This patch implements `-objc_stubs_small` targeting arm64, aiming to
align with ld64's behavior.
1. `-objc_stubs_fast`: As previously implemented, this always uses the
Global Offset Table (GOT) to invoke `objc_msgSend`. The alignment of the
objc stub is 32 bytes.
2. `-objc_stubs_small`: This behavior depends on whether `objc_msgSend`
is defined. If it is, it directly jumps to `objc_msgSend`. If not, it
creates another stub to indirectly jump to `objc_msgSend`, minimizing
the size. The alignment of the objc stub in this case is 4 bytes.
This commit adds support for chained fixups, which were introduced in
Apple's late 2020 OS releases. This format replaces the dyld opcodes
used for supplying rebase and binding information, and encodes most of
that data directly in the memory location that will have the fixup
applied.
This reduces binary size and is a requirement for page-in linking, which
will be available starting with macOS 13.
A high-level overview of the format and my implementation can be found
in SyntheticSections.h.
This feature is currently gated behind the `-fixup_chains` flag, and
will be enabled by default for supported targets in a later commit.
Like in ld64, lazy binding is disabled when chained fixups are in use,
and the `-init_offsets` transformation is performed by default.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D132560
Apple Clang in Xcode 14 introduced a new feature for reducing the
overhead of objc_msgSend calls by deduplicating the setup calls for each
individual selector. This works by clang adding undefined symbols for
each selector called in a translation unit, such as `_objc_msgSend$foo`
for calling the `foo` method on any `NSObject`. There are 2
different modes for this behavior, the default directly does the setup
for `_objc_msgSend` and calls it, and the smaller option does the
selector setup, and then calls the standard `_objc_msgSend` stub
function.
The general overview of how this works is:
- Undefined symbols with the given prefix are collected
- The suffix of each matching undefined symbol is added as a string to
`__objc_methname`
- A pointer is added for every method name in the `__objc_selrefs`
section
- A `got` entry is emitted for `_objc_msgSend`
- Stubs are emitting pointing to the synthesized locations
Notes:
- Both `__objc_methname` and `__objc_selrefs` can also exist from object
files, so their contents are merged with our synthesized contents
- The compiler emits method names for defined methods, but not for
undefined symbols you call, but stubs are used for both
- This only implements the default "fast" mode currently just to reduce
the diff, I also doubt many folks will care to swap modes
- This only implements this for arm64 and x86_64, we don't need to
implement this for 32 bit iOS archs, but we should implement it for
watchOS archs in a later diff
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128108
This method is called on each relocation when parsing input files, so
the overhead of using virtual functions ends up being quite large. We
now have a single non-virtual method, which reads from the appropriate
array of relocation attributes set in the TargetInfo constructor.
This change results in a modest 2.3% reduction in link time for
chromium_framework measured on an x86-64 VPS, and 0.7% on an arm64 Mac.
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 10 11.869417 12.032609 11.935041 11.938268 0.045802324
+ 10 11.581526 11.785265 11.649885 11.659507 0.054634834
Difference at 95.0% confidence
-0.278761 +/- 0.0473673
-2.33502% +/- 0.396768%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0504124)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130000
This reverts commit 942f4e3a7cc9a9f8b2654817cff12907d1276031.
The additional change required to avoid the assertion errors seen
previously is:
--- a/lld/MachO/ICF.cpp
+++ b/lld/MachO/ICF.cpp
@@ -443,7 +443,9 @@ void macho::foldIdenticalSections() {
/*relocVA=*/0);
isec->data = copy;
}
- } else {
+ } else if (!isEhFrameSection(isec)) {
+ // EH frames are gathered as hashables from unwindEntry above; give a
+ // unique ID to everything else.
isec->icfEqClass[0] = ++icfUniqueID;
}
}
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123435
== Background ==
`llvm-mc` generates unwind info in both compact unwind and DWARF
formats. LLD already handles the compact unwind format; this diff gets
us close to handling the DWARF format properly.
== Caveats ==
It's not quite done yet, but I figure it's worth getting this reviewed
and landed first as it's shaping up to be a fairly large code change.
