The aliased options in the --help output use double dashes. It is
inconsistent to have single-dashed messages. Additionally, -l and -t are
common short options and single-dashed forms prefixed with them can
cause confusion.
In most cases, LLD prints its multiline diagnostic messages starting
additional lines with ">>> ". That greatly helps external tools to parse
the output, simplifying combining several lines of the log back into one
message. The patch fixes the only message I found that does not follow
the common pattern.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D77132
When reporting an "undefined symbol" diagnostic:
* We don't print @ for the reference.
* We don't print @ or @@ for the definition. https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45318
This can lead to confusing diagnostics:
```
// foo may be foo@v2
ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: foo
>>> referenced by t1.o:(.text+0x1)
// foo may be foo@v1 or foo@@v1
>>> did you mean: foo
>>> defined in: t.so
```
There are 2 ways a symbol in symtab may get truncated:
* A @@ definition may be truncated *early* by SymbolTable::insert().
The name ends with a '\0'.
* A @ definition/reference may be truncated *later* by Symbol::parseSymbolVersion().
The name ends with a '@'.
This patch detects the second case and improves the diagnostics. The first case is
not improved but the second case is sufficient to make diagnostics not confusing.
Reviewed By: ruiu
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D76999
--no-threads is a name copied from gold.
gold has --no-thread, --thread-count and several other --thread-count-*.
There are needs to customize the number of threads (running several lld
processes concurrently or customizing the number of LTO threads).
Having a single --threads=N is a straightforward replacement of gold's
--no-threads + --thread-count.
--no-threads is used rarely. So just delete --no-threads instead of
keeping it for compatibility for a while.
If --threads= is specified (ELF,wasm; COFF /threads: is similar),
--thinlto-jobs= defaults to --threads=,
otherwise all available hardware threads are used.
There is currently no way to override a --threads={1,2,...}. It is still
a debate whether we should use --threads=all.
Reviewed By: rnk, aganea
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D76885
The default GNU linker script uses the following idiom for the array
sections. I'll use .init_array here, but this also applies to
.preinit_array and .fini_array sections.
.init_array :
{
PROVIDE_HIDDEN (__init_array_start = .);
KEEP (*(.init_array))
PROVIDE_HIDDEN (__init_array_end = .);
}
The C-library will take references to the _start and _end symbols to
process the array. This will make LLD keep the OutputSection even if there
are no .init_array sections. As the current check for RELRO uses the
section type for .init_array the above example with no .init_array
InputSections fails the checks as there are no .init_array sections to give
the OutputSection a type of SHT_INIT_ARRAY. This often leads to a
non-contiguous RELRO error message.
The simple fix is to a textual section match as well as a section type
match.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D76915
Leverage ARM ELF build attribute section to create ELF attribute section
for RISC-V. Extract the common part of parsing logic for this section
into ELFAttributeParser.[cpp|h] and ELFAttributes.[cpp|h].
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D74023
As of a while ago, lld groups all undefined references to a single
symbol in a single diagnostic. Back then, I made it so that we
print up to 10 references to each undefined symbol.
Having used this for a while, I never wished there were more
references, but I sometimes found that this can print a lot of
output. lld prints up to 10 diagnostics by default, and if
each has 10 references (which I've seen in practice), and each
undefined symbol produces 2 (possibly very long) lines of output,
that's over 200 lines of error output.
Let's try it with just 3 references for a while and see how
that feels in practice.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D77017
Currently, `error: incompatible section flags for .rodata` is reported
when we mix SHF_LINK_ORDER and non-SHF_LINK_ORDER sections in an output section.
This is overconstrained. This patch allows mixed flags with the
requirement that SHF_LINK_ORDER sections must be contiguous. Mixing
flags is used by Linux aarch64 (https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/953)
.init.data : { ... KEEP(*(__patchable_function_entries)) ... }
When the integrated assembler is enabled, clang's -fpatchable-function-entry=N[,M]
implementation sets the SHF_LINK_ORDER flag (D72215) to fix a number of
garbage collection issues.
Strictly speaking, the ELF specification does not require contiguous
SHF_LINK_ORDER sections but for many current uses of SHF_LINK_ORDER like
.ARM.exidx/__patchable_function_entries there has been a requirement for
the sections to be contiguous on top of the requirements of the ELF
specification.
