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GDB already has a limited mechanism for auto-loading the executable
corresponding to a core file, this can be found in the function
locate_exec_from_corefile_build_id in corelow.c.
However, this approach uses the build-id of the core file to look in
either the debug directory (for a symlink back to the executable) or
by asking debuginfod. This is great, and works fine if the core file
is a "system" binary, but often, when I'm debugging a core file, it's
part of my development cycle, so there's no build-id symlink in the
debug directory, and debuginfod doesn't know about the binary either,
so GDB can't auto load the executable....
... but the executable is right there!
This commit builds on the earlier commits in this series to make GDB
smarter.
On GNU/Linux, when we parse the execution context from the core
file (see linux-tdep.c), we already grab the command pointed to by
AT_EXECFN. If this is an absolute path then GDB can use this to
locate the executable, a build-id check ensures we've found the
correct file. With this small change GDB suddenly becomes a lot
better at auto-loading the executable for a core file.
But we can do better! Often the AT_EXECFN is not an absolute path.
If it is a relative path then we check for this path relative to the
core file. This helps if a user does something like:
$ ./build/bin/some_prog
Aborted (core dumped)
$ gdb -c corefile
In this case the core file in the current directory will have an
AT_EXECFN value of './build/bin/some_prog', so if we look for that
path relative to the location of the core file this might result in a
hit, again, a build-id check ensures we found the right file.
But we can do better still! What if the user moves the core file? Or
the user is using some tool to manage core files (e.g. the systemd
core file management tool), and the user downloads the core file to a
location from which the relative path no longer works?
Well in this case we can make use of the core file's mapped file
information (the NT_FILE note). The executable will be included in
the mapped file list, and the path within the mapped file list will be
an absolute path. We can search for mapped file information based on
an address within the mapped file, and the auxv vector happens to
include an AT_ENTRY value, which is the entry address in the main
executable. If we look up the mapped file containing this address
we'll have the absolute path to the main executable, a build-id check
ensures this really is the file we're looking for.
It might be tempting to jump straight to the third approach, however,
there is one small downside to the third approach: if the executable
is a symlink then the AT_EXECFN string will be the name of the
symlink, that is, the thing the user asked to run. The mapped file
entry will be the name of the actual file, i.e. the symlink target.
When we auto-load the executable based on the third approach, the file
loaded might have a different name to that which the user expects,
though the build-id check (almost) guarantees that we've loaded the
correct binary.
But there's one more thing we can check for!
If the user has placed the core file and the executable into a
directory together, for example, as might happen with a bug report,
then neither the absolute path check, nor the relative patch check
will find the executable. So GDB will also look for a file with the
right name in the same directory as the core file. Again, a build-id
check is performed to ensure we find the correct file.
Of course, it's still possible that GDB is unable to find the
executable using any of these approaches. In this case, nothing
changes, GDB will check in the debug info directory for a build-id
based link back to the executable, and if that fails, GDB will ask
debuginfod for the executable. If this all fails, then, as usual, the
user is able to load the correct executable with the 'file' command,
but hopefully, this should be needed far less from now on.
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Extend the core file context parsing mechanism added in the previous
commit to also store the environment parsed from the core file.
This environment can then be injected into the inferior object.
The benefit of this is that when examining a core file in GDB, the
'show environment' command will now show the environment extracted
from a core file.
Consider this example:
$ env -i GDB_TEST_VAR=FOO ./gen-core
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$ gdb -c ./core.1669829
...
[New LWP 1669829]
Core was generated by `./gen-core'.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0 0x0000000000401111 in ?? ()
(gdb) show environment
GDB_TEST_VAR=foo
(gdb)
There's a new test for this functionality.
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Add a new gdbarch method which can read the execution context from a
core file. An execution context, for this commit, means the filename
of the executable used to generate the core file and the arguments
passed to the executable.
In later commits this will be extended further to include the
environment in which the executable was run, but this commit is
already pretty big, so I've split that part out into a later commit.
Initially this new gdbarch method is only implemented for Linux
targets, but a later commit will add FreeBSD support too.
Currently when GDB opens a core file, GDB reports the command and
arguments used to generate the core file. For example:
(gdb) core-file ./core.521524
[New LWP 521524]
Core was generated by `./gen-core abc def'.
However, this information comes from the psinfo structure in the core
file, and this struct only allows 80 characters for the command and
arguments combined. If the command and arguments exceed this then
they are truncated.
Additionally, neither the executable nor the arguments are quoted in
the psinfo structure, so if, for example, the executable was named
'aaa bbb' (i.e. contains white space) and was run with the arguments
'ccc' and 'ddd', then when this core file was opened by GDB we'd see:
(gdb) core-file ./core.521524
[New LWP 521524]
Core was generated by `./aaa bbb ccc ddd'.
It is impossible to know if 'bbb' is part of the executable filename,
or another argument.
