lldb already mostly(*) tracks this information. This just makes it
available to the SB users.
(*) It does not do that for typedefs right now see llvm.org/pr90958
It was aligning the byte size down. Now it aligns up. This manifested
itself as SBTypeStaticField::GetConstantValue returning a zero-sized
value for `bool` fields (because clang represents bool as a 1-bit
value).
I've changed the code for float Scalars as well, although I'm not aware
of floating point values that are not multiples of 8 bits.
The main change is the addition of a new SBTypeStaticField class,
representing a static member of a class. It can be retrieved created
through SBType::GetStaticFieldWithName. It contains several methods
(GetName, GetMangledName, etc.) whose meaning is hopefully obvious. The
most interesting method is
lldb::SBValue GetConstantValue(lldb::SBTarget)
which returns a the value of the field -- if it is a compile time
constant. The reason for that is that only constants have their values
represented in the clang AST.
For non-constants, we need to go back to the module containing that
constant, and ask retrieve the associated ValueObjectVariable. That's
easy enough if the we are still in the type system of the module
(because then the type system will contain the pointer to the module
symbol file), but it's hard when the type has been copied into another
AST (e.g. during expression evaluation). To do that we would need to
walk the ast import chain backwards to find the source TypeSystem, and I
haven't found a nice way to do that.
Another possibility would be to use the mangled name of the variable to
perform a lookup (in all modules). That is sort of what happens when
evaluating the variable in an expression (which does work), but I did
not want to commit to that implementation as it's not necessary for my
use case (and if anyone wants to, he can use the GetMangledName function
and perform the lookup manually).
The patch adds a couple of new TypeSystem functions to surface the
information needed to implement this functionality.
The types we get out of expressions will not have an associated symbol
file, so the current method of looking up the type will fail. Instead, I
plumb the query through the TypeSystem class. This correctly finds the
type in both cases (importing it into the expression AST if needed). I
haven't measured, but it should also be more efficient than doing a type
lookup (at least, after the type has already been found once).
The only change is a fix for the "register" iterator test to not rely on
particular register names.
I mistook where the artificial "pc" register is generated. It isn't
added to the register list or the register sets (except on arm where
that's the name of the actual register), so I can't use it in this test.
I instead just assert that the "register" generator produces the same
list as flattening the register sets from "registers".
This reverts commit 9f14914753.
The code returned lldb.SBValue() when you passed in an unrecognized
register name. But referring to "lldb" is apparently not legal within
the module.
I changed this to just return SBValue(), but then this construct:
(lldb) script
>>> for reg_set in lldb.target.process.thread[0].frames[0].register
... print(reg)
Runs forever printing "No Value". The __getitem__(key) gets called with
a monotonically increasing by 1 series of integers. I don't know why
Python decided the class we defined should have a generator that returns
positive integers in order, but we can add a more useful one here by
returning an iterator over the flattened list of registers.
Note, the not very aptly named "SBFrame.registers" is an iterator over
register sets, not registers, so the two are not redundant.
The ValueObjectConstResult classes that back expression result variables
play a complicated game with where the data for their values is stored.
They try to make it appear as though they are still tied to the memory
in the target into which their value was written when the expression is
run, but they also keep a copy in the Host which they use after the
value is made (expression results are "history values" so that's how we
make sure they have "the value at the time of the expression".)
However, that means that if you ask them to cast themselves to a value
bigger than their original size, they don't have a way to get more
memory for that purpose. The same thing is true of ValueObjects backed
by DataExtractors, the data extractors don't know how to get more data
than they were made with in general.
The only place where we actually ask ValueObjects to sample outside
their captured bounds is when you do ValueObject::Cast from one
structure type to a bigger structure type. In
https://reviews.llvm.org/D153657 I handled this by just disallowing
casts from one structure value to a larger one. My reasoning at the time
was that the use case for this was to support discriminator based C
inheritance schemes, and you can't directly cast values in C, only
pointers, so this was not a natural way to handle those types. It seemed
logical that since you would have had to start with pointers in the
implementation, that's how you would write your lldb introspection code
as well.
Famous last words...
Turns out there are some heavy users of the SB API's who were relying on
this working, and this is a behavior change, so this patch makes this
work in the cases where it used to work before, while still disallowing
the cases we don't know how to support.
