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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/>. */
20 #include "defs.h"
21 #include "elf-bfd.h"
22 #include "infcall.h"
23 #include "inferior.h"
24 #include "gdbcore.h"
25 #include "objfiles.h"
26 #include "solib.h"
27 #include "symfile.h"
28 #include "arch-utils.h"
29 #include "completer.h"
30 #include "gcore.h"
31 #include "cli/cli-decode.h"
32 #include <fcntl.h>
33 #include "regcache.h"
34 #include "regset.h"
35 #include "gdb_bfd.h"
36 #include "readline/tilde.h"
37 #include <algorithm>
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. */
54 gdb_bfd_ref_ptr
55 create_gcore_bfd (const char *filename)
57 gdb_bfd_ref_ptr obfd (gdb_bfd_openw (filename, default_gcore_target ()));
59 if (obfd == NULL)
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);
63 return obfd;
66 /* write_gcore_file_1 -- do the actual work of write_gcore_file. */
68 static void
69 write_gcore_file_1 (bfd *obfd)
71 gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> note_data;
72 int note_size = 0;
73 asection *note_sec = NULL;
75 /* An external target method must build the notes section. */
76 /* FIXME: uweigand/2011-10-06: All architectures that support core file
77 generation should be converted to gdbarch_make_corefile_notes; at that
78 point, the target vector method can be removed. */
79 if (!gdbarch_make_corefile_notes_p (target_gdbarch ()))
80 note_data = target_make_corefile_notes (obfd, &note_size);
81 else
82 note_data = gdbarch_make_corefile_notes (target_gdbarch (), obfd,
83 &note_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",
90 SEC_HAS_CONTENTS
91 | SEC_READONLY
92 | SEC_ALLOC);
93 if (note_sec == NULL)
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,
107 note_size))
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. */
114 void
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. */
125 static void
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 ())
132 noprocess ();
134 if (args && *args)
135 corefilename.reset (tilde_expand (args));
136 else
138 /* Default corefile name is "core.PID". */
139 corefilename = xstrprintf ("core.%d", inferior_ptid.pid ());
142 if (info_verbose)
143 gdb_printf ("Opening corefile '%s' for output.\n",
144 corefilename.get ());
146 if (target_supports_dumpcore ())
147 target_dumpcore (corefilename.get ());
148 else
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 ());
159 /* Succeeded. */
160 unlink_file.keep ();
163 gdb_printf ("Saved corefile %s\n", corefilename.get ());
166 static enum bfd_architecture
167 default_gcore_arch (void)
169 const struct bfd_arch_info *bfdarch = gdbarch_bfd_arch_info (target_gdbarch ());
171 if (bfdarch != NULL)
172 return bfdarch->arch;
173 if (current_program_space->exec_bfd () == NULL)
174 error (_("Can't find bfd architecture for corefile (need execfile)."));
176 return bfd_get_arch (current_program_space->exec_bfd ());
179 static const char *
180 default_gcore_target (void)
182 /* The gdbarch may define a target to use for core files. */
183 if (gdbarch_gcore_bfd_target_p (target_gdbarch ()))
184 return gdbarch_gcore_bfd_target (target_gdbarch ());
186 /* Otherwise, try to fall back to the exec target. This will probably
187 not work for non-ELF targets. */
188 if (current_program_space->exec_bfd () == NULL)
189 return NULL;
190 else
191 return bfd_get_target (current_program_space->exec_bfd ());
194 /* Derive a reasonable stack segment by unwinding the target stack,
195 and store its limits in *BOTTOM and *TOP. Return non-zero if
196 successful. */
198 static int
199 derive_stack_segment (bfd_vma *bottom, bfd_vma *top)
201 frame_info_ptr fi, tmp_fi;
203 gdb_assert (bottom);
204 gdb_assert (top);
206 /* Can't succeed without stack and registers. */
207 if (!target_has_stack () || !target_has_registers ())
208 return 0;
210 /* Can't succeed without current frame. */
211 fi = get_current_frame ();
212 if (fi == NULL)
213 return 0;
215 /* Save frame pointer of TOS frame. */
216 *top = get_frame_base (fi);
217 /* If current stack pointer is more "inner", use that instead. */
218 if (gdbarch_inner_than (get_frame_arch (fi), get_frame_sp (fi), *top))
