1 //===- MarkLive.cpp -------------------------------------------------------===//
3 // Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
4 // See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
5 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
7 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
9 // This file implements --gc-sections, which is a feature to remove unused
10 // sections from output. Unused sections are sections that are not reachable
11 // from known GC-root symbols or sections. Naturally the feature is
12 // implemented as a mark-sweep garbage collector.
14 // Here's how it works. Each InputSectionBase has a "Live" bit. The bit is off
15 // by default. Starting with GC-root symbols or sections, markLive function
16 // defined in this file visits all reachable sections to set their Live
17 // bits. Writer will then ignore sections whose Live bits are off, so that
18 // such sections are not included into output.
20 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
23 #include "InputFiles.h"
24 #include "InputSection.h"
25 #include "LinkerScript.h"
26 #include "SymbolTable.h"
28 #include "SyntheticSections.h"
30 #include "lld/Common/CommonLinkerContext.h"
31 #include "lld/Common/Strings.h"
32 #include "llvm/ADT/STLExtras.h"
33 #include "llvm/Object/ELF.h"
34 #include "llvm/Support/TimeProfiler.h"
38 using namespace llvm::ELF
;
39 using namespace llvm::object
;
40 using namespace llvm::support::endian
;
42 using namespace lld::elf
;
45 template <class ELFT
> class MarkLive
{
47 MarkLive(unsigned partition
) : partition(partition
) {}
53 void enqueue(InputSectionBase
*sec
, uint64_t offset
);
54 void markSymbol(Symbol
*sym
);
57 template <class RelTy
>
58 void resolveReloc(InputSectionBase
&sec
, RelTy
&rel
, bool fromFDE
);
60 template <class RelTy
>
61 void scanEhFrameSection(EhInputSection
&eh
, ArrayRef
<RelTy
> rels
);
63 // The index of the partition that we are currently processing.
66 // A list of sections to visit.
67 SmallVector
<InputSection
*, 0> queue
;
69 // There are normally few input sections whose names are valid C
70 // identifiers, so we just store a SmallVector instead of a multimap.
71 DenseMap
<StringRef
, SmallVector
<InputSectionBase
*, 0>> cNamedSections
;
76 static uint64_t getAddend(InputSectionBase
&sec
,
77 const typename
ELFT::Rel
&rel
) {
78 return target
->getImplicitAddend(sec
.content().begin() + rel
.r_offset
,
79 rel
.getType(config
->isMips64EL
));
83 static uint64_t getAddend(InputSectionBase
&sec
,
84 const typename
ELFT::Rela
&rel
) {
89 template <class RelTy
>
90 void MarkLive
<ELFT
>::resolveReloc(InputSectionBase
&sec
, RelTy
&rel
,
92 Symbol
&sym
= sec
.getFile
<ELFT
>()->getRelocTargetSym(rel
);
94 // If a symbol is referenced in a live section, it is used.
97 if (auto *d
= dyn_cast
<Defined
>(&sym
)) {
98 auto *relSec
= dyn_cast_or_null
<InputSectionBase
>(d
->section
);
102 uint64_t offset
= d
->value
;
104 offset
+= getAddend
<ELFT
>(sec
, rel
);
106 // fromFDE being true means this is referenced by a FDE in a .eh_frame
107 // piece. The relocation points to the described function or to a LSDA. We
108 // only need to keep the LSDA live, so ignore anything that points to
109 // executable sections. If the LSDA is in a section group or has the
110 // SHF_LINK_ORDER flag, we ignore the relocation as well because (a) if the
111 // associated text section is live, the LSDA will be retained due to section
112 // group/SHF_LINK_ORDER rules (b) if the associated text section should be
113 // discarded, marking the LSDA will unnecessarily retain the text section.
