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* [PATCH 00/30] Allow location description on the DWARF stack
@ 2020-12-07 19:00 Zoran Zaric
  2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 01/30] Replace the symbol needs evaluator with a parser Zoran Zaric
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From: Zoran Zaric @ 2020-12-07 19:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gdb-patches; +Cc: Zoran Zaric

Based on gdb master: 13f11b0b61ca2620611b08eeaece0ce62c862f4b

The idea of this patch series is to cleanup the design of the DWARF
expression evaluator (dwarf_expr_context class) and allow a future
extensions of that evaluator needed for the upcoming vendor specific
DWARF extensions.

Main motivation behind this series of patches is AMD’s effort to
improve DWARF support for heavily optimized code, but more
specifically, optimized code for SIMD and SIMT architectures.

These patches are part of the AMD’s DWARF standard extensions that
can be found at:

https://llvm.org/docs/AMDGPUDwarfExtensionsForHeterogeneousDebugging.html

While trying to support optimized code for these architectures, we
found couple of restriction imposed by the version 5 of the standard:

- CFI describes restoring callee saved registers that are spilled.
  Currently CFI only allows a location description that is a register,
  memory address, or implicit location description. AMDGPU optimized
  code may spill scalar registers into portions of vector registers.
  This requires extending CFI to allow any location description.
 
- Optimized code may need to describe a variable that resides in pieces
  that are in different kinds of storage which may include parts that
  are in different kinds of memory address spaces. DWARF has the
  concept of segment addresses. However, the segment cannot be
  specified within a DWARF expression, which is only able to specify
  the offset portion of a segment address. The segment index is only
  provided by the entity that specifies the DWARF expression.
  Therefore, the segment index is a property that can only be put on
  complete objects, such as a variable. Another problem is with DWARF
  DW_OP_xderef* operations, which allow a value to be converted into
  an address of a specified address space which is then read. But it
  provides no way to create a memory location description for an
  address in the non-default address space.
 
- DW_OP_breg* treats the register as containing an address in the
  default address space. It is required to be able to specify the
  address space of the register value.
 
- There is really limited support for bit offsets of location
  description. This issue was already found by others who worked
  on packed array support for ADA language. The array could be packed
  in such a way that their start is not byte alligned. There is no way
  to describe this in DWARF, so gdb implementation in required for the
  packed array to be copied to the byte alligned addresses and then
  passed that buffer in the expression evaluator. This approach is
  restrictive for more complex scenarios.
 
All these restriction are caused by the fact that DWARF stack can only
hold values which size is not bigger then the size of the DWARF generic
type. This means that intermediate result of any DWARF operation needs
to fit in such a small representation.

DWARF Version 5 does not allow location descriptions to be entries on
the DWARF stack. They can only be the final result of the evaluation of
a DWARF expression. However, by allowing a location description to be a
first-class entry on the DWARF stack it becomes possible to compose
expressions containing both values and location descriptions naturally.
It allows objects to be located in any kind of memory address space,
in registers, be implicit values, be undefined, or a composite of any
of these.

This approach unifies the location description operations with general
operations. This in turn allows addition of new DWARF operations which
can push a memory location description with any offset and in any kind
of memory address space.

The number of registers and the cost of memory operations is much
higher for some architectures than a typical CPU. The compiler attempts
to optimize whole variables and arrays into registers. Currently DWARF
only allows DW_OP_push_object_address and related operations to work
with a global memory location. With this change, push object address
mechanism can be modified to work with any location description. This
would also removed the need for the passed in buffer mechanism that ADA
and GO languages currently use.

The proposed implementation in this patch series is completely backward
compatible with the DWARF 5 standard.

Although the patch series is designed as a whole, the first fifteen
patches could be viewed as a standalone subset that introduces a
welcome cleanup of the DWARF expression evaluator module.

The patch series is based on a patch that is already in the review
process, so it had to be included in this series as well. The review
for that patch can be found here:

https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-November/173638.html

But I don't mind it being discussed as a part of this patch series.

