table. Previously, the ddb code knew of each linker set of auxiliary
commands and which explicit command list they were tied to. These changes
add a simple command_table struct that contains both the static list of
commands and the pointers for any auxiliary linker set of additional
commands. This also makes it possible for other arbitrary command tables
to be defined in other parts of the kernel w/o having to edit ddb itself.
The DB_SET macro has also been trimmed down to just creating an entry in
a linker set. A new DB_FUNC macro does what the old DB_SET did which is
to not only add an entry to the linker set but also to include a function
prototype for the function being added. With these changes, it's now also
possible to create aliases for ddb functions using DB_SET() directly if
desired.
still works. Also, this is consistent with 'show pcpu' vs
'show allpcpu'. (And 'show allstacks' on OS X for that matter.)
- Add 'bt' as an alias for 'trace'. We already have a 'where' alias as
well, so this makes it easier for gdb-wired hands to work in ddb.
Ok'd by: rwatson (1)
Requested by: scottl (2)
MFC after: 1 day
- Make it so one can't call db_setup_paging() if it has already been called
before. traceall needs this, or else the db_setup_paging() call from
db_trace_thread() will reset the printed line number, and override its
argument.
This is not perfect for traceall, because even if one presses 'q' while in
the middle of printing a backtrace it will finish printing the backtrace
before exiting, as db_trace_thread() won't be notified it should stop, but
it is hard to do better without reworking the pager interface a lot more.
threads. This is quite useful if generating a debug log for post-mortem
by another developer, in which case the person at the console may not
know which threads are of interest. The output of this can be quite
long.
Discussed with: kris
MFC after: 3 days
pointer doesn't point to the first instruction of that function, but
rather to a descriptor. The descriptor has the address of the first
instruction, as well as the value of the global pointer. The symbol
table doesn't know anything about descriptors, so if you lookup the
name of a function you get the address of the first instruction. The
cast from the address, which is the result of the symbol lookup, to a
function pointer as is done in db_fncall is therefore invalid.
Abstract this detail behind the DB_CALL macro. By default DB_CALL is
defined as db_fncall_generic, which yields the old behaviour. On ia64
the macro is defined as db_fncall_ia64, in which a descriptor is
constructed to yield a valid function pointer.
While here, introduce DB_MAXARGS. DB_MAXARGS replaces the existing
(local) MAXARGS. The DB_MAXARGS macro can be defined by platforms to
create a convenient maximum. By default this will be the legacy 10.
On ia64 we define this macro to be 8, for 8 is the maximum number of
arguments that can be passed in registers. This avoids having to
implement spilling of arguments on the memory stack.
Approved by: re (dwhite)
When a series of traces is included in a bug report, this will make it
easier to tie the trace information back to ps or threads output,
each of which will show the pid or the tid, but usually not both.
the thread ID and call db_trace_thread().
Since arm has all the logic in db_stack_trace_cmd(), rename the
new DB_COMMAND function to db_stack_trace to avoid conflicts on
arm.
While here, have db_stack_trace parse its own arguments so that
we can use a more natural radix for IDs. If the ID is not a thread
ID, or more precisely when no thread exists with the ID, try if
there's a process with that ID and return the first thread in it.
This makes it easier to print stack traces from the ps output.
requested by: rwatson@
tested on: amd64, i386, ia64
more generic, but that didn't actually happen. Since the feature to
switch backends (and historically this means from DDB to GDB) is
important, make sure people can do just that until such the generic
mechanism actually sees the light of day.
Suggested by: rwatson@
Most of the changes are a direct result of adding thread awareness.
Typically, DDB_REGS is gone. All registers are taken from the
trapframe and backtraces use the PCB based contexts. DDB_REGS was
defined to be a trapframe on all platforms anyway.
Thread awareness introduces the following new commands:
thread X switch to thread X (where X is the TID),
show threads list all threads.
The backtrace code has been made more flexible so that one can
create backtraces for any thread by giving the thread ID as an
argument to trace.
