summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/src/libdwfl/libdwfl.h
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'src/libdwfl/libdwfl.h')
-rw-r--r--src/libdwfl/libdwfl.h337
1 files changed, 282 insertions, 55 deletions
diff --git a/src/libdwfl/libdwfl.h b/src/libdwfl/libdwfl.h
index 4ea2796c..2bb4f455 100644
--- a/src/libdwfl/libdwfl.h
+++ b/src/libdwfl/libdwfl.h
@@ -1,51 +1,30 @@
/* Interfaces for libdwfl.
- Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Red Hat, Inc.
- This file is part of Red Hat elfutils.
+ Copyright (C) 2005-2010, 2013 Red Hat, Inc.
+ This file is part of elfutils.
- Red Hat elfutils is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
- Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
+ This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of either
- Red Hat elfutils is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ * the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
+ Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+ your option) any later version
+
+ or
+
+ * the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
+ Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
+ your option) any later version
+
+ or both in parallel, as here.
+
+ elfutils is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- with Red Hat elfutils; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
- Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA 02110-1301 USA.
-
- In addition, as a special exception, Red Hat, Inc. gives You the
- additional right to link the code of Red Hat elfutils with code licensed
- under any Open Source Initiative certified open source license
- (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.php) which requires the
- distribution of source code with any binary distribution and to
- distribute linked combinations of the two. Non-GPL Code permitted under
- this exception must only link to the code of Red Hat elfutils through
- those well defined interfaces identified in the file named EXCEPTION
- found in the source code files (the "Approved Interfaces"). The files
- of Non-GPL Code may instantiate templates or use macros or inline
- functions from the Approved Interfaces without causing the resulting
- work to be covered by the GNU General Public License. Only Red Hat,
- Inc. may make changes or additions to the list of Approved Interfaces.
- Red Hat's grant of this exception is conditioned upon your not adding
- any new exceptions. If you wish to add a new Approved Interface or
- exception, please contact Red Hat. You must obey the GNU General Public
- License in all respects for all of the Red Hat elfutils code and other
- code used in conjunction with Red Hat elfutils except the Non-GPL Code
- covered by this exception. If you modify this file, you may extend this
- exception to your version of the file, but you are not obligated to do
- so. If you do not wish to provide this exception without modification,
- you must delete this exception statement from your version and license
- this file solely under the GPL without exception.
-
- Red Hat elfutils is an included package of the Open Invention Network.
- An included package of the Open Invention Network is a package for which
- Open Invention Network licensees cross-license their patents. No patent
- license is granted, either expressly or impliedly, by designation as an
- included package. Should you wish to participate in the Open Invention
- Network licensing program, please visit www.openinventionnetwork.com
- <http://www.openinventionnetwork.com>. */
+ You should have received copies of the GNU General Public License and
+ the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If
+ not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
#ifndef _LIBDWFL_H
#define _LIBDWFL_H 1
@@ -62,6 +41,14 @@ typedef struct Dwfl_Module Dwfl_Module;
/* Handle describing a line record. */
typedef struct Dwfl_Line Dwfl_Line;
+/* This holds information common for all the frames of one backtrace for
+ a partical thread/task/TID. Several threads belong to one Dwfl. */
+typedef struct Dwfl_Thread Dwfl_Thread;
+
+/* This holds everything we know about the state of the frame at a particular
+ PC location described by an FDE belonging to Dwfl_Thread. */
+typedef struct Dwfl_Frame Dwfl_Frame;
+
/* Callbacks. */
typedef struct
{
@@ -158,14 +145,21 @@ extern int dwfl_report_segment (Dwfl *dwfl, int ndx,
extern Dwfl_Module *dwfl_report_module (Dwfl *dwfl, const char *name,
Dwarf_Addr start, Dwarf_Addr end);
-/* Report a module with start and end addresses computed from the ELF
- program headers in the given file, plus BASE. For an ET_REL file,
- does a simple absolute section layout starting at BASE.
+/* Report a module to address BASE with start and end addresses computed
+ from the ELF program headers in the given file - see the table below.
FD may be -1 to open FILE_NAME. On success, FD is consumed by the
- library, and the `find_elf' callback will not be used for this module. */
+ library, and the `find_elf' callback will not be used for this module.
