[LLVMdev] Help with PPC64 JIT

[Adhemerval Zanella]

On 07/20/2012 10:35 AM, Will Schmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 08:36 +0200, Duncan Sands wrote:
>> Hi Adhemerval Zanella, the old JIT infrastructure is going away, to be replaced
>> by "MC-JIT" (try passing -use-mcjit to lli).  It sounds like you are working on
>> the old JIT, so I suggest you work instead on getting MC-JIT working on powerpc.
> Hi Duncan, 
>    Thanks for the pointers.  We hadn't stumbled across the MC-JIT refs
> in our digging so far.  (LLVM GettingStarted.html doesn't mention it,
> and (FIXME: T.B.D.) under llvm/lib/mc, so I suppose the MC jit is fairly
> recent?)
> Are we safe to assume the old JIT infrastructure will be completely
> replaced, or are there likely to be 'users' that may still need
> functionality?
> I imagine since the old jit is where Adhemerval was focused, the
> build/test steps must still be referencing it.
>
> Thanks, 
> -Will 

Thanks for the reply Duncan, I shifted my focus fo MCJIT. So far I could check there are basically
two issues with MCJIT relating to PPC64 support:

1. Looks like LLVM does not generate PPC64 PIC code with TOC references. Using the testcase
'2003-01-04-ArgumentBug.ll' I tried to invoke the llc with '-march=ppc64 -mcpu=ppc64 -mattr=64bit'
and still uses the 32-bits relocations (@ha/@l(3)) where TOC would be expected (@toc). I did some
adjustments to JIT code and function calling is correct (the function ODP is created and called),
but BSS access is still not right since the 64-bits relocations are not done correctly.
Could someone point where should I focus my efforts to add TOC support on PowerPC backend?

2. Relocations: I could add some support for PPC32 relocations by implementing some functions at
'RuntimeDyldELF.cpp', but then I fall back again in 1. (the PPC64 support is incomplete). 

Is my analysis correct or I am issuing llc/lli wrongly and not activating the PPC64 PIC support?
Anyone to advice me on this one? Any help would be appreciated.

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Adhemerval Zanella Netto
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  Linux Technology Center Brazil
  Toolchain / GLIBC on Power Architecture
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