GCC can emit references to type 0 to indicate that this type is one that
is not representable in the version of CTF it emits (for instance,
version 3 cannot encode vector types). Type 0 is already used in the
function section to indicate padding inserted to skip functions we do
not want to encode the type of, so using zero in this way is a good
extension of the format: but libctf reports such types as ECTF_BADID,
which is indistinguishable from file corruption via links to truly
nonexistent types with IDs like 0xDEADBEEF etc, which we really do want
to stop for.
In particular, this stops all traversals of types dead at this point,
preventing us from even dumping CTF files containing unrepresentable
types to see what's going on!
So add a new error, ECTF_NONREPRESENTABLE, which is returned by
recursive type resolution when a reference to a zero type is found. (No
zero type is ever emitted into the CTF file by GCC, only references to
one). We can't do much with types that are ultimately nonrepresentable,
but we can do enough to keep functioning.
Adjust ctf_add_type to ensure that top-level types of type zero and
structure and union members of ultimate type zero are simply skipped
without reporting an error, so we can copy structures and unions that
contain nonrepresentable members (skipping them and leaving a hole where
they would be, so no consumers downstream of the linker need to worry
about this): adjust the dumper so that we dump members of
nonrepresentable types in a simple form that indicates
nonrepresentability rather than terminating the dump, and do not falsely
assume all errors to be -ENOMEM: adjust the linker so that types that
fail to get added are simply skipped, so that both nonrepresentable
types and outright errors do not terminate the type addition, which
could skip many valid types and cause further errors when variables of
those types are added.
In future, when we gain the ability to call back to the linker to report
link-time type resolution errors, we should report failures to add all
but nonrepresentable types. But we can't do that yet.
v5: Fix tabdamage.
include/
* ctf-api.h (ECTF_NONREPRESENTABLE): New.
libctf/
* ctf-types.c (ctf_type_resolve): Return ECTF_NONREPRESENTABLE on
type zero.
* ctf-create.c (ctf_add_type): Detect and skip nonrepresentable
members and types.
(ctf_add_variable): Likewise for variables pointing to them.
* ctf-link.c (ctf_link_one_type): Do not warn for nonrepresentable
type link failure, but do warn for others.
* ctf-dump.c (ctf_dump_format_type): Likewise. Do not assume all
errors to be ENOMEM.
(ctf_dump_member): Likewise.
(ctf_dump_type): Likewise.
(ctf_dump_header_strfield): Do not assume all errors to be ENOMEM.
(ctf_dump_header_sectfield): Do not assume all errors to be ENOMEM.
(ctf_dump_header): Likewise.
(ctf_dump_label): likewise.
(ctf_dump_objts): likewise.
(ctf_dump_funcs): likewise.
(ctf_dump_var): likewise.
(ctf_dump_str): Likewise.
The compiler describes the name and type of all file-scope variables in
this section. Merging it at link time requires using the type mapping
added in the previous commit to determine the appropriate type for the
variable in the output, given its type in the input: we check the shared
container first, and if the type doesn't exist there, it must be a
conflicted type in the per-CU child, and the variable should go there
too. We also put the variable in the per-CU child if a variable with
the same name but a different type already exists in the parent: we
ignore any such conflict in the child because CTF cannot represent such
things, nor can they happen unless a third-party linking program has
overridden the mapping of CU to CTF archive member name (using machinery
added in a later commit).
v3: rewritten using an algorithm that actually works in the case of
conflicting names. Some code motion from the next commit. Set
the per-CU parent name.
v4: check for strdup failure.
v5: fix tabdamage.
include/
* ctf-api.h (ECTF_INTERNAL): New.
libctf/
* ctf-link.c (ctf_create_per_cu): New, refactored out of...
(ctf_link_one_type): ... here, with parent-name setting added.
(check_variable): New.
(ctf_link_one_variable): Likewise.
(ctf_link_one_input_archive_member): Call it.
* ctf-error.c (_ctf_errlist): Updated with new errors.
This is the start of work on the core of the linking mechanism for CTF
sections. This commit handles the type and string sections.
