Create synthetic symbol names on demand to improve memory consumption and startup times.

[clayborg]

Summary

This fix was created after profiling the target creation of a large C/C++/ObjC application that contained almost 4,000,000 redacted symbol names. The symbol table parsing code was creating names for each of these synthetic symbols and adding them to the name indexes. The code was also adding the object file basename to the end of the symbol name which doesn't allow symbols from different shared libraries to share the names in the constant string pool.

Prior to this fix this was creating 180MB of "___lldb_unnamed_symbol" symbol names and was taking a long time to generate each name, add them to the string pool and then add each of these names to the name index.

This patch fixes the issue by:

• not adding a name to synthetic symbols at creation time, and allows name to be dynamically generated when accessed
• doesn't add synthetic symbol names to the name indexes, but catches this special case as name lookup time. Users won't typically set breakpoints or lookup these synthetic names, but support was added to do the lookup in case it does happen
• removes the object file baseanme from the generated names to allow the names to be shared in the constant string pool

Prior to this fix the startup times for a large application was:
12.5 seconds (cold file caches)
8.5 seconds (warm file caches)

After this fix:
9.7 seconds (cold file caches)
5.7 seconds (warm file caches)

The names of the symbols are auto generated by appending the symbol's UserID to the end of the "___lldb_unnamed_symbol" string and is only done when the name is requested from a synthetic symbol if it has no name.

[wallace]

lgtm

I wonder if it's lldb's style to rename m_mangled to m_mangled_do_not_use (or something like that) to prevent people from using it in the future.

lldb/source/Symbol/Symtab.cpp

639

these queries

[clayborg]

Fixed a case where the accessor was being used twice in the same function and fixed a typo in a comment.

[jingham]

Are the Symbol ID's for unnamed symbols the same each time you read in a symbol file? While the unnamed_symbol symbol names are not significant, it would be good if you were crashing in __lldb_unnamed_symbol111 on one lldb run, you would also crash in the same unnamed symbol when you crashed again.

[shafik]

lldb/include/lldb/Symbol/Symtab.h

222

We should add Doxygen comment for this member function. I know we are not consistent with doing this but for new stuff we should do this and fix when we can we refactoring. Thank you!

I thought about this because I noticed we are returning 0 and we had an explicit comment about what it meant and this is where it really belongs.

I also noticed we use UINT32_MAX but we don't seem to have an alias for that either.

lldb/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/ELF/ObjectFileELF.cpp

2815–2816

Since we are touching this can we move to using parameter name in the comment style as documented here: https://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html#comment-formatting

We even have a clang-tidy check to verify this: https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/bugprone-argument-comment.html

e.g./*name=*/llvm::StringRef(), /*type=*/eSymbolTypeCode, ...

lldb/source/Symbol/Symtab.cpp

649

/*Radix=*/10

[clayborg]

In D104488#2830992, @jingham wrote:

Are the Symbol ID's for unnamed symbols the same each time you read in a symbol file? While the unnamed_symbol symbol names are not significant, it would be good if you were crashing in __lldb_unnamed_symbol111 on one lldb run, you would also crash in the same unnamed symbol when you crashed again.

Yes, symbol IDs are consistent as they encode the UserID of the symbol as the number which will be the same on each run as long as the binary doesn't change. The UserID for synthetic symbols always start with the last valid actual symbol index from the main symbol table. So the numbers are just as good as they are before, they just don't start at 1 anymore, the start at the size of the actual symbol table.

[jingham]

In D104488#2831818, @clayborg wrote:

In D104488#2830992, @jingham wrote:

Are the Symbol ID's for unnamed symbols the same each time you read in a symbol file? While the unnamed_symbol symbol names are not significant, it would be good if you were crashing in __lldb_unnamed_symbol111 on one lldb run, you would also crash in the same unnamed symbol when you crashed again.

