Enforce compiler-builtins CGU partitioning in the compiler

compiler/rustc_mir_transform/src/cross_crate_inline.rs

@@ -34,6 +34,15 @@ fn cross_crate_inlinable(tcx: TyCtxt<'_>, def_id: LocalDefId) -> bool {
         return true;
     }
 
+    // compiler-builtins only defines intrinsics (which are handled above by checking
+    // contains_extern_indicator) and helper functions used by those intrinsics. The helper
+    // functions should always be inlined into intrinsics that use them. This check does not
+    // guarantee that we get the optimizations we want, but it makes them *much* easier.
+    // See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/73135
+    if tcx.is_compiler_builtins(rustc_span::def_id::LOCAL_CRATE) {
+        return true;
+    }
+
     if tcx.has_attr(def_id, sym::rustc_intrinsic) {
         // Intrinsic fallback bodies are always cross-crate inlineable.
         // To ensure that the MIR inliner doesn't cluelessly try to inline fallback

compiler/rustc_monomorphize/src/partitioning.rs

@@ -319,6 +319,13 @@ fn merge_codegen_units<'tcx>(
     let mut cgu_contents: UnordMap<Symbol, Vec<Symbol>> =
         codegen_units.iter().map(|cgu| (cgu.name(), vec![cgu.name()])).collect();
 
+    // When compiling compiler_builtins, we do not want to put multiple intrinsics in a CGU.
+    // There may be mergeable CGUs under this constraint, but just skipping over merging is much
+    // simpler.
+    if cx.tcx.is_compiler_builtins(LOCAL_CRATE) {
+        return cgu_contents;
+    }
+
     // If N is the maximum number of CGUs, and the CGUs are sorted from largest
     // to smallest, we repeatedly find which CGU in codegen_units[N..] has the
     // greatest overlap of inlined items with codegen_units[N-1], merge that
@@ -680,6 +687,16 @@ fn compute_codegen_unit_name<'tcx>(
     mono_item: MonoItem<'tcx>,
     cache: &mut CguNameCache,
 ) -> Symbol {
+    // When compiling compiler_builtins, we do not want to put multiple intrinsics in a CGU.
+    // Using the symbol name as the CGU name puts every GloballyShared item in its own CGU, but in
+    // an optimized build we actually want every item in the crate that isn't an intrinsic to get
+    // LocalCopy so that it is easy to inline away. In an unoptimized build, this CGU naming
+    // strategy probably generates more CGUs than we strictly need. But it is simple.
+    if tcx.is_compiler_builtins(LOCAL_CRATE) {
+        let name = mono_item.symbol_name(tcx);
+        return Symbol::intern(name.name);
+    }
+
     let Some(def_id) = characteristic_def_id_of_mono_item(tcx, mono_item) else {
         return fallback_cgu_name(name_builder);
     };

library/Cargo.toml

@@ -11,19 +11,6 @@ exclude = [
   "windows_targets"
 ]
 
-[profile.release.package.compiler_builtins]
-# For compiler-builtins we always use a high number of codegen units.
-# The goal here is to place every single intrinsic into its own object
-# file to avoid symbol clashes with the system libgcc if possible. Note
-# that this number doesn't actually produce this many object files, we
-# just don't create more than this number of object files.
-#
-# It's a bit of a bummer that we have to pass this here, unfortunately.
-# Ideally this would be specified through an env var to Cargo so Cargo
-# knows how many CGUs are for this specific crate, but for now
-# per-crate configuration isn't specifiable in the environment.
-codegen-units = 10000
-
 # These dependencies of the standard library implement symbolication for
 # backtraces on most platforms. Their debuginfo causes both linking to be slower
 # (more data to chew through) and binaries to be larger without really all that