[lldb-dev] [PATCH] Dealing with CPU subtypes (architecture variants)

Matthew Gardiner mg11 at csr.com
Tue Aug 26 05:56:39 PDT 2014


Hi folks,

The kalimba architecture has a number of variants. The ones of interest 
to me being 3, 4 and 5. I have added some additional entries to the 
g_elf_arch_entries to describe these variants. However, up until now, no 
subtypes (architecture variants), for ELF objectfiles exist in lldb. So 
I've found it necessary to modify the invocation of 
ArchSpec.SetArchitecture from ObjectFileELF to deal with this.

Now the kalimba variant specification can be deduced by parsing the 
e_flags field from the ELF header. So I've written a specific routine 
which extracts the variant spec from the e_flags. What I'm not too happy 
about, and would appreciate lldb-dev's opinion on, is if it is ok for 
the extraction routine (kalimbaVariantFromElfFlags) to remain in 
ObjectFileELF.cpp? If not, where should the routine go? Furthermore how 
do I get any new files into the xcode project file, given that I have no 
xcode system - shall I just change the make and cmake build and rely on 
an Apple person to fix any xcode build breakage?

Below is a diff of what I have done recognize kalimba variants, basically:

1. add new entries to ArchSpec::enum Core, and g_elf_arch_entries
2. supply routine to extract the kalimba variant from the e_flags
3. if e_machine == EM_CSR_KALIMBA, extract the kalimba variant and pass 
it to SetArchitecture as the cpu sub type.

--- a/include/lldb/Core/ArchSpec.h    2014-08-18
+++ b/include/lldb/Core/ArchSpec.h    2014-08-18
@@ -103,6 +103,9 @@
          eCore_uknownMach64,

          eCore_kalimba,
+        eCore_kalimba3,
+        eCore_kalimba4,
+        eCore_kalimba5,

          kNumCores,

--- a/source/Core/ArchSpec.cpp    2014-08-05
+++ b/source/Core/ArchSpec.cpp    2014-08-05
@@ -115,7 +115,10 @@
      { eByteOrderLittle, 4, 4, 4 , llvm::Triple::UnknownArch , 
ArchSpec::eCore_uknownMach32  , "unknown-mach-32" },
      { eByteOrderLittle, 8, 4, 4 , llvm::Triple::UnknownArch , 
ArchSpec::eCore_uknownMach64  , "unknown-mach-64" },

-    { eByteOrderLittle, 4, 1, 1 , llvm::Triple::kalimba , 
ArchSpec::eCore_kalimba  , "kalimba" }
+    { eByteOrderLittle, 4, 1, 1 , llvm::Triple::kalimba , 
ArchSpec::eCore_kalimba  , "kalimba" },
+    { eByteOrderLittle, 4, 1, 1 , llvm::Triple::kalimba , 
ArchSpec::eCore_kalimba3  , "kalimba3" },
+    { eByteOrderLittle, 4, 1, 1 , llvm::Triple::kalimba , 
ArchSpec::eCore_kalimba4  , "kalimba4" },
+    { eByteOrderLittle, 4, 1, 1 , llvm::Triple::kalimba , 
ArchSpec::eCore_kalimba5  , "kalimba5" }
  };

  // Ensure that we have an entry in the g_core_definitions for each 
core. If you comment out an entry above,
@@ -257,7 +260,10 @@
      { ArchSpec::eCore_x86_64_x86_64   , llvm::ELF::EM_X86_64 , 
LLDB_INVALID_CPUTYPE, 0xFFFFFFFFu, 0xFFFFFFFFu }, // AMD64
      { ArchSpec::eCore_mips64          , llvm::ELF::EM_MIPS   , 
LLDB_INVALID_CPUTYPE, 0xFFFFFFFFu, 0xFFFFFFFFu }, // MIPS
      { ArchSpec::eCore_hexagon_generic , llvm::ELF::EM_HEXAGON, 
LLDB_INVALID_CPUTYPE, 0xFFFFFFFFu, 0xFFFFFFFFu }, // HEXAGON
-    { ArchSpec::eCore_kalimba , llvm::ELF::EM_CSR_KALIMBA, 
LLDB_INVALID_CPUTYPE, 0xFFFFFFFFu, 0xFFFFFFFFu }  // KALIMBA
+    { ArchSpec::eCore_kalimba , llvm::ELF::EM_CSR_KALIMBA, 
LLDB_INVALID_CPUTYPE, 0xFFFFFFFFu, 0xFFFFFFFFu },  // KALIMBA
+    { ArchSpec::eCore_kalimba3 , llvm::ELF::EM_CSR_KALIMBA, 3, 
0xFFFFFFFFu, 0xFFFFFFFFu },  // KALIMBA
+    { ArchSpec::eCore_kalimba4 , llvm::ELF::EM_CSR_KALIMBA, 4, 
0xFFFFFFFFu, 0xFFFFFFFFu },  // KALIMBA
+    { ArchSpec::eCore_kalimba5 , llvm::ELF::EM_CSR_KALIMBA, 5, 
0xFFFFFFFFu, 0xFFFFFFFFu }  // KALIMBA

  };

--- a/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/ELF/ObjectFileELF.cpp 2014-07-22
+++ b/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/ELF/ObjectFileELF.cpp 2014-07-22
@@ -257,6 +257,27 @@
      return true;
  }

+static uint32_t
+kalimbaVariantFromElfFlags(const elf::elf_word e_flags)
+{
+    const uint32_t dsp_rev = e_flags & 0xFF;
+    uint32_t kal_arch_variant = LLDB_INVALID_CPUTYPE;
+    switch(dsp_rev)
+    {
+        // TODO(mg11) Support more variants
+        case 10:
+            kal_arch_variant = 3;
+            break;
+        case 14:
+            kal_arch_variant = 4;
+            break;
+        default:
+            break;
+    }
+    return kal_arch_variant;
+}
+
+
  // Arbitrary constant used as UUID prefix for core files.
  const uint32_t
  ObjectFileELF::g_core_uuid_magic(0xE210C);
@@ -544,9 +565,15 @@
              {
                  ModuleSpec spec;
                  spec.GetFileSpec() = file;
+
+                const uint32_t sub_type =
+                    llvm::ELF::EM_CSR_KALIMBA == header.e_machine ?
+ kalimbaVariantFromElfFlags(header.e_flags) :
+                    LLDB_INVALID_CPUTYPE;
spec.GetArchitecture().SetArchitecture(eArchTypeELF,
header.e_machine,
- LLDB_INVALID_CPUTYPE);
+ sub_type);
+
                  if (spec.GetArchitecture().IsValid())
                  {
                      llvm::Triple::OSType ostype;
@@ -1269,7 +1296,12 @@
      // We'll refine this with note data as we parse the notes.
      if (arch_spec.GetTriple ().getOS () == 
llvm::Triple::OSType::UnknownOS)
      {
-        arch_spec.SetArchitecture (eArchTypeELF, header.e_machine, 
LLDB_INVALID_CPUTYPE);
+        const uint32_t sub_type =
+            llvm::ELF::EM_CSR_KALIMBA == header.e_machine ?
+            kalimbaVariantFromElfFlags(header.e_flags) :
+            LLDB_INVALID_CPUTYPE;
+        arch_spec.SetArchitecture (eArchTypeELF, header.e_machine, 
sub_type);
+
          switch (arch_spec.GetAddressByteSize())
          {
          case 4:

I'd appreciate people's opinion on this diff, before I commit anything. 
(The reason I need to know the variant type, is because some kalimba 
variants have a different notion of "byte-size" i.e. minimum addressable 
unit. For example for kalimba3 the minimum addressable unit from the 
data bus is 24-bits, whereas for kalimba4 it is the more conventional 
8-bits. I'd like to reserve the problems/challenges this presents for 
me, regarding my kalimba lldb port, to a future email).

thanks
Matt


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