Yes, symbol IDs are consistent as they encode the UserID of the symbol as the number which will be the same on each run as long as the binary doesn't change. The UserID for synthetic symbols always start with the last valid actual symbol index from the main symbol table. So the numbers are just as good as they are before, they just don't start at 1 anymore, the start at the size of the actual symbol table.

Excellent, the specific number is unimportant so long as they are consistent. This seems a side effect of they way they are computed, might be good to drop a judicious comment somewhere saying why it's important...

[clayborg]

Fix comments from review:

• Add in-line C-style comment for parameter to symbol creation.
• Fixed the entry point address to encode the offset correctly for the ELF e_entry address
• Add header doc for the new Symtab function

[clayborg]

lldb/source/Symbol/Symbol.cpp

573–582

This is the comment Jim Ingham asked for.

[jingham]

Some comments on comments...

lldb/include/lldb/Symbol/Symtab.h

224

This comment is hard to read. I think it's mostly because you describe the implementation before the reason for it.

Maybe this would be clearer like:

"We generate unique names for synthetic symbols so that users can look them up by name when needed. But because doing so is uncommon in normal debugger use, we trade off some performance at lookup time for faster symbol table building by detecting these symbols and generating their names lazily, rather than adding them to the normal symbol indexes. This function does the job of first consulting the indexes, and if that fails checking whether the symbol has the synthetic symbol prefix and generating the correct synthetic name if it does.

lldb/source/Symbol/Symbol.cpp

575

are -> is

or maybe:

starts with the synthetic symbol prefix, followed by a unique number

576

is -> of so this reads:

Typically the UserID of a real symbol is ...

578

I don't think you need the implementation detail here, you are stating policy. Starting from "Typically" I think something like the following is more direct:

Typically the UserID of a real symbol is the symbol table index of the symbol in the object file's symbol table(s), so it will be the same every time you read in the object file. We want the same persistence for synthetic symbols so that users can identify them across multiple debug sessions, to understand crashes in those symbols and to reliably set breakpoints on them.

lldb/source/Symbol/Symtab.cpp

638

so -> to

[clayborg]

Fixed comments per Jim Ingham's comments.

[jingham]

Thanks!

[clayborg]

Anyone have any other comments? Or is this good to go?

[clayborg]

Anyone have any objections now?

[jingham]

I'm fine with the change.

[clayborg]

Sounds good, can someone accept the patch?

[wallace]

good to go

[aprantl]

lldb/source/Symbol/Symtab.cpp

652

if (!symbol) ?

[omjavaid]

This rev has caused multiple test failure on LLDB Arm/AArch64 buildbots.

https://lab.llvm.org/buildbot/#/builders/17/builds/8504
https://lab.llvm.org/buildbot/#/builders/96/builds/9110
https://lab.llvm.org/buildbot/#/builders/96/builds/9111

[stella.stamenova]

This broke the windows lldb bot and the follow up changes did not fix it:

https://lab.llvm.org/buildbot/#/builders/83/builds/7748

Can you have a look?

lldb/include/lldb/Symbol/ObjectFile.h

protected:
   /// \param[in] new_arch
   ///     The architecture this module will be set to.
   ///
   /// \return
   ///     Returns \b true if the architecture was changed, \b
   ///     false otherwise.
   bool SetModulesArchitecture(const ArchSpec &new_arch);
 
-  ConstString GetNextSyntheticSymbolName();
-
   static lldb::DataBufferSP MapFileData(const FileSpec &file, uint64_t Size,
                                         uint64_t Offset);
 
 private:
   ObjectFile(const ObjectFile &) = delete;
   const ObjectFile &operator=(const ObjectFile &) = delete;
 };
 

lldb/include/lldb/Symbol/Symbol.h

public:
 
   ConstString GetDisplayName() const;
 
   uint32_t GetID() const { return m_uid; }
 
   lldb::LanguageType GetLanguage() const {
     // TODO: See if there is a way to determine the language for a symbol
     // somehow, for now just return our best guess
-    return m_mangled.GuessLanguage();
+    return GetMangled().GuessLanguage();
   }
 
   void SetID(uint32_t uid) { m_uid = uid; }
 
-  Mangled &GetMangled() { return m_mangled; }
+  Mangled &GetMangled() {
+    SynthesizeNameIfNeeded();
+    return m_mangled;
+  }
 
