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John Baldwin
5fcfab6e32 Add ptrace(2) reporting for LWP events.
Add two new LWPINFO flags: PL_FLAG_BORN and PL_FLAG_EXITED for reporting
thread creation and destruction. Newly created threads will stop to report
PL_FLAG_BORN before returning to userland and exiting threads will stop to
report PL_FLAG_EXIT before exiting completely. Both of these events are
only enabled and reported if PT_LWP_EVENTS is enabled on a process.
2015-12-29 23:25:26 +00:00
Mark Johnston
711fbd17ec Add helper functions proc_readmem() and proc_writemem().
These helper functions can be used to read in or write a buffer from or to
an arbitrary process' address space. Without them, this can only be done
using proc_rwmem(), which requires the caller to fill out a uio. This is
onerous and results in code duplication; the new functions provide a simpler
interface which is sufficient for most existing callers of proc_rwmem().

This change also adds a manual page for proc_rwmem() and the new functions.

Reviewed by:	jhb, kib
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4245
2015-12-07 21:33:15 +00:00
Mark Johnston
d28713378a - Consistently use PROC_ASSERT_HELD() to verify that a process' hold count
is non-zero.
- Include the process address in the PROC_ASSERT_HELD() and
  PROC_ASSERT_NOT_HELD() assertion messages so that the corresponding
  process can be found easily when debugging.

MFC after:	1 week
2015-11-08 01:38:56 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
8fc3db038e Trim spaces at end of line to record the proper commit message for
r289660:

Do not allow to execute ptrace(PT_TRACE_ME) when the process is
already traced.

Do not allow to execute ptrace(PT_TRACE_ME) when there is no parent
which can trace the process, i.e. when the parent is already init.
Note that after the PT_TRACE_ME request the process is unkillable and
non-continuable until a debugger is attached, or parent is killed, the
later clears P_TRACED state.  Since init clearly would not debug the
caller, and cannot be killed, disallow creation of unkillable
processes.

Reviewed by:	jhb, pho
Reported and tested by:	pho
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	2 weeks
Differential revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3908
2015-10-20 20:38:20 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
77b9bec37b Reviewed by: jhb, pho
Reported and tested by:	pho
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	2 weeks
Differential revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3908
2015-10-20 20:22:57 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
1ed2e49b55 No need to dereference struct proc to pids when comparing processes
for equality.

Reviewed by:	jhb, pho
Tested by:	pho
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	2 weeks
2015-10-20 20:12:42 +00:00
John Baldwin
c814b86843 Switch pl_child_pid from int to pid_t.
Reviewed by:	emaste, kib
MFC after:	1 week
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3857
2015-10-20 17:58:21 +00:00
John Baldwin
3edd0ffffe Include additional info in ptrace(2) KTR traces:
- The new PC value and signal passed to PT_CONTINUE, PT_DETACH, PT_SYSCALL,
  and PT_TO_SC[EX].
- The system call code returned via PT_LWPINFO.

MFC after:	1 week
2015-10-05 21:36:53 +00:00
John Baldwin
183b68f74f Export current system call code and argument count for system call entry
and exit events. procfs stop events for system call tracing report these
values (argument count for system call entry and code for system call exit),
but ptrace() does not provide this information. (Note that while the system
call code can be determined in an ABI-specific manner during system call
entry, it is not generally available during system call exit.)

The values are exported via new fields at the end of struct ptrace_lwpinfo
available via PT_LWPINFO.

Reviewed by:	kib
MFC after:	1 week
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3536
2015-09-01 22:24:54 +00:00
John Baldwin
98685dc8af Clear P_TRACED before reparenting a detached process back to its
original parent. Otherwise the debugee will be set as an orphan of
the debugger.

Add tests for tracing forks via PT_FOLLOW_FORK.

Reviewed by:	kib
MFC after:	2 weeks
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2809
2015-08-01 16:27:52 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
b4490c6e93 The si_status field of the siginfo_t, provided by the waitid(2) and
SIGCHLD signal, should keep full 32 bits of the status passed to the
_exit(2).

