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Allen Briggs was one of the earliest members of the NetBSD community, pursuing his interest in macBSD, and moving to become a NetBSD developer when the two projects merged. Allen was known for his quiet and relaxed manner, and always brought a keen wisdom with him; allied with his acute technical expertise, he was one of the most valued members of the NetBSD community.
He was a revered member of the NetBSD core team, and keenly involved in many aspects of its application; from working on ARM chips to helping architect many projects, Allen was renowned for his expertise. He was a distinguished engineer at Apple, and used his NetBSD expertise there to bring products to market.
Allen lived in Blacksburg Virginia with his wife and twin boys and was active with various community volunteer groups. His family touched the families of many other NetBSD developers and those friendships have endured beyond his passing.
We have received the following from Allen's family and decided to share it with the NetBSD community. If you can, we would ask you to consider contributing to his Memorial Scholarship.
https://www.ncssm.edu/donate/distance-education/allen-k-briggs-88-memorial-scholarship
The Allen K. Briggs Memorial Scholarship is an endowment to provide scholarships in perpetuity for summer programs at the North Carolina School of Science & Math, which Allen considered to be a place that fundamentally shaped him as a person. We would love to invite Allen's friends and colleagues from the BSD community to donate to this cause so that we can provide more scholarships to students with financial need each year. We are approximately halfway to our goal of $50K with aspirations to exceed that target and fund additional scholarships.
Two quick notes on donating: Important! When donating, you must
select "Allen K. Briggs Memorial Scholarship" under designation
for the donation to be routed to the scholarship If you have the
option to use employer matching (i.e., donating to NCSSM through
an employer portal to secure a match from your employer), please
email the NCSSM Foundation's Director of Development, April Horton
(april.horton@ncssm.edu), after donating to let her know you want
your gift and employer match to go to the Allen K. Briggs Memorial
Scholarship Thanks in advance for your help. I'd be happy to answer
any questions you or any others have about this.
After a small delay*, the NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.1, the first feature and stability maintenance release of the netbsd-9 stable branch.
The new release features (among various other changes) many bug fixes, a few performance enhancements, stability improvements for ZFS and LFS and support for USB security keys in a mode easily usable in Firefox and other applications.
For more details and instructions see the 9.1 announcement.
Get NetBSD 9.1 from our CDN (provided by fastly) or one of the ftp mirrors.
Complete source and binaries for NetBSD are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, and other services may be found at https://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/.
* for the delay: let us say there was a minor hickup and we took the opportunity to provide up to date timezone files for NetBSD users in Fiji.
This post is a follow up of the first report and second report. Post summarizes the work done during the third and final coding period for the Google Summer of Code (GSoc’20) project - Enhance Syzkaller support for NetBSD
Sys2syz
Sys2syz would give an extra edge to Syzkaller for NetBSD. It has a potential of efficiently automating the conversion of syscall definitions to syzkaller’s grammar. This can aid in increasing the number of syscalls covered by Syzkaller significantly with the minimum possibility of manual errors. Let’s delve into its internals.
A peek into Syz2syz Internals
This tool parses the source code of device drivers present in C to a format which is compatible with grammar customized for syzkaller. Here, we try to cull the details of the target device by compiling, and then collocate the details with our python code. For further details about proposed design for the tool, refer to previous post.
Python code follows 4 major steps:
- Extractor.py - Extraction of all ioctl commands of a given device driver along with their arguments from the header files.
- Bear.py - Preprocessing of the device driver's files using compile_commands.json generated during the setup of tool using Bear.
- C2xml.py - XML files are generated by running c2xml on preprocessed device files. This eases the process of fetching the information related to arguments of commands
- Description.py - Generates descriptions for the ioctl commands and their arguments (builtin-types, arrays, pointers, structures and unions) using the XML files.
Extraction:
This step involves fetching the possible ioctl commands for the target device driver and getting the files which have to be included in our dev_target.txt file. We have already seen all the commands for device drivers are defined in a specific way. These commands defined in the header files need to be grepped along with the major details, regex comes in as a rescue for this
io = re.compile("#define\s+(.*)\s+_IO\((.*)\).*")
iow = re.compile("#define\s+(.*)\s+_IOW\((.*),\s+(.*),\s+(.*)\).*")
ior = re.compile("#define\s+(.*)\s+_IOR\((.*),\s+(.*),\s+(.*)\).*")
iowr = re.compile("#define\s+(.*)\s+_IOWR\((.*),\s+(.*),\s+(.*)\).*")
Code scans through all the header files present in the target device folder and extracts all the commands along with their details using compiled regex expressions. Details include the direction of buffer(null, in, out, inout) based on the types of Ioctl calls(_IO, _IOR, _IOW, _IOWR) and the argument of the call. These are stored in a file named ioctl_commands.txt at location out/<target_name>. Example output:
out, I2C_IOCTL_EXEC, i2c_ioctl_exec_t
Preprocessing:
Preprocessing is required for getting XML files, about which we would look in the next step. Bear plays a major role when it comes to preprocessing C files. It records the commands executed for building the target device driver. This step is performed when setup.sh script is executed.
