Rtld itself is a shared object which does not have vendor note, so
after the direct exec of ld-elf.so.1 process has p_osrel set to zero.
This affects the ABI of syscalls.
Set osrel to the __FreeBSD_version value at compile time right after
rtld identified direct exec mode. Then, switch to the osrel read from
the binary note or zero if no note, right before starting calling
ifunc resolvers, which is the first byte of the user code.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
realpath(3) is used a lot e.g., by clang and is a major source of getcwd
and fstatat calls. This can be done more efficiently in the kernel.
This works by performing a regular lookup while saving the name and found
parent directory. If the terminal vnode is a directory we can resolve it using
usual means. Otherwise we can use the name saved by lookup and resolve the
parent.
See the review for sample syscall counts.
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23574
This allows for rtld to not issue two sigprocmask(2) syscalls for each
symbol binding operation in single-threaded processes. Rtld needs to
block signals as part of locking to ensure signal safety of the bind
process, because signal handlers might need to lazily resolve symbol
references.
As result, number of syscalls issued on startup by simple programs not
using libthr, is typically reduced 2x. For instance, for hello world,
I see:
non-sigfastblock
# (truss ./hello > /dev/null) |& wc -l
63
sigfastblock
# (truss ./hello > /dev/null) |& wc -l
37
Tested by: pho
Disscussed with: cem, emaste, jilles
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12773
They were introduced to take care of ifunc, but right now no architecture
provides ifunc'ed variants. Since rtld uses memset extensively this results in
a pessmization. Should someone want to use ifunc here they should provide a
mandatory symbol (e.g., rtld_memset).
See the review for profiling data.
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23176
I found this on one of the CheriBSD Jenkins builders. Using
beforelinking instead of ${PROG} should fix the dependency for the
DEBUG_FILES case.
Reviewed by: brooks
Currently RTLD is linked against libc_nossp_pic which means that any libc
symbol used in rtld can pull in a lot of depedencies. This was causing
symbol such as __libc_interposing and all the pthread stubs to be included
in RTLD even though they are not required. It turns out most of these
dependencies can easily be avoided by providing overrides inside of rtld.
This change is motivated by CHERI, where we have an experimental ABI that
requires additional relocation processing to allow the use of function
pointers inside of rtld. Instead of adding this self-relocation code to
RTLD I attempted to remove most function pointers from RTLD and discovered
that most of them came from the libc dependencies instead of being actually
used inside rtld.
A nice side-effect of this change is that rtld is now 22% smaller on amd64.
text data bss dec hex filename
0x21eb6 0xce0 0xe60 145910 239f6 /home/alr48/ld-elf-x86.before.so.1
0x1a6ed 0x728 0xdd8 113645 1bbed /home/alr48/ld-elf-x86.after.so.1
The number of R_X86_64_RELATIVE relocations that need to be processed on
startup has also gone down from 368 to 187 (almost 50% less).
Reviewed By: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20663
