Remove all beginning > from the sample commands as my accidental
copy-paste (multiple times...) will discard ./bin/llvm-lit which is
difficult to rebuild (I have to rm -rf and cmake it all again).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D74296
When a thread stops, this checks depending on the platform if the top frame is
an abort stack frame. If so, it looks for an assert stack frame in the upper
frames and set it as the most relavant frame when found.
To do so, the StackFrameRecognizer class holds a "Most Relevant Frame" and a
"cooked" stop reason description. When the thread is about to stop, it checks
if the current frame is recognized, and if so, it fetches the recognized frame's
attributes and applies them.
rdar://58528686
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D73303
Signed-off-by: Med Ismail Bennani <medismail.bennani@gmail.com>
When a thread stops, this checks depending on the platform if the top frame is
an abort stack frame. If so, it looks for an assert stack frame in the upper
frames and set it as the most relavant frame when found.
To do so, the StackFrameRecognizer class holds a "Most Relevant Frame" and a
"cooked" stop reason description. When the thread is about to stop, it checks
if the current frame is recognized, and if so, it fetches the recognized frame's
attributes and applies them.
rdar://58528686
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D73303
Signed-off-by: Med Ismail Bennani <medismail.bennani@gmail.com>
When a thread stops, this checks depending on the platform if the top frame is
an abort stack frame. If so, it looks for an assert stack frame in the upper
frames and set it as the most relavant frame when found.
To do so, the StackFrameRecognizer class holds a "Most Relevant Frame" and a
"cooked" stop reason description. When the thread is about to stop, it checks
if the current frame is recognized, and if so, it fetches the recognized frame's
attributes and applies them.
rdar://58528686
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D73303
Signed-off-by: Med Ismail Bennani <medismail.bennani@gmail.com>
Summary:
The ValueObject code checks for a special `$$dereference$$` synthetic
child to allow formatter providers to implement a natural
dereferencing behavior in `frame variable` for objects like smart
pointers.
This support was broken when used directly throught the Python API and
not trhough `frame variable`. The reason is that
SBFrame.FindVariable() will return by default the synthetic variable
if it exists, while `frame variable` will not do this eagerly. The
code in `ValueObject::Dereference()` accounted for the latter but not
for the former. The fix is trivial. The test change includes
additional covergage for the already-working bahevior as it wasn't
covered by the testsuite before.
This commit also adds a short piece of documentatione explaining that
it is possible (even advisable) to provide this synthetic child
outstide of the range of the normal children.
Reviewers: jingham
Subscribers: lldb-commits
Tags: #lldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D73053
All the code required to generate the language bindings for Python and
Lua lives under scripts, even though the majority of this code aren't
scripts at all, and surrounded by scripts that are totally unrelated.
I've reorganized these files and moved everything related to the
language bindings into a new top-level directory named bindings. This
makes the corresponding files self contained and much more discoverable.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D72437
Libxml2 is already an optional dependency. It should use the same
infrastructure as the other dependencies.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D72290
Summary:
Add `function.mangled-name` key for FormatEntity to show the mangled
function names in backtraces.
rdar://54088244
Signed-off-by: Med Ismail Bennani <medismail.bennani@gmail.com>
Subscribers: lldb-commits
Tags: #lldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D71237
Signed-off-by: Med Ismail Bennani <medismail.bennani@gmail.com>
The changes are minor; primarily debugserver needs to go through
accessor functions/macros when changing pc/fp/sp/lr, and debugserver
needs to clear any existing pointer auth bits from values in two
cases. debugserver can fetch the number of bits used for addressing
from a sysctl, and will include that in the qHostInfo reply. Update
qHostInfo documentation to document it.
This patch replaces the existing out-of-date man page for lldb and
replaces it with an RST file from which sphinx generates the actual
troff file. This is similar to how man pages are generated for the rest
of the LLVM utilities.
The man page is generated by building the `docs-lldb-man` target.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D70514
This is an attempt to feature the user-facing resources more
prominently on the LLDB website by calling out the tutorial and the
GDB command map wight on the start page.
I also moved the "Why a new debugger" section to the "Goals"
subpage. Given that LLDB's first release is almost a decade in the
past now, the title is a bit of an anachronism.
