API could still be made more Go-ey.
Updates #15165.
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Two of these error messages are already dead code: cmd/compile.main
and cmd/link.main already switch on $GOARCH, ensuring it must be a
prefix of the sys.Arch.Family.
The error message about uncompiled Go source files can be just be
simplified: anyone who's manually constructing Go object file archives
probably knows what tool to use to compile Go source files.
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Information about CPU architectures (e.g., name, family, byte
ordering, pointer and register size) is currently redundantly
scattered around the source tree. Instead consolidate the basic
information into a single new package cmd/internal/sys.
Also, introduce new sys.I386, sys.AMD64, etc. names for the constants
'8', '6', etc. and replace most uses of the latter. The notable
exceptions are a couple of error messages that still refer to the old
char-based toolchain names and function reltype in cmd/link.
Passes toolstash/buildall.
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This updates dwarf.go to generate debug information as symbols
instead of directly writing to the output file. This should make
it easier to move generation of some of the debug info into the compiler.
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We already have variables to track whether the target platform is
64-bit vs 32-bit or RELA vs REL, so no point in repeating the list of
obscure architecture characters everywhere.
Passes toolstash/buildall.
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Counting the final buffer size usually doesn't result in the buffer growing,
so assume that it doesn't need to grow and only grow if necessary.
name old secs new secs delta
LinkCmdGo 0.49 ± 4% 0.48 ± 3% -1.31% (p=0.000 n=95+95)
name old MaxRSS new MaxRSS delta
LinkCmdGo 122k ± 4% 121k ± 5% ~ (p=0.065 n=96+100)
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To refer to types and names by offsets, we want to keep the symbols in
the same sections. Do this by making all types .relro for now.
Once name offsets are further along, name data can move out of relro.
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Add supporting code for runtime initialization, including both
32- and 64-bit x86 architectures.
Add .ctors section on Windows to PE .o files, and INITENTRY to .ctors
section to plug in to the GCC C/C++ startup initialization mechanism.
This allows the Go runtime to initialize itself. Add .text section
symbol for .ctor relocations. Note: This is unlikely to be useful for
MSVC-based toolchains.
Fixes#13494
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Rather than having half a dozen switch statements. Also remove some c2go dregs.
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Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
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Introduces the new relocation variant RV_390_DBL which indicates
that the relocation value should be shifted right by 1 (to make
it 2-byte aligned).
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In a number of places the code was joining filepaths explicitly with
"/", instead of using filepath.Join. This may cause problems on Windows
(or other) platforms.
This is in support of https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/18057
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We create appropriate ELF files automatically based on GOOS. There's
no point in supporting -H elf flag, particularly since we need to emit
different flavors of ELF depending on GOOS anyway.
If that weren't reason enough, -H elf appears to be broken since at
least Go 1.4. At least I wasn't able to find a way to make use of it.
As best I can tell digging through commit history, -H elf is just an
artifact leftover from Plan 9's 6l linker.
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Record total number of relocations, pcdata, automatics, funcdata and files in
object file and use these numbers in the linker to allocate contiguous
slices to later be filled by the defined symbols.
name old secs new secs delta
LinkCmdGo 0.52 ± 3% 0.49 ± 3% -4.21% (p=0.000 n=91+92)
LinkJuju 4.48 ± 4% 4.21 ± 7% -6.08% (p=0.000 n=96+100)
name old MaxRSS new MaxRSS delta
LinkCmdGo 122k ± 2% 120k ± 4% -1.66% (p=0.000 n=98+93)
LinkJuju 799k ± 5% 865k ± 8% +8.29% (p=0.000 n=89+99)
GOGC=off
name old secs new secs delta
LinkCmdGo 0.42 ± 2% 0.41 ± 0% -2.98% (p=0.000 n=89+70)
LinkJuju 3.61 ± 0% 3.52 ± 1% -2.46% (p=0.000 n=80+89)
name old MaxRSS new MaxRSS delta
LinkCmdGo 130k ± 1% 128k ± 1% -1.33% (p=0.000 n=100+100)
LinkJuju 1.00M ± 0% 0.99M ± 0% -1.70% (p=0.000 n=100+100)
Change-Id: Ie08f6ccd4311bb78d8950548c678230a58635c73
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This is a change improving consistency in the source tree.
