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1 /* Generate a core file for the inferior process.
2
3 Copyright (C) 2001-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4
5 This file is part of GDB.
6
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.
11
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.
16
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/>. */
19
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 "gdb_assert.h"
33 #include <fcntl.h>
34 #include "regcache.h"
35 #include "regset.h"
36 #include "gdb_bfd.h"
37 #include "readline/tilde.h"
38
39 /* The largest amount of memory to read from the target at once. We
40 must throttle it to limit the amount of memory used by GDB during
41 generate-core-file for programs with large resident data. */
42 #define MAX_COPY_BYTES (1024 * 1024)
43
44 static const char *default_gcore_target (void);
45 static enum bfd_architecture default_gcore_arch (void);
46 static unsigned long default_gcore_mach (void);
47 static int gcore_memory_sections (bfd *);
48
49 /* create_gcore_bfd -- helper for gcore_command (exported).
50 Open a new bfd core file for output, and return the handle. */
51
52 bfd *
53 create_gcore_bfd (const char *filename)
54 {
55 bfd *obfd = gdb_bfd_openw (filename, default_gcore_target ());
56
57 if (!obfd)
58 error (_("Failed to open '%s' for output."), filename);
59 bfd_set_format (obfd, bfd_core);
60 bfd_set_arch_mach (obfd, default_gcore_arch (), default_gcore_mach ());
61 return obfd;
62 }
63
64 /* write_gcore_file -- helper for gcore_command (exported).
65 Compose and write the corefile data to the core file. */
66
67
68 void
69 write_gcore_file (bfd *obfd)
70 {
71 void *note_data = NULL;
72 int note_size = 0;
73 asection *note_sec = NULL;
74
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, &note_size);
83
84 if (note_data == NULL || note_size == 0)
85 error (_("Target does not support core file generation."));
86
87 /* Create the note section. */
88 note_sec = bfd_make_section_anyway_with_flags (obfd, "note0",
89 SEC_HAS_CONTENTS
90 | SEC_READONLY
91 | SEC_ALLOC);
92 if (note_sec == NULL)
93 error (_("Failed to create 'note' section for corefile: %s"),
94 bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
95
96 bfd_set_section_vma (obfd, note_sec, 0);
97 bfd_set_section_alignment (obfd, note_sec, 0);
98 bfd_set_section_size (obfd, note_sec, note_size);
99
100 /* Now create the memory/load sections. */
101 if (gcore_memory_sections (obfd) == 0)
102 error (_("gcore: failed to get corefile memory sections from target."));
103
104 /* Write out the contents of the note section. */
105 if (!bfd_set_section_contents (obfd, note_sec, note_data, 0, note_size))
106 warning (_("writing note section (%s)"), bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
107 }
108
109 static void
110 do_bfd_delete_cleanup (void *arg)
111 {
112 bfd *obfd = arg;
113 const char *filename = obfd->filename;
114
115 gdb_bfd_unref (arg);
116 unlink (filename);
117 }
118
119 /* gcore_command -- implements the 'gcore' command.