However, the kernel places the executable command onto the user stack,
this is pointed to by the AT_EXECFN entry in the auxv vector.
Additionally, the inferior arguments are all available on the user
stack. The new gdbarch method added in this commit extracts this
information from the user stack and allows GDB to access it.
The information on the stack is writable by the user, so a user
application can start up, edit the arguments, override the AT_EXECFN
string, and then dump core. In this case GDB will report incorrect
information, however, it is worth noting that the psinfo structure is
also filled (by the kernel) by just copying information from the user
stack, so, if the user edits the on stack arguments, the values
reported in psinfo will change, so the new approach is no worse than
what we currently have.
The benefit of this approach is that GDB gets to report the full
executable name and all the arguments without the 80 character limit,
and GDB is aware which parts are the executable name, and which parts
are arguments, so we can, for example, style the executable name.
Another benefit is that, now we know all the arguments, we can poke
these into the inferior object. This means that after loading a core
file a user can 'show args' to see the arguments used. A user could
even transition from core file debugging to live inferior debugging
using, e.g. 'run', and GDB would restart the inferior with the correct
arguments.
Now the downside: finding the AT_EXECFN string is easy, the auxv entry
points directly too it. However, finding the arguments is a little
trickier. There's currently no easy way to get a direct pointer to
the arguments. Instead, I've got a heuristic which I believe should
find the arguments in most cases. The algorithm is laid out in
linux-tdep.c, I'll not repeat it here, but it's basically a search of
the user stack, starting from AT_EXECFN.
If the new heuristic fails then GDB just falls back to the old
approach, asking bfd to read the psinfo structure for us, which gives
the old 80 character limited answer.
For testing, I've run this series on (all GNU/Linux) x86-64. s390,
ppc64le, and the new test passes in each case. I've done some very
basic testing on ARM which does things a little different than the
other architectures mentioned, see ARM specific notes in
linux_corefile_parse_exec_context_1 for details.
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The dictionary contains a few entries with capital letters:
...
$ grep -E '[A-Z]' .git/wikipedia-common-misspellings.txt | wc -l
143
...
but they don't look too interesting in the gdb context (for instance,
Habsbourg->Habsburg), so filter them out.
That leaves us with entries looking only like "foobat->foobar", so add
handling of capitalized words, such that we also rewrite "Foobat" to "Foobar".
Tested on aarch64-linux. Verified with shellcheck.
Approved-by: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
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This changes a few implementations of "info proc mappings" to use
ui-out tables rather than printf.
Note that NetBSD and FreeBSD also use printfs here, but since I can't
test these, I didn't update them.
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
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Fix the following common misspellings:
...
accidently -> accidentally
additonal -> additional
addresing -> addressing
adress -> address
agaisnt -> against
albiet -> albeit
arbitary -> arbitrary
artifical -> artificial
auxillary -> auxiliary
auxilliary -> auxiliary
bcak -> back
begining -> beginning
cannonical -> canonical
compatiblity -> compatibility
completetion -> completion
diferent -> different
emited -> emitted
emiting -> emitting
emmitted -> emitted
everytime -> every time
excercise -> exercise
existance -> existence
fucntion -> function
funtion -> function
guarentee -> guarantee
htis -> this
immediatly -> immediately
layed -> laid
noone -> no one
occurances -> occurrences
occured -> occurred
originaly -> originally
preceeded -> preceded
preceeds -> precedes
propogate -> propagate
publically -> publicly
refering -> referring
substract -> subtract
substracting -> subtracting
substraction -> subtraction
taht -> that
targetting -> targeting
teh -> the
thier -> their
thru -> through
transfered -> transferred
transfering -> transferring
upto -> up to
vincinity -> vicinity
whcih -> which
whereever -> wherever
wierd -> weird
withing -> within
writen -> written
wtih -> with
doesnt -> doesn't
...
Tested on x86_64-linux.
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Remove some includes reported as unused by clangd. Add some includes in
other files that were previously relying on the transitive include.
Change-Id: Ibdd0a998b04d21362a20d0ca8e5267e21e2e133e
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Most files including gdbcmd.h currently rely on it to access things
actually declared in cli/cli-cmds.h (setlist, showlist, etc). To make
things easy, replace all includes of gdbcmd.h with includes of
cli/cli-cmds.h. This might lead to some unused includes of
cli/cli-cmds.h, but it's harmless, and much faster than going through
the 170 or so files by hand.
Change-Id: I11f884d4d616c12c05f395c98bbc2892950fb00f
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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Now that defs.h, server.h and common-defs.h are included via the
`-include` option, it is no longer necessary for source files to include
them. Remove all the inclusions of these files I could find. Update
the generation scripts where relevant.
Change-Id: Ia026cff269c1b7ae7386dd3619bc9bb6a5332837
Approved-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
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The core_bfd macro hides a use of current_program_space. Remove it, so
that we have the opportunity to get the program space from the context,
if possible. I guess that the macro was introduced at some point to
replace a global variable of the same name without changing all the
uses.
