66//
77// ===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
88//
9- // This file contains platform-independent functions to process relocations.
10- // I'll describe the overview of this file here.
9+ // This file implements the core relocation processing logic. It analyzes
10+ // relocations and determines what auxiliary data structures (GOT, PLT, copy
11+ // relocations) need to be created during linking.
1112//
12- // Simple relocations are easy to handle for the linker. For example,
13- // for R_X86_64_PC64 relocs, the linker just has to fix up locations
14- // with the relative offsets to the target symbols. It would just be
15- // reading records from relocation sections and applying them to output .
13+ // The main entry point is scanRelocations<ELFT>(), which calls scanSection()
14+ // to process all relocations within an input section. For each relocation,
15+ // scan() analyzes the type and target, and determines whether a synthetic
16+ // section entry or dynamic relocation is needed .
1617//
17- // But not all relocations are that easy to handle. For example, for
18- // R_386_GOTOFF relocs, the linker has to create new GOT entries for
19- // symbols if they don't exist, and fix up locations with GOT entry
20- // offsets from the beginning of GOT section. So there is more than
21- // fixing addresses in relocation processing.
18+ // Note: This file analyzes what needs to be done but doesn't apply the
19+ // actual relocations - that happens later in InputSection::writeTo().
20+ // Instead, it populates Relocation objects in InputSectionBase::relocations
21+ // and creates necessary synthetic sections (GOT, PLT, etc.).
2222//
23- // ELF defines a large number of complex relocations.
24- //
25- // The functions in this file analyze relocations and do whatever needs
26- // to be done. It includes, but not limited to, the following.
27- //
28- // - create GOT/PLT entries
29- // - create new relocations in .dynsym to let the dynamic linker resolve
30- // them at runtime (since ELF supports dynamic linking, not all
31- // relocations can be resolved at link-time)
32- // - create COPY relocs and reserve space in .bss
33- // - replace expensive relocs (in terms of runtime cost) with cheap ones
34- // - error out infeasible combinations such as PIC and non-relative relocs
35- //
36- // Note that the functions in this file don't actually apply relocations
37- // because it doesn't know about the output file nor the output file buffer.
38- // It instead stores Relocation objects to InputSection's Relocations
39- // vector to let it apply later in InputSection::writeTo.
23+ // In addition, this file implements the core Thunk creation logic, called
24+ // during finalizeAddressDependentContent().
4025//
4126// ===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
4227
@@ -466,14 +451,14 @@ class RelocationScanner {
466451 int64_t computeMipsAddend (const RelTy &rel, RelExpr expr, bool isLocal) const ;
467452 bool isStaticLinkTimeConstant (RelExpr e, RelType type, const Symbol &sym,
468453 uint64_t relOff) const ;
469- void processAux (RelExpr expr, RelType type, uint64_t offset, Symbol &sym,
470- int64_t addend) const ;
454+ void process (RelExpr expr, RelType type, uint64_t offset, Symbol &sym,
455+ int64_t addend) const ;
471456 unsigned handleTlsRelocation (RelExpr expr, RelType type, uint64_t offset,
472457 Symbol &sym, int64_t addend);
473458
474459 template <class ELFT , class RelTy >
475- void scanOne (typename Relocs<RelTy>::const_iterator &i);
476- template <class ELFT , class RelTy > void scan (Relocs<RelTy> rels);
460+ void scan (typename Relocs<RelTy>::const_iterator &i);
461+ template <class ELFT , class RelTy > void scanSectionImpl (Relocs<RelTy> rels);
477462};
478463} // namespace
479464
@@ -961,7 +946,7 @@ static bool canDefineSymbolInExecutable(Ctx &ctx, Symbol &sym) {
961946}
962947
963948// Returns true if a given relocation can be computed at link-time.
964- // This only handles relocation types expected in processAux .
949+ // This only handles relocation types expected in process() .
965950//
966951// For instance, we know the offset from a relocation to its target at
967952// link-time if the relocation is PC-relative and refers a
@@ -1052,8 +1037,8 @@ bool RelocationScanner::isStaticLinkTimeConstant(RelExpr e, RelType type,
10521037// sections. Given that it is ro, we will need an extra PT_LOAD. This
10531038// complicates things for the dynamic linker and means we would have to reserve
10541039// space for the extra PT_LOAD even if we end up not using it.
