This is rather on the obvious side.
While doing strace on an executable using libunwind, I noticed a
lot of:
msync(0, 1, MS_SYNC) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory)
Since we know that the first page isn't mapped (or at least doesn't
contain the data we are looking for), we can eliminate all such
msync calls.
Tested on Linux/x86_64 with no regressions.
Greetings,
We use libunwind just for stack traces (I suspect many others do as well).
The use pattern is:
GetStackTrace(void** result, int max_depth)
{
...
unw_getcontext(&uc);
unw_init_local(&cursor, &uc);
while (n < max_depth) {
if (unw_get_reg(&cursor, UNW_REG_IP, (unw_word_t *) &ip) < 0) {
break;
}
result[n++] = ip;
if (unw_step(&cursor) <= 0) {
break;
}
}
Given this usage, it is quite convenient for us to block signals (or
prevent signal handlers from re-entering libunwind by other means) at the
"top level", which makes most of the sigprocmask calls performed by
libunwind itself unneccessary.
The second patch in this series adds a configure option which removes most
of the sigprocmask calls.
Attached patch is a preliminary for it -- consolidating all of the
"sigprocmask; mutex_lock;" sequences into lock_acquire and "mutex_unlock;
sigprocmask;" sequences into lock_release.
Thanks,
--
Paul Pluzhnikov
commit 402d15b123d54a7669db7cf17a76dd315094e472
Author: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
Date: Mon Sep 21 10:18:28 2009 -0700
Replace "sigprocmask + mutext_lock" with a single lock_acquire.
Likewise, replace "mutext_unlock + sigprocmask" with lock_release.
getcontext in libc.
Also cleanup the namespace (check-name-space passes on x86_64 now).
Replace uses of offsets.h with ucontext_i.h.
Rename _x86_64_setcontext to _Ux86_64_setcontext.
TBD: Add CFI annotations for get/setcontext.
Signed-off-by: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@google.com>
bad/missing unwind information, which could result in libunwind
dereferencing bad pointers. This mechanism is based on msync(2) system
call and significantly reduces the chances of a bad pointer
dereference in libunwind.
The original idea was to turn this mechanism on only when necessary
i.e. libunwind didn't find proper unwind information for a IP.
There are a couple of problems in the current implementation.
* The flag is global and is modified without locking
* The flag isn't reset when starting a new unwind
The attached patch makes ->validate a per-thread setting by moving it
into struct cursor from unw_local_addr_space and resets it to false
when starting a new unwind. As a result, cursor->as_arg points to the
cursor itself instead of the ucontext (for the local case).
This was found to reduce the number of msync() system calls from an
application using libunwind significantly.
Signed-off-by: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@google.com>
The current pattern is too restrictive and doesn't work well on
modern glibcs.
Signed-off-by: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@google.com>
On some systems executable stacks are denied. Since libunwind and the
tests don't actually need executable stacks this patch marks all
assembly files as not needing it.
The original patch comes from frysk:
2007-04-05 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
* src/hppa/getcontext.S, src/hppa/setcontext.S, src/hppa/siglongjmp.S,
src/ia64/Ginstall_cursor.S, src/ia64/Linstall_cursor.S,
src/ia64/dyn_info_list.S, src/ia64/getcontext.S, src/ia64/longjmp.S,
src/ia64/setjmp.S, src/ia64/siglongjmp.S, src/ia64/sigsetjmp.S,
src/ppc64/longjmp.S, src/ppc64/siglongjmp.S, src/x86/longjmp.S,
src/x86/siglongjmp.S, src/x86_64/longjmp.S, src/x86_64/setcontext.S,
src/x86_64/siglongjmp.S: Stack should be non-executable, for SELinux.
I added a couple more markers for new files in current libunwind.
Before this patch you would get the following on selinux enabled
systems without allow_exec_stack: error while loading shared
libraries:
libunwind.so.7: cannot enable executable stack as shared object
requires: Permission denied
After the patch that error disappears and all test results are similar
to the results on systems without executable stack protection.
routine and add address-space argument. This is needed because on
PPC64, a the function-name symbol refers to a function descriptor
(unlike, for example, on ia64, where the @fptr() operator is needed to
refer to a function descriptor). Thus, in order to look up the name
of a function, we need to dereference the function descriptor. To
make matters more "interesting", the function descriptors are normally
resolved by the dynamic linker, so we can't get their values from the
ELF file. Instead, we have to read them from the running image, hence
the need for the address-space argument.
This is so that the source file gets distributed and _ucontext_i.h is
generated properly on the target machine.
Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@google.com>
When libunwind is linked with a C++ program that throws exceptions,
the exception that's thrown is passed in %rax. However, libc's
setcontext clears %rax, causing problems.
This patch implements a setcontext that doesn't clobber rax.
TBD: Add dwarf CFI annotations
Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@google.com>