Note that if you had done this Cast operation before with either
expression results or value objects from data extractors, lldb would not
have returned the correct results, so the cases this patch outlaws are
ones that actually produce invalid results. So nobody should be using
Cast in these cases, or if they were, this patch will point out the bug
they hadn't yet noticed.
TestAddressMasks failed on the lldb-arm-buntu bot with the
Code address mask test,
mask = process.GetAddressMask(lldb.eAddressMaskTypeAny)
process.SetAddressMask(lldb.eAddressMaskTypeCode, mask | 0x3)
self.assertEqual(
0x000002950001F694,
process.FixAddress(0x00265E950001F697, lldb.eAddressMaskTypeCode),
)
The API returned 0x000002950001f694 instead of the expected
0x00265e950001f696. The low bits differ because ABISysV_arm hardcodes
the Code address mask to clear the 0th bit, it doesn't use the
Process code mask. I didn't debug why some of the high bytes were
dropped. The address mask APIs are only important on 64-bit targets,
where many of the bits are not used for addressing and are used for
metadata instead, so I'm going to skip these tests on 32-bit arm
instead of debugging.
[lldb] Add SBProcess methods for get/set/use address masks (#83095)
I'm reviving a patch from phabracator, https://reviews.llvm.org/D155905
which was approved but I wasn't thrilled with all the API I was adding
to SBProcess for all of the address mask types / memory regions. In this
update, I added enums to control type address mask type (code, data,
any) and address space specifiers (low, high, all) with defaulted
arguments for the most common case. I originally landed this via
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/83095 but it failed on CIs
outside of arm64 Darwin so I had to debug it on more environments
and update the patch.
This patch is also fixing a bug in the "addressable bits to address
mask" calculation I added in AddressableBits::SetProcessMasks. If lldb
were told that 64 bits are valid for addressing, this method would
overflow the calculation and set an invalid mask. Added tests to check
this specific bug while I was adding these APIs.
This patch changes the value of "no mask set" from 0 to
LLDB_INVALID_ADDRESS_MASK, which is UINT64_MAX. A mask of all 1's
means "no bits are used for addressing" which is an impossible mask,
whereas a mask of 0 means "all bits are used for addressing" which
is possible.
I added a base class implementation of ABI::FixCodeAddress and
ABI::FixDataAddress that will apply the Process mask values if they
are set to a value other than LLDB_INVALID_ADDRESS_MASK.
I updated all the callers/users of the Mask methods which were
handling a value of 0 to mean invalid mask to use
LLDB_INVALID_ADDRESS_MASK.
I added code to the all AArch64 ABI Fix* methods to apply the
Highmem masks if they have been set. These will not be set on a
Linux environment, but in TestAddressMasks.py I test the highmem
masks feature for any AArch64 target, so all AArch64 ABI plugins
must handle it.
rdar://123530562
This reverts commit 9a12b0a600.
TestAddressMasks fails its first test on lldb-x86_64-debian,
lldb-arm-ubuntu, lldb-aarch64-ubuntu bots. Reverting while
investigating.
I'm reviving a patch from phabracator, https://reviews.llvm.org/D155905
which was approved but I wasn't thrilled with all the API I was adding
to SBProcess for all of the address mask types / memory regions. In this
update, I added enums to control type address mask type (code, data,
any) and address space specifiers (low, high, all) with defaulted
arguments for the most common case.
This patch is also fixing a bug in the "addressable bits to address
mask" calculation I added in AddressableBits::SetProcessMasks. If lldb
were told that 64 bits are valid for addressing, this method would
overflow the calculation and set an invalid mask. Added tests to check
this specific bug while I was adding these APIs.
rdar://123530562
Any time we see the pattern `assertEqual(value, bool)`, we can replace
that with `assert<bool>(value)`. Likewise for `assertNotEqual`.
Technically this relaxes the test a bit, as we may want to make sure
`value` is either `True` or `False`, and not something that implicitly
converts to a bool. For example, `assertEqual("foo", True)` will fail,
but `assertTrue("foo")` will not. In most cases, this distinction is not
important.
There are two such places that this patch does **not** transform, since
it seems intentional that we want the result to be a bool:
*
5daf2001a1/lldb/test/API/python_api/sbstructureddata/TestStructuredDataAPI.py (L90)
*
5daf2001a1/lldb/test/API/commands/settings/TestSettings.py (L940)
Followup to 9c2468821e. I patched `teyit`
with a `visit_assertEqual` node handler to generate this.