Change-Id: I971a65b29b5e5a5941f3cb7ea234547daa787268
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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This commit is the result of the following actions:
- Running gdb/copyright.py to update all of the copyright headers to
include 2024,
- Manually updating a few files the copyright.py script told me to
update, these files had copyright headers embedded within the
file,
- Regenerating gdbsupport/Makefile.in to refresh it's copyright
date,
- Using grep to find other files that still mentioned 2023. If
these files were updated last year from 2022 to 2023 then I've
updated them this year to 2024.
I'm sure I've probably missed some dates. Feel free to fix them up as
you spot them.
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C++17 makes the second parameter to static_assert optional, so we can
remove gdb_static_assert now.
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When using the gcore command, GDB prints the following warning:
(gdb) gcore
warning: target file /proc/.../cmdline contained unexpected null characters
The reason is that cmdline is read with target_fileio_read_stralloc(),
which warns on seeing null characters. However, it's perfectly valid
for cmdline to contain \0s, so switch to target_fileio_read_alloc().
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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Given that GDB now requires a C++17, replace all uses of
gdb::string_view with std::string_view.
This change has mostly been done automatically:
- gdb::string_view -> std::string_view
- #include "gdbsupport/gdb_string_view.h" -> #include <string_view>
One things which got brought up during review is that gdb::stging_view
does support being built from "nullptr" while std::sting_view does not.
Two places are manually adjusted to account for this difference:
gdb/tui/tui-io.c:tui_getc_1 and
gdbsupport/format.h:format_piece::format_piece.
The above automatic change transformed
"gdb::to_string (const gdb::string_view &)" into
"gdb::to_string (const std::string_view &)". The various direct users
of this function are now explicitly including
"gdbsupport/gdb_string_view.h". A later patch will remove the users of
gdb::to_string.
The implementation and tests of gdb::string_view are unchanged, they will
be removed in a following patch.
Change-Id: Ibb806a7e9c79eb16a55c87c6e41ad396fecf0207
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Approved-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
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Since GDB now requires C++17, we don't need the internally maintained
gdb::optional implementation. This patch does the following replacing:
- gdb::optional -> std::optional
- gdb::in_place -> std::in_place
- #include "gdbsupport/gdb_optional.h" -> #include <optional>
This change has mostly been done automatically. One exception is
gdbsupport/thread-pool.* which did not use the gdb:: prefix as it
already lives in the gdb namespace.
Change-Id: I19a92fa03e89637bab136c72e34fd351524f65e9
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Approved-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
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Use the gdb::byte_vector typedef when possible.
Change-Id: Ib2199201c052496992011ea02979de023d4d8a9a
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Make the inferior's gdbarch field private, and add getters and setters.
This helped me by allowing putting breakpoints on set_arch to know when
the inferior's arch was set. A subsequent patch in this series also
adds more things in set_arch.
Change-Id: I0005bd1ef4cd6b612af501201cec44e457998eec
Reviewed-By: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
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core files
When we have a core file generated by gdb (via the gcore command), gdb dumps
the target description to a note. During loading of that core file, gdb will
first try to load that saved target description.
This works fine for almost all architectures. But AArch64 has a few
dynamically-generated target descriptions/gdbarch depending on the vector
length that was in use at the time the core file was generated.
The target description gdb dumps to the core file note is the one generated
at the time of attachment/startup. If, for example, the SVE vector length
changed during execution, this would not reflect on the core file, as gdb
would still dump the initial target description.
Another issue is that the gdbarch potentially doesn't match the thread's
real gdbarch, and so things like the register cache may have different formats
and sizes.
To address this, fetch the thread's architecture before dumping its register
state. That way we will always use the correct target description/gdbarch.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
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This struct type seems to have been used in the past as a callback
parameter. Now it seems that case is no longer true, so we can simplify
things by passing the individual parameters linux_core_thread_data
encapsulates directly to the functions.
This is just a cleanup before the next change.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
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When creating a core file from within GDB we include a NT_GDB_TDESC
that includes the target description of the architecture in use.
For architectures with dynamic architectures (e.g. AArch64 with
sve/sme) the original architecture, calculated from the original
target description, might not match the per-thread architecture.
In the general case, where each thread has a different architecture,
then we really need a separate NT_GDB_TDESC for each thread, however,
there's currently no way to read in multiple NT_GDB_TDESC.
This commit is a step towards per-thread NT_GDB_TDESC. In this commit
I have updated the function that writes the NT_GDB_TDESC to accept a
gdbarch (rather than calling target_gdbarch() to find a gdbarch), and
I now pass in the gdbarch of the signalled thread.
In many cases (though NOT all) targets with dynamic architectures
really only use a single architecture, even when there are multiple
threads, so in the common case, this should ensure that GDB emits an
architecture that is more likely to be correct.
