C category merging.
This diff handles the most of the parsing work; what's left is rewriting
those category / class structures.
Numbers for chromium_framework:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 2.182 ± 0.027 2.200 ± 0.047 [ -0.2% .. +1.8%]
user_time 6.451 ± 0.034 6.479 ± 0.062 [ -0.0% .. +0.9%]
wall_time 6.841 ± 0.048 6.885 ± 0.105 [ -0.1% .. +1.4%]
samples 33 22
Fixes https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/54912.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thevinster, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D142916
Symbols occur at non-zero offsets in a subsection if they are
`.alt_entry` symbols, or if `.subsections_via_symbols` is omitted.
It doesn't seem like ld64 supports folding those subsections either.
Moreover, supporting this it makes `foldIdentical` a lot more
complicated to implement. The existing implementation has some
questionable behavior around STABS omission -- if a section with an
non-zero offset symbol was folded into one without, we would omit the
STABS entry for the non-zero offset symbol.
I will be following up with a diff that makes `foldIdentical` zero out
the symbol sizes for folded symbols. Again, this is much easier to
implement if we don't have to worry about non-zero offsets.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D136000
This commit adds support for chained fixups, which were introduced in
Apple's late 2020 OS releases. This format replaces the dyld opcodes
used for supplying rebase and binding information, and encodes most of
that data directly in the memory location that will have the fixup
applied.
This reduces binary size and is a requirement for page-in linking, which
will be available starting with macOS 13.
A high-level overview of the format and my implementation can be found
in SyntheticSections.h.
This feature is currently gated behind the `-fixup_chains` flag, and
will be enabled by default for supported targets in a later commit.
Like in ld64, lazy binding is disabled when chained fixups are in use,
and the `-init_offsets` transformation is performed by default.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D132560
This commit moves the parsing of linker optimization hints into
`ARM64::applyOptimizationHints`. This lets us avoid allocating memory
for holding the parsed information, and moves work out of
`ObjFile::parse`, which is not parallelized at the moment.
This change reduces the overhead of processing LOHs to 25-30 ms when
linking Chromium Framework on my M1 machine; previously it took close to
100 ms.
There's no statistically significant change in runtime for a --threads=1
link.
Performance figures with all 8 cores utilized:
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 3.8027232 3.8760762 3.8505335 3.8454145 0.026352574
+ 20 3.7019017 3.8660538 3.7546209 3.7620371 0.032680043
Difference at 95.0% confidence
-0.0833775 +/- 0.019
-2.16823% +/- 0.494094%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0296854)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D133439
This is what ld64 does (though it doesn't use ICF to do this; instead it
always dedups selrefs by default).
We'll want to dedup implicitly-defined selrefs as well, but I will leave
that for future work.
Additionally, I'm not *super* happy with the current LLD implementation
because I think it is rather janky and inefficient. But at least it
moves us toward the goal of closing the size gap with ld64. I've
described ideas for cleaning up our implementation here:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/57714
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D133780
So @keith observed
[here](https://reviews.llvm.org/D128108#inline-1263900) that the
StringRefs we were returning from `CStringInputSection::getStringRef()`
included the null terminator in their total length, but regular
StringRefs do not. Let's fix that so these StringRefs are less confusing
to use.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, keith, Roger
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D133728
This section stores 32-bit `__TEXT` segment offsets of initializer
functions, and is used instead of `__mod_init_func` when chained fixups
are enabled.
Storing the offsets lets us avoid emitting fixups for the initializers.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D132947
Apple Clang in Xcode 14 introduced a new feature for reducing the
overhead of objc_msgSend calls by deduplicating the setup calls for each
individual selector. This works by clang adding undefined symbols for
each selector called in a translation unit, such as `_objc_msgSend$foo`
for calling the `foo` method on any `NSObject`. There are 2
different modes for this behavior, the default directly does the setup
for `_objc_msgSend` and calls it, and the smaller option does the
selector setup, and then calls the standard `_objc_msgSend` stub
function.
The general overview of how this works is:
- Undefined symbols with the given prefix are collected
- The suffix of each matching undefined symbol is added as a string to
`__objc_methname`
- A pointer is added for every method name in the `__objc_selrefs`
section
- A `got` entry is emitted for `_objc_msgSend`
- Stubs are emitting pointing to the synthesized locations
Notes:
- Both `__objc_methname` and `__objc_selrefs` can also exist from object
files, so their contents are merged with our synthesized contents
- The compiler emits method names for defined methods, but not for
undefined symbols you call, but stubs are used for both
- This only implements the default "fast" mode currently just to reduce
the diff, I also doubt many folks will care to swap modes
- This only implements this for arm64 and x86_64, we don't need to
implement this for 32 bit iOS archs, but we should implement it for
watchOS archs in a later diff
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128108
In DWARF5, the `DW_AT_name` and `DW_AT_comp_dir` attributes are encoded
using the `strx*` forms, which specify an index into `__debug_str_offs`.