The pattern foo &= ^bar, was only used six times in src/ directory.
The usage of the supported &^ (bit clear / AND NOT) operator is way more
common, about factor 10x.
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See #14874
This change tells the linker to collect all the itablink symbols and
collect them so that moduledata can have a slice of all compiler
generated itabs.
The logic is shamelessly adapted from what is done with typelink symbols.
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Calling the read only Linkrlookup will now not cause the name
string to escape. So a lookup can be performed on a []byte
casted to a string without allocating. This will help a followup
cl and it is also much simpler and cleaner.
Performance not impacted by this.
name old s/op new s/op delta
LinkCmdGo 0.51 ± 6% 0.51 ± 5% ~ (p=0.192 n=98+98)
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Create a byte encoding designed for static Go names.
It is intended to be a compact representation of a name
and optional tag data that can be turned into a Go string
without allocating, and describes whether or not it is
exported without unicode table.
The encoding is described in reflect/type.go:
// The first byte is a bit field containing:
//
// 1<<0 the name is exported
// 1<<1 tag data follows the name
// 1<<2 pkgPath *string follow the name and tag
//
// The next two bytes are the data length:
//
// l := uint16(data[1])<<8 | uint16(data[2])
//
// Bytes [3:3+l] are the string data.
//
// If tag data follows then bytes 3+l and 3+l+1 are the tag length,
// with the data following.
//
// If the import path follows, then ptrSize bytes at the end of
// the data form a *string. The import path is only set for concrete
// methods that are defined in a different package than their type.
Shrinks binary sizes:
cmd/go: 164KB (1.6%)
jujud: 1.0MB (1.5%)
For #6853.
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Remove reflect type information for unexported methods that do not
satisfy any interface in the program.
Ideally the unexported method would not appear in the method list at
all, but that is tricky because the slice is built by the compiler.
Reduces binary size:
cmd/go: 81KB (0.8%)
jujud: 258KB (0.4%)
For #6853.
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It was just a funny way of saying len(Ctxt.Allsym) by now.
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Nothing cares about it.
I did this after looking at the memprof output, but it helps performance a bit:
name old s/op new s/op delta
LinkCmdGo 0.44 ± 3% 0.43 ± 3% -2.20% (p=0.000 n=94+90)
LinkJuju 3.98 ± 5% 3.94 ± 5% -1.19% (p=0.000 n=100+91)
As well as MaxRSS (i.e. what /usr/bin/time -f '%M' prints):
name old MaxRSS new MaxRSS delta
LinkCmdGo 130k ± 0% 120k ± 3% -7.79% (p=0.000 n=79+90)
LinkJuju 862k ± 6% 827k ± 8% -4.01% (p=0.000 n=100+99)
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Debugasm can never be set in cmd/link, so delete it and the code it enables.
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This expression in readsym:
dup != nil && len(dup.P) > 0 && strings.HasPrefix(s.Name, "gclocals·")
can never be true: if dup != nil, then s.Name is ".dup" (and this is not new:
the same broken logic is present in 1.4, at least). Delete the whole block.
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Another object file change, gives a reasonable improvement:
name old s/op new s/op delta
LinkCmdGo 0.46 ± 3% 0.44 ± 9% -3.34% (p=0.000 n=98+82)
LinkJuju 4.09 ± 4% 3.92 ± 5% -4.30% (p=0.000 n=98+99)
I guess the data section could be mmap-ed instead of read, I haven't tried
that.
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Reduces size of archives in pkg/linux_amd64 by 3% from 41.5MB to 40.2MB
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When building shared libraries, all symbols on Allsym are marked reachable.
