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<updated>2024-09-21T16:35:01+00:00</updated>
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<name>Fangrui Song</name>
<email>i@maskray.me</email>
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<published>2024-09-21T16:35:01+00:00</published>
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<title>Re-apply "[NFCI][LTO][lld] Optimize away symbol copies within LTO global resolution in ELF" (#107792)</title>
<updated>2024-09-09T18:16:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mingming Liu</name>
<email>mingmingl@google.com</email>
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<published>2024-09-09T18:16:58+00:00</published>
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Fix the use-after-free bug and re-apply
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/106193
* Without the fix, the string referenced by `objSym.Name` could be
destroyed even if string saver keeps a copy of the referenced string.
This caused use-after-free.
* The fix ([latest
commit](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/107792/commits/9776ed44cfb26172480145aed8f59ba78a6fa2ea))
updates `objSym.Name` to reference (via `StringRef`) the string saver's
copy.

Test:
1. For `lld/test/ELF/lto/asmundef.ll`, its test failure is reproducible
with `-DLLVM_USE_SANITIZER=Address` and gone with the fix.
3. Run all tests by following
https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/SanitizerBotReproduceBuild#try-local-changes.
* Without the fix, `ELF/lto/asmundef.ll` aborted the multi-stage test at
`@@@BUILD_STEP stage2/asan_ubsan check@@@`, defined
[here](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-zorg/blob/main/zorg/buildbot/builders/sanitizers/buildbot_fast.sh#L30)
* With the fix, the [multi-stage
test](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-zorg/blob/main/zorg/buildbot/builders/sanitizers/buildbot_fast.sh)
pass stage2 {asan, ubsan, masan}. This is also the test used by
https://lab.llvm.org/buildbot/#/builders/169


**Original commit message**

`StringMap&lt;T&gt;` creates a [copy of the
string](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/d4c519e7b2ac21350ec08b23eda44bf4a2d3c974/llvm/include/llvm/ADT/StringMapEntry.h#L55-L58)
for entry insertions and intentionally keep copies [since the
implementation optimizes string memory
usage](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/d4c519e7b2ac21350ec08b23eda44bf4a2d3c974/llvm/include/llvm/ADT/StringMap.h#L124).
On the other hand, linker keeps copies of symbol names [1] in
`lld::elf::parseFiles` [2] before invoking `compileBitcodeFiles` [3].

This change proposes to optimize away string copies inside
[LTO::GlobalResolutions](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/24e791b4164986a1ca7776e3ae0292ef20d20c47/llvm/include/llvm/LTO/LTO.h#L409),
which will make LTO indexing more memory efficient for ELF. There are
similar opportunities for other (COFF, wasm, MachO) formats.

The optimization takes place for lld (ELF) only. For the rest of use
cases (gold plugin, `llvm-lto2`, etc), LTO owns a string saver to keep
copies and use global resolution key for de-duplication.

Together with @kazutakahirata's work to make `ComputeCrossModuleImport`
more memory efficient, we see a ~20% peak memory usage reduction in a
binary where peak memory usage needs to go down. Thanks to the
optimization in
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/329ba523ccbbe68a12434926c92fd9a86494d958,
the max (as opposed to the sum) of `ComputeCrossModuleImport` or
`GlobalResolution` shows up in peak memory usage.
* Regarding correctness, the set of
[resolved](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/80c47ad3aec9d7f22e1b1bdc88960a91b66f89f1/llvm/lib/LTO/LTO.cpp#L739)
[per-module
symbols](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/80c47ad3aec9d7f22e1b1bdc88960a91b66f89f1/llvm/include/llvm/LTO/LTO.h#L188-L191)
is a subset of
[llvm::lto::InputFile::Symbols](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/80c47ad3aec9d7f22e1b1bdc88960a91b66f89f1/llvm/include/llvm/LTO/LTO.h#L120).
And bitcode symbol parsing saves symbol name when iterating
`obj-&gt;symbols` in `BitcodeFile::parse` already. This change updates
`BitcodeFile::parseLazy` to keep copies of per-module undefined symbols.
* Presumably the undefined symbols in a LTO unit (copied in this patch
in linker unique saver) is a small set compared with the set of symbols
in global-resolution (copied before this patch), making this a
worthwhile trade-off. Benchmarking this change alone shows measurable
memory savings across various benchmarks.

