In preparation for making drgn_pretty_print_object() more flexible
(i.e., not always "pretty"), rename it to drgn_format_object(). For
consistency, let's rename drgn_pretty_print_type_name(),
drgn_pretty_print_type(), and drgn_pretty_print_stack_trace(), too.
If we only want debugging information for vmlinux and not kernel
modules, it'd be nice to only load the former. This adds a load_main
parameter to drgn_program_load_debug_info() which specifies just that.
For now, it's only implemented for the Linux kernel. While we're here,
let's make the paths parameter optional for the Python bindings.
This implements the first step at supporting C++: class types. In
particular, this adds a new drgn_type_kind, DRGN_TYPE_CLASS, and support
for parsing DW_TAG_class_type from DWARF. Although classes are not valid
in C, this adds support for pretty printing them, for completeness.
When debugging the Linux kernel, it's inconvenient to have to get the
task_struct of a thread in order to get its stack trace. This adds
support for looking it up solely by PID. In that case, we do the
find_task() inside of libdrgn. This also gives us stack trace support
for userspace core dumps almost for free since we already added support
for NT_PRSTATUS.
There are some cases where we want to read an integer regardless of its
signedness, so drgn_object_read_signed() and drgn_object_read_unsigned()
are cumbersome to use, and drgn_object_read_value() is too permissive.
Currently, the only information available from a stack frame is the
program counter. Eventually, we'd like to add support for getting
arguments and local variables, but that will require more work. In the
mean time, we can at least get the values of other registers. A
determined user can read the assembly for the code they're debugging and
derive the values of variables from the registers.
In order to retrieve registers from stack traces, we need to know what
registers are defined for a platform. This adds a small DSL for defining
registers for an architecture. The DSL is parsed by an awk script that
generates the necessary tables, lookup functions, and enum definitions.