Some of the SB API method description docstrings for swing are annotated
as `%feature("autodoc")` - but `"autodoc"` annotations are only to
substitute a string showing the arguments and return variables - either
in a single line, or in multiple lines. SBMemoryRegionInfo used
`"autodoc"` correctly describing the parameters and return type, but
then it added a description too which is not correct either.
Change all of these that are adding a method description to use
`%feature("docstring")` instead. There were a half dozen instances where
`"autodoc"` was correctly being used and we have overriden the parameter
and return types with a more readable version.
Updates:
- The previous patch changed the default behavior to not load dwos in
`DWARFUnit`
~~`SymbolFileDWARFDwo *GetDwoSymbolFile(bool load_all_debug_info =
false);`~~
`SymbolFileDWARFDwo *GetDwoSymbolFile(bool load_all_debug_info = true);`
- This broke some lldb-shell tests (see
https://green.lab.llvm.org/green/view/LLDB/job/as-lldb-cmake/16273/)
- TestDebugInfoSize.py
- with symbol on-demand, by default statistics dump only reports
skeleton debug info size
- `statistics dump -f` will load all dwos. debug info = skeleton debug
info + all dwo debug info
Currently running `statistics dump` will trigger lldb to load debug info
that's not yet loaded (eg. dwo files). Resulted in a delay in the
command return, which, can be interrupting.
This patch also added a new option `--load-all-debug-info` asking
statistics to dump all possible debug info, which will force loading all
debug info available if not yet loaded.
Currently running `statistics dump` will trigger lldb to load debug info
that's not yet loaded (eg. dwo files). Resulted in a delay in the
command return, which, can be interrupting.
This patch also added a new option `--load-all-debug-info` asking
statistics to dump all possible debug info, which will force loading all
debug info available if not yet loaded.
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.
Add the ability to get a C++ vtable ValueObject from another
ValueObject.
This patch adds the ability to ask a ValueObject for a ValueObject that
represents the virtual function table for a C++ class. If the
ValueObject is not a C++ class with a vtable, a valid ValueObject value
will be returned that contains an appropriate error. If it is successful
a valid ValueObject that represents vtable will be returned. The
ValueObject that is returned will have a name that matches the demangled
value for a C++ vtable mangled name like "vtable for <class-name>". It
will have N children, one for each virtual function pointer. Each
child's value is the function pointer itself, the summary is the
symbolication of this function pointer, and the type will be a valid
function pointer from the debug info if there is debug information
corresponding to the virtual function pointer.
The vtable SBValue will have the following:
- SBValue::GetName() returns "vtable for <class>"
- SBValue::GetValue() returns a string representation of the vtable
address
- SBValue::GetSummary() returns NULL
- SBValue::GetType() returns a type appropriate for a uintptr_t type for
the current process
- SBValue::GetLoadAddress() returns the address of the vtable adderess
- SBValue::GetValueAsUnsigned(...) returns the vtable address
- SBValue::GetNumChildren() returns the number of virtual function
pointers in the vtable
- SBValue::GetChildAtIndex(...) returns a SBValue that represents a
virtual function pointer
The child SBValue objects that represent a virtual function pointer has
the following values:
- SBValue::GetName() returns "[%u]" where %u is the vtable function
pointer index
- SBValue::GetValue() returns a string representation of the virtual
function pointer
- SBValue::GetSummary() returns a symbolicated respresentation of the
virtual function pointer
- SBValue::GetType() returns the function prototype type if there is
debug info, or a generic funtion prototype if there is no debug info
- SBValue::GetLoadAddress() returns the address of the virtual function
pointer
- SBValue::GetValueAsUnsigned(...) returns the virtual function pointer
- SBValue::GetNumChildren() returns 0
- SBValue::GetChildAtIndex(...) returns invalid SBValue for any index
Examples of using this API via python:
```
(lldb) script vtable = lldb.frame.FindVariable("shape_ptr").GetVTable()
(lldb) script vtable
vtable for Shape = 0x0000000100004088 {
[0] = 0x0000000100003d20 a.out`Shape::~Shape() at main.cpp:3
[1] = 0x0000000100003e4c a.out`Shape::~Shape() at main.cpp:3
[2] = 0x0000000100003e7c a.out`Shape::area() at main.cpp:4
[3] = 0x0000000100003e3c a.out`Shape::optional() at main.cpp:7
}
(lldb) script c = vtable.GetChildAtIndex(0)
(lldb) script c
(void ()) [0] = 0x0000000100003d20 a.out`Shape::~Shape() at main.cpp:3
```
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
This patch re-lands f0731d5b61 with more fixes and improvements.