The linker calls these functions in sequence:
ctf_link_add_ctf: to add each CTF section in the input in turn to a
newly-created ctf_file_t (which will appear in the output, and which
itself will become the shared parent that contains types that all
TUs have in common (in all link modes) and all types that do not
have conflicting definitions between types (by default). Input files
that are themselves products of ld -r are supported, though this is
not heavily tested yet.
ctf_link: called once all input files are added to merge the types in
all the input containers into the output container, eliminating
duplicates.
ctf_link_add_strtab: called once the ELF string table is finalized and
all its offsets are known, this calls a callback provided by the
linker which returns the string content and offset of every string in
the ELF strtab in turn: all these strings which appear in the input
CTF strtab are eliminated from it in favour of the ELF strtab:
equally, any strings that only appear in the input strtab will
reappear in the internal CTF strtab of the output.
ctf_link_shuffle_syms (not yet implemented): called once the ELF symtab
is finalized, this calls a callback provided by the linker which
returns information on every symbol in turn as a ctf_link_sym_t. This
is then used to shuffle the function info and data object sections in
the CTF section into symbol table order, eliminating the index
sections which map those sections to symbol names before that point.
Currently just returns ECTF_NOTYET.
ctf_link_write: Returns a buffer containing either a serialized
ctf_file_t (if there are no types with conflicting definitions in the
object files in the link) or a ctf_archive_t containing a large
ctf_file_t (the common types) and a bunch of small ones named after
individual CUs in which conflicting types are found (containing the
conflicting types, and all types that reference them). A threshold
size above which compression takes place is passed as one parameter.
(Currently, only gzip compression is supported, but I hope to add lzma
as well.)
Lifetime rules for this are simple: don't close the input CTF files
until you've called ctf_link for the last time. We do not assume
that symbols or strings passed in by the callback outlast the
call to ctf_link_add_strtab or ctf_link_shuffle_syms.
Right now, the duplicate elimination mechanism is the one already
present as part of the ctf_add_type function, and is not particularly
good: it misses numerous actual duplicates, and the conflicting-types
detection hardly ever reports that types conflict, even when they do
(one of them just tends to get silently dropped): it is also very slow.
This will all be fixed in the next few weeks, but the fix hardly touches
any of this code, and the linker does work without it, just not as
well as it otherwise might. (And when no CTF section is present,
there is no effect on performance, of course. So only people using
a trunk GCC with not-yet-committed patches will even notice. By the
time it gets upstream, things should be better.)
v3: Fix error handling.
v4: check for strdup failure.
v5: fix tabdamage.
include/
* ctf-api.h (struct ctf_link_sym): New, a symbol in flight to the
libctf linking machinery.
(CTF_LINK_SHARE_UNCONFLICTED): New.
(CTF_LINK_SHARE_DUPLICATED): New.
(ECTF_LINKADDEDLATE): New, replacing ECTF_UNUSED.
(ECTF_NOTYET): New, a 'not yet implemented' message.
(ctf_link_add_ctf): New, add an input file's CTF to the link.
(ctf_link): New, merge the type and string sections.
(ctf_link_strtab_string_f): New, callback for feeding strtab info.
(ctf_link_iter_symbol_f): New, callback for feeding symtab info.
(ctf_link_add_strtab): New, tell the CTF linker about the ELF
strtab's strings.
(ctf_link_shuffle_syms): New, ask the CTF linker to shuffle its
symbols into symtab order.
(ctf_link_write): New, ask the CTF linker to write the CTF out.
libctf/
* ctf-link.c: New file, linking of the string and type sections.
* Makefile.am (libctf_a_SOURCES): Add it.
* Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* ctf-impl.h (ctf_file_t): New fields ctf_link_inputs,
ctf_link_outputs.
* ctf-create.c (ctf_update): Update accordingly.
* ctf-open.c (ctf_file_close): Likewise.
* ctf-error.c (_ctf_errlist): Updated with new errors.
The first two of these allow you to get function type info and args out
of the types section give a type ID: astonishingly, this was missing
from libctf before now: so even though types of kind CTF_K_FUNCTION were
supported, you couldn't find out anything about them. (The existing
ctf_func_info and ctf_func_args only allow you to get info about
functions in the function section, i.e. given symbol table indexes, not
type IDs.)
The second of these allows you to get the raw undecorated name out of
the CTF section (strdupped for safety) without traversing subtypes to
build a full C identifier out of it. It's useful for things that are
already tracking the type kind etc and just need an unadorned name.
include/
* ctf-api.h (ECTF_NOTFUNC): Fix description.
(ctf_func_type_info): New.
(ctf_func_type_args): Likewise.
libctf/
* ctf-types.c (ctf_type_aname_raw): New.
(ctf_func_type_info): Likewise.
(ctf_func_type_args): Likewise.
* ctf-error.c (_ctf_errlist): Fix description.
CTF functions return zero on success or an extended errno value which
can be translated into a string via the functions in this commit.
The errno numbers start at -CTF_BASE.
libctf/
* ctf-error.c: New file.
include/
* ctf-api.h (ctf_errno): New declaration.
(ctf_errmsg): Likewise.
Alan Modra
Nick Alcock