our unwind information for functions that are entry points into the
kernel. When stepping to the next frame, the unwinder will let us
know when sych a marker was encountered. We use this to stop the
current unwind session, query the trapframe and restart a new
unwind session based on the new trapframe.
The implementation is a bit sloppy, but at this time there are
bigger fish to fry.
to get a stacktrace. This does not work even with M_NOWAIT when we
have WITNESS and is generally a bad idea (pointed out by bde@). We
allocate an 8K heap for use by the unwinder when ddb is active. A
stack trace roughly takes up half of that in any case, so we have
some room for complex unwind situations. We don't want to waste too
much space though. Due to the nature of unwinding, we don't worry
too much about fragmentation or performance of unwinding while in
the debugger. For now we have our own heap management, but we may
be able to leverage from existing code at some later time.
While here:
o Make sure we actually free the unwind environment after unwinding.
This fixes a memory leak.
o Replace Doug's license with mine in unwind.c and unwind.h. Both
files don't have much, if any, of Doug's code left since the EPC
syscall overhaul and the import of the unwinder.
o Remove dead code.
o Replace M_NOWAIT with M_WAITOK for all remaining malloc() calls.
prime objectives are:
o Implement a syscall path based on the epc inststruction (see
sys/ia64/ia64/syscall.s).
o Revisit the places were we need to save and restore registers
and define those contexts in terms of the register sets (see
sys/ia64/include/_regset.h).
Secundairy objectives:
o Remove the requirement to use contigmalloc for kernel stacks.
o Better handling of the high FP registers for SMP systems.
o Switch to the new cpu_switch() and cpu_throw() semantics.
o Add a good unwinder to reconstruct contexts for the rare
cases we need to (see sys/contrib/ia64/libuwx)
Many files are affected by this change. Functionally it boils
down to:
o The EPC syscall doesn't preserve registers it does not need
to preserve and places the arguments differently on the stack.
This affects libc and truss.
o The address of the kernel page directory (kptdir) had to
be unstaticized for use by the nested TLB fault handler.
The name has been changed to ia64_kptdir to avoid conflicts.
The renaming affects libkvm.
o The trapframe only contains the special registers and the
scratch registers. For syscalls using the EPC syscall path
no scratch registers are saved. This affects all places where
the trapframe is accessed. Most notably the unaligned access
handler, the signal delivery code and the debugger.
o Context switching only partly saves the special registers
and the preserved registers. This affects cpu_switch() and
triggered the move to the new semantics, which additionally
affects cpu_throw().
o The high FP registers are either in the PCB or on some
CPU. context switching for them is done lazily. This affects
trap().
o The mcontext has room for all registers, but not all of them
have to be defined in all cases. This mostly affects signal
delivery code now. The *context syscalls are as of yet still
unimplemented.
Many details went into the removal of the requirement to use
contigmalloc for kernel stacks. The details are mostly CPU
specific and limited to exception_save() and exception_restore().
The few places where we create, destroy or switch stacks were
mostly simplified by not having to construct physical addresses
and additionally saving the virtual addresses for later use.
Besides more efficient context saving and restoring, which of
course yields a noticable speedup, this also fixes the dreaded
SMP bootup problem as a side-effect. The details of which are
still not fully understood.
This change includes all the necessary backward compatibility
code to have it handle older userland binaries that use the
break instruction for syscalls. Support for break-based syscalls
has been pessimized in favor of a clean implementation. Due to
the overall better performance of the kernel, this will still
be notived as an improvement if it's noticed at all.
Approved by: re@ (jhb)
by using the linker hooks. Since these hooks are called for the
kernel as well, we don't need to deal with that with a special
SYSINIT. The initialization implicitly performed on the first
update of the unwind information is made explicit with a SYSINIT.
We now don't need the _ia64_unwind_{start|end} symbols.
* Implement a fairly simplistic parser for unwinding stack frames.
* Use unwind records for DDB's 'trace' command. Also add support for
tracing past exceptions to the context which generated the exception.
The stack unwind code requires a toolchain based on binutils-2.11.2 or
later and gcc-3.0.1 or later.
