With gcc-7, I run into:
...
gcc -c -I./ -gnata -Isrc/gdb/testsuite/gdb.ada/mi_prot -g -lm -I- \
src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.ada/mi_prot/prot.adb^M
prot.adb:21:04: info: "Obj_Type" is frozen here, aspects evaluated at this \
point^M
prot.adb:23:09: visibility of aspect for "Obj_Type" changes after freeze \
point^M
gnatmake: "src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.ada/mi_prot/prot.adb" compilation error^M
compiler exited with status 1
...
FAIL: gdb.ada/mi_prot.exp: compilation prot.adb
...
Fix this by requiring gnatmake-8 for this test-case.
Tested on x86_64-linux, with gnatmake-7, gnatmake-8 and gnatmake-11.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2020-07-24 Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
PR testsuite/26293
* gdb.ada/mi_prot.exp: Require gnatmake-8.
Fix a regression from commit a87e1817a4 ("Have the linker fail if any
attempt to link in an executable is made.") and do not reject ET_EXEC
input supplied with the `--just-symbols' option. Such use is legitimate
as the file requested is not actually linked and only the symbols are
extracted. Furthermore it is often the most useful application, as
already observed in our documentation for the option, where it allows
"to refer symbolically to absolute locations of memory defined in other
programs."
Provide a set of tests for the use of ET_EXEC with `--just-symbols'.
These are excluded however for SH/PE targets because they complain if a
section's VMA is 0:
ld: zero vma section reloc detected: `.text' #0 f=32795
ld: zero vma section reloc detected: `.data' #1 f=291
and for x86_64/PE targets because they seem to hardwire the VMA:
100000000 12000000 01000000 00000000 00000000 ................
ld/
PR ld/26288
* ldelf.c (ldelf_after_open): Do not reject ET_EXEC input
supplied with `--just-symbols'.
* testsuite/ld-misc/just-symbols.exp: New test script.
* testsuite/ld-misc/just-symbols-1.dd: New test dump.
* testsuite/ld-misc/just-symbols.ld: New test linker script.
* testsuite/ld-misc/just-symbols-0.s: New test source.
* testsuite/ld-misc/just-symbols-1.s: New test source.
Revert commit a3fc941881 ("Stop the linker from accepting executable
ELF files as inputs to other links."), which has been made obsolete by
commit a87e1817a4 ("Have the linker fail if any attempt to link in an
executable is made."). An earlier check triggers added with the latter
commit making the piece of code removed dead.
ld/
PR ld/26288
Revert:
PR 26047
* ldelf.c (ldelf_after_open): Fail if attempting to link one
executable into another.
This fixes yet another bug exposed by ASAN + multi-target.exp
Running an Asan-enabled GDB against gdb.multi/multi-target.exp exposed
yet another latent GDB bug. See here for the full log:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-July/170761.html
As Simon described, the problem is:
- We create a new frame_info object in restore_selected_frame (by
calling find_relative_frame)
- The frame is allocated on the frame_cache_obstack
- In frame_unwind_try_unwinder, we try to find an unwinder for that
frame
- While trying unwinders, memory read fails because the remote target
closes, because of "monitor exit"
- That calls reinit_frame_cache (as shown above), which resets
frame_cache_obstack
- When handling the exception in frame_unwind_try_unwinder, we try to
set some things on the frame_info object (like *this_cache, which
in fact tries to write into frame_info::prologue_cache), but the
frame_info object is no more, it went away with the obstack.
Fix this by maintaining a frame cache generation counter. Then in
exception handling code paths, don't touch frame objects if the
generation is not the same as it was on entry.
This commit generalizes the gdb.server/server-kill.exp testcase and
reuses it to test the scenario in question. The new tests fail
without the GDB fix.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* frame-unwind.c (frame_unwind_try_unwinder): On exception, don't
touch THIS_CACHE/THIS_FRAME if the frame cache was cleared
meanwhile.
* frame.c (frame_cache_generation, get_frame_cache_generation):
New.
(reinit_frame_cache): Increment FRAME_CACHE_GENERATION.
(get_prev_frame_if_no_cycle): On exception, don't touch
PREV_FRAME/THIS_FRAME if the frame cache was cleared meanwhile.
* frame.h (get_frame_cache_generation): Declare.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.server/server-kill.exp (prepare): New, factored out from the
top level.
(kill_server): New.
(test_tstatus, test_unwind_nosyms, test_unwind_syms): New.
(top level) : Call test_tstatus, test_unwind_nosyms, test_unwind_syms.
When compiling with CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS="-O0 -g -Wall" and using g++ 11.0.0, we
run into:
...
src/gdb/tui/tui-winsource.c: In function \
'void tui_update_all_breakpoint_info(breakpoint*)':
src/gdb/tui/tui-winsource.c:427:58: warning: '<unknown>' may be used \
uninitialized [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
427 | for (tui_source_window_base *win : tui_source_windows ())
| ^
In file included from src/gdb/tui/tui-winsource.c:38:
src/gdb/tui/tui-winsource.h:236:30: note: by argument 1 of type \
'const tui_source_windows*' to 'tui_source_window_iterator \
tui_source_windows::begin() const' declared here
236 | tui_source_window_iterator begin () const
| ^~~~~
src/gdb/tui/tui-winsource.c:427:58: note: '<anonymous>' declared here
427 | for (tui_source_window_base *win : tui_source_windows ())
| ^
...
The warning doesn't make sense for an empty struct, PR gcc/96295 has been
filed about that.
For now, work around the warning by defining a default constructor.
Build on x86_64-linux.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2020-07-23 Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
PR tui/26282
* tui/tui-winsource.h (struct tui_source_windows::tui_source_windows):
New default constructor.
After the introduction of support for non-statement addresses in the
line table, the output for 'disassemble /m' can be broken in some
cases.
With the /m format disassembly GDB associates a set of addresses with
each line, these addresses are then sorted and printed for each line.
When the non-statement support was added GDB was incorrectly told to
ignore non-statement instructions, and not add these to the result
table. This means that these instructions are completely missing from
the output.
This commit removes the code that caused non-statement lines to be
ignored.
A result of this change is that GDB will now potentially include new
line numbers in the 'disassemble /m' output, lines that previously
were only in the line table as non-statement lines will now appear in
the disassembly output. This feels like an improvement though.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* disasm.c (do_mixed_source_and_assembly_deprecated): Don't
exclude non-statement entries.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.dwarf2/dw2-disasm-over-non-stmt.exp: New file.
In commit 24ac169ac5, this patch:
2020-02-21 Shahab Vahedi <shahab@synopsys.com>
* lib/gdb.exp (gdb_wrapper_init): Reset
"gdb_wrapper_initialized" to 0 if "wrapper_file" does
not exist.
attempted to fix problems finding the gdb test wrapper gdb_tg.o in
some tests that cd to some non-default directory by rebuilding also
the test wrapper in that directory. This had the side-effect of
leaving these .o files in various places in the GDB source directory
tree.