This patch also imposes one restriction: SHF_LINK_ORDER sections cannot
be separated by a symbol assignment or a BYTE command. Not allowing BYTE
is a natural extension that a non-SHF_LINK_ORDER cannot be a separator.
Symbol assignments can delimiter the contents of SHF_LINK_ORDER
sections. Allowing SHF_LINK_ORDER sections across symbol assignments
(especially __start_/__stop_) can make things hard to explain. The
restriction should not be a problem for practical use cases.
Reviewed By: psmith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D77007
This fixes PR# 45336.
Output sections described in a linker script as NOLOAD with no input sections would be marked as SHT_PROGBITS.
Reviewed By: MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D76981
Before this patch, it wasn't possible to extend the ThinLTO threads to all SMT/CMT threads in the system. Only one thread per core was allowed, instructed by usage of llvm::heavyweight_hardware_concurrency() in the ThinLTO code. Any number passed to the LLD flag /opt:lldltojobs=..., or any other ThinLTO-specific flag, was previously interpreted in the context of llvm::heavyweight_hardware_concurrency(), which means SMT disabled.
One can now say in LLD:
/opt:lldltojobs=0 -- Use one std::thread / hardware core in the system (no SMT). Default value if flag not specified.
/opt:lldltojobs=N -- Limit usage to N threads, regardless of usage of heavyweight_hardware_concurrency().
/opt:lldltojobs=all -- Use all hardware threads in the system. Equivalent to /opt:lldltojobs=$(nproc) on Linux and /opt:lldltojobs=%NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS% on Windows. When an affinity mask is set for the process, threads will be created only for the cores selected by the mask.
When N > number-of-hardware-threads-in-the-system, the threads in the thread pool will be dispatched equally on all CPU sockets (tested only on Windows).
When N <= number-of-hardware-threads-on-a-CPU-socket, the threads will remain on the CPU socket where the process started (only on Windows).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75153
The error previously talked about a "section header" but was actually
referring to a program header.
Reviewed by: grimar, MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D76846
This behavior matches GNU ld and seems reasonable.
```
// If a SECTIONS command is not specified
.text.* -> .text
.rodata.* -> .rodata
.init_array.* -> .init_array
```
A proposed Linux feature CONFIG_FG_KASLR may depend on the GNU ld behavior.
Reword a comment about -z keep-text-section-prefix and a comment about
CommonSection (deleted by rL286234).
Reviewed By: grimar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75225
This essentially drops the change by r288021 (discussed with Georgii Rymar
and Peter Smith and noted down in the release note of lld 10).
GNU ld>=2.31 enables -z separate-code by default for Linux x86. By
default (in the absence of a PHDRS command) a readonly PT_LOAD is
created, which is different from its traditional behavior.
Not emulating GNU ld's traditional behavior is good for us because it
improves code consistency (we create a readonly PT_LOAD in the absence
of a SECTIONS command).
Users can add --no-rosegment to restore the previous behavior (combined
readonly and read-executable sections in a single RX PT_LOAD).
Fixes https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44903
It is about the following case:
```
SECTIONS {
.foo : { *(.foo) } =0x90909090
/DISCARD/ : { *(.bar) }
}
```
Here while parsing the fill expression we treated the
"/" of "/DISCARD/" as operator.
With this change, suggested by Fangrui Song, we do
not allow expressions with operators (e.g. "0x1100 + 0x22")
that are not wrapped into round brackets. It should not
be an issue for users, but helps to resolve parsing ambiguity.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D74687
Hexagon ABI specifies that call x@gdplt is transformed to call __tls_get_addr.
Example:
call x@gdplt
is changed to
call __tls_get_addr
When x is an external tls variable.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D74443
Any OUTPUT_FORMAT in a linker script overrides the emulation passed on
the command line, so record the passed bfdname and use that in the error
message about incompatible input files.
This prevents confusing error messages. For example, if you explicitly
pass `-m elf_x86_64` to LLD but accidentally include a linker script
which sets `OUTPUT_FORMAT(elf32-i386)`, LLD would previously complain
about your input files being compatible with elf_x86_64, which isn't the
actual issue, and is confusing because the input files are in fact
x86-64 ELF files.
