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Backport 9356091

Requested by: @nikic

…#131801)

The llvm.metadata section is not emitted and has special semantics. We
should not merge globals in it, similarly to how we already skip merging
of `llvm.xyz` globals.

Fixes llvm#131394.

(cherry picked from commit 9356091)
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llvmbot commented Apr 2, 2025

@amy-kwan What do you think about merging this PR to the release branch?

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llvmbot commented Apr 2, 2025

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Backport 9356091

Requested by: @nikic


Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/134052.diff

2 Files Affected:

  • (modified) llvm/lib/CodeGen/GlobalMerge.cpp (+2-1)
  • (added) llvm/test/CodeGen/PowerPC/global-merge-llvm-metadata.ll (+9)
diff --git a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/GlobalMerge.cpp b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/GlobalMerge.cpp
index 5993fc939a08a..b4650a4851c3c 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/GlobalMerge.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/GlobalMerge.cpp
@@ -711,7 +711,8 @@ bool GlobalMergeImpl::run(Module &M) {
       continue;
 
     // Ignore all 'special' globals.
-    if (GV.getName().starts_with("llvm.") || GV.getName().starts_with(".llvm."))
+    if (GV.getName().starts_with("llvm.") ||
+        GV.getName().starts_with(".llvm.") || Section == "llvm.metadata")
       continue;
 
     // Ignore all "required" globals:
diff --git a/llvm/test/CodeGen/PowerPC/global-merge-llvm-metadata.ll b/llvm/test/CodeGen/PowerPC/global-merge-llvm-metadata.ll
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..7db092e13afeb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/CodeGen/PowerPC/global-merge-llvm-metadata.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+; RUN: llc -mtriple=powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu < %s | FileCheck %s
+
+@index = global i32 0, align 4
+@.str = private unnamed_addr constant [1 x i8] zeroinitializer, section "llvm.metadata"
+@.str.1 = private unnamed_addr constant [7 x i8] c"test.c\00", section "llvm.metadata" 
+@llvm.global.annotations = appending global [1 x { ptr, ptr, ptr, i32, ptr }] [{ ptr, ptr, ptr, i32, ptr } { ptr @index, ptr @.str, ptr @.str.1, i32 1, ptr null }], section "llvm.metadata"
+
+; CHECK-NOT: .set
+; CHECK-NOT: _MergedGlobals

@nikic nikic moved this from Needs Triage to Needs Review in LLVM Release Status Apr 2, 2025
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LGTM.

@github-project-automation github-project-automation bot moved this from Needs Review to Needs Merge in LLVM Release Status Apr 16, 2025
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