219 *top = get_frame_sp (fi);
221 /* Find prev-most frame. */
222 while ((tmp_fi = get_prev_frame (fi)) != NULL)
223 fi = tmp_fi;
225 /* Save frame pointer of prev-most frame. */
226 *bottom = get_frame_base (fi);
228 /* Now canonicalize their order, so that BOTTOM is a lower address
229 (as opposed to a lower stack frame). */
230 if (*bottom > *top)
232 bfd_vma tmp_vma;
234 tmp_vma = *top;
235 *top = *bottom;
236 *bottom = tmp_vma;
239 return 1;
242 /* call_target_sbrk --
243 helper function for derive_heap_segment. */
245 static bfd_vma
246 call_target_sbrk (int sbrk_arg)
248 struct objfile *sbrk_objf;
249 struct gdbarch *gdbarch;
250 bfd_vma top_of_heap;
251 struct value *target_sbrk_arg;
252 struct value *sbrk_fn, *ret;
253 bfd_vma tmp;
255 if (lookup_minimal_symbol ("sbrk", NULL, NULL).minsym != NULL)
257 sbrk_fn = find_function_in_inferior ("sbrk", &sbrk_objf);
258 if (sbrk_fn == NULL)
259 return (bfd_vma) 0;
261 else if (lookup_minimal_symbol ("_sbrk", NULL, NULL).minsym != NULL)
263 sbrk_fn = find_function_in_inferior ("_sbrk", &sbrk_objf);
264 if (sbrk_fn == NULL)
265 return (bfd_vma) 0;
267 else
268 return (bfd_vma) 0;
270 gdbarch = sbrk_objf->arch ();
271 target_sbrk_arg = value_from_longest (builtin_type (gdbarch)->builtin_int,
272 sbrk_arg);
273 gdb_assert (target_sbrk_arg);
274 ret = call_function_by_hand (sbrk_fn, NULL, target_sbrk_arg);
275 if (ret == NULL)
276 return (bfd_vma) 0;
278 tmp = value_as_long (ret);
279 if ((LONGEST) tmp <= 0 || (LONGEST) tmp == 0xffffffff)
280 return (bfd_vma) 0;
282 top_of_heap = tmp;
283 return top_of_heap;
286 /* Derive a reasonable heap segment for ABFD by looking at sbrk and
287 the static data sections. Store its limits in *BOTTOM and *TOP.
288 Return non-zero if successful. */
290 static int
291 derive_heap_segment (bfd *abfd, bfd_vma *bottom, bfd_vma *top)
293 bfd_vma top_of_data_memory = 0;
294 bfd_vma top_of_heap = 0;
295 bfd_size_type sec_size;
296 bfd_vma sec_vaddr;
297 asection *sec;
299 gdb_assert (bottom);
300 gdb_assert (top);
302 /* This function depends on being able to call a function in the
303 inferior. */
304 if (!target_has_execution ())
305 return 0;
307 /* The following code assumes that the link map is arranged as
308 follows (low to high addresses):
310 ---------------------------------
311 | text sections |
312 ---------------------------------
313 | data sections (including bss) |
314 ---------------------------------
315 | heap |
316 --------------------------------- */
318 for (sec = abfd->sections; sec; sec = sec->next)
320 if (bfd_section_flags (sec) & SEC_DATA
321 || strcmp (".bss", bfd_section_name (sec)) == 0)
323 sec_vaddr = bfd_section_vma (sec);
324 sec_size = bfd_section_size (sec);
325 if (sec_vaddr + sec_size > top_of_data_memory)
326 top_of_data_memory = sec_vaddr + sec_size;
330 top_of_heap = call_target_sbrk (0);
331 if (top_of_heap == (bfd_vma) 0)
332 return 0;
334 /* Return results. */
335 if (top_of_heap > top_of_data_memory)
337 *bottom = top_of_data_memory;
338 *top = top_of_heap;
339 return 1;
342 /* No additional heap space needs to be saved. */
343 return 0;
346 static void
347 make_output_phdrs (bfd *obfd, asection *osec)
349 int p_flags = 0;
350 int p_type = 0;
352 /* Memory tag segments have already been handled by the architecture, as
353 those contain arch-specific information. If we have one of those, just
354 return. */
355 if (startswith (bfd_section_name (osec), "memtag"))
356 return;
358 /* FIXME: these constants may only be applicable for ELF. */
359 if (startswith (bfd_section_name (osec), "load"))
360 p_type = PT_LOAD;
361 else if (startswith (bfd_section_name (osec), "note"))
362 p_type = PT_NOTE;
363 else
364 p_type = PT_NULL;
366 p_flags |= PF_R; /* Segment is readable. */
367 if (!(bfd_section_flags (osec) & SEC_READONLY))
368 p_flags |= PF_W; /* Segment is writable. */
369 if (bfd_section_flags (osec) & SEC_CODE)
370 p_flags |= PF_X; /* Segment is executable. */
372 bfd_record_phdr (obfd, p_type, 1, p_flags, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, &osec);
375 /* find_memory_region_ftype implementation.