Lastly, I moved the Architecture sub-page from "use" to "resources",
since end-users do not care about the source code layout.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D70449
This adds a page about LLDB reproducers. It describes how to use the
reproducers on the command line and lists some of the known
issues/limitations.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D70409
This adds a page named Caveats with a section on some of the things to
be aware of related to Python. It's a question we've seen more than once
pop up and I think it's good to have it documentation on the website.
Even though some of it might be useful to users, I still put it under
"development" because it requires some understanding of how LLDB is
built.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D70252
This renames the "Goals & Status" section to "Project" and the
"Resources" section to "Development". To better match this layout I've
moved the releases page under "Project".
The page describing how to get the sources was more about contributing
to LLDB than getting the actual source. This patch moves some things
around and repurposes this page as a contributing to LLDB landing page.
This leads to a configuration error because we're trying to get a
property that doesn't exist:
get_target_property() called with non-existent target "swig_wrapper"
CMake allows you to set a custom CXX compiler for the API test suite.
However, this variable is never used, because dotest uses the same
compiler to build C and CXX sources.
I'm not sure if this variable was added with the intention of supporting
a different compiler or if this is just a remnant of old functionality.
Given that this hasn't been working for a while, I assume it's safe to
remove.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D69401
The testing documentation appears to be from an era when the only kind
of tests were the lldbsuite python tests. This patch adds a short
description of the unittests and LIT tests and how to run them.
Patch by: Lawrence D'Anna
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D67943
llvm-svn: 372797
This patch removes the -q (quiet) flag and changing the default
behavior. Currently the flag serves two purposes that are somewhat
contradictory, as illustrated by the difference between the argument
name (quiet) and the configuration flag (parsable). On the one hand it
reduces output, but on the other hand it prints more output, like the
result of individual tests. My proposal is to guard the extra output
behind the verbose flag and always print the individual test results.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D66837
llvm-svn: 370226
Given that LLDB_TEST_USE_CUSTOM_C_COMPILER and LLDB_TEST_C_COMPILER are
both set at configuration time, I don't really see the point of having
both. This patch simplifies things and uses the custom C/C++ compiler
when the variable is set, and uses the default one when it's not set.
The variable can be unset by passing -ULLDB_TEST_C_COMPILER to CMake.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D66429
llvm-svn: 369435
Summary:
Print a warning if the wrong cache script is used when generating a Xcode project, because it's too easy to confuse with Apple-lldb-macOS.cmake
```
When building with Xcode, we recommend using the corresponding cache
script. If this was a mistake, clean your build directory and re-run
CMake with:
-C /path/to/llvm-project/lldb/cmake/caches/Apple-lldb-Xcode.cmake
See: https://lldb.llvm.org/resources/build.html#cmakegeneratedxcodeproject
```
Also set the generator inside the cache script.
Reviewers: JDevlieghere, jingham, clayborg
Reviewed By: JDevlieghere
Subscribers: mgorny, lldb-commits, #lldb
Tags: #lldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D65797
llvm-svn: 368066
Now that the Xcode project is removed, I want to focus on dotest as a
test framework, and remove its driver capabilities for which we already
rely on llvm's lit. Removing multiprocessing is the first step in that
direction.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D65311
llvm-svn: 367331
Summary: The lldb build system made good progress in the last months, but documentation was still lacking behind. Here's a patch to catch up.
Reviewers: JDevlieghere, jingham, labath, stella.stamenova, teemperor, jryans, kastiglione, xiaobai, compnerd, zturner
Reviewed By: labath, stella.stamenova, jryans
Subscribers: clayborg, amccarth, friss, lldb-commits, #lldb
Tags: #lldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D65330
llvm-svn: 367302
While the in-place hints on valid formats are up to date (e.g. when
choosing an invalid format expr -f nonExisting -- 42), the corresponding
online docs table is not. The formats "address", "hex float",
"instruction" and "void" are missing, and "decimal" refers to an
outdated abbreviation 'i' instead of 'd'.
Patch by: Lukas Böger
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D63813
llvm-svn: 366364
Summary: Replaces references to svn commits with the lldb version number those commits first appeared in. Themotivation is to show that these features are no longer that new and can generally be adopted.
Reviewers: JDevlieghere
Subscribers: lldb-commits
Tags: #lldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D61778
llvm-svn: 365559
The current build instructions are structured according the host
platform. Instead of having instructions on how to build with CMake
repeated for every platform, I unified them, using subsections if things
are different for between platforms. I also added the code signing
instructions, which were hidden in a text file in the repository.
llvm-svn: 365081
The script is the modern way of getting the certificate, so we should mention it in
the documentation.
