[lld] r319020 - [ELF][ARM] Refine check for when undefined weak needs a Thunk

Peter Smith via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Nov 27 03:49:18 PST 2017


Author: psmith
Date: Mon Nov 27 03:49:18 2017
New Revision: 319020

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=319020&view=rev
Log:
[ELF][ARM] Refine check for when undefined weak needs a Thunk

When an undefined weak reference has a PLT entry we must generate a range
extension thunk for any B or BL that can't reach the PLT entry.

This change explicitly looks for whether a PLT entry exists rather than
assuming that weak references never need PLT entries unless Config->Shared
is in operation. This covers the case where we are linking an executable
with dynamic linking, hence a PLT entry will be needed for undefined weak
references. This case comes up in real programs over 32 Mb in size as there
is a B to a weak reference __gmon__start__ in the Arm crti.o for glibc.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D40248


Added:
    lld/trunk/test/ELF/arm-branch-undef-weak-plt-thunk.s
Modified:
    lld/trunk/ELF/Arch/ARM.cpp

Modified: lld/trunk/ELF/Arch/ARM.cpp
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/lld/trunk/ELF/Arch/ARM.cpp?rev=319020&r1=319019&r2=319020&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- lld/trunk/ELF/Arch/ARM.cpp (original)
+++ lld/trunk/ELF/Arch/ARM.cpp Mon Nov 27 03:49:18 2017
@@ -229,10 +229,9 @@ void ARM::addPltSymbols(InputSectionBase
 
 bool ARM::needsThunk(RelExpr Expr, RelType Type, const InputFile *File,
                      uint64_t BranchAddr, const Symbol &S) const {
-  // If S is an undefined weak symbol in an executable we don't need a Thunk.
-  // In a DSO calls to undefined symbols, including weak ones get PLT entries
-  // which may need a thunk.
-  if (S.isUndefWeak() && !Config->Shared)
+  // If S is an undefined weak symbol and does not have a PLT entry then it
+  // will be resolved as a branch to the next instruction.
+  if (S.isUndefWeak() && !S.isInPlt())
     return false;
   // A state change from ARM to Thumb and vice versa must go through an
   // interworking thunk if the relocation type is not R_ARM_CALL or

Added: lld/trunk/test/ELF/arm-branch-undef-weak-plt-thunk.s
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/lld/trunk/test/ELF/arm-branch-undef-weak-plt-thunk.s?rev=319020&view=auto
==============================================================================
--- lld/trunk/test/ELF/arm-branch-undef-weak-plt-thunk.s (added)
+++ lld/trunk/test/ELF/arm-branch-undef-weak-plt-thunk.s Mon Nov 27 03:49:18 2017
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+// RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=armv7a-none-linux-gnueabi %S/Inputs/arm-shared.s -o %t
+// RUN: ld.lld %t --shared -o %t.so
+// RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=armv7a-none-linux-gnueabi %s -o %t2
+// RUN: ld.lld %t2 %t.so -o %t3
+// RUN: llvm-objdump -d -triple=armv7a-none-linux-gnueabi -start-address=69632 -stop-address=69664 %t3 | FileCheck %s
+// REQUIRES: arm
+
+// When we are dynamic linking, undefined weak references have a PLT entry so
+// we must create a thunk for the branch to the PLT entry.
+
+ .text
+ .globl bar2
+ .weak undefined_weak_we_expect_a_plt_entry_for
+_start:
+ .globl _start
+ .type _start, %function
+ b undefined_weak_we_expect_a_plt_entry_for
+ bl bar2
+// Create 32 Mb gap between the call to the weak reference and the PLT so that
+// the b and bl need a range-extension thunk.
+ .section .text.1, "ax", %progbits
+ .space 32 * 1024 * 1024
+
+// CHECK: Disassembly of section .text:
+// CHECK-NEXT: _start:
+// CHECK-NEXT:    11000:       00 00 00 ea     b       #0 <__ARMv7ABSLongThunk_undefined_weak_we_expect_a_plt_entry_for>
+// CHECK-NEXT:    11004:       02 00 00 eb     bl      #8 <__ARMv7ABSLongThunk_bar2>
+// CHECK: __ARMv7ABSLongThunk_undefined_weak_we_expect_a_plt_entry_for:
+// CHECK-NEXT:    11008:       34 c0 01 e3     movw    r12, #4148
+// CHECK-NEXT:    1100c:       01 c2 40 e3     movt    r12, #513
+// CHECK-NEXT:    11010:       1c ff 2f e1     bx      r12
+// CHECK: __ARMv7ABSLongThunk_bar2:
+// CHECK-NEXT:    11014:       44 c0 01 e3     movw    r12, #4164
+// CHECK-NEXT:    11018:       01 c2 40 e3     movt    r12, #513
+// CHECK-NEXT:    1101c:       1c ff 2f e1     bx      r12




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