[ELF,RISCV] Fix oscillation due to call relaxation

lld/ELF/Arch/RISCV.cpp

@@ -740,19 +740,23 @@ static void relaxCall(Ctx &ctx, const InputSection &sec, size_t i, uint64_t loc,
       (r.expr == R_PLT_PC ? sym.getPltVA(ctx) : sym.getVA(ctx)) + r.addend;
   const int64_t displace = dest - loc;
 
-  if (rvc && isInt<12>(displace) && rd == 0) {
+  // When the caller specifies the old value of `remove`, disallow its
+  // increment.
+  if (remove >= 6 && rvc && isInt<12>(displace) && rd == 0) {
     sec.relaxAux->relocTypes[i] = R_RISCV_RVC_JUMP;
     sec.relaxAux->writes.push_back(0xa001); // c.j
     remove = 6;
-  } else if (rvc && isInt<12>(displace) && rd == X_RA &&
+  } else if (remove >= 6 && rvc && isInt<12>(displace) && rd == X_RA &&
              !ctx.arg.is64) { // RV32C only
     sec.relaxAux->relocTypes[i] = R_RISCV_RVC_JUMP;
     sec.relaxAux->writes.push_back(0x2001); // c.jal
     remove = 6;
-  } else if (isInt<21>(displace)) {
+  } else if (remove >= 4 && isInt<21>(displace)) {
     sec.relaxAux->relocTypes[i] = R_RISCV_JAL;
     sec.relaxAux->writes.push_back(0x6f | rd << 7); // jal
     remove = 4;
+  } else {
+    remove = 0;
   }
 }
 
@@ -828,7 +832,7 @@ static void relaxHi20Lo12(Ctx &ctx, const InputSection &sec, size_t i,
   }
 }
 
-static bool relax(Ctx &ctx, InputSection &sec) {
+static bool relax(Ctx &ctx, int pass, InputSection &sec) {
   const uint64_t secAddr = sec.getVA();
   const MutableArrayRef<Relocation> relocs = sec.relocs();
   auto &aux = *sec.relaxAux;
@@ -862,8 +866,13 @@ static bool relax(Ctx &ctx, InputSection &sec) {
     }
     case R_RISCV_CALL:
     case R_RISCV_CALL_PLT:
-      if (relaxable(relocs, i))
+      // Prevent oscillation between states by disallowing the increment of
+      // `remove` after a few passes. The previous `remove` value is
+      // `cur-delta`.
+      if (relaxable(relocs, i)) {
+        remove = pass < 4 ? 6 : cur - delta;
         relaxCall(ctx, sec, i, loc, r, remove);
+      }
       break;
     case R_RISCV_TPREL_HI20:
     case R_RISCV_TPREL_ADD:
@@ -945,7 +954,7 @@ bool RISCV::relaxOnce(int pass) const {
     if (!(osec->flags & SHF_EXECINSTR))
       continue;
     for (InputSection *sec : getInputSections(*osec, storage))
-      changed |= relax(ctx, *sec);
+      changed |= relax(ctx, pass, *sec);
   }
   return changed;
 }

lld/test/ELF/riscv-relax-call-stress.s

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# REQUIRES: riscv
+## The regression test led to oscillation between two states ("address assignment did not converge" error).
+## First jump (~2^11 bytes away): alternated between 4 and 8 bytes.
+## Second jump (~2^20 bytes away): alternated between 2 and 8 bytes.
+
+# RUN: rm -rf %t && split-file %s %t && cd %t
+# RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=riscv64 -mattr=+c,+relax a.s -o a.o
+# RUN: ld.lld -T lds a.o -o out
+# RUN: llvm-objdump -td --no-show-raw-insn -M no-aliases out | FileCheck %s
+
+# CHECK-LABEL: <_start>:
+# CHECK-NEXT:                  jal     zero, {{.*}} <low>
+# CHECK-EMPTY:
+# CHECK-NEXT:  <jump_high>:
+# CHECK-NEXT:      1004:       auipc   t0, 0x100
+# CHECK-NEXT:                  jalr    zero, -0x2(t0) <high>
+# CHECK-NEXT:                  ...
+# CHECK:       <low>:
+# CHECK:           1802:       c.jr    ra
+
+# CHECK:       <high>:
+# CHECK-NEXT:    101002:       jal     ra, 0x1004 <jump_high>
+# CHECK-NEXT:                  auipc   ra, 0xfff00
+# CHECK-NEXT:                  jalr    ra, -0x2(ra) <jump_high>
+
+#--- a.s
+## At the beginning of state1, low-_start = 0x800-2, reachable by a c.j.
+## This increases high-jump_high from 0x100000-2 to 0x100000, unreachable by a jal.
+## In the next iteration, low-_start increases to 0x800, unreachable by a c.j.
+.global _start
+_start:
+  jump low, t0    # state0: 4 bytes; state1: 2 bytes
+jump_high:
+  jump high, t0   # state0: 4 bytes; state1: 8 bytes
+
+  .space 0x800-10
+low:
+  ret
+
+.section .high,"ax",@progbits
+  nop
+high:
+  call jump_high
+  call jump_high
+
+#--- lds
+SECTIONS {
+  .text 0x1000 : { *(.text) }
+  .high 0x101000 : { *(.high) }
+}