This is the first in a series of CLs to replace the use of pointers
in binary read-only data with offsets.
In standard Go binaries these CLs have a small effect, shrinking
8-byte pointers to 4-bytes. In position-independent code, it also
saves the dynamic relocation for the pointer. This has a significant
effect on the binary size when building as PIE, c-archive, or
c-shared.
darwin/amd64:
cmd/go: -12KB (0.1%)
jujud: -82KB (0.1%)
linux/amd64 PIE:
cmd/go: -86KB (0.7%)
jujud: -569KB (0.7%)
For #6853.
Change-Id: Iad5625bbeba58dabfd4d334dbee3fcbfe04b2dcf
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After making dwarf generation backed by LSyms there was a performance regression
of about 10%. These changes make on the fly symbol generation faster and
are meant to help mitigate that.
name old secs new secs delta
LinkCmdGo 0.55 ± 9% 0.53 ± 8% -4.42% (p=0.000 n=100+99)
name old MaxRSS new MaxRSS delta
LinkCmdGo 152k ± 6% 149k ± 3% -1.99% (p=0.000 n=99+97)
Change-Id: Iacca3ec924ce401aa83126bc0b10fe89bedf0ba6
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Generated with honnef.co/go/unused
There is a large amount of unused code in cmd/internal/obj/s390x but
that can wait til the s390x port is merged.
There is some unused code in
cmd/internal/unvendor/golang.org/x/arch/arm/armasm but that should be
addressed upstream and a new revision imported.
Change-Id: I252c0f9ea8c5bb1a0b530a374ef13a0a20ea56aa
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This is a pre requesite of CL 21722 and removes a lot of unidiomatic
boilerplate in the linker.
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Information about CPU architectures (e.g., name, family, byte
ordering, pointer and register size) is currently redundantly
scattered around the source tree. Instead consolidate the basic
information into a single new package cmd/internal/sys.
Also, introduce new sys.I386, sys.AMD64, etc. names for the constants
'8', '6', etc. and replace most uses of the latter. The notable
exceptions are a couple of error messages that still refer to the old
char-based toolchain names and function reltype in cmd/link.
Passes toolstash/buildall.
Change-Id: I8a6f0cbd49577ec1672a98addebc45f767e36461
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This updates dwarf.go to generate debug information as symbols
instead of directly writing to the output file. This should make
it easier to move generation of some of the debug info into the compiler.
Change-Id: Id2358988bfb689865ab4d68f82716f0676336df4
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To refer to types and names by offsets, we want to keep the symbols in
the same sections. Do this by making all types .relro for now.
Once name offsets are further along, name data can move out of relro.
Change-Id: I1cbd2e914bd180cdf25c4aeb13d9c1c734febe69
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Add supporting code for runtime initialization, including both
32- and 64-bit x86 architectures.
Add .ctors section on Windows to PE .o files, and INITENTRY to .ctors
section to plug in to the GCC C/C++ startup initialization mechanism.
This allows the Go runtime to initialize itself. Add .text section
symbol for .ctor relocations. Note: This is unlikely to be useful for
MSVC-based toolchains.
Fixes#13494
Change-Id: I4286a96f70e5f5228acae88eef46e2bed95813f3
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Introduces the new relocation variant RV_390_DBL which indicates
that the relocation value should be shifted right by 1 (to make
it 2-byte aligned).
Change-Id: I03fa96b4759ee19330c5298c3720746622fb1a03
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See #14874
This change tells the linker to collect all the itablink symbols and
collect them so that moduledata can have a slice of all compiler
generated itabs.
The logic is shamelessly adapted from what is done with typelink symbols.
Change-Id: Ie93b59acf0fcba908a876d506afbf796f222dbac
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/20889
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
Deleting the string merging pass makes the linker 30-35% faster
but makes jujud (using the github.com/davecheney/benchjuju snapshot) 2.5% larger.
Two optimizations bring the space overhead down to 0.6%.
First, change the default alignment for string data to 1 byte.
(It was previously defaulting to larger amounts, usually pointer width.)
Second, write out the type string for T (usually a bigger expression) as "*T"[1:],
so that the type strings for T and *T share storage.
Combined, these obtain the bulk of the benefit of string merging
at essentially no cost. The remaining benefit from string merging
is not worth the excessive cost, so delete it.
As penance for making the jujud binary 0.6% larger,
the next CL in this sequence trims the reflect functype
information enough to make the jujud binary overall 0.75% smaller
(that is, that CL has a net -1.35% effect).
For #6853.
Fixes#14648.
Change-Id: I3fdd74c85410930c36bb66160ca4174ed540fc6e
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The new Minalign field sets the minimum alignment for all symbols.
This is required for the upcoming s390x port which requires symbols
be 2-byte aligned for efficient relative addressing.
All preexisting architectures have Minalign set to 1 which means
that this commit should have no effect.
I tested values of 2, 4 and 8 on linux amd64 and the tests appear to
pass. Increasing Minalign to 16 appears to break the runtime. I
think this is due to assumptions made about the layout of module
data.
toolstash -cmp on linux amd64 shows no changes due to this commit.
Resolves#14604
Change-Id: I0fe042d52c4e4732eba5fabcd0c31102a2408764
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No performance improvement, but possibly more readable.
Linking juju:
tip: real 0m5.470s user 0m6.131s
this: real 0m5.392s user 0m6.087s
Change-Id: I578e94fbe6c11b19d79034c33b3db31d9689d439
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/20108
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Looks a tiny bit faster, which is a surprise. Probably noise.
Motivation is making the LSym structure a little easier to understand.
Linking juju, best of 10:
before: real 0m4.811s user 0m5.582s
after: real 0m4.611s user 0m5.267s
Change-Id: Idbedaf4a6e6e199036a1bbb6760e98c94ed2c282
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/20142
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The tree's pretty inconsistent about single space vs double space
after a period in documentation. Make it consistently a single space,
per earlier decisions. This means contributors won't be confused by
misleading precedence.
This CL doesn't use go/doc to parse. It only addresses // comments.
It was generated with:
$ perl -i -npe 's,^(\s*// .+[a-z]\.) +([A-Z]),$1 $2,' $(git grep -l -E '^\s*//(.+\.) +([A-Z])')
$ go test go/doc -update
Change-Id: Iccdb99c37c797ef1f804a94b22ba5ee4b500c4f7
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In best of 10, linking cmd/go shows a ~10% improvement.
tip: real 0m1.152s user 0m1.005s
this: real 0m1.065s user 0m0.924s
Change-Id: I303a20b94332feaedc1033c453247a0e4c05c843
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/19978
Reviewed-by: David Crawshaw <crawshaw@golang.org>
The PowerPC ISA does not have a PC-relative load instruction, which poses
obvious challenges when generating position-independent code. The way the ELFv2
ABI addresses this is to specify that r2 points to a per "module" (shared
library or executable) TOC pointer. Maintaining this pointer requires
cooperation between codegen and the system linker:
* Non-leaf functions leave space on the stack at r1+24 to save the TOC pointer.
* A call to a function that *might* have to go via a PLT stub must be followed
by a nop instruction that the system linker can replace with "ld r1, 24(r1)"
to restore the TOC pointer (only when dynamically linking Go code).
* When calling a function via a function pointer, the address of the function
must be in r12, and the first couple of instructions (the "global entry
point") of the called function use this to derive the address of the TOC
for the module it is in.
* When calling a function that is implemented in the same module, the system
linker adjusts the call to skip over the instructions mentioned above (the
"local entry point"), assuming that r2 is already correctly set.
So this changeset adds the global entry point instructions, sets the metadata so
the system linker knows where the local entry point is, inserts code to save the
TOC pointer at 24(r1), adds a nop after any call not known to be local and copes
with the odd non-local code transfer in the runtime (e.g. the stuff around
jmpdefer). It does not actually compile PIC yet.
Change-Id: I7522e22bdfd2f891745a900c60254fe9e372c854
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/15967
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Android linker does not handle TLS for us. We set up the TLS slot
for g, as darwin/386,amd64 handle instead. This is disgusting and
fragile. We will eventually fix this ugly hack by taking advantage
of the recent TLS IE model implementation. (Instead of referencing
an GOT entry, make the code sequence look into the TLS variable that
holds the offset.)
The TLS slot for g in android/amd64 assumes a fixed offset from %fs.
See runtime/cgo/gcc_android_amd64.c for details.
For golang/go#10743
Change-Id: I1a3fc207946c665515f79026a56ea19134ede2dd
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/15991
Reviewed-by: David Crawshaw <crawshaw@golang.org>
It's particularly nice to get rid of the android special cases in the linker.
Change-Id: I516363af7ce8a6b2f196fe49cb8887ac787a6dad
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this leaves lots of cruft behind, will delete that soon
Change-Id: I12d6b6192f89bcdd89b2b0873774bd3458373b8a
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Currently Go produces shared libraries that cannot be shared between processes
because they have relocations against the text segment (not text section). This
fixes this by moving some data to sections with magic names recognized by the
static linker.
