Re: [PATCH] Fix signal trampoline detection/unwinding on recent FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/amd64

[John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd dot org>]

On Monday, February 16, 2015 10:55:54 PM Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 02/16/2015 04:37 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 04:40:17 PM Pedro Alves wrote:
> >> On 02/11/2015 03:32 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> >>> Actually, this does sound far simpler.  I was simply updating the
> >>> sigtramp
> >>> code that was already present.  I can certainly work on changing both
> >>> i386
> >>> and amd64 to do this instead if that is the preferred method (and it
> >>> seems
> >>> to be from looking at other targets).
> >> 
> >> Yep, that's the preferred method.  That'd be great.
> > 
> > I've implemented this and attached the updated patch below.  I'm not quite
> > sure if the updated Changelog is correct however.  I ran into one hiccup
> > though which is that the signal trampoline code is not included in process
> > core dumps in recent FreeBSD versions (after it was moved off of the stack
> > and into a global shared page).  I've fixed this in FreeBSD so that
> > future versions will include the trampoline in core dumps, but I've
> > retained the change to use KERN_PROC_SIGTRAMP to support core dumps from
> > the versions that do not include it in the core.  I've removed the
> > support for specifying a signal trampoline location for older verions
> > using either hardcoded offsets or ps_strings as it is no longer needed.
> 
> Looks great to me!  Mark, any comments?
> 
> (I see a couple minor formatting issues, but I can fix them up
> for you before pushing.)

Just pinging about this (I haven't see a mail from Mark, so I assume you are
waiting on that?)

-- 
John Baldwin