History log of /system/core/debuggerd/utility.h
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053b865412d1982ad1dc0e840898d82527deeb99 07-Jun-2012 Jeff Brown <jeffbrown@google.com> Enhance native stack dumps.

Provides a new mechanism for dumpstate (while running as root)
to request that debuggerd dump the stacks of native processes that
we care about in bug reports. In this mode, the backtrace
is formatted to look similar to a Dalvik backtrace.

Moved the tombstone generating code into a separate file to
make it easier to maintain.

Fixed a bug where sometimes the stack traces would be incomplete
because we were not waiting for each thread to stop after issuing
PTRACE_ATTACH, only the main thread. So sometimes we were missing
traces for some threads.

Refactored the logging code to prevent accidentally writing data
to logcat when explicitly dumping a tombstone or backtrace from the
console.

Only root or system server can request to dump backtraces but
only root can dump tombstones.

Bug: 6615693
Change-Id: Ib3edcc16f9f3a687e414e3f2d250d9500566123b
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f0c5872637a63e28e3cd314cfc915c07f76df9c6 04-Nov-2011 Jeff Brown <jeffbrown@google.com> Improve stack unwinder robustness.

Keep track of whether memory maps are readable. Use the information
in try_get_word to try to avoid accidentally dereferencing an invalid
pointer within the current process. (Note that I haven't ever
seen that happen during normal unwinding, but it pays to be
a little more careful.)

Refactored try_get_word a little to make it easier to pass it the
needed state for validation checks by way of a little memory_t struct.

Improved how the memory map for the current process is cached. This is
important because we need up to date information about readable maps.
Use a 5 second cache expiration.

Improved the PC -> LR fallback logic in the unwinder so we can
eke out an extra frame sometimes.

Fixed a bug reading ELF program headers. The phnum & phentsize
fields are half-words. We were incorrectly interpreting
phnum as a whole word.

Used android_atomic_* operations carefully in the unwinder
to prevent possible memory races between the dumper and the dumpee.
This was highly unlikely (or even impossible due to the presence
of other barriers along the way) but the code is clearer now about
its invariants.

Fixed a bug in debuggerd where the pid was being passed to have
its stack dump taken instead of the tid, resulting in short
stacks because ptrace couldn't read the data if pid != tid.
Did a full sweep to ensure that we use pid / tid correctly everywhere.

Ported old code from debuggerd to rewind the program counter back
one instruction so that it points to the branch instruction itself
instead of the return address.

Change-Id: Icc4eb08320052975a4ae7f0f5f0ac9308a2d33d7
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13e715b491e876865e752a3a69dd6f347049a488 21-Oct-2011 Jeff Brown <jeffbrown@google.com> Use libcorkscrew in debuggerd.

Change-Id: I5e3645a39d96c808f87075b49111d0262a19a0c8
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136dcc5ce628a1ba600a6818e5cb24d5f15eb016 23-Sep-2011 Andy McFadden <fadden@android.com> Show maps near native fault address

This adds some additional output to native crashes. For example, if
something tried to access a bit of mmap(/dev/zero) memory that had
been mprotect()ed, you might see output like this:

I DEBUG : memory map around addr 4015a00c:
I DEBUG : 40159000-4015a000 /system/lib/libstdc++.so
I DEBUG : 4015a000-40162000 /dev/zero
I DEBUG : b0001000-b0009000 /system/bin/linker

The idea is to see what's in and around the fault address to make it
easier to identify bus errors due to file truncation and segmentation
faults caused by buffer over/underruns.

No output is generated for accesses below 0x1000 (which are likely
NULL pointer dereferences) or for signals that don't set si_addr.

Also, suppress the fault address for signals that don't set si_addr:
I DEBUG : signal 6 (SIGABRT), code 0 (?), fault addr --------

We still print "fault addr" followed by 8 characters for anything
that is parsing the contents. The "address" shown for signals like
SIGABRT was meaningless and possibly confusing.

Bug 5358516

Change-Id: Icae8ef309ea2d89b129f68d30f96b2ca8a69cc6c
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2c259914a0c5d49a3fcb525a75f4817a3a99a6c8 26-Jan-2011 David 'Digit' Turner <digit@google.com> debuggerd: Fix missing include.

The structure user_vfp is incorrectly defined in bionic/libc/kernel/arch-arm/asm/ptrace.h
at the moment, while it should be under bionic/libc/kernel/arch-arm/asm/user.h instead.

Before moving its definition in the corresponding source files, we need to fix its users.
It happens that debuggerd is the only one for now, so fix this by including <linux/user.h>
instead (which will include <asm/user.h> and <asm/ptrace.h>).

Also, make the debug output less chatty by specifying all symbols to be listed
through XLOG2 instead of XLOG.

Change-Id: I16e0fa700945d86efd44ee885a84ad609c0a9b58
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849249064cae9c1bb23b0204b5d35b832567801e 13-Oct-2010 Bruce Beare <bruce.j.beare@intel.com> debuggerd: Reorganize to facilitate IA commit

Change-Id: I22dd02daf617672fc0a8ba7e396017c57f17e26e
Signed-off-by: Bruce Beare <bruce.j.beare@intel.com>
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ae7b91b68008ab09635a97a18e7d07a35e8404aa 05-Nov-2009 Meng Hu <meng.hu@garmin.com> debuggerd: Show function names in tombstone backtraces

This change enables debuggerd to provide backtraces with function
names in tombstone files and log messages. It does this by reading
the image file that the address is found in, and parsing the dynamic
symbol table to try to extract the symbol corresponding to the given
address.

This works best when "-Wl,-export-dynamic" is added to the LDFLAGS
of each library and executable, because this will cause all symbols
to be added to the dynamic symbol table. If this flag is not present,
it will still work, but it will only be able to identify functions
which are part of the external API of the library/executable.

Change-Id: I618baaff9ed9143b7d1a1f302224e9f21d2b0626
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dd7bc3319deb2b77c5d07a51b7d6cd7e11b5beb0 04-Mar-2009 The Android Open Source Project <initial-contribution@android.com> auto import from //depot/cupcake/@135843
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