1 /* Generate a core file for the inferior process.
3 Copyright (C) 2001-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This file is part of GDB.
7 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
10 (at your option) any later version.
12 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15 GNU General Public License for more details.
17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
28 #include "arch-utils.h"
29 #include "completer.h"
31 #include "cli/cli-decode.h"
36 #include "readline/tilde.h"
38 #include "gdbsupport/gdb_unlinker.h"
39 #include "gdbsupport/byte-vector.h"
40 #include "gdbsupport/scope-exit.h"
42 /* The largest amount of memory to read from the target at once. We
43 must throttle it to limit the amount of memory used by GDB during
44 generate-core-file for programs with large resident data. */
45 #define MAX_COPY_BYTES (1024 * 1024)
47 static const char *default_gcore_target (void);
48 static enum bfd_architecture
default_gcore_arch (void);
49 static int gcore_memory_sections (bfd
*);
51 /* create_gcore_bfd -- helper for gcore_command (exported).
52 Open a new bfd core file for output, and return the handle. */
55 create_gcore_bfd (const char *filename
)
57 gdb_bfd_ref_ptr
obfd (gdb_bfd_openw (filename
, default_gcore_target ()));
60 error (_("Failed to open '%s' for output."), filename
);
61 bfd_set_format (obfd
.get (), bfd_core
);
62 bfd_set_arch_mach (obfd
.get (), default_gcore_arch (), 0);
66 /* write_gcore_file_1 -- do the actual work of write_gcore_file. */
69 write_gcore_file_1 (bfd
*obfd
)
71 gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr
<char> note_data
;
73 asection
*note_sec
= NULL
;
74 gdbarch
*arch
= current_inferior ()->arch ();
76 /* An external target method must build the notes section. */
77 /* FIXME: uweigand/2011-10-06: All architectures that support core file
78 generation should be converted to gdbarch_make_corefile_notes; at that
79 point, the target vector method can be removed. */
80 if (!gdbarch_make_corefile_notes_p (arch
))
81 note_data
= target_make_corefile_notes (obfd
, ¬e_size
);
83 note_data
= gdbarch_make_corefile_notes (arch
, obfd
, ¬e_size
);
85 if (note_data
== NULL
|| note_size
== 0)
86 error (_("Target does not support core file generation."));
88 /* Create the note section. */
89 note_sec
= bfd_make_section_anyway_with_flags (obfd
, "note0",
94 error (_("Failed to create 'note' section for corefile: %s"),
95 bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
97 bfd_set_section_vma (note_sec
, 0);
98 bfd_set_section_alignment (note_sec
, 0);
99 bfd_set_section_size (note_sec
, note_size
);
101 /* Now create the memory/load sections. */
102 if (gcore_memory_sections (obfd
) == 0)
103 error (_("gcore: failed to get corefile memory sections from target."));
105 /* Write out the contents of the note section. */
106 if (!bfd_set_section_contents (obfd
, note_sec
, note_data
.get (), 0,
108 warning (_("writing note section (%s)"), bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
111 /* write_gcore_file -- helper for gcore_command (exported).
112 Compose and write the corefile data to the core file. */
115 write_gcore_file (bfd
*obfd
)
117 target_prepare_to_generate_core ();
118 SCOPE_EXIT
{ target_done_generating_core (); };
119 write_gcore_file_1 (obfd
);
122 /* gcore_command -- implements the 'gcore' command.