Patch idea by Davidino Italiano!
llvm-svn: 364967
Summary:
This updates all places in documentation that refer to "Mac OS X", "OS X", etc.
to instead use the modern name "macOS" when no specific version number is
mentioned.
If a specific version is mentioned, this attempts to use the OS name at the time
of that version:
* Mac OS X for 10.0 - 10.7
* OS X for 10.8 - 10.11
* macOS for 10.12 - present
Reviewers: JDevlieghere
Subscribers: mgorny, christof, arphaman, cfe-commits, lldb-commits, libcxx-commits, llvm-commits
Tags: #clang, #lldb, #libc, #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D62654
llvm-svn: 362113
This removes several older paragraphs in the LLDB build steps for Unix
systems which suggested checking out various components via SVN. Since
there's a separate page about getting the LLDB source which only
mentions Git, it seems appropriate to remove this older info from the
build docs.
Patch by: J. Ryan Stinnett
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D62041
llvm-svn: 361046
This is outdated, there's a bunch of architectures missing. If we want
them to be part of this table they should be a separate row anyway.
llvm-svn: 360967
This returns the look & feel of the Sphinx-generated LLDB website to
the original pre-Sphinx layout.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D61913
llvm-svn: 360819
Summary:
This adds a specific error message to clarify that lldb requires libcxx when
built together with clang on macOS. In addition, the lldb building docs are also
updated.
Fixes https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41866
Reviewers: sgraenitz, JDevlieghere, EricWF
Reviewed By: sgraenitz
Subscribers: mgorny, lldb-commits
Tags: #lldb
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D61877
llvm-svn: 360756
The run command is only an abbreviation for the more verbose process
launch -- <args> but it works just as with GDB and therefore should be
mentioned in the GDB to LLDB command map.
For educational purposes I've not listed it as the first option on the
LLDB side so that new LLDB user can, if they want, also know what the
"native" way is for LLDB.
Here's the help documentation for the run command in lldb which gives
proof:
> (lldb) help run
> Launch the executable in the debugger.
>
> Syntax: run [<run-args>]
>
> Command Options Usage:
> run [<run-args>]
>
> 'run' is an abbreviation for 'process launch -c /bin/sh --'
Patch by: Konrad Kleine
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D61483
llvm-svn: 360269
This patch fixes two incorrect headings in source.rst which caused it to
show up on the homepage. I also updated the titles to have more sensible
links there.
llvm-svn: 360219
CMake specifies that the DEPENDS field of add_custom_target is for files
and output of add_custom_command. In order to add a target dependency,
add_dependencies should be used.
llvm-svn: 359490
As discussed on the mailing list, we should be able to generate the
Python reference without building all of LLDB. To make that possible I
create a dummy python package, which is then parsed by epydoc. The
latter will complain that it couldn't import lldb, but that doesn't
matter as far as generation of the docs is concerned.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D61216
llvm-svn: 359465
This moves the links to the C++ and Python API docs up to the main page.
As of now the links are still broken [1], but at least this will prevent
the additional frustration of searching for the links only to find out
they're broken.
[1] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/lldb-dev/2019-April/014992.html
llvm-svn: 358928
This fixes the doxygen configuration to be functional again. I removed
the customer header and footer, as well as the no-longer-existent style
sheet. I also widened the scope of the documentation, from just the
public API to include the private interfaces as well.
llvm-svn: 358773
My apologies for the large patch. With the exception of ConstString.h
itself it was entirely produced by sed.
ConstString has exactly one const char * data member, so passing a
ConstString by reference is not any more efficient than copying it by
value. In both cases a single pointer is passed. But passing it by
value makes it harder to accidentally return the address of a local
object.
(This fixes rdar://problem/48640859 for the Apple folks)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D59030
llvm-svn: 355553
The current LLDB website is written in HTML which is hard to maintain.
We have quite a bit of HTML code checked in which can make it hard to
differentiate between documentation written by us and documentation
generated by a tool.
In line with the other LLVM projects, I propose generating the
documentation with Sphix. I think text/rst files provide a lower barrier
for new or casual contributors to fix or update.
This patch adds a copy of the LLDB website and documentation in
reStructuredText. It also adds a new ninja target `docs-lldb-html` when
-DLLVM_ENABLE_SPHINX:BOOL is enabled.