This commit adds that section to DwarfObject, so the debug info parser
can resolve these references.
The test case was manually adapted from stabs-icf.s.
Fixes#51668
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130559
Previously, we treated it as a regular ConcatInputSection. However, ld64
actually parses its contents and uses that to synthesize a single image
info struct, generating one 8-byte section instead of `8 * number of
object files with ObjC code`.
I'm not entirely sure what impact this section has on the runtime, so I
just tried to follow ld64's semantics as closely as possible in this
diff. My main motivation though was to reduce binary size.
No significant perf change on chromium_framework on my 16-core Mac Pro:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.764 ± 0.062 1.748 ± 0.032 [ -2.4% .. +0.5%]
user_time 5.112 ± 0.104 5.106 ± 0.046 [ -0.9% .. +0.7%]
wall_time 6.111 ± 0.184 6.085 ± 0.076 [ -1.6% .. +0.8%]
samples 30 32
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130125
To do this, we need to slice away the LSDA pointer, just like we are
slicing away the functionAddress pointer.
No observable difference in perf on chromium_framework:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.769 ± 0.068 1.761 ± 0.065 [ -2.7% .. +1.8%]
user_time 9.517 ± 0.110 9.528 ± 0.116 [ -0.6% .. +0.8%]
wall_time 8.291 ± 0.174 8.307 ± 0.183 [ -1.1% .. +1.5%]
samples 21 25
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D129830
Linker optimization hints mark a sequence of instructions used for
synthesizing an address, like ADRP+ADD. If the referenced symbol ends up
close enough, it can be replaced by a faster sequence of instructions
like ADR+NOP.
This commit adds support for 2 of the 7 defined ARM64 optimization
hints:
- LOH_ARM64_ADRP_ADD, which transforms a pair of ADRP+ADD into ADR+NOP
if the referenced address is within +/- 1 MiB
- LOH_ARM64_ADRP_ADRP, which transforms two ADRP instructions into
ADR+NOP if they reference the same page
These two kinds already cover more than 50% of all LOHs in
chromium_framework.
Differential Review: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128093
The error used to look like this:
ld64.lld: error: undefined symbol: _foo
>>> referenced by /path/to/bar.o:(symbol _baz+0x4)
If DWARF line information is available, we now show where in the source
the references are coming from:
ld64.lld: error: unreferenced symbol: _foo
>>> referenced by: bar.cpp:42 (/path/to/bar.cpp:42)
>>> /path/to/bar.o:(symbol _baz+0x4)
The reland is identical to the first time this landed. The fix was in D128294.
This reverts commit 0cc7ad4175.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128184
The error used to look like this:
ld64.lld: error: undefined symbol: _foo
>>> referenced by /path/to/bar.o:(symbol _baz+0x4)
If DWARF line information is available, we now show where in the source
the references are coming from:
ld64.lld: error: unreferenced symbol: _foo
>>> referenced by: bar.cpp:42 (/path/to/bar.cpp:42)
>>> /path/to/bar.o:(symbol _baz+0x4)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128184
This reverts commit 942f4e3a7c.
The additional change required to avoid the assertion errors seen
previously is:
--- a/lld/MachO/ICF.cpp
+++ b/lld/MachO/ICF.cpp
@@ -443,7 +443,9 @@ void macho::foldIdenticalSections() {
/*relocVA=*/0);
isec->data = copy;
}
- } else {
+ } else if (!isEhFrameSection(isec)) {
+ // EH frames are gathered as hashables from unwindEntry above; give a
+ // unique ID to everything else.
isec->icfEqClass[0] = ++icfUniqueID;
}
}
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123435
== Background ==
`llvm-mc` generates unwind info in both compact unwind and DWARF
formats. LLD already handles the compact unwind format; this diff gets
us close to handling the DWARF format properly.
== Caveats ==
It's not quite done yet, but I figure it's worth getting this reviewed
and landed first as it's shaping up to be a fairly large code change.
**Known limitations of the current code:**
* Only works for x86_64, for which `llvm-mc` emits "abs-ified"
relocations as described in 618def651b.
`llvm-mc` emits regular relocations for ARM EH frames, which we do not
yet handle correctly.
Since the feature is not ready for real use yet, I've gated it behind a
flag that only gets toggled on during test suite runs. With most of the
new code disabled, we see just a hint of perf regression, so I don't
think it'd be remiss to land this as-is:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.926 ± 0.168 1.979 ± 0.117 [ -1.2% .. +6.6%]
user_time 3.590 ± 0.033 3.606 ± 0.028 [ +0.0% .. +0.9%]
wall_time 7.104 ± 0.184 7.179 ± 0.151 [ -0.2% .. +2.3%]
samples 30 31
== Design ==
Like compact unwind entries, EH frames are also represented as regular
ConcatInputSections that get pointed to via `Defined::unwindEntry`. This
allows them to be handled generically by e.g. the MarkLive and ICF
code. (But note that unlike compact unwind subsections, EH frame
subsections do end up in the final binary.)
