[PATCH] Additional support for arm.
by Kurt Roeckx
Hi,
Here is a patch that adds additional support for the arm backend.
One of the things it does it add support to see the difference
between hard and soft floating point operations. Currently this
is done by selecting a different return_value_location hook,
which probably isn't a good long term solution, but the only
way I can see without having to change all the backends.
Most of this patch was written by
Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <eugeniy.meshcheryakov(a)googlemail.com>
with some minor changes from me.
Kurt
14 years
supporting DW_OP_{implicit,stack}_value
by Mark Wielaard
Hi,
Since the gcc vta branch now emits the new (Dwarf 4) DW_OP_stack_value
and DW_OP_implicit_value operands I looked into supporting them. This is
a little bit difficult since, especially DW_OP_implicit_value changes
some assumptions (at least some of mine).
Unlike what the current comment in dwarf.h says the value block of
DW_OP_implicit_value isn't carried in a DW_FORM, but uses the "raw
memory encoding of the target". At least that is what gcc seems to emit,
and reading the spec, that does seem what was meant to happen. This is
somewhat awkward since it means we don't have the context to interpret
the value at this point. You could see what points to the location
description and see what the type should be, but that might not always
be simple, so you have to depend on the caller knowing what to do with
the "raw memory encoding".
2009-07-19 Mark Wielaard <mjw(a)redhat.com>
* dwarf.h: Correct description of DW_OP_implicit_value encoding.
Making readelf support them isn't too hard. For DW_OP_stack_value it is
simply listing the new opcode. For DW_OP_implicit_value it means just
reading the length and the (non-encoded) value. The only difficult is
whether or not the try to print the value in a decoded form when the
length is known. My patch prints it decoded when it is [1,] 2, 4 or 8
bytes since it is most likely to be a value of a basic type, otherwise
it just dumps it as a hex bytes as is.
2009-07-19 Mark Wielaard <mjw(a)redhat.com>
* readelf.c (print_ops): Add handling of DW_OP_implicit_value
and DW_OP_stack_value.
Then we come to libdw getlocation() and things get a bit harder. Again
DW_OP_stack_value isn't much trouble. It doesn't have any operands, so
just return it as is when interning. But DW_OP_implicit_value is a bit
of an issue, since we don't know the actual value (no DW_FORM, just raw
bytes), there is no convenient way to store it. Also it can be of
arbitrary length, and all we have are two Dwarf_Words. In theory we
could just pass the length and the offset (already there in the
Dwarf_Op) into the Dwarf_Block. But there are two issues with this.
First, the offset is to the start of the DW_OP and there is no
convenient way I know of for the caller to get the size of the length
encoding, so it is hard to determine the actual offset (we could store
the extra offset/length-size in the number2 Dwarf_Word though).
Secondly I don't actually understand how the caller would get a handle
to the Dwarf_Block the offset refers to. For dwarf_getlocation() it
would be easy, just call dwarf_formblock() on the Dwarf_Attribute. But
for dwarf_getlocation_addr() the caller would have to parse the location
list themselves and hope they do it in the same order/preference that
dwarf_getlocation_addr() does it. Or am I missing some simple method to
get at the Dwarf_Block that the Dwarf_Op array that
dwarf_getlocation_addr() returns refer to?
So for now I just store the length as number and the actual address into
the Dwarf_Block data where the raw memory representation starts into
number2. But this feels a bit like cheating, since it isn't really
interning the DW_OP data since it depends on having the pointer into the
data around.
2009-07-20 Mark Wielaard <mjw(a)redhat.com>
* dwarf_getlocation.c (__libdw_intern_expression): Handle
DW_OP_stack_value and DW_OP_implicit_value.
Cheers,
Mark
14 years
2009-08-31 Status
by Petr Machata
Last week
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Time spent on elfutils: 70%
Work on output.
* Drop DWARF4 bits that I've had in before for experimenting (e.g.
DW_FORM_flag_present, to check that the optimal form selection works for
extreme cases).
* Emit short strings inline. All strings that are shorter than the
reference size are "short strings".
* Several passes of simplifying code and moving stuff to more
private (i.e. more writer-specific) places. Certain pieces of code may
have to be reintroduced later, but now they are overkill and just
obfuscate the code.
* dwarf_64 is used throughout. If value doesn't fit into form that
could be expanded by having dwarf_64==true, an exception is thrown.
* Found a bug that causes that DW_AT_sibling would be emitted
superfluously or omitted. It turned out that my understanding of
_m_with_sibling was wrong, and that _m_w_s[true] and _m_w_s[false] can
be true simultaneously. Well, that explains the data type used.
