Linkers normally read all the relocations upfront to compute the references
between sections. Putting them together is a bit more cache friendly.
I benchmarked linking a Release+Asserts clang with gold on a vm. I tried all
4 combinations of --gc-sections/no --gc-section hot and cold cache.
I cleared the cache with
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
and warmed it up by running the link once before timing the subsequent ones.
With cold cache and --gc-sections the time goes from
1.86130781665 +- 0.01713126697463843 seconds
to
1.82370735105 +- 0.014127522318814516 seconds
With cold cache and no --gc-sections the time goes from
1.6087245435500002 +- 0.012999066825178644 seconds
to
1.5687122041500001 +- 0.013145850126026619 seconds
With hot cache and no --gc-sections the time goes from
0.926200939 ( +- 0.33% ) seconds
to
0.907200079 ( +- 0.31% ) seconds
With hot cache and gc sections the time goes from
1.183038049 ( +- 0.34% ) seconds
to
1.147355862 ( +- 0.39% ) seconds
llvm-svn: 235165
Now we don't have to do 2 synchronized passes to compute offsets and then
write the file.
This also includes a fix for the corner case of seeking in /dev/null. It
is not an error, but on some systems (Linux) the returned offset is
always 0. An error is signaled by returning -1. This is checked by
the existing tests now that "clang -o /dev/null ..." seeks.
llvm-svn: 234952
Some targets (ie. Mips) have additional rules for ordering the relocation
table entries. Allow them to override generic sortRelocs(), which sorts
entries by Offset.
Then override this function for Mips, to emit HI16 and GOT16 relocations
against the local symbol in pair with the corresponding LO16 relocation.
Patch by Vladimir Stefanovic.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D7414
llvm-svn: 234883
Summary:
When instruction bundling is enabled and the -mc-relax-all flag is
set, we can write bundle padding directly into fragments and avoid
creating large number of fragments significantly reducing LLVM MC
memory usage.
Test Plan: Regression test attached
Reviewers: eliben
Subscribers: jfb, mseaborn
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D8072
llvm-svn: 234714
The patch is generated using clang-tidy misc-use-override check.
This command was used:
tools/clang/tools/extra/clang-tidy/tool/run-clang-tidy.py \
-checks='-*,misc-use-override' -header-filter='llvm|clang' \
-j=32 -fix -format
http://reviews.llvm.org/D8925
llvm-svn: 234679
formatted_raw_ostream is a wrapper over another stream to add column and line
number tracking.
It is used only for asm printing.
This patch moves the its creation down to where we know we are printing
assembly. This has the following advantages:
* Simpler lifetime management: std::unique_ptr
* We don't compute column and line number of object files :-)
llvm-svn: 234535
Using this instead of
namespace llvm {
func...
}
Has the advantage that the build fails with a compiler error if it gets out
of sync with the .h file.
llvm-svn: 234515
One could make the argument for writing it immediately after the ELF header,
but writing it in the middle of the sections like we were doing just makes
it harder for no reason.
llvm-svn: 234400
As pr19627 points out, every use of AliasedSymbol is likely a bug.
The main use was to avoid the oddity of a variable showing up as undefined. That
was fixed in r233995, which made these calls nops.
llvm-svn: 234169
Before when deciding if we needed a relocation in A-B, we wore only checking
if A was weak.
This fixes the asymmetry.
The "InSet" argument should probably be renamed to "ForValue", since InSet is
very MachO specific, but doing so in this patch would make it hard to read.
This fixes PR22815.
llvm-svn: 234165
This allows the compiler/assembly programmer to switch back to a
section. This in turn fixes the bootstrap failure on powerpc (tested
on gcc110) without changing the ppc codegen at all.
I will try to cleanup the various getELFSection overloads in a followup patch.
Just using a default argument now would lead to ambiguities.
llvm-svn: 234099
Fixes PR19582.