First, this patch removes `__eq__` implementations from classes that
didn't implemented `operator!=` on the C++ implementation.
This patch removes sphinx document generation for special members such
as `__len__`, since there is no straightforward way to skip class that
don't implement them. We also don't want to introduce a change in
behavior by implementing artifical special members for classes that are
missing them.
Finally, this patch improve the ergonomics of some classes by
implementing special members where it makes sense, i.e. `hex(SBFrame)`
is equivalent to `SBFrame.GetPC()`.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D159017
Signed-off-by: Med Ismail Bennani <ismail@bennani.ma>
This reverts 3 commit:
- f0731d5b61.
- 8e0a087571.
- f2f5d6fb8d.
This changes were introduced to silence the warnings that are printed
when generating the lldb module documentation for the website but it
changed the python bindings and causes test failures on the macos bot:
https://green.lab.llvm.org/green/job/lldb-cmake/59438/
We will have to consider other options to silence these warnings.
This patch should fix the build failures introduced by f0731d5b61.
This removes the use of the `STRING_EXTENSION_OUTSIDE` swig macro in SB
classes that don't implement a `GetDescription` method.
Signed-off-by: Med Ismail Bennani <ismail@bennani.ma>
This reverts commit 18f1c1ace7 and fix the
build failure issues introduced because of the `STRING_EXTENSION_OUTSIDE`
swig macros.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D159017
Signed-off-by: Med Ismail Bennani <ismail@bennani.ma>
This patch does various things to silence the warnings that show up when
generating the website documentation.
First, this patch adds the missing definition for special member methods
in every SBAPI class. If the class cannot implement one of the special
member method, we just define it as a null operation (pass).
This should fix the following warnings:
```
WARNING: missing attribute __int__ in object lldb.SB*
WARNING: missing attribute __len__ in object lldb.SB*
WARNING: missing attribute __hex__ in object lldb.SB*
WARNING: missing attribute __oct__ in object lldb.SB*
WARNING: missing attribute __iter__ in object lldb.SB*
```
Then, it un-skips the various `static` methods that we didn't generate
the methods for, since it's not necessary thanks to the automod-api module.
Finally, this comments out the `_static` directory in the sphinx config,
since we don't need it anymore.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D159017
Signed-off-by: Med Ismail Bennani <ismail@bennani.ma>
This patch adds the ability to pass native types from the script
interpreter to methods that use a {SB,}StructuredData argument.
To do so, this patch changes the `ScriptedObject` struture that holds
the pointer to the script object as well as the originating script
interpreter language. It also exposes that to the SB API via a new class
called `SBScriptObject`.
This structure allows the debugger to parse the script object and
convert it to a StructuredData object. If the type is not compatible
with the StructuredData types, we will store its pointer in a
`StructuredData::Generic` object.
This patch also adds some SWIG typemaps that checks the input argument to
ensure it's either an SBStructuredData object, in which case it just
passes it throught, or a python object that is NOT another SB type, to
provide some guardrails for the user.
rdar://111467140
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D155161
Signed-off-by: Med Ismail Bennani <ismail@bennani.ma>
This patch improves breakpoint management when doing interactive
scripted process debugging.
In other to know which process set a breakpoint, we need to do some book
keeping on the multiplexer scripted process. When initializing the
multiplexer, we will first copy breakpoints that are already set on the
driving target.
Everytime we launch or resume, we should copy breakpoints from the
multiplexer to the driving process.
When creating a breakpoint from a child process, it needs to be set both
on the multiplexer and on the driving process. We also tag the created
breakpoint with the name and pid of the originator process.
This patch also implements all the requirement to achieve proper
breakpoint management. That involves:
- Adding python interator for breakpoints and watchpoints in SBTarget
- Add a new `ScriptedProcess.create_breakpoint` python method
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D148548
Signed-off-by: Med Ismail Bennani <medismail.bennani@gmail.com>
This patch tries to address an interoperability issue when writing
python string into the process memory.
Since the python string is not null-terminated, it would still be
written to memory however, when trying to read it again with
`SBProcess::ReadCStringFromMemory`, the memory read would fail, since
the read string doens't contain a null-terminator, and therefore is not
a valid C string.
