ld: Add --enable-separate-code

This patch adds --enable-separate-code to ld configure to turn on
-z separate-code by default and enables it by default for Linux/x86.
This avoids mixing code pages with data to improve cache performance
as well as security.

To reduce x86-64 executable and shared object sizes, the maximum page
size is reduced from 2MB to 4KB when -z separate-code is turned on by
default.  Note: -z max-page-size= can be used to set the maximum page
size.

We compared SPEC CPU 2017 performance before and after this change on
Skylake server.  There are no any significant performance changes.
Everything is mostly below +/-1%.

bfd/

	* config.in: Regenerated.
	* configure: Likewise.
	* configure.ac: Add --enable-separate-code.
	(DEFAULT_LD_Z_SEPARATE_CODE): New AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED.  Default
	to 1 for Linux/x86 targets,
	* elf64-x86-64.c (ELF_MAXPAGESIZE): Set to 0x1000 if
	DEFAULT_LD_Z_SEPARATE_CODE is 1.

ld/

	* NEWS: Mention --enable-separate-code.
	* configure.ac: Add --enable-separate-code.
	(DEFAULT_LD_Z_SEPARATE_CODE): New AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED.
	* configure.tgt: Default ac_default_ld_z_separate_code to 1 for
	Linux/x86 targets.
	* config.in: Regenerated.
	* configure: Likewise.
	* emultempl/elf32.em (gld${EMULATION_NAME}_before_parse): Set
	link_info.separate_code DEFAULT_LD_Z_SEPARATE_CODE.

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/bfd/configure b/bfd/configure
index 6c2b24e..d1fe335 100755
--- a/bfd/configure
+++ b/bfd/configure
@@ -793,6 +793,7 @@ enable_targets
 enable_64_bit_archive
 with_mmap
 enable_secureplt
+enable_separate_code
 enable_leading_mingw64_underscores
 with_separate_debug_dir
 with_pkgversion
@@ -1446,6 +1447,7 @@ Optional Features:
   --enable-targets        alternative target configurations
   --enable-64-bit-archive force 64-bit archives
   --enable-secureplt      Default to creating read-only plt entries
+  --enable-separate-code  enable -z separate-code in ELF linker by default
   --enable-leading-mingw64-underscores
                           Enable leading underscores on 64 bit mingw targets
   --enable-werror         treat compile warnings as errors
@@ -11428,7 +11430,7 @@ else
   lt_dlunknown=0; lt_dlno_uscore=1; lt_dlneed_uscore=2
   lt_status=$lt_dlunknown
   cat > conftest.$ac_ext <<_LT_EOF
-#line 11431 "configure"
+#line 11433 "configure"
 #include "confdefs.h"
 
 #if HAVE_DLFCN_H
@@ -11534,7 +11536,7 @@ else
   lt_dlunknown=0; lt_dlno_uscore=1; lt_dlneed_uscore=2
   lt_status=$lt_dlunknown
   cat > conftest.$ac_ext <<_LT_EOF
-#line 11537 "configure"
+#line 11539 "configure"
 #include "confdefs.h"
 
 #if HAVE_DLFCN_H
@@ -12171,6 +12173,33 @@ $as_echo "#define USE_SECUREPLT 1" >>confdefs.h
 
 fi
 
+# Decide if -z separate-code should be enabled in ELF linker by default.
+ac_default_ld_z_separate_code=unset
+# Check whether --enable-separate-code was given.
+if test "${enable_separate_code+set}" = set; then :
+  enableval=$enable_separate_code; case "${enableval}" in
+  yes) ac_default_ld_z_separate_code=1 ;;
+  no) ac_default_ld_z_separate_code=0 ;;
+esac
+fi
+
+# Enable -z separate-code by default for Linux/x86.
+case "${target}" in
+i3-786-*-linux-* | x86_64-*-linux-*)
+  if test ${ac_default_ld_z_separate_code} = unset; then
+    ac_default_ld_z_separate_code=1
+  fi
+  ;;
+esac
+if test "${ac_default_ld_z_separate_code}" = unset; then
+  ac_default_ld_z_separate_code=0
+fi
+
+cat >>confdefs.h <<_ACEOF
+#define DEFAULT_LD_Z_SEPARATE_CODE $ac_default_ld_z_separate_code
+_ACEOF
+
+
 # Check whether --enable-leading-mingw64-underscores was given.
 if test "${enable_leading_mingw64_underscores+set}" = set; then :
   enableval=$enable_leading_mingw64_underscores;