What I didn't realize was that this includes the ".dup" symbols created when
"dupok" symbols are read from multiple package files. This breaks now because
deadcode makes some assumptions that fail for these ".dup" symbols, but in any
case was a bad idea -- I suspect this change makes libstd.so a bunch smaller,
but creating it was broken before this CL so I can't be sure.
This change simply stops adding these symbols to Allsym, which might make some
of the many iterations over Allsym the linker does a touch quicker, although
that's not the motivation here.
Add a test that no symbols called ".dup" makes it into the runtime shared
library.
Fixes#14841
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The type information for a method includes two variants: a func
without the receiver, and a func with the receiver as the first
parameter. The former is used as part of the dynamic interface
checks, but the latter is only returned as a type in the
reflect.Method struct.
Instead of computing it at compile time, construct it at run time
with reflect.FuncOf.
Using cl/20701 as a baseline,
cmd/go: -480KB, (4.4%)
jujud: -5.6MB, (7.8%)
For #6853.
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Remove method type information for pruned methods from any program
that does not reflect on methods. This can be a significant saving:
addr2line: -310KB (8.8%)
A future update might want to consider a more aggressive variant of
this: setting the Type and Func fields of reflect.Method to nil for
unexported methods. That would shrink cmd/go by 2% and jujud by 2.6%
but could be considered an API change. So this CL sticks to the
uncontroversial change.
For #6853.
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Symbols in the object file currently refer to each other using symbol name
and version. Referring to the same symbol many times in an object file takes
up space and causes redundant map lookups. Instead write out a list of unique
symbol references and have symbols refer to each other using indexes into this
list.
Credit to Michael Hudson-Doyle for kicking this off.
Reduces pkg/linux_amd64 size by 30% from 61MB to 43MB
name old s/op new s/op delta
LinkCmdGo 0.74 ± 3% 0.63 ± 4% -15.22% (p=0.000 n=20+20)
LinkJuju 6.38 ± 6% 5.73 ± 6% -10.16% (p=0.000 n=20+19)
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Every go executable has COFF symbol table appended at the end. The table is
used by nm and addr2line and contains all symbols present in the executable.
The table is quite large. For example, my go.exe has 11736 records.
To generate symbol table:
1) we walk "all symbols" list to count symbols we want for the table;
2) we allocate large global array of COFFSym structs (32 bytes each)
to fit our symbols;
3) we walk "all symbols" list again to fill our array with contents;
4) we iterate over our global array to write all records to the file.
This CL changes all these steps with single step:
- walk "all symbols" list and write each COFF symbol table record to
the file as we go.
I hope new version is faster and uses less garbage, but I don't know
how to benchmark this.
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In addition to reflect.Value.Call, exported methods can be invoked
by the Func value in the reflect.Method struct. This CL has the
compiler track what functions get access to a legitimate reflect.Method
struct by looking for interface calls to either of:
Method(int) reflect.Method
MethodByName(string) (reflect.Method, bool)
This is a little overly conservative. If a user implements a type
with one of these methods without using the underlying calls on
reflect.Type, the linker will assume the worst and include all
exported methods. But it's cheap.
No change to any of the binary sizes reported in cl/20483.
For #14740
Change-Id: Ie17786395d0453ce0384d8b240ecb043b7726137
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Today the linker keeps all methods of reachable types. This is
necessary if a program uses reflect.Value.Call. But while use of
reflection is widespread in Go for encoders and decoders, using
it to call a method is rare.
This CL looks for the use of reflect.Value.Call in a program, and
if it is absent, adopts a (reasonably conservative) method pruning
strategy as part of dead code elimination. Any method that is
directly called is kept, and any method that matches a used
interface's method signature is kept.
Whether or not a method body is kept is determined by the relocation
from its receiver's *rtype to its *rtype. A small change in the
compiler marks these relocations as R_METHOD so they can be easily
collected and manipulated by the linker.
