[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D110569: [lldb] [Process/FreeBSD] Rework arm64 register access
Andrew Turner via Phabricator via lldb-commits
lldb-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Sep 28 03:42:23 PDT 2021
andrew added inline comments.
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Comment at: lldb/source/Plugins/Process/FreeBSD/NativeRegisterContextFreeBSD_arm64.cpp:73
-Status NativeRegisterContextFreeBSD_arm64::ReadRegisterSet(uint32_t set) {
- switch (set) {
- case RegisterInfoPOSIX_arm64::GPRegSet:
- return NativeProcessFreeBSD::PtraceWrapper(PT_GETREGS, m_thread.GetID(),
- m_reg_data.data());
- case RegisterInfoPOSIX_arm64::FPRegSet:
- return NativeProcessFreeBSD::PtraceWrapper(
- PT_GETFPREGS, m_thread.GetID(),
- m_reg_data.data() + sizeof(RegisterInfoPOSIX_arm64::GPR));
- }
- llvm_unreachable("NativeRegisterContextFreeBSD_arm64::ReadRegisterSet");
+bool NativeRegisterContextFreeBSD_arm64::IsGPR(unsigned reg) const {
+ if (GetRegisterInfo().GetRegisterSetFromRegisterIndex(reg) ==
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mgorny wrote:
> These helpers don't seem very helpful. Isn't it better to use `switch` on the value returned by `GetRegisterInfo().GetRegisterSetFromRegisterIndex(reg)`?
Using a switch will be messy when adding pointer authentication or MTE registers as we need to call `RegisterInfoPOSIX_arm64::IsPAuthReg` [1] to check if a given register is a pointer authentication register, and similar for MTE. This is because they are dynamically added as needed.
[1] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/76e47d4/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/Utility/RegisterInfoPOSIX_arm64.cpp#L392-L396
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Comment at: lldb/source/Plugins/Process/FreeBSD/NativeRegisterContextFreeBSD_arm64.cpp:133
+ if (IsGPR(reg)) {
+ error = ReadGPR();
+ if (error.Fail())
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mgorny wrote:
> To be honest, it seems counterproductive to restore the duplication that I've removed before. Is there any real advantage to having two methods here, and calling them separately from inside the `if` instead of calling `ReadRegisterSet(set)` before the `if`?
Because of the dynamic nature of the register sets we may not have a usable value to pass into `ReadRegisterSet` and any logic to decide which register set is being read in `ReadRegisterSet` would need to be repeated here and below when writing a register.
Calling the function `ReadRegisterSet` will also be confusing when I add `PT_GETREGSET` and `PT_SETREGSET` [1] to FreeBSD. This will be used to access the pointer authentication address masks on FreeBSD (and future registers, e.g. MTE & SVE).
See [2] for a WIP patch with how I plan to extend this for code & data address masks needed by pointer authentication.
[1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19831
[2] https://github.com/zxombie/llvm-project/commit/b801eca#diff-3d6a219398418eb59bf8104bda44a111f47d29081e076b4ce69336882e482cc2
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