LLVM currently does not require function parameters or return values
to be fully initialized, and does not care if they are poison. This can
be useful if the frontend ABI makes no such demands, but may prevent
helpful backend transformations in case they do. Specifically, the C
and C++ languages require all scalar function operands to be fully
determined.
Introducing this attribute is of particular use to MemorySanitizer
today, although other transformations may benefit from it as well.
We can modify MemorySanitizer instrumentation to provide modest (17%)
space savings where `frozen` is present.
This commit only adds the attribute to the Language Reference, and
the actual implementation of the attribute will follow in a separate
commit.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D82316
Summary:
The BFloat IR type is introduced to provide support for, initially, the BFloat16
datatype introduced with the Armv8.6 architecture (optional from Armv8.2
onwards). It has an 8-bit exponent and a 7-bit mantissa and behaves like an IEEE
754 floating point IR type.
This is part of a patch series upstreaming Armv8.6 features. Subsequent patches
will upstream intrinsics support and C-lang support for BFloat.
Reviewers: SjoerdMeijer, rjmccall, rsmith, liutianle, RKSimon, craig.topper, jfb, LukeGeeson, sdesmalen, deadalnix, ctetreau
Subscribers: hiraditya, llvm-commits, danielkiss, arphaman, kristof.beyls, dexonsmith
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D78190
When the target option GuaranteedTailCallOpt is specified, calls with
the fastcc calling convention will be transformed into tail calls if
they are in tail position. This diff adds a new calling convention,
tailcc, currently supported only on X86, which behaves the same way as
fastcc, except that the GuaranteedTailCallOpt flag does not need to
enabled in order to enable tail call optimization.
Patch by Dwight Guth <dwight.guth@runtimeverification.com>!
Reviewed By: lebedev.ri, paquette, rnk
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D67855
llvm-svn: 373976
Add "memtag" sanitizer that detects and mitigates stack memory issues
using armv8.5 Memory Tagging Extension.
It is similar in principle to HWASan, which is a software implementation
of the same idea, but there are enough differencies to warrant a new
sanitizer type IMHO. It is also expected to have very different
performance properties.
The new sanitizer does not have a runtime library (it may grow one
later, along with a "debugging" mode). Similar to SafeStack and
StackProtector, the instrumentation pass (in a follow up change) will be
inserted in all cases, but will only affect functions marked with the
new sanitize_memtag attribute.
Reviewers: pcc, hctim, vitalybuka, ostannard
Subscribers: srhines, mehdi_amini, javed.absar, kristof.beyls, hiraditya, cryptoad, steven_wu, dexonsmith, cfe-commits, llvm-commits
Tags: #clang, #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D64169
llvm-svn: 366123
Summary:
Introduce the ShadowCallStack function attribute. It's added to
functions compiled with -fsanitize=shadow-call-stack in order to mark
functions to be instrumented by a ShadowCallStack pass to be submitted
in a separate change.
Reviewers: pcc, kcc, kubamracek
Reviewed By: pcc, kcc
Subscribers: cryptoad, mehdi_amini, javed.absar, llvm-commits, kcc
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44800
llvm-svn: 329108
X86 Supports Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) as part of Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (CET).
IBT instruments ENDBR instructions used to specify valid targets of indirect call / jmp.
The `nocf_check` attribute has two roles in the context of X86 IBT technology:
1. Appertains to a function - do not add ENDBR instruction at the beginning of the function.
2. Appertains to a function pointer - do not track the target function of this pointer by adding nocf_check prefix to the indirect-call instruction.
This patch implements `nocf_check` context for Indirect Branch Tracking.
It also auto generates `nocf_check` prefixes before indirect branchs to jump tables that are guarded by range checks.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D41879
llvm-svn: 327767
Summary:
The LLVM Bitcode File Format documentation states that all bitstreams
begin with the magic number 'BC', and that generic bitstream analyzer
tools may check for this number in order to determine whether the
stream is a bitstream.
However, in practice:
* Only LLVM IR bitcode begins with 'BC'. Other bitstreams -- Clang
AST files and precompiled headers, Clang serialized diagnostics,
Swift modules -- do not start with 'BC'. A tool that actually checked
for 'BC' would only be able to recognize LLVM IR.
* The `llvm-bcanalyzer`, arguably the most used generic bitstream
analyzer tool, does not check for a magic number 'BC' (except to
determine whether the file is LLVM IR).
Update the bitcode format documentation to make it clear that not all
bitstreams begin with 'BC', and that tools should not rely on that
particular magic number value.
Test Plan:
Build the `docs-llvm-html` target and confirm the changes render in
a Safari web browser.
