[Lldb-commits] [lldb] ff79d83 - [LLDB][LoongArch] Extend the maximum number of watchpoints (#126204)

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Author: Tiezhu Yang
Date: 2025-02-08T10:31:48+08:00
New Revision: ff79d83caeeea8457f69406f38801fe8893bbfd8

URL: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/ff79d83caeeea8457f69406f38801fe8893bbfd8
DIFF: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/ff79d83caeeea8457f69406f38801fe8893bbfd8.diff

LOG: [LLDB][LoongArch] Extend the maximum number of watchpoints (#126204)

The maximum number of load/store watchpoints and fetch instruction
watchpoints is 14 each according to LoongArch Reference Manual [1],
so extend the maximum number of watchpoints from 8 to 14 for ptrace.

A new struct user_watch_state_v2 was added into uapi in the related
kernel commit 531936dee53e ("LoongArch: Extend the maximum number of
watchpoints") [2], but there may be no struct user_watch_state_v2 in
the system header in time.

In order to avoid undefined or redefined error, just add a new struct
loongarch_user_watch_state in LLDB which is same with the uapi struct
user_watch_state_v2, then replace the current user_watch_state with
loongarch_user_watch_state.

As far as I can tell, the only users for this struct in the userspace
are GDB and LLDB, there are no any problems of software compatibility
between the application and kernel according to the analysis.

The compatibility problem has been considered while developing and
testing. When the applications in the userspace get watchpoint state,
the length will be specified which is no bigger than the sizeof struct
user_watch_state or user_watch_state_v2, the actual length is assigned
as the minimal value of the application and kernel in the generic code
of ptrace:

```
kernel/ptrace.c: ptrace_regset():

	kiov->iov_len = min(kiov->iov_len,
                            (__kernel_size_t) (regset->n * regset->size));

	if (req == PTRACE_GETREGSET)
                return copy_regset_to_user(task, view, regset_no, 0,
                                           kiov->iov_len, kiov->iov_base);
	else
                return copy_regset_from_user(task, view, regset_no, 0,
                                             kiov->iov_len, kiov->iov_base);
```

For example, there are four kind of combinations, all of them work well.

(1) "older kernel + older app", the actual length is 8+(8+8+4+4)*8=200;
(2) "newer kernel + newer app", the actual length is 8+(8+8+4+4)*14=344;
(3) "older kernel + newer app", the actual length is 8+(8+8+4+4)*8=200;
(4) "newer kernel + older app", the actual length is 8+(8+8+4+4)*8=200.

[1]
https://loongson.github.io/LoongArch-Documentation/LoongArch-Vol1-EN.html#control-and-status-registers-related-to-watchpoints
[2]
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=531936dee53e

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu at loongson.cn>

Added: 
    

Modified: 
    lldb/source/Plugins/Process/Linux/NativeRegisterContextLinux_loongarch64.cpp

Removed: 
    


################################################################################
diff  --git a/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/Linux/NativeRegisterContextLinux_loongarch64.cpp b/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/Linux/NativeRegisterContextLinux_loongarch64.cpp
index 601dde250094892..c4841950f1e07c9 100644
--- a/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/Linux/NativeRegisterContextLinux_loongarch64.cpp
+++ b/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/Linux/NativeRegisterContextLinux_loongarch64.cpp
@@ -50,6 +50,23 @@
 #define REG_CONTEXT_SIZE                                                       \
   (GetGPRSize() + GetFPRSize() + sizeof(m_lsx) + sizeof(m_lasx))
 
+// ptrace has a struct type user_watch_state, which was replaced by
+// user_watch_state_v2 when more watchpoints were added, so this file
+// may be built on systems with one or both in the system headers.
+// The type below has the same layout as user_watch_state_v2 but will
+// not clash with that name if it exists. We can use the v2 layout even
+// on old kernels as we will only see 8 watchpoints and the kernel will
+// truncate any extra data we send to it.
+struct loongarch_user_watch_state {
+  uint64_t dbg_info;
+  struct {
+    uint64_t addr;
+    uint64_t mask;
+    uint32_t ctrl;
+    uint32_t pad;
+  } dbg_regs[14];
+};
+
 using namespace lldb;
 using namespace lldb_private;
 using namespace lldb_private::process_linux;
@@ -539,7 +556,7 @@ llvm::Error NativeRegisterContextLinux_loongarch64::ReadHardwareDebugInfo() {
 
   int regset = NT_LOONGARCH_HW_WATCH;
   struct iovec ioVec;
-  struct user_watch_state dreg_state;
+  struct loongarch_user_watch_state dreg_state;
   Status error;
 
   ioVec.iov_base = &dreg_state;
@@ -567,7 +584,7 @@ llvm::Error NativeRegisterContextLinux_loongarch64::ReadHardwareDebugInfo() {
 llvm::Error NativeRegisterContextLinux_loongarch64::WriteHardwareDebugRegs(
     DREGType hwbType) {
   struct iovec ioVec;
-  struct user_watch_state dreg_state;
+  struct loongarch_user_watch_state dreg_state;
   int regset;
 
   memset(&dreg_state, 0, sizeof(dreg_state));


        


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