Interestingly enough, this also prevents a segfault! When we don't pass
`-m` and we have an object file which is incompatible with the
`OUTPUT_FORMAT` set by a linker script, the object file is checked for
compatibility before it's added to the objectFiles vector.
config->emulation, objectFiles, and sharedFiles will all be empty, so
we'll attempt to access bitcodeFiles[0], but bitcodeFiles is also empty,
so we'll segfault. This commit prevents the segfault by adding
OUTPUT_FORMAT as a possible source of machine configuration, and it also
adds an llvm_unreachable to diagnose similar issues in the future.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D76109
On an internal target,
* Before D74773: time -f '%M' => 18275680
* After D74773: time -f '%M' => 22088964
This patch restores to the status before D74773.
-M output can be useful when diagnosing an "error: output file too large" problem (emitted in openFile()).
I just ran into such a situation where I had to debug an erronerous
Linux kernel linker script. It tried to create a file larger than
INT64_MAX bytes.
This patch could have helped https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44715 as well.
Reviewed By: grimar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75966
See `docs/ELF/linker_script.rst` for the new computation for sh_addr and sh_addralign.
`ALIGN(section_align)` now means: "increase alignment to section_align"
(like yet another input section requirement).
The "start of section .foo changes from 0x11 to 0x20" warning no longer
makes sense. Change it to warn if sh_addr%sh_addralign!=0.
To decrease the alignment from the default max_input_align,
use `.output ALIGN(8) : {}` instead of `.output : ALIGN(8) {}`
See linkerscript/section-address-align.test as an example.
When both an output section address and ALIGN are set (can be seen as an
"undefined behavior" https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2020-03/msg00115.html),
lld may align more than GNU ld, but it makes a linker script working
with GNU ld hard to break with lld.
This patch can be considered as restoring part of the behavior before D74736.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75724
Summary:
Places orphan sections into a unique output section. This prevents the merging of orphan sections of the same name.
Matches behaviour of GNU ld --unique. --unique=pattern is not implemented.
Motivated user case shown in the test has 2 local symbols as they would appear if C++ source has been compiled with -ffunction-sections. The merging of these sections in the case of a partial link (-r) may limit the effectiveness of -gc-sections of a subsequent link.
Reviewers: espindola, jhenderson, bd1976llvm, edd, andrewng, JonChesterfield, MaskRay, grimar, ruiu, psmith
Reviewed By: MaskRay, grimar
Subscribers: emaste, arichardson, MaskRay, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75536
```
createFiles(args)
readDefsym
readerLinkerScript(*mb)
...
readMemory
readMemoryAssignment("ORIGIN", "org", "o") // eagerly evaluated
target = getTarget();
link(args)
writeResult<ELFT>()
...
finalizeSections()
script->processSymbolAssignments()
addSymbol(cmd) // with this patch, evaluated here
```
readMemoryAssignment eagerly evaluates ORIGIN/LENGTH and returns an uint64_t.
This patch postpones the evaluation to make
* --defsym and symbol assignments
* `CONSTANT(COMMONPAGESIZE)` (requires a non-null `lld::elf::target`)
work. If the expression somehow requires interaction with memory
regions, the circular dependency may cause the expression to evaluate to
a strange value. See the new test added to memory-err.s
Reviewed By: grimar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75763
Added a write method for TimeTrace that takes two strings representing
file names. The first is any file name that may have been provided by the
user via `time-trace-file` flag, and the second is a fallback that should
be configured by the caller. This method makes it cleaner to write the
trace output because there is no longer a need to check file names at the
caller and simplifies future TimeTrace usages.
Reviewed By: modocache
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D74514
llvm::call_once(initDwarfLine, [this]() { initializeDwarf(); });
Though it is not used in all places.
I need that patch for implementing "Remove obsolete debug info" feature
(D74169). But this caching mechanism is useful by itself, and I think it
would be good to use it without connection to "Remove obsolete debug info"
feature. So this patch changes inplace creation of DWARFContext with
its cached version.
Depends on D74308
Reviewed By: ruiu
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D74773
* Delete boilerplate
* Change functions to return `Error`
* Test parsing errors
* Update callers of ARMAttributeParser::parse() to check the `Error` return value.
Since this patch touches nearly everything in the file, I apply
http://llvm.org/docs/Proposals/VariableNames.html and change variable
names to lower case.
Reviewed By: compnerd
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75015
Summary:
LLD has workaround for the times when SectionIndex was not passed properly:
LT->getFileLineInfoForAddress(
S->getOffsetInFile() + Offset, nullptr,
DILineInfoSpecifier::FileLineInfoKind::AbsoluteFilePath, Info));
S->getOffsetInFile() was added to differentiate offsets between
various sections. Now SectionIndex is properly specified.
