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authorAlan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>2022-01-22 11:48:50 +1030
committerAlan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>2022-04-10 08:33:06 +0930
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powerpc64: Use medium model toc accesses throughout
The PowerPC64 linker edits medium model toc-indirect code to toc-pointer
relative:
	addis r9,r2,tc_entry_for_var@toc@ha
	ld r9,tc_entry_for_var@toc@l(r9)
becomes
	addis r9,r2,(var-.TOC.)@ha
	addi r9,r9,(var-.TOC.)@l
when "var" is known to be local to the binary.  This isn't done for
small-model toc-indirect code, because "var" is almost guaranteed to
be too far away from .TOC. for a 16-bit signed offset.  And, because
the analysis of which .toc entry can be removed becomes much more
complicated in objects that mix code models, they aren't removed if
any small-model toc sequence appears in an object file.

Unfortunately, glibc's build of ld.so smashes the needed objects
together in a ld -r linking stage.  This means the GOT/TOC is left
with a whole lot of relative relocations which is untidy, but in
itself is not a serious problem.  However, static-pie on powerpc64
bombs due to a segfault caused by one of the small-model accesses
before _dl_relocate_static_pie.  (The very first one in rcrt1.o
passing start_addresses in r8 to __libc_start_main.)

So this patch makes all the toc/got accesses in assembly medium code
model, and a couple of functions hidden.  By itself this is not
enough to give us working static-pie, but it is useful in isolation to
enable better linker optimisation.

There's a serious problem in libgcc too.  libgcc ifuncs access the
AT_HWCAP words stored in the tcb with an offset from the thread
pointer (r13), but r13 isn't set at the time _dl_relocate_static_pie.
A followup patch will fix that.

Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
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