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Re: [PATCH] PR ld/18329: Turn off PROTECTED visibility with -Bsymbolic
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 11:18:35 +0930
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] PR ld/18329: Turn off PROTECTED visibility with -Bsymbolic
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On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 05:45:13PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 09:16:09AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 02:46:38PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > > If a global protected symbol is bound locally by -Bsymbolic, there is no
> > > need to keep protected visibility which hich may have overhead at run-time.
> >
> > For this change to be safe you'd need to show that all ELF targets
> > supporting dynamic objects also properly support -Bsymbolic for both
> > functions and variables. ie. that none emit dynamic relocations for
> > the symbol when -Bsymbolic.
> >
>
> Good point. Here is a patch to make it backend dependent. I will
> check it in shortly.
Before you do that, I'd like to know for sure what it is you're trying
to accomplish. I'm guessing the "may have overhead at run-time" is
the loop over dynamic relocs in glibc/elf/dl-lookup.c:do_lookup_x.
Correct?
If that's so, then I think you can do better than just clearing the
visibility when -Bsymbolic. A protected symbol in an executable with
a definition other than in .dynbss, can also avoid the reloc loop.
As in the following testcase.
cat > protected.c <<EOF
int var __attribute__ ((visibility ("protected"))) = 0;
static void __attribute__ ((noinline))
count (void)
{
var += 1;
}
void
library (void)
{
int i;
if (var != 0)
__builtin_abort ();
for (i = 0; i < 100000000; i++)
count ();
}
EOF
cat > protected_add.c <<EOF
int var __attribute__ ((visibility ("protected"))) = 1;
extern void library (void);
int main ()
{
library ();
if (var != 1)
__builtin_abort ();
return 0;
}
EOF
gcc -O2 -fPIC -shared -o protected.so protected.c
gcc -O2 -fPIC -o protected_app protected_app.c -Wl,-rpath=. protected.so
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM