Bump minimum required LLVM version to 6.0
Based on the discussion in #55842, while the overall position of Rust wrt LLVM continues to be contentious, there does seem to be a consensus that there is no need for continued support of LLVM 5. This PR bumps our version requirement to LLVM 6.0 and makes Travis run against that.
I hope that this is going to unblock #52694. If I understand correctly, while this issue still exists in LLVM 6, Ubuntu has backported the relevant patch.
r? @alexcrichton
This was intended to land way back in 1.24, but it was backed out due to
breakage which has long since been fixed. An unstable `#[unwind]`
attribute can be used to tweak the behavior here, but this is currently
simply switching rustc's internal default to abort-by-default if an
`extern` function panics, making our codegen sound primarily (as
currently you can produce UB with safe code)
Closes#52652
Generalized operand.rs#nontemporal_store and fixed tidy issues
Generalized operand.rs#nontemporal_store's implem even more
With a BuilderMethod trait implemented by Builder for LLVM
Cleaned builder.rs : no more code duplication, no more ValueTrait
Full traitification of builder.rs
Generalized FunctionCx
Added ValueTrait and first change
Generalize CondegenCx
Generalized the Builder struct defined in librustc_codegen_llvm/builder.rs
Implement rotate using funnel shift on LLVM >= 7
Implement the rotate_left and rotate_right operations using
llvm.fshl and llvm.fshr if they are available (LLVM >= 7).
Originally I wanted to expose the funnel_shift_left and
funnel_shift_right intrinsics and implement rotate_left and
rotate_right on top of them. However, emulation of funnel
shifts requires emitting a conditional to check for zero shift
amount, which is not necessary for rotates. I was uncomfortable
doing that here, as I don't want to rely on LLVM to optimize
away that conditional (and for variable rotates, I'm not sure it
can). We should revisit that question when we raise our minimum
version requirement to LLVM 7 and don't need emulation code
anymore.
Fixes#52457.
Support memcpy/memmove with differing src/dst alignment
If LLVM 7 is used, generate memcpy/memmove with differing src/dst alignment. I've added new FFI functions to construct these through the builder API, which is more convenient than dealing with differing intrinsic signatures depending on the LLVM version.
Fixes#49740.
If LLVM 7 is used, generate memcpy/memmove with differing
src/dst alignment. I've added new FFI functions to construct
these through the builder API, which is more convenient than
dealing with differing intrinsic signatures depending on the
LLVM version.
Implement the rotate_left and rotate_right operations using
llvm.fshl and llvm.fshr if they are available (LLVM >= 7).
Originally I wanted to expose the funnel_shift_left and
funnel_shift_right intrinsics and implement rotate_left and
rotate_right on top of them. However, emulation of funnel
shifts requires emitting a conditional to check for zero shift
amount, which is not necessary for rotates. I was uncomfortable
doing that here, as I don't want to rely on LLVM to optimize
away that conditional (and for variable rotates, I'm not sure it
can). We should revisit that question when we raise our minimum
version requirement to LLVM 7 and don't need emulation code
anymore.
Support for disabling PLT for better function call performance
This PR gives `rustc` the ability to skip the PLT when generating function calls into shared libraries. This can improve performance by reducing branch indirection.
AFAIK, the only advantage of using the PLT is to allow for ELF lazy binding. However, since Rust already [enables full relro for security](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/43170), lazy binding was disabled anyway.
This is a little known feature which is supported by [GCC](https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Code-Gen-Options.html) and [Clang](https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangCommandLineReference.html#cmdoption-clang-fplt) as `-fno-plt` (some Linux distros [enable it by default](https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/makepkg.conf?h=packages/pacman#n40) for all builds).
Implementation inspired by [this patch](https://reviews.llvm.org/D39079#change-YvkpNDlMs_LT) which adds `-fno-plt` support to Clang.
## Performance
I didn't run a lot of benchmarks, but these are the results on my machine for a `clap` [benchmark](https://github.com/clap-rs/clap/blob/master/benches/05_ripgrep.rs):
```
name control ns/iter no-plt ns/iter diff ns/iter diff % speedup
build_app_long 11,097 10,733 -364 -3.28% x 1.03
build_app_short 11,089 10,742 -347 -3.13% x 1.03
build_help_long 186,835 182,713 -4,122 -2.21% x 1.02
build_help_short 80,949 78,455 -2,494 -3.08% x 1.03
parse_clean 12,385 12,044 -341 -2.75% x 1.03
parse_complex 19,438 19,017 -421 -2.17% x 1.02
parse_lots 431,493 421,421 -10,072 -2.33% x 1.02
```
A small performance improvement across the board, with no downsides. It's likely binaries which make a lot of function calls into dynamic libraries could see even more improvements. [This comment](https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/468993/#1028255) suggests that, in some cases, `-fno-plt` could improve PIC/PIE code performance by 10%.
## Security benefits
**Bonus**: some of the speculative execution attacks rely on the PLT, by disabling it we reduce a big attack surface and reduce the need for [`retpoline`](https://reviews.llvm.org/D41723).
## Remaining PLT calls
The compiled binaries still have plenty of PLT calls, coming from C/C++ libraries. Building dependencies with `CFLAGS=-fno-plt CXXFLAGS=-fno-plt` removes them.
Disable the PLT where possible to improve performance
for indirect calls into shared libraries.
This optimization is enabled by default where possible.
- Add the `NonLazyBind` attribute to `rustllvm`:
This attribute informs LLVM to skip PLT calls in codegen.
- Disable PLT unconditionally:
Apply the `NonLazyBind` attribute on every function.
- Only enable no-plt when full relro is enabled:
Ensures we only enable it when we have linker support.
- Add `-Z plt` as a compiler option