To address that, this patch extends the `SBProcess` SWIG interface to
expose a new `WriteMemoryAsCString` method that is only exposed to the
SWIG target language. That method checks that the buffer to write is
null-terminated and otherwise, it appends a null byte at the end of it.
Signed-off-by: Med Ismail Bennani <medismail.bennani@gmail.com>
Revert while I investigate two CI bot failures;
the more important is the lldb-arm-ubuntu where
the FixAddress is removing the 0th bit so we're
adding the `actual=` decorator on a string pointer,
```
Got output:
(char *) strptr = 0x00400817 (actual=0x400816) ptr = [{ },{H}]
```
in TestDataFormatterSmartArray.py line 229.
This reverts commit 4d635be2db.
On target where metadata is stored in bits that aren't used for
virtual addressing -- AArch64 Top Byte Ignore and pointer authentication
are two examples -- an SBValue object representing a pointer will
return the address with metadata for SBValue::GetValueAsUnsigned.
Users may want to get the virtual address without the metadata;
this new method gives them a way to do this.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D142792
This patch adds the following methods:
* `GetType()`
* `GetWatchValueKind()`
* `GetWatchSpec()`
* `IsWatchingReads()`
* `IsWatchingWrites()`
These mostly expose methods that `lldb_private::Watchpoint` already
had. Tests are included that exercise these new methods.
The motivation for exposing these are as follows:
* `GetType()` - With this information and the address from a watchpoint
it is now possible to construct an SBValue from an SBWatchpoint.
Previously this wasn't possible. The included test case illustrates
doing this.
* `GetWatchValueKind()` - This allows the caller to determine whether the
watchpoint is a variable watchpoint or an expression watchpoint. A new
enum (`WatchpointValueKind`) has been introduced to represent the
return values. Unfortunately the name `WatchpointKind` was already
taken.
* `GetWatchSpec()` - This allows (at least for variable watchpoints)
to use a sensible name for SBValues created from an SBWatchpoint.
* `IsWatchingReads()` - This allow checking if a watchpoint is
monitoring read accesses.
* `IsWatchingWRites()` - This allow checking if a watchpoint is
monitoring write accesses.
rdar://105606978
Reviewers: jingham, mib, bulbazord, jasonmolenda, JDevlieghere
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D144937
Instead of maintaining separate swig interface files, we can use the API
headers directly. They implement the exact same C++ APIs and we can
conditionally include the python extensions as needed. To remove the
swig extensions from the API headers when building the LLDB
framework, we can use the unifdef tool when it is available. Otherwise
we just copy them as-is.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D142926
This is a preparatory patch to add an SB API to get the progress data as
SBStructuredData. The advantage of using SBStructuredData is that the
dictionary can grow over time with more fields.
This approach is identical to the way this is implemented for diagnostic
events.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D143687
To the Python bindings, add support for Python-like negative indexes.
While was using `script`, I tried to access a thread's bottom frame with
`thread.frame[-1]`, but that failed. This change updates the `__getitem__`
implementations to support negative indexes as one would expect in Python.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D143282
This patch introduces a new `GetScriptedImplementation` method to the
SBProcess class in the SBAPI. It will allow users of Scripted Processes to
fetch the scripted implementation object from to script interpreter to be
able to interact with it directly (without having to go through lldb).
This allows to user to perform action that are not specified in the
scripted process interface, like calling un-specified methods, but also
to enrich the implementation, by passing it complex objects.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D143236
Signed-off-by: Med Ismail Bennani <medismail.bennani@gmail.com>
This patch is preparatory work for Scripted Platform support and does
multiple things:
First, it introduces new options for the `platform select` command and
`SBPlatform::Create` API, to hold a reference to the debugger object,
the name of the python script managing the Scripted Platform and a
structured data dictionary that the user can use to pass arbitrary data.
Then, it updates the various `Create` and `GetOrCreate` methods for
the `Platform` and `PlatformList` classes to pass down the new parameter
to the `Platform::CreateInstance` callbacks.
Finally, it updates every callback to reflect these changes.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D139249
Signed-off-by: Med Ismail Bennani <medismail.bennani@gmail.com>
SWIG allows you to partially disable thread support for a given function
in Python with `nothreadallow`. This functionality is limited to Python,
but until SWIG 4.1, it would silently ignore this for other languages,
such as Lua. New versions of SWIG are more strict and therefore we need
to guard this with `SWIGPYTHON`.
