README.md

drcfg

Constructs a CFG of the target program, without source. For motivation, see this blog post. This plugin implements the following:

• intercepts conditional branch instructions (cbr's)
• intercepts control transfer instructions (cti's)
• dumps output in json format

Usage

$ drrun -c ./libcfg.so -- ../test/call.out
{
  "branches": [
    <snip>
    {
      "address": 4194497,
      "targets": [
        4194500
      ]
    },
    <snip>
  ]
}

Options for drcfg are shown below:

 -only_from_app       [ false]  Only count app, not lib, instructions
 -instrument_ret      [ false]  Count return instructions as control flow instructions
 -racy                [ false]  Perform racy hashtable insertion
 -no_cbr              [ false]  Don't count conditional branch instructions
 -no_cti              [ false]  Don't count control transfer instructions
 -output              [    ""]  Output results to file

How to Build

$ mkdir -p build && cd build
$ cmake .. -DDynamoRIO_DIR=<path/to/dr/cmake/>
$ make -j4

TODO

Listed in relative order of importance

• Implement cache flushing as per cbr.c, to remove instrumentation once a branch has or has not been taken. This will hopefully speed up applications considerably.
• Optionally intercept only branches in main module (i.e. -only_from_app)
• Dump json to a file
• Optionally dump YAML
• Optionally instrument return cti's