Previously, when an asm assignment (.set or =) was created, we would look up
the section immediately in MCSymbol::setVariableValue. This caused symbols
to receive the wrong section if the RHS of the assignment had not been seen
yet. This had a knock-on effect in the object file emitters, causing them
to emit extra symbols, or to give symbols the wrong visibility or the wrong
section. For example, in the following asm:
.data
.Llocal:
.text
leaq .Llocal1(%rip), %rdi
.Llocal1 = .Llocal2
.Llocal2 = .Llocal
the first assignment would give .Llocal1 a null section, which would never get
fixed up by the second assignment. This would cause the ELF object file emitter
to consider .Llocal1 to be an undefined symbol and give it external linkage,
even though .Llocal1 should not have been emitted at all in the object file.
Or in the following asm:
alias_to_local = Ltmp0
Ltmp0:
the Mach-O object file emitter would give the alias_to_local symbol a n_type
of N_SECT and a n_sect of 0. This is invalid under the Mach-O specification,
which requires N_SECT symbols to receive a non-zero section number if the
symbol is defined in a section in the object file.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/MachORuntime/#//apple_ref/c/tag/nlist
After this change we do not look up the section when the assignment is created,
but instead look it up on demand and store it in Section, which is treated
as a cache if the symbol is a variable symbol.
This change also fixes a bug in MCExpr::FindAssociatedSection. Previously,
if we saw a subtraction, we would return the first referenced section, even in
cases where we should have been returning the absolute pseudo-section. Now we
always return the absolute pseudo-section for expressions that subtract two
section-derived expressions. This isn't always correct (e.g. if one of the
sections ends up being laid out at an absolute address), but it's probably
the best we can do without more context.
This allows us to remove code in two places where we appear to have been
working around this bug, in MachObjectWriter::markAbsoluteVariableSymbols
and in X86AsmPrinter::EmitStartOfAsmFile.
Re-applies r233595 (aka D8586), which was reverted in r233898.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D8798
llvm-svn: 233995
This lets us catch exceptions in simple cases.
N.B. Things that do not work include (but are not limited to):
- Throwing from within a catch handler.
- Catching an object with a named catch parameter.
- 'CatchHigh' is fictitious, we aren't sure of its purpose.
- We aren't entirely efficient with regards to the number of EH states
that we generate.
- IP-to-State tables are sensitive to the order of emission.
llvm-svn: 233767
This is necessary for x86 where not all Sandybridge, Ivybrige, Haswell, and Broadwell CPUs support AVX. Currently we modify the CPU name back to Nehalem for this case, but that turns off additional features for these CPUs.
llvm-svn: 233673
This fixes the visibility of symbols in certain edge cases involving aliases
with multiple levels of indirection.
Fixes PR19582.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D8586
llvm-svn: 233595
These sections are never looked up and we know when have to create them. Use
that to save adding them to the regular map and avoid a symbol->string->symbol
conversion for the group symbol.
This also makes the implementation independent of the details of how unique
sections are implemented.
llvm-svn: 233539
per-function subtarget.
Currently, code-gen passes the default or generic subtarget to the constructors
of MCInstPrinter subclasses (see LLVMTargetMachine::addPassesToEmitFile), which
enables some targets (AArch64, ARM, and X86) to change their instprinter's
behavior based on the subtarget feature bits. Since the backend can now use
different subtargets for each function, instprinter has to be changed to use the
per-function subtarget rather than the default subtarget.
This patch takes the first step towards enabling instprinter to change its
behavior based on the per-function subtarget. It adds a bit "PassSubtarget" to
AsmWriter which tells table-gen to pass a reference to MCSubtargetInfo to the
various print methods table-gen auto-generates.
I will follow up with changes to instprinters of AArch64, ARM, and X86.
llvm-svn: 233411
There is something in link.exe that requires a relocation to use a
global symbol. Not doing so breaks the chrome build on windows.
This patch sets isWeak for that to work. To compensate,
we then need to look past those symbols when not creating relocations.
This patch includes an ELF test that matches GNU as behaviour.
I am still reducing the chrome build issue and will add a test
once that is done.
llvm-svn: 233318
The previous logic was to first try without relocations at all
and failing that stop on the first defined symbol.
That was inefficient and incorrect in the case part of the
expression could be simplified and another part could not
(see included test).
We now stop the evaluation when we get to a variable whose value
can change (i.e. is weak).
llvm-svn: 233187
In a subtraction of the form A - B, if B is weak, there is no way to represent
that on ELF since all relocations add the value of a symbol.
llvm-svn: 233139