Split the combined p_xstat of the struct proc into the separate exit
status p_xexit for normal process exit, and signalled termination
information p_xsig.  Kernel-visible macro KW_EXITCODE() reconstructs
old p_xstat from p_xexit and p_xsig.  p_xexit contains complete status
and copied out into si_status.

Requested by:	Joerg Schilling
Reviewed by:	jilles (previous version), pho
Tested by:	pho
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
2015-07-18 09:02:50 +00:00
Eric van Gyzen
63e4c6cdf9 Provide vnode in memory map info for files on tmpfs
When providing memory map information to userland, populate the vnode pointer
for tmpfs files.  Set the memory mapping to appear as a vnode type, to match
FreeBSD 9 behavior.

This fixes the use of tmpfs files with the dtrace pid provider,
procstat -v, procfs, linprocfs, pmc (pmcstat), and ptrace (PT_VM_ENTRY).

Submitted by:   Eric Badger <eric@badgerio.us> (initial revision)
Obtained from:  Dell Inc.
PR:             198431
MFC after:      2 weeks
Reviewed by:    jhb
Approved by:    kib (mentor)
2015-06-02 18:37:04 +00:00
Xin LI
4c372ca254 Clear p_stops when doing PT_DETACH.
Without this, if a process was being traced by truss(1), which
uses different p_stops bits than gdb(1), the latter would
misbehave because of the unexpected bits.

Reported by:	jceel
Submitted by:	sef
Sponsored by:	iXsystems, Inc.
MFC after:	2 weeks
2015-06-01 18:15:45 +00:00
John Baldwin
515b7a0b97 Add KTR tracing for some MI ptrace events.
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2643
Reviewed by:	kib
2015-05-25 22:13:22 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
237623b028 Add a facility for non-init process to declare itself the reaper of
the orphaned descendants.  Base of the API is modelled after the same
feature from the DragonFlyBSD.

Requested by:	bapt
Reviewed by:	jilles (previous version)
Tested by:	pho
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 weeks
2014-12-15 12:01:42 +00:00
Mateusz Guzik
4bc68ed7bc Plug unnecessary PRS_NEW check in kern_procctl.
pfind does not return processes in such state.
2014-10-22 04:16:09 +00:00
John Baldwin
7aa1071e48 Require p_cansched() for changing a process' protection status via
procctl() rather than p_cansee().

Submitted by:	rwatson
MFC after:	3 days
2014-10-02 21:18:16 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
d735998057 Correct the problems with the ptrace(2) making the debuggee an orphan.
One problem is inferior(9) looping due to the process tree becoming a
graph instead of tree if the parent is traced by child. Another issue
is due to the use of p_oppid to restore the original parent/child
relationship, because real parent could already exited and its pid
reused (noted by mjg).

Add the function proc_realparent(9), which calculates the parent for
given process. It uses the flag P_TREE_FIRST_ORPHAN to detect the head
element of the p_orphan list and than stepping back to its container
to find the parent process. If the parent has already exited, the
init(8) is returned.

Move the P_ORPHAN and the new helper flag from the p_flag* to new
p_treeflag field of struct proc, which is protected by proctree lock
instead of proc lock, since the orphans relationship is managed under
the proctree_lock already.

The remaining uses of p_oppid in ptrace(PT_DETACH) and process
reapping are replaced by proc_realparent(9).

Phabric:	D417
Reviewed by:	jhb
Tested by:	pho
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	2 weeks
2014-08-07 05:47:53 +00:00
John Baldwin
55648840de Extend the support for exempting processes from being killed when swap is
exhausted.
- Add a new protect(1) command that can be used to set or revoke protection
  from arbitrary processes.  Similar to ktrace it can apply a change to all
  existing descendants of a process as well as future descendants.
- Add a new procctl(2) system call that provides a generic interface for
  control operations on processes (as opposed to the debugger-specific
  operations provided by ptrace(2)).  procctl(2) uses a combination of
  idtype_t and an id to identify the set of processes on which to operate
  similar to wait6().
- Add a PROC_SPROTECT control operation to manage the protection status
  of a set of processes.  MADV_PROTECT still works for backwards
  compatability.
- Add a p_flag2 to struct proc (and a corresponding ki_flag2 to kinfo_proc)
  the first bit of which is used to track if P_PROTECT should be inherited
  by new child processes.