-  const Mangled &GetMangled() const { return m_mangled; }
+  const Mangled &GetMangled() const {
+    SynthesizeNameIfNeeded();
+    return m_mangled;
+  }
 
   ConstString GetReExportedSymbolName() const;
 
   FileSpec GetReExportedSymbolSharedLibrary() const;
 
   void SetReExportedSymbolName(ConstString name);
 
   bool SetReExportedSymbolSharedLibrary(const FileSpec &fspec);
public:
 
   bool IsExternal() const { return m_is_external; }
 
   void SetExternal(bool b) { m_is_external = b; }
 
   bool IsTrampoline() const;
 
   bool IsIndirect() const;
-  
   bool IsWeak() const { return m_is_weak; }
-  
   void SetIsWeak (bool b) { m_is_weak = b; }
 
   bool GetByteSizeIsValid() const { return m_size_is_valid; }
 
   lldb::addr_t GetByteSize() const;
 
   void SetByteSize(lldb::addr_t size) {
     m_size_is_valid = size > 0;
lldb::DisassemblerSP GetInstructions(const ExecutionContext &exe_ctx,
                                        const char *flavor,
                                        bool prefer_file_cache);
 
   bool GetDisassembly(const ExecutionContext &exe_ctx, const char *flavor,
                       bool prefer_file_cache, Stream &strm);
 
   bool ContainsFileAddress(lldb::addr_t file_addr) const;
 
+  static llvm::StringRef GetSyntheticSymbolPrefix() {
+    return "___lldb_unnamed_symbol";
+  }
+
 protected:
   // This is the internal guts of ResolveReExportedSymbol, it assumes
   // reexport_name is not null, and that module_spec is valid.  We track the
   // modules we've already seen to make sure we don't get caught in a cycle.
 
   Symbol *ResolveReExportedSymbolInModuleSpec(
       Target &target, ConstString &reexport_name,
       lldb_private::ModuleSpec &module_spec,
       lldb_private::ModuleList &seen_modules) const;
 
+  void SynthesizeNameIfNeeded() const;
+
   uint32_t m_uid =
       UINT32_MAX;           // User ID (usually the original symbol table index)
   uint16_t m_type_data = 0; // data specific to m_type
   uint16_t m_type_data_resolved : 1, // True if the data in m_type_data has
                                      // already been calculated
       m_is_synthetic : 1, // non-zero if this symbol is not actually in the
                           // symbol table, but synthesized from other info in
                           // the object file.
uint16_t m_type_data_resolved : 1, // True if the data in m_type_data has
       m_demangled_is_synthesized : 1, // The demangled name was created should
                                       // not be used for expressions or other
                                       // lookups
       m_contains_linker_annotations : 1, // The symbol name contains linker
                                          // annotations, which are optional when
                                          // doing name lookups
       m_is_weak : 1,
       m_type : 6;            // Values from the lldb::SymbolType enum.
-  Mangled m_mangled;         // uniqued symbol name/mangled name pair
+  mutable Mangled m_mangled; // uniqued symbol name/mangled name pair
   AddressRange m_addr_range; // Contains the value, or the section offset
                              // address when the value is an address in a
                              // section, and the size (if any)
   uint32_t m_flags = 0; // A copy of the flags from the original symbol table,
                         // the ObjectFile plug-in can interpret these
 };
 
 } // namespace lldb_private
 
 #endif // LLDB_SYMBOL_SYMBOL_H

lldb/include/lldb/Symbol/Symtab.h

case eVisibilityExtern:
       return m_symbols[idx].IsExternal();
 
     case eVisibilityPrivate:
       return !m_symbols[idx].IsExternal();
     }
     return false;
   }
 
