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clang-p2996/bolt/lib/Core/BinaryContext.cpp
Job Noorman c5ba61978c [BOLT][RISCV] Add support for linker relaxation
Calls on RISC-V are typically compiled to `auipc`/`jalr` pairs to allow
a maximum target range (32-bit pc-relative). In order to optimize calls
to near targets, linker relaxation may replace those pairs with, for
example, single `jal` instructions.

To allow BOLT to freely reassign function addresses in relaxed binaries,
this patch proposes the following approach:
- Expand all relaxed calls back to `auipc`/`jalr`;
- Rely on JITLink to relax those back to shorter forms where possible.

This is implemented by detecting all possible call instructions and
replacing them with `PseudoCALL` (or `PseudoTAIL`) instructions. The
RISC-V backend then expands those and adds the necessary relocations for
relaxation.

Since BOLT generally ignores pseudo instruction, this patch makes
`MCPlusBuilder::isPseudo` virtual so that `RISCVMCPlusBuilder` can
override it to exclude `PseudoCALL` and `PseudoTAIL`.

To ensure JITLink knows about the correct section addresses while
relaxing, reassignment of addresses has been moved to a post-allocation
pass. Note that this is probably the time it had to be done in the
first place since in `notifyResolved` (where it was done before), all
symbols are supposed to be resolved already.

Depends on D159082

Reviewed By: maksfb

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D159089
2023-09-15 11:57:28 +02:00

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