Furthermore, while the tests that cd to some non-default directory
cannot run on remote host, the code that was added to probe for the
presence of the wrapper file was also specific to host == build.
This patch reverts the problematic parts of that commit and replaces
it with forcing use of an absolute (rather than relative) pathname to
the .o file for linking when host == build.
While debugging this patch, I also observed that use of the construct
"[info exists gdb_wrapper_file]" was not reliable for detecting when
that variable had been initialized by gdb_wrapper_init. I rewrote
that so that the variable is always initialized and has a value of an
empty string when no wrapper file is needed.
2020-07-22 Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com>
gdb/testsuite/
* lib/gdb.exp (gdb_wrapper_file, gdb_wrapper_flags):
Initialize to empty string at top level.
(gdb_wrapper_init): Revert check for file existence on build.
Build the wrapper in its default place, not a build-specific
location. When host == build, make the pathname absolute.
(gdb_compile): Delete leftover declaration of
gdb_wrapper_initialized. Check gdb_wrapper_file being an empty
string instead of uninitialized.
This test case was inspired by Pedro's demonstration of a problem
with my v2 patches. It can be found here:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-May/168826.html
In a nutshell, my earlier patches could not handle the case in
which a read-only mapping created with mmap() was created at
an address used by other file-backed read-only memory in use by
the process.
This problem has been fixed (for Linux, anyway) by the commit "Use
NT_FILE note section for reading core target memory".
When I run this test without any of my recent corefile patches,
I see these failures:
FAIL: gdb.base/corefile2.exp: kernel core: print/x mbuf_ro[0]@4
FAIL: gdb.base/corefile2.exp: kernel core: print/x mbuf_ro[pagesize-4]@4
FAIL: gdb.base/corefile2.exp: kernel core: print/x mbuf_ro[-3]@6
FAIL: gdb.base/corefile2.exp: kernel core: print/x mbuf_rw[pagesize-3]@6
FAIL: gdb.base/corefile2.exp: kernel core: print/x mbuf_ro[pagesize-3]@6
FAIL: gdb.base/corefile2.exp: maint print core-file-backed-mappings
FAIL: gdb.base/corefile2.exp: gcore core: print/x mbuf_ro[-3]@6
The ones involving mbuf_ro will almost certainly fail when run on
non-Linux systems; I've used setup_xfail on those tests to prevent
them from outright FAILing when not run on Linux. For a time, I
had considered skipping these tests altogether when not run on
Linux, but I changed my mind due to this failure...
FAIL: gdb.base/corefile2.exp: print/x mbuf_rw[pagesize-3]@6
I think it *should* pass without my recent corefile patches. The fact
that it doesn't is likely due to a bug in GDB. The following
interaction with GDB demonstrates the problem:
(gdb) print/x mbuf_rw[pagesize-3]@6
$1 = {0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0}
(gdb) print/x mbuf_rw[pagesize]@3
$2 = {0x6b, 0x6b, 0x6b}
The last three values in display of $1 should be the same as those
shown by $2. Like this...
(gdb) print/x mbuf_rw[pagesize-3]@6
$1 = {0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x6b, 0x6b, 0x6b}
(gdb) print/x mbuf_rw[pagesize]@3
$2 = {0x6b, 0x6b, 0x6b}
That latter output was obtained with the use of all of my current
corefile patches. I see no failures on Linux when running this test
with my current set of corefile patches. I tested 3 architectures:
x86_64, s390x, and aarch64.
I also tested on FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE. I see the following results
both with and without the current set of core file patches:
# of expected passes 26
# of expected failures 8
Of particular interest is that I did *not* see the problematic mbuf_rw
failure noted earlier (both with and without the core file patches).
I still don't have an explanation for why this failure occurred on
Linux. Prior to running the tests, I had hypothesized that I'd see
this failure on FreeBSD too, but testing shows that this is not the
case.
Also of importance is that we see no FAILs with this test on FreeBSD
which indicates that I XFAILed the correct tests.
This version runs the interesting tests twice, once with a kernel
created core file and another time with a gcore created core file.
It also does a very minimal test of the new command "maint print
core-file-backed-mappings".
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.base/corefile2.exp: New file.
* gdb.base/coremaker2.exp: New file.
I wrote a read_core_file_mappings method for FreeBSD and then registered
this gdbarch method. I saw some strange behavior while testing it and
wanted a way to make sure that mappings were being correctly loaded
into corelow.c, so I wrote the new command which is the topic of this
commit. I think it might be occasionally useful for debugging strange
corefile behavior.
With regard to FreeBSD, my work isn't ready yet. Unlike Linux,
FreeBSD puts all mappings into its core file note. And, unlike Linux,
it doesn't dump load segments which occupy no space in the file. So
my (perhaps naive) implementation of a FreeBSD read_core_file_mappings
didn't work all that well: I saw more failures in the corefile2.exp
tests than without it. I think it should be possible to make FreeBSD
work as well as Linux, but it will require doing something with all of
the mappings, not just the file based mappings that I was considering.
In the v4 series, Pedro asked the following:
I don't understand what this command provides that "info proc
mappings" doesn't? Can you give an example of when you'd use this
command over "info proc mappings" ?
On Linux, "info proc mappings" and "maint print core-file-backed-mappings"
will produce similar, possibly identical, output. This need not be
the case for other OSes. E.g. on FreeBSD, had I finished the
implementation, the output from these commands would have been very
different. The FreeBSD "info proc mappings" command would show
additional (non-file-backed) mappings in addition to at least one
additional field (memory permissions) for each mapping.
As noted earlier, I was seeing some unexpected behavior while working
on the FreeBSD implementation and wanted to be certain that the
mappings were being correctly loaded by corelow.c. "info proc
mappings" prints the core file mappings, but doesn't tell us anything
about whether they've been loaded by corelow.c This new maintenance
command directly interrogates the data structures and prints the
values found there.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* corelow.c (gdbcmd.h): Include.
(core_target::info_proc_mappings): New method.
(get_current_core_target): New function.
(maintenance_print_core_file_backed_mappings): New function.
(_initialize_corelow): Add core-file-backed-mappings to
"maint print" commands.
This commit makes adjustments to coredump-filter.exp to account
for the fact that NT_FILE file-backed mappings are now available
when a core file is loaded. Thus, a test which was expected
to PASS when a memory region was determined to be unavailable
(due to no file-backed mappings being available) will now FAIL
due to those mappings being available from having loaded the
NT_FILE note.
I had originally marked the test as XFAIL, but Mihails Strasuns
suggested a much better approach:
1) First test that it still works if file is accessible in the
filesystem.
2) Temporarily move / rename the file and test that disassembly
doesn't work anymore.
That's what this commit implements.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.base/coredump-filter.exp: Add second
non-Private-Shared-Anon-File test.
(test_disasm): Rename binfile for test which is expected
to fail.
