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Daniel Bertalan 3974cac148 LibELF: Implement support for DT_RELR relative relocations
The DT_RELR relocation is a relatively new relocation encoding designed
to achieve space-efficient relative relocations in PIE programs.

The description of the format is available here:
https://groups.google.com/g/generic-abi/c/bX460iggiKg/m/Pi9aSwwABgAJ

It works by using a bitmap to store the offsets which need to be
relocated. Even entries are *address* entries: they contain an address
(relative to the base of the executable) which needs to be relocated.
Subsequent even entries are *bitmap* entries: "1" bits encode offsets
(in word size increments) relative to the last address entry which need
to be relocated.

This is in contrast to the REL/RELA format, where each entry takes up
2/3 machine words. Certain kinds of relocations store useful data in
that space (like the name of the referenced symbol), so not everything
can be encoded in this format. But as position-independent executables
and shared libraries tend to have a lot of relative relocations, a
specialized encoding for them absolutely makes sense.

The authors of the format suggest an overall 5-20% reduction in the file
size of various programs. Due to our extensive use of dynamic linking
and us not stripping debug info, relative relocations don't make up such
a large portion of the binary's size, so the measurements will tend to
skew to the lower side of the spectrum.

The following measurements were made with the x86-64 Clang toolchain:

- The kernel contains 290989 relocations. Enabling RELR decreased its
  size from 30 MiB to 23 MiB.
- LibUnicodeData contains 190262 relocations, almost all of them
  relative. Its file size changed from 17 MiB to 13 MiB.
- /bin/WebContent contains 1300 relocations, 66% of which are relative
  relocations. With RELR, its size changed from 832 KiB to 812 KiB.

This change was inspired by the following blog post:
https://maskray.me/blog/2021-10-31-relative-relocations-and-relr
2022-02-11 18:07:53 +01:00
.github CI: Bundle and upload a js(1) release package 2022-02-09 12:19:56 +03:30
AK AK: Make Bitmap construction OOM-fallible 2022-02-11 17:49:46 +02:00
Base Base: Add a quote to the fortunes database 2022-02-10 11:14:27 +00:00
Documentation Documentation: Small fixes to transferring files documentation 2022-02-06 23:50:20 +00:00
Kernel Kernel: Stop trying to write unmapped Process regions into CoreDumps 2022-02-11 17:49:46 +02:00
Meta LibTLS+RequestServer: Add an option to dump TLS keys to a log file 2022-02-09 21:23:25 +01:00
Ports Ports: Fix lua not building 2022-02-08 22:21:00 +00:00
Tests AK: Make Bitmap construction OOM-fallible 2022-02-11 17:49:46 +02:00
Toolchain Toolchain: Add support for building the userland with the mold linker 2022-01-24 10:41:47 +00:00
Userland LibELF: Implement support for DT_RELR relative relocations 2022-02-11 18:07:53 +01:00
.clang-format Meta: Update .clang-format to not indent nested namespaces 2020-03-14 10:10:21 +01:00
.clang-tidy Meta: Disable readability-use-anyofallof clang-tidy check 2022-01-09 23:29:57 -08:00
.gitattributes Repository: Protect port patches from CRLF/LF normalization 2022-01-12 01:08:38 +01:00
.gitignore man.serenityos.org: Simplify local builds 2021-10-22 19:49:28 +03:00
.mailmap Meta: Fix my .mailmap entry by adding the name 2022-01-25 23:26:14 +00:00
.pre-commit-config.yaml Meta: Add a post-commit commit message linter hook 2021-05-02 16:28:01 +02:00
.prettierignore CI: Bump prettier to latest version (2.4.1) 2021-11-21 01:18:23 +00:00
.prettierrc Meta: Move prettier config files to the root of the repository 2020-08-24 18:21:33 +02:00
azure-pipelines.yml CI: Disallow test failures on macOS Lagom :^) 2022-01-14 22:39:06 +01:00
CMakeLists.txt Meta: Add install-native-partition CMake target installing to a real FS 2022-02-04 12:44:50 +01:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Meta: Discourage excessive "feng shui programming" in CONTRIBUTING.md 2022-01-08 16:31:14 +01:00
LICENSE Meta: Update year range in LICENSE :^) 2022-01-02 18:08:02 +01:00
README.md Meta: Add Kenneth Myhra to the contributors list :^) 2022-02-04 00:13:43 +01:00

SerenityOS

Graphical Unix-like operating system for x86 computers.

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About

SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas from various other systems.

Roughly speaking, the goal is a marriage between the aesthetic of late-1990s productivity software and the power-user accessibility of late-2000s *nix. This is a system by us, for us, based on the things we like.

You can watch videos of the system being developed on YouTube:

Screenshot

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Kernel features

  • x86 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit) kernel with pre-emptive multi-threading
  • Hardware protections (SMEP, SMAP, UMIP, NX, WP, TSD, ...)
  • IPv4 stack with ARP, TCP, UDP and ICMP protocols
  • ext2 filesystem
  • POSIX signals
  • Purgeable memory
  • /proc filesystem
  • Pseudoterminals (with /dev/pts filesystem)
  • Filesystem notifications
  • CPU and memory profiling
  • SoundBlaster 16 driver
  • VMWare/QEMU mouse integration

System services

  • Launch/session daemon (SystemServer)
  • Compositing window server (WindowServer)
  • Text console manager (TTYServer)
  • DNS client (LookupServer)
  • Network protocols server (RequestServer and WebSocket)
  • Software-mixing sound daemon (AudioServer)
  • Desktop notifications (NotificationServer)
  • HTTP server (WebServer)
  • Telnet server (TelnetServer)
  • DHCP client (DHCPClient)

Libraries

  • C++ templates and containers (AK)
  • Event loop and utilities (LibCore)
  • 2D graphics library (LibGfx)
  • OpenGL 1.x compatible library (LibGL)
  • GUI toolkit (LibGUI)
  • Cross-process communication library (LibIPC)
  • HTML/CSS engine (LibWeb)
  • JavaScript engine (LibJS)
  • Markdown (LibMarkdown)
  • Audio (LibAudio)
  • Digital Signal Processing/Synthesizer Chains (LibDSP)
  • PCI database (LibPCIDB)
  • Terminal emulation (LibVT)
  • Out-of-process network protocol I/O (LibProtocol)
  • Mathematical functions (LibM)
  • ELF file handling (LibELF)
  • POSIX threading (LibPthread)
  • Higher-level threading (LibThreading)
  • Transport Layer Security (LibTLS)
  • HTTP and HTTPS (LibHTTP)
  • IMAP (LibIMAP)

Userland features

  • Unix-like libc and userland
  • Shell with pipes and I/O redirection
  • On-line help system (both terminal and GUI variants)
  • Web browser (Browser)
  • C++ IDE (HackStudio)
  • Desktop synthesizer (Piano)
  • E-mail client (Mail)
  • Various desktop apps & games
  • Color themes

How do I read the documentation?

Man pages are available online at man.serenityos.org. These pages are generated from the Markdown source files in Base/usr/share/man and updated automatically.

When running SerenityOS you can use man for the terminal interface, or help for the GUI.

How do I build and run this?

See the SerenityOS build instructions

Before opening an issue

Please see the issue policy.

FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions

Get in touch

Join our Discord server: SerenityOS Discord

Author

Contributors

(And many more!) The people listed above have landed more than 100 commits in the project. :^)

License

SerenityOS is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license.