The model has always been that drgn Objects are immutable, but for some
reason I went through the trouble of allowing __init__() to reinitialize
an already initialized Object. Instead, let's fully initialize the
Object in __new__() and get rid of __init__().
It's annoying to have to do value= when creating objects, especially in
interactive mode. Let's allow passing in the value positionally so that
`Object(prog, "int", value=0)` becomes `Object(prog, "int", 0)`. It's
clear enough that this is creating an int with value 0.
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.
DRGN_UNREACHABLE() currently expands to abort(), but assert() provides
more information. If NDEBUG is defined, we can use
__builtin_unreachable() instead.
DRGN_UNREACHABLE() isn't drgn-specific, so this renames it to
UNREACHABLE(). It's also not really related to errors, so this moves it
to internal.h.
DrgnObject_getattro() uses PyObject_GenericGetAttr() and catches the
AttributeError raised if the name is not an attribute of the Object
class. If the member is found, we then destroy the AttributeError.
Raising an exception only to destroy it is obviously wasteful. Luckily,
as of Python 3.7, the lower-level _PyObject_GenericGetAttrWithDict() can
suppress the AttributeError; we can raise it ourselves if we need it. In
my microbenchmarks, this makes Object.__getattribute__() at least twice
as fast when the member exists.
This also fixes a drgn_error leak.
We need to keep the Program alive for its types to stay valid, not just
the objects the Program has pinned. (I have no idea why I changed this
in commit 565e0343ef ("libdrgn: make symbol index pluggable with
callbacks").)
Currently, we print:
>>> prog.symbol(prog['init_task'])
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: cannot convert 'struct task_struct' to index
It's not obvious what it means to convert to an index. Instead, let's
use the error message raised by operator.index():
TypeError: 'struct task_struct' object cannot be interpreted as an integer
Decouple some of the responsibilities of FaultError to
OutOfBoundsError so consumers can differentiate between
invalid memory accesses and running out of bounds in
drgn Objects which may be based on valid memory address.
We'd like to have more control over how objects are formatted. I
considered defining a custom string format specification syntax, but
that's not easily discoverable. Instead, let's get rid of the current
format specification support and replace it with a normal method.
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.
Some tests (e.g., tests.test_object.TestSpecialMethods.test_round) are
printing:
DeprecationWarning: an integer is required (got type float). Implicit
conversion to integers using __int__ is deprecated, and may be removed
in a future version of Python.
See https://bugs.python.org/issue36048. This is coming from calls like:
Object(prog, 'int', value=1.5)
We actually want the truncating behavior, so explicitly call
PyNumber_Long().
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.
Python 3.8 replaced the unused void *tp_print field with Py_ssize_t
tp_vectorcall_offset, so with -Werror we get "error: initialization of
‘long int’ from ‘void *’ makes integer from pointer without a cast".
Let's just use designated initializers.
We'd like to be able to look up tasks by PID from libdrgn, but those
helpers are written in Python. Translate them to C and add some thin
bindings so we can use the same implementation from Python.
There are a few places (e.g., Program.symbol(), Program.read()) where it
makes sense to accept, e.g., a drgn.Object with integer type. Replace
index_arg() with a converter function and use it everywhere that we use
the "K" format for PyArg_Parse*.
For stack trace support, we'll need to have some architecture-specific
functionality. drgn's current notion of an architecture doesn't actually
include the instruction set architecture. This change expands it to a
"platform", which includes the ISA as well as the existing flags.
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.
drgn has pretty thorough in-program documentation, but it doesn't have a
nice overview or introduction to the basic concepts. This commit adds
that using Sphinx. In order to avoid documenting everything in two
places, the libdrgn bindings have their docstrings generated from the
API documentation. The alternative would be to use Sphinx's autodoc
extension, but that's not as flexible and would also require building
the extension to build the docs. The documentation for the helpers is
generated using autodoc and a small custom extension.
I went back and forth on using setuptools or autotools for the Python
extension, but I eventually settled on using only setuptools after
fighting to get the two to integrate well. However, setuptools is kind
of crappy; for one, it rebuilds every source file when rebuilding the
extension, which is really annoying for development. automake is a
better designed build system overall, so let's use that for the
extension. We override the build_ext command to build using autotools
and copy things where setuptools expects them.
