1:04 a.m.
Hi Aditya,
Thank you for the work, it looks nicely done to me, except for the "info
threads" issue and the style of the gdb patch.
Hi Tao Liu,
I saw that you were interested in support for other architectures. I'd
like to test/support this also on x86_64 at the same time as ppc64 if
possible. Do you have any trial patch or plan?
Thanks,
Kazu
On 2024/01/05 16:30, Aditya Gupta wrote:
> The Problem:
> ============
>
> Currently crash is unable to show function arguments and local variables, as
> gdb can do. And functionality for moving between frames ('up'/'down')
is not
> working in crash.
>
> Crash has 'gdb passthroughs' for things gdb can do, but the gdb
passthroughs
> 'bt', 'frame', 'info locals', 'up', 'down'
are not working either, due to
> gdb not getting the register values from `crash_target::fetch_registers`,
> which then uses `machdep->get_cpu_reg`, which is not implemented for PPC64
>
> Proposed Solution:
> ==================
>
> Fix the gdb passthroughs by implementing "machdep->get_cpu_reg" for
PPC64.
> This way, "gdb mode in crash" will support this feature for both ELF and
> kdump-compressed vmcore formats, while "gdb" would only have supported
ELF
> format
>
> This way other features of 'gdb', such as seeing
> backtraces/registers/variables/arguments/local variables, moving up and
> down stack frames, can be used with any ppc64 vmcore, irrespective of
> being ELF format or kdump-compressed format.
>
> Note: This doesn't support live debugging on ppc64, since registers are not
> available to be read
>
> Implications on Architectures:
> ====================================
>
> No architecture other than PPC64 has been affected, other than in case of
> 'frame' command
>
> As mentioned in patch #2, since frame will not be prohibited, so it will print:
>
> crash> frame
> #0 <unavailable> in ?? ()
>
> Instead of before prohibited message:
>
> crash> frame
> crash: prohibited gdb command: frame
>
> Major change will be in 'gdb mode' on PPC64, that it will print the frames,
and
> local variables, instead of failing with errors showing no frame, or showing
> that couldn't get PC, it will be able to give all this information.
>
> Testing:
> ========
>
> Git tree with this patch series applied:
> https://github.com/adi-g15-ibm/crash/tree/stack-unwind-v6
>
> To test various gdb passthroughs:
>
> (crash) set
> (crash) set gdb on
> gdb> thread
> gdb> bt
> gdb> info threads
> gdb> info threads
> gdb> info locals
> gdb> info variables irq_rover_lock
> gdb> info args
> gdb> thread 2
> gdb> set gdb off
> (crash) set
> (crash) set -c 6
> (crash) gdb thread
> (crash) bt
> (crash) gdb bt
> (crash) frame
> (crash) up
> (crash) down
> (crash) info locals
>
> Known Issues:
> =============
>
> 1. In gdb mode, 'bt' might fail to show backtrace in few vmcores collected
> from older kernels. This is a known issue due to register mismatch, and
> its fix has been merged upstream:
>
> This can also cause some 'invalid kernel virtual address' errors during
gdb
> unwinding the stack registers
>
> Commit:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b684c09f09e7a6af3794d4233ef78581...
>
> Fixing GDB passthroughs on other architectures
> ==============================================
>
> Much of the work for making gdb passthroughs like 'gdb bt', 'gdb
> thread', 'gdb info locals' etc. has been done by the patches
introducing
> 'machdep->get_cpu_reg' and this series fixing some issues in that.
>
> Other architectures should be able to fix these gdb functionalities by
> simply implementing 'machdep->get_cpu_reg (cpu, regno, ...)'.
>
> The reasoning behind that has been explained with a diagram in commit
> description of patch #1
>
> I will assist with my findings/observations fixing it on ppc64 whenever needed.
>
> Changelog:
> ==========
>
> V6:
> + changes in patch #5: fix bug introduced in v5 that caused initial gdb thread
> to be thread 1
>
> V5:
> + changes in patch #1: made ppc64_get_cpu_reg static, and remove unreachable
> code
> + changes in patch #3: fixed typo 'ppc64_renum' instead of
'ppc64_regnum',
> remove unneeded if condition
> + changes in patch #5: implement refresh regcache on per thread, instead of all
> threads at once
>
> V4:
> + fix segmentation fault in live debugging (change in patch #1)
> + mention live debugging not supported in cover letter and patch #1
> + fixed some checkpatch warnings (change in patch #5)
>
> V3:
> + default gdb thread will be the crashing thread, instead of being
> thread '0'
> + synchronise crash cpu and gdb thread context
> + fix bug in gdb_interface, that replaced gdb's output stream, losing
> output in some cases, such as info threads and extra output in info
> variables
> + fix 'info threads'
>
> RFC V2:
> - removed patch implementing 'frame', 'up', 'down' in
crash
> - updated the cover letter by removing the mention of those commands other
> than the respective gdb passthrough
>
> Aditya Gupta (5):
> ppc64: correct gdb passthroughs by implementing machdep->get_cpu_reg
> remove 'frame' from prohibited commands list
> synchronise cpu context changes between crash/gdb
> fix gdb_interface: restore gdb's output streams at end of
> gdb_interface
> fix 'info threads' command
>
> crash_target.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++
> defs.h | 130 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> gdb-10.2.patch | 110 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> gdb_interface.c | 2 +-
> kernel.c | 47 +++++++++++++++--
> ppc64.c | 95 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> task.c | 14 ++++++
> tools.c | 2 +-
> 8 files changed, 434 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>