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From: Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com>
To: Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org>
Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
	Omair Javaid <omair.javaid@linaro.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@arm.com>,
	"david.spickett@linaro.org" <david.spickett@linaro.org>,
	"jose.marchesi@oracle.com" <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>,
	nd <nd@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] Memory Tagging Support + AArch64 Linux implementation
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 16:49:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <733523A7-36D3-40E8-860F-8536CBA921AA@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200715194513.16641-1-luis.machado@linaro.org>



> On 15 Jul 2020, at 20:44, Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> This patch series implements general memory tagging support for GDB, as well
> as an implementation for AArch64 Linux.
> 
> Memory tagging improves memory safety by tagging various parts of memory and
> raising exceptions when the allocation tag (the one associated with a range of
> memory addresses) does not match the logical tag contained in a pointer that is
> used to access the memory area.
> 
> We already have an implementation of such a mechanism for sparc64 (ADI), but
> it is target-specific and not exposed to the rest of GDB. This series aims to
> make the infrastructure available to other targets that may wish to support
> their specific memory tagging approaches. For AArch64 Linux this is called
> MTE (Memory Tagging Extensions).
> 
> The series is split into a set that deals with generic changes to GDB's
> infrastructure (target methods, gdbarch hooks and remote packets), a set that
> implements support for AArch64 Linux and one last set that implements new
> commands, updates the documentation and adds tests.
> 
> The goal is to make it so the architecture independent parts of GDB don't
> need to interpret tag formats, given the formats are likely different
> for each architecture.  For this reason, GDB will handle tags as a sequence of
> bytes and will not assume a particular format.
> 
> The architecture-specific code can handle the sequence of bytes appropriately.

I’ve reviewed earlier versions of this series, and my comments have been applied.
I’ve still taken a look through each patch in this latest series, and I’m mostly
happy now. Instead of replying to each patch in turn, these are my bulk set of
comments:

[PATCH 01/23] New target methods for memory tagging support
[PATCH 02/23] New gdbarch memory tagging hooks
- Looks good to me.

[PATCH 03/23] Add GDB-side remote target support for memory tagging
[PATCH 04/23] Unit testing for GDB-side remote memory tagging handling
[PATCH 05/23] GDBserver remote packet support for memory tagging
[PATCH 06/23] Unit tests for gdbserver memory tagging remote packets
[PATCH 07/23] Documentation for memory tagging remote packets
- Looks ok, but I’m not that familiar with the remote packet interface.
Worth someone else looking over.

[PATCH 08/23] AArch64: Add MTE CPU feature check support
[PATCH 09/23] AArch64: Add target description/feature for MTE registers
[PATCH 10/23] AArch64: Add MTE register set support for GDB and gdbserver
[PATCH 11/23] AArch64: Add MTE ptrace requests
[PATCH 12/23] AArch64: Implement memory tagging target methods for AArch64
[PATCH 13/23] Refactor parsing of /proc/<pid>/smaps
[PATCH 14/23] AArch64: Implement the memory tagging gdbarch hooks
[PATCH 15/23] AArch64: Add unit testing for logical tag set/get operations
[PATCH 16/23] AArch64: Report tag violation error information
[PATCH 17/23] AArch64: Add gdbserver MTE support
- These all Look good to me. My only concern here is that the Linux kernel support
is a WIP. But given GDB is the main user of these interfaces, and that you’ve been
reviewing the Linux patches, then I’m happy as long as they have all been tested
together.

[PATCH 18/23] New mtag commands
[PATCH 19/23] Documentation for the new mtag commands
- I’m happy with the new commands. But would like to know what others think, and
I’m not familiar enough with the implementation of the commands to do a detailed
review.

[PATCH 20/23] Extend "x" and "print" commands to support memory tagging
 -  Am I correct in thinking that p/x cannot cause a segfault? (we don’t want
one to happen)

[PATCH 21/23] Document new "x" and "print" memory tagging extensions
[PATCH 22/23] Add NEWS entry.
 - Looks good (assuming the commands aren’t changed)