120 Generate a core file from the inferior process. */
121
122 static void
123 gcore_command (char *args, int from_tty)
124 {
125 struct cleanup *filename_chain;
126 struct cleanup *bfd_chain;
127 char *corefilename;
128 bfd *obfd;
129
130 /* No use generating a corefile without a target process. */
131 if (!target_has_execution)
132 noprocess ();
133
134 if (args && *args)
135 corefilename = tilde_expand (args);
136 else
137 {
138 /* Default corefile name is "core.PID". */
139 corefilename = xstrprintf ("core.%d", ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid));
140 }
141 filename_chain = make_cleanup (xfree, corefilename);
142
143 if (info_verbose)
144 fprintf_filtered (gdb_stdout,
145 "Opening corefile '%s' for output.\n", corefilename);
146
147 /* Open the output file. */
148 obfd = create_gcore_bfd (corefilename);
149
150 /* Need a cleanup that will close and delete the file. */
151 bfd_chain = make_cleanup (do_bfd_delete_cleanup, obfd);
152
153 /* Call worker function. */
154 write_gcore_file (obfd);
155
156 /* Succeeded. */
157 discard_cleanups (bfd_chain);
158 gdb_bfd_unref (obfd);
159
160 fprintf_filtered (gdb_stdout, "Saved corefile %s\n", corefilename);
161 do_cleanups (filename_chain);
162 }
163
164 static unsigned long
165 default_gcore_mach (void)
166 {
167 #if 1 /* See if this even matters... */
168 return 0;
169 #else
170
171 const struct bfd_arch_info *bfdarch = gdbarch_bfd_arch_info (target_gdbarch ());
172
173 if (bfdarch != NULL)
174 return bfdarch->mach;
175 if (exec_bfd == NULL)
176 error (_("Can't find default bfd machine type (need execfile)."));
177
178 return bfd_get_mach (exec_bfd);
179 #endif /* 1 */
180 }
181
182 static enum bfd_architecture
183 default_gcore_arch (void)
184 {
185 const struct bfd_arch_info *bfdarch = gdbarch_bfd_arch_info (target_gdbarch ());
186
187 if (bfdarch != NULL)
188 return bfdarch->arch;
189 if (exec_bfd == NULL)
190 error (_("Can't find bfd architecture for corefile (need execfile)."));
191
192 return bfd_get_arch (exec_bfd);
193 }
194
195 static const char *
196 default_gcore_target (void)
197 {
198 /* The gdbarch may define a target to use for core files. */
199 if (gdbarch_gcore_bfd_target_p (target_gdbarch ()))
200 return gdbarch_gcore_bfd_target (target_gdbarch ());
201
202 /* Otherwise, try to fall back to the exec_bfd target. This will probably
203 not work for non-ELF targets. */
204 if (exec_bfd == NULL)
205 return NULL;
206 else
207 return bfd_get_target (exec_bfd);
208 }
209
210 /* Derive a reasonable stack segment by unwinding the target stack,
211 and store its limits in *BOTTOM and *TOP. Return non-zero if
212 successful. */
213
214 static int
215 derive_stack_segment (bfd_vma *bottom, bfd_vma *top)
216 {
217 struct frame_info *fi, *tmp_fi;
218
219 gdb_assert (bottom);
220 gdb_assert (top);
221
222 /* Can't succeed without stack and registers. */
223 if (!target_has_stack || !target_has_registers)
224 return 0;
225
226 /* Can't succeed without current frame. */
227 fi = get_current_frame ();
228 if (fi == NULL)
229 return 0;
230
231 /* Save frame pointer of TOS frame. */
232 *top = get_frame_base (fi);
233 /* If current stack pointer is more "inner", use that instead. */
234 if (gdbarch_inner_than (get_frame_arch (fi), get_frame_sp (fi), *top))
235 *top = get_frame_sp (fi);
236
237 /* Find prev-most frame. */
238 while ((tmp_fi = get_prev_frame (fi)) != NULL)
239 fi = tmp_fi;
240
241 /* Save frame pointer of prev-most frame. */
242 *bottom = get_frame_base (fi);
243
244 /* Now canonicalize their order, so that BOTTOM is a lower address
245 (as opposed to a lower stack frame). */
246 if (*bottom > *top)
247 {
248 bfd_vma tmp_vma;
249
250 tmp_vma = *top;
251 *top = *bottom;
252 *bottom = tmp_vma;
253 }
254
255 return 1;
256 }
257
258 /* call_target_sbrk --
259 helper function for derive_heap_segment. */
260
261 static bfd_vma
262 call_target_sbrk (int sbrk_arg)
263 {
264 struct objfile *sbrk_objf;
265 struct gdbarch *gdbarch;
266 bfd_vma top_of_heap;
267 struct value *target_sbrk_arg;
268 struct value *sbrk_fn, *ret;
269 bfd_vma tmp;
270
271 if (lookup_minimal_symbol ("sbrk", NULL, NULL) != NULL)
272 {
273 sbrk_fn = find_function_in_inferior ("sbrk", &sbrk_objf);
274 if (sbrk_fn == NULL)
275 return (bfd_vma) 0;
276 }
277 else if (lookup_minimal_symbol ("_sbrk", NULL, NULL) != NULL)
278 {
279 sbrk_fn = find_function_in_inferior ("_sbrk", &sbrk_objf);
280 if (sbrk_fn == NULL)
281 return (bfd_vma) 0;
282 }
283 else
284 return (bfd_vma) 0;
285
286 gdbarch = get_objfile_arch (sbrk_objf);
287 target_sbrk_arg = value_from_longest (builtin_type (gdbarch)->builtin_int,
288 sbrk_arg);
289 gdb_assert (target_sbrk_arg);
290 ret = call_function_by_hand (sbrk_fn, 1, &target_sbrk_arg);
291 if (ret == NULL)
292 return (bfd_vma) 0;
293
294 tmp = value_as_long (ret);
295 if ((LONGEST) tmp <= 0 || (LONGEST) tmp == 0xffffffff)
296 return (bfd_vma) 0;
297
298 top_of_heap = tmp;
299 return top_of_heap;
300 }
301
302 /* Derive a reasonable heap segment for ABFD by looking at sbrk and
303 the static data sections. Store its limits in *BOTTOM and *TOP.