Reviewed by:	kib, jilles (earlier version)
Approved by:	re (delphij)
MFC after:	1 month
2013-09-19 18:53:42 +00:00
Attilio Rao
be99683637 Revert r253939:
We cannot busy a page before doing pagefaults.
Infact, it can deadlock against vnode lock, as it tries to vget().
Other functions, right now, have an opposite lock ordering, like
vm_object_sync(), which acquires the vnode lock first and then
sleeps on the busy mechanism.

Before this patch is reinserted we need to break this ordering.

Sponsored by:	EMC / Isilon storage division
Reported by:	kib
2013-08-05 08:55:35 +00:00
Attilio Rao
3b6714cacb The page hold mechanism is fast but it has couple of fallouts:
- It does not let pages respect the LRU policy
- It bloats the active/inactive queues of few pages

Try to avoid it as much as possible with the long-term target to
completely remove it.
Use the soft-busy mechanism to protect page content accesses during
short-term operations (like uiomove_fromphys()).

After this change only vm_fault_quick_hold_pages() is still using the
hold mechanism for page content access.
There is an additional complexity there as the quick path cannot
immediately access the page object to busy the page and the slow path
cannot however busy more than one page a time (to avoid deadlocks).

Fixing such primitive can bring to complete removal of the page hold
mechanism.

Sponsored by:	EMC / Isilon storage division
Discussed with:	alc
Reviewed by:	jeff
Tested by:	pho
2013-08-04 21:07:24 +00:00
Attilio Rao
bc403f030d Switch some "low-hanging fruit" to acquire read lock on vmobjects
rather than write locks.

Sponsored by:	EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by:	alc
Tested by:	pho
2013-04-08 19:58:32 +00:00
Attilio Rao
89f6b8632c Switch the vm_object mutex to be a rwlock. This will enable in the
future further optimizations where the vm_object lock will be held
in read mode most of the time the page cache resident pool of pages
are accessed for reading purposes.

The change is mostly mechanical but few notes are reported:
* The KPI changes as follow:
  - VM_OBJECT_LOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_WLOCK()
  - VM_OBJECT_TRYLOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_TRYWLOCK()
  - VM_OBJECT_UNLOCK() -> VM_OBJECT_WUNLOCK()
  - VM_OBJECT_LOCK_ASSERT(MA_OWNED) -> VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_WLOCKED()
    (in order to avoid visibility of implementation details)
  - The read-mode operations are added:
    VM_OBJECT_RLOCK(), VM_OBJECT_TRYRLOCK(), VM_OBJECT_RUNLOCK(),
    VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_RLOCKED(), VM_OBJECT_ASSERT_LOCKED()
* The vm/vm_pager.h namespace pollution avoidance (forcing requiring
  sys/mutex.h in consumers directly to cater its inlining functions
  using VM_OBJECT_LOCK()) imposes that all the vm/vm_pager.h
  consumers now must include also sys/rwlock.h.
* zfs requires a quite convoluted fix to include FreeBSD rwlocks into
  the compat layer because the name clash between FreeBSD and solaris
  versions must be avoided.
  At this purpose zfs redefines the vm_object locking functions
  directly, isolating the FreeBSD components in specific compat stubs.

The KPI results heavilly broken by this commit.  Thirdy part ports must
be updated accordingly (I can think off-hand of VirtualBox, for example).

Sponsored by:	EMC / Isilon storage division
Reviewed by:	jeff
Reviewed by:	pjd (ZFS specific review)
Discussed with:	alc
Tested by:	pho
2013-03-09 02:32:23 +00:00
Attilio Rao
590f9303e5 Merge from vmobj-rwlock branch:
Remove unused inclusion of vm/vm_pager.h and vm/vnode_pager.h.

Sponsored by:	EMC / Isilon storage division
Tested by:	pho
Reviewed by:	alc
2013-02-26 01:00:11 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
888d4d4f86 When vforked child is traced, the debugging events are not generated
until child performs exec().  The behaviour is reasonable when a
debugger is the real parent, because the parent is stopped until
exec(), and sending a debugging event to the debugger would deadlock
both parent and child.

On the other hand, when debugger is not the parent of the vforked
child, not sending debugging signals makes it impossible to debug
across vfork.

