Stop increasing alignment of externally-visible globals on ELF

platforms.

With ELF, the alignment of a global variable in a shared library will
get copied into an executables linked against it, if the executable even
accesss the variable. So, it's not possible to implicitly increase
alignment based on access patterns, or you'll break existing binaries.

This happened to affect libc++'s std::cout symbol, for example. See
thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel/45311

llvm-svn: 257719

3 files changed, 52 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenPrepare.cpp b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenPrepare.cpp
index 03e57787307..fd4ee464337 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenPrepare.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenPrepare.cpp
@@ -1742,8 +1742,8 @@ bool CodeGenPrepare::optimizeCallInst(CallInst *CI, bool& ModifiedDT) {
       // over-aligning global variables that have an explicit section is
       // forbidden.
       GlobalVariable *GV;
-      if ((GV = dyn_cast<GlobalVariable>(Val)) && GV->hasUniqueInitializer() &&
-          !GV->hasSection() && GV->getAlignment() < PrefAlign &&
+      if ((GV = dyn_cast<GlobalVariable>(Val)) && GV->canIncreaseAlignment() &&
+          GV->getAlignment() < PrefAlign &&
           DL->getTypeAllocSize(GV->getType()->getElementType()) >=
               MinSize + Offset2)
         GV->setAlignment(PrefAlign);
diff --git a/llvm/lib/IR/Globals.cpp b/llvm/lib/IR/Globals.cpp
index 6159f93faf8..a61b62bd968 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/IR/Globals.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/IR/Globals.cpp
@@ -12,11 +12,12 @@
 //
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 
-#include "llvm/IR/GlobalValue.h"
 #include "llvm/ADT/SmallPtrSet.h"
+#include "llvm/ADT/Triple.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/Constants.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/DerivedTypes.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/GlobalAlias.h"
+#include "llvm/IR/GlobalValue.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/GlobalVariable.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/Module.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/Operator.h"
@@ -134,6 +135,47 @@ bool GlobalValue::isDeclaration() const {
   return false;
 }
 
+bool GlobalValue::canIncreaseAlignment() const {
+  // Firstly, can only increase the alignment of a global if it
+  // is a strong definition.
+  if (!isStrongDefinitionForLinker())
+    return false;
+
+  // It also has to either not have a section defined, or, not have
+  // alignment specified. (If it is assigned a section, the global
+  // could be densely packed with other objects in the section, and
+  // increasing the alignment could cause padding issues.)
+  if (hasSection() && getAlignment() > 0)
+    return false;
+
+  // On ELF platforms, we're further restricted in that we can't
+  // increase the alignment of any variable which might be emitted
+  // into a shared library, and which is exported. If the main
+  // executable accesses a variable found in a shared-lib, the main
+  // exe actually allocates memory for and exports the symbol ITSELF,
+  // overriding the symbol found in the library. That is, at link
+  // time, the observed alignment of the variable is copied into the
+  // executable binary. (A COPY relocation is also generated, to copy
+  // the initial data from the shadowed variable in the shared-lib
+  // into the location in the main binary, before running code.)
+  //
+  // And thus, even though you might think you are defining the
+  // global, and allocating the memory for the global in your object
+  // file, and thus should be able to set the alignment arbitrarily,
+  // that's not actually true. Doing so can cause an ABI breakage; an
+  // executable might have already been built with the previous
+  // alignment of the variable, and then assuming an increased
+  // alignment will be incorrect.
+
+  // Conservatively assume ELF if there's no parent pointer.
+  bool isELF =
+      (!Parent || Triple(Parent->getTargetTriple()).isOSBinFormatELF());
+  if (isELF && hasDefaultVisibility() && !hasLocalLinkage())
+    return false;
+
+  return true;
+}
+
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 // GlobalVariable Implementation
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
diff --git a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/Local.cpp b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/Local.cpp
index d2793e5ecb5..91b3499407c 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/Local.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Utils/Local.cpp
@@ -944,37 +944,31 @@ bool llvm::EliminateDuplicatePHINodes(BasicBlock *BB) {
 static unsigned enforceKnownAlignment(Value *V, unsigned Align,
                                       unsigned PrefAlign,
                                       const DataLayout &DL) {
+  assert(PrefAlign > Align);
+
   V = V->stripPointerCasts();
 
   if (AllocaInst *AI = dyn_cast<AllocaInst>(V)) {
+    assert(AI->getAlignment() <= Align);
     // If the preferred alignment is greater than the natural stack alignment
     // then don't round up. This avoids dynamic stack realignment.
     if (DL.exceedsNaturalStackAlignment(PrefAlign))
       return Align;
-    // If there is a requested alignment and if this is an alloca, round up.
-    if (AI->getAlignment() >= PrefAlign)
-      return AI->getAlignment();
     AI->setAlignment(PrefAlign);
     return PrefAlign;
   }
 
   if (auto *GO = dyn_cast<GlobalObject>(V)) {
+    assert(GO->getAlignment() <= Align);
     // If there is a large requested alignment and we can, bump up the alignment
     // of the global.  If the memory we set aside for the global may not be the
     // memory used by the final program then it is impossible for us to reliably
     // enforce the preferred alignment.
-    if (!GO->isStrongDefinitionForLinker())
+    if (!GO->canIncreaseAlignment())
       return Align;
 
-    if (GO->getAlignment() >= PrefAlign)
-      return GO->getAlignment();
-    // We can only increase the alignment of the global if it has no alignment
-    // specified or if it is not assigned a section.  If it is assigned a
-    // section, the global could be densely packed with other objects in the
-    // section, increasing the alignment could cause padding issues.
-    if (!GO->hasSection() || GO->getAlignment() == 0)
-      GO->setAlignment(PrefAlign);
-    return GO->getAlignment();
+    GO->setAlignment(PrefAlign);
+    return PrefAlign;
   }
 
   return Align;