[llvm] r239428 - Make MCSymbol::Name be a union of uint64_t and a pointer.

Pete Cooper peter_cooper at apple.com
Tue Jun 9 13:52:45 PDT 2015


Thanks for the feedback.  Comments below, based on r239429 which i just pushed.
> On Jun 9, 2015, at 1:10 PM, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Pete Cooper <peter_cooper at apple.com <mailto:peter_cooper at apple.com>> wrote:
> Author: pete
> Date: Tue Jun  9 14:56:05 2015
> New Revision: 239428
> 
> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=239428&view=rev <http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=239428&view=rev>
> Log:
> Make MCSymbol::Name be a union of uint64_t and a pointer.
> 
> This should hopefully fix the 32-bit bots which were allocating space for a pointer
> but needed to be aligned to 64-bits.
> 
> Now we allocate enough space for a uint64_t and a pointer and cast to the appropriate storage
> 
> This kind fo complicates the rest of the MCSymbol code. A few options:
> 
> have getNameEntry return the NameEntry reference as before (do the ".NameEntry" inside getNameEntry rather than in both the callers).
This is done.
> 
> Possibly just do the interesting uint64_t stuff inside operator new - though I suppose you'd still need some magic in getNameEntry that would look similar.
I thought about this, but because it was handled in getNameEntry() too, I went for the union solution so that at least everything is based on the union size and storage.
> 
> & the alignment assertion could probably be a static_assert? (might need to check if alignOf is constexpr or if we have a trait/constexpr form of it)
Turns out constexpr is still not used much in LLVM.  We have a macro for it.  I guess MSVC doesn’t support it fully on our version.  I’ve added a FIXME so that we can handle this later.
> 
> 
> Oh, side note (should've caught this in review): you could have getNameEntry non-const call getNameEntry const and just cast away the constness on the resulting reference - to reduce some of that code duplication.
I’ve done this.  I had to cast away the const-ness and make the const method call the non-const one.  This was due to the const-ness of the result.  Basically, this solution is a single const_cast, but the other way would have been 2.