Reviewers: harlanhaskins, eugenis, mehdi_amini, pcc, angerman
Reviewed By: angerman
Subscribers: angerman, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D42002
llvm-svn: 322520
Summary:
This is LLVM instrumentation for the new HWASan tool. It is basically
a stripped down copy of ASan at this point, w/o stack or global
support. Instrumenation adds a global constructor + runtime callbacks
for every load and store.
HWASan comes with its own IR attribute.
A brief design document can be found in
clang/docs/HardwareAssistedAddressSanitizerDesign.rst (submitted earlier).
Reviewers: kcc, pcc, alekseyshl
Subscribers: srhines, mehdi_amini, mgorny, javed.absar, eraman, llvm-commits, hiraditya
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D40932
llvm-svn: 320217
Currently we do not represent runtime preemption in the IR, which has several
drawbacks:
1) The semantics of GlobalValues differ depending on the object file format
you are targeting (as well as the relocation-model and -fPIE value).
2) We have no way of disabling inlining of run time interposable functions,
since in the IR we only know if a function is link-time interposable.
Because of this llvm cannot support elf-interposition semantics.
3) In LTO builds of executables we will have extra knowledge that a symbol
resolved to a local definition and can't be preemptable, but have no way to
propagate that knowledge through the compiler.
This patch adds preemptability specifiers to the IR with the following meaning:
dso_local --> means the compiler may assume the symbol will resolve to a
definition within the current linkage unit and the symbol may be accessed
directly even if the definition is not within this compilation unit.
dso_preemptable --> means that the compiler must assume the GlobalValue may be
replaced with a definition from outside the current linkage unit at runtime.
To ease transitioning dso_preemptable is treated as a 'default' in that
low-level codegen will still do the same checks it did previously to see if a
symbol should be accessed indirectly. Eventually when IR producers emit the
specifiers on all Globalvalues we can change dso_preemptable to mean 'always
access indirectly', and remove the current logic.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D20217
llvm-svn: 316668
Add a top-level STRTAB block containing a string table blob, and start storing
strings for module codes FUNCTION, GLOBALVAR, ALIAS, IFUNC and COMDAT in
the string table.
This change allows us to share names between globals and comdats as well
as between modules, and improves the efficiency of loading bitcode files by
no longer using a bit encoding for symbol names. Once we start writing the
irsymtab to the bitcode file we will also be able to share strings between
it and the module.
On my machine, link time for Chromium for Linux with ThinLTO decreases by
about 7% for no-op incremental builds or about 1% for full builds. Total
bitcode file size decreases by about 3%.
As discussed on llvm-dev:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-April/111732.html
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31838
llvm-svn: 300464
Support for writing this module code was removed in r73220, which was well
before the LLVM 3.0 release, so we do not need to be able to understand it
for backwards compatibility.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31563
llvm-svn: 299370
Summary:
* Describe new (3.3) parameter attribute group encoding, leaving old encoding there with a note about legacy
* Bring TYPE_BLOCK docs up to date
* Remove docs about obsolete (pre 3.0) TYPE_SYMTAB_BLOCK, TST_CODE_ENTRY
* Fix a couple of incorrect comments and remove one unused enum definition along the way
This addresses https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=28941.
Patch by: Ismail Badawi <ibadawi@cisco.com>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D25623
llvm-svn: 284246
This change is motivated by an upcoming change to the metadata representation
used for CFI. The indirect function call checker needs type information for
external function declarations in order to correctly generate jump table
entries for such declarations. We currently associate such type information
with declarations using a global metadata node, but I plan [1] to move all
such metadata to global object attachments.
In bitcode, metadata attachments for function declarations appear in the
global metadata block. This seems reasonable to me because I expect metadata
attachments on declarations to be uncommon. In the long term I'd also expect
this to be the case for CFI, because we'd want to use some specialized bitcode
format for this metadata that could be read as part of the ThinLTO thin-link
phase, which would mean that it would not appear in the global metadata block.
To solve the lazy loaded metadata issue I was seeing with D20147, I use the
same bitcode representation for metadata attachments for global variables as I
do for function declarations. Since there's a use case for metadata attachments
in the global metadata block, we might as well use that representation for
global variables as well, at least until we have a mechanism for lazy loading
global variables.
In the assembly format, the metadata attachments appear after the "declare"
keyword in order to avoid a parsing ambiguity.
[1] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-June/100462.html
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21052
llvm-svn: 273336
If a local_unnamed_addr attribute is attached to a global, the address
is known to be insignificant within the module. It is distinct from the
existing unnamed_addr attribute in that it only describes a local property
of the module rather than a global property of the symbol.