+  /// A helper function that looks up full function names.
+  ///
+  /// We generate unique names for synthetic symbols so that users can look
+  /// them up by name when needed. But because doing so is uncommon in normal
+  /// debugger use, we trade off some performance at lookup time for faster
+  /// symbol table building by detecting these symbols and generating their
+  /// names lazily, rather than adding them to the normal symbol indexes. This
+  /// function does the job of first consulting the name indexes, and if that
+  /// fails it extracts the information it needs from the synthetic name and
+  /// locates the symbol.
+  ///
+  /// @param[in] symbol_name The symbol name to search for.
+  ///
+  /// @param[out] indexes The vector if symbol indexes to update with results.
+  ///
+  /// @returns The number of indexes added to the index vector. Zero if no
+  /// matches were found.
+  uint32_t GetNameIndexes(ConstString symbol_name,
+                          std::vector<uint32_t> &indexes);
+
   void SymbolIndicesToSymbolContextList(std::vector<uint32_t> &symbol_indexes,
                                         SymbolContextList &sc_list);
 
   void RegisterMangledNameEntry(
       uint32_t value, std::set<const char *> &class_contexts,
       std::vector<std::pair<NameToIndexMap::Entry, const char *>> &backlog,
       RichManglingContext &rmc);
 

lldb/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/ELF/ObjectFileELF.cpp

if (auto gdd_objfile_section_list = gdd_obj_file->GetSectionList()) {
             eSectionTypeELFSymbolTable, true);
         if (module_section_sp)
           unified_section_list.ReplaceSection(module_section_sp->GetID(),
                                               symtab_section_sp);
         else
           unified_section_list.AddSection(symtab_section_sp);
       }
     }
-  }  
+  }
 }
 
 std::shared_ptr<ObjectFileELF> ObjectFileELF::GetGnuDebugDataObjectFile() {
   if (m_gnu_debug_data_object_file != nullptr)
     return m_gnu_debug_data_object_file;
 