[1] ELF
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/1cea5c2138bef3d8fec75508df6dbb858e6e3560/lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp#L1748
[2]
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/ef7b18a53c0d186dcda1e322be6035407fdedb55/lld/ELF/Driver.cpp#L2863
[3]
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/ef7b18a53c0d186dcda1e322be6035407fdedb55/lld/ELF/Driver.cpp#L2995</content>
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Fix the use-after-free bug and re-apply
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/106193
* Without the fix, the string referenced by `objSym.Name` could be
destroyed even if string saver keeps a copy of the referenced string.
This caused use-after-free.
* The fix ([latest
commit](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/107792/commits/9776ed44cfb26172480145aed8f59ba78a6fa2ea))
updates `objSym.Name` to reference (via `StringRef`) the string saver's
copy.

Test:
1. For `lld/test/ELF/lto/asmundef.ll`, its test failure is reproducible
with `-DLLVM_USE_SANITIZER=Address` and gone with the fix.
3. Run all tests by following
https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/SanitizerBotReproduceBuild#try-local-changes.
* Without the fix, `ELF/lto/asmundef.ll` aborted the multi-stage test at
`@@@BUILD_STEP stage2/asan_ubsan check@@@`, defined
[here](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-zorg/blob/main/zorg/buildbot/builders/sanitizers/buildbot_fast.sh#L30)
* With the fix, the [multi-stage
test](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-zorg/blob/main/zorg/buildbot/builders/sanitizers/buildbot_fast.sh)
pass stage2 {asan, ubsan, masan}. This is also the test used by
https://lab.llvm.org/buildbot/#/builders/169


**Original commit message**

`StringMap&lt;T&gt;` creates a [copy of the
string](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/d4c519e7b2ac21350ec08b23eda44bf4a2d3c974/llvm/include/llvm/ADT/StringMapEntry.h#L55-L58)
for entry insertions and intentionally keep copies [since the
implementation optimizes string memory
usage](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/d4c519e7b2ac21350ec08b23eda44bf4a2d3c974/llvm/include/llvm/ADT/StringMap.h#L124).
On the other hand, linker keeps copies of symbol names [1] in
`lld::elf::parseFiles` [2] before invoking `compileBitcodeFiles` [3].

This change proposes to optimize away string copies inside
[LTO::GlobalResolutions](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/24e791b4164986a1ca7776e3ae0292ef20d20c47/llvm/include/llvm/LTO/LTO.h#L409),
which will make LTO indexing more memory efficient for ELF. There are
similar opportunities for other (COFF, wasm, MachO) formats.

The optimization takes place for lld (ELF) only. For the rest of use
cases (gold plugin, `llvm-lto2`, etc), LTO owns a string saver to keep
copies and use global resolution key for de-duplication.

Together with @kazutakahirata's work to make `ComputeCrossModuleImport`
more memory efficient, we see a ~20% peak memory usage reduction in a
binary where peak memory usage needs to go down. Thanks to the
optimization in
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/329ba523ccbbe68a12434926c92fd9a86494d958,
the max (as opposed to the sum) of `ComputeCrossModuleImport` or
`GlobalResolution` shows up in peak memory usage.
* Regarding correctness, the set of
[resolved](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/80c47ad3aec9d7f22e1b1bdc88960a91b66f89f1/llvm/lib/LTO/LTO.cpp#L739)
[per-module
symbols](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/80c47ad3aec9d7f22e1b1bdc88960a91b66f89f1/llvm/include/llvm/LTO/LTO.h#L188-L191)
is a subset of
[llvm::lto::InputFile::Symbols](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/80c47ad3aec9d7f22e1b1bdc88960a91b66f89f1/llvm/include/llvm/LTO/LTO.h#L120).
And bitcode symbol parsing saves symbol name when iterating
`obj-&gt;symbols` in `BitcodeFile::parse` already. This change updates
`BitcodeFile::parseLazy` to keep copies of per-module undefined symbols.
* Presumably the undefined symbols in a LTO unit (copied in this patch
in linker unique saver) is a small set compared with the set of symbols
in global-resolution (copied before this patch), making this a
worthwhile trade-off. Benchmarking this change alone shows measurable
memory savings across various benchmarks.

