[Lldb-commits] [lldb] Branch island with numbers (PR #138781)

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<summary>Changes</summary>

Reapply the support for stepping through branch islands, add support for a branch that takes multiple hops to get to the target.

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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/138781.diff


9 Files Affected:

- (modified) lldb/source/Plugins/DynamicLoader/MacOSX-DYLD/DynamicLoaderDarwin.cpp (+25-7) 
- (added) lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/Makefile (+16) 
- (added) lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/TestBranchIslands.py (+35) 
- (added) lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/foo.c (+6) 
- (added) lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/main.c (+6) 
- (added) lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/padding1.s (+3) 
- (added) lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/padding2.s (+3) 
- (added) lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/padding3.s (+3) 
- (added) lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/padding4.s (+3) 


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diff --git a/lldb/source/Plugins/DynamicLoader/MacOSX-DYLD/DynamicLoaderDarwin.cpp b/lldb/source/Plugins/DynamicLoader/MacOSX-DYLD/DynamicLoaderDarwin.cpp
index e25c4ff55e408..ad3b63cf59135 100644
--- a/lldb/source/Plugins/DynamicLoader/MacOSX-DYLD/DynamicLoaderDarwin.cpp
+++ b/lldb/source/Plugins/DynamicLoader/MacOSX-DYLD/DynamicLoaderDarwin.cpp
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include "lldb/Target/Thread.h"
 #include "lldb/Target/ThreadPlanCallFunction.h"
 #include "lldb/Target/ThreadPlanRunToAddress.h"
+#include "lldb/Target/ThreadPlanStepInstruction.h"
 #include "lldb/Utility/DataBuffer.h"
 #include "lldb/Utility/DataBufferHeap.h"
 #include "lldb/Utility/LLDBLog.h"
@@ -923,15 +924,15 @@ DynamicLoaderDarwin::GetStepThroughTrampolinePlan(Thread &thread,
   if (current_symbol != nullptr) {
     std::vector<Address> addresses;
 
+    ConstString current_name =
+        current_symbol->GetMangled().GetName(Mangled::ePreferMangled);
     if (current_symbol->IsTrampoline()) {
-      ConstString trampoline_name =
-          current_symbol->GetMangled().GetName(Mangled::ePreferMangled);
 
-      if (trampoline_name) {
+      if (current_name) {
         const ModuleList &images = target_sp->GetImages();
 
         SymbolContextList code_symbols;
-        images.FindSymbolsWithNameAndType(trampoline_name, eSymbolTypeCode,
+        images.FindSymbolsWithNameAndType(current_name, eSymbolTypeCode,
                                           code_symbols);
         for (const SymbolContext &context : code_symbols) {
           Address addr = context.GetFunctionOrSymbolAddress();
@@ -945,8 +946,8 @@ DynamicLoaderDarwin::GetStepThroughTrampolinePlan(Thread &thread,
         }
 
         SymbolContextList reexported_symbols;
-        images.FindSymbolsWithNameAndType(
-            trampoline_name, eSymbolTypeReExported, reexported_symbols);
+        images.FindSymbolsWithNameAndType(current_name, eSymbolTypeReExported,
+                                          reexported_symbols);
         for (const SymbolContext &context : reexported_symbols) {
           if (context.symbol) {
             Symbol *actual_symbol =
@@ -968,7 +969,7 @@ DynamicLoaderDarwin::GetStepThroughTrampolinePlan(Thread &thread,
         }
 
         SymbolContextList indirect_symbols;
-        images.FindSymbolsWithNameAndType(trampoline_name, eSymbolTypeResolver,
+        images.FindSymbolsWithNameAndType(current_name, eSymbolTypeResolver,
                                           indirect_symbols);
 