This attribute is intended to be used by the code generator and LTO to allow
the linker to decide whether the global needs to be in the symbol table. It is
possible to exclude a global from the symbol table if three things are true:
- This attribute is present on every instance of the global (which means that
the normal rule that the global must have a unique address can be broken without
being observable by the program by performing comparisons against the global's
address)
- The global has linkonce_odr linkage (which means that each linkage unit must have
its own copy of the global if it requires one, and the copy in each linkage unit
must be the same)
- It is a constant or a function (which means that the program cannot observe that
the unique-address rule has been broken by writing to the global)
Although this attribute could in principle be computed from the module
contents, LTO clients (i.e. linkers) will normally need to be able to compute
this property as part of symbol resolution, and it would be inefficient to
materialize every module just to compute it.
See:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20160509/356401.htmlhttp://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20160516/356738.html
for earlier discussion.
Part of the fix for PR27553.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D20348
llvm-svn: 272709
This patch adds an IR, assembly and bitcode representation for metadata
attachments for globals. Future patches will port existing features to use
these new attachments.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D20074
llvm-svn: 271348
Summary:
Rename the section embeds bitcode from ".llvmbc,.llvmbc" to "__LLVM,__bitcode".
The new name matches MachO section naming convention.
Reviewers: rafael, pcc
Subscribers: davide, llvm-commits, joker.eph
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17388
llvm-svn: 262245
This commit adds a new target-independent calling convention for C++ TLS
access functions. It aims to minimize overhead in the caller by perserving as
many registers as possible.
The target-specific implementation for X86-64 is defined as following:
Arguments are passed as for the default C calling convention
The same applies for the return value(s)
The callee preserves all GPRs - except RAX and RDI
The access function makes C-style TLS function calls in the entry and exit
block, C-style TLS functions save a lot more registers than normal calls.
The added calling convention ties into the existing implementation of the
C-style TLS functions, so we can't simply use existing calling conventions
such as preserve_mostcc.
rdar://9001553
llvm-svn: 254737
Summary: This fixes a variety of typos in docs, code and headers.
Subscribers: jholewinski, sanjoy, arsenm, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D12626
llvm-svn: 247495
The personality routine currently lives in the LandingPadInst.
This isn't desirable because:
- All LandingPadInsts in the same function must have the same
personality routine. This means that each LandingPadInst beyond the
first has an operand which produces no additional information.
- There is ongoing work to introduce EH IR constructs other than
LandingPadInst. Moving the personality routine off of any one
particular Instruction and onto the parent function seems a lot better
than have N different places a personality function can sneak onto an
exceptional function.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10429
llvm-svn: 239940
Patch by Ben Gamari!
This redefines the `prefix` attribute introduced previously and
introduces a `prologue` attribute. There are a two primary usecases
that these attributes aim to serve,
1. Function prologue sigils
2. Function hot-patching: Enable the user to insert `nop` operations
at the beginning of the function which can later be safely replaced
with a call to some instrumentation facility
3. Runtime metadata: Allow a compiler to insert data for use by the
runtime during execution. GHC is one example of a compiler that
needs this functionality for its tables-next-to-code functionality.
Previously `prefix` served cases (1) and (2) quite well by allowing the user
to introduce arbitrary data at the entrypoint but before the function
body. Case (3), however, was poorly handled by this approach as it
required that prefix data was valid executable code.
Here we redefine the notion of prefix data to instead be data which
occurs immediately before the function entrypoint (i.e. the symbol
address). Since prefix data now occurs before the function entrypoint,
there is no need for the data to be valid code.
The previous notion of prefix data now goes under the name "prologue
data" to emphasize its duality with the function epilogue.
The intention here is to handle cases (1) and (2) with prologue data and
case (3) with prefix data.
References
----------
This idea arose out of discussions[1] with Reid Kleckner in response to a
proposal to introduce the notion of symbol offsets to enable handling of
case (3).
[1] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2014-May/073235.html
Test Plan: testsuite
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6454
llvm-svn: 223189
This format is simply a regular object file with the bitcode stored in a
section named ".llvmbc", plus any number of other (non-allocated) sections.
One immediate use case for this is to accommodate compilation processes
which expect the object file to contain metadata in non-allocated sections,
such as the ".go_export" section used by some Go compilers [1], although I
imagine that in the future we could consider compiling parts of the module
(such as large non-inlinable functions) directly into the object file to
improve LTO efficiency.
[1] http://golang.org/doc/install/gccgo#Imports
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4371
llvm-svn: 218078
This reverts commit r200561.