[1] ELF
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/1cea5c2138bef3d8fec75508df6dbb858e6e3560/lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp#L1748
[2]
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/ef7b18a53c0d186dcda1e322be6035407fdedb55/lld/ELF/Driver.cpp#L2863
[3]
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/ef7b18a53c0d186dcda1e322be6035407fdedb55/lld/ELF/Driver.cpp#L2995</pre>
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<title>Revert "[NFCI][LTO][lld] Optimize away symbol copies within LTO global resolution in ELF" (#107788)</title>
<updated>2024-09-08T23:45:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mingming Liu</name>
<email>mingmingl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-08T23:45:59+00:00</published>
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Reverts llvm/llvm-project#106193 while investigating bot failures
https://lab.llvm.org/buildbot/#/builders/169/builds/2989/steps/9/logs/stdio</content>
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Reverts llvm/llvm-project#106193 while investigating bot failures
https://lab.llvm.org/buildbot/#/builders/169/builds/2989/steps/9/logs/stdio</pre>
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<entry>
<title>[NFCI][LTO][lld] Optimize away symbol copies within LTO global resolution in ELF (#106193)</title>
<updated>2024-09-08T21:52:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mingming Liu</name>
<email>mingmingl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-08T21:52:03+00:00</published>
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`StringMap&lt;T&gt;` creates a [copy of the
string](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/d4c519e7b2ac21350ec08b23eda44bf4a2d3c974/llvm/include/llvm/ADT/StringMapEntry.h#L55-L58)
for entry insertions and intentionally keep copies [since the
implementation optimizes string memory
usage](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/d4c519e7b2ac21350ec08b23eda44bf4a2d3c974/llvm/include/llvm/ADT/StringMap.h#L124).
On the other hand, linker keeps copies of symbol names [1] in
`lld::elf::parseFiles` [2] before invoking `compileBitcodeFiles` [3].

This change proposes to optimize away string copies inside
[LTO::GlobalResolutions](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/24e791b4164986a1ca7776e3ae0292ef20d20c47/llvm/include/llvm/LTO/LTO.h#L409),
which will make LTO indexing more memory efficient for ELF. There are
similar opportunities for other (COFF, wasm, MachO) formats.

The optimization takes place for lld (ELF) only. For the rest of use
cases (gold plugin, `llvm-lto2`, etc), LTO owns a string saver to keep
copies and use global resolution key for de-duplication.

Together with @kazutakahirata's work to make `ComputeCrossModuleImport`
more memory efficient, we see a ~20% peak memory usage reduction in a
binary where peak memory usage needs to go down. Thanks to the
optimization in
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/329ba523ccbbe68a12434926c92fd9a86494d958,
the max (as opposed to the sum) of `ComputeCrossModuleImport` or
`GlobalResolution` shows up in peak memory usage.
* Regarding correctness, the set of
[resolved](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/80c47ad3aec9d7f22e1b1bdc88960a91b66f89f1/llvm/lib/LTO/LTO.cpp#L739)
[per-module
symbols](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/80c47ad3aec9d7f22e1b1bdc88960a91b66f89f1/llvm/include/llvm/LTO/LTO.h#L188-L191)
is a subset of
[llvm::lto::InputFile::Symbols](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/80c47ad3aec9d7f22e1b1bdc88960a91b66f89f1/llvm/include/llvm/LTO/LTO.h#L120).
And bitcode symbol parsing saves symbol name when iterating
`obj-&gt;symbols` in `BitcodeFile::parse` already. This change updates
`BitcodeFile::parseLazy` to keep copies of per-module undefined symbols.
* Presumably the undefined symbols in a LTO unit (copied in this patch
in linker unique saver) is a small set compared with the set of symbols
in global-resolution (copied before this patch), making this a
worthwhile trade-off. Benchmarking this change alone shows measurable
memory savings across various benchmarks.