In order to make EH frames "look like" a regular ConcatInputSection,
some processing is required. First, we need to split the `__eh_frame`
section along EH frame boundaries rather than along symbol boundaries.
We do this by decoding the length field of each EH frame. Second, the
abs-ified relocations need to be turned into regular Relocs.
== Next Steps ==
In order to support EH frames on ARM targets, we will either have to
teach LLD how to handle EH frames with explicit relocs, or we can try to
make `llvm-mc` emit abs-ified relocs for ARM as well. I'm hoping to do
the latter as I think it will make the LLD implementation both simpler
and faster to execute.
== Misc ==
The `obj-file-with-stabs.s` test had to be updated as the previous
version would trip assertion errors in the code. It appears that in our
attempt to produce a minimal YAML test input, we created a file with
invalid EH frame data. I've fixed this by re-generating the YAML and not
doing any hand-pruning of it.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, Roger
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123435
This change implements --icf=safe for MachO based on addrsig section that is implemented in D123751.
Reviewed By: int3, #lld-macho
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123752
ld64 breaks down `__objc_classrefs` on a per-word level and deduplicates
them. This greatly reduces the number of bind entries emitted (and
therefore the amount of work `dyld` has to do at runtime). For
chromium_framework, this change to LLD cuts the number of (non-lazy)
binds from 912 to 190, getting us to parity with ld64 in this aspect.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D121053
... from a `uint64_t` to a `uint32_t`. (LLD-ELF uses a `uint32_t` too.)
About a 1.7% reduction in peak RSS when linking chromium_framework on my
3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W Mac Pro, and no stat sig change in wall
time.
</Users/jezng/test2.sh ["before"]> </Users/jezng/test2.sh ["after"]> difference (95% CI)
RSS 1003036672.000 ± 9891065.259 985539505.231 ± 10272748.749 [ -2.3% .. -1.2%]
samples 27 26
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.277 ± 0.023 1.277 ± 0.024 [ -0.9% .. +0.9%]
user_time 6.682 ± 0.046 6.598 ± 0.043 [ -1.6% .. -0.9%]
wall_time 5.904 ± 0.062 5.895 ± 0.063 [ -0.7% .. +0.4%]
samples 46 28
No appreciable change (~0.01%) in number of `equals` comparisons either:
Before:
ld64.lld: ICF needed 8 iterations
ld64.lld: equalsConstant() called 701643 times
ld64.lld: equalsVariable() called 3438526 times
After:
ld64.lld: ICF needed 8 iterations
ld64.lld: equalsConstant() called 701729 times
ld64.lld: equalsVariable() called 3438526 times
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, MaskRay, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D121052
`parseSections()` is a getting a bit large unwieldy, let's factor out
logic where we can.
Other minor changes in this diff:
* `"__cg_profile"` is now a global constexpr
* We now use `checkError()` instead of `fatal()`-ing without handling
the Error
* Check for `callGraphProfileSort` before checking the section name,
since the boolean comparison is likely cheaper
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, lgrey, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D119892
This makes it easier to pinpoint the source of the problem.
TODO: Have more relocation error messages make use of this
functionality.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118798
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
Depends on D112160
This adds the new options `--call-graph-profile-sort` (default),
`--no-call-graph-profile-sort` and `--print-symbol-order=`. If call graph
profile sorting is enabled, reads `__LLVM,__cg_profile` sections from object
files and uses the resulting graph to put callees and callers close to each
other in the final binary via the C3 clustering heuristic.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112164
... only whether they have more than zero. This simplifies the code slightly.
I've also moved the field into the ConcatInputSection subclass since it doesn't
actually get used by the other InputSections.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D115539
In order to keep signal:noise high for the `__eh_frame` diff, I have teased-out the NFC changes and put them here.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D114017
As discussed in https://reviews.llvm.org/D113809#3128636. It's a bit
unfortunate to move the asserts away from the structs whose sizes
they're checking, but it's a far better developer experience when one of
the asserts is violated, because you get a single error instead of every
single source file including the header erroring out.
It was checking for 64-bit builds incorrectly. Unfortunately,
ConcatInputSection has grown a bit in the meantime, and I don't see any
obvious way to shrink it. Perhaps icfEqClass could use 32-bit hashes
instead of 64-bit ones, but xxHash64 is supposed to be much faster than
xxHash32 (https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash#benchmarks), so that sounds
like a loss. (Unrelatedly, we should really look at using XXH3 instead
of xxHash64 now.)
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, int3
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D113809
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
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 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
`__cfstring` is a special literal section, so instead of breaking it up
at symbol boundaries, we break it up at fixed-width boundaries (since
each literal is the same size). Symbols can only occur at one of those
boundaries, so this is strictly more powerful than
`.subsections_via_symbols`.
With that in place, we then run the section through ICF.
This change is about perf-neutral when linking chromium_framework.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105045
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
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
