This changes how LLVM constructs certain data structures that relate to
exception handling (EH) on Windows. Specifically this changes how
IP2State tables for functions are constructed. The purpose of this
change is to align LLVM to the requires of the Windows AMD64 ABI, which
requires that the IP2State table entries point to the boundaries between
instructions.
On most Windows platforms (AMD64, ARM64, ARM32, IA64, but *not* x86-32),
exception handling works by looking up instruction pointers in lookup
tables. These lookup tables are stored in `.xdata` sections in
executables. One element of the lookup tables are the `IP2State` tables
(Instruction Pointer to State).
If a function has any instructions that require cleanup during exception
unwinding, then it will have an IP2State table. Each entry in the
IP2State table describes a range of bytes in the function's instruction
stream, and associates an "EH state number" with that range of
instructions. A value of -1 means "the null state", which does not
require any code to execute. A value other than -1 is an index into the
State table.
The entries in the IP2State table contain byte offsets within the
instruction stream of the function. The Windows ABI requires that these
offsets are aligned to instruction boundaries; they are not permitted to
point to a byte that is not the first byte of an instruction.
Unfortunately, CALL instructions present a problem during unwinding.
CALL instructions push the address of the instruction after the CALL
instruction, so that execution can resume after the CALL. If the CALL is
the last instruction within an IP2State region, then the return address
(on the stack) points to the *next* IP2State region. This means that the
unwinder will use the wrong cleanup funclet during unwinding.
To fix this problem, compilers should insert a NOP after a CALL
instruction, if the CALL instruction is the last instruction within an
IP2State region. The NOP is placed within the same IP2State region as
the CALL, so that the return address points to the NOP and the unwinder
will locate the correct region.
This PR modifies LLVM so that it inserts NOP instructions after CALL
instructions, when needed. In performance tests, the NOP has no
detectable significance. The NOP is rarely inserted, since it is only
inserted when the CALL is the last instruction before an IP2State
transition or the CALL is the last instruction before the function
epilogue.
NOP padding is only necessary on Windows AMD64 targets. On ARM64 and
ARM32, instructions have a fixed size so the unwinder knows how to "back
up" by one instruction.
Interaction with Import Call Optimization (ICO):
Import Call Optimization (ICO) is a compiler + OS feature on Windows
which improves the performance and security of DLL imports. ICO relies
on using a specific CALL idiom that can be replaced by the OS DLL
loader. This removes a load and indirect CALL and replaces it with a
single direct CALL.
To achieve this, ICO also inserts NOPs after the CALL instruction. If
the end of the CALL is aligned with an EH state transition, we *also*
insert a single-byte NOP. **Both forms of NOPs must be preserved.** They
cannot be combined into a single larger NOP; nor can the second NOP be
removed.
This is necessary because, if ICO is active and the call site is
modified by the loader, the loader will end up overwriting the NOPs that
were inserted for ICO. That means that those NOPs cannot be used for the
correct termination of the exception handling region (the IP2State
transition), so we still need an additional NOP instruction. The NOPs
cannot be combined into a longer NOP (which is ordinarily desirable)
because then ICO would split one instruction, producing a malformed
instruction after the ICO call.
Similar to 806761a7629df268c8aed49657aeccffa6bca449
-mtriple= specifies the full target triple while -march= merely sets the
architecture part of the default target triple (e.g. Windows, macOS),
leaving a target triple which may not make sense.
Therefore, -march= is error-prone and not recommended for tests without a target
triple. The issue has been benign as we recognize xcore-apple-darwin as ELF instead
of rejecting it outrightly.
* Use uleb128 for code offsets in the LSDA call site table.
* Omit the TTBase offset if the type table is empty.
This change can reduce the size of the DWARF/Itanium LSDA by about half.
Patch by Ryan Prichard!
llvm-svn: 324750
Rely on the assembler to finalize the layout of the DWARF/Itanium
exception-handling LSDA. Rather than calculate the exact size of each
thing in the LSDA, use assembler directives:
To emit the offset to the TTBase label:
.uleb128 .Lttbase0-.Lttbaseref0
.Lttbaseref0:
To emit the size of the call site table:
.uleb128 .Lcst_end0-.Lcst_begin0
.Lcst_begin0:
... call site table entries ...
.Lcst_end0:
To align the type info table:
... action table ...
.balign 4
.long _ZTIi
.long _ZTIl
.Lttbase0:
Using assembler directives simplifies the compiler and allows switching
the encoding of offsets in the call site table from udata4 to uleb128 for
a large code size savings. (This commit does not change the encoding.)
The combination of the uleb128 followed by a balign creates an unfortunate
dependency cycle that the assembler must sometimes resolve either by
padding an LEB or by inserting zero padding before the type table. See
PR35809 or GNU as bug 4029.
Patch by Ryan Prichard!
llvm-svn: 324749
The personality routine currently lives in the LandingPadInst.
This isn't desirable because:
- All LandingPadInsts in the same function must have the same
personality routine. This means that each LandingPadInst beyond the
first has an operand which produces no additional information.
- There is ongoing work to introduce EH IR constructs other than
LandingPadInst. Moving the personality routine off of any one
particular Instruction and onto the parent function seems a lot better
than have N different places a personality function can sneak onto an
exceptional function.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10429
llvm-svn: 239940
Fix the double-deletion of AnalysisResolver when delegating through to
Dwarf EH preparation by creating one from scratch. Hopefully the new
pass manager simplifies this.
This reverts commit r229952.
llvm-svn: 231719
Essentially the same as the GEP change in r230786.
A similar migration script can be used to update test cases, though a few more
test case improvements/changes were required this time around: (r229269-r229278)
import fileinput
import sys
import re
pat = re.compile(r"((?:=|:|^)\s*load (?:atomic )?(?:volatile )?(.*?))(| addrspace\(\d+\) *)\*($| *(?:%|@|null|undef|blockaddress|getelementptr|addrspacecast|bitcast|inttoptr|\[\[[a-zA-Z]|\{\{).*$)")
for line in sys.stdin:
sys.stdout.write(re.sub(pat, r"\1, \2\3*\4", line))
Reviewers: rafael, dexonsmith, grosser
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D7649
llvm-svn: 230794
This removes a bit of duplicated code and more importantly, remembers the
labels so that they don't need to be looked up by name.
This in turn allows for any name to be used and avoids a crash if the name
we wanted was already taken.
llvm-svn: 230772
Today a simple function that only catches exceptions and doesn't run
destructor cleanups ends up containing a dead call to _Unwind_Resume
(PR20300). We can't remove these dead resume instructions during normal
optimization because inlining might introduce additional landingpads
that do have cleanups to run. Instead we can do this during EH
preparation, which is guaranteed to run after inlining.
Fixes PR20300.
Reviewers: majnemer
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D7744
llvm-svn: 229944
Every target we support has support for assembly that looks like
a = b - c
.long a
What is special about MachO is that the above combination suppresses the
production of a relocation.
With this change we avoid producing the intermediary labels when they don't
add any value.
llvm-svn: 220256
Xcore target ABI requires const data that is externally visible
to be handled differently if it has C-language linkage rather than
C++ language linkage.
Clang now emits ".cp.rodata" section information.
All other externally visible constant data will be placed in the DP section.
llvm-svn: 201144
