[ARM] Command-line options for embedded position-independent code

This patch (with the corresponding ARM backend patch) adds support for
some new relocation models:

* Read-only position independence (ROPI): Code and read-only data is accessed
  PC-relative. The offsets between all code and RO data sections are known at
  static link time.
* Read-write position independence (RWPI): Read-write data is accessed relative
  to a static base register. The offsets between all writeable data sections
  are known at static link time.

These two modes are independent (they specify how different objects
should be addressed), so they can be used individually or together.

These modes are intended for bare-metal systems or systems with small
real-time operating systems. They are designed to avoid the need for a
dynamic linker, the only initialisation required is setting the static
base register to an appropriate value for RWPI code.

There is one C construct not currently supported by these modes: global
variables initialised to the address of another global variable or
function, where that address is not known at static-link time. There are
a few possible ways to solve this:

* Disallow this, and require the user to write their own initialisation
  function if they need variables like this.
* Emit dynamic initialisers for these variables in the compiler, called from
  the .init_array section (as is currently done for C++ dynamic initialisers).
  We have a patch to do this, described in my original RFC email
  (http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2015-December/093022.html), but the
  feedback from that RFC thread was that this is not something that belongs in
  clang.
* Use a small dynamic loader to fix up these variables, by adding the
  difference between the load and execution address of the relevant section.
  This would require linker co-operation to generate a table of addresses that
  need fixing up.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23196

llvm-svn: 278016

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/clang/lib/CodeGen/BackendUtil.cpp b/clang/lib/CodeGen/BackendUtil.cpp
index ca7aec0ba81..7133bda99a1 100644
--- a/clang/lib/CodeGen/BackendUtil.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/CodeGen/BackendUtil.cpp
@@ -525,6 +525,12 @@ void EmitAssemblyHelper::CreateTargetMachine(bool MustCreateTM) {
     RM = llvm::Reloc::Static;
   } else if (CodeGenOpts.RelocationModel == "pic") {
     RM = llvm::Reloc::PIC_;
+  } else if (CodeGenOpts.RelocationModel == "ropi") {
+    RM = llvm::Reloc::ROPI;
+  } else if (CodeGenOpts.RelocationModel == "rwpi") {
+    RM = llvm::Reloc::RWPI;
+  } else if (CodeGenOpts.RelocationModel == "ropi-rwpi") {
+    RM = llvm::Reloc::ROPI_RWPI;
   } else {
     assert(CodeGenOpts.RelocationModel == "dynamic-no-pic" &&
            "Invalid PIC model!");