Fix the issue by declining generating debug signals only when vfork()
was done and child called ptrace(PT_TRACEME).  Set a new process flag
P_PPTRACE from the attach code for PT_TRACEME, if P_PPWAIT flag is
set, which indicates that the process was created with vfork() and
still did not execed. Check P_PPTRACE from issignal(), instead of
refusing the trace outright for the P_PPWAIT case.  The scope of
P_PPTRACE is exactly contained in the scope of P_PPWAIT.

Found and tested by:  zont
Reviewed by:	pluknet
MFC after:	2 weeks
2013-02-07 15:34:22 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
5050aa86cf Remove the support for using non-mpsafe filesystem modules.
In particular, do not lock Giant conditionally when calling into the
filesystem module, remove the VFS_LOCK_GIANT() and related
macros. Stop handling buffers belonging to non-mpsafe filesystems.

The VFS_VERSION is bumped to indicate the interface change which does
not result in the interface signatures changes.

Conducted and reviewed by:	attilio
Tested by:	pho
2012-10-22 17:50:54 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
c0c6e95f7f Always initialize pl_event.
Submitted by:	Andrey Zonov <andrey@zonov.org>
MFC after:	3 days
2012-08-08 00:20:30 +00:00
David Xu
5985d61556 If you have pressed CTRL+Z and a process is suspended, then you use gdb
to attach to the process, it is surprising that the process is resumed
without inputting any gdb commands, however ptrace manual said:
  The tracing process will see the newly-traced process stop and may
  then control it as if it had been traced all along.
But the current code does not work in this way, unless traced process
received a signal later, it will continue to run as a background task.
To fix this problem, just send signal SIGSTOP to the traced process after
we resumed it, this works like that you are attaching to a running process,
it is not perfect but better than nothing.
2012-07-09 09:24:46 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
dcd432817e Allow the parent to gather the exit status of the children reparented
to the debugger.  When reparenting for debugging, keep the child in
the new orphan list of old parent.  When looping over the children in
kern_wait(), iterate over both children list and orphan list to search
for the process by pid.

Submitted by:	Dmitry Mikulin <dmitrym juniper.net>
MFC after:	2 weeks
2012-02-23 11:50:23 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
db3273398b Mark the automatically attached child with PL_FLAG_CHILD in struct
lwpinfo flags, for PT_FOLLOWFORK auto-attachment.

In collaboration with:	Dmitry Mikulin <dmitrym juniper net>
MFC after:	 1 week
2012-02-10 00:02:13 +00:00
Kip Macy
8451d0dd78 In order to maximize the re-usability of kernel code in user space this
patch modifies makesyscalls.sh to prefix all of the non-compatibility
calls (e.g. not linux_, freebsd32_) with sys_ and updates the kernel
entry points and all places in the code that use them. It also
fixes an additional name space collision between the kernel function
psignal and the libc function of the same name by renaming the kernel
psignal kern_psignal(). By introducing this change now we will ease future
MFCs that change syscalls.

Reviewed by:	rwatson
Approved by:	re (bz)
2011-09-16 13:58:51 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
52e95a64ea Add comment from CSRG rev 7.27 (1992/06/23 19:56:55; author: mckusick) 2011-06-17 21:44:13 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
f528c3fdbc We should not return ECHILD when debugging a child and the parent does a
"wait4(-1, ..., WNOHANG, ...)".  Instead wait(2) should behave as if the
child does not wish to report status at this time.

Reviewed by:	jhb
2011-06-14 17:09:30 +00:00
Dmitry Chagin
a5c1afadeb Add macro to test the sv_flags of any process. Change some places to test
the flags instead of explicit comparing with address of known sysentvec
structures.

MFC after:	1 month
2011-01-26 20:03:58 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
6fa39a7327 Allow debugger to specify that children of the traced process should be
automatically traced. Extend the ptrace(PL_LWPINFO) to report that child
just forked.

Reviewed by:	davidxu, jhb
MFC after:	2 weeks
2011-01-25 10:59:21 +00:00
Alan Cox
acd11c7499 Introduce vm_fault_hold() and use it to (1) eliminate a long-standing race
condition in proc_rwmem() and to (2) simplify the implementation of the
cxgb driver's vm_fault_hold_user_pages().  Specifically, in proc_rwmem()
the requested read or write could fail because the targeted page could be
reclaimed between the calls to vm_fault() and vm_page_hold().