With this change, ia64 has support for breakpoints.
prototypes of cpu_halt(), cpu_reset() and swi_vm() from md_var.h to
cpu.h. This affects db_command.c and kern_shutdown.c.
ia64: move all MD prototypes from cpu.h to md_var.h. This affects
madt.c, interrupt.c and mp_machdep.c. Remove is_physical_memory().
It's not used (vm_machdep.c).
alpha: the MD prototypes have been left in cpu.h with a comment
that they should be there. Moving them is left for later. It was
expected that the impact would be significant enough to be done in
a seperate commit.
powerpc: MD prototypes left in cpu.h. Comment added.
Suggested by: bde
Tested with: make universe (pc98 incomplete)
callout when a specified number of lines have been output. This can be
used to implement pagers for ddb commands that output a lot of text. A
simple paging function is included that automatically rearms itself when
fired.
Reviewed by: bde, julian
(show thread {address})
Remove the IDLE kse state and replace it with a change in
the way threads sahre KSEs. Every KSE now has a thread, which is
considered its "owner" however a KSE may also be lent to other
threads in the same group to allow completion of in-kernel work.
n this case the owner remains the same and the KSE will revert to the
owner when the other work has been completed.
All creations of upcalls etc. is now done from
kse_reassign() which in turn is called from mi_switch or
thread_exit(). This means that special code can be removed from
msleep() and cv_wait().
kse_release() does not leave a KSE with no thread any more but
converts the existing thread into teh KSE's owner, and sets it up
for doing an upcall. It is just inhibitted from being scheduled until
there is some reason to do an upcall.
Remove all trace of the kse_idle queue since it is no-longer needed.
"Idle" KSEs are now on the loanable queue.
respects locks. Before SMPng, one was able to call psignal()
using the "call" command, but this is no longer possible because it
does not respect locks by itself. This is very useful when one has
gotten their machine into a state where it is impossible to spawn
ps/kill or su to root.
In this case, respecting locks essentially means trying to aquire the
proc lock before calling psignal(). We can't block in the debugger,
so if trylock fails, the operation fails. This also means that we
can't use pfind(), since that will attempt to lock the process for us.
Reviewed by: jhb
'dwatch'. The new commands install hardware watchpoints if supported
by the architecture and if there are enough registers to cover the
desired memory area.
No objection by: audit@, hackers@
MFC after: 2 weeks
Replace the a.out emulation of 'struct linker_set' with something
a little more flexible. <sys/linker_set.h> now provides macros for
accessing elements and completely hides the implementation.
The linker_set.h macros have been on the back burner in various
forms since 1998 and has ideas and code from Mike Smith (SET_FOREACH()),
John Polstra (ELF clue) and myself (cleaned up API and the conversion
of the rest of the kernel to use it).
The macros declare a strongly typed set. They return elements with the
type that you declare the set with, rather than a generic void *.
For ELF, we use the magic ld symbols (__start_<setname> and
__stop_<setname>). Thanks to Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> for the
trick about how to force ld to provide them for kld's.
For a.out, we use the old linker_set struct.
NOTE: the item lists are no longer null terminated. This is why
the code impact is high in certain areas.
The runtime linker has a new method to find the linker set
boundaries depending on which backend format is in use.
linker sets are still module/kld unfriendly and should never be used
for anything that may be modular one day.
Reviewed by: eivind
I'm not too happy about the result either, but at least it has less
chance of backfiring.
This particular feature could be called "a mess" without offending
anybody.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
The details are hidden in the DB_COMMAND(cmd_name, func_name) and
DB_SHOW_COMMAND(cmd_name, func_name) macros. DB_COMMAND() adds to
the top-level ddb command table and DB_SHOW_COMMAND adds to the
`show' subtable. Most external commands will probably be `show'
commands with no side effects. They should check their pointer
args more carefully than `show map' :-), or ddb should trap internal
faults better (like it does for memory accesses).
The vm ddb commands are temporarily unattached.
ddb.h:
Also declare `db_indent' and db_iprintf() which will replace vm's
`indent' and iprintf().
