[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D96458: [LLDB] Add support for Arm64/Linux dynamic register sets

Pavel Labath via Phabricator via lldb-commits lldb-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Mar 9 07:02:13 PST 2021


labath added a comment.

In D96458#2613894 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D96458#2613894>, @omjavaid wrote:

> ConfigureRegisterContext is called only once in the lifetime of a core from RegisterContextCorePOSIX_arm64 constructor. A process registers cannot change during execution which is what made basis of this change. for NativeRegisterContextLinux_arm64 I moved the ConfigureRegisterInfos logic out of configure register context because it will be called again and again during execution. But for RegisterContextCorePOSIX_arm64 we call it once in the constructor so its safe to keep the function.

Ok, I understand what's happening now -- thanks for re-iterating. I have managed to miss the fact that this patch deals with both core file and live register contexts.

In that case, I'd like to go one step further, and remove the "configuration" operation from the `RegisterInfoPOSIX_arm64` class as well (by making it a part of the construction). It should be possible to do that by fetching the information needed to determine the registers before the class is instantiated. For the live context, that could be done inside the `CreateHostNativeRegisterContextLinux` function. For the core file context, we could create a similar factory function as well. I.e. move the construction of `RegisterInfoPOSIX_arm64` from ThreadElfCore into some static function inside `RegisterContextCorePOSIX_arm64` -- this function could examine the core data to determine the registers and construct the appropriate info class.


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