November 2009 - Darwin-kernel

Re: Building 10.6 kernel?
by nawcom 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) The instructions at: http://shantonu.blogspot.com/2009/09/mac-os-x-kernel-source-xnu-has-been.ht… work great. I had no problems building the kernel. The problem is that when I install the new kernel, my test machine takes approx. 10 minutes to boot. Actually boot works ok, but the machine hangs prior to login -- just after the SecurityAgent launches. It hangs for about 10 minutes and then proceeds normally. It's as if some process is timing out. When I ssh into the machine and run top, I notice that the hidd process is "stuck". If I kill the hidd process, it restarts, and the machine immediately becomes responsive. Any ideas? Are there some kernel dependencies that I am overlooking? By the way, this happens with all three versions of the 10.6 source available at opensource.apple.com. Thanks, --Jim To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to darwin-kernel-request(a)lists.apple.com You can reach the person managing the list at darwin-kernel-owner(a)lists.apple.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Darwin-kernel digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Building 10.6 kernel? (Duane Murphy) 2. Re: Building 10.6 kernel? (Duane Murphy) 3. Re: remote debugging with gdb on 10.6.2 (Brian Bechtel) 4. Re: Building 10.6 kernel? (Stacey Son) 5. Re: Building 10.6 kernel? (Chris Simpson) 6. Re: Building 10.6 kernel? (Shantonu Sen) 7. Re: Kernel stack size and kernel memory debugger (Michael Smith) 8. Re: Kernel stack size and kernel memory debugger (Michael Crawford) 9. Re: Kernel stack size and kernel memory debugger (mogambo) 10. Re: Kernel stack size and kernel memory debugger (Andrew Myrick) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:51:11 -0800 From: Duane Murphy <duanemurphy(a)mac.com> Subject: Building 10.6 kernel? To: darwin-kernel(a)lists.apple.com Message-ID: <CEA9F5F9-B891-41F3-87EE-A156D2315734(a)mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Thanks, ...Duane -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.10.0 (Build 500) Charset: US-ASCII wsBVAwUBSwxxdUrg9acQ4r2CAQjPgggApkPrHThcJMBd0xblkw672qcfTKXvzP4J j6SdXEeUH0Nz+9DKvI1EUZ/9iYDHE83gsLVs7kLD3LfPKbIwdqrTQCf8mmmp7024 Klhkue6u1YafAV0ShuzXlIF4/tI1FIyvQTgMz6+BNI1BqvEk5R+bHjfk8M13gJ4+ UWyoSGSTgUoRYLEGIlvg27gw82243xxyTOmBacQWp9D+Yrjl4L6S9WZbf8hEoHmH t+g9igpTzcralIQVSPx/YXxOPdqs9rD5kAZ6NxwE3mke8JD0gSIAKHkwKGtWpW/A 8m91WtOugm+pQRFi2JGWZ9NsGnsBHlvTtwmsO73ZviHC1rjFWfAf/Q== =R5Mp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:04:15 -0800 From: Duane Murphy <duanemurphy(a)mac.com> Subject: Re: Building 10.6 kernel? To: darwin-kernel(a)lists.apple.com Message-ID: <283C64E3-F2CA-49B7-A247-D3583287EC27(a)mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 darwinbuild to the rescue. :-) On Nov 24, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Duane Murphy wrote: ...Duane -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.10.0 (Build 500) Charset: US-ASCII wsBVAwUBSwx0hkrg9acQ4r2CAQggXgf/ZdIS5/LulSExO3YOKoaMehW48YF3YbgV +nfXzHtjdG0TIBRoip0e4Xb6IW4ZOQnefJjc397iF5a8/P9xWrSkEbP6xuQPcbW8 4HXFERdkiG7vv/90V7t6l3bNPDjkqweCXq6raUsu9rM8sxwH3DVMSl6dC4BLwbpD DsyzOozBUaeHMBqwfYvuCKHhwyeij1LiaH58rt9SkjG4rLxeYJSN5/0uDB6/cjo0 FuPXOhbag48cE8uJ+moLkXREzA/z0vxCLaiHEf8fZiHRNS9c1nFkgFSlRc5xgI6D 26x/Khk50fYmI5Ho2y5FvjK7XX2erHpZw/tZl27n91jM4iepVhy0Bw== =mPEq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:10:21 -0800 From: Brian Bechtel <brian.bechtel(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: remote debugging with gdb on 10.6.2 To: mogambo <mogambo13(a)gmail.com> Cc: darwin-kernel(a)lists.apple.com Message-ID: <f6b4217c0911241710t5694e3b1g59379cdbf606a10d(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Are you following the guidelines at <http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/DeviceDrivers/Conceptu…> ? In Leopard and later, kextutil was split into two parts. You want to do the following: { build your kext } cd build/Development { in here you would have the kext and kext.dSYM bundles } kextutil -z -n -s . -- ./fsd.kext { it will prompt you for the kext load address. You can get that from "showallkmods" in gdb } inside gdb, use add-kext (gdb) add-kext ./fsd.kext This should give you source lines and locals if you compiled & linked everything correctly. Good luck. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:27:02 -0600 From: Stacey Son <apple(a)son.org> Subject: Re: Building 10.6 kernel? To: Duane Murphy <duanemurphy(a)mac.com> Cc: darwin-kernel(a)lists.apple.com Message-ID: <877EE38E-44B2-49C0-9DC9-087622C7F154(a)son.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" see http://shantonu.blogspot.com/2009/09/mac-os-x-kernel-source-xnu-has-been.ht… Best Regards, -stacey. ---- Stacey Son sson(a)FreeBSD.org

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Re: Building 10.6 kernel?
