[ARM] Add support for embedded position-independent code
authorOliver Stannard <oliver.stannard@arm.com>
Mon, 8 Aug 2016 15:28:31 +0000 (15:28 +0000)
committerOliver Stannard <oliver.stannard@arm.com>
Mon, 8 Aug 2016 15:28:31 +0000 (15:28 +0000)
commit8331aaee8fb9172ddf0cb45c4b04cb76fe224da4
treec5549f749c7cf270e5e3b0c5cfc25490a0fad3d3
parent219feac45643d92784186bcee627d940775b596b
[ARM] Add support for embedded position-independent code

This patch adds support for some new relocation models to the ARM
backend:

* 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. This does not affect read-write data.
* Read-write position independence (RWPI): Read-write data is accessed relative
  to the static base register (r9). The offsets between all writeable data
  sections are known at static link time. This does not affect read-only data.

These two modes are independent (they specify how different objects
should be addressed), so they can be used individually or together. They
are otherwise the same as the "static" relocation model, and are not
compatible with SysV-style PIC using a global offset table.

These modes are normally used by 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 r9 to
an appropriate value for RWPI code.

I have only added support to SelectionDAG, not FastISel, because
FastISel is currently disabled for bare-metal targets where these modes
would be used.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23195

llvm-svn: 278015
16 files changed:
llvm/include/llvm/CodeGen/CommandFlags.h
llvm/include/llvm/Support/CodeGen.h
llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMAsmPrinter.cpp
llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMBaseInstrInfo.cpp
llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMConstantPoolValue.cpp
llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMConstantPoolValue.h
llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMFastISel.cpp
llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMISelLowering.cpp
llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMSubtarget.cpp
llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMSubtarget.h
llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMTargetMachine.cpp
llvm/lib/Target/ARM/MCTargetDesc/ARMELFObjectWriter.cpp
llvm/lib/Target/TargetLoweringObjectFile.cpp
llvm/test/CodeGen/ARM/arm-position-independence-jump-table.ll [new file with mode: 0644]
llvm/test/CodeGen/ARM/arm-position-independence.ll [new file with mode: 0644]
llvm/test/CodeGen/ARM/build-attributes.ll