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binutils/readelf: build against msgpack, dump NT_AMDGPU_METADATA note contents
authorSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:01:36 +0000 (09:01 -0400)
committerSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:01:43 +0000 (09:01 -0400)
commit2952f10cd79af4645222f124f28c7928287d8113
treedf776596c24ec839cad957eebb14c4bd1b2c3b8c
parent28cdbb183bf80157a71d222b66abc38f32019f2d
binutils/readelf: build against msgpack, dump NT_AMDGPU_METADATA note contents

The AMDGPU HSA OS ABI (code object v3 and above) defines the
NT_AMDGPU_METADATA ELF note [1].  The content is a msgpack object
describing, among other things, the kernels present in the code object
and how to call them.

I think it would be useful for readelf to be able to display the content
of those notes.  msgpack is a structured format, a bit like JSON, except
not text-based.  It is therefore possible to dump the contents in
human-readable form without knowledge of the specific layout of the
note.

Add configury to binutils to optionally check for the msgpack C library
[2].  Add There is a new --with{,out}-msgpack configure flag, and the actual
library lookup is done using pkg-config.

If msgpack support is enabled, dumping a NT_AMDGPU_METADATA note looks
like:

    $ readelf --notes amdgpu-code-object
    Displaying notes found in: .note
      Owner                Data size        Description
      AMDGPU               0x0000040d       NT_AMDGPU_METADATA (code object metadata)
        {
          "amdhsa.kernels": [
            {
              ".args": [
                {
                  ".address_space": "global",
                  ".name": "out.coerce",
                  ".offset": 0,
                  ".size": 8,
                  ".value_kind": "global_buffer",
                },
      <snip>

If msgpack support is disabled, dump the contents as hex, as is done
with notes that are not handled in a special way.  This allows one to
decode the contents manually (maybe using a command-line msgpack
decoder) if really needed.

[1] https://llvm.org/docs/AMDGPUUsage.html#code-object-metadata
[2] https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-c/tree/c_master

binutils/ChangeLog:

* Makefile.am (readelf_CFLAGS): New.
(readelf_LDADD): Add MSGPACK_LIBS.
* Makefile.in: Re-generate.
* config.in: Re-generate.
* configure: Re-generate.
* configure.ac: Add --with-msgpack flag and check for msgpack
using pkg-config.
* readelf.c: Include msgpack.h if HAVE_MSGPACK.
(print_note_contents_hex): New.
(print_indents): New.
(dump_msgpack_obj): New.
(dump_msgpack): New.
(print_amdgpu_note): New.
(process_note): Handle NT_AMDGPU_METADATA note contents.
Use print_note_contents_hex.

Change-Id: Ia60a654e620bc32dfdb1bccd845594e2af328b84
binutils/ChangeLog
binutils/Makefile.am
binutils/Makefile.in
binutils/config.in
binutils/configure
binutils/configure.ac
binutils/readelf.c