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commita7479723ea79dca404c447d7aaf1c469c548614c[log] [tgz]
authorFangrui Song <maskray@google.com>Thu Mar 14 03:47:45 2019 +0000
committerFangrui Song <maskray@google.com>Thu Mar 14 03:47:45 2019 +0000
treef1ed786ffa960a65bddcaa3da62959026c23f9a2
parent1ea73084c424b2957c3ea7b788916e7206fd597b [diff]
[ELF] Simplify RelRo, TLS, NOBITS section ranks and make RW PT_LOAD start with RelRo

Old: PT_LOAD(.data | PT_GNU_RELRO(.data.rel.ro .bss.rel.ro) | .bss)
New: PT_LOAD(PT_GNU_RELRO(.data.rel.ro .bss.rel.ro) | .data .bss)

The placement of | indicates page alignment caused by PT_GNU_RELRO. The
new layout has simpler rules and saves space for many cases.

Old size: roundup(.data) + roundup(.data.rel.ro)
New size: roundup(.data.rel.ro + .bss.rel.ro) + .data

Other advantages:

* At runtime the 3 memory mappings decrease to 2.
* start(PT_TLS) = start(PT_GNU_RELRO) = start(RW PT_LOAD). This
  simplifies binary manipulation tools.
  GNU strip before 2.31 discards PT_GNU_RELRO if its
  address is not equal to the start of its associated PT_LOAD.
  This has been fixed by https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=f2731e0c374e5323ce4cdae2bcc7b7fe22da1a6f
  But with this change, we will be compatible with GNU strip before 2.31
* Before, .got.plt (non-relro by default) was placed before .got (relro
  by default), which made it impossible to have _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_
  (start of .got.plt on x86-64) equal to the end of .got (R_GOT*_FROM_END)
  (https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36555). With the new ordering, we
  can improve on this regard if we'd like to.

Reviewers: ruiu, espindola, pcc

Subscribers: emaste, arichardson, llvm-commits, joerg, jdoerfert

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D56828

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/lld/trunk@356117 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
117 files changed
tree: f1ed786ffa960a65bddcaa3da62959026c23f9a2
  1. cmake/
  2. COFF/
  3. Common/
  4. docs/
  5. ELF/
  6. include/
  7. lib/
  8. MinGW/
  9. test/
  10. tools/
  11. unittests/
  12. utils/
  13. wasm/
  14. .arcconfig
  15. .clang-format
  16. .gitignore
  17. CMakeLists.txt
  18. CODE_OWNERS.TXT
  19. LICENSE.TXT
  20. README.md
README.md

LLVM Linker (lld)

This directory and its subdirectories contain source code for the LLVM Linker, a modular cross platform linker which is built as part of the LLVM compiler infrastructure project.

lld is open source software. You may freely distribute it under the terms of the license agreement found in LICENSE.txt.

Benchmarking

In order to make sure various developers can evaluate patches over the same tests, we create a collection of self contained programs.

It is hosted at https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/linker-tests/lld-speed-test.tar.xz

The current sha256 is 10eec685463d5a8bbf08d77f4ca96282161d396c65bd97dc99dbde644a31610f.