Thanks for the help!
Pete
>  
> 
> Modified:
>     llvm/trunk/include/llvm/MC/MCSymbol.h
>     llvm/trunk/lib/MC/MCSymbol.cpp
> 
> Modified: llvm/trunk/include/llvm/MC/MCSymbol.h
> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/include/llvm/MC/MCSymbol.h?rev=239428&r1=239427&r2=239428&view=diff <http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/include/llvm/MC/MCSymbol.h?rev=239428&r1=239427&r2=239428&view=diff>
> ==============================================================================
> --- llvm/trunk/include/llvm/MC/MCSymbol.h (original)
> +++ llvm/trunk/include/llvm/MC/MCSymbol.h Tue Jun  9 14:56:05 2015
> @@ -120,20 +120,29 @@ protected: // MCContext creates and uniq
>    friend class MCExpr;
>    friend class MCContext;
> 
> -  typedef const StringMapEntry<bool> NameEntryTy;
> -  MCSymbol(SymbolKind Kind, NameEntryTy *Name, bool isTemporary)
> +  /// \brief The name for a symbol.
> +  /// MCSymbol contains a uint64_t so is probably aligned to 8.  On a 32-bit
> +  /// system, the name is a pointer so isn't going to satisfy the 8 byte
> +  /// alignment of uint64_t.  Account for that here.
> +  typedef union {
> +    const StringMapEntry<bool> *NameEntry;
> +    uint64_t AlignmentPadding;
> +  } NameEntryStorageTy;
> +
> +  MCSymbol(SymbolKind Kind, const StringMapEntry<bool> *Name, bool isTemporary)
>        : Value(nullptr), IsTemporary(isTemporary),
>          IsRedefinable(false), IsUsed(false), IsRegistered(false),
>          IsExternal(false), IsPrivateExtern(false), HasName(!!Name),
>          Kind(Kind) {
>      Offset = 0;
>      if (Name)
> -      getNameEntryPtr() = Name;
> +      getNameEntryPtr().NameEntry = Name;
>    }
> 
>    // Provide custom new/delete as we will only allocate space for a name
>    // if we need one.
> -  void *operator new(size_t s, NameEntryTy *Name, MCContext &Ctx);
> +  void *operator new(size_t s, const StringMapEntry<bool> *Name,
> +                     MCContext &Ctx);
> 
>  private:
> 
> @@ -160,14 +169,14 @@ private:
>    }
> 
>    /// \brief Get a reference to the name field.  Requires that we have a name
> -  NameEntryTy *&getNameEntryPtr() {
> +  NameEntryStorageTy &getNameEntryPtr() {
>      assert(HasName && "Name is required");
> -    NameEntryTy **Name = reinterpret_cast<NameEntryTy **>(this);
> +    NameEntryStorageTy *Name = reinterpret_cast<NameEntryStorageTy *>(this);
>      return *(Name - 1);
>    }
> -  NameEntryTy *const &getNameEntryPtr() const {
> +  const NameEntryStorageTy &getNameEntryPtr() const {
>      assert(HasName && "Name is required");
> -    NameEntryTy *const *Name = reinterpret_cast<NameEntryTy *const *>(this);
> +    const auto *Name = reinterpret_cast<const NameEntryStorageTy *>(this);
>      return *(Name - 1);
>    }
> 
> @@ -177,7 +186,7 @@ public:
>      if (!HasName)
>        return StringRef();
> 
> -    return getNameEntryPtr()->first();
> +    return getNameEntryPtr().NameEntry->first();
>    }
> 
>    bool isRegistered() const { return IsRegistered; }
> 
> Modified: llvm/trunk/lib/MC/MCSymbol.cpp
> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/lib/MC/MCSymbol.cpp?rev=239428&r1=239427&r2=239428&view=diff <http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/lib/MC/MCSymbol.cpp?rev=239428&r1=239427&r2=239428&view=diff>
> ==============================================================================
> --- llvm/trunk/lib/MC/MCSymbol.cpp (original)
> +++ llvm/trunk/lib/MC/MCSymbol.cpp Tue Jun  9 14:56:05 2015
> @@ -19,17 +19,20 @@ using namespace llvm;
>  // Sentinel value for the absolute pseudo section.
>  MCSection *MCSymbol::AbsolutePseudoSection = reinterpret_cast<MCSection *>(1);
> 
> -void *MCSymbol::operator new(size_t s, NameEntryTy *Name, MCContext &Ctx) {
> -  size_t Size = s + (Name ? sizeof(Name) : 0);
> +void *MCSymbol::operator new(size_t s, const StringMapEntry<bool> *Name,
> +                             MCContext &Ctx) {
> +  // We may need more space for a Name to account for alignment.  So allocate
> +  // space for the storage type and not the name pointer.
> +  size_t Size = s + (Name ? sizeof(NameEntryStorageTy) : 0);
> 
>    // For safety, ensure that the alignment of a pointer is enough for an
>    // MCSymbol.  This also ensures we don't need padding between the name and
>    // symbol.
> -  assert(alignOf<MCSymbol>() <= alignOf<NameEntryTy *>() &&
> +  assert(alignOf<MCSymbol>() <= alignOf<NameEntryStorageTy>() &&
>           "Bad alignment of MCSymbol");
> -  void *Storage = Ctx.allocate(Size, alignOf<NameEntryTy *>());
> -  NameEntryTy **Start = static_cast<NameEntryTy**>(Storage);
> -  NameEntryTy **End = Start + (Name ? 1 : 0);
> +  void *Storage = Ctx.allocate(Size, alignOf<NameEntryStorageTy>());
> +  NameEntryStorageTy *Start = static_cast<NameEntryStorageTy*>(Storage);
> +  NameEntryStorageTy *End = Start + (Name ? 1 : 0);
>    return End;
>  }
> 
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