Thus it is not necessary to use getOffsetInFile() workaround.
See https://reviews.llvm.org/D58194, https://reviews.llvm.org/D58357.
This patch removes getOffsetInFile() workaround.
Reviewers: ruiu, grimar, MaskRay, espindola
Reviewed By: grimar, MaskRay
Subscribers: emaste, arichardson, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm, #lld
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75636
Similar to D63182 [ELF][PPC64] Don't report "relocation refers to a discarded section" for .toc
Reviewed By: Bdragon28
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75419
Summary:
Extracted from D74773. Currently, errors happened while parsing
debug info are reported as errors. DebugInfoDWARF library treats such
errors as "Recoverable errors". This patch makes debug info errors
to be reported as warnings, to support DebugInfoDWARF approach.
Reviewers: ruiu, grimar, MaskRay, jhenderson, espindola
Reviewed By: MaskRay, jhenderson
Subscribers: emaste, aprantl, arichardson, arphaman, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm, #debug-info, #lld
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75234
MC will now output the R_ARM_THM_PC8, R_ARM_THM_PC12 and
R_ARM_THM_PREL_11_0 relocations. These are short-ranged relocations that
are used to implement the adr rd, literal and ldr rd, literal pseudo
instructions.
The instructions use a new RelExpr called R_ARM_PCA in order to calculate
the required S + A - Pa expression, where Pa is AlignDown(P, 4) as the
instructions add their immediate to AlignDown(PC, 4). We also do not want
these relocations to generate or resolve against a PLT entry as the range
of these relocations is so short they would never reach.
The R_ARM_THM_PC8 has a special encoding convention for the relocation
addend, the immediate field is unsigned, yet the addend must be -4 to
account for the Thumb PC bias. The ABI (not the architecture) uses the
convention that the 8-byte immediate of 0xff represents -4.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75042
They are purposefully skipped by input section descriptions (rL295324).
Similarly, --orphan-handling= should not warn/error for them.
This behavior matches GNU ld.
Reviewed By: grimar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75151
This makes --orphan-handling= less noisy.
This change also improves our compatibility with GNU ld.
GNU ld special cases .symtab, .strtab and .shstrtab . We need output section
descriptions for .symtab, .strtab and .shstrtab to suppress:
<internal>:(.symtab) is being placed in '.symtab'
<internal>:(.shstrtab) is being placed in '.shstrtab'
<internal>:(.strtab) is being placed in '.strtab'
With --strip-all, .symtab and .strtab can be omitted (note, --strip-all is not compatible with --emit-relocs).
Reviewed By: nickdesaulniers
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75149
With this --shuffle-sections=seed produces the same result in every
host.
Reviewed By: grimar, MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D74971
When the output section address (addrExpr) is specified, GNU ld warns if
sh_addr is different. This patch implements the warning.
Note, LinkerScript::assignAddresses can be called more than once. We
need to record the changed section addresses, and only report the
warnings after the addresses are finalized.
Reviewed By: grimar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D74741
Follow-up for D74286.
Notations:
* alignExpr: the computed ALIGN value
* max_input_align: the maximum of input section alignments
This patch changes the following two cases to match GNU ld:
* When ALIGN is present, GNU ld sets output sh_addr to alignExpr, while lld use max(alignExpr, max_input_align)
* When addrExpr is specified but alignExpr is not, GNU ld sets output sh_addr to addrExpr, while lld uses `advance(0, max_input_align)`
Note, sh_addralign is still set to max(alignExpr, max_input_align).
lma-align.test is enhanced a bit to check we don't overalign sh_addr.
fixSectionAlignments() sets addrExpr but not alignExpr for the `!hasSectionsCommand` case.
This patch sets alignExpr as well so that max_input_align will be respected.
Reviewed By: grimar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D74736
Summary:
This option causes lld to shuffle sections by assigning different
priorities in each run.
The use case for this is to introduce randomization in benchmarks. The
idea is inspired by the paper "Producing Wrong Data Without Doing
Anything Obviously Wrong!"
(https://www.inf.usi.ch/faculty/hauswirth/publications/asplos09.pdf). Unlike
the paper, we shuffle individual sections, not just input files.