123 Generate a core file from the inferior process. */
126 gcore_command (const char *args
, int from_tty
)
128 gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr
<char> corefilename
;
130 /* No use generating a corefile without a target process. */
131 if (!target_has_execution ())
135 corefilename
.reset (tilde_expand (args
));
138 /* Default corefile name is "core.PID". */
139 corefilename
= xstrprintf ("core.%d", inferior_ptid
.pid ());
143 gdb_printf ("Opening corefile '%s' for output.\n",
144 corefilename
.get ());
146 if (target_supports_dumpcore ())
147 target_dumpcore (corefilename
.get ());
150 /* Open the output file. */
151 gdb_bfd_ref_ptr
obfd (create_gcore_bfd (corefilename
.get ()));
153 /* Arrange to unlink the file on failure. */
154 gdb::unlinker
unlink_file (corefilename
.get ());
156 /* Call worker function. */
157 write_gcore_file (obfd
.get ());
163 gdb_printf ("Saved corefile %s\n", corefilename
.get ());
166 static enum bfd_architecture
167 default_gcore_arch (void)
169 const bfd_arch_info
*bfdarch
170 = gdbarch_bfd_arch_info (current_inferior ()->arch ());
173 return bfdarch
->arch
;
174 if (current_program_space
->exec_bfd () == NULL
)
175 error (_("Can't find bfd architecture for corefile (need execfile)."));
177 return bfd_get_arch (current_program_space
->exec_bfd ());
181 default_gcore_target (void)
183 gdbarch
*arch
= current_inferior ()->arch ();
184 /* The gdbarch may define a target to use for core files. */
185 if (gdbarch_gcore_bfd_target_p (arch
))
186 return gdbarch_gcore_bfd_target (arch
);
188 /* Otherwise, try to fall back to the exec target. This will probably
189 not work for non-ELF targets. */
190 if (current_program_space
->exec_bfd () == NULL
)
193 return bfd_get_target (current_program_space
->exec_bfd ());
196 /* Derive a reasonable stack segment by unwinding the target stack,
197 and store its limits in *BOTTOM and *TOP. Return non-zero if
201 derive_stack_segment (bfd_vma
*bottom
, bfd_vma
*top
)
203 frame_info_ptr fi
, tmp_fi
;
208 /* Can't succeed without stack and registers. */
209 if (!target_has_stack () || !target_has_registers ())
212 /* Can't succeed without current frame. */
213 fi
= get_current_frame ();
217 /* Save frame pointer of TOS frame. */
218 *top
= get_frame_base (fi
);
219 /* If current stack pointer is more "inner", use that instead. */
220 if (gdbarch_inner_than (get_frame_arch (fi
), get_frame_sp (fi
), *top
))
221 *top
= get_frame_sp (fi
);
223 /* Find prev-most frame. */
224 while ((tmp_fi
= get_prev_frame (fi
)) != NULL
)
227 /* Save frame pointer of prev-most frame. */
228 *bottom
= get_frame_base (fi
);
230 /* Now canonicalize their order, so that BOTTOM is a lower address
231 (as opposed to a lower stack frame). */
244 /* call_target_sbrk --
245 helper function for derive_heap_segment. */
248 call_target_sbrk (int sbrk_arg
)
250 struct objfile
*sbrk_objf
;
251 struct gdbarch
*gdbarch
;
253 struct value
*target_sbrk_arg
;
254 struct value
*sbrk_fn
, *ret
;
257 if (lookup_minimal_symbol ("sbrk", NULL
, NULL
).minsym
!= NULL
)
259 sbrk_fn
= find_function_in_inferior ("sbrk", &sbrk_objf
);
263 else if (lookup_minimal_symbol ("_sbrk", NULL
, NULL
).minsym
!= NULL
)
265 sbrk_fn
= find_function_in_inferior ("_sbrk", &sbrk_objf
);
272 gdbarch
= sbrk_objf
->arch ();
273 target_sbrk_arg
= value_from_longest (builtin_type (gdbarch
)->builtin_int
,
275 gdb_assert (target_sbrk_arg
);
276 ret
= call_function_by_hand (sbrk_fn
, NULL
, target_sbrk_arg
);
280 tmp
= value_as_long (ret
);
281 if ((LONGEST
) tmp
<= 0 || (LONGEST
) tmp
== 0xffffffff)
288 /* Derive a reasonable heap segment for ABFD by looking at sbrk and
289 the static data sections. Store its limits in *BOTTOM and *TOP.
