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Fix lldb-server build failure on mips
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Authored by raj.khem on May 20 2021, 1:41 PM.

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This helps fixing lldb-server build regression

/mnt/b/yoe/master/build/tmp/work/mips32r2-yoe-linux-musl/clang/13.0.0-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/mips-yoe-linux-musl/mips-yoe-linux-musl-ld: lib/liblldbPluginProcessLinux.a(NativeThreadLinux.cpp.o): in function `lldb_private::process_linux::NativeThreadLinux::NativeThreadLinux(lldb_private::process_linux::NativeProcessLinux&, unsigned long long)':
NativeThreadLinux.cpp:(.text._ZN12lldb_private13process_linux17NativeThreadLinuxC2ERNS0_18NativeProcessLinuxEy+0x74): undefined reference to `lldb_private::process_linux::NativeRegisterContextLinux::CreateHostNativeRegisterContextLinux(lldb_private::ArchSpec const&, lldb_private::process_linux::NativeThreadLinux&)'
/mnt/b/yoe/master/build/tmp/work/mips32r2-yoe-linux-musl/clang/13.0.0-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/mips-yoe-linux-musl/mips-yoe-linux-musl-ld: NativeThreadLinux.cpp:(.text._ZN12lldb_private13process_linux17NativeThreadLinuxC2ERNS0_18NativeProcessLinuxEy+0x7c): undefined reference to `lldb_private::process_linux::NativeRegisterContextLinux::CreateHostNativeRegisterContextLinux(lldb_private::ArchSpec const&, lldb_private::process_linux::NativeThreadLinux&)'
clang-13: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

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raj.khem created this revision.May 20 2021, 1:41 PM
raj.khem requested review of this revision.May 20 2021, 1:41 PM
raj.khem updated this revision to Diff 346855.May 20 2021, 2:22 PM

I assume this is caused by the removal of the specific NativeRegisterContextLinux_mips and you are building lldb on MIPS but you're going to connect to another debug server (gdb, custom stub etc.).

The problem with doing it this way is then if you build on a supported platform e.g. AArch64 NativeRegisterContextLinux_arm64 we then have two copies of CreateHostNativeRegisterContextLinux. Somehow this isn't an error on my system, and it picks up the one you've added. Meaning that you can't debug a simple hello world.

See the comment in lldb/source/Plugins/Process/Linux/NativeRegisterContextLinux.h. (though again I'd have expect a hard linker error but anyway) Also the reason CI didn't fail is that lldb is disabled for both of the builds.

I can see the utility in allowing people to build at least lldb (client) on any platform. Perhaps we surround this in the #ifdef that the old mips register context used? Or modify our cmake to allow lldb-server to be disabled. (easier said than done)

I assume this is caused by the removal of the specific NativeRegisterContextLinux_mips and you are building lldb on MIPS but you're going to connect to another debug server (gdb, custom stub etc.).

The problem with doing it this way is then if you build on a supported platform e.g. AArch64 NativeRegisterContextLinux_arm64 we then have two copies of CreateHostNativeRegisterContextLinux. Somehow this isn't an error on my system, and it picks up the one you've added. Meaning that you can't debug a simple hello world.

See the comment in lldb/source/Plugins/Process/Linux/NativeRegisterContextLinux.h. (though again I'd have expect a hard linker error but anyway) Also the reason CI didn't fail is that lldb is disabled for both of the builds.

I can see the utility in allowing people to build at least lldb (client) on any platform. Perhaps we surround this in the #ifdef that the old mips register context used? Or modify our cmake to allow lldb-server to be disabled. (easier said than done)

yes that will be ok. Although, I think for kind of devices mips is used in, lldb-server is more useful even if it will not support all features.

This failure affects 32-bit PowerPC as well. Can we get this fixed?

It seems we need this change on all architectures except arm, arm64, ppc64el, s390x and x86_64. Those are the only ones which implement NativeRegisterContextLinux_$ARCH.

See: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/main/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/Linux

This will create an lldb-server that crashes as soon as it tries to debug something. Maybe it would be better to disable the binary completely (in cmake) for unsupported architectures instead?

lldb/source/Plugins/Process/Linux/NativeRegisterContextLinux.cpp
27

This will cause multiple definition errors for architectures that do define this function.

Maybe it would be better to disable the binary completely (in cmake) for unsupported architectures instead?

+1, having an error message like "lldb isn't supported on arch foo" would save hours of work :)