+ ADD_P_VADDR BASE
+ ET_EXEC ignored ignored
+ ET_DYN false absolute address where to place the file
+ true start address relative to ELF's phdr p_vaddr
+ ET_REL ignored absolute address where to place the file
+ ET_CORE ignored ignored
+ ET_DYN ELF phdr p_vaddr address can be non-zero if the shared library
+ has been prelinked by tool prelink(8). */
extern Dwfl_Module *dwfl_report_elf (Dwfl *dwfl, const char *name,
const char *file_name, int fd,
- GElf_Addr base);
+ GElf_Addr base, bool add_p_vaddr);
/* Similar, but report the module for offline use. All ET_EXEC files
being reported must be reported before any relocatable objects.
@@ -363,15 +357,17 @@ extern int dwfl_linux_kernel_report_offline (Dwfl *dwfl, const char *release,
This can follow a dwfl_report_offline call to bootstrap the
DT_DEBUG method of following the dynamic linker link_map chain, in
case the core file does not contain enough of the executable's text
- segment to locate its PT_DYNAMIC in the dump. This might call
- dwfl_report_elf on file names found in the dump if reading some
- link_map files is the only way to ascertain those modules' addresses.
- Returns the number of modules reported, or -1 for errors. */
-extern int dwfl_core_file_report (Dwfl *dwfl, Elf *elf);
+ segment to locate its PT_DYNAMIC in the dump. In such case you need to
+ supply non-NULL EXECUTABLE, otherwise dynamic libraries will not be loaded
+ into the DWFL map. This might call dwfl_report_elf on file names found in
+ the dump if reading some link_map files is the only way to ascertain those
+ modules' addresses. Returns the number of modules reported, or -1 for
+ errors. */
+extern int dwfl_core_file_report (Dwfl *dwfl, Elf *elf, const char *executable);
/* Call dwfl_report_module for each file mapped into the address space of PID.
Returns zero on success, -1 if dwfl_report_module failed,
- or an errno code if opening the kernel binary failed. */
+ or an errno code if opening the proc files failed. */
extern int dwfl_linux_proc_report (Dwfl *dwfl, pid_t pid);
/* Similar, but reads an input stream in the format of Linux /proc/PID/maps
@@ -424,28 +420,99 @@ extern int dwfl_validate_address (Dwfl *dwfl,
are found) for use with libelf. If successful, fills in *BIAS
with the difference between addresses within the loaded module
and those in symbol tables or Dwarf information referring to it. */
-extern Elf *dwfl_module_getelf (Dwfl_Module *, GElf_Addr *bias);
+extern Elf *dwfl_module_getelf (Dwfl_Module *, GElf_Addr *bias)
+ __nonnull_attribute__ (1, 2);
/* Return the number of symbols in the module's symbol table,
or -1 for errors. */
extern int dwfl_module_getsymtab (Dwfl_Module *mod);
+/* Return the index of the first global symbol in the module's symbol
+ table, or -1 for errors. In each symbol table, all symbols with
+ STB_LOCAL binding precede the weak and global symbols. This
+ function returns the symbol table index one greater than the last
+ local symbol. */
+extern int dwfl_module_getsymtab_first_global (Dwfl_Module *mod);
+
/* Fetch one entry from the module's symbol table. On errors, returns
NULL. If successful, fills in *SYM and returns the string for st_name.
This works like gelf_getsym except that st_value is always adjusted to
an absolute value based on the module's location, when the symbol is in
an SHF_ALLOC section. If SHNDXP is non-null, it's set with the section
index (whether from st_shndx or extended index table); in case of a
- symbol in a non-allocated section, *SHNDXP is instead set to -1. */
+ symbol in a non-allocated section, *SHNDXP is instead set to -1.