Additional work will be needed in order to support corefiles with
truly per-thread architectures, but that will need to be done in the
future.
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I noticed a comment by an include and remembered that I think these
don't really provide much value -- sometimes they are just editorial,
and sometimes they are obsolete. I think it's better to just remove
them. Tested by rebuilding.
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
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The upcoming patch to support exec in the amd-dbgapi target needs to
detach amd-dbgapi from the inferior doing the exec and attach amd-dbgapi
to the inferior continuing the execution. They may or may not be the
same, depending on the `set follow-exec-mode` setting. But even if they
are the same, we need to do the detach / attach dance.
With the current observable signature, the observers only receive the
inferior in which execution continues (the "following" inferior).
Change the signature to pass both inferiors, and update all existing
observers.
Change-Id: I259d1ea09f70f43be739378d6023796f2fce2659
Reviewed-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
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This commit tweaks displaced_step_finish & friends to pass down a
target_waitstatus instead of a gdb_signal. This is needed because a
patch later in the step-over-{thread-exit,clone] series will want to
make displaced_step_buffers::finish handle
TARGET_WAITKIND_THREAD_EXITED. It also helps with the
TARGET_WAITKIND_THREAD_CLONED patch later in that same series.
It's also a bit more logical this way, as we don't have to pass down
signals when the thread didn't actually stop for a signal. So we can
also think of it as a clean up.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27338
Change-Id: I4c5d338647b028071bc498c4e47063795a2db4c0
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
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This unifies arch_integer_type and init_integer_type by using a type
allocator.
Reviewed-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
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This removes arch_type, replacing all uses with the new type
allocator.
Reviewed-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
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The gdbarch::max_insn_length field is used mostly to support displaced
stepping; it controls the size of the buffers allocated for the
displaced-step instruction, and is also used when first copying the
instruction, and later, when fixing up the instruction, in order to
read in and parse the instruction being stepped.
However, it has started to be used in other places in GDB, for
example, it's used in the Python disassembler API, and it is used on
amd64 as part of branch-tracing instruction classification.
The problem is that the value assigned to max_insn_length is not
always the maximum instruction length, but sometimes is a multiple of
that length, as required to support displaced stepping, see rs600,
ARM, and AArch64 for examples of this.
It seems to me that we are overloading the meaning of the
max_insn_length field, and I think that could potentially lead to
confusion.
I propose that we add a new gdbarch field,
gdbarch::displaced_step_buffer_length, this new field will do
exactly what it says on the tin; represent the required displaced step
buffer size. The max_insn_length field can then do exactly what it
claims to do; represent the maximum length of a single instruction.
As some architectures (e.g. i386, and amd64) only require their
displaced step buffers to be a single instruction in size, I propose
that the default for displaced_step_buffer_length will be the
value of max_insn_length. Architectures than need more buffer space
can then override this default as needed.
I've updated all architectures to setup the new field if appropriate,
and I've audited all calls to gdbarch_max_insn_length and switched to
gdbarch_displaced_step_buffer_length where appropriate.
There should be no user visible changes after this commit.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
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This commit is the result of running the gdb/copyright.py script,
which automated the update of the copyright year range for all
source files managed by the GDB project to be updated to include
year 2023.
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There were no comments in some instances (gdb/defs.h, gdb/core.c and
gdb/linux-tdep.c), so address that by adding comments where those are missing.
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In glibc, the r_debug structure contains (amongst others) the following
fields:
int r_version:
Version number for this protocol. It should be greater than 0.
If r_version is 2, struct r_debug is extended to struct r_debug_extended
with one additional field:
struct r_debug_extended *r_next;
Link to the next r_debug_extended structure. Each r_debug_extended
structure represents a different namespace. The first r_debug_extended
structure is for the default namespace.
1. Change solib_svr4_r_map argument to take the debug base.
2. Add solib_svr4_r_next to find the link map in the next namespace from
the r_next field.
3. Update svr4_current_sos_direct to get the link map in the next namespace
from the r_next field.
4. Don't check shared libraries in other namespaces when updating shared
libraries in a new namespace.
5. Update svr4_same to check the load offset in addition to the name
6. Update svr4_default_sos to also set l_addr_inferior
7. Change the flat solib_list into a per-namespace list using the
namespace's r_debug address to identify the namespace.
Add gdb.base/dlmopen.exp to test this.
To remain backwards compatible with older gdbserver, we reserve the
namespace zero for a flat list of solibs from all namespaces. Subsequent
patches will extend RSP to allow listing libraries grouped by namespace.
This fixes PR 11839.
Co-authored-by: Lu, Hongjiu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
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There's a flaw in the interaction of the auxv caching and the fact that
target_auxv_search allows reading auxv from an arbitrary target_ops
(passed in as a parameter). This has consequences as explained in this
thread:
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb-patches/20220719144542.1478037-1-luis.machado@arm.com/
In summary, when loading an AArch64 core file with MTE support by
passing the executable and core file names directly to GDB, we see the
MTE info:
$ ./gdb -nx --data-directory=data-directory -q aarch64-mte-gcore aarch64-mte-gcore.core
...
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault
Memory tag violation while accessing address 0x0000ffff8ef5e000
Allocation tag 0x1
Logical tag 0x0.
#0 0x0000aaaade3d0b4c in ?? ()
(gdb)
But if we do it as two separate commands (file and core) we don't:
$ ./gdb -nx --data-directory=data-directory -q -ex "file aarch64-mte-gcore" -ex "core aarch64-mte-gcore.core"
...
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0 0x0000aaaade3d0b4c in ?? ()
(gdb)
The problem with the latter is that auxv data gets improperly cached
between the two commands. When executing the file command, auxv gets
first queried here, when loading the executable:
#0 target_auxv_search (ops=0x55555b842400 <exec_ops>, match=0x9, valp=0x7fffffffc5d0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/auxv.c:383
#1 0x0000555557e576f2 in svr4_exec_displacement (displacementp=0x7fffffffc8c0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib-svr4.c:2482
#2 0x0000555557e594d1 in svr4_relocate_main_executable () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib-svr4.c:2878
#3 0x0000555557e5989e in svr4_solib_create_inferior_hook (from_tty=1) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib-svr4.c:2933
#4 0x0000555557e6e49f in solib_create_inferior_hook (from_tty=1) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib.c:1253
#5 0x0000555557f33e29 in symbol_file_command (args=0x7fffffffe01c "aarch64-mte-gcore", from_tty=1) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/symfile.c:1655
#6 0x00005555573319c3 in file_command (arg=0x7fffffffe01c "aarch64-mte-gcore", from_tty=1) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/exec.c:555
#7 0x0000555556e47185 in do_simple_func (args=0x7fffffffe01c "aarch64-mte-gcore", from_tty=1, c=0x612000047740) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cli/cli-decode.c:95
#8 0x0000555556e551c9 in cmd_func (cmd=0x612000047740, args=0x7fffffffe01c "aarch64-mte-gcore", from_tty=1) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/cli/cli-decode.c:2543
#9 0x00005555580e63fd in execute_command (p=0x7fffffffe02c "e", from_tty=1) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/top.c:692
#10 0x0000555557771913 in catch_command_errors (command=0x5555580e55ad <execute_command(char const*, int)>, arg=0x7fffffffe017 "file aarch64-mte-gcore", from_tty=1, do_bp_actions=true) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:513
#11 0x0000555557771fba in execute_cmdargs (cmdarg_vec=0x7fffffffd570, file_type=CMDARG_FILE, cmd_type=CMDARG_COMMAND, ret=0x7fffffffd230) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:608
#12 0x00005555577755ac in captured_main_1 (context=0x7fffffffda10) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:1299
#13 0x0000555557775c2d in captured_main (data=0x7fffffffda10) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:1320
#14 0x0000555557775cc2 in gdb_main (args=0x7fffffffda10) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:1345
#15 0x00005555568bdcbe in main (argc=10, argv=0x7fffffffdba8) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/gdb.c:32
Here, target_auxv_search is called on the inferior's target stack. The
target stack only contains the exec target, so the query returns empty
auxv data. This gets cached for that inferior in `auxv_inferior_data`.
In its constructor (before it is pushed to the inferior's target stack),
the core_target needs to identify the right target description from the
core, and for that asks the gdbarch to read a target description from
the core file. Because some implementations of
gdbarch_core_read_description (such as AArch64's) need to read auxv data
from the core in order to determine the right target description, the
core_target passes a pointer to itself, allowing implementations to call
target_auxv_search it. However, because we have previously cached
(empty) auxv data for that inferior, target_auxv_search searched that
cached (empty) auxv data, not auxv data read from the core. Remember
that this data was obtained by reading auxv on the inferior's target
stack, which only contained an exec target.
The problem I see is that while target_auxv_search offers the
flexibility of reading from an arbitrary (passed as an argument) target,
the caching doesn't do the distinction of which target is being queried,
and where the cached data came from. So, you could read auxv from a
target A, it gets cached, then you try to read auxv from a target B, and
it returns the cached data from target A. That sounds wrong. In our
case, we expect to read different auxv data from the core target than
what we have read from the target stack earlier, so it doesn't make
sense to hit the cache in this case.
To fix this, I propose splitting the code paths that read auxv data from
an inferior's target stack and those that read from a passed-in target.
The code path that reads from the target stack will keep caching,
whereas the one that reads from a passed-in target won't. And since,
searching in auxv data is independent from where this data came from,
split the "read" part from the "search" part.
From what I understand, auxv caching was introduced mostly to reduce
latency on remote connections, when doing many queries. With the change
I propose, only the queries done while constructing the core_target
end up not using cached auxv data. This is fine, because there are just
a handful of queries max, done at this point, and reading core files is
local.
The changes to auxv functions are:
- Introduce 2 target_read_auxv functions. One reads from an explicit
target_ops and doesn't do caching (to be used in
gdbarch_core_read_description context). The other takes no argument,
reads from the current inferior's target stack (it looks just like a
standard target function wrapper) and does caching.
The first target_read_auxv actually replaces get_auxv_inferior_data,
since it became a trivial wrapper around it.
- Change the existing target_auxv_search to not read auxv data from the
target, but to accept it as a parameter (a gdb::byte_vector). This
function doesn't care where the data came from, it just searches in
it. It still needs to take a target_ops and gdbarch to know how to
parse auxv entries.
- Add a convenience target_auxv_search overload that reads auxv
data from the inferior's target stack and searches in it. This
overload is useful to replace the exist target_auxv_search calls that
passed the `current_inferior ()->top_target ()` target and keep the
call sites short.
- Modify parse_auxv to accept a target_ops and gdbarch to use for
parsing entries. Not strictly related to the rest of this change,
but it seems like a good change in the context.
Changes in architecture-specific files (tdep and nat):
- In linux-tdep, linux_get_hwcap and linux_get_hwcap2 get split in two,
similar to target_auxv_search. One version receives auxv data,
target and arch as parameters. The other gets everything from the
current inferior. The latter is for convenience, to avoid making
call sites too ugly.
- Call sites of linux_get_hwcap and linux_get_hwcap2 are adjusted to
use either of the new versions. The call sites in
gdbarch_core_read_description context explicitly read auxv data from
the passed-in target and call the linux_get_hwcap{,2} function with
parameters. Other call sites use the versions without parameters.
- Same idea for arm_fbsd_read_description_auxv.
- Call sites of target_auxv_search that passed
`current_inferior ()->top_target ()` are changed to use the
target_auxv_search overload that works in the current inferior.
Reviewed-By: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Reviewed-By: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
Change-Id: Ib775a220cf1e76443fb7da2fdff8fc631128fe66
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Converting from free-form macros to an enum gives a bit of type-safety.
This caught places where we would assign host error numbers to what
should contain a target fileio error number, for instance in
target_fileio_pread.
I added the FILEIO_SUCCESS enumerator, because
remote.c:remote_hostio_parse_result initializes the remote_errno output
variable to 0. It seems better to have an explicit enumerator than to
assign a value for which there is no enumerator. I considered
initializing this variable to FILEIO_EUNKNOWN instead, such that if the
remote side replies with an error and omits the errno value, we'll get
an errno that represents an error instead of 0 (which reprensents no
error). But it's not clear what the consequences of that change would
be, so I prefer to err on the side of caution and just keep the existing
behavior (there is no intended change in behavior with this patch).
Note that remote_hostio_parse_resul still reads blindly what the remote
side sends as a target errno into this variable, so we can still end up
with a nonsensical value here. It's not good, but out of the scope of
this patch.
Convert host_to_fileio_error and fileio_errno_to_host to return / accept
a fileio_error instead of an int, and cascade the change in the whole
chain that uses that.
Change-Id: I454b0e3fcf0732447bc872252fa8e57d138b0e03
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Remove the macro, replace all uses with calls to type::length.
Change-Id: Ib9bdc954576860b21190886534c99103d6a47afb
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Add the `target_type` and `set_target_type` methods on `struct type`, in order
to remove the `TYPE_TARGET_TYPE` macro. In this patch, the macro is changed to
use the getter, so all the call sites of the macro that are used as a setter
are changed to use the setter method directly. The next patch will remove the
macro completely.
Change-Id: I85ce24d847763badd34fdee3e14b8c8c14cb3161
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gdbarch implements its own registry-like approach. This patch changes
it to instead use registry.h. It's a rather large patch but largely
uninteresting -- it's mostly a straightforward conversion from the old
approach to the new one.
The main benefit of this change is that it introduces type safety to
the gdbarch registry. It also removes a bunch of code.
One possible drawback is that, previously, the gdbarch registry
differentiated between pre- and post-initialization setup. This
doesn't seem very important to me, though.
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This rewrites registry.h, removing all the macros and replacing it
with relatively ordinary template classes. The result is less code
than the previous setup. It replaces large macros with a relatively
straightforward C++ class, and now manages its own cleanup.
The existing type-safe "key" class is replaced with the equivalent
template class. This approach ended up requiring relatively few
changes to the users of the registry code in gdb -- code using the key
system just required a small change to the key's declaration.
All existing users of the old C-like API are now converted to use the
type-safe API. This mostly involved changing explicit deletion
functions to be an operator() in a deleter class.
