debuginfo: add compiler option to allow compressed debuginfo sections

LLVM already supports emitting compressed debuginfo. In debuginfo=full
builds, the debug section is often a large amount of data, and it
typically compresses very well (3x is not unreasonable.) We add a new
knob to allow debuginfo to be compressed when the matching LLVM
functionality is present. Like clang, if a known-but-disabled
compression mechanism is requested, we disable compression and emit
uncompressed debuginfo sections.

The API is different enough on older LLVMs we just pretend the support
is missing on LLVM older than 16.

compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/back/write.rs

@@ -5,13 +5,17 @@ use crate::back::profiling::{
 use crate::base;
 use crate::common;
 use crate::errors::{
-    CopyBitcode, FromLlvmDiag, FromLlvmOptimizationDiag, LlvmError, WithLlvmError, WriteBytecode,
+    CopyBitcode, FromLlvmDiag, FromLlvmOptimizationDiag, LlvmError, UnknownCompression,
+    WithLlvmError, WriteBytecode,
 };
 use crate::llvm::{self, DiagnosticInfo, PassManager};
 use crate::llvm_util;
 use crate::type_::Type;
 use crate::LlvmCodegenBackend;
 use crate::ModuleLlvm;
+use llvm::{
+    LLVMRustLLVMHasZlibCompressionForDebugSymbols, LLVMRustLLVMHasZstdCompressionForDebugSymbols,
+};
 use rustc_codegen_ssa::back::link::ensure_removed;
 use rustc_codegen_ssa::back::write::{
     BitcodeSection, CodegenContext, EmitObj, ModuleConfig, TargetMachineFactoryConfig,
@@ -234,6 +238,22 @@ pub fn target_machine_factory(
         args_cstr_buff
     };
 
+    let debuginfo_compression = sess.opts.debuginfo_compression.to_string();
+    match sess.opts.debuginfo_compression {
+        rustc_session::config::DebugInfoCompression::Zlib => {
+            if !unsafe { LLVMRustLLVMHasZlibCompressionForDebugSymbols() } {
+                sess.emit_warning(UnknownCompression { algorithm: "zlib" });
+            }
+        }
+        rustc_session::config::DebugInfoCompression::Zstd => {
+            if !unsafe { LLVMRustLLVMHasZstdCompressionForDebugSymbols() } {
+                sess.emit_warning(UnknownCompression { algorithm: "zstd" });
+            }
+        }
+        rustc_session::config::DebugInfoCompression::None => {}
+    };
+    let debuginfo_compression = SmallCStr::new(&debuginfo_compression);
+
     Arc::new(move |config: TargetMachineFactoryConfig| {
         let split_dwarf_file =
             path_mapping.map_prefix(config.split_dwarf_file.unwrap_or_default()).0;
@@ -259,6 +279,7 @@ pub fn target_machine_factory(
                 relax_elf_relocations,
                 use_init_array,
                 split_dwarf_file.as_ptr(),
+                debuginfo_compression.as_ptr(),
                 force_emulated_tls,
                 args_cstr_buff.as_ptr() as *const c_char,
                 args_cstr_buff.len(),

compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/errors.rs

@@ -226,3 +226,9 @@ pub(crate) struct WriteBytecode<'a> {
 pub(crate) struct CopyBitcode {
     pub err: std::io::Error,
 }
+
+#[derive(Diagnostic)]
+#[diag(codegen_llvm_unknown_debuginfo_compression)]
+pub struct UnknownCompression {
+    pub algorithm: &'static str,
+}

compiler/rustc_codegen_llvm/src/llvm/ffi.rs

@@ -2131,6 +2131,7 @@ extern "C" {
         RelaxELFRelocations: bool,
         UseInitArray: bool,
         SplitDwarfFile: *const c_char,
+        DebugInfoCompression: *const c_char,
         ForceEmulatedTls: bool,
         ArgsCstrBuff: *const c_char,
         ArgsCstrBuffLen: usize,
@@ -2366,6 +2367,10 @@ extern "C" {
 
     pub fn LLVMRustIsBitcode(ptr: *const u8, len: usize) -> bool;
 
+    pub fn LLVMRustLLVMHasZlibCompressionForDebugSymbols() -> bool;
+
+    pub fn LLVMRustLLVMHasZstdCompressionForDebugSymbols() -> bool;
+
     pub fn LLVMRustGetSymbols(
         buf_ptr: *const u8,
         buf_len: usize,