by Nix, James L (IS) 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcpuCm/Qk3zISuutRc6pRlo3AunxLgAEEA76 Thread-topic: Building 10.6 kernel? The instructions at: http://shantonu.blogspot.com/2009/09/mac-os-x-kernel-source-xnu-has-been.ht… work great. I had no problems building the kernel. The problem is that when I install the new kernel, my test machine takes approx. 10 minutes to boot. Actually boot works ok, but the machine hangs prior to login -- just after the SecurityAgent launches. It hangs for about 10 minutes and then proceeds normally. It's as if some process is timing out. When I ssh into the machine and run top, I notice that the hidd process is "stuck". If I kill the hidd process, it restarts, and the machine immediately becomes responsive. Any ideas? Are there some kernel dependencies that I am overlooking? By the way, this happens with all three versions of the 10.6 source available at opensource.apple.com. Thanks, --Jim -----Original Message----- From: darwin-kernel-bounces+james.nix=ngc.com(a)lists.apple.com on behalf of darwin-kernel-request(a)lists.apple.com Sent: Wed 11/25/2009 3:03 PM To: darwin-kernel(a)lists.apple.com Subject: Darwin-kernel Digest, Vol 6, Issue 174 Send Darwin-kernel mailing list submissions to darwin-kernel(a)lists.apple.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to darwin-kernel-request(a)lists.apple.com You can reach the person managing the list at darwin-kernel-owner(a)lists.apple.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Darwin-kernel digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Building 10.6 kernel? (Duane Murphy) 2. Re: Building 10.6 kernel? (Duane Murphy) 3. Re: remote debugging with gdb on 10.6.2 (Brian Bechtel) 4. Re: Building 10.6 kernel? (Stacey Son) 5. Re: Building 10.6 kernel? (Chris Simpson) 6. Re: Building 10.6 kernel? (Shantonu Sen) 7. Re: Kernel stack size and kernel memory debugger (Michael Smith) 8. Re: Kernel stack size and kernel memory debugger (Michael Crawford) 9. Re: Kernel stack size and kernel memory debugger (mogambo) 10. Re: Kernel stack size and kernel memory debugger (Andrew Myrick) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:51:11 -0800 From: Duane Murphy <duanemurphy(a)mac.com> Subject: Building 10.6 kernel? To: darwin-kernel(a)lists.apple.com Message-ID: <CEA9F5F9-B891-41F3-87EE-A156D2315734(a)mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I am correct in assuming that the 10.6 kernel cannot be built (publicly) at this point? Seems like there are several pieces missing or at least not obvious where to find those pieces. References to instructions for building the 10.6 kernel would be great. (http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/Kern… doesn't work by the way. :-)) Thanks, ...Duane -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.10.0 (Build 500) Charset: US-ASCII wsBVAwUBSwxxdUrg9acQ4r2CAQjPgggApkPrHThcJMBd0xblkw672qcfTKXvzP4J j6SdXEeUH0Nz+9DKvI1EUZ/9iYDHE83gsLVs7kLD3LfPKbIwdqrTQCf8mmmp7024 Klhkue6u1YafAV0ShuzXlIF4/tI1FIyvQTgMz6+BNI1BqvEk5R+bHjfk8M13gJ4+ UWyoSGSTgUoRYLEGIlvg27gw82243xxyTOmBacQWp9D+Yrjl4L6S9WZbf8hEoHmH t+g9igpTzcralIQVSPx/YXxOPdqs9rD5kAZ6NxwE3mke8JD0gSIAKHkwKGtWpW/A 8m91WtOugm+pQRFi2JGWZ9NsGnsBHlvTtwmsO73ZviHC1rjFWfAf/Q== =R5Mp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:04:15 -0800 From: Duane Murphy <duanemurphy(a)mac.com> Subject: Re: Building 10.6 kernel? To: darwin-kernel(a)lists.apple.com Message-ID: <283C64E3-F2CA-49B7-A247-D3583287EC27(a)mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 darwinbuild to the rescue. :-) On Nov 24, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Duane Murphy wrote: > Am I correct in assuming that the 10.6 kernel cannot be built > (publicly) at this point? Seems like there are several pieces > missing or at least not obvious where to find those pieces. > > References to instructions for building the 10.6 kernel would be > great. (http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/Kern… > doesn't work by the way. :-)) ...Duane -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.10.0 (Build 500) Charset: US-ASCII wsBVAwUBSwx0hkrg9acQ4r2CAQggXgf/ZdIS5/LulSExO3YOKoaMehW48YF3YbgV +nfXzHtjdG0TIBRoip0e4Xb6IW4ZOQnefJjc397iF5a8/P9xWrSkEbP6xuQPcbW8 4HXFERdkiG7vv/90V7t6l3bNPDjkqweCXq6raUsu9rM8sxwH3DVMSl6dC4BLwbpD DsyzOozBUaeHMBqwfYvuCKHhwyeij1LiaH58rt9SkjG4rLxeYJSN5/0uDB6/cjo0 FuPXOhbag48cE8uJ+moLkXREzA/z0vxCLaiHEf8fZiHRNS9c1nFkgFSlRc5xgI6D 26x/Khk50fYmI5Ho2y5FvjK7XX2erHpZw/tZl27n91jM4iepVhy0Bw== =mPEq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:10:21 -0800 From: Brian Bechtel <brian.bechtel(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: remote debugging with gdb on 10.6.2 To: mogambo <mogambo13(a)gmail.com> Cc: darwin-kernel(a)lists.apple.com