In the last patch for --trace-symbol, I introduced a new symbol type
PlaceholderKind and store it to SymVector storage. It made all code
that iterates over SymVector to recognize and skip PlaceholderKind
symbols. I found that that's annoying.
In this patch, I removed PlaceholderKind and stop storing them to SymVector.
Now the information whether a symbol is being watched by --trace-symbol
is stored to the Symtab hash table.
llvm-svn: 275747
SymVector contains all symbols, so we can iterate either Symtab or SymVector
to visit all symbols. Iterating over SymVector makes the next change for
--trace-symbol possible.
llvm-svn: 275746
--trace-symbol is a command line option to watch a symbol.
Previosly, we looked up a hash table for a new symbol if the
option is given. Any code that looks up a hash table for each
symbol is expensive because the linker handles a lot of symbols.
In our design, we look up a hash table strictly only once
for a symbol, so --trace-symbol was an exception.
This patch improves efficiency of the option by merging the
hash table into the symbol table.
Instead of looking up a separate hash table with a string,
this patch sets `Traced` flag to symbols specified by --trace-symbol.
So, if you insert a symbol and get a symbol with `Traced` flag on,
you know that you need to print out a log message for the symbol.
This is nearly zero cost.
llvm-svn: 275716
Versions can be assigned to symbols in two different ways.
One is the usual version scripts, and the other is special
symbol suffix '@'. If a symbol contains '@', the string after
that is considered to specify a version name.
Previously, we look for '@' for all symbols.
Anything that works on every symbol can be expensive because
the linker has to handle a lot of symbols. The search for '@'
was not an exception.
In this patch, I made two optimizations.
The first optimization is to handle '@' only when at least one
version is defined. If no versions are defined, no versions can
be assigned to any symbols, so it's waste of time to search for '@'.
The second optimization is to scan only suffixes of symbol names
instead of entire symbol names. Symbol names can be very long, but
symbol versions are usually short, so scanning entire symbol names
is waste of time, too.
There are some error cases which we no longer be able to detect
with this patch. I don't think it's a major drawback because they
are minor errors. Speed is more important.
This change improves LLD with debug info self-link time from
6.6993 seconds to 6.3426 seconds (or -5.3%).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22433
llvm-svn: 275711
Previously, each subclass of SymbolBody had a pointer to a source
file from which it was created. So, there was no single way to get
a source file for a symbol. We had getSourceFile<ELFT>(), but the
function was a bit inconvenient as it's a template.
This patch makes SymbolBody have a pointer to a source file.
If a symbol is not created from a file, the pointer has a nullptr.
llvm-svn: 275701
The identifier `Version` was used too often in the code to handle
symbol versions. The struct that contains version definitions is
named `Version`. Local variables for version ID are named `Version`.
Local varaible for version string are named `Version`.
This patch give them different names.
llvm-svn: 275673
Previously, Verdefs and Verdauxs are separated in the section.
The new layout is easier to write as we do not have to maintain
two pointers and can avoid passing a reference to a pointer.
llvm-svn: 275665
In a linker script, `.` is a special symbol indicating a counter.
Previously, we had two expression types, ExprKind and SymbolAssignmentKind
for `.` and all the other symbol names, respectively. But we could merge
them because the former is a special case of the latter.
llvm-svn: 275527
Previously, it checked for the EC parameter and set HasError
only when there was an error. But in most places we called
error only when error had occurred, so this behavior was confusing.
llvm-svn: 275517
Rafael Espindola