Zoran Zaric (30):
  Replace the symbol needs evaluator with a parser
  Move frame context info to dwarf_expr_context
  Remove get_frame_cfa from dwarf_expr_context
  Move compilation unit info to dwarf_expr_context
  Move dwarf_call to dwarf_expr_context
  Move get_object_address to dwarf_expr_context
  Move read_mem to dwarf_expr_context
  Move push_dwarf_reg_entry_value to expr.c
  Inline get_reg_value method of dwarf_expr_context
  Remove empty frame and full evaluators
  Merge evaluate_for_locexpr_baton evaluator
  Move piece_closure and its support to expr.c
  Make DWARF evaluator return a single struct value
  Simplify dwarf_expr_context class interface
  Add as_lval argument to expression evaluator
  Add new register access interface to expr.c
  Add new memory access interface to expr.c
  Add new classes that model DWARF stack element
  Add new location description access interface
  Add dwarf_entry factory class to expr.c
  Change DWARF stack to use new dwarf_entry classes
  Remove dwarf_expr_context from expr.h interface
  Rename and update the piece_closure structure
  Move read_addr_from_reg function to frame.c
  Add frame info check to DW_OP_reg operations
  Remove DWARF expression composition check
  Add support for any location description in CFI
  Add DWARF operations for byte and bit offset
  Add support for DW_OP_LLVM_undefined operation
  Add support for nested composite locations

 gdb/ada-lang.c                                |    2 +-
 gdb/compile/compile-loc2c.c                   |   11 +
 gdb/dwarf2/expr.c                             | 3406 +++++++++++++++--
 gdb/dwarf2/expr.h                             |  275 +-
 gdb/dwarf2/frame.c                            |  163 +-
 gdb/dwarf2/loc.c                              | 1885 +++------
 gdb/dwarf2/loc.h                              |   34 +-
 gdb/f-lang.c                                  |    2 +-
 gdb/findvar.c                                 |    4 +-
 gdb/frame.c                                   |   36 +-
 gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwarf2/dw2-llvm-offset.exp  |  328 ++
 .../gdb.dwarf2/dw2-llvm-piece-end.exp         |  191 +
 .../gdb.dwarf2/dw2-llvm-undefined.exp         |  144 +
 gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwarf2/symbol_needs_eval.c  |   25 +
 .../gdb.dwarf2/symbol_needs_eval_fail.exp     |  108 +
 .../gdb.dwarf2/symbol_needs_eval_timeout.exp  |  127 +
 .../amd64-py-framefilter-invalidarg.S         |    1 -
 .../gdb.python/py-framefilter-invalidarg.exp  |    2 +-
 gdb/testsuite/lib/dwarf.exp                   |    8 +
 gdb/valops.c                                  |  123 +-
 gdb/value.c                                   |   68 +-
 gdb/value.h                                   |    6 +-
 include/dwarf2.def                            |    6 +
 23 files changed, 4841 insertions(+), 2114 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwarf2/dw2-llvm-offset.exp
 create mode 100644 gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwarf2/dw2-llvm-piece-end.exp
 create mode 100644 gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwarf2/dw2-llvm-undefined.exp
 create mode 100644 gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwarf2/symbol_needs_eval.c
 create mode 100644 gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwarf2/symbol_needs_eval_fail.exp
 create mode 100644 gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwarf2/symbol_needs_eval_timeout.exp