114 if (!(fromFDE
&& ((relSec
->flags
& (SHF_EXECINSTR
| SHF_LINK_ORDER
)) ||
115 relSec
->nextInSectionGroup
)))
116 enqueue(relSec
, offset
);
120 if (auto *ss
= dyn_cast
<SharedSymbol
>(&sym
))
122 cast
<SharedFile
>(ss
->file
)->isNeeded
= true;
124 for (InputSectionBase
*sec
: cNamedSections
.lookup(sym
.getName()))
128 // The .eh_frame section is an unfortunate special case.
129 // The section is divided in CIEs and FDEs and the relocations it can have are
130 // * CIEs can refer to a personality function.
131 // * FDEs can refer to a LSDA
132 // * FDEs refer to the function they contain information about
133 // The last kind of relocation cannot keep the referred section alive, or they
134 // would keep everything alive in a common object file. In fact, each FDE is
135 // alive if the section it refers to is alive.
136 // To keep things simple, in here we just ignore the last relocation kind. The
137 // other two keep the referred section alive.
139 // A possible improvement would be to fully process .eh_frame in the middle of
140 // the gc pass. With that we would be able to also gc some sections holding
141 // LSDAs and personality functions if we found that they were unused.
142 template <class ELFT
>
143 template <class RelTy
>
144 void MarkLive
<ELFT
>::scanEhFrameSection(EhInputSection
&eh
,
145 ArrayRef
<RelTy
> rels
) {
146 for (const EhSectionPiece
&cie
: eh
.cies
)
147 if (cie
.firstRelocation
!= unsigned(-1))
148 resolveReloc(eh
, rels
[cie
.firstRelocation
], false);
149 for (const EhSectionPiece
&fde
: eh
.fdes
) {
150 size_t firstRelI
= fde
.firstRelocation
;
151 if (firstRelI
== (unsigned)-1)
153 uint64_t pieceEnd
= fde
.inputOff
+ fde
.size
;
154 for (size_t j
= firstRelI
, end2
= rels
.size();
155 j
< end2
&& rels
[j
].r_offset
< pieceEnd
; ++j
)
156 resolveReloc(eh
, rels
[j
], true);
160 // Some sections are used directly by the loader, so they should never be
161 // garbage-collected. This function returns true if a given section is such
163 static bool isReserved(InputSectionBase
*sec
) {
167 case SHT_PREINIT_ARRAY
:
170 // SHT_NOTE sections in a group are subject to garbage collection.
171 return !sec
->nextInSectionGroup
;
173 // Support SHT_PROGBITS .init_array (https://golang.org/issue/50295) and
174 // .init_array.N (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/92181) for a
176 StringRef s
= sec
->name
;
177 return s
== ".init" || s
== ".fini" || s
.starts_with(".init_array") ||
178 s
== ".jcr" || s
.starts_with(".ctors") || s
.starts_with(".dtors");
182 template <class ELFT
>
183 void MarkLive
<ELFT
>::enqueue(InputSectionBase
*sec
, uint64_t offset
) {
184 // Usually, a whole section is marked as live or dead, but in mergeable
185 // (splittable) sections, each piece of data has independent liveness bit.
186 // So we explicitly tell it which offset is in use.
187 if (auto *ms
= dyn_cast
<MergeInputSection
>(sec
))
188 ms
->getSectionPiece(offset
).live
= true;
190 // Set Sec->Partition to the meet (i.e. the "minimum") of Partition and
191 // Sec->Partition in the following lattice: 1 < other < 0. If Sec->Partition
192 // doesn't change, we don't need to do anything.
193 if (sec
->partition
== 1 || sec
->partition
== partition
)
195 sec
->partition
= sec
->partition
? 1 : partition
;
197 // Add input section to the queue.
198 if (InputSection
*s
= dyn_cast
<InputSection
>(sec
))
202 template <class ELFT
> void MarkLive
<ELFT
>::markSymbol(Symbol
*sym
) {
203 if (auto *d
= dyn_cast_or_null
<Defined
>(sym
))
204 if (auto *isec
= dyn_cast_or_null
<InputSectionBase
>(d
->section
))
205 enqueue(isec
, d
->value
);
208 // This is the main function of the garbage collector.