> 
> Luis Machado (23):
>  New target methods for memory tagging support
>  New gdbarch memory tagging hooks
>  Add GDB-side remote target support for memory tagging
>  Unit testing for GDB-side remote memory tagging handling
>  GDBserver remote packet support for memory tagging
>  Unit tests for gdbserver memory tagging remote packets
>  Documentation for memory tagging remote packets
>  AArch64: Add MTE CPU feature check support
>  AArch64: Add target description/feature for MTE registers
>  AArch64: Add MTE register set support for GDB and gdbserver
>  AArch64: Add MTE ptrace requests
>  AArch64: Implement memory tagging target methods for AArch64
>  Refactor parsing of /proc/<pid>/smaps
>  AArch64: Implement the memory tagging gdbarch hooks
>  AArch64: Add unit testing for logical tag set/get operations
>  AArch64: Report tag violation error information
>  AArch64: Add gdbserver MTE support
>  New mtag commands
>  Documentation for the new mtag commands
>  Extend "x" and "print" commands to support memory tagging
>  Document new "x" and "print" memory tagging extensions
>  Add NEWS entry.
>  Add memory tagging testcases
> 
> gdb/Makefile.in                        |   3 +
> gdb/NEWS                               |  32 ++
> gdb/aarch64-linux-nat.c                | 121 ++++++-
> gdb/aarch64-linux-tdep.c               | 330 ++++++++++++++++-
> gdb/aarch64-tdep.c                     |  40 ++-
> gdb/aarch64-tdep.h                     |  12 +-
> gdb/arch-utils.c                       |  50 +++
> gdb/arch-utils.h                       |  23 ++
> gdb/arch/aarch64-mte-linux.c           |  70 ++++
> gdb/arch/aarch64-mte-linux.h           |  66 ++++
> gdb/arch/aarch64.c                     |   7 +-
> gdb/arch/aarch64.h                     |   7 +-
> gdb/configure.nat                      |   3 +-
> gdb/configure.tgt                      |   1 +
> gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo                    | 174 ++++++++-
> gdb/features/Makefile                  |   1 +
> gdb/features/aarch64-mte.c             |  14 +
> gdb/features/aarch64-mte.xml           |  11 +
> gdb/gdbarch.c                          | 137 ++++++++
> gdb/gdbarch.h                          |  53 +++
> gdb/gdbarch.sh                         |  36 ++
> gdb/linux-tdep.c                       | 356 ++++++++++++-------
> gdb/linux-tdep.h                       |   4 +
> gdb/nat/aarch64-mte-linux-ptrace.c     | 200 +++++++++++
> gdb/nat/aarch64-mte-linux-ptrace.h     |  50 +++
> gdb/printcmd.c                         | 468 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> gdb/remote.c                           | 230 ++++++++++++
> gdb/target-delegates.c                 |  84 +++++
> gdb/target.h                           |  25 ++
> gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/aarch64-mte.c   | 107 ++++++
> gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/aarch64-mte.exp | 371 ++++++++++++++++++++
> gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/memtag.c        |  22 ++
> gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/memtag.exp      |  64 ++++
> gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp              |  16 +
> gdb/valprint.h                         |   1 +
> gdbserver/Makefile.in                  |   1 +
> gdbserver/configure.srv                |   2 +
> gdbserver/linux-aarch64-ipa.cc         |   8 +-
> gdbserver/linux-aarch64-low.cc         |  89 ++++-
> gdbserver/linux-aarch64-tdesc.cc       |  10 +-
> gdbserver/linux-aarch64-tdesc.h        |   3 +-
> gdbserver/remote-utils.cc              |  40 +--
> gdbserver/remote-utils.h               |   2 +
> gdbserver/server.cc                    | 214 +++++++++++
> gdbserver/server.h                     |   3 +
> gdbserver/target.cc                    |  20 ++
> gdbserver/target.h                     |  17 +
> gdbsupport/rsp-low.cc                  |   2 +-
> include/elf/common.h                   |   3 +
> 49 files changed, 3421 insertions(+), 182 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 gdb/arch/aarch64-mte-linux.c
> create mode 100644 gdb/arch/aarch64-mte-linux.h
> create mode 100644 gdb/features/aarch64-mte.c
> create mode 100644 gdb/features/aarch64-mte.xml
> create mode 100644 gdb/nat/aarch64-mte-linux-ptrace.c
> create mode 100644 gdb/nat/aarch64-mte-linux-ptrace.h
> create mode 100644 gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/aarch64-mte.c
> create mode 100644 gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/aarch64-mte.exp
> create mode 100644 gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/memtag.c
> create mode 100644 gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/memtag.exp
> 
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-16 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-15 19:44 Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:44 ` [PATCH 01/23] New target methods for memory tagging support Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:44 ` [PATCH 02/23] New gdbarch memory tagging hooks Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:44 ` [PATCH 03/23] Add GDB-side remote target support for memory tagging Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:44 ` [PATCH 04/23] Unit testing for GDB-side remote memory tagging handling Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:44 ` [PATCH 05/23] GDBserver remote packet support for memory tagging Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:44 ` [PATCH 06/23] Unit tests for gdbserver memory tagging remote packets Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:44 ` [PATCH 07/23] Documentation for " Luis Machado
2020-07-17  5:54   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-17 14:20     ` Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:44 ` [PATCH 08/23] AArch64: Add MTE CPU feature check support Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:44 ` [PATCH 09/23] AArch64: Add target description/feature for MTE registers Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 10/23] AArch64: Add MTE register set support for GDB and gdbserver Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 11/23] AArch64: Add MTE ptrace requests Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 12/23] AArch64: Implement memory tagging target methods for AArch64 Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 13/23] Refactor parsing of /proc/<pid>/smaps Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 14/23] AArch64: Implement the memory tagging gdbarch hooks Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 15/23] AArch64: Add unit testing for logical tag set/get operations Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 16/23] AArch64: Report tag violation error information Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 17/23] AArch64: Add gdbserver MTE support Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 18/23] New mtag commands Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 19/23] Documentation for the new " Luis Machado
2020-07-17  6:11   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-17 14:20     ` Luis Machado
2020-07-17 14:29       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-17 15:08         ` Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 20/23] Extend "x" and "print" commands to support memory tagging Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 21/23] Document new "x" and "print" memory tagging extensions Luis Machado
2020-07-17  6:16   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-17 14:20     ` Luis Machado
2020-07-17 14:31       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 22/23] Add NEWS entry Luis Machado
2020-07-17  6:18   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-17 14:20     ` Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 23/23] Add memory tagging testcases Luis Machado
2020-07-16 16:49 ` Alan Hayward [this message]
2020-07-17 12:33   ` [PATCH 00/23] Memory Tagging Support + AArch64 Linux implementation Luis Machado
2020-07-17 22:02 ` John Baldwin
2020-07-23 13:59   ` Luis Machado
2020-07-23 16:48     ` John Baldwin
2020-07-24 16:10       ` David Spickett
2020-07-23 14:59 ` Luis Machado

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