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Commit 07f8daf0 authored by Fangrui Song's avatar Fangrui Song
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[ELF] Simplify RelRo, TLS, NOBITS section ranks and make RW PT_LOAD start with RelRo

Old: PT_LOAD(.data | PT_GNU_RELRO(.data.rel.ro .bss.rel.ro) | .bss)
New: PT_LOAD(PT_GNU_RELRO(.data.rel.ro .bss.rel.ro) | .data .bss)

The placement of | indicates page alignment caused by PT_GNU_RELRO. The
new layout has simpler rules and saves space for many cases.

Old size: roundup(.data) + roundup(.data.rel.ro)
New size: roundup(.data.rel.ro + .bss.rel.ro) + .data

Other advantages:

* At runtime the 3 memory mappings decrease to 2.
* start(PT_TLS) = start(PT_GNU_RELRO) = start(RW PT_LOAD). This
  simplifies binary manipulation tools.
  GNU strip before 2.31 discards PT_GNU_RELRO if its
  address is not equal to the start of its associated PT_LOAD.
  This has been fixed by https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=f2731e0c374e5323ce4cdae2bcc7b7fe22da1a6f
  But with this change, we will be compatible with GNU strip before 2.31
* Before, .got.plt (non-relro by default) was placed before .got (relro
  by default), which made it impossible to have _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_
  (start of .got.plt on x86-64) equal to the end of .got (R_GOT*_FROM_END)
  (https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36555). With the new ordering, we
  can improve on this regard if we'd like to.

Reviewers: ruiu, espindola, pcc

Subscribers: emaste, arichardson, llvm-commits, joerg, jdoerfert

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D56828

llvm-svn: 356117
parent e77e5f44
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