Extracted commands are modified with the help of parse_commands() function to include ‘-E’ and ‘-fdirectives’ flags and give it a new output location. Commands extracted by this function are then used by the compile_target function which filters out the unnecessary flags and generates preprocessed files in our output directory.
Generating XML files
Run C2xml on the preprocessed files to fetch XML files which stores source code in a tree-like structure, making it easier to collect all the information related to each and every element of structures, unions etc. For eg:
<symbol type="struct" id="_5970" file="am2315.i" start-line="13240" start-col="16" end-line="13244" end-col="11" bit-size="96" alignment="4" offset="0">
<symbol type="node" id="_5971" ident="ipending" file="am2315.i" start-line="13241" start-col="33" end-line="13241" end-col="41" bit-size="32" alignment="4" offset="0" base-type-builtin="unsigned int"/<
<symbol type="node" id="_5972" ident="ilevel" file="am2315.i" start-line="13242" start-col="33" end-line="13242" end-col="39" bit-size="32" alignment="4" offset="4" base-type-builtin="int"/>
<symbol type="node" id="_5973" ident="imasked" file="am2315.i" start-line="13243" start-col="33" end-line="13243" end-col="40" bit-size="32" alignment="4" offset="8" base-type-builtin="unsigned int"/>
</symbol>
<symbol type="pointer" id="_5976" file="am2315.i" start-line="13249" start-col="14" end-line="13249" end-col="25" bit-size="64" alignment="8" offset="0" base-type-builtin="void"/>
<symbol type="array" id="_5978" file="am2315.i" start-line="13250" start-col="33" end-line="13250" end-col="39" bit-size="288" alignment="4" offset="0" base-type-builtin="unsigned int" array-size="9"/>
We would further see how attributes like - idents, id, type, base-type-builtin etc conveniently helps us to analyze code and generate descriptions in a trouble-free manner .
Descriptions.py
Final part, which offers a txt file storing all the required descriptions as its output. Here, information from the xml files and ioctl_commands.txt are combined together to generate descriptions of ioctl commands and their arguments.
Xml files for the given target device are parsed to form trees,
for file in (os.listdir(self.target)):
tree = ET.parse(self.target+file)
self.trees.append(tree)
We then traverse through these trees to search for the arguments of a particular ioctl command (particularly _IOR, _IOW, _IOWR commands) by the name of the argument. Once an element with the same value for ident attribute is found, attributes of the element are further examined to get its type. Possible types for these arguments are - struct, union, enum, function, array, pointer, macro and node. Using the type information we determine the way to define the element in accordance with syzkaller’s grammar syntax.
Building structs and unions involves defining their elements too, XML makes it easier. Program analyses each and every element which is a child of the root (struct/union) and generates its definitions. A dictionary helps in tracking the structs/unions which have been already built. Later, the dictionary is used to pretty print all the structs and union in the output file. Here is a code snippet which depicts the approach
name = child.get("ident")
if name not in self.structs_and_unions.keys():
elements = {}
for element in child:
elem_type = self.get_type(element)
elem_ident = element.get("ident")
if elem_type == None:
elem_type = element.get("type")
elements[element.get("ident")] = elem_type
element_str = ""
for element in elements:
element_str += element + "\t" + elements[element] + "\n"
self.structs_and_unions[name] = " {\n" + element_str + "}\n"
return str(name)
Task of creating descriptions for arrays is made simpler due to the attribute - `array-size`. When it comes to dealing with pointers, syzkaller needs the user to fill in the direction of the pointer. This has already been taken care of while analyzing the ioctl commands in Extractor.py. The second argument with in/out/inout as its possible value depends on ‘fun’ macros - _IOR, _IOW, _IOWR respectively.
There is another category named as nodes which can be distinguished using the base-type-builtin and base-type attributes.
Result
Once the setup script for sys2syz is executed, sys2syz can be used for a certain target_device file by executing the python wrapper script (sys2syz.py) with :
#bin/sh
python sys2syz.py -t <absolute_path_to_device_driver_source> -c compile_commands.json -v
This would generate a dev_<device_driver>.txt file in the out directory. An example description file autogenerated by sys2syz for i2c device driver.