When making a core file with the GDB's gcore command on Linux,
the same criteria used for determining which mappings should be
dumped were also being used for determining which entries should
be placed in the NT_FILE note. This is wrong; we want to place
all file-backed mappings in this note.
The predicate function, dump_mapping_p, was used to determine whether
or not to dump a mapping from within linux_find_memory_regions_full.
This commit leaves this predicate in place, but adds a new parameter,
should_dump_mapping_p, to linux_find_memory_regions_full. It then
calls should_dump_mapping_p instead of dump_mapping_p. dump_mapping_p
is passed to linux_find_memory_regions_full at one call site; at the
other call site, dump_note_entry_p is passed instead.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* linux-tdep.c (dump_note_entry_p): New function.
(linux_dump_mapping_p_ftype): New typedef.
(linux_find_memory_regions_full): Add new parameter,
should_dump_mapping_p.
(linux_find_memory_regions): Adjust call to
linux_find_memory_regions_full.
(linux_make_mappings_core_file_notes): Use dump_note_entry_p in
call to linux_find_memory_regions_full.
This test passes when run using a GDB with my corefile patches. When
run against a GDB without my patches, I see the following failures,
the first of which is due to the test added by this commit:
FAIL: gdb.base/corefile.exp: accessing read-only mmapped data in core file (mapping address not found in core file)
FAIL: gdb.base/corefile.exp: accessing anonymous, unwritten-to mmap data
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.base/corefile.exp: Add test "accessing read-only mmapped
data in core file".
* gdb.base/coremaker.c (buf2ro): New global.
(mmapdata): Add a read-only mmap mapping.
In his reviews of my v1 and v2 corefile related patches, Pedro
identified two cases which weren't handled by those patches.
In https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-May/168826.html,
Pedro showed that debugging a core file in which mmap() is used to
create a new mapping over an existing file-backed mapping will
produce incorrect results. I.e, for his example, GDB would
show:
(gdb) disassemble main
Dump of assembler code for function main:
0x00000000004004e6 <+0>: push %rbp
0x00000000004004e7 <+1>: mov %rsp,%rbp
=> 0x00000000004004ea <+4>: callq 0x4003f0 <abort@plt>
End of assembler dump.
This sort of looks like it might be correct, but is not due to the
fact that mmap(...MAP_FIXED...) was used to create a mapping (of all
zeros) on top of the .text section. So, the correct result should be:
(gdb) disassemble main
Dump of assembler code for function main:
0x00000000004004e6 <+0>: add %al,(%rax)
0x00000000004004e8 <+2>: add %al,(%rax)
=> 0x00000000004004ea <+4>: add %al,(%rax)
0x00000000004004ec <+6>: add %al,(%rax)
0x00000000004004ee <+8>: add %al,(%rax)
End of assembler dump.
The other case that Pedro found involved an attempted examination of a
particular section in the test case from gdb.base/corefile.exp. On
Fedora 27 or 28, the following behavior may be observed:
(gdb) info proc mappings
Mapped address spaces:
Start Addr End Addr Size Offset objfile
...
0x7ffff7839000 0x7ffff7a38000 0x1ff000 0x1b5000 /usr/lib64/libc-2.27.so
...
(gdb) x/4x 0x7ffff7839000
0x7ffff7839000: Cannot access memory at address 0x7ffff7839000
FYI, this section appears to be unrelocated vtable data. See
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-May/168331.html for
a detailed analysis.
The important thing here is that GDB should be able to access this
address since it should be backed by the shared library. I.e. it
should do this:
(gdb) x/4x 0x7ffff7839000
0x7ffff7839000: 0x0007ddf0 0x00000000 0x0007dba0 0x00000000
Both of these cases are fixed with this commit.
In a nutshell, this commit opens a "binary" target BFD for each of the
files that are mentioned in an NT_FILE / .note.linuxcore.file note
section. It then uses these mappings instead of the file stratum
mappings that GDB has used in the past.
If this note section doesn't exist or is mangled for some reason, then
GDB will use the file stratum as before. Should this happen, then
we can expect both of the above problems to again be present.
See the code comments in the commit for other details.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* corelow.c (solist.h, unordered_map): Include.
(class core_target): Add field m_core_file_mappings and
method build_file_mappings.
(core_target::core_target): Call build_file_mappings.
(core_target::~core_target): Free memory associated with
m_core_file_mappings.
(core_target::build_file_mappings): New method.
(core_target::xfer_partial): Use m_core_file_mappings
for memory transfers.
* linux-tdep.c (linux_read_core_file_mappings): New
function.
(linux_core_info_proc_mappings): Rewrite to use
linux_read_core_file_mappings.
(linux_init_abi): Register linux_read_core_file_mappings.
The new gdbarch method, read_core_file_mappings, will be used for
reading file-backed mappings from a core file. It'll be used
for two purposes: 1) to construct a table of file-backed mappings
in corelow.c, and 2) for display of core file mappings.
For Linux, I tried a different approach in which knowledge of the note
format was placed directly in corelow.c. This seemed okay at first;
it was only one note format and the note format was fairly simple.
After looking at FreeBSD's note/mapping reading code, I concluded
that it's best to leave architecture specific details for decoding
the note in (architecture specific) tdep files.
With regard to display of core file mappings, I experimented with
placing the mappings display code in corelow.c. It has access to the
file-backed mappings which were read in when the core file was loaded.
And, better, still common code could be used for all architectures.
But, again, the FreeBSD mapping code convinced me that this was not
the best approach since it has even more mapping info than Linux.
Display code which would work well for Linux will leave out mappings
as well as protection info for mappings.
So, for these reasons, I'm introducing a new gdbarch method for
reading core file mappings.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* arch-utils.c (default_read_core_file_mappings): New function.
* arch-utils.c (default_read_core_file_mappings): Declare.
* gdbarch.sh (read_core_file_mappings): New gdbarch method.
* gdbarch.h, gdbarch.c: Regenerate.
I have a patch for GDB which opens and reads from BFDs using the
"binary" target. However, for it to work, we need to be able to get a
section's contents based from the file position of that section.
At the moment, reading a section's contents will always read from the
start of the file regardless of where that section is located. While
this was fine for the original use of the "binary" target, it won't
work for my use case. This change shouldn't impact any existing
callers due to the fact that the single .data section is initialized
with a filepos of 0.
bfd/ChangeLog:
* binary.c (binary_get_section_contents): Seek using offset
from section's file position.
Consider the following program:
- - - mkmmapcore.c - - -
static char *buf;
int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
buf = mmap (NULL, 8192, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
abort ();
}
- - - end mkmmapcore.c - - -
Compile it like this:
gcc -g -o mkmmapcore mkmmapcore.c
Now let's run it from GDB. I've already placed a breakpoint on the
line with the abort() call and have run to that breakpoint.
Breakpoint 1, main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffd678) at mkmmapcore.c:11
11 abort ();
(gdb) x/x buf
0x7ffff7fcb000: 0x00000000
Note that we can examine the memory allocated via the call to mmap().