[1] ELF
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/1cea5c2138bef3d8fec75508df6dbb858e6e3560/lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp#L1748
[2]
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/ef7b18a53c0d186dcda1e322be6035407fdedb55/lld/ELF/Driver.cpp#L2863
[3]
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/ef7b18a53c0d186dcda1e322be6035407fdedb55/lld/ELF/Driver.cpp#L2995</content>
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`StringMap&lt;T&gt;` creates a [copy of the
string](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/d4c519e7b2ac21350ec08b23eda44bf4a2d3c974/llvm/include/llvm/ADT/StringMapEntry.h#L55-L58)
for entry insertions and intentionally keep copies [since the
implementation optimizes string memory
usage](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/d4c519e7b2ac21350ec08b23eda44bf4a2d3c974/llvm/include/llvm/ADT/StringMap.h#L124).
On the other hand, linker keeps copies of symbol names [1] in
`lld::elf::parseFiles` [2] before invoking `compileBitcodeFiles` [3].

This change proposes to optimize away string copies inside
[LTO::GlobalResolutions](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/24e791b4164986a1ca7776e3ae0292ef20d20c47/llvm/include/llvm/LTO/LTO.h#L409),
which will make LTO indexing more memory efficient for ELF. There are
similar opportunities for other (COFF, wasm, MachO) formats.

The optimization takes place for lld (ELF) only. For the rest of use
cases (gold plugin, `llvm-lto2`, etc), LTO owns a string saver to keep
copies and use global resolution key for de-duplication.

Together with @kazutakahirata's work to make `ComputeCrossModuleImport`
more memory efficient, we see a ~20% peak memory usage reduction in a
binary where peak memory usage needs to go down. Thanks to the
optimization in
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/329ba523ccbbe68a12434926c92fd9a86494d958,
the max (as opposed to the sum) of `ComputeCrossModuleImport` or
`GlobalResolution` shows up in peak memory usage.
* Regarding correctness, the set of
[resolved](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/80c47ad3aec9d7f22e1b1bdc88960a91b66f89f1/llvm/lib/LTO/LTO.cpp#L739)
[per-module
symbols](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/80c47ad3aec9d7f22e1b1bdc88960a91b66f89f1/llvm/include/llvm/LTO/LTO.h#L188-L191)
is a subset of
[llvm::lto::InputFile::Symbols](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/80c47ad3aec9d7f22e1b1bdc88960a91b66f89f1/llvm/include/llvm/LTO/LTO.h#L120).
And bitcode symbol parsing saves symbol name when iterating
`obj-&gt;symbols` in `BitcodeFile::parse` already. This change updates
`BitcodeFile::parseLazy` to keep copies of per-module undefined symbols.
* Presumably the undefined symbols in a LTO unit (copied in this patch
in linker unique saver) is a small set compared with the set of symbols
in global-resolution (copied before this patch), making this a
worthwhile trade-off. Benchmarking this change alone shows measurable
memory savings across various benchmarks.

[1] ELF
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/1cea5c2138bef3d8fec75508df6dbb858e6e3560/lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp#L1748
[2]
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/ef7b18a53c0d186dcda1e322be6035407fdedb55/lld/ELF/Driver.cpp#L2863
[3]
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/ef7b18a53c0d186dcda1e322be6035407fdedb55/lld/ELF/Driver.cpp#L2995</pre>
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<entry>
<title>[lld] Change `--lto-emit-llvm` to use the pre-codegen module (#97480)</title>
<updated>2024-07-02T23:11:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joseph Huber</name>
<email>huberjn@outlook.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-02T23:11:48+00:00</published>
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Summary:
Currently the `--lto-emit-llvm` option writes out the
post-internalization bitcode. This is the bitcode before any
optimizations or other pipelines have been run on it. This patch changes
that to use the pre-codegen module, which is the state of the LLVM-IR
after the optimizations have been run.

I believe that this makes sense as the `--lto-emit-llvm` option seems to
imply that we should emit the final output of the LLVM pass as if it
were the desired output. This should include optimizations at the
requested optimization level. My main motivation for this change is to
be able to use this to link several LLVM-IR files into a single one that
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Summary:
Currently the `--lto-emit-llvm` option writes out the
post-internalization bitcode. This is the bitcode before any
optimizations or other pipelines have been run on it. This patch changes
that to use the pre-codegen module, which is the state of the LLVM-IR
after the optimizations have been run.