#Autogenerated by sys2syz
include
resource fd_i2c[fd]
syz_open_dev$I2C(dev ptr[in, string["/dev/i2c"]], id intptr, flags flags[open_flags]) fd_i2c
ioctl$I2C_IOCTL_EXEC(fd fd_i2c, cmd const[I2C_IOCTL_EXEC], arg ptr[out, i2c_ioctl_exec])
i2c_ioctl_exec {
iie_op flags[i2c_op_t_flags]
iie_addr int16
iie_buflen len[iie_buf, intptr]
iie_buf buffer[out]
iie_cmdlen len[iie_cmd, intptr]
iie_cmd buffer[out]
}
Future Work
Though we have a basic working structure of this tool, yet a lot has to be worked upon for leveling it up to make the best of it. Perfect goals would be met when there would be least of manual labor needed. Sys2syz still looks forward to automating the detection of macros used by the flag types in syzkaller. List of to-dos also includes extending syzkaller’s support for generation of description of syscalls.
Some other yet-to-be-done tasks include-
- Generating descriptions for function type
- Calculating attributes for structs and unions
Summary
We have surely reached closer to our goals but the project needs active involvement and incremental updates to scale it up to its full potential. Looking forward to much more learning and making more contribution to NetBSD community.
Atlast, a word of thanks to my mentors William Coldwell, Siddharth Muralee, Santhosh Raju and Kamil Rytarowski as well as the NetBSD organization for being extremely supportive. Also, I owe a big thanks to Google for giving me such a glaring opportunity to work on this project.
- One in the base-system that includes a significant set of local patches.
- Another one in pkgsrc whose patching is limited to mostly build fixes.
The base-system version of GDB (GPLv3) still relies on local patching to work. I have set a goal to reduce the number of custom patches to bare minimum, ideally achieving the state of GDB working without any local modifications at all.
GDB changes
Last month, the NetBSD/amd64 support was merged into gdbserver. This month, the gdbserver target support was extended to NetBSD/i386 and NetBSD/aarch64. The gdbserver and gdb code was cleaned up, refactored and made capable of introducing even more NetBSD targets.
Meanwhile, the NetBSD/i386 build of GDB was fixed. The missing include of x86-bsd-nat.h as a common header was added to i386-bsd-nat.h. The i386 GDB code for BSD contained a runtime assert that verified whether the locally hardcoded struct sigcontext is compatible with the system headers. In reality, the system headers are no longer using this structure since 2003, after the switch to ucontext_t, and the validating code was no longer effective. After the switch to newer GCC, this was reported as a unused local variable by the compiler. I have decided to remove the check on NetBSD entirely. This was followed up by a small build fix.
The NetBSD team has noticed that the GDB's agent.cc code contains a portability bug and prepared a local fix. The traditional behavior of the BSD kernel is that passing random values of sun_len (part of sockaddr_un) can cause failures. In order to prevent the problems, the sockaddr_un structure is now zeroed before use. I've reimplemented the fix and successfully upstreamed it.
In order to easily resolve the issue with environment hardening enforced by PaX MPROTECT, I've introduced a runtime warning whenever byte transfers betweeen the debugee and debugger occur with the EACCES errno code.
binutils changes
I've added support for NetBSD/aarch64 upstream, in GNU BFD and GNU GAS. NetBSD still carries local patches for the GNU binutils components, and GNU ld does not build out of the box on NetBSD/aarch64.
Summary
The NetBSD support in GNU binutils and GDB is improving promptly, and the most popular platforms of amd64, i386 and aarch64 are getting proper support out of the box, without downstream patches. The remaining patches for these CPUs include: streamlining kgdb support, adding native GDB support for aarch64, upstreaming local modifications from the GNU binutils components (especially BFD and ld) and introducing portability enhancements in the dependent projects like libiberty and gnulib. Then, the remaining work is to streamline support for the remaining CPUs (Alpha, VAX, MIPS, HPPA, IA64, SH3, PPC, etc.), to develop the missing generic features (such as listing open file descriptors for the specified process) and to fix failures in the regression test-suite.
After I posted about the new default window manager in NetBSD I got a few questions, including "when is NetBSD switching from X11 to Wayland?", Wayland being X11's "new" rival. In this blog post, hopefully I can explain why we aren't yet!
Last year (and early this year) I was responsible for porting the first working Wayland compositor to NetBSD - swc. I chose it because it looked small and hackable. You can try it out by installing the velox window manager from pkgsrc.
