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RISC-V: Emit R_RISCV_RELAX for the la/lga pseudo instruction
Some psABIs define a relaxation to turn a GOT load into a PC-relative address materialization. For example, the AArch64's psABI allows adrp+ldr to be rewritten to nop+adr to eliminate the memory load. This patch is part of the effort to make such optimization possible for RISC-V. For RISC-V, we use the la assembly pseudo instruction to load a symbol address from the GOT. The pseudo instruction is expanded to auipc+ld. If the address loaded by the instruction pair is actually a PC-relative link-time constant, we want the linker to rewrite the instruction pair with auipc+addi. We can't rewrite all existing auipc+ld pairs with auipc+addi in the linker because there might be code that jumps to the middle of the instruction pair. That should be extremely rare, if ever exists, but you can at least in theory write a program in assembly that jumps to the ld instruction of the instruction pair. We need a marker to identify that an auipc+ld can be safely relaxed (i.e. they are emitted for la). This patch is to annotate R_RISCV_GOT_HI20 with R_RISCV_RELAX only when the relocation is emitted for the la pseudo instruction. The linker will use it as a signal that the instruction pair can be safely relaxed. Proposal to the RISC-V psABI: riscv-non-isa/riscv-elf-psabi-doc#397 gas/ * config/tc-riscv.c (source_macro): New static int variable. The identifier of the assembler macro we are expanding, if any. (append_insn): Updated source_macro to tc_fix_data, to record which macro expands, if any. (macro): Record which macro expands into source_macro. Reset source_macro to -1 at the end. (md_apply_fix): Apply R_RISCV_RELAX if pcrel_got_hi is expanded from macro LA/LGA. * config/tc-riscv.h (struct riscv_fix, TC_FIX_TYPE, TC_INIT_FIX_DATA): Defined to record source_macro into fixups for riscv target. * testsuite/gas/riscv/la-variants.d: Updated.
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