I believe that this makes sense as the `--lto-emit-llvm` option seems to
imply that we should emit the final output of the LLVM pass as if it
were the desired output. This should include optimizations at the
requested optimization level. My main motivation for this change is to
be able to use this to link several LLVM-IR files into a single one that
I can then pass back to `ld.lld` later (for JIT purposes).</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[SHT_LLVM_BB_ADDR_MAP] Allow basic-block-sections and labels be used together by decoupling the handling of the two features. (#74128)</title>
<updated>2024-02-02T01:50:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rahman Lavaee</name>
<email>rahmanl@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-02T01:50:46+00:00</published>
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Today `-split-machine-functions` and `-fbasic-block-sections={all,list}`
cannot be combined with `-basic-block-sections=labels` (the labels
option will be ignored).
The inconsistency comes from the way basic block address map -- the
underlying mechanism for basic block labels -- encodes basic block
addresses
(https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-July/143512.html).
Specifically, basic block offsets are computed relative to the function
begin symbol. This relies on functions being contiguous which is not the
case for MFS and basic block section binaries. This means Propeller
cannot use binary profiles collected from these binaries, which limits
the applicability of Propeller for iterative optimization.
    
To make the `SHT_LLVM_BB_ADDR_MAP` feature work with basic block section
binaries, we propose modifying the encoding of this section as follows.

First let us review the current encoding which emits the address of each
function and its number of basic blocks, followed by basic block entries
for each basic block.

| | |
|--|--|
| Address of the function | Function Address |
|  Number of basic blocks in this function | NumBlocks |
|  BB entry 1
|  BB entry 2
|   ...
|  BB entry #NumBlocks
    
To make this work for basic block sections, we treat each basic block
section similar to a function, except that basic block sections of the
same function must be encapsulated in the same structure so we can map
all of them to their single function.
    
We modify the encoding to first emit the number of basic block sections
(BB ranges) in the function. Then we emit the address map of each basic
block section section as before: the base address of the section, its
number of blocks, and BB entries for its basic block. The first section
in the BB address map is always the function entry section.
| | |
|--|--|
|  Number of sections for this function   | NumBBRanges |
| Section 1 begin address                     | BaseAddress[1]  |
| Number of basic blocks in section 1 | NumBlocks[1]    |
| BB entries for Section 1
|..................|
| Section #NumBBRanges begin address | BaseAddress[NumBBRanges] |
| Number of basic blocks in section #NumBBRanges |
NumBlocks[NumBBRanges] |
| BB entries for Section #NumBBRanges
    
The encoding of basic block entries remains as before with the minor
change that each basic block offset is now computed relative to the
begin symbol of its containing BB section.
    
This patch adds a new boolean codegen option `-basic-block-address-map`.
Correspondingly, the front-end flag `-fbasic-block-address-map` and LLD
flag `--lto-basic-block-address-map` are introduced.
Analogously, we add a new TargetOption field `BBAddrMap`. This means BB
address maps are either generated for all functions in the compiling
unit, or for none (depending on `TargetOptions::BBAddrMap`).
    
This patch keeps the functionality of the old
`-fbasic-block-sections=labels` option but does not remove it. A
subsequent patch will remove the obsolete option.