The old "save/free" two-phase process is removed, and replaced with a
single "free" phase. No existing code used both phases.
The old "free" callbacks took a parameter for the enclosing container
object. However, this wasn't truly needed and is removed here as
well.
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Teach GDB how to dump memory tags for AArch64 when using the gcore command
and how to read memory tag data back from a core file generated by GDB
(via gcore) or by the Linux kernel.
The format is documented in the Linux Kernel documentation [1].
Each tagged memory range (listed in /proc/<pid>/smaps) gets dumped to its
own PT_AARCH64_MEMTAG_MTE segment. A section named ".memtag" is created for each
of those segments when reading the core file back.
To save a little bit of space, given MTE tags only take 4 bits, the memory tags
are stored packed as 2 tags per byte.
When reading the data back, the tags are unpacked.
I've added a new testcase to exercise the feature.
Build-tested with --enable-targets=all and regression tested on aarch64-linux
Ubuntu 20.04.
[1] Documentation/arm64/memory-tagging-extension.rst (Core Dump Support)
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Now that filtered and unfiltered output can be treated identically, we
can unify the printf family of functions. This is done under the name
"gdb_printf". Most of this patch was written by script.
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Now that filtered and unfiltered output can be treated identically, we
can unify the puts family of functions. This is done under the name
"gdb_puts". Most of this patch was written by script.
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Since commit aa2d5a422 gdb has been able to read executable and shared
library build-ids within core files.
Expand this functionality so that each core file bfd maintains a map of
soname to build-id for each shared library referenced in the core file.
This feature may be used to verify that gdb has found the correct shared
libraries for core files and to facilitate downloading shared libaries via
debuginfod.
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Commit 29ef4c0699e1 ("gdb/linux-tdep.c: Add Perms to the 'info proc
mappings' output") has broken test gdb.base/info-proc.exp on Linux,
because it changes the output of "info proc mappings" in a way that the
test does not expect (my bad for not testing before pushing).
I looked at how FreeBSD handles this, since I remembered it did show
permission flags. It looks like this:
Start Addr End Addr Size Offset Flags File
0x200000 0x243000 0x43000 0x0 r-- CN-- /usr/local/bin/tmux
(I think that `Flags` and the flags not being aligned is not
intentional)
The test passes on FreeBSD, because the test looks for four hex numbers
in a row and ignores the rest:
".*Mapped address spaces:.*${hex}${ws}${hex}${ws}${hex}${ws}${hex}.*"
I suggest fixing it on Linux by moving the flags column to the same
place as in the FreeBSD output. It makes things a bit more consistent
between OSes, and we don't have to touch the test.
At the same time, make use of the actual length of the permission's
string to specify the number of characters to print.
Before this patch, the output looks like:
Start Addr End Addr Perms Size Offset objfile
0x55dd4b544000 0x55dd4b546000 r--p 0x2000 0x0 /usr/bin/sleep
and after, it looks like:
Start Addr End Addr Size Offset Perms objfile
0x5622ae662000 0x5622ae664000 0x2000 0x0 r--p /usr/bin/sleep
Change-Id: If0fc167b010b25f97a3c54e2f491df4973ccde8f
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Change read_mapping to return a structure instead of taking many output
parameters. Change the string + length output parameters (permissions
and device) to be gdb::string_view, since that's what string_view is
for (a non-NULL terminated view on a string). No changes in behavior
expected.
Change-Id: I86e627d84d3dda8c9b835592b0f4de8d90d12112
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Fixes #28914 and so it adds a 'Perms' (permissions) column to the
'info proc mappings' command output. This will allow users to know
the memory pages permissions right away from GDB instead of having
to fetch them from the /proc/$pid/maps file (which is also what GDB
does internally, but it just did not print that column).
Below I am also showing how an example output looks like before and
after this commit in case someone wonders.