   SectionSP section =
       GetSectionList()->FindSectionByName(ConstString(".gnu_debugdata"));
if (m_symtab_up == nullptr) {
     if (CalculateType() == eTypeExecutable) {
       ArchSpec arch = GetArchitecture();
       auto entry_point_addr = GetEntryPointAddress();
       bool is_valid_entry_point =
           entry_point_addr.IsValid() && entry_point_addr.IsSectionOffset();
       addr_t entry_point_file_addr = entry_point_addr.GetFileAddress();
       if (is_valid_entry_point && !m_symtab_up->FindSymbolContainingFileAddress(
                                       entry_point_file_addr)) {
         uint64_t symbol_id = m_symtab_up->GetNumSymbols();
-        Symbol symbol(symbol_id,
-                      GetNextSyntheticSymbolName().GetCString(), // Symbol name.
-                      eSymbolTypeCode, // Type of this symbol.
-                      true,            // Is this globally visible?
-                      false,           // Is this symbol debug info?
-                      false,           // Is this symbol a trampoline?
-                      true,            // Is this symbol artificial?
-                      entry_point_addr.GetSection(), // Section where this
-                                                     // symbol is defined.
-                      0,     // Offset in section or symbol value.
-                      0,     // Size.
-                      false, // Size is valid.
-                      false, // Contains linker annotations?
-                      0);    // Symbol flags.
+        // Don't set the name for any synthetic symbols, the Symbol
+        // object will generate one if needed when the name is accessed
+        // via accessors.
+        SectionSP section_sp = entry_point_addr.GetSection();
+        Symbol symbol(
+            /*symID=*/symbol_id,
+            /*name=*/llvm::StringRef(), // Name will be auto generated.
+            /*type=*/eSymbolTypeCode,
+            /*external=*/true,
+            /*is_debug=*/false,
+            /*is_trampoline=*/false,
+            /*is_artificial=*/true,
+            /*section_sp=*/section_sp,
+            /*offset=*/entry_point_addr.GetOffset(),
+            /*size=*/0, // FDE can span multiple symbols so don't use its size.
+            /*size_is_valid=*/false,
+            /*contains_linker_annotations=*/false,
+            /*flags=*/0);
         m_symtab_up->AddSymbol(symbol);
         // When the entry point is arm thumb we need to explicitly set its
         // class address to reflect that. This is important because expression
         // evaluation relies on correctly setting a breakpoint at this
         // address.
         if (arch.GetMachine() == llvm::Triple::arm &&
             (entry_point_file_addr & 1))
           m_address_class_map[entry_point_file_addr ^ 1] =
if (symbol) {
         symbol->SetByteSize(size);
         symbol->SetSizeIsSynthesized(true);
       }
     } else {
       SectionSP section_sp =
           section_list->FindSectionContainingFileAddress(file_addr);
       if (section_sp) {
         addr_t offset = file_addr - section_sp->GetFileAddress();
-        const char *symbol_name = GetNextSyntheticSymbolName().GetCString();
         uint64_t symbol_id = ++last_symbol_id;
+        // Don't set the name for any synthetic symbols, the Symbol
+        // object will generate one if needed when the name is accessed
+        // via accessors.
         Symbol eh_symbol(
-            symbol_id,       // Symbol table index.
-            symbol_name,     // Symbol name.
-            eSymbolTypeCode, // Type of this symbol.
-            true,            // Is this globally visible?
-            false,           // Is this symbol debug info?
-            false,           // Is this symbol a trampoline?
-            true,            // Is this symbol artificial?
-            section_sp,      // Section in which this symbol is defined or null.
-            offset,          // Offset in section or symbol value.
-            0,     // Size:          Don't specify the size as an FDE can
-            false, // Size is valid: cover multiple symbols.
-            false, // Contains linker annotations?
-            0);    // Symbol flags.
+            /*symID=*/symbol_id,
+            /*name=*/llvm::StringRef(), // Name will be auto generated.
+            /*type=*/eSymbolTypeCode,
+            /*external=*/true,
+            /*is_debug=*/false,
+            /*is_trampoline=*/false,
+            /*is_artificial=*/true,
+            /*section_sp=*/section_sp,
+            /*offset=*/offset,
+            /*size=*/0, // FDE can span multiple symbols so don't use its size.
+            /*size_is_valid=*/false,
+            /*contains_linker_annotations=*/false,
+            /*flags=*/0);
         new_symbols.push_back(eh_symbol);
       }
     }
     return true;
   });
 
   for (const Symbol &s : new_symbols)
     symbol_table->AddSymbol(s);

lldb/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/Mach-O/ObjectFileMachO.cpp

if (num_synthetic_function_symbols > 0) {
                   next_symbol_file_addr &= THUMB_ADDRESS_BIT_MASK;
                 symbol_byte_size = std::min<lldb::addr_t>(
                     next_symbol_file_addr - symbol_file_addr,
                     section_end_file_addr - symbol_file_addr);
               } else {
                 symbol_byte_size = section_end_file_addr - symbol_file_addr;
               }
               sym[sym_idx].SetID(synthetic_sym_id++);
-              sym[sym_idx].GetMangled().SetDemangledName(
-                  GetNextSyntheticSymbolName());
+              // Don't set the name for any synthetic symbols, the Symbol
+              // object will generate one if needed when the name is accessed
+              // via accessors.
+              sym[sym_idx].GetMangled().SetDemangledName(ConstString());
               sym[sym_idx].SetType(eSymbolTypeCode);
               sym[sym_idx].SetIsSynthetic(true);
               sym[sym_idx].GetAddressRef() = symbol_addr;
               add_symbol_addr(symbol_addr.GetFileAddress());
               if (symbol_flags)
                 sym[sym_idx].SetFlags(symbol_flags);
               if (symbol_byte_size)
                 sym[sym_idx].SetByteSize(symbol_byte_size);

lldb/source/Symbol/ObjectFile.cpp

if (!name.empty()) {
     } else if (name.startswith(".objc_class_name_")) {
       // ObjC v1
       return lldb::eSymbolTypeObjCClass;
     }
   }
   return symbol_type_hint;
 }
 