As a bonus, this technique removes the text segment of methods that
have been inlined. Looking at the output of building cmd/objdump with
-ldflags=-v=2 shows that inlined methods like
runtime.(*traceAllocBlockPtr).ptr are removed from the program.
Relatively little work is necessary to do this. Linking two
examples, jujud and cmd/objdump show no more than +2% link time.
Binaries that do not use reflect.Call.Value drop 4 - 20% in size:
addr2line: -793KB (18%)
asm: -346KB (8%)
cgo: -490KB (10%)
compile: -564KB (4%)
dist: -736KB (17%)
fix: -404KB (12%)
link: -328KB (7%)
nm: -827KB (19%)
objdump: -712KB (16%)
pack: -327KB (14%)
yacc: -350KB (10%)
Binaries that do use reflect.Call.Value see a modest size decrease
of 2 - 6% thanks to pruning of unexported methods:
api: -151KB (3%)
cover: -222KB (4%)
doc: -106KB (2.5%)
pprof: -314KB (3%)
trace: -357KB (4%)
vet: -187KB (2.7%)
jujud: -4.4MB (5.8%)
cmd/go: -384KB (3.4%)
The trivial Hello example program goes from 2MB to 1.68MB:
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello, 世界")
}
Method pruning also helps when building small binaries with
"-ldflags=-s -w". The above program goes from 1.43MB to 1.2MB.
Unfortunately the linker can only tell if reflect.Value.Call has been
statically linked, not if it is dynamically used. And while use is
rare, it is linked into a very common standard library package,
text/template. The result is programs like cmd/go, which don't use
reflect.Value.Call, see limited benefit from this CL. If binary size
is important enough it may be possible to address this in future work.
For #6853.
Change-Id: Iabe90e210e813b08c3f8fd605f841f0458973396
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Alternative to golang.org/cl/19852. This memory layout doesn't have
an easy type representation, but it is noticeably smaller than the
current funcType, and saves significant extra space.
Some notes on the layout are in reflect/type.go:
// A *rtype for each in and out parameter is stored in an array that
// directly follows the funcType (and possibly its uncommonType). So
// a function type with one method, one input, and one output is:
//
// struct {
// funcType
// uncommonType
// [2]*rtype // [0] is in, [1] is out
// uncommonTypeSliceContents
// }
There are three arbitrary limits introduced by this CL:
1. No more than 65535 function input parameters.
2. No more than 32767 function output parameters.
3. reflect.FuncOf is limited to 128 parameters.
I don't think these are limits in practice, but are worth noting.
Reduces godoc binary size by 2.4%, 330KB.
For #6853.
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Instead of a pointer on every rtype, use a bit flag to indicate that
the contents of uncommonType directly follows the rtype value when it
is needed.
This requires a bit of juggling in the compiler's rtype encoder. The
backing arrays for fields in the rtype are presently encoded directly
after the slice header. This packing requires separating the encoding
of the uncommonType slice headers from their backing arrays.
Reduces binary size of godoc by ~180KB (1.5%).
No measurable change in all.bash time.
For #6853.
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Deleting the string merging pass makes the linker 30-35% faster
but makes jujud (using the github.com/davecheney/benchjuju snapshot) 2.5% larger.
Two optimizations bring the space overhead down to 0.6%.
First, change the default alignment for string data to 1 byte.
(It was previously defaulting to larger amounts, usually pointer width.)
Second, write out the type string for T (usually a bigger expression) as "*T"[1:],
so that the type strings for T and *T share storage.
Combined, these obtain the bulk of the benefit of string merging
at essentially no cost. The remaining benefit from string merging
is not worth the excessive cost, so delete it.
As penance for making the jujud binary 0.6% larger,
the next CL in this sequence trims the reflect functype
information enough to make the jujud binary overall 0.75% smaller
(that is, that CL has a net -1.35% effect).
For #6853.
Fixes#14648.
Change-Id: I3fdd74c85410930c36bb66160ca4174ed540fc6e
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/20334
Reviewed-by: David Crawshaw <crawshaw@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