Now let's try debugging a core file created by running this program.
Depending on your system, in order to make a core file, you may have to
run the following as root (or using sudo):
echo core > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
It may also be necessary to do:
ulimit -c unlimited
I'm using Fedora 31. YMMV if you're using one of the BSDs or some other
(non-Linux) system.
This is what things look like when we debug the core file:
[kev@f31-1 tmp]$ gdb -q ./mkmmapcore core.304767
Reading symbols from ./mkmmapcore...
[New LWP 304767]
Core was generated by `/tmp/mkmmapcore'.
Program terminated with signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
#0 __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:50
50 return ret;
(gdb) x/x buf
0x7ffff7fcb000: Cannot access memory at address 0x7ffff7fcb000
Note that we can no longer access the memory region allocated by mmap().
Back in 2007, a hack for GDB was added to _bfd_elf_make_section_from_phdr()
in bfd/elf.c:
/* Hack for gdb. Segments that have not been modified do
not have their contents written to a core file, on the
assumption that a debugger can find the contents in the
executable. We flag this case by setting the fake
section size to zero. Note that "real" bss sections will
always have their contents dumped to the core file. */
if (bfd_get_format (abfd) == bfd_core)
newsect->size = 0;
You can find the entire patch plus links to other discussion starting
here:
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2007-08/msg00047.html
This hack sets the size of certain BFD sections to 0, which
effectively causes GDB to ignore them. I think it's likely that the
bug described above existed even before this hack was added, but I
have no easy way to test this now.
The output from objdump -h shows the result of this hack:
25 load13 00000000 00007ffff7fcb000 0000000000000000 00013000 2**12
ALLOC
(The first field, after load13, shows the size of 0.)
Once the hack is removed, the output from objdump -h shows the correct
size:
25 load13 00002000 00007ffff7fcb000 0000000000000000 00013000 2**12
ALLOC
(This is a digression, but I think it's good that objdump will now show
the correct size.)
If we remove the hack from bfd/elf.c, but do nothing to GDB, we'll
see the following regression:
FAIL: gdb.base/corefile.exp: print coremaker_ro
The reason for this is that all sections which have the BFD flag
SEC_ALLOC set, but for which SEC_HAS_CONTENTS is not set no longer
have zero size. Some of these sections have data that can (and should)
be read from the executable. (Sections for which SEC_HAS_CONTENTS
is set should be read from the core file; sections which do not have
this flag set need to either be read from the executable or, failing
that, from the core file using whatever BFD decides is the best value
to present to the user - it uses zeros.)
At present, due to the way that the target strata are traversed when
attempting to access memory, the non-SEC_HAS_CONTENTS sections will be
read as zeroes from the process_stratum (which in this case is the
core file stratum) without first checking the file stratum, which is
where the data might actually be found.
What we should be doing is this:
- Attempt to access core file data for SEC_HAS_CONTENTS sections.
- Attempt to access executable file data if the above fails.
- Attempt to access core file data for non SEC_HAS_CONTENTS sections, if
both of the above fail.
This corresponds to the analysis of Daniel Jacobowitz back in 2007
when the hack was added to BFD:
https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/binutils/2007-08/msg00045.html
The difference, observed by Pedro in his review of my v1 patches, is
that I'm using "the section flags as proxy for the p_filesz/p_memsz
checks."
gdb/ChangeLog:
PR corefiles/25631
* corelow.c (core_target:xfer_partial): Revise
TARGET_OBJECT_MEMORY case to consider non-SEC_HAS_CONTENTS
case after first checking the stratum beneath the core
target.
(has_all_memory): Return true.
* target.c (raw_memory_xfer_partial): Revise comment
regarding use of has_all_memory.
This patch is motivated by the need to be able to select sections
that section_table_xfer_memory_partial should consider for memory
transfers. I'll use this facility in the next patch in this series.
section_table_xfer_memory_partial() can currently be passed a section
name which may be used to make name-based selections. This is similar
to what I want to do, except that I want to be able to consider
section flags instead of the name.
I'm replacing the section name parameter with a predicate that,
when passed a pointer to a target_section struct, will return
true if that section should be further considered, or false which
indicates that it shouldn't.
I've converted the one existing use where a non-NULL section
name is passed to section_table_xfer_memory_partial(). Instead
of passing the section name, it now looks like this:
auto match_cb = [=] (const struct target_section *s)
{
return (strcmp (section_name, s->the_bfd_section->name) == 0);
};
return section_table_xfer_memory_partial (readbuf, writebuf,
memaddr, len, xfered_len,
table->sections,
table->sections_end,
match_cb);
The other callers all passed NULL; they've been simplified somewhat
in that they no longer need to pass NULL.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* exec.h (section_table_xfer_memory): Revise declaration,
replacing section name parameter with an optional callback
predicate.
* exec.c (section_table_xfer_memory): Likewise.
* bfd-target.c, exec.c, target.c, corelow.c: Adjust all callers
of section_table_xfer_memory.
In his review of my BZ 25631 patch series, Pedro was unable to
reproduce the regression which should occur after patch #1, "Remove
hack for GDB which sets the section size to 0", is applied.
Pedro was using an ld version older than 2.30. Version 2.30
introduced the linker option -z separate-code. Here's what the man
page has to say about it:
Create separate code "PT_LOAD" segment header in the object. This
specifies a memory segment that should contain only instructions
and must be in wholly disjoint pages from any other data.
In ld version 2.31, use of separate-code became the default for
Linux/x86. So, really, 2.31 or later is required in order to see the
regression that occurs in recent Linux distributions when only the
bfd hack removal patch is applied.
For the test case in question, use of the separate-code linker option
means that the global variable "coremaker_ro" ends up in a separate
load segment (though potentially with other read-only data). The
upshot of this is that when only patch #1 is applied, GDB won't be
able to correctly access coremaker_ro. The reason for this is due
to the fact that this section will now have a non-zero size, but
will not have contents from the core file to find this data.
So GDB will ask BFD for the contents and BFD will respond with
zeroes for anything from those sections. GDB should instead be
looking in the executable for this data. Failing that, it can
then ask BFD for a reasonable value. This is what a later patch
in this series does.
When using ld versions earlier than 2.31 (or 2.30 w/ the
-z separate-code option explicitly provided to the linker), there is
the possibility that coremaker_ro ends up being placed near other data
which is recorded in the core file. That means that the correct value
will end up in the core file, simply because it resides on a page that
the kernel chooses to put in the core file. This is why Pedro wasn't
able to reproduce the regression that should occur after fixing the
BFD hack.
This patch places a big chunk of memory, two pages worth on x86, in
front of "coremaker_ro" to attempt to force it onto another page
without requiring use of that new-fangled linker switch.
