//===- ICF.cpp ------------------------------------------------------------===// // // The LLVM Linker // // This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details. // //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// // // ICF is short for Identical Code Folding. This is a size optimization to // identify and merge two or more read-only sections (typically functions) // that happened to have the same contents. It usually reduces output size // by a few percent. // // In ICF, two sections are considered identical if they have the same // section flags, section data, and relocations. Relocations are tricky, // because two relocations are considered the same if they have the same // relocation types, values, and if they point to the same sections *in // terms of ICF*. // // Here is an example. If foo and bar defined below are compiled to the // same machine instructions, ICF can and should merge the two, although // their relocations point to each other. // // void foo() { bar(); } // void bar() { foo(); } // // If you merge the two, their relocations point to the same section and // thus you know they are mergeable, but how do you know they are // mergeable in the first place? This is not an easy problem to solve. // // What we are doing in LLD is to partition sections into equivalence // classes. Sections in the same equivalence class when the algorithm // terminates are considered identical. Here are details: // // 1. First, we partition sections using their hash values as keys. Hash // values contain section types, section contents and numbers of // relocations. During this step, relocation targets are not taken into // account. We just put sections that apparently differ into different // equivalence classes. // // 2. Next, for each equivalence class, we visit sections to compare // relocation targets. Relocation targets are considered equivalent if // their targets are in the same equivalence class. Sections with // different relocation targets are put into different equivalence // clases. // // 3. If we split an equivalence class in step 2, two relocations // previously target the same equivalence class may now target // different equivalence classes. Therefore, we repeat step 2 until a // convergence is obtained. // // 4. For each equivalence class C, pick an arbitrary section in C, and // merge all the other sections in C with it. // // For small programs, this algorithm needs 3-5 iterations. For large // programs such as Chromium, it takes more than 20 iterations. // // This algorithm was mentioned as an "optimistic algorithm" in [1], // though gold implements a different algorithm than this. // // We parallelize each step so that multiple threads can work on different // equivalence classes concurrently. That gave us a large performance // boost when applying ICF on large programs. For example, MSVC link.exe // or GNU gold takes 10-20 seconds to apply ICF on Chromium, whose output // size is about 1.5 GB, but LLD can finish it in less than 2 seconds on a // 2.8 GHz 40 core machine. Even without threading, LLD's ICF is still // faster than MSVC or gold though. // // [1] Safe ICF: Pointer Safe and Unwinding aware Identical Code Folding // in the Gold Linker // http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/36912.pdf // //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// #include "ICF.h" #include "Config.h" #include "SymbolTable.h" #include "Symbols.h" #include "lld/Common/Threads.h" #include "llvm/ADT/Hashing.h" #include "llvm/BinaryFormat/ELF.h" #include "llvm/Object/ELF.h" #include #include using namespace lld; using namespace lld::elf; using namespace llvm; using namespace llvm::ELF; using namespace llvm::object; namespace { template class ICF { public: void run(); private: void segregate(size_t Begin, size_t End, bool Constant); template bool constantEq(const InputSection *A, ArrayRef RelsA, const InputSection *B, ArrayRef RelsB); template bool variableEq(const InputSection *A, ArrayRef RelsA, const InputSection *B, ArrayRef RelsB); bool equalsConstant(const InputSection *A, const InputSection *B); bool equalsVariable(const InputSection *A, const InputSection *B); size_t findBoundary(size_t Begin, size_t End); void forEachClassRange(size_t Begin, size_t End, std::function Fn); void forEachClass(std::function Fn); std::vector Sections; // We repeat the main loop while `Repeat` is true. std::atomic Repeat; // The main loop counter. int Cnt = 0; // We have two locations for equivalence classes. On the first iteration // of the main loop, Class[0] has a valid value, and Class[1] contains // garbage. We read equivalence classes from slot 0 and write to slot 1. // So, Class[0] represents the current class, and Class[1] represents // the next class. On each iteration, we switch their roles and use them // alternately. // // Why are we doing this? Recall that other