Difficulties
In a Wayland system, the "compositor" (display server) is responsible for managing displays, input, and window management. Generally, this means a lot of OS-specific code is contained there.
Wayland does not define protocols for features X11 users expect, like screenshots, screen locking, or window management. Either you implement these inside the compositor (lots of work that has to be redone), or you define your own protocol extension.
The Wayland "reference implementation" is a small set of libraries that can be used to build a compositor or a client application. These libraries currently have hard dependencies on Linux kernel APIs like epoll. In pkgsrc we've patched the libraries to add kqueue(2) support, but the patches haven't been accepted upstream. Wayland is written with the assumption of Linux to the extent that every client application tends to #include <linux/input.h> because Wayland's designers didn't see the need to define a OS-neutral way to get mouse button IDs.
So far, all Wayland compositors but swc have a hard dependency on libinput, which only supports Linux's input API (also cloned in FreeBSD). In NetBSD we have an entirely different input API - wscons(4). wscons is actually fairly simple to write code for, someone just needs to go out there and do it. You can use my code in swc as a reference. 
In general, Wayland is moving away from the modularity, portability, and standardization of the X server.
Is it ready for production?
No, but you can play with it.
- swc has some remaining bugs and instability.
- swc is incompatible with key applications like Firefox, but others like Luakit work, as do most things that use Qt5, GTK3, or SDL2. Not being able to run X11 applications currently is quite limiting.
- Other popular compositors are not yet available. Alternatively, someone could write some new ones.
- You need a supported GPU or SoC with kernel modesetting, since safe software fallbacks don't work here. So far, I've only tested this with Intel GPUs.
Task list
- Adding support for wscons to more Wayland compositors and persuading developers to accept the patches.
- Persuading developers not to add hard dependencies on
epolland instead use an abstraction layer like libevent. - Updating the NetBSD kernel DRM/KMS stack. This is a difficult undertaking that involves porting code from the Linux kernel (a very fast moving target).
- Getting support for newer DRM versions
- Getting support for atomic modesetting
- Getting support for Glamor X servers (for running X11 applications inside wayland, etc)
- Newer AMDGPU drivers, etc
- Adding support for basic (non-DRMKMS) framebuffers to a Wayland compositor. X11 can run from a basic unaccelerated NetBSD framebuffer, but this isn't yet possible in any Wayland compositor.
- Extending swc to add more features and fix bugs.
I've decided to take a break from this, since it's a fairly huge undertaking and uphill battle. Right now, X11 combined with a compositor like picom or xcompmgr is the more mature option.
For more than 20 years, NetBSD has shipped X11 with the "classic" default window manager of twm. However, it's been showing its age for a long time now.
In 2015, ctwm was imported, but after that no progress was made. ctwm is a fork of twm with some extra features - the primary advantages are that it's still incredibly lightweight, but highly configurable, and has support for virtual desktops, as well as a NetBSD-compatible license and ongoing development. Thanks to its configuration options, we can provide a default experience that's much more usable to people experienced with other operating systems.
Recently, I've been installing NetBSD with some people in real life and was inspired by their reactions to the default twm to improve the situation, so I played with ctwm, wrote a config, and used it myself for a week. It's now the default in NetBSD-current.
We gain some nice features like an auto-generated application menu (that will fill up as packages are installed to /usr/pkg), and a range of useful keyboard shortcuts including volume controls - the default config should be fully usable without a mouse. It should also work at a range of screen resolutions. We can add HiDPI support after some larger bitmap fonts are imported - another advantage of ctwm is that we can support very slow and very fast hardware with one config.
If you're curious about ctwm, check out the ctwm website. It's also included in previous NetBSD releases, though not as the default window manager and not with this config.
This post is the third update to the project RumpKernel Syscall Fuzzing.
Part1 - https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc_reports_fuzzing_rumpkernel_syscalls1
Part2 - https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc_reports_fuzzing_rumpkernel_syscalls
The first and second coding period was entirely dedicated to fuzzing rumpkernel syscalls using hongfuzz. Initially a dumb fuzzer was developed to start fuzzing but it soon reached its limits.
For the duration of second coding peroid we concentrated on crash reproduction and adding grammar to the fuzzer which yielded in better results as we tested on a bug in ioctl with grammar. Although this works for now crash reproduction needs to be improved to generate a working c reproducer.
