在龙芯上调试CoreCLR

dotnet for mips64 的 ea 版本已经发布
https://github.com/gsvm/loongson-dotnet/releases

在龙芯上调试CoreCLR

由于lldb在龙芯上工作不正常[1]，只有gdb可以用来调试CoreCLR。

因为需要调试JIT代码，所以我们关上gdb分页，不处理SIG34信号：

$ cat ~/.gdbinit
set pagination off
handle SIG34 nostop noprint

调试JIT代码

export CORE_LIBRARIES=/home/loongson/corefx-3.1-Linux.mips64.Debug
export COMPlus_JitFunctionTrace=1
export COMPlus_JitHalt="Main"
gdb -ex=r --args ./bin/Product/Linux.mips64.Debug/corerun /home/loongson/Hello.dll | tee gdb.log

JitHalt="Main"可以在Main方法的序言处插入break指令，然后我们跳过break指令：

(gdb) set $pc+=4
(gdb) x/22i $pc-44
   0xff7c983aac:        li      zero,0x73
   0xff7c983ab0:        nop
   0xff7c983ab4:        0xf20000
   0xff7c983ab8:        sdc1    $f2,-6100(s6)
   0xff7c983abc:        dsra32  zero,zero,0x3
   0xff7c983ac0:        0x7cc11db8
   0xff7c983ac4:        dsra32  zero,zero,0x3
   0xff7c983ac8:        0x7cc49458
   0xff7c983acc:        dsra32  zero,zero,0x3
   0xff7c983ad0:        nop
   0xff7c983ad4:        break
=> 0xff7c983ad8:        daddiu  sp,sp,-32
   0xff7c983adc:        sd      s8,0(sp)
   0xff7c983ae0:        sd      ra,8(sp)
   0xff7c983ae4:        move    s8,sp
   0xff7c983ae8:        sd      a0,24(s8)
   0xff7c983aec:        lui     a0,0xff
   0xff7c983af0:        ori     a0,a0,0x7caf
   0xff7c983af4:        dsll    a0,a0,0x10
   0xff7c983af8:        ori     a0,a0,0x7a88
   0xff7c983afc:        lw      a0,0(a0)
   0xff7c983b00:        sltiu   at,a0,1

查看一下传参整型寄存器的值：

(gdb) i r a0
a0: 0xff5800fa28
(gdb) x/g 0xff5800fa28
0xff5800fa28:   0x000000ff7caf7c30

然后用si指令级的单步跟踪。

还可以使用“硬”watchpoint[2]调试GC相关问题：

(gdb) watch *0xff68001bf8
Hardware watchpoint 1: *0xff68001bf8
(gdb) c
Continuing.

...
Thread 1 "corerun" hit Hardware watchpoint 1: *0xff68001bf8

Old value = 0
New value = 1476465840
JIT_WriteBarrier () at /hom