is based on an old implementation from the University of Michigan with lots of
changes and fixes by me and the addition of a Solaris-compatible API.
Sponsored by: Isilon Systems
Reviewed by: alfred
conflicts due to radically different approaches to security and bug fixes.
In some cases I re-started from the vendor version and reimplemented our
patches. Fortunately, this is not enabled by default in -current.
- It is opt-out for now so as to give it maximum testing, but it may be
turned opt-in for stable branches depending on the consensus. You
can turn it off with WITHOUT_SSP.
- WITHOUT_SSP was previously used to disable the build of GNU libssp.
It is harmless to steal the knob as SSP symbols have been provided
by libc for a long time, GNU libssp should not have been much used.
- SSP is disabled in a few corners such as system bootstrap programs
(sys/boot), process bootstrap code (rtld, csu) and SSP symbols themselves.
- It should be safe to use -fstack-protector-all to build world, however
libc will be automatically downgraded to -fstack-protector because it
breaks rtld otherwise.
- This option is unavailable on ia64.
Enable GCC stack protection (aka Propolice) for kernel:
- It is opt-out for now so as to give it maximum testing.
- Do not compile your kernel with -fstack-protector-all, it won't work.
Submitted by: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
- Use ptid_get_pid() rather than ptid_get_tid() (part of the changes to
let 'tid' work for remote kgdb).
- Add a stub kgdb_trgt_new_objfile() hook.
Silence from: obrien, mips@
a. The BSD version will be built and installed unless
WITHOUT_BSD_CPIO is defined.
b. The GNU version will not be built or installed unless
WITH_GNU_CPIO is defined. If this is defined, the symlink
in /usr/bin will be to the GNU version whether the BSD
version is present or not.
When these changes are MFCed the defaults should be flipped.
2. Add a knob to disable the building of GNU grep. This will
make it easier for those that want to test the BSD version in
the ports.
Approved by: kientzle [1]
now only use the TID and ignore the PID and use pid_to_ptid() to build a
ptid treating the TID as a PID. The benefit of this is that the vmcore
target now uses the same scheme as GDB's remote targets. As a result,
the 'tid' command now works for remote targets (however, it only accepts
TIDs and not addresses of 'struct thread' objects).
- Use gdb_thread_select() to do the actual thread switch for the 'tid' and
'proc' commands. This now gives the same UI feedback when switching
threads as the GDB 'thread' command rather than providing no visual
output at all.
MFC after: 1 week
so that kgdb can be used more like a normal gdb:
- Load the kernel via the standard 'exec' target and allow it to be changed
via the 'file' command.
- Instead of explicitly loading the kernel file as the mail symbol file
during startup, just pass it to gdb_main() as the executable file.
- Change the kld support (via shared libraries) to cache the address of
the linker_files and linker_kernel_file variables in addition to the
offsets of various members in 'struct linker_file'.
- When a new symbol file is loaded, recompute the addresses and offsets
used by the kld support code.
- When a new symbol file is loaded, recalculate the ofs_fix variable to
account for the different ways a trapframe can be passed to trap
frame handlers in i386. This is done by adding a MD
kgdb_trgt_new_objfile() hook that is empty on all but i386.
- Don't use the directory name of the kernel specified on the command
line to find kernel modules in the kld support code. Instead,
extract the filename of the current executable via exec_bfd. Now
the 'kernel' variable is private to main.c again.
- Make the 'add-kld' command explicitly fail if no executable is loaded.
- Make the support for vmcores a real core-dump target that opens the
kernel and vmcore on open and closes the kvm connection when closed, etc.
- The 'core' command can now be used to select a vmcore to use, either
a crash dump file or /dev/mem for live debugging.
- The 'detach' command can be used to detach from a vmcore w/o attaching
to a new one.
- kgdb no longer explicitly opens a core dump during startup and no longer
has to use an atexit() hook to close the kvm connection on shutdown.
- Symbols for kld's are automatically loaded anytime a core is opened.
Also, the unread portion of dmesg is dumped just as it was done on kgdb
startup previously.
- Don't require either a remote target or core dump if a kernel is specified.