We refactor the `BasicBlockSections` pass by separating the BB address
map and BB sections handing to their own functions (named
`handleBBAddrMap` and `handleBBSections`). `handleBBSections` renumbers
basic blocks and places them in their assigned sections.
`handleBBAddrMap` is invoked after `handleBBSections` (if requested) and
only renumbers the blocks.
  - New tests added:
- Two tests basic-block-address-map-with-basic-block-sections.ll and
basic-block-address-map-with-mfs.ll to exercise the combination of
`-basic-block-address-map` with `-basic-block-sections=list` and
'-split-machine-functions`.
- A driver sanity test for the `-fbasic-block-address-map` option
(basic-block-address-map.c).
- An LLD test for testing the `--lto-basic-block-address-map` option.
This reuses the LLVM IR from `lld/test/ELF/lto/basic-block-sections.ll`.
- Renamed and modified the two existing codegen tests for basic block
address map (`basic-block-sections-labels-functions-sections.ll` and
`basic-block-sections-labels.ll`)
- Removed `SHT_LLVM_BB_ADDR_MAP_V0` tests. Full deprecation of
`SHT_LLVM_BB_ADDR_MAP_V0` and `SHT_LLVM_BB_ADDR_MAP` version less than 2
will happen in a separate PR in a few months.</content>
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Today `-split-machine-functions` and `-fbasic-block-sections={all,list}`
cannot be combined with `-basic-block-sections=labels` (the labels
option will be ignored).
The inconsistency comes from the way basic block address map -- the
underlying mechanism for basic block labels -- encodes basic block
addresses
(https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-July/143512.html).
Specifically, basic block offsets are computed relative to the function
begin symbol. This relies on functions being contiguous which is not the
case for MFS and basic block section binaries. This means Propeller
cannot use binary profiles collected from these binaries, which limits
the applicability of Propeller for iterative optimization.
    
To make the `SHT_LLVM_BB_ADDR_MAP` feature work with basic block section
binaries, we propose modifying the encoding of this section as follows.

First let us review the current encoding which emits the address of each
function and its number of basic blocks, followed by basic block entries
for each basic block.

| | |
|--|--|
| Address of the function | Function Address |
|  Number of basic blocks in this function | NumBlocks |
|  BB entry 1
|  BB entry 2
|   ...
|  BB entry #NumBlocks
    
To make this work for basic block sections, we treat each basic block
section similar to a function, except that basic block sections of the
same function must be encapsulated in the same structure so we can map
all of them to their single function.
    
We modify the encoding to first emit the number of basic block sections
(BB ranges) in the function. Then we emit the address map of each basic
block section section as before: the base address of the section, its
number of blocks, and BB entries for its basic block. The first section
in the BB address map is always the function entry section.
| | |
|--|--|
|  Number of sections for this function   | NumBBRanges |
| Section 1 begin address                     | BaseAddress[1]  |
| Number of basic blocks in section 1 | NumBlocks[1]    |
| BB entries for Section 1
|..................|
| Section #NumBBRanges begin address | BaseAddress[NumBBRanges] |
| Number of basic blocks in section #NumBBRanges |
NumBlocks[NumBBRanges] |
| BB entries for Section #NumBBRanges
    
The encoding of basic block entries remains as before with the minor
change that each basic block offset is now computed relative to the
begin symbol of its containing BB section.
    
This patch adds a new boolean codegen option `-basic-block-address-map`.
Correspondingly, the front-end flag `-fbasic-block-address-map` and LLD
flag `--lto-basic-block-address-map` are introduced.
Analogously, we add a new TargetOption field `BBAddrMap`. This means BB
address maps are either generated for all functions in the compiling
unit, or for none (depending on `TargetOptions::BBAddrMap`).
    
This patch keeps the functionality of the old
`-fbasic-block-sections=labels` option but does not remove it. A
subsequent patch will remove the obsolete option.

