A few things to check on:
lldb_private::Process already has:
//------------------------------------------------------------------
// Returns AUXV structure found in many ELF-based environments.
//
// The default action is to return an empty data buffer.
//
// @return
// A data buffer containing the contents of the AUXV data.
//------------------------------------------------------------------
virtual const lldb::DataBufferSP
GetAuxvData();
Would this help?
What dynamic loader is currently being selected when you debug?
PluginDynamicLoaderPosixDYLD? If so, maybe PluginDynamicLoaderPosixDYLD can
just use Process::GetAuxvData()? It would be nice to abstract this through
lldb_private::Process if PluginDynamicLoaderPosixDYLD just needs a bit of help
to get started as I would prefer to keep using PluginDynamicLoaderPosixDYLD or
its subclasses if possible so that we don't have to create
DynamicLoaderGDBRemote if we don't need to.
Greg
> On Apr 24, 2015, at 10:21 AM, Aidan Dodds <ai...@codeplay.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the quick response Greg.
>
> Its an interesting point you raise when it comes to knowing how any
> DynamicLoaderGDBRemote would detect newly loaded
> modules. Since my target is Linux based the standard approach of hooking the
> rendezvous address should still work.
> Presumably since I will have the full list of loaded modules and their
> locations, I would be able to find ld-linux.so,
> and I additionally have access to the auxvector via the $qXfer:auxv packet.
> Perhaps these will provide enough data for me
> to locate the dyld rendezvous address.
>
> Perhaps lldbPluginDynamicLoaderPosixDYLD would serve as a suitable base class
> for DynamicLoaderGDBRemote.
>
> I'll mull over your suggestions this weekend and get back to you with
> something more concrete on Monday.
> In the mean time, if anyone else also has ideas or suggestions I'm all ears.
>
> Thanks again,
> Aidan
>
>
> On 24/04/2015 17:45, Greg Clayton wrote:
>> Actually scratch this last approach.
>>
>> A better approach would be to make a new DynamicLoader subclass called
>> DynamicLoaderGDBRemote. This plug-in would only be created if the process'
>> name is "gdb-remote" and if the ProcessGDBRemote supports the
>> qXfer:libraries:read command. Then the DynamicLoaderGDBRemote can cast the
>> abstract lldb_private::Process to a ProcessGDBRemote and use any special
>> functions in ProcessGDBRemote to get this info and make the shared libraries
>> get loaded correctly.
>>
>> We try to make our GDB server binaries and simple as possible and we don't
>> vend shared library info from them. In this case we want to use the correct
>> DynamicLoader plug-ins for the current process. It also allows us to use the
>> DynamicLoader plug-ins with multiple processes. For example,
>> DynamicLoaderDarwinKernel can either be used with ProcessGDBRemote or
>> ProcessKDP. It just uses generic process calls on lldb_private::Process to
>> do its thing so these plug-ins can work with any lldb_private::Process. In
>> this case we have a case where the DynamicLoaderGDBRemote would only work
>> with ProcessGDBRemote. In the static class function you would need to check
>> the process plug-in name:
>>
>> DynamicLoader *
>> DynamicLoaderGDBRemote::CreateInstance (Process* process, bool force)
>> {
>> if (process->GetPluginName() == ProcessGDBRemote::GetPluginNameStatic())
>> {
>> ProcessGDBRemote* gdb_process = (ProcessGDBRemote*)process;
>> if (gdb_process->Supports_qXfer_libraries())
>> {
>> // Create a new instance of DynamicLoaderGDBRemote and return it
>> }
>> }
>> return NULL;
>> }
>>
>> Then the question becomes how do shared library loaded notifications come in
>> when a shared library is loaded dynamically?
>>
>> Greg Clayton
>>
>>
>>> On Apr 24, 2015, at 9:28 AM, Greg Clayton <gclay...@apple.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> This if fine. We will want to make these changes as a virtual call in
>>> lldb_private::Process where we ask the process if it can help discover
>>> loaded shared libraries. The dynamic loader plug-ins will need to be
>>> modified to take advantage of this as they get an abstract
>>> "lldb_private::Process*" when they are created. Then the dynamic loader
>>> plug-ins can ask the process if they can supply the module loaded info, and
>>> take advantage of this if needed.
>>>
>>> Maybe something like:
>>>
>>> namespace lldb_private {
>>> class Process {
>>> ...
>>> virtual Error GetLoadedSharedLibraries(std::vector<LoadedModuleInfo>
>>> &loaded_modules)
>>> {
>>> Error error;
>>> loaded_modules.clear();
>>> error.SetErrorString("unimplemented");
>>> return error;
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't believe qModuleInfo if the correct call to be using. I believe this
>>> is a platform packet only that allows you to ask about what a remote file
>>> contains. It answers with the info on each contained file that is contained
>>> within a file and returns the architecture, file offset, and file size for
>>> each different slice. Most files only have one item inside them, so they
>>> would return info on that single file. This isn't designed to be tied to a
>>> process nor is it designed to pass along any module load info for a
>>> specific process.
>>>
>>> I would just use the qXfer:libraries:read command and implement this as a
>>> new call in "lldb_private::Process *" that returns an error in the default
>>> implementation, and the ProcessGDBRemote will have a override version of
>>> this function that can give us the info we need.
>>>
>>> Let me know if you need any help in making this happen.
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
>>>> On Apr 24, 2015, at 7:06 AM, Aidan Dodds <ai...@codeplay.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I would like to improve support for the case where LLDB is debugging a
>>>> remote target (via gdbserver)
>>>> yet doesn't have access to the target executable, and only has access to a
>>>> shared object already
>>>> loaded by the target.
>>>>
>>>> This is supported from GDB, as I can connect to a remote GDBServer without
>>>> specifying any executable,
>>>> and after issuing 'set solib-search-paths' it will resolve all of the
>>>> loaded shared objects correctly, while
>>>> still being blind to the target executable.
>>>>
>>>> I feel like LLDB should be able to connect to a remote target, and then
>>>> after issuing a 'target modules add'
>>>> command be able to resolve its load address automatically. I believe LLDB
>>>> can already do this to some extent
>>>> via the 'qModuleInfo' RSP packet.
>>>>
>>>> The 'qXfer:libraries:read' packet is provided by GDBServer, and will
>>>> return an XML document containing
>>>> all of the shared objects loaded by the target and their load addresses.
>>>> It is possible to parse this now using the
>>>> recent libxml2 support in LLDB.
>>>>
>>>> GDBRemoteCommunicationClient::GetModuleInfo() could be extended to try and
>>>> gain information about a
>>>> loaded module via the 'qXfer:libraries:read' packet if 'qModuleInfo' fails
>>>> or is not supported.
>>>>
>>>> I would be interested to hear what others think, or get some feedback if I
>>>> have perhaps misunderstood something.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Aidan Dodds
>>>>
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