         for (const SymbolContext &context : indirect_symbols) {
@@ -1028,6 +1029,23 @@ DynamicLoaderDarwin::GetStepThroughTrampolinePlan(Thread &thread,
       thread_plan_sp = std::make_shared<ThreadPlanRunToAddress>(
           thread, load_addrs, stop_others);
     }
+    // One more case we have to consider is "branch islands".  These are regular
+    // TEXT symbols but their names end in .island plus maybe a .digit suffix.  
+    // They are to allow arm64 code to branch further than the size of the 
+    // address slot allows.  We just need to single-instruction step in that 
+    // case.
+    static const char *g_branch_island_pattern = "\\.island\\.?[0-9]*$";
+    static RegularExpression g_branch_island_regex(g_branch_island_pattern);
+
+    bool is_branch_island = g_branch_island_regex.Execute(current_name);
+    if (!thread_plan_sp && is_branch_island) {
+      thread_plan_sp = std::make_shared<ThreadPlanStepInstruction>(
+          thread,
+          /* step_over= */ false, /* stop_others */ false, eVoteNoOpinion,
+          eVoteNoOpinion);
+      LLDB_LOG(log, "Stepping one instruction over branch island: '{0}'.",
+               current_name);
+    }
   } else {
     LLDB_LOGF(log, "Could not find symbol for step through.");
   }
diff --git a/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/Makefile b/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..062e947f6d6ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+C_SOURCES := main.c foo.c
+CFLAGS_EXTRAS := -std=c99
+
+include Makefile.rules
+
+a.out: main.o padding1.o padding2.o padding3.o padding4.o foo.o
+	${CC} ${LDFLAGS} foo.o padding1.o padding2.o padding3.o padding4.o main.o -o a.out
+
+%.o: $(SRCDIR)/%.s
+	${CC} -c $<
+
+#padding1.o: padding1.s
+#	${CC} -c $(SRCDIR)/padding1.s
+
+#padding2.o: padding2.s
+#	${CC} -c $(SRCDIR)/padding2.s
diff --git a/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/TestBranchIslands.py b/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/TestBranchIslands.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..b397e0c229b08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/TestBranchIslands.py
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+"""
+Make sure that we can step in across an arm64 branch island
+"""
+
+
+import lldb
+import lldbsuite.test.lldbutil as lldbutil
+from lldbsuite.test.lldbtest import *
+from lldbsuite.test.decorators import *
+
+
+class TestBranchIslandStepping(TestBase):
+    NO_DEBUG_INFO_TESTCASE = True
+
+    @skipUnlessDarwin
+    def test_step_in_branch_island(self):
+        """Make sure we can step in across a branch island"""
+        self.build()
+        self.main_source_file = lldb.SBFileSpec("main.c")
+        self.do_test()
+
+    def do_test(self):
+        (target, process, thread, bkpt) = lldbutil.run_to_source_breakpoint(
+            self, "Set a breakpoint here", self.main_source_file
+        )
+
+        # Make sure that we did manage to generate a branch island for foo:
+        syms = target.FindSymbols("foo.island", lldb.eSymbolTypeCode)
+        self.assertEqual(len(syms), 1, "We did generate an island for foo")
+
+        thread.StepInto()
+        stop_frame = thread.frames[0]
+        self.assertIn("foo", stop_frame.name, "Stepped into foo")
+        var = stop_frame.FindVariable("a_variable_in_foo")
+        self.assertTrue(var.IsValid(), "Found the variable in foo")
diff --git a/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/foo.c b/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/foo.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..a5dd2e59e1d82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/foo.c
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+void foo() {
+  int a_variable_in_foo = 10;
+  printf("I am foo: %d.\n", a_variable_in_foo);
+}
diff --git a/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/main.c b/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/main.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..b5578bdd715df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/main.c
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+extern void foo();
+
+int main() {
+  foo(); // Set a breakpoint here
+  return 0;
+}
diff --git a/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/padding1.s b/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/padding1.s
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4911e53b0240d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/padding1.s
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+.text
+_padding1:
+.space 120*1024*1024
diff --git a/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/padding2.s b/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/padding2.s
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..5ad1bad11263b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/padding2.s
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+.text
+_padding2:
+.space 120*1024*1024
diff --git a/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/padding3.s b/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/padding3.s
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9f614eecf56d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/padding3.s
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+.text
+_padding3:
+.space 120*1024*1024
diff --git a/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/padding4.s b/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/padding4.s
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..12896cf5e5b8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lldb/test/API/macosx/branch-islands/padding4.s
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+.text
+_padding4:
+.space 120*1024*1024

``````````

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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/138781


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