We refactor the `BasicBlockSections` pass by separating the BB address
map and BB sections handing to their own functions (named
`handleBBAddrMap` and `handleBBSections`). `handleBBSections` renumbers
basic blocks and places them in their assigned sections.
`handleBBAddrMap` is invoked after `handleBBSections` (if requested) and
only renumbers the blocks.
  - New tests added:
- Two tests basic-block-address-map-with-basic-block-sections.ll and
basic-block-address-map-with-mfs.ll to exercise the combination of
`-basic-block-address-map` with `-basic-block-sections=list` and
'-split-machine-functions`.
- A driver sanity test for the `-fbasic-block-address-map` option
(basic-block-address-map.c).
- An LLD test for testing the `--lto-basic-block-address-map` option.
This reuses the LLVM IR from `lld/test/ELF/lto/basic-block-sections.ll`.
- Renamed and modified the two existing codegen tests for basic block
address map (`basic-block-sections-labels-functions-sections.ll` and
`basic-block-sections-labels.ll`)
- Removed `SHT_LLVM_BB_ADDR_MAP_V0` tests. Full deprecation of
`SHT_LLVM_BB_ADDR_MAP_V0` and `SHT_LLVM_BB_ADDR_MAP` version less than 2
will happen in a separate PR in a few months.</pre>
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<entry>
<title>[ELF] --save-temps --lto-emit-asm: derive ELF/asm file names from bitcode file names</title>
<updated>2024-01-23T19:38:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fangrui Song</name>
<email>i@maskray.me</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-23T19:38:15+00:00</published>
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Port COFF's https://reviews.llvm.org/D78221 and
https://reviews.llvm.org/D137217 to ELF. For the in-process ThinLTO
link, `ld.lld --save-temps a.o d/b.o -o out` will create
ELF relocatable files `out.lto.a.o`/`d/out.lto.b.o` instead of
`out1.lto.o`/`out2.lto.o`. Deriving the LTO-generated relocatable file
name from bitcode file names helps debugging.

The relocatable file name from the first regular LTO partition does not
change: `out.lto.o`. The second, if present due to `--lto-partition=`,
changes from `out1.lto.o` to `lto.1.o`.

For an archive member, e.g. `d/a.a(coll.o at 8)`,
the relocatable file is `d/out.lto.a.a(coll.o at 8).o`.

`--lto-emit-asm` file names are changed similarly. `--lto-emit-asm -o
out` now creates `out.lto.s` instead of `out`, therefore the
`--lto-emit-asm -o -` idiom no longer works. However, I think this new
behavior (which matches COFF) is better since keeping or removing
`--lto-emit-asm` will dump different files, instead of overwriting the
`-o` output file from an executable/shared object to an assembly file.

Reviewers: rnk, igorkudrin, xur-llvm, teresajohnson, ZequanWu

Reviewed By: teresajohnson

Pull Request: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/78835
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Port COFF's https://reviews.llvm.org/D78221 and
https://reviews.llvm.org/D137217 to ELF. For the in-process ThinLTO
link, `ld.lld --save-temps a.o d/b.o -o out` will create
ELF relocatable files `out.lto.a.o`/`d/out.lto.b.o` instead of
`out1.lto.o`/`out2.lto.o`. Deriving the LTO-generated relocatable file
name from bitcode file names helps debugging.

The relocatable file name from the first regular LTO partition does not
change: `out.lto.o`. The second, if present due to `--lto-partition=`,
changes from `out1.lto.o` to `lto.1.o`.

For an archive member, e.g. `d/a.a(coll.o at 8)`,
the relocatable file is `d/out.lto.a.a(coll.o at 8).o`.

`--lto-emit-asm` file names are changed similarly. `--lto-emit-asm -o
out` now creates `out.lto.s` instead of `out`, therefore the
`--lto-emit-asm -o -` idiom no longer works. However, I think this new
behavior (which matches COFF) is better since keeping or removing
`--lto-emit-asm` will dump different files, instead of overwriting the
`-o` output file from an executable/shared object to an assembly file.

Reviewers: rnk, igorkudrin, xur-llvm, teresajohnson, ZequanWu

Reviewed By: teresajohnson

Pull Request: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/78835
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[ELF] Add internal InputFile (#78944)</title>
<updated>2024-01-22T17:09:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fangrui Song</name>
<email>i@maskray.me</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-22T17:09:46+00:00</published>
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Based on https://reviews.llvm.org/D45375 . Introduce a new InputFile
kind `InternalKind`, use it for

* `ctx.internalFile`: for linker-defined symbols and some synthesized
`Undefined`
* `createInternalFile`: for symbol assignments and --defsym

I picked "internal" instead of "synthetic" to avoid confusion with
SyntheticSection.

Currently a symbol's file is one of: nullptr, ObjKind, SharedKind,
BitcodeKind, BinaryKind. Now it's non-null (I plan to add an
`assert(file)` to Symbol::Symbol and change `toString(const InputFile
*)`
separately).

Debugging and error reporting gets improved. The immediate user-facing
difference is more descriptive "File" column in the --cref output. This
patch may unlock further simplification.

