In a PR last month I changed the ObjectFile CreateInstance etc methods
to accept an optional DataExtractorSP instead of a DataBufferSP, and
retain the extractor in a shared pointer internally in all of the
ObjectFile subclasses. This is laying the groundwork for using a
VirtualDataExtractor for some Mach-O binaries on macOS, where the
segments of the binary are out-of-order in actual memory, and we add a
lookup table to make it appear that the TEXT segment is at offset 0 in
the Extractor, etc. Working on the actual implementation, I realized we
were still using DataBufferSP's in ModuleSpec and Module, as well as in
ObjectFile::GetModuleSpecifications.
I originally was making a much larger NFC change where I had all
ObjectFile subclasses operating on DataExtractors throughout their
implementation, as well as in the DWARF parser. It was a very large
patchset. Many subclasses start with their DataExtractor, then create
smaller DataExtractors for parts of the binary image - the string table,
the symbol table, etc., for processing.
After consideration and discussion with Jonas, we agreed that a
segment/section of a binary will never require a lookup table to access
the bytes within it, so I changed
VirtualDataExtractor::GetSubsetExtractorSP to (1) require that the
Subset be contained within a single lookup table entry, and (2) return a
simple DataExtractor bounded on that byte range. By doing this, I was
able to remove all of my very-invasive changes to the ObjectFile
subclass internals; it's only when they are operating on the entire
binary image that care is needed.
One pattern that subclasses like ObjectFileBreakpad use is to take an
ArrayRef of the DataBuffer for a binary, then create a StringRef of
that, then look for strings in it. With a VirtualDataExtractor and
out-of-order binary segments, with gaps between them, this allows us to
search the entire buffer looking for a string, and segfault when it gets
to an unmapped region of the buffer. I added a
VirtualDataExtractor::GetSubsetExtractorSP(0) which gets the largest
contiguous memory region starting at offset 0 for this use case, and I
added a comment about what was being done there because I know it is not
obvious, and people not working on macOS wouldn't be familiar with the
requirement. (when we have a ModuleSpec with a DataExtractor, any of the
ObjectFile subclasses get a shot at Creating, so they all have to be
able to iterate on these)
rdar://148939795
The ObjectFile plugin interface accepts an optional DataBufferSP
argument. If the caller has the contents of the binary, it can provide
this in that DataBufferSP. The ObjectFile subclasses in their
CreateInstance methods will fill in the DataBufferSP with the actual
binary contents if it is not set.
ObjectFile base class creates an ivar DataExtractor from the
DataBufferSP passed in.
My next patch will be a caller that creates a VirtualDataExtractor with
the binary data, and needs to pass that in to the ObjectFile plugin,
instead of the bag-of-bytes DataBufferSP. It builds on the previous
patch changing ObjectFile's ivar from DataExtractor to DataExtractorSP
so I could pass in a subclass in the shared ptr. And it will be using
the VirtualDataExtractor that Jonas added in
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/168802
No behavior is changed by the patch; we're simply moving the creation of
the DataExtractor to the caller, instead of a DataBuffer that is
immediately used to set up the ObjectFile DataExtractor. The patch is a
bit complicated because all of the ObjectFile subclasses have to
initialize their DataExtractor to pass in to the base class.
I ran the testsuite on macOS and on AArch64 Ubutnu. (btw David, I ran it
under qemu on my M4 mac with SME-no-SVE again, Ubuntu 25.10, checked
lshw(1) cpu capabilities, and qemu doesn't seem to be virtualizing the
SME, that explains why the testsuite passes)
rdar://148939795
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Co-authored-by: Jonas Devlieghere <jonas@devlieghere.com>
Windows uses COFF as an object file format and PE/COFF as an executable
file format. They are subtly different and certain elements of a COFF
file may not be present in an executable. Introduce a new plugin to add
support for the COFF object file format which is required to support
loading of modules built with -gmodules. This is motivated by Swift
which serialises debugging information into a PCM which is a COFF object
file.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D149987
Reviewed By: bulbazord
