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<title>[lldb][AArch64] Add Guarded Control Stack registers (#123720)</title>
<updated>2025-01-24T13:42:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Spickett</name>
<email>david.spickett@linaro.org</email>
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<published>2025-01-24T13:42:06+00:00</published>
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The Guarded Control Stack extension implements a shadow stack and the
Linux kernel provides access to 3 registers for it via ptrace.

struct user_gcs {
	__u64 features_enabled;
	__u64 features_locked;
	__u64 gcspr_el0;
};

This commit adds support for reading those from a live process.

The first 2 are pseudo registers based on the real control register and
the 3rd is a real register. This is the stack pointer for the guarded
stack.

I have added a "gcs_" prefix to the "features" registers so that they
have a clear name when shown individually. Also this means they will tab
complete from "gcs", and be next to gcspr_el0 in any sorted lists of
registers.

Guarded Control Stack Registers:
  gcs_features_enabled = 0x0000000000000000
  gcs_features_locked = 0x0000000000000000
  gcspr_el0 = 0x0000000000000000

Testing is more of the usual, where possible I'm writing a register then
doing something in the program to confirm the value was actually sent to
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The Guarded Control Stack extension implements a shadow stack and the
Linux kernel provides access to 3 registers for it via ptrace.

struct user_gcs {
	__u64 features_enabled;
	__u64 features_locked;
	__u64 gcspr_el0;
};

This commit adds support for reading those from a live process.

The first 2 are pseudo registers based on the real control register and
the 3rd is a real register. This is the stack pointer for the guarded
stack.

I have added a "gcs_" prefix to the "features" registers so that they
have a clear name when shown individually. Also this means they will tab
complete from "gcs", and be next to gcspr_el0 in any sorted lists of
registers.

Guarded Control Stack Registers:
  gcs_features_enabled = 0x0000000000000000
  gcs_features_locked = 0x0000000000000000
  gcspr_el0 = 0x0000000000000000

Testing is more of the usual, where possible I'm writing a register then
doing something in the program to confirm the value was actually sent to
ptrace.</pre>
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<title>[lldb][AArch64][Linux] Add Floating Point Mode Register (#106695)</title>
<updated>2024-09-25T09:27:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Spickett</name>
<email>david.spickett@linaro.org</email>
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<published>2024-09-25T09:27:57+00:00</published>
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Otherwise known as FEAT_FPMR. This register controls the behaviour of
floating point operations.

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0601/2024-06/AArch64-Registers/FPMR--Floating-point-Mode-Register

As the current floating point register contexts are fixed size, this has
been placed in a new set. Linux kernel patches have landed already, so
you can cross check with those.

To simplify testing we're not going to do any floating point operations,
just read and write from the program and debugger to make sure each sees
the other's values correctly.</content>
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Otherwise known as FEAT_FPMR. This register controls the behaviour of
floating point operations.

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0601/2024-06/AArch64-Registers/FPMR--Floating-point-Mode-Register

As the current floating point register contexts are fixed size, this has
been placed in a new set. Linux kernel patches have landed already, so
you can cross check with those.

To simplify testing we're not going to do any floating point operations,
just read and write from the program and debugger to make sure each sees
the other's values correctly.</pre>
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<title>[lldb][AArch64] Read mte_ctrl register from core files (#69689)</title>
<updated>2023-10-25T08:54:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Spickett</name>
<email>david.spickett@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-25T08:54:34+00:00</published>
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This register reports the configuration of the AArch64 Linux tagged
address ABI, part of which is the memory tagging (MTE) settings.

It will always be present in core files because even without MTE, there
are parts of the tagged address ABI that can be configured (these parts
use the Top Byte Ignore feature).

I missed adding this when I previously worked on MTE support. Until now
you could read memory tags from a core file but not this register.</content>
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This register reports the configuration of the AArch64 Linux tagged
address ABI, part of which is the memory tagging (MTE) settings.

It will always be present in core files because even without MTE, there
are parts of the tagged address ABI that can be configured (these parts
use the Top Byte Ignore feature).

I missed adding this when I previously worked on MTE support. Until now
you could read memory tags from a core file but not this register.</pre>
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<title>[lldb][AArch64] Add SME's Array Storage (ZA) register</title>
<updated>2023-09-19T10:49:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Spickett</name>
<email>david.spickett@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-12T10:42:31+00:00</published>
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Note: This requires later commits for ZA to function properly,
it is split for ease of review. Testing is also in a later patch.

The "Matrix" part of the Scalable Matrix Extension is a new register
"ZA". You can think of this as a square matrix made up of scalable rows,
where each row is one scalable vector long. However it is not made
of the existing scalable vector registers, it is its own register.
Meaning that the size of ZA is the vector length in bytes * the vector
length in bytes.

