We have some generic helpers that we'd like to add (for example, #210)
that need to know the stack pointer of a frame. These shouldn't need to
hard-code register names for different architectures. Add a generic
shortcut, StackFrame.sp.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
drgn is currently licensed as GPLv3+. Part of the long term vision for
drgn is that other projects can use it as a library providing
programmatic interfaces for debugger functionality. A more permissive
license is better suited to this goal. We decided on LGPLv2.1+ as a good
balance between software freedom and permissiveness.
All contributors not employed by Meta were contacted via email and
consented to the license change. The only exception was the author of
commit c4fbf7e589 ("libdrgn: fix for compilation error"), who did not
respond. That commit reverted a single line of code to one originally
written by me in commit 640b1c011d ("libdrgn: embed DWARF index in
DWARF info cache").
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
In additional to the general-purpose registers, struct pt_regs also
provides the cs and ss segment registers and the rflags register.
elf_gregset_t provides the other segment registers as well. We should
expose all of those.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
Currently, register definitions are split across two files:
arch_foo.defs lists the names of registers, and arch_foo.c defines the
layout used to store registers in memory. The main rationale for this
was that the layout could be processed entirely by the C preprocessor,
but the register names needed an AWK script that we wanted to keep
minimal. But since commit af6f5a887d ("libdrgn: replace gen_arch.awk
with gen_arch_inc_strswitch.py"), arch_foo.defs is processed by a Python
script.
Let's define both the register names and the register layout in a new
file, arch_foo_defs.py, which is processed by gen_arch_inc_strswitch.py
This has a few benefits:
* It puts all of the register definitions for an architecture in one
place.
* It is easier to maintain than preprocessor magic. (It also makes it
trivial to support registers that don't exist in DWARF, which would've
been harder to do with our preprocessor code.)
* It gets rid of our DSL in favor of Python (which also lets us reduce
repetition for the ppc64 definitions).
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