+ Note that since symbols can come from either the main, debug or auxiliary
+ ELF symbol file (either dynsym or symtab) the section index can only
+ be reliably used to compare against special section constants like
+ SHN_UNDEF or SHN_ABS. It is recommended to use dwfl_module_getsym_info
+ which doesn't have these deficiencies. */
extern const char *dwfl_module_getsym (Dwfl_Module *mod, int ndx,
GElf_Sym *sym, GElf_Word *shndxp)
__nonnull_attribute__ (3);
+/* Fetch one entry from the module's symbol table and the associated
+ address value. On errors, returns NULL. If successful, fills in
+ *SYM, *ADDR and returns the string for st_name. This works like
+ gelf_getsym. *ADDR is set to the st_value adjusted to an absolute
+ value based on the module's location, when the symbol is in an
+ SHF_ALLOC section. For non-ET_REL files, if the arch uses function
+ descriptors, and the st_value points to one, *ADDR will be resolved
+ to the actual function entry address. The SYM->ST_VALUE itself
+ isn't adjusted in any way. Fills in ELFP, if not NULL, with the
+ ELF file the symbol originally came from. Note that symbols can
+ come from either the main, debug or auxiliary ELF symbol file
+ (either dynsym or symtab). If SHNDXP is non-null, it's set with
+ the section index (whether from st_shndx or extended index table);
+ in case of a symbol in a non-allocated section, *SHNDXP is instead
+ set to -1. Fills in BIAS, if not NULL, with the difference between
+ addresses within the loaded module and those in symbol table of the
+ ELF file. Note that the address associated with the symbol might
+ be in a different section than the returned symbol. The section in
+ the main elf file in which returned ADDR falls can be found with
+ dwfl_module_address_section. */
+extern const char *dwfl_module_getsym_info (Dwfl_Module *mod, int ndx,
+ GElf_Sym *sym, GElf_Addr *addr,
+ GElf_Word *shndxp,
+ Elf **elfp, Dwarf_Addr *bias)
+ __nonnull_attribute__ (3, 4);
+
/* Find the symbol that ADDRESS lies inside, and return its name. */
extern const char *dwfl_module_addrname (Dwfl_Module *mod, GElf_Addr address);
+/* Find the symbol associated with ADDRESS. Return its name or NULL
+ when nothing was found. If the architecture uses function
+ descriptors, and symbol st_value points to one, ADDRESS wil be
+ matched against either the adjusted st_value or the associated
+ function entry value as described in dwfl_module_getsym_info. If
+ OFFSET is not NULL it will be filled in with the difference from
+ the start of the symbol (or function entry). If SYM is not NULL it
+ is filled in with the symbol associated with the matched ADDRESS.
+ The SYM->ST_VALUE itself isn't adjusted in any way. Fills in ELFP,
+ if not NULL, with the ELF file the symbol originally came from.
+ Note that symbols can come from either the main, debug or auxiliary
+ ELF symbol file (either dynsym or symtab). If SHNDXP is non-null,
+ it's set with the section index (whether from st_shndx or extended
+ index table). Fills in BIAS, if not NULL, with the difference
+ between addresses within the loaded module and those in symbol
+ table of the ELF file. Note that the address matched against the
+ symbol might be in a different section than the returned symbol.
+ The section in the main elf file in ADDRESS falls can be found with
+ dwfl_module_address_section. */
+extern const char *dwfl_module_addrinfo (Dwfl_Module *mod, GElf_Addr address,
+ GElf_Off *offset, GElf_Sym *sym,
+ GElf_Word *shndxp, Elf **elfp,
+ Dwarf_Addr *bias)
+ __nonnull_attribute__ (3);
+
/* Find the symbol that ADDRESS lies inside, and return detailed
- information as for dwfl_module_getsym (above). */
+ information as for dwfl_module_getsym (above). Note that like
+ dwfl_module_getsym this function also adjusts SYM->ST_VALUE to an
+ absolute value based on the module's location. ADDRESS is only
+ matched against this adjusted SYM->ST_VALUE. This means that
+ depending on architecture this might only match symbols that
+ represent function descriptor addresses (and not function entry
+ addresses). For these reasons it is recommended to use
+ dwfl_module_addrinfo instead. */
extern const char *dwfl_module_addrsym (Dwfl_Module *mod, GElf_Addr address,
GElf_Sym *sym, GElf_Word *shndxp)
__nonnull_attribute__ (3);
@@ -578,6 +645,166 @@ extern Dwarf_CFI *dwfl_module_dwarf_cfi (Dwfl_Module *mod, Dwarf_Addr *bias);
extern Dwarf_CFI *dwfl_module_eh_cfi (Dwfl_Module *mod, Dwarf_Addr *bias);
+typedef struct
+{
+ /* Called to iterate through threads. Returns next TID (thread ID) on
+ success, a negative number on failure and zero if there are no more
+ threads. dwfl_errno () should be set if negative number has been
+ returned. *THREAD_ARGP is NULL on first call, and may be optionally
+ set by the implementation. The value set by the implementation will
+ be passed in on the next call to NEXT_THREAD. THREAD_ARGP is never
+ NULL. *THREAD_ARGP will be passed to set_initial_registers or
+ thread_detach callbacks together with Dwfl_Thread *thread. This
+ method must not be NULL. */
+ pid_t (*next_thread) (Dwfl *dwfl, void *dwfl_arg, void **thread_argp)
+ __nonnull_attribute__ (1);
+
+ /* Called to get a specific thread. Returns true if there is a
+ thread with the given thread id number, returns false if no such
+ thread exists and will set dwfl_errno in that case. THREAD_ARGP
+ is never NULL. *THREAD_ARGP will be passed to
+ set_initial_registers or thread_detach callbacks together with
+ Dwfl_Thread *thread. This method may be NULL and will then be
+ emulated using the next_thread callback. */
+ bool (*get_thread) (Dwfl *dwfl, pid_t tid, void *dwfl_arg,
+ void **thread_argp)
+ __nonnull_attribute__ (1);
+
+ /* Called during unwinding to access memory (stack) state. Returns true for
+ successfully read *RESULT or false and sets dwfl_errno () on failure.