threads may be working on // other equivalence classes in parallel. They may read sections that we // are updating. We cannot update equivalence classes in place because // it breaks the invariance that all possibly-identical sections must be // in the same equivalence class at any moment. In other words, the for // loop to update equivalence classes is not atomic, and that is // observable from other threads. By writing new classes to other // places, we can keep the invariance. // // Below, `Current` has the index of the current class, and `Next` has // the index of the next class. If threading is enabled, they are either // (0, 1) or (1, 0). // // Note on single-thread: if that's the case, they are always (0, 0) // because we can safely read the next class without worrying about race // conditions. Using the same location makes this algorithm converge // faster because it uses results of the same iteration earlier. int Current = 0; int Next = 0; }; } // Returns a hash value for S. Note that the information about // relocation targets is not included in the hash value. template static uint32_t getHash(InputSection *S) { return hash_combine(S->Flags, S->getSize(), S->NumRelocations, S->Data); } // Returns true if section S is subject of ICF. static bool isEligible(InputSection *S) { // Don't merge read only data sections unless --icf-data was passed. if (!(S->Flags & SHF_EXECINSTR) && !Config->ICFData) return false; // .init and .fini contains instructions that must be executed to // initialize and finalize the process. They cannot and should not // be merged. return S->Live && (S->Flags & SHF_ALLOC) && !(S->Flags & SHF_WRITE) && S->Name != ".init" && S->Name != ".fini"; } // Split an equivalence class into smaller classes. template void ICF::segregate(size_t Begin, size_t End, bool Constant) { // This loop rearranges sections in [Begin, End) so that all sections // that are equal in terms of equals{Constant,Variable} are contiguous // in [Begin, End). // // The algorithm is quadratic in the worst case, but that is not an // issue in practice because the number of the distinct sections in // each range is usually very small. while (Begin < End) { // Divide [Begin, End) into two. Let Mid be the start index of the // second group. auto Bound = std::stable_partition(Sections.begin() + Begin + 1, Sections.begin() + End, [&](InputSection *S) { if (Constant) return equalsConstant(Sections[Begin], S); return equalsVariable(Sections[Begin], S); }); size_t Mid = Bound - Sections.begin(); // Now we split [Begin, End) into [Begin, Mid) and [Mid, End) by // updating the sections in [Begin, Mid). We use Mid as an equivalence // class ID because every group ends with a unique index. for (size_t I = Begin; I < Mid; ++I) Sections[I]->Class[Next] = Mid; // If we created a group, we need to iterate the main loop again. if (Mid != End) Repeat = true; Begin = Mid; } } // Compare two lists of relocations. template template bool ICF::constantEq(const InputSection *SecA, ArrayRef RA, const InputSection *SecB, ArrayRef RB) { if (RA.size() != RB.size()) return false; for (size_t I = 0; I < RA.size(); ++I) { if (RA[I].r_offset != RB[I].r_offset || RA[I].getType(Config->IsMips64EL) != RB[I].getType(Config->IsMips64EL)) return false; uint64_t AddA = getAddend(RA[I]); uint64_t AddB = getAddend(RB[I]); Symbol &SA = SecA->template getFile()->getRelocTargetSym(RA[I]); Symbol &SB = SecB->template getFile()->getRelocTargetSym(RB[I]); if (&SA == &SB) { if (AddA == AddB) continue; return false; } auto *DA = dyn_cast(&SA); auto *DB = dyn_cast(&SB); if (!DA || !DB) return false; // Relocations referring to absolute symbols are constant-equal if their // values are equal. if (!DA->Section && !DB->Section && DA->Value + AddA == DB->Value + AddB) continue; if (!DA->Section || !DB->Section) return false; if (DA->Section->kind() != DB->Section->kind()) return false; // Relocations referring to InputSections are constant-equal if their // section offsets are equal. if (isa(DA->Section)) { if (DA->Value + AddA == DB->Value + AddB) continue; return false; } // Relocations referring to MergeInputSections are constant-equal if their // offsets in the output section are equal. auto *X = dyn_cast(DA->Section); if (!X) return false; auto *Y = cast(DB->Section); if (X->getParent() != Y->getParent()) return false; uint64_t OffsetA = SA.isSection() ? X->getOffset(AddA) : X->getOffset(DA->Value) + AddA; uint64_t OffsetB = SB.isSection() ? Y->getOffset(AddB) : Y->getOffset(DB->Value) + AddB; if (OffsetA != OffsetB) return false; } return true; } // Compare "non-moving" part of two InputSections, namely everything // except relocation targets. template bool ICF::equalsConstant(const InputSection *A, const InputSection *B) { if (A->NumRelocations != B->NumRelocations || A->Flags != B->Flags || A->getSize() != B->getSize() || A->Data != B->Data) return false; if (A->AreRelocsRela) return constantEq(A, A->template relas(), B, B->template relas()); return constantEq(A, A->template rels(), B, B->template rels()); } // Compare two lists of relocations. Returns true if all pairs of // relocations point to the same section in terms of ICF. template template bool ICF::variableEq(const InputSection *SecA, ArrayRef RA, const InputSection *SecB, ArrayRef RB) { assert(RA.size() == RB.size()); for (size_t I = 0; I < RA.size(); ++I) { // The two sections must be identical. Symbol &SA = SecA->template getFile()->getRelocTargetSym(RA[I]); Symbol &SB = SecB->template getFile()->getRelocTargetSym(RB[I]); if (&SA == &SB) continue; auto *DA = cast(&SA); auto *DB = cast(&SB); // We already dealt with absolute and non-InputSection symbols in // constantEq, and for InputSections we have already checked everything // except the equivalence class. if (!DA->Section) continue; auto *X = dyn_cast(DA->Section); if (!X) continue; auto *Y = cast(DB->Section); // Ineligible sections are in the special equivalence class 0. // They can never be the same in terms of the equivalence class. if (X->Class[Current] == 0) return false; if (X->Class[Current] != Y->Class[Current]) return false; }; return true; } // Compare "moving" part of two InputSections, namely relocation targets. template bool ICF::equalsVariable(const InputSection *A, const InputSection *B) { if (A->AreRelocsRela) return variableEq(A, A->template relas(), B, B->template relas()); return variableEq(A, A->template rels(), B, B->template rels()); } template size_t ICF::findBoundary(size_t Begin, size_t End) { uint32_t Class = Sections[Begin]->Class[Current]; for (size_t I = Begin + 1; I < End; ++I) if (Class != Sections[I]->Class[Current]) return I; return End; } // Sections in the same equivalence class are contiguous in Sections // vector. Therefore, Sections vector can be considered as contiguous // groups of sections, grouped by the class. // // This function calls Fn on every group that starts within [Begin, End). // Note that a group must start in that range but doesn't necessarily // have to end before End. template void ICF::forEachClassRange(size_t Begin, size_t End, std::function Fn) { if (Begin > 0) Begin = findBoundary(Begin - 1, End); while (Begin < End) { size_t Mid = findBoundary(Begin, Sections.size()); Fn(Begin, Mid); Begin = Mid; } } // Call Fn on each equivalence class. template void ICF::forEachClass(std::function Fn) { // If threading is disabled or the number of sections are // too small to use threading, call Fn sequentially. if (!ThreadsEnabled || Sections.size() < 1024) { forEachClassRange(0, Sections.size(), Fn); ++Cnt; return; } Current = Cnt % 2; Next = (Cnt + 1) % 2; // Split sections into 256 shards and call Fn in parallel. size_t NumShards = 256; size_t Step = Sections.size() / NumShards; parallelForEachN(0, NumShards, [&](size_t I) { size_t End = (I == NumShards - 1) ? Sections.size() : (I + 1) * Step; forEachClassRange(I * Step, End, Fn); }); ++Cnt; } // The main function of ICF. template void ICF::run() { // Collect sections to merge. for (InputSectionBase *Sec : InputSections) if (auto *S = dyn_cast(Sec)) if (isEligible(S)) Sections.push_back(S); // Initially, we use hash values to partition sections. parallelForEach(Sections, [&](InputSection *S) { // Set MSB to 1 to avoid collisions with non-hash IDs. S->Class[0] = getHash(S) | (1 << 31); }); // From now on, sections in Sections vector are ordered so that sections // in the same equivalence class are consecutive in the vector. std::stable_sort(Sections.begin(), Sections.end(), [](InputSection *A, InputSection *B) { return A->Class[0] < B->Class[0]; }); // Compare static contents and assign unique IDs for each static content. forEachClass([&](size_t Begin, size_t End) { segregate(Begin, End, true); }); // Split groups by comparing relocations until convergence is obtained. do { Repeat = false; forEachClass( [&](size_t Begin, size_t End) { segregate(Begin, End, false); }); } while (Repeat); log("ICF needed " + Twine(Cnt) + " iterations"); // Merge sections by the equivalence class. forEachClass([&](size_t Begin, size_t End) { if (End - Begin == 1) return; log("selected " + Sections[Begin]->Name); for (size_t I = Begin + 1; I < End; ++I) { log(" removed " + Sections[I]->Name); Sections[Begin]->replace(Sections[I]); } }); // Mark ARM Exception Index table sections that refer to folded code // sections as not live. These sections have an implict dependency // via the link order dependency. if (Config->EMachine == EM_ARM) for (InputSectionBase *Sec : InputSections) if (auto *S = dyn_cast(Sec)) if (S->Flags & SHF_LINK_ORDER) S->Live = S->getLinkOrderDep()->Live; } // ICF entry point function. template void elf::doIcf() { ICF().run(); } template void elf::doIcf(); template void elf::doIcf(); template void elf::doIcf(); template void elf::doIcf();