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0616/latest/

It uses the streaming vector length, even when streaming mode itself
is not active. For this reason, it's register data header always
includes the streaming vector length.

Due to it's size I've changed kMaxRegisterByteSize to the maximum
possible ZA size and kTypicalRegisterByteSize will be the maximum
possible scalable vector size. Therefore ZA transactions will cause heap
allocations, and non ZA registers will perform exactly as before.

ZA can be enabled and disabled independently of streaming mode. The way
this works in ptrace is different to SVE versus streaming SVE. Writing
NT_ARM_ZA without register data disables ZA, writing NT_ARM_ZA with
register data enables ZA (LLDB will only support the latter, and only
because it's convenient for us to do so).

https://kernel.org/doc/html/v6.2/arm64/sme.html

LLDB does not handle registers that can appear and dissappear at
runtime. Rather than add complexity to implement that, LLDB will
show a block of 0s when ZA is disabled.

The alternative is not only updating the vector lengths every stop,
but every register definition. It's possible but I'm not sure it's worth
pursuing.

Users should refer to the SVCR register (added in later patches)
for the final word on whether ZA is active or not.

Writing to "VG" during streaming mode will change the size of the
streaming sve registers and ZA. LLDB will not attempt to preserve
register values in this case, we'll just read back the undefined
content the kernel shows. This is in line with, as stated, the
kernel ABIs and the prospective software ABIs look like.

ZA is defined as a vector of size SVL*SVL, so the display in lldb
is very basic. A giant block of values. This is no worse than SVE,
just larger. There is scope to improve this but that can wait
until we see some use cases.

Reviewed By: omjavaid

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D159502
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Note: This requires later commits for ZA to function properly,
it is split for ease of review. Testing is also in a later patch.

The "Matrix" part of the Scalable Matrix Extension is a new register
"ZA". You can think of this as a square matrix made up of scalable rows,
where each row is one scalable vector long. However it is not made
of the existing scalable vector registers, it is its own register.
Meaning that the size of ZA is the vector length in bytes * the vector
length in bytes.

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0616/latest/

It uses the streaming vector length, even when streaming mode itself
is not active. For this reason, it's register data header always
includes the streaming vector length.

Due to it's size I've changed kMaxRegisterByteSize to the maximum
possible ZA size and kTypicalRegisterByteSize will be the maximum
possible scalable vector size. Therefore ZA transactions will cause heap
allocations, and non ZA registers will perform exactly as before.

ZA can be enabled and disabled independently of streaming mode. The way
this works in ptrace is different to SVE versus streaming SVE. Writing
NT_ARM_ZA without register data disables ZA, writing NT_ARM_ZA with
register data enables ZA (LLDB will only support the latter, and only
because it's convenient for us to do so).

https://kernel.org/doc/html/v6.2/arm64/sme.html

LLDB does not handle registers that can appear and dissappear at
runtime. Rather than add complexity to implement that, LLDB will
show a block of 0s when ZA is disabled.

The alternative is not only updating the vector lengths every stop,
but every register definition. It's possible but I'm not sure it's worth
pursuing.

Users should refer to the SVCR register (added in later patches)
for the final word on whether ZA is active or not.

Writing to "VG" during streaming mode will change the size of the
streaming sve registers and ZA. LLDB will not attempt to preserve
register values in this case, we'll just read back the undefined
content the kernel shows. This is in line with, as stated, the
kernel ABIs and the prospective software ABIs look like.

ZA is defined as a vector of size SVL*SVL, so the display in lldb
is very basic. A giant block of values. This is no worse than SVE,
just larger. There is scope to improve this but that can wait
until we see some use cases.

Reviewed By: omjavaid

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D159502
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<entry>
<title>[lldb][AArch64] Add reading of TLS tpidr register from core files</title>
<updated>2023-08-03T12:06:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Spickett</name>
<email>david.spickett@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-24T12:38:27+00:00</published>
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7e229217f4215b519b886e7881bae4da3742a7d2 did live processes, this does
core files. Pretty simple, there is an NT_ARM_TLS note that contains
at least tpidr, and on systems with the Scalable Matrix Extension (SME), tpidr2
as well.

tpidr2 will be handled in future patches for SME support.

This NT_ARM_TLS note has always been present but it seems convenient to
handle it as "optional" inside of LLDB. We'll probably want the flexibility
when supporting tpidr2.

Normally the C library would set tpidr but all our test sources build
without it. So I've updated the neon test program to write to tpidr
and regenerated the corefile.

I've removed the LLDB_PTRACE_NT_ARM_TLS that was unused, we get
what we need from llvm's defs instead.

