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57 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Omar Sandoval
1c8eced0c6 libdrgn: stack_trace: support unwinding stack from struct pt_regs
Linux kernel IRQ handlers store the registers from before the interrupt
as struct pt_regs, so add a way to unwind the stack given only that
structure.
2019-10-28 13:56:54 -07:00
Omar Sandoval
4780c7a266 libdrgn: stack_trace: prohibit unwinding stack of running tasks
We currently don't check that the task we're unwinding is actually
blocked, which means that linux_kernel_set_initial_registers_x86_64()
will get garbage from the stack and we'll return a nonsense stack trace.
Let's avoid this by checking that the task isn't running if we didn't
find a NT_PRSTATUS note.
2019-10-28 13:37:57 -07:00
Omar Sandoval
91f5c8e2e7 libdrgn: stack_trace: support unwinding stack from thread ID
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.
2019-10-28 13:37:53 -07:00
Omar Sandoval
0f7ad0ed26 libdrgn: stack_trace: support unwinding stack from core dump
vmcores include a NT_PRSTATUS note for each CPU containing the PID of
the task running on that CPU at the time of the crash and its registers.
We can use that to unwind the stack of the crashed tasks.
2019-10-28 13:36:02 -07:00
Omar Sandoval
0da60a41cd libdrgn: support getting register values from stack frames
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.
2019-10-19 13:53:06 -07:00
Omar Sandoval
4fb0e2e110 libdrgn: use new libdwfl stack trace API 2019-10-18 14:34:11 -07:00
Omar Sandoval
10142f922f Add basic stack trace support
For now, we only support stack traces for the Linux kernel (at least
v4.9) on x86-64, and we only support getting the program counter and
corresponding function symbol from each stack frame.
2019-08-02 00:26:28 -07:00