Hi Tom, interesting problem you're working on there. I'm not sure any of the DWARF expression operators would work here. You want to have an expression that works for a given frame, saying "to find the caller's pc value, look at the saved-pc stack, third entry from the bottom of that stack." But that would require generating a different DWARF expression for the frame each time it shows up in a backtrace - which is unlike lldb's normal design of having an UnwindPlan for a function which is computed once and reused for the duration of the debug session.
I supposed you could add a user-defined DW_OP which means "get the current stack frame number" and then have your expression deref the emulated saved-pc stack to get the value? lldb uses an intermediate representation of unwind information (UnwindPlan) which will use a DWARF expression, but you could also add an entry to UnwindPlan::Row::RegisterLocation::RestoreType which handled this, I suppose. > On Mar 4, 2019, at 2:46 AM, Thomas Goodfellow via lldb-dev > <lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org> wrote: > > I'm adding LLDB support for an unconventional platform which uses two > stacks: one purely for return addresses and another for frame context > (spilled registers, local variables, etc). There is no explicit link > between the two stacks, i.e. the frame context doesn't include any > pointer or index to identify the return address: the epilog for a > subroutine amounts to unwinding the frame context then finally popping > the top return address from the return stack. It has some resemblance > to the Intel CET scheme of shadow stacks, but without the primary > stack having a copy of the return address. > > I can extend the emulation of the platform to better support LLDB. For > example while the real hardware platform provides no access to the > return address stack the emulation can expose it in the memory map, > provide an additional debug register for querying it, etc, which DWARF > expressions could then extract return addresses from. However doing > this seems to require knowing the frame number and I haven't found a > way of doing this (a pseudo-register manipulated by DWARF expressions > worked but needed some LLDB hacks to sneak it through the existing > link register handling, also seemed likely to be unstable against LLDB > implementation changes) > > Is there a way to access the call frame number (or a reliable proxy) > from a DWARF expression? Or an existing example of unwinding a shadow > stack? > > Thanks, > Tom > _______________________________________________ > lldb-dev mailing list > lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org > https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev _______________________________________________ lldb-dev mailing list lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev
