On arm64 machines, when there is a hardware breakpoint or watchpoint
set, and lldb has instruction-stepped a thread, and then done a
Process::Resume, we will sometimes receive an extra "instruction step
completed" mach exception and the pc has not advanced. From a user's
perspective, they hit Continue and lldb stops again at the same spot.
From the testsuite's perspective, this has been a constant source of
testsuite failures for any test using hardware watchpoints and
breakpoints, the arm64 CI bots seem especially good at hitting this
issue.
Jim and I have been slowly looking at this for a few months now, and
finally I decided to try to detect this situation in lldb and silently
resume the process again when it happens.
We were already detecting this "got an insn-step finished mach exception
but this thread was not instruction stepping" combination in
StopInfoMachException where we take the mach exception and create a
StopInfo object for it. We had a lot of logging we used to understand
the failure as it was hit on the bots in assert builds.
This patch adds a new case to `Thread::GetPrivateStopInfo()` to call the
StopInfo's (new) `IsContinueInterrupted()` method. In
StopInfoMachException, where we previously had logging for assert
builds, I now note it in an ivar, and when
`Thread::GetPrivateStopInfo()` asks if this has happened, we check all
of the combination of events that this comes up: We have a hardware
breakpoint or watchpoint, we were not instruction stepping this thread
but got an insn-step mach exception, the pc is the same as the previous
stop's pc. And in that case, `Thread::GetPrivateStopInfo()` returns no
StopInfo -- indicating that this thread would like to resume execution.
The `Thread` object has two StackFrameLists, `m_curr_frames_sp` and
`m_prev_frames_sp`. When a thread resumes execution, we move
`m_curr_frames_sp` in to `m_prev_frames_sp` and when it stops executing,
w euse `m_prev_frames_sp` to seed the new `m_curr_frames_sp` if most of
the stack is the same as before.
In this same location, I now save the Thread's RegisterContext::GetPC
into an ivar, `m_prev_framezero_pc`. StopInfoMachException needs this
information to check all of the conditions I outlined above for
`IsContinueInterrupted`.
This has passed exhaustive testing and we do not have any testsuite
failures for hardware watchpoints and breakpoints due to this kernel bug
with the patch in place. In focusing on these tests for thousands of
runs, I have found two other uncommon race conditions for the
TestConcurrent* tests on arm64. TestConcurrentManyBreakpoints.py (which
uses no hardware watchpoint/breakpoints) will sometimes only have 99
breakpoints when it expects 100, and any of the concurrent tests using
the shared harness (I've seen it in
TestConcurrentWatchBreakDelay.py,
TestConcurrentTwoBreakpointsOneSignal.py,
TestConcurrentSignalDelayWatch.py) can fail when the test harness checks
that there is only one thread still running at the end, and it finds two
-- one of them under pthread_exit / pthread_terminate. Both of these
failures happen on github main without my changes, and with my changes -
they are unrelated race conditions in these tests, and I'm sure I'll be
looking into them at some point if they hit the CI bots with frequency.
On my computer, these are in the 0.3-0.5% of the time class. But the CI
bots do have different timing.
This patch improve exception reporting when loading a crash report in a
scripted process. Now, we parse the `exception` dictionary from the
crash report use it the create a higher fidelity `MachException` stop info.
This patch also updates the test to reflect that change.
rdar://97096486
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D131086
Signed-off-by: Med Ismail Bennani <medismail.bennani@gmail.com>
LLDB has a few different styles of header guards and they're not very
consistent because things get moved around or copy/pasted. This patch
unifies the header guards across LLDB and converts everything to match
LLVM's style.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D74743
A lot of comments in LLDB are surrounded by an ASCII line to delimit the
begging and end of the comment.
Its use is not really consistent across the code base, sometimes the
lines are longer, sometimes they are shorter and sometimes they are
omitted. Furthermore, it looks kind of weird with the 80 column limit,
where the comment actually extends past the line, but not by much.
Furthermore, when /// is used for Doxygen comments, it looks
particularly odd. And when // is used, it incorrectly gives the
impression that it's actually a Doxygen comment.
