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author | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2021-12-28 22:52:56 +0100 |
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committer | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2021-12-28 22:52:56 +0100 |
commit | 5d28a8962dcb6ec056b81d730e3c6fb57185a210 (patch) | |
tree | 3d714aaef575deba322fa5a1e29c76c6f96dc850 /manual | |
parent | 83b8d5027d2f80c4603cd706da95d6c9a09a4e16 (diff) | |
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elf: Add _dl_find_object function
It can be used to speed up the libgcc unwinder, and the internal
_dl_find_dso_for_object function (which is used for caller
identification in dlopen and related functions, and in dladdr).
_dl_find_object is in the internal namespace due to bug 28503.
If libgcc switches to _dl_find_object, this namespace issue will
be fixed. It is located in libc for two reasons: it is necessary
to forward the call to the static libc after static dlopen, and
there is a link ordering issue with -static-libgcc and libgcc_eh.a
because libc.so is not a linker script that includes ld.so in the
glibc build tree (so that GCC's internal -lc after libgcc_eh.a does
not pick up ld.so).
It is necessary to do the i386 customization in the
sysdeps/x86/bits/dl_find_object.h header shared with x86-64 because
otherwise, multilib installations are broken.
The implementation uses software transactional memory, as suggested
by Torvald Riegel. Two copies of the supporting data structures are
used, also achieving full async-signal-safety.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'manual')
-rw-r--r-- | manual/Makefile | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | manual/dynlink.texi | 137 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | manual/libdl.texi | 10 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | manual/probes.texi | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | manual/threads.texi | 2 |
5 files changed, 140 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/manual/Makefile b/manual/Makefile index e834443..3167868 100644 --- a/manual/Makefile +++ b/manual/Makefile @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ chapters = $(addsuffix .texi, \ pipe socket terminal syslog math arith time \ resource setjmp signal startup process ipc job \ nss users sysinfo conf crypt debug threads \ - probes tunables) + dynlink probes tunables) appendices = lang.texi header.texi install.texi maint.texi platform.texi \ contrib.texi licenses = freemanuals.texi lgpl-2.1.texi fdl-1.3.texi diff --git a/manual/dynlink.texi b/manual/dynlink.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..54091be --- /dev/null +++ b/manual/dynlink.texi @@ -0,0 +1,137 @@ +@node Dynamic Linker +@c @node Dynamic Linker, Internal Probes, Threads, Top +@c %MENU% Loading programs and shared objects. +@chapter Dynamic Linker +@cindex dynamic linker +@cindex dynamic loader + +The @dfn{dynamic linker} is responsible for loading dynamically linked +programs and their dependencies (in the form of shared objects). The +dynamic linker in @theglibc{} also supports loading shared objects (such +as plugins) later at run time. + +Dynamic linkers are sometimes called @dfn{dynamic loaders}. + +@menu +* Dynamic Linker Introspection:: Interfaces for querying mapping information. +@end menu + +@node Dynamic Linker Introspection +@section Dynamic Linker Introspection + +@Theglibc{} provides various functions for querying information from the +dynamic linker. + +@deftp {Data Type} {struct dl_find_object} +@standards{GNU, dlfcn.h} +This structure contains information about a main program or loaded +object. The @code{_dl_find_object} function uses it to return +result data to the caller. + +@table @code +@item unsigned long long int dlfo_flags +Currently unused and always 0. + +@item void *dlfo_map_start +The start address of the inspected mapping. This information comes from +the program header, so it follows its convention, and the address is not +necessarily page-aligned. + +@item void *dlfo_map_end +The end address of the mapping. + +@item struct link_map *dlf_link_map +This member contains a pointer to the link map of the object. + +@item struct link_map *dlf_link_map +This member contains a pointer to the exception handling data of the +object. See @code{DLFO_EH_SEGMENT_TYPE} below. + +@end table + +This structure is a GNU extension. +@end deftp + +@deftypevr Macro int DLFO_STRUCT_HAS_EH_DBASE +@standards{GNU, dlfcn.h} +On most targets, this macro is defined as @code{0}. If it is defined to +@code{1}, @code{struct dl_find_object} contains an additional member +@code{dlfo_eh_dbase} of type @code{void *}. It is the base address for +@code{DW_EH_PE_datarel} DWARF encodings to this location. + +This macro is a GNU extension. +@end deftypevr + +@deftypevr Macro int DLFO_STRUCT_HAS_EH_COUNT +@standards{GNU, dlfcn.h} +On most targets, this macro is defined as @code{0}. If it is defined to +@code{1}, @code{struct dl_find_object} contains an additional member +@code{dlfo_eh_count} of type @code{int}. It is the number of exception +handling entries in the EH frame segment identified by the +@code{dlfo_eh_frame} member. + +This macro is a GNU extension. +@end deftypevr + +@deftypevr Macro int DLFO_EH_SEGMENT_TYPE +@standards{GNU, dlfcn.h} +On targets using DWARF-based exception unwinding, this macro expands to +@code{PT_GNU_EH_FRAME}. This indicates that @code{dlfo_eh_frame} in +@code{struct dl_find_object} points to the @code{PT_GNU_EH_FRAME} +segment of the object. On targets that use other unwinding formats, the +macro expands to the program header type for the unwinding data. + +This macro is a GNU extension. +@end deftypevr + +@deftypefun {int} _dl_find_object (void *@var{address}, struct dl_find_object *@var{result}) +@standards{GNU, dlfcn.h} +@safety{@mtsafe{}@assafe{}@acsafe{}} +On success, this function returns 0 and writes about the object +surrounding the address to @code{*@var{result}}. On failure, -1 is +returned. + +The @var{address} can be a code address or data address. On +architectures using function descriptors, no attempt is made to decode +the function descriptor. Depending on how these descriptors are +implemented, @code{_dl_find_object} may return the object that defines +the function descriptor (and not the object that contains the code +implementing the function), or fail to find any object at all. + +On success @var{address} is greater than or equal to +@code{@var{result}->dlfo_map_start} and less than +@code{@var{result}->dlfo_map_end}, that is, the supplied code address is +located within the reported mapping. + +This function returns a pointer to the unwinding information for the +object that contains the program code @var{address} in +@code{@var{result}->dlfo_eh_frame}. If the platform uses DWARF +unwinding information, this is the in-memory address of the +@code{PT_GNU_EH_FRAME} segment. See @code{DLFO_EH_SEGMENT_TYPE} above. +In case @var{address} resides in an object that lacks unwinding information, +the function still returns 0, but sets @code{@var{result}->dlfo_eh_frame} +to a null pointer. + +@code{_dl_find_object} itself is thread-safe. However, if the +application invokes @code{dlclose} for the object that contains +@var{address} concurrently with @code{_dl_find_object} or after the call +returns, accessing the unwinding data for that object or the link map +(through @code{@var{result}->dlfo_link_map}) is not safe. Therefore, the +application needs to ensure by other means (e.g., by convention) that +@var{address} remains a valid code address while the unwinding +information is processed. + +This function is a GNU extension. +@end deftypefun + + +@c FIXME these are undocumented: +@c dladdr +@c dladdr1 +@c dlclose +@c dlerror +@c dlinfo +@c dlmopen +@c dlopen +@c dlsym +@c dlvsym diff --git a/manual/libdl.texi b/manual/libdl.texi deleted file mode 100644 index e3fe045..0000000 --- a/manual/libdl.texi +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -@c FIXME these are undocumented: -@c dladdr -@c dladdr1 -@c dlclose -@c dlerror -@c dlinfo -@c dlmopen -@c dlopen -@c dlsym -@c dlvsym diff --git a/manual/probes.texi b/manual/probes.texi index 4aae76b..ee019e6 100644 --- a/manual/probes.texi +++ b/manual/probes.texi @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ @node Internal Probes -@c @node Internal Probes, Tunables, Threads, Top +@c @node Internal Probes, Tunables, Dynamic Linker, Top @c %MENU% Probes to monitor libc internal behavior @chapter Internal probes diff --git a/manual/threads.texi b/manual/threads.texi index ab44a92..4869f69 100644 --- a/manual/threads.texi +++ b/manual/threads.texi @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ @node Threads -@c @node Threads, Internal Probes, Debugging Support, Top +@c @node Threads, Dynamic Linker, Debugging Support, Top @c %MENU% Functions, constants, and data types for working with threads @chapter Threads @cindex threads |