209 // Starting from GC-root sections, this function visits all reachable
210 // sections to set their "Live" bits.
211 template <class ELFT
> void MarkLive
<ELFT
>::run() {
212 // Add GC root symbols.
214 // Preserve externally-visible symbols if the symbols defined by this
215 // file can interpose other ELF file's symbols at runtime.
216 for (Symbol
*sym
: symtab
.getSymbols())
217 if (sym
->includeInDynsym() && sym
->partition
== partition
)
220 // If this isn't the main partition, that's all that we need to preserve.
221 if (partition
!= 1) {
226 markSymbol(symtab
.find(config
->entry
));
227 markSymbol(symtab
.find(config
->init
));
228 markSymbol(symtab
.find(config
->fini
));
229 for (StringRef s
: config
->undefined
)
230 markSymbol(symtab
.find(s
));
231 for (StringRef s
: script
->referencedSymbols
)
232 markSymbol(symtab
.find(s
));
233 for (auto [symName
, _
] : symtab
.cmseSymMap
) {
234 markSymbol(symtab
.cmseSymMap
[symName
].sym
);
235 markSymbol(symtab
.cmseSymMap
[symName
].acleSeSym
);
238 // Mark .eh_frame sections as live because there are usually no relocations
239 // that point to .eh_frames. Otherwise, the garbage collector would drop
240 // all of them. We also want to preserve personality routines and LSDA
241 // referenced by .eh_frame sections, so we scan them for that here.
242 for (EhInputSection
*eh
: ctx
.ehInputSections
) {
243 const RelsOrRelas
<ELFT
> rels
= eh
->template relsOrRelas
<ELFT
>();
244 if (rels
.areRelocsRel())
245 scanEhFrameSection(*eh
, rels
.rels
);
246 else if (rels
.relas
.size())
247 scanEhFrameSection(*eh
, rels
.relas
);
249 for (InputSectionBase
*sec
: ctx
.inputSections
) {
250 if (sec
->flags
& SHF_GNU_RETAIN
) {
254 if (sec
->flags
& SHF_LINK_ORDER
)
257 // Usually, non-SHF_ALLOC sections are not removed even if they are
258 // unreachable through relocations because reachability is not a good signal
259 // whether they are garbage or not (e.g. there is usually no section
260 // referring to a .comment section, but we want to keep it.) When a
261 // non-SHF_ALLOC section is retained, we also retain sections dependent on
264 // Note on SHF_LINK_ORDER: Such sections contain metadata and they
265 // have a reverse dependency on the InputSection they are linked with.
266 // We are able to garbage collect them.
268 // Note on SHF_REL{,A}: Such sections reach here only when -r
269 // or --emit-reloc were given. And they are subject of garbage
270 // collection because, if we remove a text section, we also
271 // remove its relocation section.
273 // Note on nextInSectionGroup: The ELF spec says that group sections are
274 // included or omitted as a unit. We take the interpretation that:
276 // - Group members (nextInSectionGroup != nullptr) are subject to garbage
278 // - Groups members are retained or discarded as a unit.
279 if (!(sec
->flags
& SHF_ALLOC
)) {
280 bool isRel
= sec
->type
== SHT_REL
|| sec
->type
== SHT_RELA
;
281 if (!isRel
&& !sec
->nextInSectionGroup
) {
283 for (InputSection
*isec
: sec
->dependentSections
)
288 // Preserve special sections and those which are specified in linker
289 // script KEEP command.
290 if (isReserved(sec
) || script
->shouldKeep(sec
)) {
292 } else if ((!config
->zStartStopGC
|| sec
->name
.starts_with("__libc_")) &&
293 isValidCIdentifier(sec
->name
)) {
294 // As a workaround for glibc libc.a before 2.34
295 // (https://sourceware.org/PR27492), retain __libc_atexit and similar
296 // sections regardless of zStartStopGC.