Reviewed By: omjavaid

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D156118
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7e229217f4215b519b886e7881bae4da3742a7d2 did live processes, this does
core files. Pretty simple, there is an NT_ARM_TLS note that contains
at least tpidr, and on systems with the Scalable Matrix Extension (SME), tpidr2
as well.

tpidr2 will be handled in future patches for SME support.

This NT_ARM_TLS note has always been present but it seems convenient to
handle it as "optional" inside of LLDB. We'll probably want the flexibility
when supporting tpidr2.

Normally the C library would set tpidr but all our test sources build
without it. So I've updated the neon test program to write to tpidr
and regenerated the corefile.

I've removed the LLDB_PTRACE_NT_ARM_TLS that was unused, we get
what we need from llvm's defs instead.

Reviewed By: omjavaid

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D156118
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>[lldb] Replace default bodies of special member functions with = default;</title>
<updated>2021-07-02T18:31:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonas Devlieghere</name>
<email>jonas@devlieghere.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-02T18:27:37+00:00</published>
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Replace default bodies of special member functions with = default;

$ run-clang-tidy.py -header-filter='lldb' -checks='-*,modernize-use-equals-default' -fix ,

https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/modernize-use-equals-default.html

Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104041
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Replace default bodies of special member functions with = default;

$ run-clang-tidy.py -header-filter='lldb' -checks='-*,modernize-use-equals-default' -fix ,

https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/modernize-use-equals-default.html

Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104041
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<entry>
<title>[lldb][NFC] Use C++ versions of the deprecated C standard library headers</title>
<updated>2021-05-26T10:46:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Raphael Isemann</name>
<email>teemperor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-26T10:19:37+00:00</published>
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The C headers are deprecated so as requested in D102845, this is replacing them
all with their (not deprecated) C++ equivalent.

Reviewed By: shafik

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103084
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The C headers are deprecated so as requested in D102845, this is replacing them
all with their (not deprecated) C++ equivalent.

Reviewed By: shafik

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103084
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<entry>
<title>Support AArch64 PAC elf-core register read</title>
<updated>2021-05-03T11:04:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Muhammad Omair Javaid</name>
<email>omair.javaid@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-03T10:59:30+00:00</published>
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This adds support for reading AArch64 Pointer Authentication regset
from elf-core file. Also includes a test-case for the same. Furthermore
there is also a slight refactoring of RegisterContextPOSIXCore_arm64
members and constructor. linux-aarch64-pac.core file is generated using
lldb/test/API/functionalities/postmortem/elf-core/main.c with following
clang arguments:
-march=armv8.5-a -mbranch-protection=pac-ret+leaf -nostdlib -static -g

Reviewed By: DavidSpickett

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99941
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This adds support for reading AArch64 Pointer Authentication regset
from elf-core file. Also includes a test-case for the same. Furthermore
there is also a slight refactoring of RegisterContextPOSIXCore_arm64
members and constructor. linux-aarch64-pac.core file is generated using
lldb/test/API/functionalities/postmortem/elf-core/main.c with following
clang arguments:
-march=armv8.5-a -mbranch-protection=pac-ret+leaf -nostdlib -static -g

Reviewed By: DavidSpickett

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99941
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<entry>
<title>[LLDB] Add support for Arm64/Linux dynamic register sets</title>
<updated>2021-03-30T23:38:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Muhammad Omair Javaid</name>
<email>omair.javaid@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-30T10:39:32+00:00</published>
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This is patch adds support for adding dynamic register sets for
AArch64 dynamic features in LLDB. AArch64 has optional features like
SVE, Pointer Authentication and MTE which means LLDB needs to decide
at run time which registers it needs to pull in for the current
executable based on underlying support for a certain feature.

This patch makes necessary adjustments to make way for dynamic
register infos and dynamic register sets.

Reviewed By: labath

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D96458
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This is patch adds support for adding dynamic register sets for
AArch64 dynamic features in LLDB. AArch64 has optional features like
SVE, Pointer Authentication and MTE which means LLDB needs to decide
at run time which registers it needs to pull in for the current
executable based on underlying support for a certain feature.

This patch makes necessary adjustments to make way for dynamic
register infos and dynamic register sets.

Reviewed By: labath

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D96458
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<entry>
<title>Revert "Revert "AArch64 SVE register infos and core file support""</title>
<updated>2020-07-21T09:31:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Muhammad Omair Javaid</name>
<email>omair.javaid@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-21T09:27:06+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit d9920e0199b48734ef305e69ecd5235fff72be25.
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This reverts commit d9920e0199b48734ef305e69ecd5235fff72be25.
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