For the last coding period I have looked into the internals of syzkaller to understand how it pregenerates input and how it mutates data. I have continued to work on integrating buildrump.sh with build.sh. buildrump eases the task fo building the rumpkernel on any host for any target.
buildrump.sh is like a wrapper around build.sh to build the tools and rumpkernel from the source relevant to rumpkernel. So I worked to get buildrump.sh working with netbsd-src. Building the toolchain was successfull from netbsd-src. So binaries like rumpmake work just fine to continue building the rumpkernel.
But the rumpkernel failed to build due to some warnings and errors similar to the following. It can be due to the fact that buildrump.sh has been dormant recently I faced a lot of build issues.
nbmake[2]: nbmake[2]: don't know how to make /root/buildrump.sh/obj/dest.stage/usr/lib/crti.o. Stop
nbmake[2]: stopped in /root/buildrump.sh/src/lib/librumpuser
>> ERROR:
>> make /root/buildrump.sh/obj/Makefile.first dependall
Few of the similar errors were easily fixed but I couldn't integrate it during the time span of the coding period.
To Do
- Research more on grammar definition and look into the existing grammar fuzzers for a better understanding of generating grammar.
- Integrate syz2sys with the existing fuzzer to include grammar generation for better results.
GSoC with NetBSD has been an amazing journey throughout, in which I had a chance to learn from awesome people and work on amazing projects. I will continue to work on the project to achieve the goal of integrating my fuzzer with OSS Fuzz. I thank my mentors Siddharth Muralee, Maciej Grochowski, Christos Zoulas for their support and Kamil for his continuous guidance.
My GSoC project under NetBSD involves the development of the test framework of curses. This is the final blog report in a series of blog reports; you can look at the first report and second report of the series.
The first report gives a brief introduction of the project and some insights into the curses testframe through its architecture and language. To someone who wants to contribute to the test suite, this blog can act as the quick guide of how things work internally. Meanwhile, the second report discusses some of the concepts that were quite challenging for me to understand. I wanted to share them with those who may face such a challenge. Both of these reports also cover the progress made in various phases of the Summer of Code.
This being the final report in the series, I would love to share my experience throughout the project. I would be sharing some of the learning as well as caveats that I faced in the project.
Challenges and Caveats
By the time my application for GSoC was submitted, I had gained some knowledge about the curses library and the testing framework. Combined with compiler design and library testing experience, that knowledge proved useful but not sufficient as I progressed through the project. There were times when, while writing a test case, you have to look into documentation from various sources, be it NetBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, etc. One may find questioning his understanding of the framework, documentation, or even curses itself. This leads to the conclusion that for being a tester, one has to become a user first. That made me write minimal programs to understand the behavior. The experience was excellent, and I felt amazed by the capability and complexity of curses.
Learnings
The foremost learning is from the experience of interacting with the open-source community and feeling confident in my abilities to contribute. Understanding the workflows; following the best practices like considering the maintainability, readability, and simplicity of the code were significant learning.
The project-specific learning was not limited to test-framework but a deeper understanding of curses as I have to browse through codes for the functions tested. As this blog says, getting the TTY demystified was a long-time desire, which got fulfilled to some extent.
Some tests from test suite
In this section, I would discuss a couple of tests of the test suite written during the third phase of GSoC. Curses input model provides a variety of ways to obtain input from keyboard. We will consider 2 tests keypad and halfdelay that belong to input processing category but are somewhat unrelated.
Keypad Processing
An application can enable or disable the tarnslation of keypad using keypad() function. When translation is enabled, curses attempts to translate input sequence into a single key code. If disabled, curses passes the input as it is and any interpretation has to be made by application.
include window
call $FALSE is_keypad $win1
input "\eOA"
call 0x1b wgetch $win1
call OK keypad $win1 $TRUE
input "\eOA"
call $KEY_UP wgetch $win1
# disable assembly of KEY_UP
call OK keyok $KEY_UP $FALSE
input "\eOA"
call 0x1b wgetch $win1
As keypad translation is disabled by default, on input of '\eOA', the input sequence is passed as it is and only '\e' (0x1b is hex code) is received on wgetch(). If we enable the translation, then the same input is translated as KEY_UP. In curses, one can disable assembly of specific key symbols using keyok(). See related man page.
Input Mode
Curses lets the application control the effect of input using four input modes; cooked, cbreak, half-delay, raw. They specify the effect of input in terms of echo-ing and delay. We will discuss about the halfdelay mode. The half-delay mode specifies how quickly certain curses function return to application when there is no terminal input waiting since the function is called.
include start
delay 1000
# input delay 1000 equals to 10 tenths of seconds
# getch must fail for halfdelay(5) and pass for halfdelay(15)
input "a"
call OK halfdelay 15
call 0x61 getch
call OK halfdelay 5
input "a"
call -1 getch
We have set the delay for feeding input to terminal with delay of 1s(10 tenths of second). If the application sets the halfdelay to 15, and makes a call to getch() it receives the input. But it fails to get the input with haldelay set to 5. See related man page.