For more details on the functionality, I recommend reading the commit
message from 070a1d562b.
Reimplement `SBFileSpec.fullpath` to (indirectly) use `FileSpec::GetPath`.
Instead of hardcoding a `/` separator, use `GetPath`. This makes use of the
`FileSpec`'s internal style, which for example allows for backslash on Windows
where required.
It's not obvious from looking at the source, but the `fullpath` property is
implemented with `str`, which calls `GetDescription`, which finally calls
`GetPath`.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D138348
Fix `fullpath` to not assume a `/` path separator. This was discovered when
D133130 failed on Windows. Use `os.path.join()` to fix the issue.
Reviewed By: mib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D133366
Modify `SBTypeNameSpecifier` and `lldb_private::TypeMatcher` so they
have an enum value for the type of matching to perform instead of an
`m_is_regex` boolean value.
This change paves the way for introducing formatter matching based on
the result of a python callback in addition to the existing name-based
matching. See the RFC thread at
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-python-callback-for-data-formatters-type-matching/64204
for more details.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D133240
I went over the output of the following mess of a command:
(ulimit -m 2000000; ulimit -v 2000000; git ls-files -z | parallel
--xargs -0 cat | aspell list --mode=none --ignore-case | grep -E
'^[A-Za-z][a-z]*$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | grep -vE '.{25}' |
aspell pipe -W3 | grep : | cut -d' ' -f2 | less)
and proceeded to spend a few days looking at it to find probable typos
and fixed a few hundred of them in all of the llvm project (note, the
ones I found are not anywhere near all of them, but it seems like a
good start).
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D131122
Summary:
Many times when debugging variables might not be available even though a user can successfully set breakpoints and stops somewhere. Letting the user know will help users fix these kinds of issues and have a better debugging experience.
Examples of this include:
- enabling -gline-tables-only and being able to set file and line breakpoints and yet see no variables
- unable to open object file for DWARF in .o file debugging for darwin targets due to modification time mismatch or not being able to locate the N_OSO file.
This patch adds an new API to SBValueList:
lldb::SBError lldb::SBValueList::GetError();
object so that if you request a stack frame's variables using SBValueList SBFrame::GetVariables(...), you can get an error the describes why the variables were not available.
This patch adds the ability to get an error back when requesting variables from a lldb_private::StackFrame when calling GetVariableList.
It also now shows an error in response to "frame variable" if we have debug info and are unable to get varialbes due to an error as mentioned above:
(lldb) frame variable
error: "a.o" object from the "/tmp/libfoo.a" archive: either the .o file doesn't exist in the archive or the modification time (0x63111541) of the .o file doesn't match
Reviewers: labath JDevlieghere aadsm yinghuitan jdoerfert sscalpone
Subscribers:
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D133164
This patch adds new SBDebugger::GetSetting() API which
enables client to access settings as SBStructedData.
Implementation wise, a new ToJSON() virtual function is added to OptionValue
class so that each concrete child class can override and provides its
own JSON representation. This patch aims to define the APIs and implement
a common set of OptionValue child classes, leaving the remaining for
future patches.
This patch is used later by auto deduce source map from source line breakpoint
feature for testing generated source map entries.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D133038
Many times when debugging variables might not be available even though a user can successfully set breakpoints and stops somewhere. Letting the user know will help users fix these kinds of issues and have a better debugging experience.
Examples of this include:
- enabling -gline-tables-only and being able to set file and line breakpoints and yet see no variables
- unable to open object file for DWARF in .o file debugging for darwin targets due to modification time mismatch or not being able to locate the N_OSO file.
This patch adds an new API to SBValueList:
lldb::SBError lldb::SBValueList::GetError();
object so that if you request a stack frame's variables using SBValueList SBFrame::GetVariables(...), you can get an error the describes why the variables were not available.
This patch adds the ability to get an error back when requesting variables from a lldb_private::StackFrame when calling GetVariableList.
It also now shows an error in response to "frame variable" if we have debug info and are unable to get varialbes due to an error as mentioned above:
(lldb) frame variable
error: "a.o" object from the "/tmp/libfoo.a" archive: either the .o file doesn't exist in the archive or the modification time (0x63111541) of the .o file doesn't match
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D133164