304 Return non-zero if successful. */
305
306 static int
307 derive_heap_segment (bfd *abfd, bfd_vma *bottom, bfd_vma *top)
308 {
309 bfd_vma top_of_data_memory = 0;
310 bfd_vma top_of_heap = 0;
311 bfd_size_type sec_size;
312 bfd_vma sec_vaddr;
313 asection *sec;
314
315 gdb_assert (bottom);
316 gdb_assert (top);
317
318 /* This function depends on being able to call a function in the
319 inferior. */
320 if (!target_has_execution)
321 return 0;
322
323 /* The following code assumes that the link map is arranged as
324 follows (low to high addresses):
325
326 ---------------------------------
327 | text sections |
328 ---------------------------------
329 | data sections (including bss) |
330 ---------------------------------
331 | heap |
332 --------------------------------- */
333
334 for (sec = abfd->sections; sec; sec = sec->next)
335 {
336 if (bfd_get_section_flags (abfd, sec) & SEC_DATA
337 || strcmp (".bss", bfd_section_name (abfd, sec)) == 0)
338 {
339 sec_vaddr = bfd_get_section_vma (abfd, sec);
340 sec_size = bfd_get_section_size (sec);
341 if (sec_vaddr + sec_size > top_of_data_memory)
342 top_of_data_memory = sec_vaddr + sec_size;
343 }
344 }
345
346 top_of_heap = call_target_sbrk (0);
347 if (top_of_heap == (bfd_vma) 0)
348 return 0;
349
350 /* Return results. */
351 if (top_of_heap > top_of_data_memory)
352 {
353 *bottom = top_of_data_memory;
354 *top = top_of_heap;
355 return 1;
356 }
357
358 /* No additional heap space needs to be saved. */
359 return 0;
360 }
361
362 static void
363 make_output_phdrs (bfd *obfd, asection *osec, void *ignored)
364 {
365 int p_flags = 0;
366 int p_type = 0;
367
368 /* FIXME: these constants may only be applicable for ELF. */
369 if (strncmp (bfd_section_name (obfd, osec), "load", 4) == 0)
370 p_type = PT_LOAD;
371 else if (strncmp (bfd_section_name (obfd, osec), "note", 4) == 0)
372 p_type = PT_NOTE;
373 else
374 p_type = PT_NULL;
375
376 p_flags |= PF_R; /* Segment is readable. */
377 if (!(bfd_get_section_flags (obfd, osec) & SEC_READONLY))
378 p_flags |= PF_W; /* Segment is writable. */
379 if (bfd_get_section_flags (obfd, osec) & SEC_CODE)
380 p_flags |= PF_X; /* Segment is executable. */
381
382 bfd_record_phdr (obfd, p_type, 1, p_flags, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, &osec);
383 }
384
385 /* find_memory_region_ftype implementation. DATA is 'bfd *' for the core file
386 GDB is creating. */
387
388 static int
389 gcore_create_callback (CORE_ADDR vaddr, unsigned long size, int read,
390 int write, int exec, int modified, void *data)
391 {
392 bfd *obfd = data;
393 asection *osec;
394 flagword flags = SEC_ALLOC | SEC_HAS_CONTENTS | SEC_LOAD;
395
396 /* If the memory segment has no permissions set, ignore it, otherwise
397 when we later try to access it for read/write, we'll get an error
398 or jam the kernel. */
399 if (read == 0 && write == 0 && exec == 0 && modified == 0)
400 {
401 if (info_verbose)
402 {
403 fprintf_filtered (gdb_stdout, "Ignore segment, %s bytes at %s\n",
404 plongest (size), paddress (target_gdbarch (), vaddr));
405 }
406
407 return 0;
408 }
409
410 if (write == 0 && modified == 0 && !solib_keep_data_in_core (vaddr, size))
411 {
412 /* See if this region of memory lies inside a known file on disk.
