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8 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Omar Sandoval
7a9fad0fd2 libdrgn: move _vmemmap() to object finder
Similarly to PAGE_OFFSET, vmemmap makes more sense as part of the Linux
kernel object finder than an internal helper.

While we're here, let's fix the definition for 5-level page tables. This
only matters for kernels with commit 77ef56e4f0fb ("x86: Enable 5-level
paging support via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y") but without eedb92abb9bb
("x86/mm: Make virtual memory layout dynamic for CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y")
(namely, v4.14, v4.15, and v4.16); since v4.17, 5-level page table
support enables KASLR.
2020-04-10 15:33:29 -07:00
Omar Sandoval
5ac95e491a libdrgn: fix _page_offset() helper and move to object finder
The internal _page_offset() helper gets the value of PAGE_OFFSET, but
the fallback when KASLR is disabled has been out of date since Linux
v4.20 and never handled 5-level page tables. Additionally, it makes more
sense as part of the Linux kernel (formerly vmcoreinfo) object finder so
that it's cleanly accessible outside of drgn internals.
2020-04-10 15:33:27 -07:00
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
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
d60c6a1d68 libdrgn: add register information to platform
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.
2019-10-18 14:33:02 -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
Omar Sandoval
690b5fd650 libdrgn: generalize architecture to platform
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.
2019-08-02 00:11:56 -07:00