On i386 targets - before this commit:
```
(gdb) info proc mappings
process 3461464
Mapped address spaces:
Start Addr End Addr Size Offset objfile
0x56555000 0x56556000 0x1000 0x0 /home/dc/src/binutils-gdb/build/a.out
0x56556000 0x56557000 0x1000 0x1000 /home/dc/src/binutils-gdb/build/a.out
0x56557000 0x56558000 0x1000 0x2000 /home/dc/src/binutils-gdb/build/a.out
0x56558000 0x5655a000 0x2000 0x2000 /home/dc/src/binutils-gdb/build/a.out
0xf7fc4000 0xf7fc8000 0x4000 0x0 [vvar]
0xf7fc8000 0xf7fca000 0x2000 0x0 [vdso]
0xf7fca000 0xf7fcb000 0x1000 0x0 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.33.so
0xf7fcb000 0xf7fee000 0x23000 0x1000 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.33.so
0xf7fee000 0xf7ffb000 0xd000 0x24000 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.33.so
0xf7ffb000 0xf7ffe000 0x3000 0x30000 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.33.so
0xfffdc000 0xffffe000 0x22000 0x0 [stack]
(gdb)
```
On i386 targets - after this commit:
```
(gdb) info proc mappings
process 3461464
Mapped address spaces:
Start Addr End Addr Perms Size Offset objfile
0x56555000 0x56556000 r--p 0x1000 0x0 /home/dc/src/binutils-gdb/build/a.out
0x56556000 0x56557000 r-xp 0x1000 0x1000 /home/dc/src/binutils-gdb/build/a.out
0x56557000 0x56558000 r--p 0x1000 0x2000 /home/dc/src/binutils-gdb/build/a.out
0x56558000 0x5655a000 rw-p 0x2000 0x2000 /home/dc/src/binutils-gdb/build/a.out
0xf7fc4000 0xf7fc8000 r--p 0x4000 0x0 [vvar]
0xf7fc8000 0xf7fca000 r-xp 0x2000 0x0 [vdso]
0xf7fca000 0xf7fcb000 r--p 0x1000 0x0 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.33.so
0xf7fcb000 0xf7fee000 r-xp 0x23000 0x1000 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.33.so
0xf7fee000 0xf7ffb000 r--p 0xd000 0x24000 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.33.so
0xf7ffb000 0xf7ffe000 rw-p 0x3000 0x30000 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.33.so
0xfffdc000 0xffffe000 rw-p 0x22000 0x0 [stack]
(gdb)
```
On amd64 targets - after this commit:
```
(gdb) info proc mappings
process 3461869
Mapped address spaces:
Start Addr End Addr Perms Size Offset objfile
0x555555554000 0x555555555000 r--p 0x1000 0x0 /home/dc/src/binutils-gdb/build/a.out
0x555555555000 0x555555556000 r-xp 0x1000 0x1000 /home/dc/src/binutils-gdb/build/a.out
0x555555556000 0x555555557000 r--p 0x1000 0x2000 /home/dc/src/binutils-gdb/build/a.out
0x555555557000 0x555555559000 rw-p 0x2000 0x2000 /home/dc/src/binutils-gdb/build/a.out
0x7ffff7fc3000 0x7ffff7fc7000 r--p 0x4000 0x0 [vvar]
0x7ffff7fc7000 0x7ffff7fc9000 r-xp 0x2000 0x0 [vdso]
0x7ffff7fc9000 0x7ffff7fca000 r--p 0x1000 0x0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.33.so
0x7ffff7fca000 0x7ffff7ff1000 r-xp 0x27000 0x1000 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.33.so
0x7ffff7ff1000 0x7ffff7ffb000 r--p 0xa000 0x28000 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.33.so
0x7ffff7ffb000 0x7ffff7fff000 rw-p 0x4000 0x31000 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.33.so
0x7ffffffdd000 0x7ffffffff000 rw-p 0x22000 0x0 [stack]
0xffffffffff600000 0xffffffffff601000 --xp 0x1000 0x0 [vsyscall]
(gdb)
```
Signed-off-by: Dominik 'Disconnect3d' Czarnota <dominik.b.czarnota@gmail.com>
Change-Id: I4991f6cc758cd532eae3ae98c29d22e7bd9d9c36
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This moves the gdb_regex convenience class to gdbsupport.
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This moves the gdb-specific obstack code -- both extensions like
obconcat and obstack_strdup, and things like auto_obstack -- to
gdbsupport.
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This patch adds information about _sigsys structure from newer
kernels, so that $_siginfo decoding can show information about
_sigsys, making it easier for developers to debug seccomp failures.
Requested in PR gdb/24283.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24283
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This commit brings all the changes made by running gdb/copyright.py
as per GDB's Start of New Year Procedure.
For the avoidance of doubt, all changes in this commits were
performed by the script.
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Add aliases read_core_file_mappings_loop_ftype and
read_core_file_mappings_pre_loop_ftype. Intended for use with
read_core_file_mappings.
Also add build_id parameter to read_core_file_mappings_loop_ftype.
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The r_ldsomap field is specific to Solaris (part of librtld_db), and
should never be accessed for Linux. glibc is planning to add a field
to support multiple namespaces. But there will be no r_ldsomap when
r_version is bumped to 2. Add linux_[ilp32|lp64]_fetch_link_map_offsets
to set r_ldsomap_offset to -1 and use them for Linux targets.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28236
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With the current code, both a NULL pointer and an empty string can mean
"no arguments". We don't need this distinction. Changing to a string
has the advantage that there is now a single state for that (an empty
string), which makes the code a bit simpler in my opinion.
Change-Id: Icdc622820f7869478791dbaa84b4a1c7fec21ced
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Add args/set_args to the inferior class, remove the set_inferior_args
and get_inferior_args functions, that would just be wrappers around
them.
Change-Id: If87d52f3402ce08be26c32897ae8915d9f6d1ea3
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