-ConstString ObjectFile::GetNextSyntheticSymbolName() {
-  llvm::SmallString<256> name;
-  llvm::raw_svector_ostream os(name);
-  ConstString file_name = GetModule()->GetFileSpec().GetFilename();
-  ++m_synthetic_symbol_idx;
-  os << "___lldb_unnamed_symbol" << m_synthetic_symbol_idx << "$$"
-     << file_name.GetStringRef();
-  return ConstString(os.str());
-}
-
 std::vector<ObjectFile::LoadableData>
 ObjectFile::GetLoadableData(Target &target) {
   std::vector<LoadableData> loadables;
   SectionList *section_list = GetSectionList();
   if (!section_list)
     return loadables;
   // Create a list of loadable data from loadable sections
   size_t section_count = section_list->GetNumSections(0);

lldb/source/Symbol/Symbol.cpp

Symbol::Symbol(uint32_t symID, const Mangled &mangled, SymbolType type,
                bool size_is_valid, bool contains_linker_annotations,
                uint32_t flags)
     : SymbolContextScope(), m_uid(symID), m_type_data(0),
       m_type_data_resolved(false), m_is_synthetic(is_artificial),
       m_is_debug(is_debug), m_is_external(external), m_size_is_sibling(false),
       m_size_is_synthesized(false),
       m_size_is_valid(size_is_valid || range.GetByteSize() > 0),
       m_demangled_is_synthesized(false),
-      m_contains_linker_annotations(contains_linker_annotations), 
-      m_is_weak(false), m_type(type), m_mangled(mangled), m_addr_range(range), 
+      m_contains_linker_annotations(contains_linker_annotations),
+      m_is_weak(false), m_type(type), m_mangled(mangled), m_addr_range(range),
       m_flags(flags) {}
 
 Symbol::Symbol(const Symbol &rhs)
     : SymbolContextScope(rhs), m_uid(rhs.m_uid), m_type_data(rhs.m_type_data),
       m_type_data_resolved(rhs.m_type_data_resolved),
       m_is_synthetic(rhs.m_is_synthetic), m_is_debug(rhs.m_is_debug),
       m_is_external(rhs.m_is_external),
       m_size_is_sibling(rhs.m_size_is_sibling), m_size_is_synthesized(false),
void Symbol::Clear() {
   m_addr_range.Clear();
 }
 
 bool Symbol::ValueIsAddress() const {
   return m_addr_range.GetBaseAddress().GetSection().get() != nullptr;
 }
 
 ConstString Symbol::GetDisplayName() const {
-  return m_mangled.GetDisplayDemangledName();
+  return GetMangled().GetDisplayDemangledName();
 }
 
 ConstString Symbol::GetReExportedSymbolName() const {
   if (m_type == eSymbolTypeReExported) {
     // For eSymbolTypeReExported, the "const char *" from a ConstString is used
     // as the offset in the address range base address. We can then make this
     // back into a string that is the re-exported name.
     intptr_t str_ptr = m_addr_range.GetBaseAddress().GetOffset();
void Symbol::GetDescription(Stream *s, lldb::DescriptionLevel level,
   } else {
     if (m_size_is_sibling)
       s->Printf(", sibling = %5" PRIu64,
                 m_addr_range.GetBaseAddress().GetOffset());
     else
       s->Printf(", value = 0x%16.16" PRIx64,
                 m_addr_range.GetBaseAddress().GetOffset());
   }
-  ConstString demangled = m_mangled.GetDemangledName();
+  ConstString demangled = GetMangled().GetDemangledName();
   if (demangled)
     s->Printf(", name=\"%s\"", demangled.AsCString());
   if (m_mangled.GetMangledName())
     s->Printf(", mangled=\"%s\"", m_mangled.GetMangledName().AsCString());
 }
 
 void Symbol::Dump(Stream *s, Target *target, uint32_t index,
                   Mangled::NamePreference name_preference) const {
   s->Printf("[%5u] %6u %c%c%c %-15s ", index, GetID(), m_is_debug ? 'D' : ' ',
             m_is_synthetic ? 'S' : ' ', m_is_external ? 'X' : ' ',
             GetTypeAsString());
 