413 If so, we can avoid copying its contents by clearing SEC_LOAD. */
414 struct objfile *objfile;
415 struct obj_section *objsec;
416
417 ALL_OBJSECTIONS (objfile, objsec)
418 {
419 bfd *abfd = objfile->obfd;
420 asection *asec = objsec->the_bfd_section;
421 bfd_vma align = (bfd_vma) 1 << bfd_get_section_alignment (abfd,
422 asec);
423 bfd_vma start = obj_section_addr (objsec) & -align;
424 bfd_vma end = (obj_section_endaddr (objsec) + align - 1) & -align;
425
426 /* Match if either the entire memory region lies inside the
427 section (i.e. a mapping covering some pages of a large
428 segment) or the entire section lies inside the memory region
429 (i.e. a mapping covering multiple small sections).
430
431 This BFD was synthesized from reading target memory,
432 we don't want to omit that. */
433 if (objfile->separate_debug_objfile_backlink == NULL
434 && ((vaddr >= start && vaddr + size <= end)
435 || (start >= vaddr && end <= vaddr + size))
436 && !(bfd_get_file_flags (abfd) & BFD_IN_MEMORY))
437 {
438 flags &= ~(SEC_LOAD | SEC_HAS_CONTENTS);
439 goto keep; /* Break out of two nested for loops. */
440 }
441 }
442
443 keep:;
444 }
445
446 if (write == 0)
447 flags |= SEC_READONLY;
448
449 if (exec)
450 flags |= SEC_CODE;
451 else
452 flags |= SEC_DATA;
453
454 osec = bfd_make_section_anyway_with_flags (obfd, "load", flags);
455 if (osec == NULL)
456 {
457 warning (_("Couldn't make gcore segment: %s"),
458 bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
459 return 1;
460 }
461
462 if (info_verbose)
463 {
464 fprintf_filtered (gdb_stdout, "Save segment, %s bytes at %s\n",
465 plongest (size), paddress (target_gdbarch (), vaddr));
466 }
467
468 bfd_set_section_size (obfd, osec, size);
469 bfd_set_section_vma (obfd, osec, vaddr);
470 bfd_section_lma (obfd, osec) = 0; /* ??? bfd_set_section_lma? */
471 return 0;
472 }
473
474 static int
475 objfile_find_memory_regions (find_memory_region_ftype func, void *obfd)
476 {
477 /* Use objfile data to create memory sections. */
478 struct objfile *objfile;
479 struct obj_section *objsec;
480 bfd_vma temp_bottom, temp_top;
481
482 /* Call callback function for each objfile section. */
483 ALL_OBJSECTIONS (objfile, objsec)
484 {
485 bfd *ibfd = objfile->obfd;
486 asection *isec = objsec->the_bfd_section;
487 flagword flags = bfd_get_section_flags (ibfd, isec);
488
489 /* Separate debug info files are irrelevant for gcore. */
490 if (objfile->separate_debug_objfile_backlink != NULL)
491 continue;
492
493 if ((flags & SEC_ALLOC) || (flags & SEC_LOAD))
494 {
495 int size = bfd_section_size (ibfd, isec);
496 int ret;
497
498 ret = (*func) (obj_section_addr (objsec), size,
499 1, /* All sections will be readable. */
500 (flags & SEC_READONLY) == 0, /* Writable. */
501 (flags & SEC_CODE) != 0, /* Executable. */
502 1, /* MODIFIED is unknown, pass it as true. */
503 obfd);
504 if (ret != 0)
505 return ret;
506 }
507 }
508
509 /* Make a stack segment. */
510 if (derive_stack_segment (&temp_bottom, &temp_top))
511 (*func) (temp_bottom, temp_top - temp_bottom,
512 1, /* Stack section will be readable. */