Project Work
The work can be merged into organisation repository https://github.com/NetBSD/src under tests/lib/libcurses.
This project involved:
- Improvement in testframework:
- Automation of the checkfile generation.
- Enhnacement of support for complex character
- Addition of small features and code refactoring
- Testing and bug reports:
- Tests for a family of routines like wide character, complex character, line drawing, box drawing, pad, window operations, cursor manipulations, soft label keys, input-output stream, and the ones involving their interactions.
- Raising a bunch of Problem Report (PR) under
libcategory some of which have been fixed. The list of PRs raised can be found here
Future Work
- The current testframe supports complex character, but the support needs to be extended for its string. This will enable testing of
[mv][w]add_wch[n]str,[mv][w]in_wchstrfamily of routines. - Some of the tests for teminal manipulation routines like
intrflush,def_prog_mode,typeahead,raw, etc. are not there in test suite. - Not specifically related to the framework, but the documentation for wide character as well as complex character routines need to be added.
Acknowledgements
I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to my mentor Mr. Brett Lymn, who helped me through all the technical difficulties and challenges I faced. I also thank my mentor Martin Huseman for valuable suggestions and guidance at various junctures of the project. A special thanks to Kamil Rytarowski for making my blogs published on the NetBSD site.
This report was written by Apurva Nandan as part of Google Summer of Code 2020.
Introduction
This blog post is in continuation of GSoC Reports: Benchmarking NetBSD, first evaluation report and GSoC Reports: Benchmarking NetBSD, second evaluation report blogs, and describes my progress in the final phase of GSoC 2020 under The NetBSD Foundation.
In the third phase, I upgraded to the latest stable version Phoronix Test Suite (PTS) 9.8.0 in pkgsrc-wip, resolved the TODOs and created patches for more test-profiles to fix their installation and runtime errors on NetBSD-current.
Progress in the third phase of GSoC
wip/phoronix-test-suite TODO and update
As a newer stable version of the Phoronix Test Suite was available in upstream, I upgraded the Phoronix Test Suite from version 9.6.1 to 9.8.0 in pkgsrc-wip and is available as wip/phoronix-test-suite. You can have a look at the PTS Changelog to know about the improvements between these two versions.
To get the package ready for merge in pkgsrc upstream, I also resolved the pkgsrc-wip TODOs.
pkgsrc-wip commits:
If any new problems are encountered, please document them in
wip/phoronix-test-suite/TODO file and/or contact me.
Testing of automated benchmarking framework
I had been assigned a remote testing machine having Intel 6138 dual processor, 40 cores, 80 threads, 192GB of RAM. I spent time reproducing my automated framework i.e., Phoromatic-Anita Integration on the machine. I was able to reproduce the integration framework working without networking configuration, but the network bridge needs to be setup on the remote machine and the integration script to be tested with it. I shall continue this task in the post-GSoC period.
Benchmarking Results
I also performed benchmarking of NetBSD-9 amd64 native installation by running 50 test-profiles on a remote machine assigned to me by mentors and uploaded the benchmark results to OpenBenchmarking.org at:
Test-profile debugging
I then continued the task of maintaining/porting test-profiles and fixed the following test-profiles:
Timed FFmpeg Compilation
This test times how long it takes to build FFmpeg.
This test is part of Processor Test category.
Original Test-profile:
https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/build-ffmpeg
Patched Test-profile:
https://github.com/apurvanandan1997/pts-test-profiles-dev/tree/master/build-ffmpeg-1.0.1
Commit:
Compile Bench
Compilebench tries to age a filesystem by simulating some of the disk
IO common in creating, compiling, patching, stating and reading kernel
trees. It indirectly measures how well filesystems can maintain
directory locality as the disk fills up and directories age.
This test is part of Disk Test category.
Original Test-profile:
https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/compilebench
Patched Test-profile:
https://github.com/apurvanandan1997/pts-test-profiles-dev/tree/master/compilebench-1.0.2
Commit:
Timed MAFFT Alignment
This test performs an alignment of 100 pyruvate decarboxylase sequences.
This test is part of Processor Test category.
