It doesn't make sense after introduction of routing table which allows
having multiple gateways for every interface, and isn't used by any of
the userspace programs now.
This commit addresses the following shortcomings of our current, simple
and elegant memset function:
- REP STOSB/STOSQ has considerable startup overhead, it's impractical to
use for smaller sizes.
- Up until very recently, AMD CPUs didn't have support for "Enhanced REP
MOVSB/STOSB", so it performed pretty poorly on them.
With this commit applied, I could measure a ~5% decrease in `test-js`'s
runtime when I used qemu's TCG backend. The implementation is based on
the following article from Microsoft:
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2021/01/11/building-faster-amd64-memset-routines
Two versions of the routine are implemented: one that uses the ERMS
extension mentioned above, and one that performs plain SSE stores. The
version appropriate for the CPU is selected at load time using an IFUNC.
.text sections of objects that contain textrels have to be writable
during the relocation procedure. Because of this, we would segfault if
we tried to execute IFUNC resolvers defined in them. Let's print a
meaningful error message instead.
Additionally, a warning is now printed when we load objects with
textrels, as in the future, additional security mitigations might
interfere with them being loaded.
IFUNC is a GNU extension to the ELF standard that allows a function to
have multiple implementations. A resolver function has to be called at
load time to choose the right one to use. The PLT will contain the entry
to the resolved function, so branching and more indirect jumps can be
avoided at run-time.
This mechanism is usually used when a routine can be made faster using
CPU features that are available in only some models, and a fallback
implementation has to exist for others.
We will use this feature to have two separate memset implementations for
CPUs with and without ERMS (Enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB) support.
IFUNC resolvers depend on the resolved function's address having been
relocated by the time they are called. This means that relative
relocations have to be done first.
The linker is kind enough to put R_*_RELATIVE before R_*_IRELATIVE in
.rel.dyn, but .relr.dyn contains relative relocations too.
This check is here to make sure we only try to load serenity binaries.
However, with -fprofile-instr-generate -fcoverage-mapping, clang
sets the EI_OSABI field to 3, for GNU. The instrumentation uses a lot of
retained COMDAT sections for coverage instrumentation that get the
SHF_GNU_RETAINED section header flag set on them, forcing llvm to set
the ABI to GNU.
A function object's realm is not necessarily non-null (like when called
via the Reflect API), so we can't blindly dereference it. Instead use
the object's own GlobalObject.
Because `TimeHour TimeZoneNumericUTCOffsetNotAmbiguous[opt]
TimeZoneBracketedAnnotation[opt]` can be a subset of
`TimeHourNotValidMonth TimeZone` we would not exhaust the whole input
in some cases, which would result in an incorrectly thrown exception.
The prefix should apply both inside and outside the system. Having the
full host path there only confuses software that is built inside the
system, as well as other ports that prepend the host path themselves
additionally.