1055- void RelocationScanner::processAux (RelExpr expr, RelType type, uint64_t offset,
1056- Symbol &sym, int64_t addend) const {
1040+ void RelocationScanner::process (RelExpr expr, RelType type, uint64_t offset,
1041+ Symbol &sym, int64_t addend) const {
10571042 // If non-ifunc non-preemptible, change PLT to direct call and optimize GOT
10581043 // indirection.
10591044 const bool isIfunc = sym.isGnuIFunc ();
@@ -1493,7 +1478,7 @@ unsigned RelocationScanner::handleTlsRelocation(RelExpr expr, RelType type,
14931478}
14941479
14951480template <class ELFT , class RelTy >
1496- void RelocationScanner::scanOne (typename Relocs<RelTy>::const_iterator &i) {
1481+ void RelocationScanner::scan (typename Relocs<RelTy>::const_iterator &i) {
14971482 const RelTy &rel = *i;
14981483 uint32_t symIndex = rel.getSymbol (ctx.arg .isMips64EL );
14991484 Symbol &sym = sec->getFile <ELFT>()->getSymbol (symIndex);
@@ -1587,7 +1572,7 @@ void RelocationScanner::scanOne(typename Relocs<RelTy>::const_iterator &i) {
15871572 }
15881573
15891574 // Process TLS relocations, including TLS optimizations. Note that
1590- // R_TPREL and R_TPREL_NEG relocations are resolved in processAux .
1575+ // R_TPREL and R_TPREL_NEG relocations are resolved in process() .
15911576 //
15921577 // Some RISCV TLSDESC relocations reference a local NOTYPE symbol,
15931578 // but we need to process them in handleTlsRelocation.
@@ -1599,7 +1584,7 @@ void RelocationScanner::scanOne(typename Relocs<RelTy>::const_iterator &i) {
15991584 }
16001585 }
16011586
1602- processAux (expr, type, offset, sym, addend);
1587+ process (expr, type, offset, sym, addend);
16031588}
16041589
16051590// R_PPC64_TLSGD/R_PPC64_TLSLD is required to mark `bl __tls_get_addr` for
@@ -1642,7 +1627,7 @@ static void checkPPC64TLSRelax(InputSectionBase &sec, Relocs<RelTy> rels) {
16421627}
16431628
16441629template <class ELFT , class RelTy >
1645- void RelocationScanner::scan (Relocs<RelTy> rels) {
1630+ void RelocationScanner::scanSectionImpl (Relocs<RelTy> rels) {
16461631 // Not all relocations end up in Sec->Relocations, but a lot do.
16471632 sec->relocations .reserve (rels.size ());
16481633
@@ -1660,12 +1645,12 @@ void RelocationScanner::scan(Relocs<RelTy> rels) {
16601645
16611646 if constexpr (RelTy::IsCrel) {
16621647 for (auto i = rels.begin (); i != rels.end ();)
1663- scanOne <ELFT, RelTy>(i);
1648+ scan <ELFT, RelTy>(i);
16641649 } else {
16651650 // The non-CREL code path has additional check for PPC64 TLS.
16661651 end = static_cast <const void *>(rels.end ());
16671652 for (auto i = rels.begin (); i != end;)
1668- scanOne <ELFT, RelTy>(i);
1653+ scan <ELFT, RelTy>(i);
16691654 }
16701655
16711656 // Sort relocations by offset for more efficient searching for
@@ -1686,11 +1671,11 @@ void RelocationScanner::scanSection(InputSectionBase &s, bool isEH) {
16861671 getter = OffsetGetter (s);
16871672 const RelsOrRelas<ELFT> rels = s.template relsOrRelas <ELFT>(!isEH);
16881673 if (rels.areRelocsCrel ())
1689- scan <ELFT>(rels.crels );
1674+ scanSectionImpl <ELFT>(rels.crels );
16901675 else if (rels.areRelocsRel ())
1691- scan <ELFT>(rels.rels );
1676+ scanSectionImpl <ELFT>(rels.rels );
16921677 else
1693- scan <ELFT>(rels.relas );
1678+ scanSectionImpl <ELFT>(rels.relas );
16941679}
16951680
16961681template <class ELFT > void elf::scanRelocations (Ctx &ctx) {
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