377 MEMORY_TAGGED is true if the memory region contains memory tags, false
378 otherwise.
380 DATA is 'bfd *' for the core file GDB is creating. */
382 static int
383 gcore_create_callback (CORE_ADDR vaddr, unsigned long size, int read,
384 int write, int exec, int modified, bool memory_tagged,
385 void *data)
387 bfd *obfd = (bfd *) data;
388 asection *osec;
389 flagword flags = SEC_ALLOC | SEC_HAS_CONTENTS | SEC_LOAD;
391 /* If the memory segment has no permissions set, ignore it, otherwise
392 when we later try to access it for read/write, we'll get an error
393 or jam the kernel. */
394 if (read == 0 && write == 0 && exec == 0 && modified == 0)
396 if (info_verbose)
398 gdb_printf ("Ignore segment, %s bytes at %s\n",
399 plongest (size), paddress (target_gdbarch (), vaddr));
402 return 0;
405 if (write == 0 && modified == 0 && !solib_keep_data_in_core (vaddr, size))
407 /* See if this region of memory lies inside a known file on disk.
408 If so, we can avoid copying its contents by clearing SEC_LOAD. */
409 struct obj_section *objsec;
411 for (objfile *objfile : current_program_space->objfiles ())
412 ALL_OBJFILE_OSECTIONS (objfile, objsec)
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. */
437 keep:;
440 if (write == 0)
441 flags |= SEC_READONLY;
443 if (exec)
444 flags |= SEC_CODE;
445 else
446 flags |= SEC_DATA;
448 osec = bfd_make_section_anyway_with_flags (obfd, "load", flags);
449 if (osec == NULL)
451 warning (_("Couldn't make gcore segment: %s"),
452 bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
453 return 1;
456 if (info_verbose)
458 gdb_printf ("Save segment, %s bytes at %s\n",
459 plongest (size), paddress (target_gdbarch (), vaddr));
462 bfd_set_section_size (osec, size);
463 bfd_set_section_vma (osec, vaddr);
464 bfd_set_section_lma (osec, 0);
465 return 0;
468 /* gdbarch_find_memory_region callback for creating a memory tag section.
470 MEMORY_TAGGED is true if the memory region contains memory tags, false
471 otherwise.
473 DATA is 'bfd *' for the core file GDB is creating. */
475 static int
476 gcore_create_memtag_section_callback (CORE_ADDR vaddr, unsigned long size,
477 int read, int write, int exec,
478 int modified, bool memory_tagged,
479 void *data)
481 /* Are there memory tags in this particular memory map entry? */
482 if (!memory_tagged)
483 return 0;
485 bfd *obfd = (bfd *) data;
487 /* Ask the architecture to create a memory tag section for this particular
488 memory map entry. It will be populated with contents later, as we can't
489 start writing the contents before we have all the sections sorted out. */
490 asection *memtag_section
491 = gdbarch_create_memtag_section (target_gdbarch (), obfd, vaddr, size);
493 if (memtag_section == nullptr)
495 warning (_("Couldn't make gcore memory tag segment: %s"),
496 bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
497 return 1;
500 if (info_verbose)
502 gdb_printf (gdb_stdout, "Saved memory tag segment, %s bytes "
503 "at %s\n",
504 plongest (bfd_section_size (memtag_section)),
505 paddress (target_gdbarch (), vaddr));
508 return 0;
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 struct obj_section *objsec;
517 bfd_vma temp_bottom, temp_top;
519 /* Call callback function for each objfile section. */
520 for (objfile *objfile : current_program_space->objfiles ())
521 ALL_OBJFILE_OSECTIONS (objfile, objsec)
523 asection *isec = objsec->the_bfd_section;
524 flagword flags = bfd_section_flags (isec);
526 /* Separate debug info files are irrelevant for gcore. */
527 if (objfile->separate_debug_objfile_backlink != NULL)
528 continue;
530 if ((flags & SEC_ALLOC) || (flags & SEC_LOAD))
532 int size = bfd_section_size (isec);
533 int ret;
535 ret = (*func) (objsec->addr (), size,
536 1, /* All sections will be readable. */
537 (flags & SEC_READONLY) == 0, /* Writable. */
538 (flags & SEC_CODE) != 0, /* Executable. */
539 1, /* MODIFIED is unknown, pass it as true. */
540 false, /* No memory tags in the object file. */
541 obfd);
542 if (ret != 0)
543 return ret;
547 /* Make a stack segment. */
