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Minidump files contain explicit information about load addresses of modules, so it can load them itself. This works on other platforms, but fails on darwin because DynamicLoaderDarwin nukes the loaded module list on initialization (which happens after the core file plugin has done its work).

This used to work until #109477, which enabled the dynamic loader plugins for minidump files in order to get them to provide access to TLS.

Clearing the load list makes sense, but I think we could do it earlier in the process, so that both Process and DynamicLoader plugins get a chance to load modules. This patch does that by calling the function early in the launch/attach/load core flows.

This fixes TestDynamicValue.py:test_from_core_file on darwin.

Minidump files contain explicit information about load addresses of
modules, so it can load them itself. This works on other platforms, but
fails on darwin because DynamicLoaderDarwin nukes the loaded module list
on initialization (which happens after the core file plugin has done its
work).

This used to work until llvm#109477, which enabled the dynamic loader
plugins for minidump files in order to get them to provide access to
TLS.

Clearing the load list makes sense, but I think we could do it earlier
in the process, so that both Process and DynamicLoader plugins get a
chance to load modules. This patch does that by calling the function
early in the launch/attach/load core flows.

This fixes TestDynamicValue.py:test_from_core_file on darwin.
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Author: Pavel Labath (labath)

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Minidump files contain explicit information about load addresses of modules, so it can load them itself. This works on other platforms, but fails on darwin because DynamicLoaderDarwin nukes the loaded module list on initialization (which happens after the core file plugin has done its work).

This used to work until #109477, which enabled the dynamic loader plugins for minidump files in order to get them to provide access to TLS.

Clearing the load list makes sense, but I think we could do it earlier in the process, so that both Process and DynamicLoader plugins get a chance to load modules. This patch does that by calling the function early in the launch/attach/load core flows.

This fixes TestDynamicValue.py:test_from_core_file on darwin.


Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/138892.diff

3 Files Affected:

  • (modified) lldb/source/Plugins/DynamicLoader/MacOSX-DYLD/DynamicLoaderDarwin.cpp (-1)
  • (modified) lldb/source/Target/Process.cpp (+4)
  • (modified) lldb/test/API/lang/cpp/dynamic-value/TestDynamicValue.py (-1)
diff --git a/lldb/source/Plugins/DynamicLoader/MacOSX-DYLD/DynamicLoaderDarwin.cpp b/lldb/source/Plugins/DynamicLoader/MacOSX-DYLD/DynamicLoaderDarwin.cpp
index e25c4ff55e408..8bf01aa168342 100644
--- a/lldb/source/Plugins/DynamicLoader/MacOSX-DYLD/DynamicLoaderDarwin.cpp
+++ b/lldb/source/Plugins/DynamicLoader/MacOSX-DYLD/DynamicLoaderDarwin.cpp
@@ -871,7 +871,6 @@ void DynamicLoaderDarwin::PrivateInitialize(Process *process) {
                StateAsCString(m_process->GetState()));
   Clear(true);
   m_process = process;
-  m_process->GetTarget().ClearAllLoadedSections();
 }
 
 // Member function that gets called when the process state changes.
diff --git a/lldb/source/Target/Process.cpp b/lldb/source/Target/Process.cpp
index 13ff12b4ff953..7c5512598bbb6 100644
--- a/lldb/source/Target/Process.cpp
+++ b/lldb/source/Target/Process.cpp
@@ -2763,6 +2763,7 @@ Status Process::LaunchPrivate(ProcessLaunchInfo &launch_info, StateType &state,
   }
 
   if (state == eStateStopped || state == eStateCrashed) {
+    GetTarget().ClearAllLoadedSections();
     DidLaunch();
 
     // Now that we know the process type, update its signal responses from the
@@ -2799,6 +2800,7 @@ Status Process::LaunchPrivate(ProcessLaunchInfo &launch_info, StateType &state,
 }
 
 Status Process::LoadCore() {
+  GetTarget().ClearAllLoadedSections();
   Status error = DoLoadCore();
   if (error.Success()) {
     ListenerSP listener_sp(
@@ -3094,6 +3096,8 @@ void Process::CompleteAttach() {
   Log *log(GetLog(LLDBLog::Process | LLDBLog::Target));
   LLDB_LOGF(log, "Process::%s()", __FUNCTION__);
 
+  GetTarget().ClearAllLoadedSections();
+
   // Let the process subclass figure out at much as it can about the process
   // before we go looking for a dynamic loader plug-in.
   ArchSpec process_arch;
diff --git a/lldb/test/API/lang/cpp/dynamic-value/TestDynamicValue.py b/lldb/test/API/lang/cpp/dynamic-value/TestDynamicValue.py
index cd95a9ff3fe8c..faa35421ff60b 100644
--- a/lldb/test/API/lang/cpp/dynamic-value/TestDynamicValue.py
+++ b/lldb/test/API/lang/cpp/dynamic-value/TestDynamicValue.py
@@ -282,7 +282,6 @@ def test_from_forward_decl(self):
 
     @no_debug_info_test
     @expectedFailureAll(oslist=["windows"], bugnumber="llvm.org/pr24663")
-    @expectedFailureDarwin  # dynamic loader unloads modules
     @expectedFailureAll(archs=["arm"]) # Minidump saving not implemented
     def test_from_core_file(self):
         """Test fetching C++ dynamic values from core files. Specifically, test

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Looks good to me, we should clear them on both attach & launch which is what the Darwin DynamicLoader plugin was doing.

I was a little surprised that Minidump is picking up the host native DyanmicLoader plugin at all - seems like the static dynamic loader might make more sense, so it can say what binaries are loaded & where they're loaded - but I've never looked at the Minidump code, I'm sure there are reasons why it works this way.

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