[llvm-dev] ld.lld drops relocations

David Blaikie via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Mon Mar 15 15:00:26 PDT 2021


+Fangrui Song <maskray at google.com>

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 2:57 PM Tomasz Gajc via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i'm trying to dig issue with building systemd-boot EFI images with
> llvm/clang and linking with llvm/lld. In general building and linking
> process works and i get my final objects. Unfortunately these EFI images
> does not boot system. I noticed that .efi image is missing PE/COFF
> relocations.
> When i changed linker to ld.bfd, voila everything is fine and final efi
> image does boot system and have needed relocs. I tried all the ld.lld
> options related to relocations, but still no success.
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Below you can find diff between two objdumps.
>
> [root at tpg-latitude5490 /]# cat bootx.linkers.diff
> --- bootx.BFD   2021-03-14 23:33:41.687446710 +0100
> +++ bootx.LLD   2021-03-14 23:33:58.037519874 +0100
> @@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
>
> -systemd-bootx64.efi.BFD:     file format pei-x86-64
> -systemd-bootx64.efi.BFD
> -architecture: i386:x86-64, flags 0x00000133:
> -HAS_RELOC, EXEC_P, HAS_SYMS, HAS_LOCALS, D_PAGED
> -start address 0x0000000000003000
> +systemd-bootx64.efi.LLD:     file format pei-x86-64
> +systemd-bootx64.efi.LLD
> +architecture: i386:x86-64, flags 0x00000132:
> +EXEC_P, HAS_SYMS, HAS_LOCALS, D_PAGED
> +start address 0x0000000000004000
>
> -Characteristics 0x206
> +Characteristics 0x207
> +       relocations stripped
>         executable
>         line numbers stripped
>         debugging information removed
> @@ -14,11 +15,11 @@
>  Magic                  020b    (PE32+)
>  MajorLinkerVersion     2
>  MinorLinkerVersion     36
> -SizeOfCode             0000000000010000
> -SizeOfInitializedData  0000000000006000
> +SizeOfCode             000000000000f600
> +SizeOfInitializedData  0000000000005e00
>  SizeOfUninitializedData        0000000000000000
> -AddressOfEntryPoint    0000000000003000
> -BaseOfCode             0000000000003000
> +AddressOfEntryPoint    0000000000004000
> +BaseOfCode             0000000000004000
>  ImageBase              0000000000000000
>  SectionAlignment       00001000
>  FileAlignment          00000200
> @@ -29,9 +30,9 @@
>  MajorSubsystemVersion  0
>  MinorSubsystemVersion  0
>  Win32Version           00000000
> -SizeOfImage            0001c000
> -SizeOfHeaders          00000400
> -CheckSum               00022f3d
> +SizeOfImage            0001b000
> +SizeOfHeaders          00000370
> +CheckSum               0001b531
>  Subsystem              0000000a        (EFI application)
>  DllCharacteristics     00000000
>  SizeOfStackReserve     0000000000000000
> @@ -47,7 +48,7 @@
>  Entry 2 0000000000000000 00000000 Resource Directory [.rsrc]
>  Entry 3 0000000000000000 00000000 Exception Directory [.pdata]
>  Entry 4 0000000000000000 00000000 Security Directory
> -Entry 5 0000000000013000 0000000a Base Relocation Directory [.reloc]
> +Entry 5 0000000000000000 00000000 Base Relocation Directory [.reloc]
>  Entry 6 0000000000000000 00000000 Debug Directory
>  Entry 7 0000000000000000 00000000 Description Directory
>  Entry 8 0000000000000000 00000000 Special Directory
> @@ -59,367 +60,358 @@
>  Entry e 0000000000000000 00000000 CLR Runtime Header
>  Entry f 0000000000000000 00000000 Reserved
>
> -
> -PE File Base Relocations (interpreted .reloc section contents)
> -
> -Virtual Address: 00004770 Chunk size 10 (0xa) Number of fixups 1
> -       reloc    0 offset    0 [4770] ABSOLUTE
> -
>  Sections:
>  Idx Name          Size      VMA               LMA               File off  Algn
> -  0 .text         0000ff20  0000000000003000  0000000000003000  00000400  2**4
> -                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
> -  1 .reloc        0000000a  0000000000013000  0000000000013000  00010400  2**0
> +  0 .rela.dyn     00000fa8  0000000000000170  0000000000000170  00000370  2**3
>                    CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
> -  2 .data         00004460  0000000000014000  0000000000014000  00010600  2**5
> +  1 .text         0000f510  0000000000004000  0000000000004000  00001400  2**4
> +                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
> +  2 .data         00004578  0000000000014000  0000000000014000  00010a00  2**5
>                    CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
> -  3 .dynamic      000000f0  0000000000019000  0000000000019000  00014c00  2**3
> +  3 .dynamic      000000a0  0000000000019000  0000000000019000  00015000  2**3
>                    CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
> -  4 .rela         00000fa8  000000000001a000  000000000001a000  00014e00  2**3
> -                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
> -  5 .dynsym       000004e0  000000000001b000  000000000001b000  00015e00  2**3
> +  4 .dynsym       00000450  000000000001a000  000000000001a000  00015200  2**3
>                    CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
>
>
>
> 1. [systemd issue] - https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19005
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