[lldb-dev] Resuming traced process on Linux and SIGSTOP
Todd Fiala
tfiala at google.com
Fri Mar 21 12:11:10 PDT 2014
Oh yeah sure that's fine. When testing the test to make sure it catches
the failure, you can just essentially reverse out the patch and then
reapply to verify the fix.
No rush either, it would just be great to get more tests into the system to
catch these things as we discover proper behavior.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Andrew MacPherson
<andrew.macp at gmail.com>wrote:
> Hey Todd, sure thing. I haven't written a test before and I'm out of time
> tonight but I can take a look over the weekend or early next week, I'm
> looking into another issue with a SIGSTOP leaking out on detach as well so
> would you be okay if I apply this small patch now and then write a test
> that covers both this case and the detach case for when I submit a patch
> for that?
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Todd Fiala <tfiala at google.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey Andrew,
>>
>> Any chance you can put a test into lldb to verify the fix? I'm doing
>> some work on (essentially currently) parallel code (implementations of
>> NativeProcessProtocol/NativeThreadProtocol) for Linux that will be used in
>> lldb-gdbserver and I'd love us to have tests that verify we don't gunk that
>> up or regress it in the future.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:59 AM, <jingham at apple.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Indeed, setting the resume signal explicitly on the thread on stop was
>>> not the right thing to do. You don't want to clear the thread's resume
>>> signal out in Thread::ShouldStop because somebody might be trying to resume
>>> the thread with a hand-provided signal, and you wouldn't want to interrupt
>>> that. But the thread itself should let the StopInfo carry the stop signal
>>> information.
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>> On Mar 21, 2014, at 11:35 AM, Andrew MacPherson <andrew.macp at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Actually it looks like those calls may be redundant now as it's being
>>> handled by StopInfo. This patch gets attach resume/interrupt working for me
>>> on Linux.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Andrew MacPherson <
>>> andrew.macp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Thanks Jim, LinuxSignals.cpp had SIGSTOP marked as suppress = false
>>> unlike UnixSignals.cpp which had it correctly marked suppress = true. With
>>> that fixed though the SIGSTOP is still getting set due to the call to
>>> SetResumeSignal() in POSIXThread::SignalDeliveredNotify() it looks like.
>>> Should this code also be using the signals table to decide whether to
>>> suppress it?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks again.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:58 PM, <jingham at apple.com> wrote:
>>> > Sorry, that's StopInfoSignal::WillResume.
>>> >
>>> > Jim
>>> >
>>> > On Mar 21, 2014, at 10:54 AM, jingham at apple.com wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Somebody is not paying attention to the "process handle" settings.
>>> Normally SIGSTOP is set not to pass:
>>> > >
>>> > > (lldb) process handle SIGSTOP
>>> > > NAME PASS STOP NOTIFY
>>> > > ========== ===== ===== ======
>>> > > SIGSTOP false true true
>>> > >
>>> > > This check should be done in Process::WillResume:
>>> > >
>>> > > virtual void
>>> > > WillResume (lldb::StateType resume_state)
>>> > > {
>>> > > ThreadSP thread_sp (m_thread_wp.lock());
>>> > > if (thread_sp)
>>> > > {
>>> > > if
>>> (thread_sp->GetProcess()->GetUnixSignals().GetShouldSuppress(m_value) ==
>>> false)
>>> > > thread_sp->SetResumeSignal(m_value);
>>> > > }
>>> > > }
>>> > >
>>> > > I wonder why this isn't happening in your case?
>>> > >
>>> > > Jim
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > On Mar 21, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Andrew MacPherson <
>>> andrew.macp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > >> Currently when attaching to a running process on Linux, a SIGSTOP
>>> signal is (incorrectly I think) injected into the inferior on resume. This
>>> can be reproduced by simply launching any process and then in a separate
>>> terminal doing:
>>> > >>
>>> > >> sudo lldb -p <pid>
>>> > >> c
>>> > >> process interrupt
>>> > >> c
>>> > >>
>>> > >> On the second continue the SIGSTOP that was used to stop the
>>> process is injected into the inferior by being passed to PTRACE_CONT,
>>> resulting in the process going into a stop state outside the control of
>>> LLDB. The SIGSTOP comes from the SetResumeSignal() call in POSIXThread and
>>> StopInfo.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> I can't think of any reason why a SIGSTOP should ever be injected
>>> into the inferior so as a test I simply prevented it from ever happening:
>>> > >>
>>> > >> diff --git a/source/Plugins/Process/Linux/ProcessMonitor.cpp
>>> b/source/Plugins/Process/Linux/ProcessMonitor.cpp
>>> > >> index 3dec6de..3079379 100644
>>> > >> --- a/source/Plugins/Process/Linux/ProcessMonitor.cpp
>>> > >> +++ b/source/Plugins/Process/Linux/ProcessMonitor.cpp
>>> > >> @@ -2209,6 +2209,9 @@ ProcessMonitor::Resume(lldb::tid_t tid,
>>> uint32_t signo)
>>> > >> bool result;
>>> > >> Log *log (ProcessPOSIXLog::GetLogIfAllCategoriesSet
>>> (POSIX_LOG_PROCESS));
>>> > >>
>>> > >> + if (signo == SIGSTOP)
>>> > >> + signo = eResumeSignalNone;
>>> > >> +
>>> > >> if (log)
>>> > >> log->Printf ("ProcessMonitor::%s() resuming thread = %"
>>> PRIu64 " with signal %s", __FUNCTION__, tid,
>>> > >>
>>> m_process->GetUnixSignals().GetSignalAsCString (signo));
>>> > >>
>>> > >> This resolves the issue and doesn't cause any other problems that I
>>> can find but almost certainly isn't the proper fix. My main concern is that
>>> all of the resume signal code is shared with other OSes which I'm guessing
>>> treat this differently.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Any thoughts as to what the proper fix here might be?
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Thanks,
>>> > >> Andrew
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