297 cNamedSections
[saver().save("__start_" + sec
->name
)].push_back(sec
);
298 cNamedSections
[saver().save("__stop_" + sec
->name
)].push_back(sec
);
305 template <class ELFT
> void MarkLive
<ELFT
>::mark() {
306 // Mark all reachable sections.
307 while (!queue
.empty()) {
308 InputSectionBase
&sec
= *queue
.pop_back_val();
310 const RelsOrRelas
<ELFT
> rels
= sec
.template relsOrRelas
<ELFT
>();
311 for (const typename
ELFT::Rel
&rel
: rels
.rels
)
312 resolveReloc(sec
, rel
, false);
313 for (const typename
ELFT::Rela
&rel
: rels
.relas
)
314 resolveReloc(sec
, rel
, false);
316 for (InputSectionBase
*isec
: sec
.dependentSections
)
319 // Mark the next group member.
320 if (sec
.nextInSectionGroup
)
321 enqueue(sec
.nextInSectionGroup
, 0);
325 // Move the sections for some symbols to the main partition, specifically ifuncs
326 // (because they can result in an IRELATIVE being added to the main partition's
327 // GOT, which means that the ifunc must be available when the main partition is
328 // loaded) and TLS symbols (because we only know how to correctly process TLS
329 // relocations for the main partition).
331 // We also need to move sections whose names are C identifiers that are referred
332 // to from __start_/__stop_ symbols because there will only be one set of
333 // symbols for the whole program.
334 template <class ELFT
> void MarkLive
<ELFT
>::moveToMain() {
335 for (ELFFileBase
*file
: ctx
.objectFiles
)
336 for (Symbol
*s
: file
->getSymbols())
337 if (auto *d
= dyn_cast
<Defined
>(s
))
338 if ((d
->type
== STT_GNU_IFUNC
|| d
->type
== STT_TLS
) && d
->section
&&
339 d
->section
->isLive())
342 for (InputSectionBase
*sec
: ctx
.inputSections
) {
343 if (!sec
->isLive() || !isValidCIdentifier(sec
->name
))
345 if (symtab
.find(("__start_" + sec
->name
).str()) ||
346 symtab
.find(("__stop_" + sec
->name
).str()))
353 // Before calling this function, Live bits are off for all
354 // input sections. This function make some or all of them on
355 // so that they are emitted to the output file.
356 template <class ELFT
> void elf::markLive() {
357 llvm::TimeTraceScope
timeScope("markLive");
358 // If --gc-sections is not given, retain all input sections.
359 if (!config
->gcSections
) {
360 // If a DSO defines a symbol referenced in a regular object, it is needed.
361 for (Symbol
*sym
: symtab
.getSymbols())
362 if (auto *s
= dyn_cast
<SharedSymbol
>(sym
))
363 if (s
->isUsedInRegularObj
&& !s
->isWeak())
364 cast
<SharedFile
>(s
->file
)->isNeeded
= true;
368 for (InputSectionBase
*sec
: ctx
.inputSections
)
371 // Follow the graph to mark all live sections.
372 for (unsigned curPart
= 1; curPart
<= partitions
.size(); ++curPart
)
373 MarkLive
<ELFT
>(curPart
).run();
375 // If we have multiple partitions, some sections need to live in the main
376 // partition even if they were allocated to a loadable partition. Move them
378 if (partitions
.size() != 1)
379 MarkLive
<ELFT
>(1).moveToMain();
381 // Report garbage-collected sections.
382 if (config
->printGcSections
)
383 for (InputSectionBase
*sec
: ctx
.inputSections
)
385 message("removing unused section " + toString(sec
));
388 template void elf::markLive
<ELF32LE
>();
389 template void elf::markLive
<ELF32BE
>();
390 template void elf::markLive
<ELF64LE
>();
391 template void elf::markLive
<ELF64BE
>();