cmd/link: consider interface conversions only in reachable code

The linker prunes methods that are not directly reachable if the
receiver type is never converted to interface. Currently, this
"never" is too strong: it is invalidated even if the interface
conversion is in an unreachable function. This CL improves it by
only considering interface conversions in reachable code. To do
that, we introduce a marker relocation R_USEIFACE, which marks
the target symbol as UsedInIface if the source symbol is reached.

binary size    before      after
cmd/compile   18897528   18887400
cmd/go        13607372   13470652

Change-Id: I66c6b69eeff9ae02d84d2e6f2bc7f1b29dd53910
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/256797
Trust: Cherry Zhang <cherryyz@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Faller <jeremy@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Than McIntosh <thanm@google.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/deadcode.go b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/deadcode.go
index 7f14aa3d27..816a23b9a7 100644
--- a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/deadcode.go
+++ b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/deadcode.go
@@ -153,6 +153,20 @@ func (d *deadcodePass) flood() {
 				// do nothing for now as we still load all type symbols.
 				continue
 			}
+			if t == objabi.R_USEIFACE {
+				// R_USEIFACE is a marker relocation that tells the linker the type is
+				// converted to an interface, i.e. should have UsedInIface set. See the
+				// comment below for why we need to unset the Reachable bit and re-mark it.
+				rs := r.Sym()
+				if !d.ldr.AttrUsedInIface(rs) {
+					d.ldr.SetAttrUsedInIface(rs, true)
+					if d.ldr.AttrReachable(rs) {
+						d.ldr.SetAttrReachable(rs, false)
+						d.mark(rs, symIdx)
+					}
+				}
+				continue
+			}
 			rs := r.Sym()
 			if isgotype && usedInIface && d.ldr.IsGoType(rs) && !d.ldr.AttrUsedInIface(rs) {
 				// If a type is converted to an interface, it is possible to obtain an