drgn/libdrgn/error.h
Omar Sandoval e5874ad18a libdrgn: use libdwfl
libdwfl is the elfutils "DWARF frontend library". It has high-level
functionality for looking up symbols, walking stack traces, etc. In
order to use this functionality, we need to report our debugging
information through libdwfl. For userspace programs, libdwfl has a much
better implementation than drgn for automatically finding debug
information from a core dump or PID. However, for the kernel, libdwfl
has a few issues:

- It only supports finding debug information for the running kernel, not
  vmcores.
- It determines the vmlinux address range by reading /proc/kallsyms,
  which is slow (~70ms on my machine).
- If separate debug information isn't available for a kernel module, it
  finds it by walking /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel; this is repeated
  for every module.
- It doesn't find kernel modules with names containing both dashes and
  underscores (e.g., aes-x86_64).

Luckily, drgn already solved all of these problems, and with some
effort, we can keep doing it ourselves and report it to libdwfl.

The conversion replaces a bunch of code for dealing with userspace core
dump notes, /proc/$pid/maps, and relocations.
2019-07-15 12:27:48 -07:00

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// Copyright 2018-2019 - Omar Sandoval
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0+
/**
* @file
*
* Error helpers.
*
* See @ref Errors.
*/
#ifndef DRGN_ERROR_H
#define DRGN_ERROR_H
#include <stdlib.h>
#include "drgn.h"
/**
* @ingroup Internals
*
* @defgroup Errors Errors
*
* Common errors.
*
* @{
*/
#define DRGN_UNREACHABLE() abort()
struct drgn_object_type;
/**
* Global stop iteration error.
*
* This is also used as a special sentinel return in various places internally.
*/
extern struct drgn_error drgn_stop;
struct string_builder;
/**
* Create a @ref drgn_error with a message from a @ref string_builder.
*
* This finalizes the string builder.
*/
struct drgn_error *drgn_error_from_string_builder(enum drgn_error_code code,
struct string_builder *sb);
/**
* Append a formatted @ref drgn_error to a @ref string_builder.
*
* @return @c true on success, @c false on error (if we couldn't allocate
* memory).
*/
bool string_builder_append_error(struct string_builder *sb,
struct drgn_error *err);
/** Create a @ref drgn_error from the libelf error indicator. */
struct drgn_error *drgn_error_libelf(void)
__attribute__((returns_nonnull));
/** Create a @ref drgn_error from the libdw error indicator. */
struct drgn_error *drgn_error_libdw(void)
__attribute__((returns_nonnull));
/** Create a @ref drgn_error from the libdwfl error indicator. */
struct drgn_error *drgn_error_libdwfl(void)
__attribute__((returns_nonnull));
/**
* Create a @ref drgn_error with a type name.
*
* The error code will be @ref DRGN_ERROR_TYPE.
*
* @param[in] format Format string for the type error. Must contain %s, which
* will be replaced with the type name, and no other conversion specifications.
*/
struct drgn_error *drgn_type_error(const char *format, struct drgn_type *type)
__attribute__((returns_nonnull));
/**
* Create a @ref drgn_error with a qualified type name.
*
* @sa drgn_type_error().
*/
struct drgn_error *
drgn_qualified_type_error(const char *format,
struct drgn_qualified_type qualified_type)
__attribute__((returns_nonnull));
/**
* Create a @ref drgn_error for an incomplete type.
*
* @sa drgn_type_error().
*/
struct drgn_error *drgn_error_incomplete_type(const char *format,
struct drgn_type *type);
/**
* Create a @ref drgn_error for a type which does not have a given member.
*
* The error code will be @ref DRGN_ERROR_LOOKUP.
*/
struct drgn_error *drgn_error_member_not_found(struct drgn_type *type,
const char *member_name)
__attribute__((returns_nonnull));
/** Create a @ref drgn_error for invalid types to a binary operator. */
struct drgn_error *drgn_error_binary_op(const char *op_name,
struct drgn_object_type *type1,
struct drgn_object_type *type2)
__attribute__((returns_nonnull));
/** Create a @ref drgn_error for an invalid type to a unary operator. */
struct drgn_error *drgn_error_unary_op(const char *op_name,
struct drgn_object_type *type)
__attribute__((returns_nonnull));
/** @} */
#endif /* DRGN_ERROR_H */