290 Return non-zero if successful. */
293 derive_heap_segment (bfd
*abfd
, bfd_vma
*bottom
, bfd_vma
*top
)
295 bfd_vma top_of_data_memory
= 0;
296 bfd_vma top_of_heap
= 0;
297 bfd_size_type sec_size
;
304 /* This function depends on being able to call a function in the
306 if (!target_has_execution ())
309 /* The following code assumes that the link map is arranged as
310 follows (low to high addresses):
312 ---------------------------------
314 ---------------------------------
315 | data sections (including bss) |
316 ---------------------------------
318 --------------------------------- */
320 for (sec
= abfd
->sections
; sec
; sec
= sec
->next
)
322 if (bfd_section_flags (sec
) & SEC_DATA
323 || strcmp (".bss", bfd_section_name (sec
)) == 0)
325 sec_vaddr
= bfd_section_vma (sec
);
326 sec_size
= bfd_section_size (sec
);
327 if (sec_vaddr
+ sec_size
> top_of_data_memory
)
328 top_of_data_memory
= sec_vaddr
+ sec_size
;
332 top_of_heap
= call_target_sbrk (0);
333 if (top_of_heap
== (bfd_vma
) 0)
336 /* Return results. */
337 if (top_of_heap
> top_of_data_memory
)
339 *bottom
= top_of_data_memory
;
344 /* No additional heap space needs to be saved. */
349 make_output_phdrs (bfd
*obfd
, asection
*osec
)
354 /* Memory tag segments have already been handled by the architecture, as
355 those contain arch-specific information. If we have one of those, just
357 if (startswith (bfd_section_name (osec
), "memtag"))
360 /* FIXME: these constants may only be applicable for ELF. */
361 if (startswith (bfd_section_name (osec
), "load"))
363 else if (startswith (bfd_section_name (osec
), "note"))
368 p_flags
|= PF_R
; /* Segment is readable. */
369 if (!(bfd_section_flags (osec
) & SEC_READONLY
))
370 p_flags
|= PF_W
; /* Segment is writable. */
371 if (bfd_section_flags (osec
) & SEC_CODE
)
372 p_flags
|= PF_X
; /* Segment is executable. */
374 bfd_record_phdr (obfd
, p_type
, 1, p_flags
, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, &osec
);
377 /* find_memory_region_ftype implementation.
379 MEMORY_TAGGED is true if the memory region contains memory tags, false
382 DATA is 'bfd *' for the core file GDB is creating. */
385 gcore_create_callback (CORE_ADDR vaddr
, unsigned long size
, int read
,
386 int write
, int exec
, int modified
, bool memory_tagged
,
389 bfd
*obfd
= (bfd
*) data
;
391 flagword flags
= SEC_ALLOC
| SEC_HAS_CONTENTS
| SEC_LOAD
;
393 /* If the memory segment has no permissions set, ignore it, otherwise
394 when we later try to access it for read/write, we'll get an error
395 or jam the kernel. */
396 if (read
== 0 && write
== 0 && exec
== 0 && modified
== 0)
399 gdb_printf ("Ignore segment, %s bytes at %s\n",
400 plongest (size
), paddress (current_inferior ()->arch (),
406 if (write
== 0 && modified
== 0 && !solib_keep_data_in_core (vaddr
, size
))
408 /* See if this region of memory lies inside a known file on disk.
409 If so, we can avoid copying its contents by clearing SEC_LOAD. */
411 for (objfile
*objfile
: current_program_space
->objfiles ())
412 for (obj_section
*objsec
: objfile
->sections ())
414 bfd
*abfd
= objfile
->obfd
.get ();
415 asection
*asec
= objsec
->the_bfd_section
;
416 bfd_vma align
= (bfd_vma
) 1 << bfd_section_alignment (asec
);
417 bfd_vma start
= objsec
->addr () & -align
;
418 bfd_vma end
= (objsec
->endaddr () + align
- 1) & -align
;
420 /* Match if either the entire memory region lies inside the
421 section (i.e. a mapping covering some pages of a large
422 segment) or the entire section lies inside the memory region
423 (i.e. a mapping covering multiple small sections).
425 This BFD was synthesized from reading target memory,
426 we don't want to omit that. */
427 if (objfile
->separate_debug_objfile_backlink
== NULL
428 && ((vaddr
>= start
&& vaddr
+ size
<= end
)
429 || (start
>= vaddr
&& end
<= vaddr
+ size
))
430 && !(bfd_get_file_flags (abfd
) & BFD_IN_MEMORY
))
432 flags
&= ~(SEC_LOAD
| SEC_HAS_CONTENTS
);
433 goto keep
; /* Break out of two nested for loops. */
441 flags
|= SEC_READONLY
;
448 osec
= bfd_make_section_anyway_with_flags (obfd
, "load", flags
);
451 warning (_("Couldn't make gcore segment: %s"),
452 bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
457 gdb_printf ("Save segment, %s bytes at %s\n",
458 plongest (size
), paddress (current_inferior ()->arch (),
461 bfd_set_section_size (osec
, size
);
462 bfd_set_section_vma (osec
, vaddr
);
463 bfd_set_section_lma (osec
, 0);
467 /* gdbarch_find_memory_region callback for creating a memory tag section.
469 MEMORY_TAGGED is true if the memory region contains memory tags, false
472 DATA is 'bfd *' for the core file GDB is creating. */
475 gcore_create_memtag_section_callback (CORE_ADDR vaddr
, unsigned long size
,
476 int read
, int write
, int exec
,
477 int modified
, bool memory_tagged
,
480 /* Are there memory tags in this particular memory map entry? */
484 bfd
*obfd
= (bfd
*) data
;
486 /* Ask the architecture to create a memory tag section for this particular
487 memory map entry. It will be populated with contents later, as we can't
488 start writing the contents before we have all the sections sorted out. */
489 gdbarch
*arch
= current_inferior ()->arch ();
490 asection
*memtag_section
491 = gdbarch_create_memtag_section (arch
, obfd
, vaddr
, size
);
493 if (memtag_section
== nullptr)
495 warning (_("Couldn't make gcore memory tag segment: %s"),
496 bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
502 gdb_printf (gdb_stdout
, "Saved memory tag segment, %s bytes "
504 plongest (bfd_section_size (memtag_section
)),
505 paddress (arch
, vaddr
));
512 objfile_find_memory_regions (struct target_ops
*self
,
513 find_memory_region_ftype func
, void *obfd
)
515 /* Use objfile data to create memory sections. */
516 bfd_vma temp_bottom
, temp_top
;
518 /* Call callback function for each objfile section. */
519 for (objfile
*objfile
: current_program_space
->objfiles ())
520 for (obj_section
*objsec
: objfile
->sections ())
522 asection
*isec
= objsec
->the_bfd_section
;
523 flagword flags
= bfd_section_flags (isec
);
525 /* Separate debug info files are irrelevant for gcore. */
526 if (objfile
->separate_debug_objfile_backlink
!= NULL
)
529 if ((flags
& SEC_ALLOC
) || (flags
& SEC_LOAD
))
531 int size
= bfd_section_size (isec
);
534 ret
= (*func
) (objsec
->addr (), size
,
535 1, /* All sections will be readable. */
536 (flags
& SEC_READONLY
) == 0, /* Writable. */
537 (flags
& SEC_CODE
) != 0, /* Executable. */
538 1, /* MODIFIED is unknown, pass it as true. */
539 false, /* No memory tags in the object file. */
546 /* Make a stack segment. */
547 if (derive_stack_segment (&temp_bottom
, &temp_top
))
548 (*func
) (temp_bottom
, temp_top
- temp_bottom
,
549 1, /* Stack section will be readable. */
550 1, /* Stack section will be writable. */
551 0, /* Stack section will not be executable. */
552 1, /* Stack section will be modified. */
553 false, /* No memory tags in the object file. */
556 /* Make a heap segment. */
557 if (derive_heap_segment (current_program_space
->exec_bfd (), &temp_bottom
,
559 (*func
) (temp_bottom
