Summary:
JITLink is a jit-linker that performs the same high-level task as RuntimeDyld:
it parses relocatable object files and makes their contents runnable in a target
process.
JITLink aims to improve on RuntimeDyld in several ways:
(1) A clear design intended to maximize code-sharing while minimizing coupling.
RuntimeDyld has been developed in an ad-hoc fashion for a number of years and
this had led to intermingling of code for multiple architectures (e.g. in
RuntimeDyldELF::processRelocationRef) in a way that makes the code more
difficult to read, reason about, extend. JITLink is designed to isolate
format and architecture specific code, while still sharing generic code.
(2) Support for native code models.
RuntimeDyld required the use of large code models (where calls to external
functions are made indirectly via registers) for many of platforms due to its
restrictive model for stub generation (one "stub" per symbol). JITLink allows
arbitrary mutation of the atom graph, allowing both GOT and PLT atoms to be
added naturally.
(3) Native support for asynchronous linking.
JITLink uses asynchronous calls for symbol resolution and finalization: these
callbacks are passed a continuation function that they must call to complete the
linker's work. This allows for cleaner interoperation with the new concurrent
ORC JIT APIs, while still being easily implementable in synchronous style if
asynchrony is not needed.
To maximise sharing, the design has a hierarchy of common code:
(1) Generic atom-graph data structure and algorithms (e.g. dead stripping and
| memory allocation) that are intended to be shared by all architectures.
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+ -- (2) Shared per-format code that utilizes (1), e.g. Generic MachO to
| atom-graph parsing.
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+ -- (3) Architecture specific code that uses (1) and (2). E.g.
JITLinkerMachO_x86_64, which adds x86-64 specific relocation
support to (2) to build and patch up the atom graph.
To support asynchronous symbol resolution and finalization, the callbacks for
these operations take continuations as arguments:
using JITLinkAsyncLookupContinuation =
std::function<void(Expected<AsyncLookupResult> LR)>;
using JITLinkAsyncLookupFunction =
std::function<void(const DenseSet<StringRef> &Symbols,
JITLinkAsyncLookupContinuation LookupContinuation)>;
using FinalizeContinuation = std::function<void(Error)>;
virtual void finalizeAsync(FinalizeContinuation OnFinalize);
In addition to its headline features, JITLink also makes other improvements:
- Dead stripping support: symbols that are not used (e.g. redundant ODR
definitions) are discarded, and take up no memory in the target process
(In contrast, RuntimeDyld supported pointer equality for weak definitions,
but the redundant definitions stayed resident in memory).
- Improved exception handling support. JITLink provides a much more extensive
eh-frame parser than RuntimeDyld, and is able to correctly fix up many
eh-frame sections that RuntimeDyld currently (silently) fails on.
- More extensive validation and error handling throughout.
This initial patch supports linking MachO/x86-64 only. Work on support for
other architectures and formats will happen in-tree.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D58704
llvm-svn: 358818
I made my best guess at the Makefile, since I don't have a make build.
I'm not sure if it should be valid to add an empty list of things, but
it seemed the sort of degenerate case.
llvm-svn: 230196
be deleted. This will be reapplied as soon as possible and before
the 3.6 branch date at any rate.
Approved by Jim Grosbach, Lang Hames, Rafael Espindola.
This reverts commits r215111, 215115, 215116, 215117, 215136.
llvm-svn: 215154
I am sure we will be finding bits and pieces of dead code for years to
come, but this is a good start.
Thanks to Lang Hames for making MCJIT a good replacement!
llvm-svn: 215111
Makefiles, the CMake files in every other part of the LLVM tree, and
sanity.
This should also restore the output tree structure of all the unit
tests, sorry for breaking that, and thanks for letting me know.
The fundamental change is to put a CMakeLists.txt file in the unittest
directory, with a single test binary produced from it. This has several
advantages:
- No more weird directory stripping in the unittest macro, allowing it
to be used more readily in other projects.
- No more directory prefixes on all the source files.
- Allows correct and precise use of LLVM's per-directory dependency
system.
- Allows use of the checking logic for source files that have not been
added to the CMake build. This uncovered a file being skipped with
CMake in LLVM and one in Clang's unit tests.
- Makes Specifying conditional compilation or other custom logic for JIT
tests easier.
It did require adding the concept of an explicit 'optional' source file
to the CMake build so that the missing-file check can skip cases where
the file is *supposed* to be missing. =]
This is another chunk of refactoring the CMake build in order to make it
usable for other clients like CompilerRT / ASan / TSan.
Note that this is interdependent with a Clang CMake change.
llvm-svn: 158909
