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.
This rule (no IP adjustment on ia64) may be correct for locating the right FDE.
Unfortunately the same adjusted/unadjusted return address is being used also by
__gxx_personality_v0() to locate the right call-site (the try {} block) for
unwinding. And this case is already sensitive for off-by-one PC values.
Unlike the FDE location where the function prologue + epilogue make it immune
against off-by-one PC calculations.
Therefore suggesting to unify it with non-ia64 case.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Provide a special implementation for ia64, because the unwind
information is such that an IP adjustment is not necessary before
looking up unwind info.
Bad things happen if libunwind only provides parts of the ABI and
the rest come from libgcc.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
as "weak". Since the elf-support is in the library anyhow, this serves
no purpose and in fact causes problem because the weak reference alone
is not enough to pull in the ELF-code from an archive file, causing to
spurious failures of get_proc_name.
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.
(get_initial_stack_pointers): Likewise.
(unw_init_local): Use new functions to make code more readable and add
Linux kernel support.
(Logical change 1.296)
Include "libunwind_i.h" instead of "internal.h" and "tdep.h".
Define rbs_cover_and_flush() only for the !UNW_REMOTE_ONLY case.
(ia64_is_big_endian): New macro.
(ia64_get_abi): Likewise.
(ia64_set_abi): Likewise.
(ia64_get_abi_marker): Likewise.
(Logical change 1.294)
Use ia64_get_abi_marker() instead of directly referencing c->last_abi_marker.
(linux_scratch_loc): When accessing an fp-reg, default to IA64_FPREG_LOC.
Handle more registers for the Linux interrupt-frame case.
(tdep_access_reg): Use ia64_get_abi() instead of c->as->abi.
Use ia64_is_big_endian() instead of c->as->big_endian.
(Logical change 1.294)
2005/05/17 14:14:23-07:00 hp.com!davidm
(linux_sigtramp): Add "prev_cfm_loc" argument. Use it to set c->ec_loc.
(linux_interrupt): Likewise.
(hpux_sigtramp): Likewise.
(update_frame_state): Copy old cfm_loc to prev_cfm_loc and pass it to
ABI-specific handlers. Initialize c->ec_loc to c->cfm_loc by default.
(Logical change 1.293)