From: dominiq@lps.ens.fr (Dominique Dhumieres)
To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: hjl.tools@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH x86_64] Optimize access to globals in "-fpie -pie" builds with copy relocations
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:19:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141204221900.DE5E5105@mailhost.lps.ens.fr> (raw)
> Normally, with -fPIE/-fpie, GCC accesses globals that are extern to the
> module using the GOT. This is two instructions, one to get the address
> of the global from the GOT and the other to get the value. If it turns
> out that the global gets defined in the executable at link-time, it still
> needs to go through the GOT as it is too late then to generate a direct
> access.
>
> Examples:
>
> foo.cc
> ------
> int a_glob;
> int main () {
> return a_glob; // defined in this file
> }
>
> With -O2 -fpie -pie, the generated code directly accesses the global via
> PC-relative insn:
>
> 5e0 <main>:
> mov 0x165a(%rip),%eax # 1c40 <a_glob>
>
> foo.cc
> ------
>
> extern int a_glob;
> int main () {
> return a_glob; // defined in this file
> }
>
> With -O2 -fpie -pie, the generated code accesses global via GOT using
> two memory loads:
>
> 6f0 <main>:
> mov 0x1609(%rip),%rax # 1d00 <_DYNAMIC+0x230>
> mov (%rax),%eax
>
> This is true even if in the latter case the global was defined in the
> executable through a different file.
>
> Some experiments on google benchmarks shows that the extra memory loads
> affects performance by 1% to 5%.
>
> Solution - Copy Relocations:
>
> When the linker supports copy relocations, GCC can always assume that
> the global will be defined in the executable. For globals that are truly
> extern (come from shared objects), the linker will create copy relocations
> and have them defined in the executable. Result is that no global access
> needs to go through the GOT and hence improves performance.
>
> This optimization only applies to undefined, non-weak global data.
> Undefined, weak global data access still must go through the GOT.
>
> This patch checks if linker supports PIE with copy reloc, which is
> enabled in gold and bfd linker in bininutils 2.25, at configure time
> and enables this optimization if the linker support is available.
>
> gcc/
>
> * configure.ac (HAVE_LD_PIE_COPYRELOC): Defined to 1 if
> Linux/x86-64 linker supports PIE with copy reloc.
> * config.in: Regenerated.
> * configure: Likewise.
>
> * config/i386/i386.c (legitimate_pic_address_disp_p): Allow
> pc-relative address for undefined, non-weak, non-function
> symbol reference in 64-bit PIE if linker supports PIE with
> copy reloc.
>
> * doc/sourcebuild.texi: Document pie_copyreloc target.
>
> gcc/testsuite/
>
> * gcc.target/i386/pie-copyrelocs-1.c: New test.
> * gcc.target/i386/pie-copyrelocs-2.c: Likewise.
> * gcc.target/i386/pie-copyrelocs-3.c: Likewise.
> * gcc.target/i386/pie-copyrelocs-4.c: Likewise.
>
> * lib/target-supports.exp (check_effective_target_pie_copyreloc):
> New procedure.
It caused pr64189.
Dominique.
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2014-12-04 22:19 Dominique Dhumieres [this message]
2014-12-04 23:54 ` H.J. Lu
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2014-12-02 19:19 Uros Bizjak
2014-12-02 19:39 ` H.J. Lu
2014-12-02 19:40 ` H.J. Lu
2014-12-02 20:01 ` Uros Bizjak
2014-12-02 20:43 ` H.J. Lu
2014-12-02 20:19 ` Jakub Jelinek
2014-12-02 22:14 ` H.J. Lu
2014-12-02 23:21 ` H.J. Lu
2014-12-03 13:47 ` H.J. Lu
2014-12-03 15:01 ` H.J. Lu
2014-12-03 21:35 ` H.J. Lu
2014-12-04 12:44 ` Uros Bizjak
2014-12-04 16:46 ` H.J. Lu
2014-12-04 19:32 ` Uros Bizjak
2015-02-03 19:25 ` Sriraman Tallam
2015-02-03 19:26 ` Sriraman Tallam
2015-02-03 19:36 ` Jakub Jelinek
2015-02-03 21:20 ` Sriraman Tallam
2015-02-03 21:29 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-03 21:36 ` Sriraman Tallam
2015-02-03 22:03 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-03 22:19 ` Jakub Jelinek
2015-02-04 1:16 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-04 18:27 ` Sriraman Tallam
2015-02-04 18:31 ` Jakub Jelinek
2015-02-04 18:38 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-04 18:42 ` Jakub Jelinek
2015-02-04 18:45 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-04 18:51 ` Sriraman Tallam
2015-02-04 18:57 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-04 21:53 ` Sriraman Tallam
2015-02-04 22:37 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-04 22:47 ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2015-02-04 23:10 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-04 23:29 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-05 16:57 ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2015-02-05 18:54 ` Richard Henderson
2015-02-05 19:01 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-05 19:59 ` Richard Henderson
2015-02-05 22:05 ` Sriraman Tallam
2015-02-05 22:47 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-05 22:48 ` Sriraman Tallam
2015-02-06 16:25 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-27 23:39 ` H.J. Lu
2015-02-27 23:46 ` H.J. Lu
2014-05-15 18:34 Sriraman Tallam
2014-05-19 18:11 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-06-09 22:55 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-06-21 0:17 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-06-26 17:55 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-07-11 17:42 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-09-02 18:15 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-09-02 20:40 ` Richard Henderson
2014-09-03 7:25 ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2014-09-08 22:19 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-09-19 21:11 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-09-29 17:57 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-10-06 20:43 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-11-10 23:35 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-12-02 18:01 ` Sriraman Tallam
2014-12-02 19:06 ` H.J. Lu
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