For Hexagon we want to be able to call functions during debugging, however currently lldb only supports this when there is JIT support.
Although emulation using IR interpretation is an alternative, it is currently limited in that it can't make function calls.
In this patch we have extended the IR interpreter so that it can execute a function call on the target using register manipulation.
To do this we need to handle the Call IR instruction, passing arguments to a new thread plan and collecting any return values to pass back into the IR interpreter.
The new thread plan is needed to call an alternative ABI interface of "ABI::PerpareTrivialCall()", allowing more detailed information about arguments and return values.
Reviewers: jingham, spyffe
Subscribers: emaste, lldb-commits, ted, ADodds, deepak2427
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D9404
llvm-svn: 242137
The current strategy for host allocation is to choose a random
address and attempt to allocate there, eventually failing if the
allocation cannot be satisfied.
The C standard only guarantees that RAND_MAX >= 32767, so for
platforms that use a very small RAND_MAX allocations will fail
with very high probability. On such platforms (Windows is one),
you can reproduce this trivially by running lldb, typing "expr (3)"
and then hitting enter you see a failure. Failures generally
happen with a frequency of about 1 failure every 5 evaluations.
There is no good reason that allocations need to look like "real"
pointers, so this patch changes the allocation scheme to simply
jump straight to the end and grab a free chunk of memory.
Reviewed By: Sean Callanan
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4300
llvm-svn: 212630
This change brings in lldb-gdbserver (llgs) specifically for Linux x86_64.
(More architectures coming soon).
Not every debugserver option is covered yet. Currently
the lldb-gdbserver command line can start unattached,
start attached to a pid (process-name attach not supported yet),
or accept lldb attaching and launching a process or connecting
by process id.
The history of this large change can be found here:
https://github.com/tfiala/lldb/tree/dev-tfiala-native-protocol-linux-x86_64
Until mid/late April, I was not sharing the work and continued
to rebase it off of head (developed via id tfiala@google.com). I switched over to
user todd.fiala@gmail.com in the middle, and once I went to github, I did
merges rather than rebasing so I could share with others.
llvm-svn: 212069
Previously, only the starting locations of the candidate interval
and the existing interval were compared. To correctly detect
range intersections, it is necessary to compare the entire range
of both intervals against each other.
Reviewed by: scallanan
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4286
llvm-svn: 211726
(lldb) b puts
(lldb) expr -g -i0 -- (int)puts("hello")
First we will stop at the entry point of the expression before it runs, then we can step over a few times and hit the breakpoint in "puts", then we can continue and finishing stepping and fininsh the expression.
Main features:
- New ObjectFileJIT class that can be easily created for JIT functions
- debug info can now be enabled when parsing expressions
- source for any function that is run throught the JIT is now saved in LLDB process specific temp directory and cleaned up on exit
- "expr -g --" allows you to single step through your expression function with source code
<rdar://problem/16382881>
llvm-svn: 204682
bother checking if a region is safe to use. In
cases where regions need to be synthesized rather
than properly allocated, the memory reads required
to determine whether the area is used are
- insufficient, because intermediate locations
could be in use, and
- unsafe, because on some platforms reading from
memory can trigger events.
All this only makes a difference on platforms
where memory allocation in the target is impossible.
Behavior on platforms where it is possible should
stay the same.
<rdar://problem/14023970>
llvm-svn: 185046
live as long as they needed to. This led to
equality tests involving persistent variables
often failing or succeeding when they had no
business doing so.
To do this, I introduced the ability for a
memory allocation to "leak" - that is, to
persist in the process beyond the lifetime of
the expression. Hand-declared persistent
variables do this now.
<rdar://problem/13956311>
llvm-svn: 182528
regions that aren't actually allocated in the
process. This cache is used by the expression
parser if the underlying process doesn't support
memory allocation, to avoid needless repeated
searches for unused address ranges.
Also fixed a silly bug in IRMemoryMap where it
would continue searching even after it found a
valid region.
<rdar://problem/13866629>
llvm-svn: 182028
mostly related to management of the stack frame
for the interpreter.
- First, if the expression can be interpreted,
allocate the stack frame in the target process
(to make sure pointers are valid) but only
read/write to the copy in the host's memory.
- Second, keep the memory allocations for the
stack frame and the materialized struct as
member variables of ClangUserExpression. This
avoids memory allocations and deallocations
each time the expression runs.
<rdar://problem/13043685>
llvm-svn: 180664
and made attempts to allocate memory in the process
fall back to FindSpace and just allocate memory on
the host (but with real-looking pointers, hence
FindSpace) if the process doesn't allow allocation.
This allows expressions to run on processes that don't
support allocation, like core files.
This introduces an extremely rare potential problem:
If all of the following are true:
- The Process doesn't support allocation;
- the user writes an expression that refers to an
address that does not yet map to anything, or is
dynamically generated (e.g., the result of calling
a function); and
- the randomly-selected address for the static data
for that specific expression runs into the
address the user was expecting to work with;
then dereferencing the pointer later results
in the user seeing something unexpected. This is
unlikely but possible; as a future piece of work,
we should have processes be able to hint to the
expression parser where it can allocate temporary data
of this kind.
llvm-svn: 179827
expressions.
Previously, ClangUserExpression assumed that if
there was a constant result for an expression
then it could be determined during parsing. In
particular, the IRInterpreter ran while parser
state (in particular, ClangExpressionDeclMap)
was present. This approach is flawed, because
the IRInterpreter actually is capable of using
external variables, and hence the result might
be different each run. Until now, we papered
over this flaw by re-parsing the expression each
time we ran it.
I have rewritten the IRInterpreter to be
completely independent of the ClangExpressionDeclMap.
Instead of special-casing external variable lookup,
which ties the IRInterpreter closely to LLDB,
we now interpret the exact same IR that the JIT
would see. This IR assumes that materialization
has occurred; hence the recent implementation of the
Materializer, which does not require parser state
(in the form of ClangExpressionDeclMap) to be
present.
Materialization, interpretation, and dematerialization
are now all independent of parsing. This means that
in theory we can parse expressions once and run them
many times. I have three outstanding tasks before
shutting this down:
- First, I will ensure that all of this works with
core files. Core files have a Process but do not
allow allocating memory, which currently confuses
materialization.
- Second, I will make expression breakpoint
conditions remember their ClangUserExpression and
re-use it.
- Third, I will tear out all the redundant code
(for example, materialization logic in
ClangExpressionDeclMap) that is no longer used.
While implementing this fix, I also found a bug in
IRForTarget's handling of floating-point constants.
This should be fixed.
llvm-svn: 179801
Ewan Crawford
Zachary Turner
Sylvestre Ledru
Todd Fiala
Greg Clayton
Sean Callanan
Virgile Bello
Michael Sartain
Matt Kopec
Jim Ingham