   // Make sure the size of the symbol is up to date before dumping
   GetByteSize();
 
-  ConstString name = m_mangled.GetName(name_preference);
+  ConstString name = GetMangled().GetName(name_preference);
   if (ValueIsAddress()) {
     if (!m_addr_range.GetBaseAddress().Dump(s, nullptr,
                                             Address::DumpStyleFileAddress))
       s->Printf("%*s", 18, "");
 
     s->PutChar(' ');
 
     if (!m_addr_range.GetBaseAddress().Dump(s, target,
if (!m_type_data_resolved) {
       }
     }
     return m_type_data;
   }
   return 0;
 }
 
 bool Symbol::Compare(ConstString name, SymbolType type) const {
-  if (type == eSymbolTypeAny || m_type == type)
-    return m_mangled.GetMangledName() == name ||
-           m_mangled.GetDemangledName() == name;
+  if (type == eSymbolTypeAny || m_type == type) {
+    const Mangled &mangled = GetMangled();
+    return mangled.GetMangledName() == name ||
+           mangled.GetDemangledName() == name;
+  }
   return false;
 }
 
 #define ENUM_TO_CSTRING(x)                                                     \
   case eSymbolType##x:                                                         \
     return #x;
 
 const char *Symbol::GetTypeAsString() const {

 
 lldb::addr_t Symbol::GetLoadAddress(Target *target) const {
   if (ValueIsAddress())
     return GetAddressRef().GetLoadAddress(target);
   else
     return LLDB_INVALID_ADDRESS;
 }
 
-ConstString Symbol::GetName() const { return m_mangled.GetName(); }
+ConstString Symbol::GetName() const { return GetMangled().GetName(); }
 
 ConstString Symbol::GetNameNoArguments() const {
-  return m_mangled.GetName(Mangled::ePreferDemangledWithoutArguments);
+  return GetMangled().GetName(Mangled::ePreferDemangledWithoutArguments);
 }
 
 lldb::addr_t Symbol::ResolveCallableAddress(Target &target) const {
   if (GetType() == lldb::eSymbolTypeUndefined)
     return LLDB_INVALID_ADDRESS;
 
   Address func_so_addr;
 
if (disassembler_sp) {
     return true;
   }
   return false;
 }
 
 bool Symbol::ContainsFileAddress(lldb::addr_t file_addr) const {
   return m_addr_range.ContainsFileAddress(file_addr);
 }
+
+void Symbol::SynthesizeNameIfNeeded() const {
+  if (m_is_synthetic && !m_mangled) {
+    // Synthetic symbol names don't mean anything, but they do uniquely
+    // identify individual symbols so we give them a unique name. The name
+    // starts with the synthetic symbol prefix, followed by a unique number.
+    // Typically the UserID of a real symbol is the symbol table index of the
+    // symbol in the object file's symbol table(s), so it will be the same
+    // every time you read in the object file. We want the same persistence for
+    // synthetic symbols so that users can identify them across multiple debug
+    // sessions, to understand crashes in those symbols and to reliably set
+    // breakpoints on them.
+    llvm::SmallString<256> name;
+    llvm::raw_svector_ostream os(name);
+    os << GetSyntheticSymbolPrefix() << GetID();
+    m_mangled.SetDemangledName(ConstString(os.str()));
+  }
+}

lldb/source/Symbol/Symtab.cpp

if (!m_name_indexes_computed) {
     RichManglingContext rmc;
     for (uint32_t value = 0; value < num_symbols; ++value) {
       Symbol *symbol = &m_symbols[value];
 