This is the first step in having the website and documentation being
generated from the repository, rather than having the output checked-in
under the www folder. During the hopefully short transition period,
please also update the reStructuredText files when modifying the
website.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D55376
llvm-svn: 352644
This fixes most references to the paths:
llvm.org/svn/
llvm.org/git/
llvm.org/viewvc/
github.com/llvm-mirror/
github.com/llvm-project/
reviews.llvm.org/diffusion/
to instead point to https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.
This is *not* a trivial substitution, because additionally, all the
checkout instructions had to be migrated to instruct users on how to
use the monorepo layout, setting LLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS instead of
checking out various projects into various subdirectories.
I've attempted to not change any scripts here, only documentation. The
scripts will have to be addressed separately.
Additionally, I've deleted one document which appeared to be outdated
and unneeded:
lldb/docs/building-with-debug-llvm.txt
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D57330
llvm-svn: 352514
gdb-remote serial protocol documentation, call out the
incompatability of lldb's vFile:open: packet as it stands
today. Need to think about whether to change lldb's
enum values (breaking any existing lldb-server's out there)
or create a different packet and abandon vFile:open: at
least for a while.
llvm-svn: 349316
in the packet are lldb enum values, not the open(2) oflags --
forgot about that wrinkle. Also added a comment to File.h
noting that the existing values cannot be modified or we'll
have a compatibilty break with any alternative platform
implementations, or older versions of lldb-server.
llvm-svn: 349282
to write an lldb platform server that doesn't link against
LLDB.framework to be able to fully run the lldb testsuite
on a remote system. The platform packets weren't covered
in the existing lldb-gdb-remote.txt doc, so I wanted to
jot them down in one place.
llvm-svn: 349231
This brings the LLDB configuration closer to LLVM's and removes visual
clutter in the source code by removing the @brief commands from
comments.
This patch also reflows the paragraphs in all doxygen comments.
See also https://reviews.llvm.org/D46290.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D46321
llvm-svn: 331373
This patch is the result of a discussion on lldb-dev, see
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/lldb-dev/2018-January/013111.html for
background.
For each test (should be eventually: each test configuration) a
separate build directory is created and we execute
make VPATH=$srcdir/path/to/test -C $builddir/path/to/test -f $srcdir/path/to/test/Makefile -I $srcdir/path/to/test
In order to make this work all LLDB tests need to be updated to find
the executable in the test build directory, since CWD still points at
the test's source directory, which is a requirement for unittest2.
Although we have done extensive testing, I'm expecting that this first
attempt will break a few bots. Please DO NOT HESITATE TO REVERT this
patch in order to get the bots green again. We will likely have to
iterate on this some more.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D42281
llvm-svn: 323803
On Darwin, if a test machine isn't set up for code-signing (see
docs/code-signing.txt), running check-lldb should use the system
debugserver instead of the unsigned one built in-tree. This makes it
possible to run lldb's test suite without having code-signing set up,
which is really convenient.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D42215
llvm-svn: 322803
Summary:
This patch adds support for sending strings along with
error codes in the reply packets. The implementation is
based on the feedback recieved in the lldb-dev mailing
list. The patch also adds an extra packet for the client
to query if the server has the capability to provide
strings along with error replys.
Reviewers: labath, jingham, sas, lldb-commits, clayborg
Reviewed By: labath, clayborg
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34945
llvm-svn: 307768
Summary:
The changes consist of new packets for trace manipulation and
trace collection. The new packets are also documented. The packets
are capable of providing custom trace specific parameters to start
tracing and also retrieve such configuration from the server.
Reviewers: clayborg, lldb-commits, tberghammer, labath, zturner
Reviewed By: clayborg, labath
Subscribers: krytarowski, lldb-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D32585
llvm-svn: 303972
acquired only after checking if the ivar shared pointer was already
filled in. But when I assign an UnwindPlan object to the shared
pointer, I assign an empty object and then fill it in. That leaves
a window where another thread could get the shared pointer to the
empty (but quickly being-filled-in) object and lead to a crash.
Also two changes from Greg for correctness on the TestMultipleDebuggers
test case.
<rdar://problem/30564102>
llvm-svn: 296084
Summary:
This adds the jModulesInfo packet, which is the equivalent of qModulesInfo, but it enables us to
query multiple modules at once. This makes a significant speed improvement in case the
application has many (over a hundred) modules, and the communication link has a non-negligible
latency. This functionality is accessed by ProcessGdbRemote::PrefetchModuleSpecs(), which does
the caching. GetModuleSpecs() is modified to first consult the cache before asking the remote
stub. PrefetchModuleSpecs is currently only called from POSIX-DYLD dynamic loader plugin, after
it reads the list of modules from the inferior memory, but other uses are possible.
This decreases the attach time to an android application by about 40%.
Reviewers: clayborg
Subscribers: tberghammer, lldb-commits, danalbert
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24236
llvm-svn: 280919
Take 2, with missing cmake line fixed. Build tested on
Ubuntu 14.04 with clang-3.6.
See docs/structured_data/StructuredDataPlugins.md for details.
differential review: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22976
reviewers: clayborg, jingham
llvm-svn: 279202
"Incorrect" file name seen on Android whene the main executable is
called "app_process32" (or 64) but the linker specifies the package
name (e.g. com.android.calculator2). Additionally it can be present
in case of some linker bugs.
This CL adds logic to try to fetch the correct file name from the proc
file system based on the base address sepcified by the linker in case
we are failed to load the module by name.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D22219
llvm-svn: 276411
to find the solibs loaded in a process. Support two new ways of
sending the jGetLoadedDynamicLibrariesInfos packet to debugserver
and add a new jGetSharedCacheInfo packet. Update the documentation
for these packets as well. The changes to lldb to use these will
be a separate commit.
<rdar://problem/25251243>
llvm-svn: 274718
for TestNamespaceLookup.py; didn't see anything obviously wrong so I'll
need to look at this more closely before re-committing. (passed OK on
macOS ;)
llvm-svn: 273531
There's uses of "macosx" that will be more tricky to
change, like in triples (e.g. "x86_64-apple-macosx10.11") -
for now I'm just updating source comments and strings printed
for humans.
llvm-svn: 273524
igor is a tool to detect common problems and style conformance issues in
man pages and other documents. This is a non-content change to address
the items it reported, before making content changes.
See http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/igor/igor.1.html for more information
about igor(1).
llvm-svn: 255769
debugserver. thread-pcs has a comma separated list of base 16
addresses - the current pc value for every thread in the process.
It is a partner of the "threads:" key where a list of thread IDs
is given. The pc values in thread-pcs correspond one-to-one with
the thread IDs in the threads list.
This is a part of performance work. When lldb is instruction
stepping / fast stepping over a range of addresses for e.g. a "next"
command, and it steps in to another function, lldb will put a
breakpoint on the return address and continue the process. Before
it calls continue, it calls Thread::SetupForResume on all the
threads, and SetupForResume needs to get the current pc value for
every thread to see if any are at a breakpoint site.
The result is that issuing a "c" continue requires that we send
"read pc register" packets for every thread.
We may do this sequence of step-into-function / continue-to-get-out
many times for a single user-visible "next" or "step" command, and
with highly multithreaded programs, we are sending many extra
packets to get all the thread values.
I looked at including this data in the "jstopinfo" JSON that
we already have in the T packet. But there are three problems that
would make this increase the size of the T packet significantly.
First, numbers in JSON are base 10. Second, a proper JSON would
have something like "thread_pcs": { "34224331112":383772734222, ...}
for thread-id 34224331112 and pc 383772734222 - so we're including
a whole extra copy of the thread id in addition to the pc. Third,
the JSON text is hex-ascii'fied so the size of it is doubled.
In one example,
threads:585db8,585dc7,585dc8,585dc9,585dca,585dce;thread-pcs:100001400,7fff8badc6de,7fff8badcff6,7fff8badc6de,7fff8badc6de,7fff8badc6de;
The "thread-pcs" adds 86 characters - 136 characters for both
threads and thread-pcs. Doing this in JSON would look like
threads={"5791160":4294972416,"5791175":140735536809694,"5791176":140735536812022,"5791177":140735536809694,"5791178":140735536809694,"5791182":140735536809694}
or 160 characters -- or 320 characters once it is hex-asciified.
Given that it's 86 characters vrs 320, I went with the old style
approach. I've seen real world programs that have up to 60 threads
in them, so this could result in vastly larger packets if it
was all done in the JSON with hex-ascii expansion.