+ This method may be NULL - in such case dwfl_thread_getframes will return
+ only the initial frame. */
+ bool (*memory_read) (Dwfl *dwfl, Dwarf_Addr addr, Dwarf_Word *result,
+ void *dwfl_arg)
+ __nonnull_attribute__ (1, 3);
+
+ /* Called on initial unwind to get the initial register state of the first
+ frame. Should call dwfl_thread_state_registers, possibly multiple times
+ for different ranges and possibly also dwfl_thread_state_register_pc, to
+ fill in initial (DWARF) register values. After this call, till at least
+ thread_detach is called, the thread is assumed to be frozen, so that it is
+ safe to unwind. Returns true on success or false and sets dwfl_errno ()
+ on failure. In the case of a failure thread_detach will not be called.
+ This method must not be NULL. */
+ bool (*set_initial_registers) (Dwfl_Thread *thread, void *thread_arg)
+ __nonnull_attribute__ (1);
+
+ /* Called by dwfl_end. All thread_detach method calls have been already
+ done. This method may be NULL. */
+ void (*detach) (Dwfl *dwfl, void *dwfl_arg)
+ __nonnull_attribute__ (1);
+
+ /* Called when unwinding is done. No callback will be called after
+ this method has been called. Iff set_initial_registers was called for
+ a TID and it returned success thread_detach will be called before the
+ detach method above. This method may be NULL. */
+ void (*thread_detach) (Dwfl_Thread *thread, void *thread_arg)
+ __nonnull_attribute__ (1);
+} Dwfl_Thread_Callbacks;
+
+/* PID is the process id associated with the DWFL state. Architecture of DWFL
+ modules is specified by ELF, ELF must remain valid during DWFL lifetime.
+ Use NULL ELF to detect architecture from DWFL, the function will then detect
+ it from arbitrary Dwfl_Module of DWFL. DWFL_ARG is the callback backend
+ state. DWFL_ARG will be provided to the callbacks. *THREAD_CALLBACKS
+ function pointers must remain valid during lifetime of DWFL. Function
+ returns true on success, false otherwise. */
+bool dwfl_attach_state (Dwfl *dwfl, Elf *elf, pid_t pid,
+ const Dwfl_Thread_Callbacks *thread_callbacks,
+ void *dwfl_arg)
+ __nonnull_attribute__ (1, 4);
+
+/* Calls dwfl_attach_state with Dwfl_Thread_Callbacks setup for extracting
+ thread state from the ELF core file. Returns the pid number extracted
+ from the core file, or -1 for errors. */
+extern int dwfl_core_file_attach (Dwfl *dwfl, Elf *elf);
+
+/* Calls dwfl_attach_state with Dwfl_Thread_Callbacks setup for extracting
+ thread state from the proc file system. Uses ptrace to attach and stop
+ the thread under inspection and detaches when thread_detach is called
+ and unwinding for the thread is done, unless ASSUME_PTRACE_STOPPED is
+ true. If ASSUME_PTRACE_STOPPED is true the caller should make sure that
+ the thread is ptrace attached and stopped before unwinding by calling
+ either dwfl_thread_getframes or dwfl_getthread_frames. Returns zero on
+ success, -1 if dwfl_attach_state failed, or an errno code if opening the
+ proc files failed. */
+extern int dwfl_linux_proc_attach (Dwfl *dwfl, pid_t pid,
+ bool assume_ptrace_stopped);
+
+/* Return PID for the process associated with DWFL. Function returns -1 if
+ dwfl_attach_state was not called for DWFL. */
+pid_t dwfl_pid (Dwfl *dwfl)
+ __nonnull_attribute__ (1);
+
+/* Return DWFL from which THREAD was created using dwfl_getthreads. */
+Dwfl *dwfl_thread_dwfl (Dwfl_Thread *thread)
+ __nonnull_attribute__ (1);
+
+/* Return positive TID (thread ID) for THREAD. This function never fails. */
+pid_t dwfl_thread_tid (Dwfl_Thread *thread)
+ __nonnull_attribute__ (1);
+
+/* Return thread for frame STATE. This function never fails. */
+Dwfl_Thread *dwfl_frame_thread (Dwfl_Frame *state)
+ __nonnull_attribute__ (1);
+
+/* Called by Dwfl_Thread_Callbacks.set_initial_registers implementation.
