[llvm-branch-commits] [lld] ELF: CFI jump table relaxation. (PR #147424)

Peter Collingbourne via llvm-branch-commits llvm-branch-commits at lists.llvm.org
Fri May 1 19:05:56 PDT 2026


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@@ -312,6 +313,193 @@ bool X86_64::deleteFallThruJmpInsn(InputSection &is,
   return true;
 }
 
+void X86_64::relaxCFIJumpTables() const {
+  // Relax CFI jump tables.
+  // - Split jump table into pieces and place target functions inside the jump
+  //   table if small enough.
+  // - Move jump table before last called function and delete last branch
+  //   instruction.
+  DenseMap<InputSection *, std::vector<InputSection *>> sectionReplacements;
+  SmallVector<InputSection *, 0> storage;
+  for (OutputSection *osec : ctx.outputSections) {
+    if (!(osec->flags & SHF_EXECINSTR))
+      continue;
+    for (InputSection *sec : getInputSections(*osec, storage)) {
+      if (sec->type != SHT_LLVM_CFI_JUMP_TABLE || sec->entsize == 0 ||
+          sec->size % sec->entsize != 0)
+        continue;
+
+      // We're going to replace the jump table with this list of sections. This
+      // list will be made up of slices of the original section and function
+      // bodies that were moved into the jump table.
+      std::vector<InputSection *> replacements;
+
+      // Add the slice [begin, end) of the original section to the replacement
+      // list. [rbegin, rend) is the slice of the relocation list that covers
+      // [begin, end).
+      auto addSectionSlice = [&](size_t begin, size_t end, Relocation *rbegin,
+                                 Relocation *rend) {
+        auto *slice = make<InputSection>(
+            sec->file, sec->name, sec->type, sec->flags, sec->entsize,
+            sec->entsize,
+            sec->contentMaybeDecompress().slice(begin, end - begin));
+        for (const Relocation &r : ArrayRef<Relocation>(rbegin, rend)) {
+          slice->relocations.push_back(
+              Relocation{r.expr, r.type, r.offset - begin, r.addend, r.sym});
+        }
+        replacements.push_back(slice);
+      };
+
+      // r is the only relocation in a jump table entry. Figure out whether it
+      // is a branch pointing to the start of a statically known section that
+      // hasn't already been moved while processing a different jump table
+      // section, and if so return it.
+      auto getMovableSection = [&](Relocation &r) -> InputSection * {
+        if (r.type != R_X86_64_PC32 && r.type != R_X86_64_PLT32)
+          return nullptr;
+        auto *sym = dyn_cast_or_null<Defined>(r.sym);
+        if (!sym || sym->isPreemptible || sym->isGnuIFunc() ||
+            sym->value + r.addend != -4ull)
+          return nullptr;
+        auto *target = dyn_cast_or_null<InputSection>(sym->section);
+        if (!target || sectionReplacements.count(target))
+          return nullptr;
+        return target;
+      };
+
+      // Figure out the movable section for the last entry. We do this first
+      // because the last entry controls which output section the jump table is
+      // placed into, which affects move eligibility for other sections.
+      auto *lastSec = [&]() -> InputSection * {
+        // If the jump table section is more aligned than the entry size, skip
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pcc wrote:

Yes, that way is better, thanks.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/147424


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