Doing this in lld is particularly convenient as the --reproduce option
makes it easy to collect all the necessary bits for relinking the
program being benchmarked. Once that it is done, all that is needed is
to add --shuffle-sections=0 to the response file and relink before each
run of the benchmark.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D74791
With this patch lld recognizes ARM SBREL relocations.
R_ARM*_MOVW_BREL relocations are not tested because they are not used.
Patch by Tamas Petz
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D74604
Summary:
Generate PAC protected plt only when "-z pac-plt" is passed to the
linker. GNU toolchain generates when it is explicitly requested[1].
When pac-plt is requested then set the GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_PAC
note even when not all function compiled with PAC but issue a warning.
Harmonizing the warning style for BTI/PAC/IBT.
Generate BTI protected PLT if case of "-z force-bti".
[1] https://www.sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2019-03/msg00021.html
Reviewers: peter.smith, espindola, MaskRay, grimar
Reviewed By: peter.smith, MaskRay
Subscribers: tatyana-krasnukha, emaste, arichardson, kristof.beyls, MaskRay, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D74537
The goal of this patch is to maximize CPU utilization on multi-socket or high core count systems, so that parallel computations such as LLD/ThinLTO can use all hardware threads in the system. Before this patch, on Windows, a maximum of 64 hardware threads could be used at most, in some cases dispatched only on one CPU socket.
== Background ==
Windows doesn't have a flat cpu_set_t like Linux. Instead, it projects hardware CPUs (or NUMA nodes) to applications through a concept of "processor groups". A "processor" is the smallest unit of execution on a CPU, that is, an hyper-thread if SMT is active; a core otherwise. There's a limit of 32-bit processors on older 32-bit versions of Windows, which later was raised to 64-processors with 64-bit versions of Windows. This limit comes from the affinity mask, which historically is represented by the sizeof(void*). Consequently, the concept of "processor groups" was introduced for dealing with systems with more than 64 hyper-threads.
By default, the Windows OS assigns only one "processor group" to each starting application, in a round-robin manner. If the application wants to use more processors, it needs to programmatically enable it, by assigning threads to other "processor groups". This also means that affinity cannot cross "processor group" boundaries; one can only specify a "preferred" group on start-up, but the application is free to allocate more groups if it wants to.
This creates a peculiar situation, where newer CPUs like the AMD EPYC 7702P (64-cores, 128-hyperthreads) are projected by the OS as two (2) "processor groups". This means that by default, an application can only use half of the cores. This situation could only get worse in the years to come, as dies with more cores will appear on the market.
== The problem ==
The heavyweight_hardware_concurrency() API was introduced so that only *one hardware thread per core* was used. Once that API returns, that original intention is lost, only the number of threads is retained. Consider a situation, on Windows, where the system has 2 CPU sockets, 18 cores each, each core having 2 hyper-threads, for a total of 72 hyper-threads. Both heavyweight_hardware_concurrency() and hardware_concurrency() currently return 36, because on Windows they are simply wrappers over std::thread::hardware_concurrency() -- which can only return processors from the current "processor group".
== The changes in this patch ==
To solve this situation, we capture (and retain) the initial intention until the point of usage, through a new ThreadPoolStrategy class. The number of threads to use is deferred as late as possible, until the moment where the std::threads are created (ThreadPool in the case of ThinLTO).
When using hardware_concurrency(), setting ThreadCount to 0 now means to use all the possible hardware CPU (SMT) threads. Providing a ThreadCount above to the maximum number of threads will have no effect, the maximum will be used instead.
The heavyweight_hardware_concurrency() is similar to hardware_concurrency(), except that only one thread per hardware *core* will be used.
When LLVM_ENABLE_THREADS is OFF, the threading APIs will always return 1, to ensure any caller loops will be exercised at least once.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D71775
Fixes https://bugs.llvm.org//show_bug.cgi?id=44878
When --strip-debug is specified, .debug* are removed from inputSections
while .rel[a].debug* (incorrectly) remain.
LinkerScript::addOrphanSections() requires the output section of a relocated
InputSectionBase to be created first.
.debug* are not in inputSections ->
output sections .debug* are not created ->
getOutputSectionName(.rel[a].debug*) dereferences a null pointer.
Fix the null pointer dereference by deleting .rel[a].debug* from inputSections as well.
Reviewed By: grimar, nickdesaulniers
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D74510
