For an output section with no input section, GNU ld eliminates the
output section when there are only symbol assignments (e.g.
`.foo : { symbol = 42; }`) but not for `.foo : { . += 42; }`
(`SHF_ALLOC|SHF_WRITE`).
We choose to retain such an output section with a symbol assignment
(unless unreferenced `PROVIDE`). We copy the previous section flag (see
https://reviews.llvm.org/D37736) to hopefully make the current PT_LOAD
segment extend to the current output section:
* decrease the number of PT_LOAD segments
* If a new PT_LOAD segment is introduced without a page-size
alignment as a separator, there may be a run-time crash.
However, this `flags` copying behavior is not suitable for
`.foo : { . += 42; }` when `flags` contains `SHF_EXECINSTR`. The
executable bit is surprising
(https://discourse.llvm.org/t/lld-output-section-flag-assignment-behavior/74359).
I think we should drop SHF_EXECINSTR when copying `flags`. The risk is a
code section followed by `.foo : { symbol = 42; }` will be broken, which
I believe is unrelated as such uses are almost always related to data
sections.
For data-command-only output sections (e.g. `.foo : { QUAD(42) }`), we
keep allowing copyable SHF_WRITE.
Some tests are updated to drop the SHF_EXECINSTR flag. GNU ld doesn't
set SHF_EXECINSTR as well, though it sets SHF_WRITE for some tests while
we don't.
When an input section is matched by /DISCARD/ in a linker script, GNU ld
reports errors for relocations referencing symbols defined in the section:
`.aaa' referenced in section `.bbb' of a.o: defined in discarded section `.aaa' of a.o
Implement the error by demoting eligible symbols to `Undefined` and changing
STB_WEAK to STB_GLOBAL. As a side benefit, in relocatable links, relocations
referencing symbols defined relative to /DISCARD/ discarded sections no longer
set symbol/type to zeros.
It's arguable whether a weak reference to a discarded symbol should lead to
errors. GNU ld reports an error and our demoting approach reports an error as
well.
Close#58891
Co-authored-by: Bevin Hansson <bevin.hansson@ericsson.com>
The size of .ARM.exidx may shrink across `assignAddress` calls. It is
possible
that the initial iteration has a larger location counter, causing
`__code_size =
__code_end - .; osec : { . += __code_size; }` to report an error, while
the error would
have been suppressed for subsequent `assignAddress` iterations.
Other sections like .relr.dyn may change sizes across `assignAddress`
calls as
well. However, their initial size is zero, so it is difficiult to
trigger a
similar error.
Similar to https://reviews.llvm.org/D152170, postpone the error
reporting.
Fix#66836. While here, add more information to the error message.
Close#57618: currently we align the end of PT_GNU_RELRO to a
common-page-size
boundary, but do not align the end of the associated PT_LOAD. This is
benign
when runtime_page_size >= common-page-size.
However, when runtime_page_size < common-page-size, it is possible that
`alignUp(end(PT_LOAD), page_size) < alignDown(end(PT_GNU_RELRO),
page_size)`.
In this case, rtld's mprotect call for PT_GNU_RELRO will apply to
unmapped
regions and lead to an error, e.g.
```
error while loading shared libraries: cannot apply additional memory protection after relocation: Cannot allocate memory
```
To fix the issue, add a padding section .relro_padding like mold, which
is contained in the PT_GNU_RELRO segment and the associated PT_LOAD
segment. The section also prevents strip from corrupting PT_LOAD program
headers.
.relro_padding has the largest `sortRank` among RELRO sections.
Therefore, it is naturally placed at the end of `PT_GNU_RELRO` segment
in the absence of `PHDRS`/`SECTIONS` commands.
In the presence of `SECTIONS` commands, we place .relro_padding
immediately before a symbol assignment using DATA_SEGMENT_RELRO_END (see
also https://reviews.llvm.org/D124656), if present.
DATA_SEGMENT_RELRO_END is changed to align to max-page-size instead of
common-page-size.
Some edge cases worth mentioning:
* ppc64-toc-addis-nop.s: when PHDRS is present, do not append
.relro_padding
* avoid-empty-program-headers.s: when the only RELRO section is .tbss,
it is not part of PT_LOAD segment, therefore we do not append
.relro_padding.
---
Close#65002: GNU ld from 2.39 onwards aligns the end of PT_GNU_RELRO to
a
max-page-size boundary (https://sourceware.org/PR28824) so that the last
page is
protected even if runtime_page_size > common-page-size.
In my opinion, losing protection for the last page when the runtime page
size is
larger than common-page-size is not really an issue. Double mapping a
page of up
to max-common-page for the protection could cause undesired VM waste.
Internally
we had users complaining about 2MiB max-page-size applying to shared
objects.
Therefore, the end of .relro_padding is padded to a common-page-size
boundary. Users who are really anxious can set common-page-size to match
their runtime page size.