Speaking of which, I considered changing the test to use
-z separate-code, but this won't work because it didn't
exist prior to version 2.30. The linker would probably complain
of an unrecognized switch. Also, it likely won't be available in
other linkers not based on current binutils. I.e. it probably won't
work in FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc.
To make this more concrete, this is what *should* happen when
attempting to access coremaker_ro when only patch #1 is applied:
Core was generated by `/mesquite2/sourceware-git/f28-coresegs/bld/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/coref'.
Program terminated with signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
#0 0x00007f68205deefb in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
(gdb) p coremaker_ro
$1 = 0
Note that this result is wrong; 201 should have been printed instead.
But that's the point of the rest of the patch series.
However, without this commit, or when using an old Linux distro with
a pre-2.31 ld, this is what you might see instead:
Core was generated by `/mesquite2/sourceware-git/f28-coresegs/bld/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/coref'.
Program terminated with signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
#0 0x00007f63dd658efb in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
(gdb) p coremaker_ro
$1 = 201
I.e. it prints the right answer, which sort of makes it seem like the
rest of the series isn't required.
Now, back to the patch itself... what should be the size of the memory
chunk placed before coremaker_ro?
It needs to be at least as big as the page size (PAGE_SIZE) from
the kernel. For x86 and several other architectures this value is
4096. I used MAPSIZE which is defined to be 8192 in coremaker.c.
So it's twice as big as what's currently needed for most Linux
architectures. The constant PAGE_SIZE is available from <sys/user.h>,
but this isn't portable either. In the end, it seemed simpler to
just pick a value and hope that it's big enough. (Running a separate
program which finds the page size via sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) and then
passes it to the compilation via a -D switch seemed like overkill
for a case which is rendered moot by recent linker versions.)
Further information can be found here:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-May/168168.htmlhttps://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-May/168170.html
Thanks to H.J. Lu for telling me about the '-z separate-code' linker
switch.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.base/coremaker.c (filler_ro): New global constant.
This commit removes a hack for GDB which was introduced in 2007.
See:
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2007-08/msg00044.html
That hack mostly allowed GDB's handling of core files to continue to
work without any changes to GDB.
The problem with setting the section size to zero is that GDB won't
know how big that section is/was. Often, this doesn't matter because
the data in question are found in the exec file. But it can happen
that the section describes memory that had been allocated, but never
written to. In this instance, the contents of that memory region are
not written to the core file. Also, since the region in question was
dynamically allocated, it won't appear in the exec file. We don't
want these regions to appear as inaccessible to GDB (since they *were*
accessible when the process was live), so it's important that GDB know
the size of the region.
I've made changes to GDB which correctly handles this case. When
attempting to access memory, GDB will first consider core file data
for which both SEC_ALLOC and SEC_HAS_CONTENTS is set. Next, if that
fails, GDB will attempt to find the data in the exec file. Finally,
if that also fails, GDB will attempt to access memory in the sections
which are flagged as SEC_ALLOC, but not SEC_HAS_CONTENTS.
bfd/ChangeLog:
* elf.c (_bfd_elf_make_section_from_phdr): Remove hack for GDB.
-stack-list-arguments will crash when stopped in an Ada procedure that
has an argument with a certain name ("_objectO" -- which can only be
generated by the compiler). The bug occurs because lookup_symbol will
fail in this case.
This patch changes -stack-list-arguments to mirror what is done with
arguments elsewhere. (As an aside, I don't understand why this lookup
is even needed, but I assume it is some stabs thing?)
In the longer term I think it would be good to share this code between
MI and the CLI. However, due to the upcoming release, I preferred a
more local fix.
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-07-22 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
* mi/mi-cmd-stack.c (list_args_or_locals): Use
lookup_symbol_search_name.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
2020-07-22 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
* gdb.ada/mi_prot.exp: New file.
* gdb.ada/mi_prot/pkg.adb: New file.
* gdb.ada/mi_prot/pkg.ads: New file.
* gdb.ada/mi_prot/prot.adb: New file.
Systems like mingw64 have pointers that can only be represented by 'long
long'. Consistently cast integers stored in pointers through uintptr_t
to cater for this.
libctf/
* ctf-create.c (ctf_dtd_insert): Add uintptr_t casts.
(ctf_dtd_delete): Likewise.
(ctf_dtd_lookup): Likewise.
(ctf_rollback): Likewise.
* ctf-hash.c (ctf_hash_lookup_type): Likewise.
* ctf-types.c (ctf_lookup_by_rawhash): Likewise.
The recent commit "libctf, binutils: support CTF archives like objdump"
broke opening of CTF archives on big-endian platforms.
This didn't affect anyone much before now because the linker never
emitted CTF archives because it wasn't detecting ambiguous types
properly: now it does, and this bug becomes obvious.
Fix trivial.
libctf/
* ctf-archive.c (ctf_arc_bufopen): Endian-swap the archive magic
number if needed.
Right now, the linker is not emitting CTF sections on (at least some)
non-ELF platforms, because work similar to that done for ELF needs to be
done to each platform in turn to emit linker-generated sections whose
contents are programmatically derived. (Or something better needs to be
done.)
So, for now, the CTF tests will fail on non-ELF for lack of a .ctf
section in the output: so skip the CTF tests there temporarily.
(This is not the same as the permanent skip of the diags tests, which is
done because the input for those is assembler that depends on the ELF
syntax of pseudos like .section: this is only a temporary skip, until
the linker grows support for CTF on more targets.)
ld/
* testsuite/ld-ctf/ctf.exp: Skip on non-ELF for now.
The trick we use to prevent ld doing as it does for almost all other
sections and copying the input CTF section into the output has recently
broken, causing output to be produced with a valid CTF section followed
by massive numbers of CTF sections, one per .ctf in the input (minus
one, for the one that was filled out by ctf_link). Their size is being
forcibly set to zero, but they're still present, wasting space and
looking ridiculous.
This is not right:
ld/ld-new :
section size addr
.interp 28 4194984
[...]
.bss 21840 6788544
.comment 92 0
.ctf 87242 0
.ctf 0 0
.ctf 0 0
[snip 131 more empty sections]
.gnu.build.attributes 7704 6818576
.debug_aranges 6592 0
.debug_info 4488859 0
.debug_abbrev 150099 0
.debug_line 796759 0
.debug_str 237926 0
.debug_loc 2247302 0
.debug_ranges 237920 0
Total 10865285
The fix is to exclude these unwanted input sections from being present
in the output. We tried this before and it broke things, because if you
exclude all the .ctf sections there isn't going to be one in the output
so there is nowhere to put the deduplicated CTF. The solution to that is
really simple: set SEC_EXCLUDE on *all but one* CTF section. We don't
care which one (they're all the same once their size has been zeroed),
so just pick the first we see.
ld/
* ldlang.c (ldlang_open_ctf): Set SEC_EXCLUDE on all but the
first input .ctf section.