       // Don't let trampolines get into the lookup by name map If we ever need
       // the trampoline symbols to be searchable by name we can remove this and
       // then possibly add a new bool to any of the Symtab functions that
       // lookup symbols by name to indicate if they want trampolines.
-      if (symbol->IsTrampoline())
+      if (symbol->IsTrampoline() || symbol->IsSynthetic())
         continue;
 
       // If the symbol's name string matched a Mangled::ManglingScheme, it is
       // stored in the mangled field.
       Mangled &mangled = symbol->GetMangled();
       if (ConstString name = mangled.GetMangledName()) {
         name_to_index.Append(name, value);
 
void Symtab::SortSymbolIndexesByValue(std::vector<uint32_t> &indexes,
 
   // Remove any duplicates if requested
   if (remove_duplicates) {
     auto last = std::unique(indexes.begin(), indexes.end());
     indexes.erase(last, indexes.end());
   }
 }
 
+uint32_t Symtab::GetNameIndexes(ConstString symbol_name,
+                                std::vector<uint32_t> &indexes) {
+  auto &name_to_index = GetNameToSymbolIndexMap(lldb::eFunctionNameTypeNone);
+  const uint32_t count = name_to_index.GetValues(symbol_name, indexes);
+  if (count)
+    return count;
+  // Synthetic symbol names are not added to the name indexes, but they start
+  // with a prefix and end with a the symbol UserID. This allows users to find
+  // these symbols without having to add them to the name indexes. These
+  // queries will not happen very often since the names don't mean anything, so
+  // performance is not paramount in this case.
+  llvm::StringRef name = symbol_name.GetStringRef();
+  // String the synthetic prefix if the name starts with it.
+  if (!name.consume_front(Symbol::GetSyntheticSymbolPrefix()))
+    return 0; // Not a synthetic symbol name
+
+  // Extract the user ID from the symbol name
+  user_id_t uid = 0;
+  if (getAsUnsignedInteger(name, /*Radix=*/10, uid))
+    return 0; // Failed to extract the user ID as an integer
+  Symbol *symbol = FindSymbolByID(uid);
+  if (symbol == nullptr)
+    return 0;
+  const uint32_t symbol_idx = GetIndexForSymbol(symbol);
+  if (symbol_idx == UINT32_MAX)
+    return 0;
+  indexes.push_back(symbol_idx);
+  return 1;
+}
+
 uint32_t Symtab::AppendSymbolIndexesWithName(ConstString symbol_name,
                                              std::vector<uint32_t> &indexes) {
   std::lock_guard<std::recursive_mutex> guard(m_mutex);
 
   LLDB_SCOPED_TIMER();
   if (symbol_name) {
     if (!m_name_indexes_computed)
       InitNameIndexes();
 
-    auto &name_to_index = GetNameToSymbolIndexMap(lldb::eFunctionNameTypeNone);
-    return name_to_index.GetValues(symbol_name, indexes);
+    return GetNameIndexes(symbol_name, indexes);
   }
   return 0;
 }
 
 uint32_t Symtab::AppendSymbolIndexesWithName(ConstString symbol_name,
                                              Debug symbol_debug_type,
                                              Visibility symbol_visibility,
                                              std::vector<uint32_t> &indexes) {
   std::lock_guard<std::recursive_mutex> guard(m_mutex);
 
   LLDB_SCOPED_TIMER();
   if (symbol_name) {
     const size_t old_size = indexes.size();
     if (!m_name_indexes_computed)
       InitNameIndexes();
 
-    auto &name_to_index = GetNameToSymbolIndexMap(lldb::eFunctionNameTypeNone);
     std::vector<uint32_t> all_name_indexes;
     const size_t name_match_count =
-        name_to_index.GetValues(symbol_name, all_name_indexes);
+        GetNameIndexes(symbol_name, all_name_indexes);
     for (size_t i = 0; i < name_match_count; ++i) {
       if (CheckSymbolAtIndex(all_name_indexes[i], symbol_debug_type,
                              symbol_visibility))
         indexes.push_back(all_name_indexes[i]);
     }
     return indexes.size() - old_size;
   }
   return 0;