Re: [PING] [PATCH v4 00/25] Memory Tagging Support + AArch64 Linux implementation

[Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>]

Just wondering, do you intend to update the settings as suggested here?

https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-January/175198.html

Simon

On 2021-01-26 8:03 a.m., Luis Machado via Gdb-patches wrote:
> 
> On 1/15/21 1:02 PM, Luis Machado wrote:
>> Ping?
>>
>> On 12/30/20 12:38 PM, Luis Machado wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Luis Machado (25):
>>>    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
>>>    Convert char array to std::string in linux_find_memory_regions_full
>>>    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
>>>    AArch64: Add MTE register set support for core files
>>>    New memory-tag 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                               |  36 +-
>>>   gdb/aarch64-linux-nat.c                | 127 ++++++-
>>>   gdb/aarch64-linux-tdep.c               | 336 +++++++++++++++++-
>>>   gdb/aarch64-linux-tdep.h               |   3 +
>>>   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           |  73 ++++
>>>   gdb/arch/aarch64-mte-linux.h           |  75 ++++
>>>   gdb/arch/aarch64.c                     |   7 +-
>>>   gdb/arch/aarch64.h                     |   7 +-
>>>   gdb/configure.nat                      |   3 +-
>>>   gdb/configure.tgt                      |   1 +
>>>   gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo                    | 233 +++++++++++-
>>>   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                       | 378 +++++++++++++-------
>>>   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                           | 227 ++++++++++++
>>>   gdb/target-debug.h                     |  24 ++
>>>   gdb/target-delegates.c                 |  95 +++++
>>>   gdb/target.h                           |  41 +++
>>>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/aarch64-mte.c   | 107 ++++++
>>>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/aarch64-mte.exp | 369 +++++++++++++++++++
>>>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/memtag.c        |  22 ++
>>>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/memtag.exp      |  66 ++++
>>>   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         |  97 ++++-
>>>   gdbserver/linux-aarch64-tdesc.cc       |  10 +-
>>>   gdbserver/linux-aarch64-tdesc.h        |   3 +-
>>>   gdbserver/remote-utils.cc              |  43 ++-
>>>   gdbserver/remote-utils.h               |   7 +-
>>>   gdbserver/server.cc                    | 219 ++++++++++++
>>>   gdbserver/server.h                     |   3 +
>>>   gdbserver/target.cc                    |  20 ++
>>>   gdbserver/target.h                     |  21 ++
>>>   gdbsupport/common-utils.cc             |  49 +++
>>>   gdbsupport/common-utils.h              |  15 +
>>>   gdbsupport/rsp-low.cc                  |  49 ---
>>>   gdbsupport/rsp-low.h                   |  19 -
>>>   include/elf/common.h                   |   3 +
>>>   54 files changed, 3654 insertions(+), 264 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
>>>