-- 
2.17.1


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2020-12-07 19:00 [PATCH 00/30] Allow location description on the DWARF stack Zoran Zaric
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 01/30] Replace the symbol needs evaluator with a parser Zoran Zaric
2021-01-21 21:16   ` Tom Tromey
2021-01-21 21:48     ` Zoran Zaric
2021-02-23 14:15     ` Zoran Zaric
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 02/30] Move frame context info to dwarf_expr_context Zoran Zaric
2021-01-21 21:23   ` Tom Tromey
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 03/30] Remove get_frame_cfa from dwarf_expr_context Zoran Zaric
2021-01-21 21:23   ` Tom Tromey
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 04/30] Move compilation unit info to dwarf_expr_context Zoran Zaric
2021-01-21 21:28   ` Tom Tromey
2021-02-23 14:21     ` Zoran Zaric
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 05/30] Move dwarf_call " Zoran Zaric
2021-01-21 21:30   ` Tom Tromey
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 06/30] Move get_object_address " Zoran Zaric
2021-01-21 21:31   ` Tom Tromey
2021-02-23 14:33     ` Zoran Zaric
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 07/30] Move read_mem " Zoran Zaric
2021-01-21 21:34   ` Tom Tromey
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 08/30] Move push_dwarf_reg_entry_value to expr.c Zoran Zaric
2021-01-21 21:35   ` Tom Tromey
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 09/30] Inline get_reg_value method of dwarf_expr_context Zoran Zaric
2021-01-21 21:36   ` Tom Tromey
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 10/30] Remove empty frame and full evaluators Zoran Zaric
2021-01-21 21:37   ` Tom Tromey
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 11/30] Merge evaluate_for_locexpr_baton evaluator Zoran Zaric
2021-02-08 21:21   ` Tom Tromey
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 12/30] Move piece_closure and its support to expr.c Zoran Zaric
2021-02-08 21:32   ` Tom Tromey
2021-02-09 14:53     ` Zoran Zaric
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 13/30] Make DWARF evaluator return a single struct value Zoran Zaric
2021-02-08 21:35   ` Tom Tromey
2021-02-09 14:55     ` Zoran Zaric
2021-02-09 17:13       ` Tom Tromey
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 14/30] Simplify dwarf_expr_context class interface Zoran Zaric
2021-02-08 21:38   ` Tom Tromey
2021-02-09 14:56     ` Zoran Zaric
2021-02-23 14:38     ` Zoran Zaric
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 15/30] Add as_lval argument to expression evaluator Zoran Zaric
2021-02-08 21:41   ` Tom Tromey
2021-02-09 15:25     ` Zoran Zaric
2021-02-09 20:33       ` Tom Tromey
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 16/30] Add new register access interface to expr.c Zoran Zaric
2021-02-09 19:37   ` Tom Tromey
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 17/30] Add new memory " Zoran Zaric
2021-02-09 19:45   ` Tom Tromey
2021-02-23 15:35     ` Zoran Zaric
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 18/30] Add new classes that model DWARF stack element Zoran Zaric
2021-02-08 21:54   ` Tom Tromey
2021-02-09 17:34     ` Zoran Zaric
2021-02-09 20:36       ` Tom Tromey
2021-02-09 21:07         ` Tom Tromey
2021-02-09 21:26           ` Zoran Zaric
2021-02-23 14:57             ` Zoran Zaric
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 19/30] Add new location description access interface Zoran Zaric
2021-02-08 21:46   ` Tom Tromey
2021-02-09 16:00     ` Zoran Zaric
2021-02-09 17:30       ` Zoran Zaric
2021-02-23 14:49         ` Zoran Zaric
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 20/30] Add dwarf_entry factory class to expr.c Zoran Zaric
2021-02-09 19:54   ` Tom Tromey
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 21/30] Change DWARF stack to use new dwarf_entry classes Zoran Zaric
2021-02-09 20:11   ` Tom Tromey
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 22/30] Remove dwarf_expr_context from expr.h interface Zoran Zaric
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 23/30] Rename and update the piece_closure structure Zoran Zaric
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 24/30] Move read_addr_from_reg function to frame.c Zoran Zaric
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 25/30] Add frame info check to DW_OP_reg operations Zoran Zaric
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 26/30] Remove DWARF expression composition check Zoran Zaric
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 27/30] Add support for any location description in CFI Zoran Zaric
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 28/30] Add DWARF operations for byte and bit offset Zoran Zaric
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 29/30] Add support for DW_OP_LLVM_undefined operation Zoran Zaric
2020-12-07 19:00 ` [PATCH 30/30] Add support for nested composite locations Zoran Zaric
2020-12-08 14:48 ` [PATCH 00/30] Allow location description on the DWARF stack Metzger, Markus T
2020-12-08 16:17   ` Simon Marchi
2020-12-09  0:30   ` Tye, Tony

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