**Known limitations of the current code:**
* Only works for x86_64, for which `llvm-mc` emits "abs-ified"
relocations as described in 618def651b.
`llvm-mc` emits regular relocations for ARM EH frames, which we do not
yet handle correctly.
Since the feature is not ready for real use yet, I've gated it behind a
flag that only gets toggled on during test suite runs. With most of the
new code disabled, we see just a hint of perf regression, so I don't
think it'd be remiss to land this as-is:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.926 ± 0.168 1.979 ± 0.117 [ -1.2% .. +6.6%]
user_time 3.590 ± 0.033 3.606 ± 0.028 [ +0.0% .. +0.9%]
wall_time 7.104 ± 0.184 7.179 ± 0.151 [ -0.2% .. +2.3%]
samples 30 31
== Design ==
Like compact unwind entries, EH frames are also represented as regular
ConcatInputSections that get pointed to via `Defined::unwindEntry`. This
allows them to be handled generically by e.g. the MarkLive and ICF
code. (But note that unlike compact unwind subsections, EH frame
subsections do end up in the final binary.)
In order to make EH frames "look like" a regular ConcatInputSection,
some processing is required. First, we need to split the `__eh_frame`
section along EH frame boundaries rather than along symbol boundaries.
We do this by decoding the length field of each EH frame. Second, the
abs-ified relocations need to be turned into regular Relocs.
== Next Steps ==
In order to support EH frames on ARM targets, we will either have to
teach LLD how to handle EH frames with explicit relocs, or we can try to
make `llvm-mc` emit abs-ified relocs for ARM as well. I'm hoping to do
the latter as I think it will make the LLD implementation both simpler
and faster to execute.
== Misc ==
The `obj-file-with-stabs.s` test had to be updated as the previous
version would trip assertion errors in the code. It appears that in our
attempt to produce a minimal YAML test input, we created a file with
invalid EH frame data. I've fixed this by re-generating the YAML and not
doing any hand-pruning of it.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, Roger
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123435
Previously, we only allowed this for DylibSymbols. However, in order to
properly support `-flat_namespace` as well as `-interposable`, we need
to allow this for Defined symbols too. Therefore we hoist the
`lazyBindOffset` and the `stubsHelperIndex` into the parent Symbol
class.
The actual change to support interposition under `-flat_namespace` is in
{D119294}; the NFC changes here have been split out for easier review.
Perf regression isn't stat sig on my 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W linking
chromium_framework:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.227 ± 0.021 1.234 ± 0.031 [ -0.3% .. +1.5%]
user_time 3.665 ± 0.036 3.674 ± 0.035 [ -0.2% .. +0.7%]
wall_time 4.596 ± 0.055 4.609 ± 0.064 [ -0.3% .. +0.9%]
samples 34 47
Max RSS regression is barely stat sig:
base diff difference (95% CI)
time 1003664356.324 ± 15404053.912 1010380403.613 ± 10578309.455 [ +0.0% .. +1.3%]
samples 37 31
Reviewed By: modimo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D121351
The minuend (but not the subtrahend) can reference a section.
Note that we do not yet properly validate that the subtrahend isn't
referencing a section; I've filed PR50034 to track that.
I've also extended the reloc-subtractor.s test to reorder symbols, to
make sure that the addends are being associated with the minuend (and not
the subtrahend) relocation.
Fixes PR49999.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100804
MSVC from VSCode 2017 appears unhappy with it (causes an
internal compiler error.)
This also means that we need to avoid doing `sizeof(stubCode)` as
`sizeof(int[N])` on function array parameters decays into `sizeof(int *)`.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100605
From what I can tell, it's pretty similar to arm64. The two main differences
are:
1. No 64-bit relocations
2. Stub code writes to 32-bit registers instead of 64-bit
Plus of course the various on-disk structures like `segment_command` are using
the 32-bit instead of the 64-bit variants.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99822
From what I can tell, it's pretty similar to arm64. The two main differences
are:
1. No 64-bit relocations
2. Stub code writes to 32-bit registers instead of 64-bit
Plus of course the various on-disk structures like `segment_command` are using
the 32-bit instead of the 64-bit variants.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99822