---
17 tests need updating as there are lots of change detectors.
Fix#64600: the currently implementation is minimal (see
https://reviews.llvm.org/D83758), and an assignment like
`__TEXT_REGION_ORIGIN__ = DEFINED(__TEXT_REGION_ORIGIN__) ? __TEXT_REGION_ORIGIN__ : 0;`
(used by avr-ld[1]) leads to a value of zero (default value in `declareSymbol`),
which is unexpected.
Assign orders to symbol assignments and references so that
for a script-defined symbol, the `DEFINED` results match users'
expectation. I am unclear about GNU ld's exact behavior, but this hopefully
matches its behavior in the majority of cases.
[1]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob;f=ld/scripttempl/avr.sc
This is primarily used for .rodata.cst* duplicate elimination. The
sections are usually much smaller than .debug_str (D154813), so the
speedup is negligible. We do this switch for consistency as we want to
eliminate xxh64 in lld.
Section names used in ELF linker scripts can be quoted, but such
quotes must not be propagated to the binary ELF section names. As
such strip the quotes from the section names when processing them, and
also strip them from linker script functions that take section names
as parameters.
Reviewed By: MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D124266
The left/right shift linker script operators may trigger UB.
E.g. in linkerscript/end-overflow-check.test, the initial REGION1__PADDED_SR_SHIFT is
uint64_t(-3), cause the following expression to trigger an out-of-range shift in
a ubsan build of lld.
REGION1__PADDED_SR_SIZE = MAX(1 << REGION1__PADDED_SR_SHIFT, 32);
Protect such UBs by making RHS less than 64.
LLD terminates with errors when it detects overflows in the
finalizeAddressDependentContent calculation. Although, sometimes, those errors
are not really errors, but an intermediate result of an ongoing address
calculation. If we continue the fixed-point algorithm we can converge to the
correct result.
This patch
* Removes the verification inside the fixed point algorithm.
* Calls checkMemoryRegions at the end.
Reviewed By: peter.smith, MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D152170
The warning "ignoring memory region assignment for non-allocatable section" should be generated under the following conditions:
* sections without SHF_ALLOC attribute and,
* presence of input sections or data commands (ByteCommand)
The goal of the change is to reduce spurious warnings that are generated for some output sections that have no input section.
Reviewed By: MaskRay, peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D151802
Much of NOLOAD's intended use is to explicitly change the type of an
output section, so we shouldn't flag these as warnings.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D151144
A code-review comment to change a couple of CHECK to CHECK-NEXT that I
forgot to apply prior to committing.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D150445
In D72756 the change to add INPUT_SECTION_FLAGS inadvertantly
removed the line to parse the program header assignment information for
OutputSections within an OVERLAY.
This change adds back the missing line and adds a test for it.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D150445
D73518 mentioned non-STT_SECTION symbol names. This patch extends the code to
handle STT_SECTION symbols, where we report the section name.
This change helps at least the following cases with very little code.
* Whether a out-of-range relocation is due to code or data.
* For a relocation in .debug_info, which referenced `.debug_*` section (due to DWARF32 limitation) causes the problem.
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D145199
This is in accordance with avr-gcc, even '-mno-relax' is specified
to avr-gcc, this flag will also be added to the output relocatables.
With this flag set, the GNU ld will perform long call -> short call
optimization for AVR, otherwise not.
Fixes https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/54508
Reviewed By: MaskRay, jacquesguan, aykevl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D144617
This prepares for an upcoming change to make --print-imm-hex the default
behavior of llvm-objdump. These tests were updated in a semi-automatic
fashion.
See D136972 for details.
We currently process one OutputSection at a time and for each OutputSection
write contained input sections in parallel. This strategy does not leverage
multi-threading well. Instead, parallelize writes of different OutputSections.
The default TaskSize for parallelFor often leads to inferior sharding. We
prepare the task in the caller instead.
* Move llvm::parallel::detail::TaskGroup to llvm::parallel::TaskGroup
* Add llvm::parallel::TaskGroup::execute.
* Change writeSections to declare TaskGroup and pass it to writeTo.
Speed-up with --threads=8:
* clang -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: 1.11x as fast
* clang -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug: 1.10x as fast
* chrome -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: 1.04x as fast
* scylladb build/release: 1.09x as fast
On M1, many benchmarks are a small fraction of a percentage faster. Mozilla showed the largest difference with the patch being about 1.03x as fast.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D131247
For 1 != 1 <= 1 ? 1 : 2, the current code incorrectly considers that ?
has a higher precedence than != (minPrec).
Also, add a test for right associativity.
GNU ld does not allow `.foo : { (*foo) }`, but we may recognize it as three
input section descriptions: file "(" with any section name, file "*foo" with
any section name, file ")" with any section name. Disallow the error-prone usage.
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D125523
