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authorNick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>2020-11-20 13:34:04 +0000
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libctf: symbol type linking support
This adds facilities to write out the function info and data object sections, which efficiently map from entries in the symbol table to types. The write-side code is entirely new: the read-side code was merely significantly changed and support for indexed tables added (pointed to by the no-longer-unused cth_objtidxoff and cth_funcidxoff header fields). With this in place, you can use ctf_lookup_by_symbol to look up the types of symbols of function and object type (and, as before, you can use ctf_lookup_variable to look up types of file-scope variables not present in the symbol table, as long as you know their name: but variables that are also data objects are now found in the data object section instead.) (Compatible) file format change: The CTF spec has always said that the function info section looks much like the CTF_K_FUNCTIONs in the type section: an info word (including an argument count) followed by a return type and N argument types. This format is suboptimal: it means function symbols cannot be deduplicated and it causes a lot of ugly code duplication in libctf. But conveniently the compiler has never emitted this! Because it has always emitted a rather different format that libctf has never accepted, we can be sure that there are no instances of this function info section in the wild, and can freely change its format without compatibility concerns or a file format version bump. (And since it has never been emitted in any code that generated any older file format version, either, we need keep no code to read the format as specified at all!) So the function info section is now specified as an array of uint32_t, exactly like the object data section: each entry is a type ID in the type section which must be of kind CTF_K_FUNCTION, the prototype of this function. This allows function types to be deduplicated and also correctly encodes the fact that all functions declared in C really are types available to the program: so they should be stored in the type section like all other types. (In format v4, we will be able to represent the types of static functions as well, but that really does require a file format change.) We introduce a new header flag, CTF_F_NEWFUNCINFO, which is set if the new function info format is in use. A sufficiently new compiler will always set this flag. New libctf will always set this flag: old libctf will refuse to open any CTF dicts that have this flag set. If the flag is not set on a dict being read in, new libctf will disregard the function info section. Format v4 will remove this flag (or, rather, the flag has no meaning there and the bit position may be recycled for some other purpose). New API: Symbol addition: ctf_add_func_sym: Add a symbol with a given name and type. The type must be of kind CTF_K_FUNCTION (a function pointer). Internally this adds a name -> type mapping to the ctf_funchash in the ctf_dict. ctf_add_objt_sym: Add a symbol with a given name and type. The type kind can be anything, including function pointers. This adds to ctf_objthash. These both treat symbols as name -> type mappings: the linker associates symbol names with symbol indexes via the ctf_link_shuffle_syms callback, which sets up the ctf_dynsyms/ctf_dynsymidx/ctf_dynsymmax fields in the ctf_dict. Repeated relinks can add more symbols. Variables that are also exposed as symbols are removed from the variable section at serialization time. CTF symbol type sections which have enough pads, defined by CTF_INDEX_PAD_THRESHOLD (whether because they are in dicts with symbols where most types are unknown, or in archive where most types are defined in some child or parent dict, not in this specific dict) are sorted by name rather than symidx and accompanied by an index which associates each symbol type entry with a name: the existing ctf_lookup_by_symbol will map symbol indexes to symbol names and look the names up in the index automatically. (This is currently ELF-symbol-table-dependent, but there is almost nothing specific to ELF in here and we can add support for other symbol table formats easily). The compiler also uses index sections to communicate the contents of object file symbol tables without relying on any specific ordering of symbols: it doesn't need to sort them, and libctf will detect an unsorted index section via the absence of the new CTF_F_IDXSORTED header flag, and sort it if needed. Iteration: ctf_symbol_next: Iterator which returns the types and names of symbols one by one, either for function or data symbols. This does not require any sorting: the ctf_link machinery uses it to pull in all the compiler-provided symbols cheaply, but it is not restricted to that use. (Compatible) changes in API: ctf_lookup_by_symbol: can now be called for object and function symbols: never returns ECTF_NOTDATA (which is now not thrown by anything, but is kept for compatibility and because it is a plausible error that we might start throwing again at some later date). Internally we also have changes to the ctf-string functionality so that "external" strings (those where we track a string -> offset mapping, but only write out an offset) can be consulted via the usual means (ctf_strptr) before the strtab is written out. This is important because ctf_link_add_linker_symbol can now be handed symbols named via strtab offsets, and ctf_link_shuffle_syms must figure out their actual names by looking in the external symtab we have just been fed by the ctf_link_add_strtab callback, long before that strtab is written out. include/ChangeLog 2020-11-20 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> * ctf-api.h (ctf_symbol_next): New. (ctf_add_objt_sym): Likewise. (ctf_add_func_sym): Likewise. * ctf.h: Document new function info section format. (CTF_F_NEWFUNCINFO): New. (CTF_F_IDXSORTED): New. (CTF_F_MAX): Adjust accordingly. libctf/ChangeLog 2020-11-20 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> * ctf-impl.h (CTF_INDEX_PAD_THRESHOLD): New. (_libctf_nonnull_): Likewise. (ctf_in_flight_dynsym_t): New. (ctf_dict_t) <ctf_funcidx_names>: Likewise. <ctf_objtidx_names>: Likewise. <ctf_nfuncidx>: Likewise. <ctf_nobjtidx>: Likewise. <ctf_funcidx_sxlate>: Likewise. <ctf_objtidx_sxlate>: Likewise. <ctf_objthash>: Likewise. <ctf_funchash>: Likewise. <ctf_dynsyms>: Likewise. <ctf_dynsymidx>: Likewise. <ctf_dynsymmax>: Likewise. <ctf_in_flight_dynsym>: Likewise. (struct ctf_next) <u.ctn_next>: Likewise. (ctf_symtab_skippable): New prototype. (ctf_add_funcobjt_sym): Likewise. (ctf_dynhash_sort_by_name): Likewise. (ctf_sym_to_elf64): Rename to... (ctf_elf32_to_link_sym): ... this, and... (ctf_elf64_to_link_sym): ... this. * ctf-open.c (init_symtab): Check for lack of CTF_F_NEWFUNCINFO flag, and presence of index sections. Refactor out ctf_symtab_skippable and ctf_elf*_to_link_sym, and use them. Use ctf_link_sym_t, not Elf64_Sym. Skip initializing objt or func sxlate sections if corresponding index section is present. Adjust for new func info section format. (ctf_bufopen_internal): Add ctf_err_warn to corrupt-file error handling. Report incorrect-length index sections. Always do an init_symtab, even if there is no symtab section (there may be index sections still). (flip_objts): Adjust comment: func and objt sections are actually identical in structure now, no need to caveat. (ctf_dict_close): Free newly-added data structures. * ctf-create.c (ctf_create): Initialize them. (ctf_symtab_skippable): New, refactored out of init_symtab, with st_nameidx_set check added. (ctf_add_funcobjt_sym): New, add a function or object symbol to the ctf_objthash or ctf_funchash, by name. (ctf_add_objt_sym): Call it. (ctf_add_func_sym): Likewise. (symtypetab_delete_nonstatic_vars): New, delete vars also present as data objects. (CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_FUNCTION): New flag to symtypetab emitters: this is a function emission, not a data object emission. (CTF_SYMTYPETAB_EMIT_PAD): New flag to symtypetab emitters: emit pads for symbols with no type (only set for unindexed sections). (CTF_SYMTYPETAB_FORCE_INDEXED): New flag to symtypetab emitters: always emit indexed. (symtypetab_density): New, figure out section sizes. (emit_symtypetab): New, emit a symtypetab. (emit_symtypetab_index): New, emit a symtypetab index. (ctf_serialize): Call them, emitting suitably sorted symtypetab sections and indexes. Set suitable header flags. Copy over new fields. * ctf-hash.c (ctf_dynhash_sort_by_name): New, used to impose an order on symtypetab index sections. * ctf-link.c (ctf_add_type_mapping): Delete erroneous comment relating to code that was never committed. (ctf_link_one_variable): Improve variable name. (check_sym): New, symtypetab analogue of check_variable. (ctf_link_deduplicating_one_symtypetab): New. (ctf_link_deduplicating_syms): Likewise. (ctf_link_deduplicating): Call them. (ctf_link_deduplicating_per_cu): Note that we don't call them in this case (yet). (ctf_link_add_strtab): Set the error on the fp correctly. (ctf_link_add_linker_symbol): New (no longer a do-nothing stub), add a linker symbol to the in-flight list. (ctf_link_shuffle_syms): New (no longer a do-nothing stub), turn the in-flight list into a mapping we can use, now its names are resolvable in the external strtab. * ctf-string.c (ctf_str_rollback_atom): Don't roll back atoms with external strtab offsets. (ctf_str_rollback): Adjust comment. (ctf_str_write_strtab): Migrate ctf_syn_ext_strtab population from writeout time... (ctf_str_add_external): ... to string addition time. * ctf-lookup.c (ctf_lookup_var_key_t): Rename to... (ctf_lookup_idx_key_t): ... this, now we use it for syms too. <clik_names>: New member, a name table. (ctf_lookup_var): Adjust accordingly. (ctf_lookup_variable): Likewise. (ctf_lookup_by_id): Shuffle further up in the file. (ctf_symidx_sort_arg_cb): New, callback for... (sort_symidx_by_name): ... this new function to sort a symidx found to be unsorted (likely originating from the compiler). (ctf_symidx_sort): New, sort a symidx. (ctf_lookup_symbol_name): Support dynamic symbols with indexes provided by the linker. Use ctf_link_sym_t, not Elf64_Sym. Check the parent if a child lookup fails. (ctf_lookup_by_symbol): Likewise. Work for function symbols too. (ctf_symbol_next): New, iterate over symbols with types (without sorting). (ctf_lookup_idx_name): New, bsearch for symbol names in indexes. (ctf_try_lookup_indexed): New, attempt an indexed lookup. (ctf_func_info): Reimplement in terms of ctf_lookup_by_symbol. (ctf_func_args): Likewise. (ctf_get_dict): Move... * ctf-types.c (ctf_get_dict): ... here. * ctf-util.c (ctf_sym_to_elf64): Re-express as... (ctf_elf64_to_link_sym): ... this. Add new st_symidx field, and st_nameidx_set (always 0, so st_nameidx can be ignored). Look in the ELF strtab for names. (ctf_elf32_to_link_sym): Likewise, for Elf32_Sym. (ctf_next_destroy): Destroy ctf_next_t.u.ctn_next if need be. * libctf.ver: Add ctf_symbol_next, ctf_add_objt_sym and ctf_add_func_sym.
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2020-11-20 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
+ * ctf-api.h (ctf_symbol_next): New.
+ (ctf_add_objt_sym): Likewise.
+ (ctf_add_func_sym): Likewise.
+ * ctf.h: Document new function info section format.
+ (CTF_F_NEWFUNCINFO): New.
+ (CTF_F_IDXSORTED): New.
+ (CTF_F_MAX): Adjust accordingly.
+
+2020-11-20 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
+
* bfdlink.h (struct elf_sym_strtab): Replace with...
(struct elf_internal_sym): ... this.
(struct bfd_link_callbacks) <examine_strtab>: Take only a