Currently each symbol assignment gets its own
`createInternalFile(cmd-&gt;location)`. Two symbol assignments in a linker
script do not share the same file. Making the file the same would be
nice, but would require non trivial code.</content>
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Based on https://reviews.llvm.org/D45375 . Introduce a new InputFile
kind `InternalKind`, use it for

* `ctx.internalFile`: for linker-defined symbols and some synthesized
`Undefined`
* `createInternalFile`: for symbol assignments and --defsym

I picked "internal" instead of "synthetic" to avoid confusion with
SyntheticSection.

Currently a symbol's file is one of: nullptr, ObjKind, SharedKind,
BitcodeKind, BinaryKind. Now it's non-null (I plan to add an
`assert(file)` to Symbol::Symbol and change `toString(const InputFile
*)`
separately).

Debugging and error reporting gets improved. The immediate user-facing
difference is more descriptive "File" column in the --cref output. This
patch may unlock further simplification.

Currently each symbol assignment gets its own
`createInternalFile(cmd-&gt;location)`. Two symbol assignments in a linker
script do not share the same file. Making the file the same would be
nice, but would require non trivial code.</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[NFC][LLD] Refactor some copy-paste into the Common library (#67598)</title>
<updated>2023-09-27T22:06:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matheus Izvekov</name>
<email>mizvekov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-27T22:06:48+00:00</published>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[WPD][LLD] Add option to validate RTTI is enabled on all native types and prevent devirtualization on types with native RTTI</title>
<updated>2023-09-18T22:51:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>modimo</name>
<email>modimo@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-14T02:02:52+00:00</published>
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Discussion about this approach: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-safer-whole-program-class-hierarchy-analysis/65144/18

When enabling WPD in an environment where native binaries are present, types we want to optimize can be derived from inside these native files and devirtualizing them can lead to correctness issues. RTTI can be used as a way to determine all such types in native files and exclude them from WPD providing a safe checked way to enable WPD.

The approach is:
1. In the linker, identify if RTTI is available for all native types. If not, under `--lto-validate-all-vtables-have-type-infos` `--lto-whole-program-visibility` is automatically disabled. This is done by examining all .symtab symbols in object files and .dynsym symbols in DSOs for vtable (_ZTV) and typeinfo (_ZTI) symbols and ensuring there's always a match for every vtable symbol.
2. During thinlink, if `--lto-validate-all-vtables-have-type-infos` is set and RTTI is available for all native types, identify all typename (_ZTS) symbols via their corresponding typeinfo (_ZTI) symbols that are used natively or outside of our summary and exclude them from WPD.

Testing:
ninja check-all
large Meta service that uses boost, glog and libstdc++.so runs successfully with WPD via --lto-whole-program-visibility. Previously, native types in boost caused incorrect devirtualization that led to crashes.

Reviewed By: MaskRay, tejohnson

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D155659
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Discussion about this approach: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-safer-whole-program-class-hierarchy-analysis/65144/18

When enabling WPD in an environment where native binaries are present, types we want to optimize can be derived from inside these native files and devirtualizing them can lead to correctness issues. RTTI can be used as a way to determine all such types in native files and exclude them from WPD providing a safe checked way to enable WPD.

The approach is:
1. In the linker, identify if RTTI is available for all native types. If not, under `--lto-validate-all-vtables-have-type-infos` `--lto-whole-program-visibility` is automatically disabled. This is done by examining all .symtab symbols in object files and .dynsym symbols in DSOs for vtable (_ZTV) and typeinfo (_ZTI) symbols and ensuring there's always a match for every vtable symbol.
2. During thinlink, if `--lto-validate-all-vtables-have-type-infos` is set and RTTI is available for all native types, identify all typename (_ZTS) symbols via their corresponding typeinfo (_ZTI) symbols that are used natively or outside of our summary and exclude them from WPD.

Testing:
ninja check-all
large Meta service that uses boost, glog and libstdc++.so runs successfully with WPD via --lto-whole-program-visibility. Previously, native types in boost caused incorrect devirtualization that led to crashes.

Reviewed By: MaskRay, tejohnson

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D155659
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