+ For every known continuous block of registers <FIRSTREG..FIRSTREG+NREGS)
+ (inclusive..exclusive) set their content to REGS (array of NREGS items).
+ Function returns false if any of the registers has invalid number. */
+bool dwfl_thread_state_registers (Dwfl_Thread *thread, int firstreg,
+ unsigned nregs, const Dwarf_Word *regs)
+ __nonnull_attribute__ (1, 4);
+
+/* Called by Dwfl_Thread_Callbacks.set_initial_registers implementation.
+ If PC is not contained among DWARF registers passed by
+ dwfl_thread_state_registers on the target architecture pass the PC value
+ here. */
+void dwfl_thread_state_register_pc (Dwfl_Thread *thread, Dwarf_Word pc)
+ __nonnull_attribute__ (1);
+
+/* Iterate through the threads for a process. Returns zero if all threads have
+ been processed by the callback, returns -1 on error, or the value of the
+ callback when not DWARF_CB_OK. -1 returned on error will set dwfl_errno ().
+ Keeps calling the callback with the next thread while the callback returns
+ DWARF_CB_OK, till there are no more threads. */
+int dwfl_getthreads (Dwfl *dwfl,
+ int (*callback) (Dwfl_Thread *thread, void *arg),
+ void *arg)
+ __nonnull_attribute__ (1, 2);
+
+/* Iterate through the frames for a thread. Returns zero if all frames
+ have been processed by the callback, returns -1 on error, or the value of
+ the callback when not DWARF_CB_OK. -1 returned on error will
+ set dwfl_errno (). Some systems return error instead of zero on end of the
+ backtrace, for cross-platform compatibility callers should consider error as
+ a zero. Keeps calling the callback with the next frame while the callback
+ returns DWARF_CB_OK, till there are no more frames. On start will call the
+ set_initial_registers callback and on return will call the detach_thread
+ callback of the Dwfl_Thread. */
+int dwfl_thread_getframes (Dwfl_Thread *thread,
+ int (*callback) (Dwfl_Frame *state, void *arg),
+ void *arg)
+ __nonnull_attribute__ (1, 2);
+
+/* Like dwfl_thread_getframes, but specifying the thread by its unique
+ identifier number. Returns zero if all frames have been processed
+ by the callback, returns -1 on error (and when no thread with
+ the given thread id number exists), or the value of the callback
+ when not DWARF_CB_OK. -1 returned on error will set dwfl_errno (). */
+int dwfl_getthread_frames (Dwfl *dwfl, pid_t tid,
+ int (*callback) (Dwfl_Frame *thread, void *arg),
+ void *arg)
+ __nonnull_attribute__ (1, 3);
+
+/* Return *PC (program counter) for thread-specific frame STATE.
+ Set *ISACTIVATION according to DWARF frame "activation" definition.
+ Typically you need to substract 1 from *PC if *ACTIVATION is false to safely
+ find function of the caller. ACTIVATION may be NULL. PC must not be NULL.
+ Function returns false if it failed to find *PC. */
+bool dwfl_frame_pc (Dwfl_Frame *state, Dwarf_Addr *pc, bool *isactivation)
+ __nonnull_attribute__ (1, 2);
+
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif