Rollup merge of #137685 - lqd:nostart-stop-gc, r=petrochenkov

self-contained linker: conservatively default to `-znostart-stop-gc` on x64 linux

To help stabilization, this PR disables an LLD optimization on  x64 linux with respect to `--gc-sections` and encapsulation symbols: it will reduce the number of crates needing to opt-out of lld due to this bfd / lld difference. For example, all the people using [linkme](https://github.com/dtolnay/linkme), which [doesn't work with lld](https://github.com/dtolnay/linkme/issues/63) or on nightly, need to disable lld.

More information about all this, and the historical differences, can be found in:
- https://maskray.me/blog/2021-01-31-metadata-sections-comdat-and-shf-link-order
- https://lld.llvm.org/ELF/start-stop-gc

This optimization has [no visible impact](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/137685#issuecomment-2686116312) on our benchmarks, so we can use it by default and have a safer/more conservative starting point to remove friction during migration. We can them emit an FCW for the cases where lld detects reliance on encapsulation symbols without `-znostart-stop-gc`, and then revert back to lld's default after a while. No one compiling on nightly relies on this difference, obviously, so doing an FCW is not necessary until after lld is used on stable.

I've tested that this correctly links on `linkme` examples. I've also quickly tried to crate an rmake test but the setup with encapsulation symbols is annoying to reproduce: a few link section/name attributes is not enough, we also need to collect symbols between the encapsulation symbols, without referencing them in code, for `-znostart-stop-gc` to only impact this... It should of course be doable though, maybe ````@Kobzol```` will look into it if they have time.

r? ````@petrochenkov````

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/back/link.rs b/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/back/link.rs
index a170b2e3b6a..3407117a06e 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/back/link.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/back/link.rs
@@ -3382,6 +3382,35 @@ fn add_lld_args(
     // this, `wasm-component-ld`, which is overridden if this option is passed.
     if !sess.target.is_like_wasm {
         cmd.cc_arg("-fuse-ld=lld");
+
+        // On ELF platforms like at least x64 linux, GNU ld and LLD have opposite defaults on some
+        // section garbage-collection features. For example, the somewhat popular `linkme` crate and
+        // its dependents rely in practice on this difference: when using lld, they need `-z
+        // nostart-stop-gc` to prevent encapsulation symbols and sections from being
+        // garbage-collected.
+        //
+        // More information about all this can be found in:
+        // - https://maskray.me/blog/2021-01-31-metadata-sections-comdat-and-shf-link-order
+        // - https://lld.llvm.org/ELF/start-stop-gc
+        //
+        // So when using lld, we restore, for now, the traditional behavior to help migration, but
+        // will remove it in the future.
+        // Since this only disables an optimization, it shouldn't create issues, but is in theory
+        // slightly suboptimal. However, it:
+        // - doesn't have any visible impact on our benchmarks
+        // - reduces the need to disable lld for the crates that depend on this
+        //
+        // Note that lld can detect some cases where this difference is relied on, and emits a
+        // dedicated error to add this link arg. We could make use of this error to emit an FCW. As
+        // of writing this, we don't do it, because lld is already enabled by default on nightly
+        // without this mitigation: no working project would see the FCW, so we do this to help
+        // stabilization.
+        //
+        // FIXME: emit an FCW if linking fails due its absence, and then remove this link-arg in the
+        // future.
+        if sess.target.llvm_target == "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" {
+            cmd.link_arg("-znostart-stop-gc");
+        }
     }
 
     if !flavor.is_gnu() {