The change in genasmsym to add STYPELINK to the switch should fix things on
darwin/arm64.
Fixes#10914
Updates #9210
Change-Id: Iab4a6678dd04cec6114e683caac5cf31b1063309
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This reverts commit 2c2cbb69c8.
Broke darwin/arm64
Change-Id: Ibd2dea475d6ce6a8b4b40e2da19a83fc0514025d
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Currently Go produces shared libraries that cannot be shared between processes
because they have relocations against the text segment (not text section). This
fixes this by moving some data to sections with magic names recognized by the
static linker.
Fixes#10914
Updates #9210
Change-Id: I7178daadc0ae87953d5a084aa3d580f4e3b46d47
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Also simplifies some silliness around making the .tbss section wrt internal
vs external linking. The "make TLS make sense" project has quite a few more
steps to go.
Issue #11270
Change-Id: Ia4fa135cb22d916728ead95bdbc0ebc1ae06f05c
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And clean up the mess on arm64 (the mess on arm is too confusing).
See issue #10050
Change-Id: I2ce813fe8646d4e818eb660612a7e4b2bb04de4c
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/13884
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
The one in misc/makerelease/makerelease.go is particularly bad and
probably warrants rotating our keys.
I didn't update old weekly notes, and reverted some changes involving
test code for now, since we're late in the Go 1.5 freeze. Otherwise,
the rest are all auto-generated changes, and all manually reviewed.
Change-Id: Ia2753576ab5d64826a167d259f48a2f50508792d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12048
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
We can't address more than this on amd64 anyway.
Fixes#9862.
Change-Id: Ifb1abae558e2e1ee2dc953a76995f3f08c60b1df
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/11715
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
People invoking the linker directly already have to change their scripts
to use the new "go tool link", so this is a good time to make the -X flag
behave like all other Go flags and take just a single argument.
The old syntax will continue to be accepted (it is rewritten into the new
syntax before flag parsing). Maybe some day we will be able to retire it.
Even if we never retire the old syntax, having the new syntax at least
makes the rewriting much less of a kludge.
Change-Id: I91e8df94f4c22b2186e81d7f1016b8767d777eac
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10310
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Non-ELF binary formats are much less flexible and typically do not
have a good place to store the build ID.
We store it as raw bytes at the beginning of the text segment.
The only system I know of that will be upset about this is NaCl,
and NaCl is an ELF system and does not use this.
For #11048.
Change-Id: Iaa7ace703c4cf36392e752eea9b55e2ce49e9826
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10708
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
We already read the address of a gcmask/gcprog out of the type data, but I
didn't know how many bytes to read. But it turns out that it's easy to
calculate, so change to do that. This means that we no longer depend on the
local symbols being present, allowing me to strip the shared libraries for
distribution and make them a lot smaller.
As a bonus, this makes LSym another 24 bytes smaller, down to 296 bytes now.
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This makes for a more stable API for tools (including cmd/link itself) to
extract the abi hash from a shared library and makes it possible at all for a
library that has had the local symbol table removed.
The existing note-writing code only supports writing notes into the very start
of the object file so they are easy to find in core dumps. This doesn't apply
to the "go" notes and means that all notes have to fit into a fixed size
budget. That's annoying now we have more notes (and the next CL will add
another one) so this does a little bit of work to make adding notes that do not
have to go at the start of the file easier and moves the writing of the package
list note over to that mechanism, which lets me revert a hack that increased
the size budget mentioned above for -buildmode=shared builds.
Change-Id: I6077a68d395c8a2bc43dec8506e73c71ef77d9b9
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10375
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
The LSym.Section and Section.Elfsect fields were defined as interface{} but
always had the same concrete type (*Section and *ElfShdr respectively) so just
define them with that type. Reduces size of LSym from 328 to 320 bytes and
reduces best-of-10 maxresident size from 246028k to 238036k when linking
libstd.so.
Change-Id: Ie7112c53e4c2c7ce5fe233b81372aa5633f572e8
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10410
Reviewed-by: Minux Ma <minux@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Trivial merging of 5g, 6g, ... into go tool compile,
and similarlly 5l, 6l, ... into go tool link.
The files compile/main.go and link/main.go are new.
Everything else in those directories is a move followed by
change of imports and package name.
This CL breaks the build. Manual fixups are in the next CL.
See golang-dev thread titled "go tool compile, etc" for background.
Change-Id: Id35ff5a5859ad9037c61275d637b1bd51df6828b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10287
Reviewed-by: Dave Cheney <dave@cheney.net>
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
