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When you debug a binary and the change & rebuild and then rerun in lldb
w/o quitting lldb, the Modules in the Global Module Cache for the old
binary & .o files if used are now "unreachable". Nothing in lldb is
holding them alive, and they've already been unlinked. lldb will
properly discard them if there's not another Target referencing them.

However, this only works in simple cases at present. If you have several
Targets that reference the same modules, it's pretty easy to end up
stranding Modules that are no longer reachable, and if you use a
sequence of SBDebuggers unreachable modules can also get stranded. If
you run a long-lived lldb process and are iteratively developing on a
large code base, lldb's memory gets filled with useless Modules.

This patch adds a test for the mode that currently works:

(lldb) target create foo
(lldb) run
<rebuild foo outside lldb>
(lldb) run

In that case, we do delete the unreachable Modules.

The next step will be to add tests for the cases where we fail to do
this, then see how to safely/efficiently evict unreachable modules in
those cases as well.
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions lldb/test/API/python_api/global_module_cache/Makefile
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include Makefile.rules
169 changes: 169 additions & 0 deletions lldb/test/API/python_api/global_module_cache/TestGlobalModuleCache.py
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"""
Test the use of the global module cache in lldb
"""

import lldb

from lldbsuite.test.decorators import *
from lldbsuite.test.lldbtest import *
from lldbsuite.test import lldbutil
import os
import shutil
from pathlib import Path
import time

class GlobalModuleCacheTestCase(TestBase):
# NO_DEBUG_INFO_TESTCASE = True

def check_counter_var(self, thread, value):
frame = thread.frames[0]
var = frame.FindVariable("counter")
self.assertTrue(var.GetError().Success(), "Got counter variable")
self.assertEqual(var.GetValueAsUnsigned(), value, "This was one-print")

def copy_to_main(self, src, dst):
# We are relying on the source file being newer than the .o file from
# a previous build, so sleep a bit here to ensure that the touch is later.
time.sleep(2)
try:
shutil.copy(src, dst)
except:
self.fail(f"Could not copy {src} to {dst}")
Path(dst).touch()

# The rerun tests indicate rerunning on Windows doesn't really work, so
# this one won't either.
@skipIfWindows
def test_OneTargetOneDebugger(self):
self.do_test(True, True)

# This behaves as implemented but that behavior is not desirable.
# This test tests for the desired behavior as an expected fail.
@skipIfWindows
@expectedFailureAll
def test_TwoTargetsOneDebugger(self):
self.do_test(False, True)

@skipIfWindows
@expectedFailureAll
def test_OneTargetTwoDebuggers(self):
self.do_test(True, False)

def do_test(self, one_target, one_debugger):
# Make sure that if we have one target, and we run, then
# change the binary and rerun, the binary (and any .o files
# if using dwarf in .o file debugging) get removed from the
# shared module cache. They are no longer reachable.
debug_style = self.getDebugInfo()

# Before we do anything, clear the global module cache so we don't
# see objects from other runs:
lldb.SBDebugger.MemoryPressureDetected()

# Set up the paths for our two versions of main.c:
main_c_path = os.path.join(self.getBuildDir(), "main.c")
one_print_path = os.path.join(self.getSourceDir(), "one-print.c")
two_print_path = os.path.join(self.getSourceDir(), "two-print.c")
main_filespec = lldb.SBFileSpec(main_c_path)

# First copy the one-print.c to main.c in the build folder and
# build our a.out from there:
self.copy_to_main(one_print_path, main_c_path)
self.build(dictionary={"C_SOURCES": main_c_path, "EXE": "a.out"})

(target, process, thread, bkpt) = lldbutil.run_to_source_breakpoint(
self, "return counter;", main_filespec
)

# Make sure we ran the version we intended here:
self.check_counter_var(thread, 1)
process.Kill()

# Now copy two-print.c over main.c, rebuild, and rerun:
# os.unlink(target.GetExecutable().fullpath)
self.copy_to_main(two_print_path, main_c_path)

self.build(dictionary={"C_SOURCES": main_c_path, "EXE": "a.out"})
error = lldb.SBError()
if one_debugger:
if one_target:
(_, process, thread, _) = lldbutil.run_to_breakpoint_do_run(
self, target, bkpt
)
else:
(target2, process2, thread, bkpt) = lldbutil.run_to_source_breakpoint(
self, "return counter;", main_filespec
)
else:
if one_target:
new_debugger = lldb.SBDebugger().Create()
self.old_debugger = self.dbg
self.dbg = new_debugger
def cleanupDebugger(self):
lldb.SBDebugger.Destroy(self.dbg)
self.dbg = self.old_debugger
self.old_debugger = None

self.addTearDownHook(cleanupDebugger)
(target2, process2, thread, bkpt) = lldbutil.run_to_source_breakpoint(
self, "return counter;", main_filespec
)

# In two-print.c counter will be 2:
self.check_counter_var(thread, 2)

# If we made two targets, destroy the first one, that should free up the
# unreachable Modules:
if not one_target:
target.Clear()

num_a_dot_out_entries = 1
# For dSYM's there will be two lines of output, one for the a.out and one
# for the dSYM.
if debug_style == "dsym":
num_a_dot_out_entries += 1

error = self.check_image_list_result(num_a_dot_out_entries, 1)
# Even if this fails, MemoryPressureDetected should fix this.
lldb.SBDebugger.MemoryPressureDetected()
error_after_mpd = self.check_image_list_result(num_a_dot_out_entries, 1)
fail_msg = ""
if error != "":
fail_msg = "Error before MPD: " + error

if error_after_mpd != "":
fail_msg = fail_msg + "\nError after MPD: " + error_after_mpd
if fail_msg != "":
self.fail(fail_msg)

def check_image_list_result(self, num_a_dot_out, num_main_dot_o):
# Check the global module list, there should only be one a.out, and if we are
# doing dwarf in .o file, there should only be one .o file. This returns
# an error string on error - rather than asserting, so you can stage this
# failing.
image_cmd_result = lldb.SBCommandReturnObject()
interp = self.dbg.GetCommandInterpreter()
interp.HandleCommand("image list -g", image_cmd_result)
if self.TraceOn():
print(f"Expected: a.out: {num_a_dot_out} main.o: {num_main_dot_o}")
print(image_cmd_result)

image_list_str = image_cmd_result.GetOutput()
image_list = image_list_str.splitlines()
found_a_dot_out = 0
found_main_dot_o = 0

for line in image_list:
# FIXME: force this to be at the end of the string:
if "a.out" in line:
found_a_dot_out += 1
if "main.o" in line:
found_main_dot_o += 1

if num_a_dot_out != found_a_dot_out:
return f"Got {found_a_dot_out} number of a.out's, expected {num_a_dot_out}"

if found_main_dot_o > 0 and num_main_dot_o != found_main_dot_o:
return f"Got {found_main_dot_o} number of main.o's, expected {num_main_dot_o}"

return ""
7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions lldb/test/API/python_api/global_module_cache/one-print.c
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#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
int counter = 0;
printf("I only print one time: %d.\n", counter++);
return counter;
}
8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions lldb/test/API/python_api/global_module_cache/two-print.c
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#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
int counter = 0;
printf("I print one time: %d.\n", counter++);
printf("I print two times: %d.\n", counter++);
return counter;
}

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