This is an ongoing series of commits that are reformatting our Python
code. Reformatting is done with `black` (23.1.0).
If you end up having problems merging this commit because you have made
changes to a python file, the best way to handle that is to run `git
checkout --ours <yourfile>` and then reformat it with black.
RFC: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-document-and-standardize-python-code-style
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D151460
We want to include events with metadata, like context switches, and this
requires the API to handle events with payloads (e.g. information about
such context switches). Besides this, we want to support multiple
similar events between two consecutive instructions, like multiple
context switches. However, the current implementation is not good for this because
we are defining events as bitmask enums associated with specific
instructions. Thus, we need to decouple instructions from events and
make events actual items in the trace, just like instructions and
errors.
- Add accessors in the TraceCursor to know if an item is an event or not
- Modify from the TraceDumper all the way to DecodedThread to support
- Renamed the paused event to disabled.
- Improved the tsc handling logic. I was using an API for getting the tsc from libipt, but that was an overkill that should be used when not processing events manually, but as we are already processing events, we can more easily get the tscs.
event items. Fortunately this simplified many things
- As part of this refactor, I also fixed and long stating issue, which is that some non decoding errors were being inserted in the decoded thread. I changed this so that TraceIntelPT::Decode returns an error if the decoder couldn't be set up proplerly. Then, errors within a trace are actual anomalies found in between instrutions.
All test pass
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128576
In order to provide simple scripting support on top of instruction traces, a simple solution is to enhance the `dump instructions` command and allow printing in json and directly to a file. The format is verbose and not space efficient, but it's not supposed to be used for really large traces, in which case the TraceCursor API is the way to go.
- add a -j option for printing the dump in json
- add a -J option for pretty printing the json output
- add a -F option for specifying an output file
- add a -a option for dumping all the instructions available starting at the initial point configured with the other flags
- add tests for all cases
- refactored the instruction dumper and abstracted the actual "printing" logic. There are two writer implementations: CLI and JSON. This made the dumper itself much more readable and maintanable
sample output:
```
(lldb) thread trace dump instructions -t -a --id 100 -J
[
{
"id": 100,
"tsc": "43591204528448966"
"loadAddress": "0x407a91",
"module": "a.out",
"symbol": "void std::deque<Foo, std::allocator<Foo>>::_M_push_back_aux<Foo>(Foo&&)",
"mnemonic": "movq",
"source": "/usr/include/c++/8/bits/deque.tcc",
"line": 492,
"column": 30
},
...
```
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128316
Eliminate boilerplate of having each test manually assign to `mydir` by calling
`compute_mydir` in lldbtest.py.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128077
In order to support quick arbitrary access to instructions in the trace, we need
each instruction to have an id. It could be an index or any other value that the
trace plugin defines.
This will be useful for reverse debugging or for creating callstacks, as each
frame will need an instruction id associated with them.
I've updated the `thread trace dump instructions` command accordingly. It now
prints the instruction id instead of relative offset. I've also added a new --id
argument that allows starting the dump from an arbitrary position.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D122254