This calling convention was an attempt to match the MSVC C++ ABI for
methods that return structures by value. This solution didn't scale,
because it would have required splitting every CC available on Windows
into two: one for methods and one for free functions.
Now that we can put sret on the second arg (r208453), and Clang does
that (r208458), revert this hack.
llvm-svn: 208459
These linkages were introduced some time ago, but it was never very
clear what exactly their semantics were or what they should be used
for. Some investigation found these uses:
* utf-16 strings in clang.
* non-unnamed_addr strings produced by the sanitizers.
It turns out they were just working around a more fundamental problem.
For some sections a MachO linker needs a symbol in order to split the
section into atoms, and llvm had no idea that was the case. I fixed
that in r201700 and it is now safe to use the private linkage. When
the object ends up in a section that requires symbols, llvm will use a
'l' prefix instead of a 'L' prefix and things just work.
With that, these linkages were already dead, but there was a potential
future user in the objc metadata information. I am still looking at
CGObjcMac.cpp, but at this point I am convinced that linker_private
and linker_private_weak are not what they need.
The objc uses are currently split in
* Regular symbols (no '\01' prefix). LLVM already directly provides
whatever semantics they need.
* Uses of a private name (start with "\01L" or "\01l") and private
linkage. We can drop the "\01L" and "\01l" prefixes as soon as llvm
agrees with clang on L being ok or not for a given section. I have two
patches in code review for this.
* Uses of private name and weak linkage.
The last case is the one that one could think would fit one of these
linkages. That is not the case. The semantics are
* the linker will merge these symbol by *name*.
* the linker will hide them in the final DSO.
Given that the merging is done by name, any of the private (or
internal) linkages would be a bad match. They allow llvm to rename the
symbols, and that is really not what we want. From the llvm point of
view, these objects should really be (linkonce|weak)(_odr)?.
For now, just keeping the "\01l" prefix is probably the best for these
symbols. If we one day want to have a more direct support in llvm,
IMHO what we should add is not a linkage, it is just a hidden_symbol
attribute. It would be applicable to multiple linkages. For example,
on weak it would produce the current behavior we have for objc
metadata. On internal, it would be equivalent to private (and we
should then remove private).
llvm-svn: 203866
MSVC always places the 'this' parameter for a method first. The
implicit 'sret' pointer for methods always comes second. We already
implement this for __thiscall by putting sret parameters on the stack,
but __cdecl methods require putting both parameters on the stack in
opposite order.
Using a special calling convention allows frontends to keep the sret
parameter first, which avoids breaking lots of assumptions in LLVM and
Clang.
Fixes PR15768 with the corresponding change in Clang.
Reviewers: ributzka, majnemer
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2663
llvm-svn: 200561
This patch adds two new target-independent calling conventions for runtime
calls - PreserveMost and PreserveAll.
The target-specific implementation for X86-64 is defined as following:
- Arguments are passed as for the default C calling convention
- The same applies for the return value(s)
- PreserveMost preserves all GPRs - except R11
- PreserveAll preserves all GPRs and all XMMs/YMMs - except R11
Reviewed by Lang and Philip
llvm-svn: 199508
Representing dllexport/dllimport as distinct linkage types prevents using
these attributes on templates and inline functions.
Instead of introducing further mixed linkage types to include linkonce and
weak ODR, the old import/export linkage types are replaced with a new
separate visibility-like specifier:
define available_externally dllimport void @f() {}
@Var = dllexport global i32 1, align 4
Linkage for dllexported globals and functions is now equal to their linkage
without dllexport. Imported globals and functions must be either
declarations with external linkage, or definitions with
AvailableExternallyLinkage.
llvm-svn: 199218
Representing dllexport/dllimport as distinct linkage types prevents using
these attributes on templates and inline functions.
Instead of introducing further mixed linkage types to include linkonce and
weak ODR, the old import/export linkage types are replaced with a new
separate visibility-like specifier:
define available_externally dllimport void @f() {}
@Var = dllexport global i32 1, align 4
Linkage for dllexported globals and functions is now equal to their linkage
without dllexport. Imported globals and functions must be either
declarations with external linkage, or definitions with
AvailableExternallyLinkage.
llvm-svn: 199204
Use separate callee-save masks for XMM and YMM registers for anyregcc on X86 and
select the proper mask depending on the target cpu we compile for.
llvm-svn: 198985
Before we learned about :doc:, we used :ref: and put a dummy link at the
top of each page. Don't do that anymore.
This fixes PR14891 as a special case.
llvm-svn: 172162