In collaboration with:	kib@
MFC after:	6 weeks
2010-12-20 22:49:31 +00:00
Attilio Rao
7f08176ee8 Add the ability for GDB to printout the thread name along with other
thread specific informations.

In order to do that, and in order to avoid KBI breakage with existing
infrastructure the following semantic is implemented:
- For live programs, a new member to the PT_LWPINFO is added (pl_tdname)
- For cores, a new ELF note is added (NT_THRMISC) that can be used for
  storing thread specific, miscellaneous, informations. Right now it is
  just popluated with a thread name.

GDB, then, retrieves the correct informations from the corefile via the
BFD interface, as it groks the ELF notes and create appropriate
pseudo-sections.

Sponsored by:	Sandvine Incorporated
Tested by:	gianni
Discussed with:	dim, kan, kib
MFC after:	2 weeks
2010-11-22 14:42:13 +00:00
David Xu
cf7d9a8ca8 Create a global thread hash table to speed up thread lookup, use
rwlock to protect the table. In old code, thread lookup is done with
process lock held, to find a thread, kernel has to iterate through
process and thread list, this is quite inefficient.
With this change, test shows in extreme case performance is
dramatically improved.

Earlier patch was reviewed by: jhb, julian
2010-10-09 02:50:23 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
8a26007903 Extend ptrace(PT_LWPINFO) to report siginfo for the signal that caused
debugee stop. The change should keep the ABI. Take care of compat32.

Discussed with:	davidxu, jhb
MFC after:	2 weeks
2010-07-04 11:48:30 +00:00
Ed Schouten
60ae52f785 Use ISO C99 integer types in sys/kern where possible.
There are only about 100 occurences of the BSD-specific u_int*_t
datatypes in sys/kern. The ISO C99 integer types are used here more
often.
2010-06-21 09:55:56 +00:00
John Baldwin
0bfbf4d220 Ignore the 'addr' argument passed to PT_STEP (it is required to be '1'
for PT_STEP which means "ignore") and PT_DETACH.

PR:		kern/146167
MFC after:	1 week
2010-05-25 21:32:37 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
afe1a68827 Reorganize syscall entry and leave handling.
Extend struct sysvec with three new elements:
sv_fetch_syscall_args - the method to fetch syscall arguments from
  usermode into struct syscall_args. The structure is machine-depended
  (this might be reconsidered after all architectures are converted).
sv_set_syscall_retval - the method to set a return value for usermode
  from the syscall. It is a generalization of
  cpu_set_syscall_retval(9) to allow ABIs to override the way to set a
  return value.
sv_syscallnames - the table of syscall names.

Use sv_set_syscall_retval in kern_sigsuspend() instead of hardcoding
the call to cpu_set_syscall_retval().

The new functions syscallenter(9) and syscallret(9) are provided that
use sv_*syscall* pointers and contain the common repeated code from
the syscall() implementations for the architecture-specific syscall
trap handlers.

Syscallenter() fetches arguments, calls syscall implementation from
ABI sysent table, and set up return frame. The end of syscall
bookkeeping is done by syscallret().

Take advantage of single place for MI syscall handling code and
implement ptrace_lwpinfo pl_flags PL_FLAG_SCE, PL_FLAG_SCX and
PL_FLAG_EXEC. The SCE and SCX flags notify the debugger that the
thread is stopped at syscall entry or return point respectively.  The
EXEC flag augments SCX and notifies debugger that the process address
space was changed by one of exec(2)-family syscalls.

The i386, amd64, sparc64, sun4v, powerpc and ia64 syscall()s are
changed to use syscallenter()/syscallret(). MIPS and arm are not
converted and use the mostly unchanged syscall() implementation.

