[llvm-dev] [RFC][Dwarf Library] Relocations for DWO sections

[David Blaikie via llvm-dev]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 12:58 PM Alexander Yermolovich <ayermolo at fb.com>
wrote:

> Haven't seen overflows in Split DWARF yet
>

Careful, as they're totally silent (at least with gold dwp, and probably
also with llvm dwp) - the str_offsets get overflowed values, and then when
the data is read by the DWARF consumer, the strings end up corrupted -
because you're reading from arbitrary/incorrect offsets.


> , but thanks for letting me know, and the links to discussions. Is there a
> plan to productize either one or both?
>

Yep, the plan on both counts is to upstream them. I have the simplified
template names implementation on the go at the moment - adding a flag to
clang that implements the functionality, but also implements a "mangled"
mode, where if a name should eb able to be simplified instead it's emitted
in full with a special prefix ("_STN") - and then the consumer can attempt
to reconstitute that name and compare it against the name provided (& the
llvm-dwarfdump --verify mode does this checking and fails if they don't
match). So I'm going through lots of cases, either adding the rebuilding
logic that's needed, or modifying the frontend not to simplify/mark certain
names that can't be rebuilt.


> For us, in monolithic format, it was .debug_info that was growing too
> large and relocations failing in to, or out of it. The.debug_aranges
> relocations in to it, and don't quite remember from top of my head what out
> relocation was in to. I think it was .debug_loc
>

Huh, fascinating. Good to know!

- Dave


>
> Alex
> ------------------------------
> *From:* David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, July 23, 2021 11:58 AM
> *To:* Alexander Yermolovich <ayermolo at fb.com>
> *Cc:* llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [llvm-dev] [RFC][Dwarf Library] Relocations for DWO
> sections
>
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 1:18 PM Alexander Yermolovich <ayermolo at fb.com>
> wrote:
>
> Thanks for replying in the patch. Left my reply.
> We are using it to deal with dwarf relocation overflows.
>
>
> Ah, that's good to know. FWIW we've started to hit some overflows even in
> Split DWARF on larger binaries (and/or those making especially heavy use of
> expression templates - creating an exceptional amount of DWARF/long symbol
> names
>
> A couple of ideas to address this particular overflow (which section(s)
> did you manage to overflow? We're dealing with .debug_str[.dwo] overflow in
> particular) that I'm looking into are:
> Simplified template names (
> https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2021-June/150903.html ) - emit
> only the base name ("foo") of a template rather than all the template
> parameters ("foo<int>") - and then reconstruct the full name by using the
> DW_TAG_template_type_parameters, etc.
> Reconstituted Mangled names (
> https://groups.google.com/g/llvm-dev/c/2jMqDjdChuQ/m/HpOpWy8pAwAJ ) -
> skip mangled names when they can be reconstituted from the DWARF structural
> representation (eg: "void f1(int) { }" -> "_Z2f1i" but we could build the
> latter from DWARF's representation that says f1 has one "int" parameter).
>
>
> We considered DWARF64, but split dwarf seems like a more traveled path. As
> for single vs split my understanding is that single plays nicer with our
> build system ATM.
>
>
> Ah, fair enough.
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, July 23, 2021 7:41 AM
> *To:* Alexander Yermolovich <ayermolo at fb.com>
> *Cc:* llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [llvm-dev] [RFC][Dwarf Library] Relocations for DWO
> sections
>
> General premise sounds correct to me (that we shouldn't be processing
> those sections, etc). I've replied to the patch - thanks for taking a look
> at this!
>
> (out of curiosity: What are you using Split DWARF single mode for (if you
> can speak to the application)?)
>
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 9:10 PM Alexander Yermolovich via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I observed when DWARF Context is created for DWO object (split dwarf
> single mode), that relocations for .debug_info are processed and are stored
> in a map. This adds quite a bit of memory overhead. This doesn't seem like
> it is needed for DWO Context. Context created through
> API DWARFContext::getDWOContext. Am I missing something?
>
> Illustrative patch to fix this:
> https://reviews.llvm.org/D106624
>
> Thank you,
> Alex
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