// Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. // Run-length encode and decode relative relocations. // // Relative relocations are the bulk of dynamic relocations (the // .rel.dyn or .rela.dyn sections) in libchrome..so, and the ELF // standard representation of them is wasteful. .rel.dyn contains // relocations without addends, .rela.dyn relocations with addends. // // A relocation with no addend is 8 bytes on 32 bit platforms and 16 bytes // on 64 bit plaforms, split into offset and info fields. Offsets strictly // increase, and each is commonly a few bytes different from its predecessor. // There are long runs where the difference does not change. The info field // is constant. Example, from 'readelf -x4 libchrome..so' 32 bit: // // offset info offset info // 808fef01 17000000 848fef01 17000000 ................ // 888fef01 17000000 8c8fef01 17000000 ................ // 908fef01 17000000 948fef01 17000000 ................ // // Run length encoding packs this data more efficiently, by representing it // as a delta and a count of entries each differing from its predecessor // by this delta. The above can be represented as a start address followed // by an encoded count of 6 and offset difference of 4: // // start count diff // 01ef8f80 00000006 00000004 // // Because relative relocation offsets strictly increase, the complete // set of relative relocations in libchrome..so can be // represented by a single start address followed by one or more difference // and count encoded word pairs: // // start run1 count run1 diff run2 count run2 diff // 01ef8f80 00000006 00000004 00000010 00000008 ... // // Decoding regenerates relative relocations beginning at address // 'start' and for each encoded run, incrementing the address by 'difference' // for 'count' iterations and emitting a new relative relocation. // // Once encoded, data is prefixed by a single word count of packed delta and // count pairs. A final run-length encoded relative relocations vector // might therefore look something like: // // pairs start run 1 run 2 ... run 15 // 0000000f 01ef8f80 00000006 00000004 00000010 00000008 ... // Interpreted as: // pairs=15 start=.. count=6,delta=4 count=16,delta=8 #ifndef TOOLS_RELOCATION_PACKER_SRC_RUN_LENGTH_ENCODER_H_ #define TOOLS_RELOCATION_PACKER_SRC_RUN_LENGTH_ENCODER_H_ #include #include "elf.h" #include "elf_traits.h" namespace relocation_packer { // A RelocationRunLengthCodec packs vectors of relative relocations // into more compact forms, and unpacks them to reproduce the pre-packed data. class RelocationRunLengthCodec { public: // Encode relative relocations into a more compact form. // |relocations| is a vector of relative relocation structs. // |packed| is the vector of packed words into which relocations are packed. static void Encode(const std::vector& relocations, std::vector* packed); // Decode relative relocations from their more compact form. // |packed| is the vector of packed relocations. // |relocations| is a vector of unpacked relative relocation structs. static void Decode(const std::vector& packed, std::vector* relocations); }; } // namespace relocation_packer #endif // TOOLS_RELOCATION_PACKER_SRC_RUN_LENGTH_ENCODER_H_