If we had an all-JSON T packet, where we didn't need to hex-ascii
encode anything, that would have been the better approach. But
we'd already have a list of threads in JSON at that point so
the additional text wouldn't be too bad.
I'm working on finishing the patches to lldb to use this data;
will commit those once I've had a chance to test them more. But
I wanted to commit the debugserver bits which are more
straightforward.
<rdar://problem/21963031>
llvm-svn: 255711
The standard remote debugging workflow with gdb is to start the
application on the remote host under gdbserver (e.g.: gdbserver :5039
a.out) and then connect to it with gdb.
The same workflow is supported by debugserver/lldb-gdbserver with a very
similar syntax but to access all features of lldb we need to be
connected also to an lldb-platform instance running on the target.
Before this change this had to be done manually with starting a separate
lldb-platform on the target machine and then connecting to it with lldb
before connecting to the process.
This change modifies the behavior of "platform connect" with
automatically connecting to the process instance if it was started by
the remote platform. With this command replacing gdbserver in a gdb
based worflow is usually as simple as replacing the command to execute
gdbserver with executing lldb-platform.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14952
llvm-svn: 255016
major, minor, and patchlevel in the qHostInfo reply.
Document that qHostInfo may report major/minor/patch
separately / in addition to the version: combination.
<rdar://problem/22125465>
llvm-svn: 244716
Summary:
This commit adds initial support for the jThreadsInfo packet to lldb-server. The current
implementation does not expedite inferior memory. I have also added a description of the new
packet to our protocol documentation (mostly taken from Greg's earlier commit message).
Reviewers: clayborg, ovyalov, tberghammer
Subscribers: lldb-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D11187
llvm-svn: 242402
jGetLoadedDynamicLibrariesInfos. This packet is similar to
qXfer:libraries:read except that lldb supplies the number of solibs
that should be reported about, and the start address for the list
of them. At the initial process launch we'll read the full list
of solibs linked by the process -- at this point we could be using
qXfer:libraries:read -- but on subsequence solib-loaded notifications,
we'll be fetching a smaller number of solibs, often only one or two.
A typical Mac/iOS GUI app may have a couple hundred different
solibs loaded - doing all of the loads via memory reads takes
a couple of megabytes of traffic between lldb and debugserver.
Having debugserver summarize the load addresses of all the solibs
and sending it in JSON requires a couple of hundred kilobytes
of traffic. It's a significant performance improvement when
communicating over a slower channel.
This patch leaves all of the logic for loading the libraries
in DynamicLoaderMacOSXDYLD -- it only call over ot ProcesGDBRemote
to get the JSON result.
If the jGetLoadedDynamicLibrariesInfos packet is not implemented,
the normal technique of using memory read packets to get all of
the details from the target will be used.
<rdar://problem/21007465>
llvm-svn: 241964
For some communication channels, sending large packets can be very
slow. In those cases, it may be faster to compress the contents of
the packet on the target device and decompress it on the debug host
system. For instance, communicating with a device using something
like Bluetooth may be an environment where this tradeoff is a good one.
This patch adds a new field to the response to the "qSupported" packet
(which returns a "qXfer:features:" response) -- SupportedCompressions
and DefaultCompressionMinSize. These tell you what the remote
stub can support.
lldb, if it wants to enable compression and can handle one of those
algorithms, it can send a QEnableCompression packet specifying the
algorithm and optionally the minimum packet size to use compression
on. lldb may have better knowledge about the best tradeoff for
a given communication channel.
I added support to debugserver an lldb to use the zlib APIs
(if -DHAVE_LIBZ=1 is in CFLAGS and -lz is in LDFLAGS) and the
libcompression APIs on Mac OS X 10.11 and later
(if -DHAVE_LIBCOMPRESSION=1). libz "zlib-deflate" compression.
libcompression can support deflate, lz4, lzma, and a proprietary
lzfse algorithm. libcompression has been hand-tuned for Apple
hardware so it should be preferred if available.
debugserver currently only adds the SupportedCompressions when
it is being run on an Apple watch (TARGET_OS_WATCH). Comment
that #if out from RNBRemote.cpp if you want to enable it to
see how it works. I haven't tested this on a native system
configuration but surely it will be slower to compress & decompress
the packets in a same-system debug session.
I haven't had a chance to add support for this to
GDBRemoteCommunciationServer.cpp yet.
<rdar://problem/21090180>
llvm-svn: 240066
Jan Kratochvil