The CTF testsuite runs GCC to generate CTF that it knows matches the
input .c files before doing a run_dump_test over it. So we need a GCC
capable of doing that, and we need to always avoid running those tests
if libctf was disabled because the linker will never be capable of it.
ld/
* configure.ac (enable_libctf): Substitute it.
* Makefile.am (enablings.exp): New.
(EXTRA_DEJAGNU_SITE_CONFIG): Add it.
(DISTCLEANFILES): Likewise.
* Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* configure: Likewise.
* testsuite/lib/ld-lib.exp (compile_one_cc): New.
(check_ctf_available): Likewise.
(skip_ctf_tests): Likewise.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/ctf.exp: Call skip_ctf_tests.
Uses the new cc option to run_dump_test to compile most tests from C
code, ensuring that the types in the C code accurately describe what the
.d file is testing.
(Some tests, mostly those testing malformed CTF, run directly from .s,
or include both .s and .c.)
ld/
* testsuite/ld-ctf/ctf.exp: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/A-2.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/A.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/B-2.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/B.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/C-2.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/C.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/array-char.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/array-int.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/array.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/child-float.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/child-int.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/conflicting-cycle-1.B-1.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/conflicting-cycle-1.B-2.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/conflicting-cycle-1.parent.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/conflicting-cycle-2.A-1.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/conflicting-cycle-2.A-2.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/conflicting-cycle-2.parent.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/conflicting-cycle-3.C-1.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/conflicting-cycle-3.C-2.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/conflicting-cycle-3.parent.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/conflicting-enums.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/conflicting-typedefs.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/cross-tu-1.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/cross-tu-2.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/cross-tu-conflicting-2.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/cross-tu-cyclic-1.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/cross-tu-cyclic-2.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/cross-tu-cyclic-3.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/cross-tu-cyclic-4.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/cross-tu-cyclic-conflicting.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/cross-tu-cyclic-nonconflicting.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/cross-tu-into-cycle.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/cross-tu-noncyclic.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/cycle-1.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/cycle-1.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/cycle-2.A.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/cycle-2.B.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/cycle-2.C.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-ctf-version-0.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-ctf-version-0.s: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-ctf-version-2-unsupported-feature.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-ctf-version-2-unsupported-feature.s: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-ctf-version-f.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-ctf-version-f.s: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-cttname-invalid.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-cttname-invalid.s: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-cttname-null.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-cttname-null.s: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-cuname.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-cuname.s: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-decompression-failure.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-decompression-failure.s: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-parlabel.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-parlabel.s: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-parname.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-parname.s: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-unsupported-flag.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-unsupported-flag.s: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-wrong-magic-number-mixed.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-wrong-magic-number.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/diag-wrong-magic-number.s: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/enum-2.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/enum.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/function.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/function.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/slice.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/slice.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/super-sub-cycles.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/super-sub-cycles.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/typedef-int.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/typedef-long.c: New file.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/union-1.c: New file.
The CTF assembler emitted by GCC has architecture-dependent pseudos in
it, and is (obviously) tightly tied to a particular set of C source
files with specific types in them. The CTF tests do run_dump_test on
some candidate input, link it using the run_dump_test ld machinery, and
compare objdump --ctf output. To avoid skew, we'd like to be able
to easily regenerate the .s being scanned so that the .c doesn't get
out of sync with it, but since GCC emits arch-dependent pseudos, we
are forced to hand-hack the output every time (quite severely on some
arches, like x86-32 and -64, where every single pseudo used is not only
arch-dependent but undocumented).
To avoid this, teach run_dump_test how to optionally compile things
given new, optional additional flags passed in in the cc option.
Only sources with the .c suffix are compiled, so there is no effect on
any existing tests. The .s files go into the tmpdir, from which
existing run_dump_test code picks them up as usual.
binutils/
* testsuite/lib/binutils-common.exp (run_dump_test): Add 'cc'
option.
libctf recently changed to make it possible to not emit the CTF
variables section. Make this the default for ld: the variables section
is a simple name -> type mapping, and the names can be quite voluminous.
Nothing in the variables section appears in the symbol table, by
definition, so GDB cannot make use of them: special-purpose projects
that implement their own analogues of symbol table lookup can do so, but
they'll need to tell the linker to emit the variables section after all.
The new --ctf-variables option does this.
The --ctf-share-types option (valid values "share-duplicated" and
"share-unconflicted") allow the caller to specify the CTF link mode.
Most users will want share-duplicated, since it allows for more
convenient debugging: but very large projects composed of many decoupled
components may want to use share-unconflicted mode, which places types
that appear in only one TU into per-TU dicts. (They may also want to
relink the CTF using the ctf_link API and cu-mapping, to make their
"components" larger than a single TU. Right now the linker does not
expose the CU-mapping machinery. Perhaps it should in future to make
this use case easier.)
For now, giving the linker the ability to emit share-duplicated CTF lets
us add testcases for that mode to the testsuite.
ld/
* ldlex.h (option_values) <OPTION_CTF_VARIABLES,
OPTION_NO_CTF_VARIABLES, OPTION_CTF_SHARE_TYPES>: New.
* ld.h (ld_config_type) <ctf_variables, ctf_share_duplicated>:
New fields.
* ldlang.c (lang_merge_ctf): Use them.
* lexsup.c (ld_options): Add ctf-variables, no-ctf-variables,
ctf-share-types.
(parse_args) <OPTION_CTF_VARIABLES, OPTION_NO_CTF_VARIABLES,
OPTION_CTF_SHARE_TYPES>: New cases.
* ld.texi: Document new options.
* NEWS: Likewise.
ld/
* ldlang.c (lang_merge_ctf): Turn errors into warnings.
Fix a comment typo.
(lang_write_ctf): Turn an error into a warning.
(ldlang_open_ctf): Reformat warnings. Fix printing file names.
Reviewed-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
The CTF objdumping code is adding linefeeds in calls to non_fatal, which
is wrong and looks ugly.
binutils/
* objdump.c (dump_ctf_archive_member): Remove linefeeds.
(dump_ctf): Likewise.
This fairly intricate commit connects up the CTF linker machinery (which
operates in terms of ctf_archive_t's on ctf_link_inputs ->
ctf_link_outputs) to the deduplicator (which operates in terms of arrays
of ctf_file_t's, all the archives exploded).
The nondeduplicating linker is retained, but is not called unless the
CTF_LINK_NONDEDUP flag is passed in (which ld never does), or the
environment variable LD_NO_CTF_DEDUP is set. Eventually, once we have
confidence in the much-more-complex deduplicating linker, I hope the
nondeduplicating linker can be removed.
In brief, what this does is traverses each input archive in
ctf_link_inputs, opening every member (if not already open) and tying
child dicts to their parents, shoving them into an array and
constructing a corresponding parents array that tells the deduplicator
which dict is the parent of which child. We then call ctf_dedup and
ctf_dedup_emit with that array of inputs, taking the outputs that result
and putting them into ctf_link_outputs where the rest of the CTF linker
expects to find them, then linking in the variables just as is done by
the nondeduplicating linker.