Original Test-profile:
https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/mafft
Patched Test-profile:
https://github.com/apurvanandan1997/pts-test-profiles-dev/tree/master/mafft-1.5.0
Commits:
- Replaced the make -> gmake for compatibility with NetBSD
- Patch for replacing /bin/bash interpreter with /usr/pkg/bin/bash
Future Plans
This officially summarizes my GSoC project: Benchmark NetBSD, and my end goal of the project that is to integrate Phoronix Test Suite with NetBSD and Anita for automated benchmarking is complete and its deployment on benchmark.NetBSD.org will be continued to be worked on with the coordination of moderators and merging the wip of Phoronix Test Suite 9.8.0 will be done by the pkgsrc maintainers in next days.
I want to thank my mentors and the NetBSD community without whose constant support I wouldn't have achieved the goals.
- One in the base-system with a stack of local patches.
- One in pkgsrc with mostly build fix patches.
The base-system version of GDB (GPLv3) still relies on a set of local patches. I set a goal to reduce the local patches to bare minimum, ideally reaching no local modifications at all.
GDB changes
Over the past month I worked on gdbserver for NetBSD/amd64 and finally upstreamed it to the GDB mainline, just in time for GDB 10.
What is gdbserver? Let's quote the official GDB documentation:
gdbserver is a control program for Unix-like systems, which allows you to connect your program with a remote GDB via target remote or target extended-but without linking in the usual debugging stub.
gdbserver is not a complete replacement for the debugging stubs, because it requires essentially the same operating-system facilities that GDB itself does. In fact, a system that can run gdbserver to connect to a remote GDB could also run GDB locally! gdbserver is sometimes useful nevertheless, because it is a much smaller program than GDB itself. It is also easier to port than all of GDB, so you may be able to get started more quickly on a new system by using gdbserver. Finally, if you develop code for real-time systems, you may find that the tradeoffs involved in real-time operation make it more convenient to do as much development work as possible on another system, for example by cross-compiling. You can use gdbserver to make a similar choice for debugging.
GDB and gdbserver communicate via either a serial line or a TCP connection, using the standard GDB remote serial protocol. remote
This illustrated that gdbserver is especially useful for debugging applications on embedded and thin devices, connected to a controlling computer equipped with full distribution sources, toolchain, debugging information etc. Eventually, this approach of gdb and gdbserver can replace the native gdb plugin entirely and spawn all connections debugging sessions using this protocol. This design decision was already introduced into LLDB, where remote process plugin is the only supported program on Linux, NetBSD and highly recommended for other kernels.
I've picked amd64 as the first target as it's the easiest to develop and test.
An example debugging session looks like this:
$ uname -rms NetBSD 9.99.72 amd64 $ LC_ALL=C date Thu Sep 10 22:43:10 CEST 2020 $ ./gdbserver/gdbserver --version GNU gdbserver (GDB) 10.0.50.20200910-git Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. gdbserver is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License. This gdbserver was configured as "x86_64-unknown-netbsd9.99" $ ./gdbserver/gdbserver localhost:1234 /usr/bin/nslookup Process /usr/bin/nslookup created; pid = 26383 Listening on port 1234
Then on the other terminal:
$ ./gdb/gdb
GNU gdb (GDB) 10.0.50.20200910-git
Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-netbsd9.99".
Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
.
Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at:
--Type for more, q to quit, c to continue without paging--
.
For help, type "help".
Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word".
(gdb) target remote localhost:1234
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_rtld_debug_state () at /usr/src/libexec/ld.elf_so/rtld.c:1577
1577 __insn_barrier();
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x211c00: file /usr/src/external/mpl/bind/bin/nslookup/../../dist/bin/dig/nslookup.c, line 990.
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Breakpoint 1, main (argc=1, argv=0x7f7fffffe768)
at /usr/src/external/mpl/bind/bin/nslookup/../../dist/bin/dig/nslookup.c:990
990 main(int argc, char **argv) {
(gdb) bt
#0 main (argc=1, argv=0x7f7fffffe768)
at /usr/src/external/mpl/bind/bin/nslookup/../../dist/bin/dig/nslookup.c:990
(gdb) info threads
Id Target Id Frame
* 1 Thread 28353.28353 main (argc=1, argv=0x7f7fffffe768)
at /usr/src/external/mpl/bind/bin/nslookup/../../dist/bin/dig/nslookup.c:990
(gdb) b pthread_setname_np
Breakpoint 2 at 0x7f7ff4e0c9e4: file /usr/src/lib/libpthread/pthread.c, line 792.
(gdb) c
Continuing.