Somehow I managed to get lost in the code for the rest of Friday, unable
to get it right, hitting obscure errors.
It's all on pmachata/dwarf-writer.
This week
---------
Already done:
* Fix that stupid problem from Friday. I just scratched and
rewrote it and it worked basically on the first try. Don't know what
the big deal was.
* Merge in dwarf branch.
Rest of the week:
We now emit strings and numbers with optimal forms.
- Implement duplicate pruning, right now each die gets its own abbrev.
- FYI, no computation is done whether it is advantageous to emit the
abbrev in the first place (i.e. whether the savings of extra form
outweigh price of the abbrev itself). That problem won't be tackled on
Roland's advice.
When the above is done, next thing might be optimizing references. For
things we can't optimize, references including, we now pick the biggest
form available. We can shrink these fields afterwards. But the
codebase is not ready for this, e.g. gaps have to be able to move, size
of ElfData has to be patched, etc. So perhaps work on preparing these
bits, they will be useful later.
Another option is work on making the produced data complete and
well-defined enough for consumption by libdw. That may require emitting
some tables in addition to .debug_info, .debug_abbrev and .debug_str.
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[patch] Initialize input_pos
by Mark Wielaard
Hi,
My gcc cannot figure out how input_pos can always be initialized:
gcc -D_GNU_SOURCE -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/home/mark/src/elfutils/libdwfl
-I.. -I. -I/home/mark/src/elfutils/libdwfl
-I/home/mark/src/elfutils/libdwfl/../libelf
-I/home/mark/src/elfutils/libdwfl/../libebl
-I/home/mark/src/elfutils/libdwfl/../libdw -I..
-I/home/mark/src/elfutils/libdwfl/../lib -Wall -Werror -Wshadow
-Wunused -Wformat=2 -Wextra -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -MT bzip2.o -MD -MP
-MF .deps/bzip2.Tpo -c -o
bzip2.o /home/mark/src/elfutils/libdwfl/bzip2.c
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
In file included from /home/mark/src/elfutils/libdwfl/bzip2.c:4:
/home/mark/src/elfutils/libdwfl/gzip.c: In function ‘__libdw_bunzip2’:
/home/mark/src/elfutils/libdwfl/gzip.c:179: error: ‘input_pos’ may be
used uninitialized in this function
make[2]: *** [bzip2.o] Error 1
I think it is right. input_pos should be explicitly initialized to zero
when mmaped is set. The attached patch does this. OK to commit?
Thanks,
Mark
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2009-08-24 Status
by Petr Machata
Last 2 weeks
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Time spent on elfutils: 60-70%
Work on output.
* Small fixes etc.
* Output of VS_constant blocks
* Allow recomputation of back-patches. Used to emit correct
CU-local references, the recomputation being a simple subtraction of CU
offset from the patch value.
* Now generates abbreviations. Currently one abbrev per unique DIE,
no merging is done. The best available form is picked for attributes
that we _can_ optimize (e.g. constants, flags, data, but e.g. not
references, since we don't know how the DIEs will end up being laid out.
Also not strings, that will need string gathering pass).
* Merged in `dwarf' branch with Roland's work.
And dwarflint:
* Rewrite of read_die_chain value validation. The amount of code is
roughly the same, but the code is more extensible and clearer.
* Support DW_FORM_sec_offset, DW_FORM_flag_present from DWARF4
It's all on pmachata/dwarf-writer.
This week
---------
My vague plan for what to do next revolves around figuring out how to do
the low-level optimization properly. There are some moving parts that
influence each other. For example, whether it is advantageous to emit
string as strp vs. inline string depends on how many times does this
string appear, and thus depends on the way we do the dissection of the
DIE tree into partial CUs. On the other hand, the decision whether it
is advantageous to dissect a DIE sub-tree into own partial unit, is
dependent on forms that we use to store the attributes, and therefore
links back to the string/strp problem. There are more instances of this
problem pattern. Or perhaps there's a certain point where dissecting
the tree is always advantageous, and this can be used as a starting
point in some sort of iterative approach.
Oh, and everything is still coded with xxx instead of proper dwarf_64
handling. We never do the 32-to-64-bit transition. I think that DWARF
files that big won't really be common, I wonder if there are any in
Fedora at all. We can take the approach of trying to emit it 32-bit,
and when we find that we can't encode some DIE reference in 32bit
quantity, we simply restart the process with dwarf_64 == true. There
will be a command-line switch for users who know that their files don't
fit 32-bit limit, that will also be useful for testing emitting and
consumption of 64-bit DWARF files.
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