Re: [Libunwind-devel] Question about memory references

[Harald Servat]

El dj 11 de 10 de 2012 a les 08:04 +0300, en/na Konstantin Belousov va
escriure:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 03:37:53PM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Harald Servat <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Hello list,
> > >
> > >   I was wondering whether in the recent development of libunwind if the
> > > library gives the possibility to know which is the effective address
> > > that is being accessed in a sighandler (not the Program Counter itself,
> > > but the memory referenced, if the PC pointed to a Load/Store op). Or if
> > > this functionality is out of the scope of libunwind and must be done
> > > through other libraries/tools (and if any, do you have any clue?).
> > 
> > I'd say this is out of the scope of libunwind. A couple of suggestions:
> > 
> > * SA_SIGINFO can provide the faulting address for some signals
> > * PEBS/IBS on x86 CPUs have this capability (as a profiling tool).
> > Relevant patches have been posted multiple times on linux-kernel, but
> > haven't made it to mainline yet.
> > * If nothing else works, you could try to use a x86 instruction
> > decoder and compute the effective address by interpreting the
> > instruction.
> 
> If CPU did reported the faulted address, then you can get it for sure
> on FreeBSD/x86 or x86_64. The kernel passes a fully populated ucontext_t
> to the handler, which contains the snaphot of the register file at the
> fault time, as well as mc_err field, which is the CPU error as pushed
> on stack by microcode.
> 
> I expect a similar mechanism available for other Unixes.

Ok, thank you very much for the feedback Arun and Konstantin. I will
look at the alternatives you mention.


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