Reviewed by:	jhb, marcel, marius, nwhitehorn, stas
Tested by:	marcel (ia64), marius (sparc64), nwhitehorn (powerpc),
	stas (mips)
MFC after:	1 month
2010-05-23 18:32:02 +00:00
Kip Macy
2965a45315 On Alan's advice, rather than do a wholesale conversion on a single
architecture from page queue lock to a hashed array of page locks
(based on a patch by Jeff Roberson), I've implemented page lock
support in the MI code and have only moved vm_page's hold_count
out from under page queue mutex to page lock. This changes
pmap_extract_and_hold on all pmaps.

Supported by: Bitgravity Inc.

Discussed with: alc, jeffr, and kib
2010-04-30 00:46:43 +00:00
Nathan Whitehorn
841c0c7ec7 Provide groundwork for 32-bit binary compatibility on non-x86 platforms,
for upcoming 64-bit PowerPC and MIPS support. This renames the COMPAT_IA32
option to COMPAT_FREEBSD32, removes some IA32-specific code from MI parts
of the kernel and enhances the freebsd32 compatibility code to support
big-endian platforms.

Reviewed by:	kib, jhb
2010-03-11 14:49:06 +00:00
Marcel Moolenaar
af002ab819 Initialize pve_fsid and pve_fileid to VNOVAL. 2010-02-11 21:10:56 +00:00
Marcel Moolenaar
162110273c o Add support for COMPAT_IA32.
o  Incorporate review comments:
   -  Properly reference and lock the map
   -  Take into account that the VM map can change inbetween requests
   -  Add the fileid and fsid attributes

Credits: kib@
Reviewed by: kib@
2010-02-11 18:00:53 +00:00
Marcel Moolenaar
8a25c0c741 Unbreak building kernels with COMPAT_32 enabled. The actual support
for the PT_VM_ENTRY request from 32-bit processes will follow.

Pointy hat: marcel
2010-02-09 17:20:00 +00:00
Marcel Moolenaar
90b4621a5f Add PT_VM_TIMESTAMP and PT_VM_ENTRY so that the tracing process can
obtain the memory map of the traced process. PT_VM_TIMESTAMP can be
used to check if the memory map changed since the last time to avoid
iterating over all the VM entries unnecesarily.

MFC after:	1 month
2010-02-09 05:52:35 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
5b1162b964 For PT_TO_SCE stop that stops the ptraced process upon syscall entry,
syscall arguments are collected before ptracestop() is called. As a
consequence, debugger cannot modify syscall or its arguments.

For i386, amd64 and ia32 on amd64 MD syscall(), reread syscall number
and arguments after ptracestop(), if debugger modified anything in the
process environment. Since procfs stopeven requires number of syscall
arguments in p_xstat, this cannot be solved by moving stop/trace point
before argument fetching.

Move the code to read arguments into separate function
fetch_syscall_args() to avoid code duplication. Note that ktrace point
for modified syscall is intentionally recorded twice, once with original
arguments, and second time with the arguments set by debugger.

PT_TO_SCX stop is executed after cpu_syscall_set_retval() already.

Reported by:	Ali Polatel <alip exherbo org>
Briefly discussed with:	jhb
MFC after:	3 weeks
2010-01-23 11:45:35 +00:00
Alan Cox
a6d42a0d62 Replace VM_PROT_OVERRIDE_WRITE by VM_PROT_COPY. VM_PROT_OVERRIDE_WRITE has
represented a write access that is allowed to override write protection.
Until now, VM_PROT_OVERRIDE_WRITE has been used to write breakpoints into
text pages.  Text pages are not just write protected but they are also
copy-on-write.  VM_PROT_OVERRIDE_WRITE overrides the write protection on the
text page and triggers the replication of the page so that the breakpoint
will be written to a private copy.  However, here is where things become
confused.  It is the debugger, not the process being debugged that requires
write access to the copied page.  Nonetheless, the copied page is being
mapped into the process with write access enabled.  In other words, once the
debugger sets a breakpoint within a text page, the program can write to its
private copy of that text page.  Whereas prior to setting the breakpoint, a
SIGSEGV would have occurred upon a write access.  VM_PROT_COPY addresses
this problem.  The combination of VM_PROT_READ and VM_PROT_COPY forces the
replication of a copy-on-write page even though the access is only for read.
Moreover, the replicated page is only mapped into the process with read
access, and not write access.

Reviewed by:	kib
MFC after:	4 weeks
2009-11-26 05:16:07 +00:00