You can now just run 'kgdb kernel' similar to running gdb on an executable
and later connect to a remote target or core dump.
- Use a more relaxed way to verify remote targets specified via -r.
Instead of explicitly allowing a few non-file target specifications,
just assume that if stat() on the arg and on "/dev/" + arg both fail
that is some non-file target and pass it to gdb.
- Don't use a custom interpreter. The existing kgdb_init() hook and the
target_new_objfile() hook give us sufficient hooks during startup to
setup kgdb-specific behavior now.
- Always add the 'proc', 'tid', and 'add-kld' commands on startup and not
just if we have a core dump. Currently the 'proc' and 'tid' commands do
not work for remote targets (I will fix at least 'tid' in the next round
of changes though). However, the 'add-kld' command works fine for
loading symbols for a kernel module on a remote target.
- Always setup the 'kld' shared library target operations instead of just
if we have a core dump. Although symbols for kernel modules are not
automatically loaded when connecting to a remote target, you can do
'info sharedlibrary' after connecting to the remote target and kgdb will
find all the modules. You can then use the 'sharedlibrary' command to
load symbols from the module files.
- Change kthr_init() to free the existing list of kthr objects before
generating a new one. This allows it to be invoked multiple times
w/o leaking memory.
MFC after: 1 week
force the FreeBSD multithreaded core target to not register any target
for handling core dumps. This is analogous to the
'coreops_suppress_target' variable that GDB provides for suppressing the
default core dump target. KGDB will use this new variable so it can
provide its own core dump target that uses libkvm to work with vmcore
files.
- Adjust the long name and documentation of the FreeBSD multithreaded core
dump target so it better matches what GDB's core dump target uses.
MFC after: 1 week
Reviewed by: davidxu, marcel
evaluate_expression() so that any errors are caught and cause the function
to return to 0. Otherwise the errors posted an exception (via longjmp())
that aborted the current operation. This fixes the kld handling for
older kernels (6.x and 7.x) that don't have the full pathname stored in
the kernel linker.
MFC after: 3 days
a junk pointer and possibly causing a seg fault if we don't have any
non-kernel klds (or are unable to walk the list due to core / kernel
mismatch).
MFC after: 1 week
source upgrades by falling back to GNU ar(1) as necessary. Option
WITH_BSDAR is gone. Option _WITH_GNUAR to aid in upgrades is *not*
supposed to be set by the user.
Stop bootstrapping BSD ar(1) on the next __FreeBSD_version bump, as
there are no known bugs in it. Bump __FreeBSD_version to anticipate
this and to flag the switch to BSD ar(1), should it be needed for
something.
Input from: obrien, des, kaiw
variations (e500 currently), this provides a gcc-level FPU emulation and is an
alternative approach to the recently introduced kernel-level emulation
(FPU_EMU).
Approved by: cognet (mentor)
MFp4: e500
binutils ar and ranlib to gar and granlib, respectively.
* Introduce a temporary variable WITH_GNUAR as a safety net.
When buildworld with -DWITH_GNUAR, GNU binutils ar and ranlib
will install as default ones and 'BSD' ar will be disabled.
* Bump __FreeBSD_version to reflect the import of 'BSD' ar(1).
Approved by: jkoshy (mentor)
kgdb(8) now treats kld's as shared libraries relative to the kernel
"binary". Thus, you can use 'info sharedlibrary' to list the kld's
along with 'sharedlibrary' and 'nosharedlibrary' to manage symbol
loading and unloading. Note that there isn't an easy way to force GDB
to use a specific path for a shared library. However, you can use
'nosharedlibrary' to unload all the klds and then use 'sharedlibrary'
to load specific klds where it gets the kld correct and use
'add-kld' for the kld's where the default open behavior doesn't work.
klds opened via 'sharedlibrary' (and during startup) do have their
sections listed in 'info files'.
- Change the 'add-kld' command to use filename completion to complete its
argument.
and build a section table from the kernel file so that 'info files' output
for kgdb now matches the usage of gdb on a regular file with the exception
that we don't list sections for memory in the crash dump.