It also implements much of the CU-mapping side of things. The problem
CU-mapping introduces is that if you map many input CUs into one output,
this is saying that you want many translation units to produce at most
one child dict if conflicting types are found in any of them. This
means you can suddenly have multiple distinct types with the same name
in the same dict, which libctf cannot really represent because it's not
something you can do with C translation units.
The deduplicator machinery already committed does as best it can with
these, hiding types with conflicting names rather than making child
dicts out of them: but we still need to call it. This is done similarly
to the main link, taking the inputs (one CU output at a time),
deduplicating them, taking the output and making it an input to the
final link. Two (significant) optimizations are done: we share atoms
tables between all these links and the final link (so e.g. all type hash
values are shared, all decorated type names, etc); and any CU-mapped
links with only one input (and no child dicts) doesn't need to do
anything other than renaming the CU: the CU-mapped link phase can be
skipped for it. Put together, large CU-mapped links can save 50% of
their memory usage and about as much time (and the memory usage for
CU-mapped links is significant, because all those output CUs have to
have all their types stored in memory all at once).
include/
* ctf-api.h (CTF_LINK_NONDEDUP): New, turn off the
deduplicator.
libctf/
* ctf-impl.h (ctf_list_splice): New.
* ctf-util.h (ctf_list_splice): Likewise.
* ctf-link.c (link_sort_inputs_cb_arg_t): Likewise.
(ctf_link_sort_inputs): Likewise.
(ctf_link_deduplicating_count_inputs): Likewise.
(ctf_link_deduplicating_open_inputs): Likewise.
(ctf_link_deduplicating_close_inputs): Likewise.
(ctf_link_deduplicating_variables): Likewise.
(ctf_link_deduplicating_per_cu): Likewise.
(ctf_link_deduplicating): Likewise.
(ctf_link): Call it.
This flag (not used anywhere yet) causes the variables section to be
omitted from the output CTF dict.
include/
* ctf-api.h (CTF_LINK_OMIT_VARIABLES_SECTION): New.
libctf/
* ctf-link.c (ctf_link_one_input_archive_member): Check
CTF_LINK_OMIT_VARIABLES_SECTION.
This adds the core deduplicator that the ctf_link machinery calls
(possibly repeatedly) to link the CTF sections: it takes an array
of input ctf_file_t's and another array that indicates which entries in
the input array are parents of which other entries, and returns an array
of outputs. The first output is always the ctf_file_t on which
ctf_link/ctf_dedup/etc was called: the other outputs are child dicts
that have the first output as their parent.
include/
* ctf-api.h (CTF_LINK_SHARE_DUPLICATED): No longer unimplemented.
libctf/
* ctf-impl.h (ctf_type_id_key): New, the key in the
cd_id_to_file_t.
(ctf_dedup): New, core deduplicator state.
(ctf_file_t) <ctf_dedup>: New.
<ctf_dedup_atoms>: New.
<ctf_dedup_atoms_alloc>: New.
(ctf_hash_type_id_key): New prototype.
(ctf_hash_eq_type_id_key): Likewise.
(ctf_dedup_atoms_init): Likewise.
* ctf-hash.c (ctf_hash_eq_type_id_key): New.
(ctf_dedup_atoms_init): Likewise.
* ctf-create.c (ctf_serialize): Adjusted.
(ctf_add_encoded): No longer static.
(ctf_add_reftype): Likewise.
* ctf-open.c (ctf_file_close): Destroy the
ctf_dedup_atoms_alloc.
* ctf-dedup.c: New file.
* ctf-decls.h [!HAVE_DECL_STPCPY]: Add prototype.
* configure.ac: Check for stpcpy.
* Makefile.am: Add it.
* Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* config.h.in: Regenerate.
* configure: Regenerate.
Add a new debugging configure option, --enable-libctf-hash-debugging,
off by default, which lets you configure in expensive internal
consistency checks and enable the printing of debugging output when
LIBCTF_DEBUG=t before type deduplication has happened.
In this commit we just add the option and cause it to turn ctf_assert
into a real, hard assert for easier debugging.
libctf/
* configure.ac: Add --enable-libctf-hash-debugging.
* aclocal.m4: Pull in enable.m4, for GCC_ENABLE.
* Makefile.in: Regenerated.
* configure: Likewise.
* config.h.in: Likewise.
* ctf-impl.h [ENABLE_LIBCTF_HASH_DEBUGGING]
(ctf_assert): Define to assert.
This very thin abstraction layer provides SHA-1ing facilities to all of
libctf, almost all inlined wrappers around the libiberty functionality
other than ctf_sha1_fini.
The deduplicator will use this to recursively hash types to prove their
identity.
libctf/
* ctf-sha1.h: New, inline wrappers around sha1_init_ctx and
sha1_process_bytes.
* ctf-impl.h: Include it.
(ctf_sha1_init): New.
(ctf_sha1_add): Likewise.
(ctf_sha1_fini): Likewise.
* ctf-sha1.c: New, non-inline wrapper around sha1_finish_ctx
producing strings.
* Makefile.am: Add file.
* Makefile.in: Regenerate.
The CTF variables section (containing variables that have no
corresponding symtab entries) can cause the string table to get very
voluminous if the names of variables are long. Some callers want to
filter out particular variables they know they won't need.
So add a "variable filter" callback that does that: it's passed the name
of the variable and a corresponding ctf_file_t / ctf_id_t pair, and
should return 1 to filter it out.
ld doesn't use this machinery yet, but we could easily add it later if
desired. (But see later for a commit that turns off CTF variable-
section linking in ld entirely by default.)
include/
* ctf-api.h (ctf_link_variable_filter_t): New.
(ctf_link_set_variable_filter): Likewise.
libctf/
* libctf.ver (ctf_link_set_variable_filter): Add.
* ctf-impl.h (ctf_file_t) <ctf_link_variable_filter>: New.
<ctf_link_variable_filter_arg>: Likewise.
* ctf-create.c (ctf_serialize): Adjust.
* ctf-link.c (ctf_link_set_variable_filter): New, set it.
(ctf_link_one_variable): Call it if set.
When we link a CTF variable, we check to see if it already exists in the
parent dict first: if it does, and it has a type the same as the type we
would populate it with, we assume we don't need to do anything:
otherwise, we populate it in a per-CU child.
Or that's what we should be doing. Instead, we check if the type is the
same as the type in *source dict*, which is going to be a completely
different value! So we end up concluding all variables are conflicting,
bloating up output possibly quite a lot (variables aren't big in and of
themselves, but each drags around a strtab entry, and CTF dicts in a CTF
archive do not share their strtabs -- one of many problems with CTF
archives as presently constituted.)
Fix trivial: check the right type.
libctf/
* ctf-link.c (ctf_link_one_variable): Check the dst_type for
conflicts, not the source type.
