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From: Luis Machado via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: david.spickett@linaro.org
Subject: [PING] [PATCH v4 00/25] Memory Tagging Support + AArch64 Linux implementation
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:03:08 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d0bcd01a-f140-b6cf-0e06-8abd73c878fd@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ced805e-edef-922a-4181-b15f75e0e59a@linaro.org>


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
>>

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-26 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-30 15:38 Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:38 ` [PATCH v4 01/25] New target methods for memory tagging support Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:38 ` [PATCH v4 02/25] New gdbarch memory tagging hooks Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:38 ` [PATCH v4 03/25] Add GDB-side remote target support for memory tagging Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:38 ` [PATCH v4 04/25] Unit testing for GDB-side remote memory tagging handling Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:38 ` [PATCH v4 05/25] GDBserver remote packet support for memory tagging Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:38 ` [PATCH v4 06/25] Unit tests for gdbserver memory tagging remote packets Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:38 ` [PATCH v4 07/25] Documentation for " Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 20:41   ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:38 ` [PATCH v4 08/25] AArch64: Add MTE CPU feature check support Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v4 09/25] AArch64: Add target description/feature for MTE registers Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v4 10/25] AArch64: Add MTE register set support for GDB and gdbserver Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v4 11/25] AArch64: Add MTE ptrace requests Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v4 12/25] AArch64: Implement memory tagging target methods for AArch64 Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v4 13/25] Convert char array to std::string in linux_find_memory_regions_full Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v4 14/25] Refactor parsing of /proc/<pid>/smaps Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v4 15/25] AArch64: Implement the memory tagging gdbarch hooks Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v4 16/25] AArch64: Add unit testing for logical tag set/get operations Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v4 17/25] AArch64: Report tag violation error information Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v4 18/25] AArch64: Add gdbserver MTE support Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v4 19/25] AArch64: Add MTE register set support for core files Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v4 20/25] New memory-tag commands Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v4 21/25] Documentation for the new mtag commands Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 20:43   ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v4 22/25] Extend "x" and "print" commands to support memory tagging Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v4 23/25] Document new "x" and "print" memory tagging extensions Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 20:44   ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v4 24/25] Add NEWS entry Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 20:45   ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 15:39 ` [PATCH v4 25/25] Add memory tagging testcases Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2021-01-15 16:02 ` [PATCH v4 00/25] Memory Tagging Support + AArch64 Linux implementation Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2021-01-26 13:03   ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches [this message]
2021-01-26 16:26     ` [PING] " Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2021-01-26 16:36       ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2021-01-26 16:49         ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches

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