, temp_top
- temp_bottom
,
560 1, /* Heap section will be readable. */
561 1, /* Heap section will be writable. */
562 0, /* Heap section will not be executable. */
563 1, /* Heap section will be modified. */
564 false, /* No memory tags in the object file. */
571 gcore_copy_callback (bfd
*obfd
, asection
*osec
)
573 bfd_size_type size
, total_size
= bfd_section_size (osec
);
576 /* Read-only sections are marked; we don't have to copy their contents. */
577 if ((bfd_section_flags (osec
) & SEC_LOAD
) == 0)
580 /* Only interested in "load" sections. */
581 if (!startswith (bfd_section_name (osec
), "load"))
584 size
= std::min (total_size
, (bfd_size_type
) MAX_COPY_BYTES
);
585 gdb::byte_vector
memhunk (size
);
587 while (total_size
> 0)
589 if (size
> total_size
)
592 if (target_read_memory (bfd_section_vma (osec
) + offset
,
593 memhunk
.data (), size
) != 0)
595 warning (_("Memory read failed for corefile "
596 "section, %s bytes at %s."),
598 paddress (current_inferior ()->arch (),
599 bfd_section_vma (osec
)));
602 if (!bfd_set_section_contents (obfd
, osec
, memhunk
.data (),
605 warning (_("Failed to write corefile contents (%s)."),
606 bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
615 /* Callback to copy contents to a particular memory tag section. */
618 gcore_copy_memtag_section_callback (bfd
*obfd
, asection
*osec
)
620 /* We are only interested in "memtag" sections. */
621 if (!startswith (bfd_section_name (osec
), "memtag"))
624 /* Fill the section with memory tag contents. */
625 if (!gdbarch_fill_memtag_section (current_inferior ()->arch (), osec
))
626 error (_("Failed to fill memory tag section for core file."));
630 gcore_memory_sections (bfd
*obfd
)
632 /* Try gdbarch method first, then fall back to target method. */
633 gdbarch
*arch
= current_inferior ()->arch ();
634 if (!gdbarch_find_memory_regions_p (arch
)
635 || gdbarch_find_memory_regions (arch
, gcore_create_callback
, obfd
) != 0)
637 if (target_find_memory_regions (gcore_create_callback
, obfd
) != 0)
638 return 0; /* FIXME: error return/msg? */
641 /* Take care of dumping memory tags, if there are any. */
642 if (!gdbarch_find_memory_regions_p (arch
)
643 || gdbarch_find_memory_regions (arch
, gcore_create_memtag_section_callback
,
646 if (target_find_memory_regions (gcore_create_memtag_section_callback
,
651 /* Record phdrs for section-to-segment mapping. */
652 for (asection
*sect
: gdb_bfd_sections (obfd
))
653 make_output_phdrs (obfd
, sect
);
655 /* Copy memory region and memory tag contents. */
656 for (asection
*sect
: gdb_bfd_sections (obfd
))
658 gcore_copy_callback (obfd
, sect
);
659 gcore_copy_memtag_section_callback (obfd
, sect
);
668 gcore_find_signalled_thread ()
670 thread_info
*curr_thr
= inferior_thread ();
671 if (curr_thr
->state
!= THREAD_EXITED
672 && curr_thr
->stop_signal () != GDB_SIGNAL_0
)
675 for (thread_info
*thr
: current_inferior ()->non_exited_threads ())
676 if (thr
->stop_signal () != GDB_SIGNAL_0
)
679 /* Default to the current thread, unless it has exited. */
680 if (curr_thr
->state
!= THREAD_EXITED
)
686 void _initialize_gcore ();
690 cmd_list_element
*generate_core_file_cmd
691 = add_com ("generate-core-file", class_files
, gcore_command
, _("\
692 Save a core file with the current state of the debugged process.\n\
693 Usage: generate-core-file [FILENAME]\n\
694 Argument is optional filename. Default filename is 'core.PROCESS_ID'."));
696 add_com_alias ("gcore", generate_core_file_cmd
, class_files
, 1);