This uses [teyit](https://pypi.org/project/teyit/) to modernize asserts,
as recommended by the [unittest release
notes](https://docs.python.org/3.12/whatsnew/3.12.html#id3).
For example, `assertTrue(a == b)` is replaced with `assertEqual(a, b)`.
This produces better error messages, e.g. `error: unexpectedly found 1
and 2 to be different` instead of `error: False`.
assertEquals is a deprecated alias for assertEqual and has been removed
in Python 3.12. This wasn't an issue previously because we used a
vendored version of the unittest module. Now that we use the built-in
version this gets updated together with the Python version used to run
the test suite.
This patch attempts to fix lookup in class template specialization.
The first fixed problem is that during type lookup `DeclContextGetName`
have been dropping template arguments. So when such a name was compared
against a name in `DW_AT_name`, which contains template arguments, false
mismatches have been occurring.
The second fixed problem is that LLDB's printing policy hasn't been
matching Clang's printing policy when it comes to integral non-type
template arguments. This again caused some false mismatches during type
lookup, because Clang puts e.g. `3U` in debug info for class
specializations, but LLDB has been expecting just `3`. This patch brings
printing policy in line with what Clang does.
This patch attempts to fix lookup in class template specialization.
The first fixed problem is that during type lookup `DeclContextGetName`
have been dropping template arguments. So when such a name was compared
against a name in `DW_AT_name`, which contains template arguments, false
mismatches have been occurring.
The second fixed problem is that LLDB's printing policy hasn't been
matching Clang's printing policy when it comes to integral non-type
template arguments. This again caused some false mismatches during type
lookup, because Clang puts e.g. `3U` in debug info for class
specializations, but LLDB has been expecting just `3`. This patch brings
printing policy in line with what Clang does.
A user found a crash when they would do code like:
```
(lldb) script
>>> target = lldb.SBTarget()
>>> lldb.debugger.SetSelectedTarget(target)
```
We were not checking if the target was valid in and it caused a crash..
These are expected to fail but sometimes crash during the test leaving them
as unresolved.
Same failure message and likely same cause as the other test in this file.
TestGlobalModuleCache.py, a recently added test, tries to update a
source file in the build directory, but it assumes the file is writable.
In our distributed build and test system, this is not always true, so
the test often fails with a write permissions error.
This change fixes that by setting the permissions on the file to be
writable before attempting to write to it.
This reverts commit 01c4ecb7ae,
d14d52158b and
a756dc4724.
This removes the logging and workaround I added earlier,
and puts back the skip for Arm/AArch64 Linux.
I've not seen it fail on AArch64 since, but let's not create
more noise if it does.
I've written up the issue as https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/76057.
It's something to do with trying to destroy a process while
a thread is doing a single sep. So my workaround wouldn't have
worked in any case. It needs a more involved fix.
This has been flaky for a while, for example
https://lab.llvm.org/buildbot/#/builders/96/builds/50350
```
Command Output (stdout):
--
lldb version 18.0.0git (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git revision 3974d89bde)
clang revision 3974d89bde
llvm revision 3974d89bde
"can't evaluate expressions when the process is running."
```
```
PLEASE submit a bug report to https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/ and include the crash backtrace.
#0 0x0000ffffa46191a0 llvm::sys::PrintStackTrace(llvm::raw_ostream&, int) (/home/tcwg-buildbot/worker/lldb-aarch64-ubuntu/build/lib/python3.8/site-packages/lldb/_lldb.cpython-38-aarch64-linux-gnu.so+0x529a1a0)
#1 0x0000ffffa4617144 llvm::sys::RunSignalHandlers() (/home/tcwg-buildbot/worker/lldb-aarch64-ubuntu/build/lib/python3.8/site-packages/lldb/_lldb.cpython-38-aarch64-linux-gnu.so+0x5298144)
#2 0x0000ffffa46198d0 SignalHandler(int) (/home/tcwg-buildbot/worker/lldb-aarch64-ubuntu/build/lib/python3.8/site-packages/lldb/_lldb.cpython-38-aarch64-linux-gnu.so+0x529a8d0)
#3 0x0000ffffab25b7dc (linux-vdso.so.1+0x7dc)
#4 0x0000ffffab13d050 /build/glibc-Q8DG8B/glibc-2.31/string/../sysdeps/aarch64/multiarch/memcpy_advsimd.S:92:0
#5 0x0000ffffa446f420 lldb_private::process_gdb_remote::GDBRemoteRegisterContext::PrivateSetRegisterValue(unsigned int, llvm::ArrayRef<unsigned char>) (/home/tcwg-buildbot/worker/lldb-aarch64-ubuntu/build/lib/python3.8/site-packages/lldb/_lldb.cpython-38-aarch64-linux-gnu.so+0x50f0420)
#6 0x0000ffffa446f7b8 lldb_private::process_gdb_remote::GDBRemoteRegisterContext::GetPrimordialRegister(lldb_private::RegisterInfo const*, lldb_private::process_gdb_remote::GDBRemoteCommunicationClient&) (/home/tcwg-buildbot/worker/lldb-aarch64-ubuntu/build/lib/python3.8/site-packages/lldb/_lldb.cpython-38-aarch64-linux-gnu.so+0x50f07b8)
#7 0x0000ffffa446f308 lldb_private::process_gdb_remote::GDBRemoteRegisterContext::ReadRegisterBytes(lldb_private::RegisterInfo const*) (/home/tcwg-buildbot/worker/lldb-aarch64-ubuntu/build/lib/python3.8/site-packages/lldb/_lldb.cpython-38-aarch64-linux-gnu.so+0x50f0308)
#8 0x0000ffffa446ec1c lldb_private::process_gdb_remote::GDBRemoteRegisterContext::ReadRegister(lldb_private::RegisterInfo const*, lldb_private::RegisterValue&) (/home/tcwg-buildbot/worker/lldb-aarch64-ubuntu/build/lib/python3.8/site-packages/lldb/_lldb.cpython-38-aarch64-linux-gnu.so+0x50efc1c)
#9 0x0000ffffa412eaa4 lldb_private::RegisterContext::ReadRegisterAsUnsigned(lldb_private::RegisterInfo const*, unsigned long) (/home/tcwg-buildbot/worker/lldb-aarch64-ubuntu/build/lib/python3.8/site-packages/lldb/_lldb.cpython-38-aarch64-linux-gnu.so+0x4dafaa4)
#10 0x0000ffffa420861c ReadLinuxProcessAddressMask(std::shared_ptr<lldb_private::Process>, llvm::StringRef) (/home/tcwg-buildbot/worker/lldb-aarch64-ubuntu/build/lib/python3.8/site-packages/lldb/_lldb.cpython-38-aarch64-linux-gnu.so+0x4e8961c)
#11 0x0000ffffa4208430 ABISysV_arm64::FixCodeAddress(unsigned long) (/home/tcwg-buildbot/worker/lldb-aarch64-ubuntu/build/lib/python3.8/site-packages/lldb/_lldb.cpython-38-aarch64-linux-gnu.so+0x4e89430)
```
Judging by the backtrace something is trying to read the pointer authentication address/code mask
registers. This explains why I've not seen this issue locally, as the buildbot runs on Graviton
3 with has the pointer authentication extension.
I will try to reproduce, fix and re-enable the test.
And remove the workaround I was trying, as this logging may prove what
the actual issue is.
Which I think is that the thread plan map in Process is cleared before
the threads are destroyed. So Thread::ShouldStop could be getting
the current plan, then the plan map is cleared, then Thread::ShouldStop
is deciding based on that plan to pop a plan from the now empty stack.
The function was using the default version of ValueObject::Dump, which
has a default of using the synthetic-ness of the top-level value for
determining whether to print _all_ values as synthetic. This resulted in
some unusual behavior, where e.g. a std::vector is stringified as
synthetic if its dumped as the top level object, but in its raw form if
it is a member of a struct without a pretty printer.
The SBValue class already has properties which determine whether one
should be looking at the synthetic view of the object (and also whether
to use dynamic types), so it seems more natural to use that.
This reverts commit 481bb62e50 and
71b4d7498f, along with the logging
and assert I had added to the test previously.
Now that I've caught it failing on Arm:
https://lab.llvm.org/buildbot/#/builders/17/builds/46598
Now I have enough to investigate, skip the test on the effected
platforms while I do that.
This reverts commit 35dacf2f51.
And relands the original change with two additions so I can debug the failure on Arm/AArch64:
* Enable lldb step logging in the tests.
* Assert that the current plan is not the base plan at the spot I believe is calling PopPlan.
These will be removed and replaced with a proper fix once I see some failures on the bots,
I couldn't reproduce it locally.
