BaseTools/GccBase.lds: don't copy RELA section to PE/COFF

The CLANG38 toolchain creates a PIE binary at link time. This is
necessary since the LTO code generation may otherwise result in
code that cannot execute correctly when loaded above 2 GB.

PIE executables contain a RELA section consisting of dynamic
relocation entries that are intended for consumption by the loader
at runtime. For this reason, it has the SHF_ALLOC attribute set by
default, and will be identified by GenFw as a section that needs to
be copied into the PE/COFF binary, resulting in waste of space since
the PE/COFF loader does not use this data at all.

So mark the RELA section as informational: this will prevent the
linker from setting the SHF_ALLOC attribute, causing GenFw to
ignore it.

DxeCore.efi before:

    Detected 'X64' type PE/COFF image consisting of 3 sections
    Section alignment:      0x40
    File alignment:         0x40
    Section '.text' @ 0x00000240
    File offset:            0x240
    Virtual size:           0x21000
    Raw size:               0x21000
    Section '.data' @ 0x00021240
    File offset:            0x21240
    Virtual size:           0x3640
    Raw size:               0x3640
    Section '.reloc' @ 0x00024880
    File offset:            0x24880
    Virtual size:           0x280
    Raw size:               0x280

DxeCore.efi after:

    Detected 'X64' type PE/COFF image consisting of 3 sections
    Section alignment:      0x40
    File alignment:         0x40
    Section '.text' @ 0x00000240
    File offset:            0x240
    Virtual size:           0x1f440
    Raw size:               0x1f440
    Section '.data' @ 0x0001f680
    File offset:            0x1f680
    Virtual size:           0x3640
    Raw size:               0x3640
    Section '.reloc' @ 0x00022cc0
    File offset:            0x22cc0
    Virtual size:           0x280
    Raw size:               0x280

Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/BaseTools/Scripts/GccBase.lds b/BaseTools/Scripts/GccBase.lds
index 281af8a9bd..9008487471 100644
--- a/BaseTools/Scripts/GccBase.lds
+++ b/BaseTools/Scripts/GccBase.lds
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ SECTIONS {
     KEEP (*(.eh_frame))

   }

 

-  .rela ALIGN(CONSTANT(COMMONPAGESIZE)) : {

+  .rela (INFO) : {

     *(.rela .rela.*)

   }