llvm-project/lldb/tools/intel-features
Jonas Devlieghere 141c8475b6 [lldb] Get rid of LLDB_LIB_DIR and LLDB_IMPLIB_DIR in dotest
This patch removes the rather confusing LLDB_LIB_DIR and LLDB_IMPLIB_DIR
environment variables. They are confusing because LLDB_LIB_DIR would
point to the bin subdirectory in the build root while LLDB_IMPLIB_DIR
would point to the lib subdirectory. The reason far this was
LLDB.framework, which gets build under bin.

This patch replaces their uses with configuration.lldb_framework_path
and configuration.lldb_libs_dir respectively.

Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D86817
2020-08-28 15:45:54 -07:00
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intel-mpx [lldb] Get rid of LLDB_LIB_DIR and LLDB_IMPLIB_DIR in dotest 2020-08-28 15:45:54 -07:00
intel-pt [intel-pt] Implement a basic test case 2020-04-02 11:36:05 -07:00
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README.txt
cli-wrapper.cpp Update the file headers across all of the LLVM projects in the monorepo 2019-01-19 08:50:56 +00:00

README.txt

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*                            README                                        *
*                                                                          *
* This file provides all the information regarding new CLI commands that   *
* enable using various hardware features of Intel(R) architecture based    *
* processors from LLDB's CLI.                                              *
****************************************************************************


============
Introduction
============
A shared library has been developed to use various hardware features of
Intel(R) architecture based processors through LLDB's command line. The library
currently comprises of hardware features namely Intel(R) Processor Trace and
Intel(R) Memory Protection Extensions.


============
Details
============
A C++ based cli wrapper (cli-wrapper.cpp) has been developed here that
agglomerates all cli commands for various hardware features. This wrapper is
build to generate a shared library (lldbIntelFeatures) to provide all these
commands.

For each hardware feature, separate cli commands have been developed that are
provided by wrappers (cli-wrapper-pt.cpp and cli-wrapper-mpxtable.cpp) residing
in feature specific folders ("intel-pt" and "intel-mpx" respectively).

For details regarding cli commands of each feature, please refer to these
feature specific wrappers.



============
How to Build
============
The shared library (lldbIntelFeatures) has a cmake based build and can be built
while building LLDB with cmake. "cli-wrapper.cpp" file is compiled along with all
the feature specific source files (residing in feature specific folders).

Furthermore, flexibility is provided to the user to include/exclude a particular
feature while building lldbIntelFeatures library. This is done by flags described
below:

  - LLDB_BUILD_INTEL_PT - The flag enables building of Intel(R) Processor Trace
    feature (inside intel-pt folder). This flag defaults to "OFF" meaning the
    feature is excluded while building lldbIntelFeatures library. Set it to "ON"
    in order to include it.

  - LLDB_BUILD_INTEL_MPX - Enables building Intel(R) Memory Protection Extensions
    feature (inside intel-mpx folder). This flag defaults to "ON" meaning
    the feature is excluded while building lldbIntelFeatures library.

Please refer to README files in feature specific folders to know about additional
flags that need to be set in order to build that feature successfully.


============
How to Use
============
All CLI commands provided by this shared library can be used through the LLDB's
CLI by executing "plugin load <shared_lib_name>" on LLDB CLI. shared_lib_name here
is lldbIntelFeatures



============
Description
============
Please refer to README_CLI file of each feature to know about details of CLI
commands.