[New Thread 28353.27773]
Thread 1 hit Breakpoint 2, pthread_setname_np (thread=0x7f7ff7e41000,
name=name@entry=0x7f7fffffe610 "work-0", arg=arg@entry=0x0)
at /usr/src/lib/libpthread/pthread.c:792
792 {
(gdb) info threads
Id Target Id Frame
* 1 Thread 28353.28353 pthread_setname_np (thread=0x7f7ff7e41000,
name=name@entry=0x7f7fffffe610 "work-0", arg=arg@entry=0x0)
at /usr/src/lib/libpthread/pthread.c:792
2 Thread 28353.27773 0x00007f7ff0aa623a in ___lwp_park60 () from target:/usr/lib/libc.so.12
(gdb) n
796 pthread__error(EINVAL, "Invalid thread",
(gdb) n
799 if (pthread__find(thread) != 0)
(gdb)
802 namelen = snprintf(newname, sizeof(newname), name, arg);
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803 if (namelen >= PTHREAD_MAX_NAMELEN_NP)
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807 if (cp == NULL)
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811 oldname = thread->pt_name;
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813 (void)_lwp_setname(thread->pt_lid, cp);
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814 pthread_mutex_unlock(&thread->pt_lock);
(gdb) n
816 if (oldname != NULL)
(gdb) n
isc_taskmgr_create (mctx=, workers=workers@entry=1, default_quantum=,
default_quantum@entry=0, nm=nm@entry=0x0, managerp=managerp@entry=0x418638 )
at /usr/src/external/mpl/bind/lib/libisc/../../dist/lib/isc/task.c:1431
1431 for (i = 0; i < workers; i++) {
(gdb) info threads
Id Target Id Frame
* 1 Thread 28353.28353 isc_taskmgr_create (mctx=, workers=workers@entry=1,
default_quantum=, default_quantum@entry=0, nm=nm@entry=0x0,
managerp=managerp@entry=0x418638 )
at /usr/src/external/mpl/bind/lib/libisc/../../dist/lib/isc/task.c:1431
2 Thread 28353.27773 "work-0" 0x00007f7ff0aa623a in ___lwp_park60 ()
from target:/usr/lib/libc.so.12
(gdb) dis 1
(gdb) b exit
Breakpoint 3 at 0x7f7ff0b530e0: exit. (2 locations)
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Thread 1 hit Breakpoint 2, pthread_setname_np (thread=0x7f7ff7e42c00,
name=name@entry=0x7f7ff5e6324e "isc-timer", arg=arg@entry=0x0)
at /usr/src/lib/libpthread/pthread.c:792
792 {
(gdb) dis 2
(gdb) c
Continuing.
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Then, back to the first terminal:
> netbsd.org Server: 62.179.1.62 Address: 62.179.1.62#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: netbsd.org Address: 199.233.217.205 Name: netbsd.org Address: 2001:470:a085:999::80 > exit
Thread 1 hit Breakpoint 3, exit (status=1) at /usr/src/lib/libc/stdlib/exit.c:55
55 {
(gdb) info threads
Id Target Id Frame
* 1 Thread 28353.28353 exit (status=1) at /usr/src/lib/libc/stdlib/exit.c:55
(gdb) bt
#0 exit (status=1) at /usr/src/lib/libc/stdlib/exit.c:55
#1 0x0000000000206122 in ___start ()
#2 0x00007f7ff7c0c840 in ?? () from target:/usr/libexec/ld.elf_so
#3 0x0000000000000001 in ?? ()
#4 0x00007f7fffffed20 in ?? ()
#5 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) kill
Kill the program being debugged? (y or n) y
[Inferior 1 (process 28353) killed]
It worked!
In order to get this functionality operational I had to implement multiple GDB functions, in particular: create_inferior, post_create_inferior, attach, kill, detach, mourn, join, thread_alive, resume, wait, fetch_registers, store_registers, read_memory, write_memory, request_interrupt, supports_read_auxv, read_auxv, supports_hardware_single_step, sw_breakpoint_from_kind, supports_z_point_type, insert_point, remove_point, stopped_by_sw_breakpoint, supports_qxfer_siginfo, qxfer_siginfo, supports_stopped_by_sw_breakpoint, supports_non_stop, supports_multi_process, supports_fork_events, supports_vfork_events, supports_exec_events, supports_disable_randomization, supports_qxfer_libraries_svr4, qxfer_libraries_svr4, supports_pid_to_exec_file, pid_to_exec_file, thread_name, supports_catch_syscall.
NetBSD is the first BSD and actually the first Open Source UNIX-like OS besides Linux to grow support for gdbserver.
Plan for the next milestone
Introduce AArch64 support for GDB/NetBSD.