binutils-gdb/ld/emultempl/riscvelf.em
Palmer Dabbelt ff6f4d9b2d RISC-V: Add R_RISCV_DELETE, which marks bytes for deletion
We currently delete bytes by shifting an entire BFD backwards to
overwrite the bytes we no longer need.  The result is that relaxing a
BFD is quadratic time.

This patch adds an additional relocation that specifies a byte range
that will be deleted from the final object file, and adds a relaxation
pass (between the existing passes that delete bytes and the alignment
pass) that actually deletes the bytes.  Note that deletion is still
quadratic time, and nothing uses R_RISCV_DELETE yet.

I've been meaning to go convert all the other relaxations to use
R_RISCV_DELETE and then make it faster, but this patch has been sitting
around for months so it looks like that won't happen for a bit.  The
PCREL->GPREL relaxation that comes next uses this, and since we've been
using these two patches out of tree since I wrote them months ago I
figure it's better to just get them in now.  I (or someone else :)) can
convert all the relocations later...

R_RISCV_DELETE will never be emitted into ELF objects, so therefor isn't
exposed to the rest of binutils.  As such, we're not considering this as
part of the ABI.

bfd/ChangeLog

2017-10-19  Palmer Dabbelt  <palmer@dabbelt.com>

        * elfnn-riscv (R_RISCV_DELETE): New define.
        (_bfd_riscv_relax_delete): New function.
        (perform_relocation): Handle R_RISCV_DELETE.
        (_bfd_riscv_relax_section): Likewise.

ld/ChangeLog

2017-10-19  Palmer Dabbelt  <palmer@dabbelt.com>

        * emultempl/riscvelf.em (riscv_elf_before_allocation): Add a
        third relaxation pass.
2017-10-19 09:19:32 -07:00

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fragment <<EOF
#include "ldmain.h"
#include "ldctor.h"
#include "elf/riscv.h"
#include "elfxx-riscv.h"
static void
riscv_elf_before_allocation (void)
{
gld${EMULATION_NAME}_before_allocation ();
if (link_info.discard == discard_sec_merge)
link_info.discard = discard_l;
/* We always need at least some relaxation to handle code alignment. */
if (RELAXATION_DISABLED_BY_USER)
TARGET_ENABLE_RELAXATION;
else
ENABLE_RELAXATION;
link_info.relax_pass = 3;
}
static void
gld${EMULATION_NAME}_after_allocation (void)
{
int need_layout = 0;
/* Don't attempt to discard unused .eh_frame sections until the final link,
as we can't reliably tell if they're used until after relaxation. */
if (!bfd_link_relocatable (&link_info))
{
need_layout = bfd_elf_discard_info (link_info.output_bfd, &link_info);
if (need_layout < 0)
{
einfo (_("%X%P: .eh_frame/.stab edit: %E\n"));
return;
}
}
gld${EMULATION_NAME}_map_segments (need_layout);
}
EOF
LDEMUL_BEFORE_ALLOCATION=riscv_elf_before_allocation
LDEMUL_AFTER_ALLOCATION=gld${EMULATION_NAME}_after_allocation