Currently, reference objects and buffer value objects have a byte order.
However, this doesn't always make sense for a couple of reasons:
- Byte order is only meaningful for scalars. What does it mean for a
struct to be big endian? A struct doesn't have a most or least
significant byte; its scalar members do.
- The DWARF specification allows either types or variables to have a
byte order (DW_AT_endianity). The only producer I could find that uses
this is GCC for the scalar_storage_order type attribute, and it only
uses it for base types, not variables. GDB only seems to use to check
it for base types, as well.
So, remove the byte order from objects, and move it to integer, boolean,
floating-point, and pointer types. This model makes more sense, and it
means that we can get the binary representation of any object now.
The only downside is that we can no longer support a bit offset for
non-scalars, but as far as I can tell, nothing needs that.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
We've nominally supported complex types since commit 75c3679147
("Rewrite drgn core in C"), but parsing them from DWARF has been
incorrect from the start (they don't have a DW_AT_type attribute like we
assume), and we never implemented proper support for complex objects.
Drop the partial implementation; we can bring it back (properly) if
someone requests it.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
Add struct drgn_type_template_parameter to libdrgn, the corresponding
TypeTemplateParameter to the Python bindings, and support for parsing
them from DWARF.
With this, support for templates is almost, but not quite, complete. The
main wart is that DW_TAG_name of compound types includes the template
parameters, so the type tag includes it as well. We should remove that
from the tag and instead have the type formatting code add it only when
getting the full type name.
Based on a patch from Jay Kamat.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
In order to support static members, methods, default function arguments,
and value template parameters, we need to be able to store a drgn_object
in a drgn_type_member or drgn_type_parameter. These are all cases where
we want lazy evaluation, so we can replace drgn_lazy_type with a new
drgn_lazy_object which implements the same idea but for objects. Types
can still be represented with an absent object.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
Make TypeMember.bit_field_size consistent with Object.bit_field_size_ by
using None to represent a non-bit field instead of 0.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
The == operator on drgn.Type is only intended for testing. It's
expensive and slow and not what people usually want. It's going to get
even more awkward to define once types can refer to objects (for
template parameters and static members and such). Let's replace == with
a new identical() function only available in unit tests. Then, remove
the operator from the Python bindings as well as the underlying libdrgn
drgn_type_eq() and drgn_qualified_type_eq() functions.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
offsetof() can almost be implemented with Type.member(name).offset, but
that doesn't parse member designators. Add an offsetof() function that
does (and add drgn_type_offsetof() in libdrgn).
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
In Python, looking up a member in a drgn Type by name currently looks
something like:
member = [member for member in type.members if member.name == "foo"][0]
Add a Type.member(name) method, which is both easier and more efficient.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
drgn_type_members_eq() skips comparing the types of anonymous members.
Fix that and add a test for it.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
Black was recently changed to treat a trailing comma as an indicator to
put each item/argument on its own line. We have a bunch of places where
something previously had to be split into multiple lines, then was
edited to fit on one line, but Black kept the trailing comma. Now this
update wants to unnecessarily split it back up. For now, let's get rid
of these commas. Hopefully in the future Black has a way to opt out of
this.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
I originally did it this way because pydoc doesn't handle non-trivial
defaults in signature very well (see commit 67a16a09b8 ("tests: test
that Python documentation renders")). drgndoc doesn't generate signature
for pydoc anymore, though, so we don't need to worry about it and can
clean up the typing.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
I originally envisioned types as dumb descriptors. This mostly works for
C because in C, types are fairly simple. However, even then the
drgn_program_member_info() API is awkward. You should be able to look up
a member directly from a type, but we need the program for caching
purposes. This has also held me back from adding offsetof() or
has_member() APIs.
Things get even messier with C++. C++ template parameters can be objects
(e.g., template <int N>). Such parameters would best be represented by a
drgn object, which we need a drgn program for. Static members are a
similar case.
So, let's reimagine types as being owned by a program. This has a few
parts:
1. In libdrgn, simple types are now created by factory functions,
drgn_foo_type_create().
2. To handle their variable length fields, compound types, enum types,
and function types are constructed with a "builder" API.
3. Simple types are deduplicated.
4. The Python type factory functions are replaced by methods of the
Program class.
5. While we're changing the API, the parameters to pointer_type() and
array_type() are reordered to be more logical (and to allow
pointer_type() to take a default size of None for the program's
default pointer size).
6. Likewise, the type factory methods take qualifiers as a keyword
argument only.
A big part of this change is updating the tests and splitting up large
test cases into smaller ones in a few places.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
drgn was originally my side project, but for awhile now it's also been
my work project. Update the copyright headers to reflect this, and add a
copyright header to various files that were missing it.
For types obtained from DWARF, we determine it from the language of the
CU. For other types, it can be specified manually or fall back to the
default (C). Then, we can use the language for operations where the type
is available.
This continues the conversion from the last commit. Members and
parameters are basically the same, so we can do them together. Unlike
enumerators, these don't make sense to unpack or access as sequences.
Currently, type members, enumerators, and parameters are all represented
by tuples in the Python bindings. This is awkward to document and
implement. Instead, let's replace these tuples with proper types,
starting with the easiest one, TypeEnumerator. This one still makes
sense to treat as a sequence so that it can be unpacked as (name,
value).
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.
It's annoying to do obj.type_.size, and that doesn't even work for every
type. Add sizeof() that does the right thing whether it's given a Type
or Object.
Currently, repr() of structure and union types goes arbitrarily deep
(except for cycles). However, for lots of real-world types, this is
easily deeper than Python's recursion limit, so we can't get a useful
repr() at all:
>>> repr(prog.type('struct task_struct'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while getting the repr of an object
Instead, only print one level of structure and union types.
Currently, programs can be created for three main use-cases: core dumps,
the running kernel, and a running process. However, internally, the
program memory, types, and symbols are pluggable. Expose that as a
callback API, which makes it possible to use drgn in much more creative
ways.
The current mixed Python/C implementation works well, but it has a
couple of important limitations:
- It's too slow for some common use cases, like iterating over large
data structures.
- It can't be reused in utilities written in other languages.
This replaces the internals with a new library written in C, libdrgn. It
includes Python bindings with mostly the same public interface as
before, with some important improvements:
- Types are now represented by a single Type class rather than the messy
polymorphism in the Python implementation.
- Qualifiers are a bitmask instead of a set of strings.
- Bit fields are not considered a separate type.
- The lvalue/rvalue terminology is replaced with reference/value.
- Structure, union, and array values are better supported.
- Function objects are supported.
- Program distinguishes between lookups of variables, constants, and
functions.
The C rewrite is about 6x as fast as the original Python when using the
Python bindings, and about 8x when using the C API directly.
Currently, the exposed API in C is fairly conservative. In the future,
the memory reader, type index, and object index APIs will probably be
exposed for more flexibility.
CompoundType.members() currently returns a list of member names;
sometimes, we actually want the type and offset. So, rename members() to
member_names(), and make members() return the type and offset, using a
newly added version of functools.partial() that caches the return value.
Currently, printing, e.g.,
typedef struct {
int counter;
} atomic_t
results in
typedef struct atomic_t
Which isn't very useful. Instead, print the former.
This is preparation for the next change, so that a Program can clean up
after itself. The Program will close the CoreReader, and the CoreReader
will close the underlying file.
This is a big change that makes EnumType have a compatible integer type
member instead of copying the fields, which ends up touching a lot of
stuff but also fixing a bunch of static typing errors.
Converting an lvalue to an operand has to do a little bit more than
remove qualifiers:
- Convert array types to pointer types
- Convert function types to pointer types