I assume these lines were added to improve distinguishing between
comments and code. However, given that todays editors and IDEs do a
great job at highlighting comments, I think it's worth to drop this for
the sake of consistency. The alternative is fixing all the
inconsistencies, which would create a lot more churn.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60508
llvm-svn: 358135
to reflect the new license.
We understand that people may be surprised that we're moving the header
entirely to discuss the new license. We checked this carefully with the
Foundation's lawyer and we believe this is the correct approach.
Essentially, all code in the project is now made available by the LLVM
project under our new license, so you will see that the license headers
include that license only. Some of our contributors have contributed
code under our old license, and accordingly, we have retained a copy of
our old license notice in the top-level files in each project and
repository.
llvm-svn: 351636
This patch removes the comments grouping header includes. They were
added after running IWYU over the LLDB codebase. However they add little
value, are often outdates and burdensome to maintain.
llvm-svn: 346626
*** to conform to clang-format’s LLVM style. This kind of mass change has
*** two obvious implications:
Firstly, merging this particular commit into a downstream fork may be a huge
effort. Alternatively, it may be worth merging all changes up to this commit,
performing the same reformatting operation locally, and then discarding the
merge for this particular commit. The commands used to accomplish this
reformatting were as follows (with current working directory as the root of
the repository):
find . \( -iname "*.c" -or -iname "*.cpp" -or -iname "*.h" -or -iname "*.mm" \) -exec clang-format -i {} +
find . -iname "*.py" -exec autopep8 --in-place --aggressive --aggressive {} + ;
The version of clang-format used was 3.9.0, and autopep8 was 1.2.4.
Secondly, “blame” style tools will generally point to this commit instead of
a meaningful prior commit. There are alternatives available that will attempt
to look through this change and find the appropriate prior commit. YMMV.
llvm-svn: 280751
"object borked"... Also made the error when the checker fails reflect this fact rather than
report a crash at 0x0.
Also a little cleanup:
- StopInfoMachException had a redundant copy of the description string.
- ThreadPlanCallFunction had a redundant copy of the thread, and had a
copy of the process that it didn't really need.
llvm-svn: 143419
data sent back to the debugger. On the debugger side, use the opportunity during the
StopInfoMachException::CreateStopReasonWithMachException() method to set the hardware index
for the very watchpoint location.
llvm-svn: 139975
This will allow debugger plug-ins to make any instance of "lldb_private::StopInfo"
that can completely describe any stop reason. It also provides a framework for
doing intelligent things with the stop info at important times in the lifetime
of the inferior.
Examples include the signal stop info in StopInfoUnixSignal. It will check with
the process to see that the current action is for the signal. These actions
include wether to stop for the signal, wether the notify that the signal was
hit, and wether to pass the signal along to the inferior process. The
StopInfoUnixSignal class overrides the "ShouldStop()" method of StopInfo and
this allows the stop info to determine if it should stop at the signal or
continue the process.
StopInfo subclasses must override the following functions:
virtual lldb::StopReason
GetStopReason () const = 0;
virtual const char *
GetDescription () = 0;
StopInfo subclasses can override the following functions:
// If the subclass returns "false", the inferior will resume. The default
// version of this function returns "true" which means the default stop
// info will stop the process. The breakpoint subclass will check if
// the breakpoint wants us to stop by calling any installed callback on
// the breakpoint, and also checking if the breakpoint is for the current
// thread. Signals will check if they should stop based off of the
// UnixSignal settings in the process.
virtual bool
ShouldStop (Event *event_ptr);
// Sublasses can state if they want to notify the debugger when "ShouldStop"
// returns false. This would be handy for breakpoints where you want to
// log information and continue and is also used by the signal stop info
// to notify that a signal was received (after it checks with the process
// signal settings).
virtual bool
ShouldNotify (Event *event_ptr)
{
return false;
}
// Allow subclasses to do something intelligent right before we resume.
// The signal class will figure out if the signal should be propagated
// to the inferior process and pass that along to the debugger plug-ins.
virtual void
WillResume (lldb::StateType resume_state)
{
// By default, don't do anything
}
The support the Mach exceptions was moved into the lldb/source/Plugins/Process/Utility
folder and now doesn't polute the lldb_private::Thread class with platform
specific code.
llvm-svn: 110184