513 1, /* Stack section will be writable. */
514 0, /* Stack section will not be executable. */
515 1, /* Stack section will be modified. */
516 obfd);
517
518 /* Make a heap segment. */
519 if (derive_heap_segment (exec_bfd, &temp_bottom, &temp_top))
520 (*func) (temp_bottom, temp_top - temp_bottom,
521 1, /* Heap section will be readable. */
522 1, /* Heap section will be writable. */
523 0, /* Heap section will not be executable. */
524 1, /* Heap section will be modified. */
525 obfd);
526
527 return 0;
528 }
529
530 static void
531 gcore_copy_callback (bfd *obfd, asection *osec, void *ignored)
532 {
533 bfd_size_type size, total_size = bfd_section_size (obfd, osec);
534 file_ptr offset = 0;
535 struct cleanup *old_chain = NULL;
536 void *memhunk;
537
538 /* Read-only sections are marked; we don't have to copy their contents. */
539 if ((bfd_get_section_flags (obfd, osec) & SEC_LOAD) == 0)
540 return;
541
542 /* Only interested in "load" sections. */
543 if (strncmp ("load", bfd_section_name (obfd, osec), 4) != 0)
544 return;
545
546 size = min (total_size, MAX_COPY_BYTES);
547 memhunk = xmalloc (size);
548 old_chain = make_cleanup (xfree, memhunk);
549
550 while (total_size > 0)
551 {
552 if (size > total_size)
553 size = total_size;
554
555 if (target_read_memory (bfd_section_vma (obfd, osec) + offset,
556 memhunk, size) != 0)
557 {
558 warning (_("Memory read failed for corefile "
559 "section, %s bytes at %s."),
560 plongest (size),
561 paddress (target_gdbarch (), bfd_section_vma (obfd, osec)));
562 break;
563 }
564 if (!bfd_set_section_contents (obfd, osec, memhunk, offset, size))
565 {
566 warning (_("Failed to write corefile contents (%s)."),
567 bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
568 break;
569 }
570
571 total_size -= size;
572 offset += size;
573 }
574
575 do_cleanups (old_chain); /* Frees MEMHUNK. */
576 }
577
578 static int
579 gcore_memory_sections (bfd *obfd)
580 {
581 /* Try gdbarch method first, then fall back to target method. */
582 if (!gdbarch_find_memory_regions_p (target_gdbarch ())
583 || gdbarch_find_memory_regions (target_gdbarch (),
584 gcore_create_callback, obfd) != 0)
585 {
586 if (target_find_memory_regions (gcore_create_callback, obfd) != 0)
587 return 0; /* FIXME: error return/msg? */
588 }
589
590 /* Record phdrs for section-to-segment mapping. */
591 bfd_map_over_sections (obfd, make_output_phdrs, NULL);
592
593 /* Copy memory region contents. */
594 bfd_map_over_sections (obfd, gcore_copy_callback, NULL);
595
596 return 1;
597 }
598
599 /* Provide a prototype to silence -Wmissing-prototypes. */
600 extern initialize_file_ftype _initialize_gcore;
601
602 void
603 _initialize_gcore (void)
604 {
605 add_com ("generate-core-file", class_files, gcore_command, _("\
606 Save a core file with the current state of the debugged process.\n\
607 Argument is optional filename. Default filename is 'core.<process_id>'."));
608
609 add_com_alias ("gcore", "generate-core-file", class_files, 1);
610 exec_set_find_memory_regions (objfile_find_memory_regions);
611 }