(also, no sign of it on the x86_64 bot)
When you debug a binary and the change & rebuild and then rerun in lldb
w/o quitting lldb, the Modules in the Global Module Cache for the old
binary & .o files if used are now "unreachable". Nothing in lldb is
holding them alive, and they've already been unlinked. lldb will
properly discard them if there's not another Target referencing them.
However, this only works in simple cases at present. If you have several
Targets that reference the same modules, it's pretty easy to end up
stranding Modules that are no longer reachable, and if you use a
sequence of SBDebuggers unreachable modules can also get stranded. If
you run a long-lived lldb process and are iteratively developing on a
large code base, lldb's memory gets filled with useless Modules.
This patch adds a test for the mode that currently works:
(lldb) target create foo
(lldb) run
<rebuild foo outside lldb>
(lldb) run
In that case, we do delete the unreachable Modules.
The next step will be to add tests for the cases where we fail to do
this, then see how to safely/efficiently evict unreachable modules in
those cases as well.
This patch is rearranging code a bit to add WatchpointResources to
Process. A WatchpointResource is meant to represent a hardware
watchpoint register in the inferior process. It has an address, a size,
a type, and a list of Watchpoints that are using this
WatchpointResource.
This current patch doesn't add any of the features of
WatchpointResources that make them interesting -- a user asking to watch
a 24 byte object could watch this with three 8 byte WatchpointResources.
Or a Watchpoint on 1 byte at 0x1002 and a second watchpoint on 1 byte at
0x1003, these must both be served by a single WatchpointResource on that
doubleword at 0x1000 on a 64-bit target, if two hardware watchpoint
registers were used to track these separately, one of them may not be
hit. Or if you have one Watchpoint on a variable with a condition set,
and another Watchpoint on that same variable with a command defined or
different condition, or ignorecount, both of those Watchpoints need to
evaluate their criteria/commands when their WatchpointResource has been
hit.
There's a bit of code movement to rearrange things in the direction I'll
need for implementing this feature, so I want to start with reviewing &
landing this mostly NFC patch and we can focus on the algorithmic
choices about how WatchpointResources are shared and handled as they're
triggeed, separately.
This patch also stops printing "Watchpoint <n> hit: old value: <x>, new
vlaue: <y>" for Read watchpoints. I could make an argument for print
"Watchpoint <n> hit: current value <x>" but the current output doesn't
make any sense, and the user can print the value if they are
particularly interested. Read watchpoints are used primarily to
understand what code is reading a variable.
This patch adds more fallbacks for how to print the objects being
watched if we have types, instead of assuming they are all integral
values, so a struct will print its elements. As large watchpoints are
added, we'll be doing a lot more of those.
To track the WatchpointSP in the WatchpointResources, I changed the
internal API which took a WatchpointSP and devolved it to a Watchpoint*,
which meant touching several different Process files. I removed the
watchpoint code in ProcessKDP which only reported that watchpoints
aren't supported, the base class does that already.
I haven't yet changed how we receive a watchpoint to identify the
WatchpointResource responsible for the trigger, and identify all
Watchpoints that are using this Resource to evaluate their conditions
etc. This is the same work that a BreakpointSite needs to do when it has
been tiggered, where multiple Breakpoints may be at the same address.
There is not yet any printing of the Resources that a Watchpoint is
implemented in terms of ("watchpoint list", or
SBWatchpoint::GetDescription).
"watchpoint set var" and "watchpoint set expression" take a size
argument which was previously 1, 2, 4, or 8 (an enum). I've changed this
to an unsigned int. Most hardware implementations can only watch 1, 2,
4, 8 byte ranges, but with Resources we'll allow a user to ask for
different sized watchpoints and set them in hardware-expressble terms
soon.
I've annotated areas where I know there is work still needed with
LWP_TODO that I'll be working on once this is landed.
I've tested this on aarch64 macOS, aarch64 Linux, and Intel macOS.
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-large-watchpoint-support-in-lldb/72116
(cherry picked from commit fc6b72523f)
Currently when you interrupt a:
(lldb) process attach -w -n some_process
lldb just closes the connection to the stub and kills the
lldb_private::Process it made for the attach. The stub at the other end
notices the connection go down and exits because of that. But when
communication to a device is handled through some kind of proxy server
which isn't as well behaved as one would wish, that signal might not be
reliable, causing debugserver to persist on the machine, waiting to
steal the next instance of that process.