548 if (derive_stack_segment (&temp_bottom, &temp_top))
549 (*func) (temp_bottom, temp_top - temp_bottom,
550 1, /* Stack section will be readable. */
551 1, /* Stack section will be writable. */
552 0, /* Stack section will not be executable. */
553 1, /* Stack section will be modified. */
554 false, /* No memory tags in the object file. */
555 obfd);
557 /* Make a heap segment. */
558 if (derive_heap_segment (current_program_space->exec_bfd (), &temp_bottom,
559 &temp_top))
560 (*func) (temp_bottom, temp_top - temp_bottom,
561 1, /* Heap section will be readable. */
562 1, /* Heap section will be writable. */
563 0, /* Heap section will not be executable. */
564 1, /* Heap section will be modified. */
565 false, /* No memory tags in the object file. */
566 obfd);
568 return 0;
571 static void
572 gcore_copy_callback (bfd *obfd, asection *osec)
574 bfd_size_type size, total_size = bfd_section_size (osec);
575 file_ptr offset = 0;
577 /* Read-only sections are marked; we don't have to copy their contents. */
578 if ((bfd_section_flags (osec) & SEC_LOAD) == 0)
579 return;
581 /* Only interested in "load" sections. */
582 if (!startswith (bfd_section_name (osec), "load"))
583 return;
585 size = std::min (total_size, (bfd_size_type) MAX_COPY_BYTES);
586 gdb::byte_vector memhunk (size);
588 while (total_size > 0)
590 if (size > total_size)
591 size = total_size;
593 if (target_read_memory (bfd_section_vma (osec) + offset,
594 memhunk.data (), size) != 0)
596 warning (_("Memory read failed for corefile "
597 "section, %s bytes at %s."),
598 plongest (size),
599 paddress (target_gdbarch (), bfd_section_vma (osec)));
600 break;
602 if (!bfd_set_section_contents (obfd, osec, memhunk.data (),
603 offset, size))
605 warning (_("Failed to write corefile contents (%s)."),
606 bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
607 break;
610 total_size -= size;
611 offset += size;
615 /* Callback to copy contents to a particular memory tag section. */
617 static void
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"))
622 return;
624 /* Fill the section with memory tag contents. */
625 if (!gdbarch_fill_memtag_section (target_gdbarch (), osec))
626 error (_("Failed to fill memory tag section for core file."));
629 static int
630 gcore_memory_sections (bfd *obfd)
632 /* Try gdbarch method first, then fall back to target method. */
633 if (!gdbarch_find_memory_regions_p (target_gdbarch ())
634 || gdbarch_find_memory_regions (target_gdbarch (),
635 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 (target_gdbarch ())
643 || gdbarch_find_memory_regions (target_gdbarch (),
644 gcore_create_memtag_section_callback,
645 obfd) != 0)
647 if (target_find_memory_regions (gcore_create_memtag_section_callback,
648 obfd) != 0)
649 return 0;
652 /* Record phdrs for section-to-segment mapping. */
653 for (asection *sect : gdb_bfd_sections (obfd))
654 make_output_phdrs (obfd, sect);
656 /* Copy memory region and memory tag contents. */
657 for (asection *sect : gdb_bfd_sections (obfd))
659 gcore_copy_callback (obfd, sect);
660 gcore_copy_memtag_section_callback (obfd, sect);
663 return 1;
666 /* See gcore.h. */
668 thread_info *
669 gcore_find_signalled_thread ()
671 thread_info *curr_thr = inferior_thread ();
672 if (curr_thr->state != THREAD_EXITED
673 && curr_thr->stop_signal () != GDB_SIGNAL_0)
674 return curr_thr;
676 for (thread_info *thr : current_inferior ()->non_exited_threads ())
677 if (thr->stop_signal () != GDB_SIGNAL_0)
678 return thr;
680 /* Default to the current thread, unless it has exited. */
681 if (curr_thr->state != THREAD_EXITED)
682 return curr_thr;
684 return nullptr;
687 void _initialize_gcore ();
688 void
689 _initialize_gcore ()
691 cmd_list_element *generate_core_file_cmd
692 = add_com ("generate-core-file", class_files, gcore_command, _("\
693 Save a core file with the current state of the debugged process.\n\
694 Usage: generate-core-file [FILENAME]\n\
695 Argument is optional filename. Default filename is 'core.PROCESS_ID'."));
697 add_com_alias ("gcore", generate_core_file_cmd, class_files, 1);