From: Joe Groff <jgroff@apple.com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>, Cary Coutant <ccoutant@gmail.com>,
Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Fwd: Preventing preemption of 'protected' symbols in GNU ld 2.26
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 19:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BEDD88C6-7F80-45DA-9021-10587244AAE5@apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AB592ABD-D6D7-4D2F-A0D6-45738F168DC4@apple.com>
On Mar 29, 2016, at 8:44 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 03:38:01PM -0700, Cary Coutant wrote:
>>>>>> Did you look at what the costs were in startup time and dirty pages by using
>>>>>> copy relocations? What do you do if the size of the definition changes in a
>>>>>> new version of the library?
>>>>>
>>>>> There wouldn't be a measurable cost in dirty pages; the copied objects
>>>>> are simply allocated in bss in the executable.
>>>>
>>>> Wouldn't references to the symbol from within the .so need to be relocated to reference the now-canonical copy in the executable?
>>>
>>> No, references from within the .so would have always used the GOT.
>>> Non-protected global symbols in a shared library are still
>>> pre-emptible, so they are always indirect, and there's always a
>>> dynamic relocation for the GOT entry. Whether the prevailing
>>> definition winds up in the executable or the shared library, the
>>> dynamic loader still has to bind the symbol and apply the relocation.
>>
>> HJ's changes to protected visibility meant compiler changes so that
>> protected visibility in shared libraries is no longer seen as local.
>> So yes, protected visibility symbols in shared libraries now go
>> through the GOT. Prior to his changes, they were optimized to a
>> pc-relative access. Joe is correct in pointing out that shared
>> libraries needed a change. Bad luck if you're using an older
>> compiler. Also bad luck if you want to use protected visibility to
>> optimize your shared library.
>>
>> HJ also made glibc ld.so changes to ensure the semantics of protected
>> visibility symbols remain unchanged when multiple shared libraries
>> define the same protected visibility symbol.
>>
>> Apparently most people in the gcc and glibc communities saw these
>> toolchain modifications as fiendishly clever.
>>
>
> As I said before, copy relocation and protected symbol are fundamentally
> incompatible. Since copy relocation is the part of x86 psABIs, I updated
> GCC, glibc and ld to make protected symbol to work with copy relocation.
> That is protected symbol may be external, but won't be preempted. The
> price I paid is that protected symbol won't be accessed via PC-relative
> relocation within the shared object. To access protected symbol via
> PC-relative relocation within the shared object, we need to disable copy
> relocation in executable, which is a psABI change. That is why I proposed
> to mark the object as such so that we won't get surprise at run-time.
I think what Cary's arguing (and I honestly would expect) is that copying the protected symbol *is* for all intents and purposes a preemption. I'd expect copy relocations against protected symbols to be linker errors. I guess what's missing for gcc's intended optimization is an indication to the compiler that a symbol is protected in its home library, to suppress emitting PC-relative references to a copy relocation.
-Joe
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2016-03-29 19:31 ` Joe Groff [this message]
2016-03-29 19:33 ` H.J. Lu
2016-03-29 19:36 ` Joe Groff
2016-03-29 19:43 ` H.J. Lu
2016-03-29 19:51 ` Joe Groff
2016-03-29 19:54 ` H.J. Lu
2016-03-29 22:05 ` H.J. Lu
2016-03-30 1:44 ` Alan Modra
2016-03-30 1:46 ` Cary Coutant
2016-03-30 4:04 ` Jeff Law
2016-03-30 7:20 ` Cary Coutant
2016-03-30 7:34 ` Cary Coutant
2016-03-30 14:44 ` Alan Modra
2016-03-31 0:45 ` Cary Coutant
2016-04-15 21:49 ` Preventing preemption of 'protected' symbols in GNU ld 2.26 [aka should we revert the fix for 65248] Jeff Law
2016-04-15 21:56 ` H.J. Lu
2016-04-18 9:02 ` Richard Biener
2016-04-18 14:49 ` Alan Modra
2016-04-18 14:59 ` H.J. Lu
2016-04-18 17:04 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2016-04-18 17:09 ` H.J. Lu
2016-04-18 17:24 ` Michael Matz
2016-04-18 17:27 ` H.J. Lu
2016-04-18 18:52 ` Jakub Jelinek
2016-04-18 19:28 ` H.J. Lu
2016-04-18 17:55 ` Cary Coutant
2016-04-25 17:24 ` Jeff Law
2016-04-25 17:31 ` H.J. Lu
2016-04-18 17:57 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2016-04-19 5:08 ` Alan Modra
2016-04-19 8:20 ` Richard Biener
2016-04-19 9:53 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-04-19 14:06 ` Michael Matz
2016-04-19 15:37 ` Cary Coutant
2016-04-19 15:44 ` H.J. Lu
2016-04-19 15:52 ` H.J. Lu
2016-04-19 15:54 ` H.J. Lu
2016-04-19 15:58 ` Cary Coutant
2016-04-19 16:00 ` H.J. Lu
2016-04-19 15:54 ` Cary Coutant
2016-04-19 19:11 ` H.J. Lu
2016-04-19 20:17 ` Rich Felker
2016-04-19 21:03 ` Cary Coutant
2016-04-20 17:45 ` anonymous
2016-04-19 15:46 ` Alan Modra
2016-04-25 17:35 ` Jeff Law
2016-04-26 5:55 ` Alan Modra
2016-04-26 8:13 ` Jakub Jelinek
2016-04-18 17:05 ` Cary Coutant
2016-03-31 0:40 ` Preventing preemption of 'protected' symbols in GNU ld 2.26 Cary Coutant
2016-03-31 0:53 ` Jeff Law
2016-03-31 13:27 ` Ramana Radhakrishnan
2016-03-31 15:05 ` H.J. Lu
2016-04-15 16:10 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-04-01 19:51 ` Jeff Law
2016-04-02 2:53 ` Alan Modra
2016-04-19 19:47 ` Fwd: " Rich Felker
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