We can work around those failures by sending an explicit interrupt
before closing down the connection. The stub will also have to be
waiting for the interrupt for this to make any difference. I changed
debugserver to do that.
I didn't make the equivalent change in lldb-server. So long as you
aren't faced with a flakey connection, this should not be necessary.
This patch is rearranging code a bit to add WatchpointResources to
Process. A WatchpointResource is meant to represent a hardware
watchpoint register in the inferior process. It has an address, a size,
a type, and a list of Watchpoints that are using this
WatchpointResource.
This current patch doesn't add any of the features of
WatchpointResources that make them interesting -- a user asking to watch
a 24 byte object could watch this with three 8 byte WatchpointResources.
Or a Watchpoint on 1 byte at 0x1002 and a second watchpoint on 1 byte at
0x1003, these must both be served by a single WatchpointResource on that
doubleword at 0x1000 on a 64-bit target, if two hardware watchpoint
registers were used to track these separately, one of them may not be
hit. Or if you have one Watchpoint on a variable with a condition set,
and another Watchpoint on that same variable with a command defined or
different condition, or ignorecount, both of those Watchpoints need to
evaluate their criteria/commands when their WatchpointResource has been
hit.
There's a bit of code movement to rearrange things in the direction I'll
need for implementing this feature, so I want to start with reviewing &
landing this mostly NFC patch and we can focus on the algorithmic
choices about how WatchpointResources are shared and handled as they're
triggeed, separately.
This patch also stops printing "Watchpoint <n> hit: old value: <x>, new
vlaue: <y>" for Read watchpoints. I could make an argument for print
"Watchpoint <n> hit: current value <x>" but the current output doesn't
make any sense, and the user can print the value if they are
particularly interested. Read watchpoints are used primarily to
understand what code is reading a variable.
This patch adds more fallbacks for how to print the objects being
watched if we have types, instead of assuming they are all integral
values, so a struct will print its elements. As large watchpoints are
added, we'll be doing a lot more of those.
To track the WatchpointSP in the WatchpointResources, I changed the
internal API which took a WatchpointSP and devolved it to a Watchpoint*,
which meant touching several different Process files. I removed the
watchpoint code in ProcessKDP which only reported that watchpoints
aren't supported, the base class does that already.
I haven't yet changed how we receive a watchpoint to identify the
WatchpointResource responsible for the trigger, and identify all
Watchpoints that are using this Resource to evaluate their conditions
etc. This is the same work that a BreakpointSite needs to do when it has
been tiggered, where multiple Breakpoints may be at the same address.
There is not yet any printing of the Resources that a Watchpoint is
implemented in terms of ("watchpoint list", or
SBWatchpoint::GetDescription).
"watchpoint set var" and "watchpoint set expression" take a size
argument which was previously 1, 2, 4, or 8 (an enum). I've changed this
to an unsigned int. Most hardware implementations can only watch 1, 2,
4, 8 byte ranges, but with Resources we'll allow a user to ask for
different sized watchpoints and set them in hardware-expressble terms
soon.
I've annotated areas where I know there is work still needed with
LWP_TODO that I'll be working on once this is landed.
I've tested this on aarch64 macOS, aarch64 Linux, and Intel macOS.
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-large-watchpoint-support-in-lldb/72116
The Watchpoint and Breakpoint objects try to track the hardware index
that was used for them, if they are hardware wp/bp's. The majority of
our debugging goes over the gdb remote serial protocol, and when we set
the watchpoint/breakpoint, there is no (standard) way for the remote
stub to communicate to lldb which hardware index was used. We have an
lldb-extension packet to query the total number of watchpoint registers.
When a watchpoint is hit, there is an lldb extension to the stop reply
packet (documented in lldb-gdb-remote.txt) to describe the watchpoint
including its actual hardware index,
<addr within wp range> <wp hw index> <actual accessed address>
(the third field is specifically needed for MIPS). At this point, if the
stub reported these three fields (the stub is only required to provide
the first), we can know the actual hardware index for this watchpoint.
Breakpoints are worse; there's never any way for us to be notified about
which hardware index was used. Breakpoints got this as a side effect of
inherting from StoppointSite with Watchpoints.
We expose the watchpoint hardware index through "watchpoint list -v" and
through SBWatchpoint::GetHardwareIndex.
With my large watchpoint support, there is no *single* hardware index
that may be used for a watchpoint, it may need multiple resources. Also
I don't see what a user is supposed to do with this information, or an
IDE. Knowing the total number of watchpoint registers on the target, and
knowing how many Watchpoint Resources are currently in use, is helpful.
Knowing how many Watchpoint Resources
a single user-specified watchpoint needed to be implemented is useful.
But knowing which registers were used is an implementation detail and
not available until we hit the watchpoint when using gdb remote serial
protocol.
So given all that, I'm removing watchpoint hardware index numbers. I'm
changing the SB API to always return -1.
When this option gets enabled, descriptions of stack frames will be
generated using the format provided in the launch configuration instead
of simply calling `SBFrame::GetDisplayFunctionName`. This allows
lldb-dap to show an output similar to the one in the CLI.
This patch adds a `SBType::FindDirectNestedType(name)` function which performs a non-recursive search in given class for a type with specified name. The intent is to perform a fast search in debug info, so that it can be used in formatters, and let them remain responsive.
This is driven by my work on formatters for Clang and LLVM types. In particular, by [`PointerIntPairInfo::MaskAndShiftConstants`](cde9f9df79/llvm/include/llvm/ADT/PointerIntPair.h (L174C16-L174C16)), which is required to extract pointer and integer from `PointerIntPair`.
Related Discourse thread: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/traversing-member-types-of-a-type/72452
This reverts commit a7b78cac9a.
With updates to the tests.
TestWatchTaggedAddress.py: Updated the expected watchpoint types,
though I'm not sure there should be a differnt default for the two
ways of setting them, that needs to be confirmed.
TestStepOverWatchpoint.py: Skipped this everywhere because I think
what used to happen is you couldn't put 2 watchpoints on the same
address (after alignment). I guess that this is now allowed because
modify watchpoints aren't accounted for, but likely should be.
Needs investigating.
Watchpoints in lldb can be either 'read', 'write', or 'read/write'. This
is exposing the actual behavior of hardware watchpoints. gdb has a
different behavior: a "write" type watchpoint only stops when the
watched memory region *changes*.
A user is using a watchpoint for one of three reasons:
1. Want to find what is changing/corrupting this memory.
2. Want to find what is writing to this memory.
3. Want to find what is reading from this memory.
I believe (1) is the most common use case for watchpoints, and it
currently can't be done in lldb -- the user needs to continue every time
the same value is written to the watched-memory manually. I think gdb's
behavior is the correct one. There are some use cases where a developer
wants to find every function that writes/reads to/from a memory region,
regardless of value, I want to still allow that functionality.
This is also a bit of groundwork for my large watchpoint support
proposal
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-large-watchpoint-support-in-lldb/72116
where I will be adding support for AArch64 MASK watchpoints which watch
power-of-2 memory regions. A user might ask to watch 24 bytes, and a
MASK watchpoint stub can do this with a 32-byte MASK watchpoint if it is
properly aligned. And we need to ignore writes to the final 8 bytes of
that watched region, and not show those hits to the user.
This patch adds a new 'modify' watchpoint type and it is the default.
Re-landing this patch after addressing testsuite failures found in CI on
Linux, Intel machines, and windows.
rdar://108234227
Watchpoints in lldb can be either 'read', 'write', or 'read/write'. This
is exposing the actual behavior of hardware watchpoints. gdb has a
different behavior: a "write" type watchpoint only stops when the
watched memory region *changes*.
A user is using a watchpoint for one of three reasons:
1. Want to find what is changing/corrupting this memory.
2. Want to find what is writing to this memory.
3. Want to find what is reading from this memory.
I believe (1) is the most common use case for watchpoints, and it
currently can't be done in lldb -- the user needs to continue every time
the same value is written to the watched-memory manually. I think gdb's
behavior is the correct one. There are some use cases where a developer
wants to find every function that writes/reads to/from a memory region,
regardless of value, I want to still allow that functionality.
This is also a bit of groundwork for my large watchpoint support
proposal
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-large-watchpoint-support-in-lldb/72116
where I will be adding support for AArch64 MASK watchpoints which watch
power-of-2 memory regions. A user might ask to watch 24 bytes, and a
MASK watchpoint stub can do this with a 32-byte MASK watchpoint if it is
properly aligned. And we need to ignore writes to the final 8 bytes of
that watched region, and not show those hits to the user.
This patch adds a new 'modify' watchpoint type and it is the default.
rdar://108234227