Now a bunch of stuff that doesn't apply to ld or any normal use of
libctf, piled into one commit so that it's easier to ignore.
The cu-mapping machinery associates incoming compilation unit names with
outgoing names of CTF dictionaries that should correspond to them, for
non-gdb CTF consumers that would like to group multiple TUs into a
single child dict if conflicting types are found in it (the existing use
case is one kernel module, one child CTF dict, even if the kernel module
is composed of multiple CUs).
The upcoming deduplicator needs to track not only the mapping from
incoming CU name to outgoing dict name, but the inverse mapping from
outgoing dict name to incoming CU name, so it can work over every CTF
dict we might see in the output and link into it.
So rejig the ctf-link machinery to do that. Simultaneously (because
they are closely associated and were written at the same time), we add a
new CTF_LINK_EMPTY_CU_MAPPINGS flag to ctf_link, which tells the
ctf_link machinery to create empty child dicts for each outgoing CU
mapping even if no CUs that correspond to it exist in the link. This is
a bit (OK, quite a lot) of a waste of space, but some existing consumers
require it. (Nobody else should use it.)
Its value is not consecutive with existing CTF_LINK flag values because
we're about to add more flags that are conceptually closer to the
existing ones than this one is.
include/
* ctf-api.h (CTF_LINK_EMPTY_CU_MAPPINGS): New.
libctf/
* ctf-impl.h (ctf_file_t): Improve comments.
<ctf_link_cu_mapping>: Split into...
<ctf_link_in_cu_mapping>: ... this...
<ctf_link_out_cu_mapping>: ... and this.
* ctf-create.c (ctf_serialize): Adjust.
* ctf-open.c (ctf_file_close): Likewise.
* ctf-link.c (ctf_create_per_cu): Look things up in the
in_cu_mapping instead of the cu_mapping.
(ctf_link_add_cu_mapping): The deduplicating link will define
what happens if many FROMs share a TO.
(ctf_link_add_cu_mapping): Create in_cu_mapping and
out_cu_mapping. Do not create ctf_link_outputs here any more, or
create per-CU dicts here: they are already created when needed.
(ctf_link_one_variable): Log a debug message if we skip a
variable due to its type being concealed in a CU-mapped link.
(This is probably too common a case to make into a warning.)
(ctf_link): Create empty per-CU dicts if requested.
This rather large and intertwined pile of changes does three things:
First, it transitions from dprintf to ctf_err_warn for things the user might
care about: this one file is the major impetus for the ctf_err_warn
infrastructure, because things like file names are crucial in linker
error messages, and errno values are utterly incapable of
communicating them
Second, it stabilizes the ctf_link APIs: you can now call
ctf_link_add_ctf without a CTF argument (only a NAME), to lazily
ctf_open the file with the given NAME when needed, and close it as soon
as possible, to save memory. This is not an API change because a null
CTF argument was prohibited before now.
Since getting CTF directly from files uses ctf_open, passing in only a
NAME requires use of libctf, not libctf-nobfd. The linker's behaviour
is unchanged, as it still passes in a ctf_archive_t as before.
This also let us fix a leak: we were opening ctf_archives and their
containing ctf_files, then only closing the files and leaving the
archives open.
Third, this commit restructures the ctf_link_in_member argument used by
the CTF linking machinery and adjusts its users accordingly.
We drop two members:
- arcname, which is difficult to construct and then only used in error
messages (that were only dprintf()ed, so never seen!)
- share_mode, since we store the flags passed to ctf_link (including the
share mode) in a new ctf_file_t.ctf_link_flags to help dedup get hold
of it
We rename others whose existing names were fairly dreadful:
- done_main_member -> done_parent, using consistent terminology for .ctf
as the parent of all archive members
- main_input_fp -> in_fp_parent, likewise
- file_name -> in_file_name, likewise
We add one new member, cu_mapped.
Finally, we move the various frees of things like mapping table data to
the top-level ctf_link, since deduplicating links will want to do that
too.
include/
* ctf-api.h (ECTF_NEEDSBFD): New.
(ECTF_NERR): Adjust.
(ctf_link): Rename share_mode arg to flags.
libctf/
* Makefile.am: Set -DNOBFD=1 in libctf-nobfd, and =0 elsewhere.
* Makefile.in: Regenerated.
* ctf-impl.h (ctf_link_input_name): New.
(ctf_file_t) <ctf_link_flags>: New.
* ctf-create.c (ctf_serialize): Adjust accordingly.
* ctf-link.c: Define ctf_open as weak when PIC.
(ctf_arc_close_thunk): Remove unnecessary thunk.
(ctf_file_close_thunk): Likewise.
(ctf_link_input_name): New.
(ctf_link_input_t): New value of the ctf_file_t.ctf_link_input.
(ctf_link_input_close): Adjust accordingly.
(ctf_link_add_ctf_internal): New, split from...
(ctf_link_add_ctf): ... here. Return error if lazy loading of
CTF is not possible. Change to just call...
(ctf_link_add): ... this new function.
(ctf_link_add_cu_mapping): Transition to ctf_err_warn. Drop the
ctf_file_close_thunk.
(ctf_link_in_member_cb_arg_t) <file_name> Rename to...
<in_file_name>: ... this.
<arcname>: Drop.
<share_mode>: Likewise (migrated to ctf_link_flags).
<done_main_member>: Rename to...
<done_parent>: ... this.
<main_input_fp>: Rename to...
<in_fp_parent>: ... this.
<cu_mapped>: New.
(ctf_link_one_type): Adjuwt accordingly. Transition to
ctf_err_warn, removing a TODO.
(ctf_link_one_variable): Note a case too common to warn about.
Report in the debug stream if a cu-mapped link prevents addition
of a conflicting variable.
(ctf_link_one_input_archive_member): Adjust.
(ctf_link_lazy_open): New, open a CTF archive for linking when
needed.
(ctf_link_close_one_input_archive): New, close it again.
(ctf_link_one_input_archive): Adjust for lazy opening, member
renames, and ctf_err_warn transition. Move the
empty_link_type_mapping call to...
(ctf_link): ... here. Adjut for renamings and thunk removal.
Don't spuriously fail if some input contains no CTF data.
(ctf_link_write): ctf_err_warn transition.
* libctf.ver: Remove not-yet-stable comment.
This utility function is almost useless (all it does is casts the result
of a strerror) but has a seriously confusing name. Over and over again
I have accidentally called it instead of ctf_errmsg, and hidden a
time-bomb for myself in a hard-to-test error-handling path: since
ctf_strerror is just a strerror wrapper, it cannot handle CTF errnos,
unlike ctf_errmsg. It's astonishingly lucky that none of these errors
have crept into any commits to date.
Fuse it into ctf_errmsg and drop it.
libctf/
* ctf-impl.h (ctf_strerror): Delete.
* ctf-subr.c (ctf_strerror): Likewise.
* ctf-error.c (ctf_errmsg): Stop using ctf_strerror: just use
strerror directly.