Message-ID: <f6b4217c0911241710t5694e3b1g59379cdbf606a10d(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:19 PM, mogambo <mogambo13(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Brian. I made some progress, but I am still having problems. > I tried boot-args 0x144 (although with boot-args 0xd44 I did have _panicd_ip > set as welll). The most important I was misisng was NMI the machine with > power button. I had used remote debugging with freebsd in my previous job. > I don't remember having to do anything special like that. > I am debugging a file system driver, which I am able to load successfully. > I created symbols at kextload time and copied to the debugger machine > earlier. I used -arch x86_64 as the debugger and debugee are both running > 64-bit 10.6. I was able to connect to the debugee in the gdb. With > add-symbol-file, I added the kext symbols, but get warnings: > Reading symbols from /path/to/com.company.kext.fsd.sym... > warning: .o file "/path/to/object.o" more recent than executable timestamp > in "/path/to/com.company.kext.fsd.sym > warning: Could not open OSO file /path/to/object.o to scan for pubtypes for > objfile /path/to/com.company.kext.fsd.sym > : > done. > I was able to set a breakpoint in my kext and apparently hit it too as > expected. However, I cannot single-step through the kext code - I get an > error saying something like "no symbol information for this line was found; > continuing to the end of the function". At the point where I hit the trap > fault, I am unable print any arguments to the function, or locals. > I am sure what I intend to do is not an uncommon use of remote debugging. > What am I doing wrong? Are you following the guidelines at <http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/DeviceDrivers/Conceptu…> ? In Leopard and later, kextutil was split into two parts. You want to do the following: { build your kext } cd build/Development { in here you would have the kext and kext.dSYM bundles } kextutil -z -n -s . -- ./fsd.kext { it will prompt you for the kext load address. You can get that from "showallkmods" in gdb } inside gdb, use add-kext (gdb) add-kext ./fsd.kext This should give you source lines and locals if you compiled & linked everything correctly. Good luck. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:27:02 -0600 From: Stacey Son <apple(a)son.org> Subject: Re: Building 10.6 kernel? To: Duane Murphy <duanemurphy(a)mac.com> Cc: darwin-kernel(a)lists.apple.com Message-ID: <877EE38E-44B2-49C0-9DC9-087622C7F154(a)son.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Nov 24, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Duane Murphy wrote: > I am correct in assuming that the 10.6 kernel cannot be built > (publicly) at this point? Seems like there are several pieces missing > or at least not obvious where to find those pieces. > > References to instructions for building the 10.6 kernel would be > great. (http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/Kern… > doesn't work by the way. :-)) see http://shantonu.blogspot.com/2009/09/mac-os-x-kernel-source-xnu-has-been.ht… Best Regards, -stacey. ---- Stacey Son sson(a)FreeBSD.org

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Re: Building 10.6 kernel?
by Duane Murphy 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

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Re: remote debugging with gdb on 10.6.2
by James Shimer 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel(a)lists.apple.com On Nov 25, 2009, at 3:24 PM, mogambo wrote: Hi Brian, Thanks again for your help. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/jamesshimer%40mac.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.… I suggest using the logging functionality to spew debug to the console. Like I said before there are hard tools that are used for situations such as this, you can't just stop scheduling and expect the ethernet/debugging processing to keep going. This was very helpful. I can now single-step and see locals in my remote debugging session. This is what I do: 1. Build the kernel extension on the debugger machine. 2. Build the kernel extension on the taget machine. 3. Load the kext on the target. 4. start gdb session on the debugger: gdb -arch x86_64 /Volumes/ KernelDebugKit/mach_kernel. 5. source /Volumes/KernelDebugKit/kgmacros. 6. target remote-kdp 7. attach <target_ip> and trigger NMI on the debugee. 8. Once the gdb connects, showallkmods and get the load address of the kext. 9. On the debugger, go to the kext build directory and run the following command. Provide the load address from step 8 when asked for it. kextutil -z -n -s . -- fsd.kext 10. Back to the gdb session: add-kext <path_to_kext_build_directory> Gdb finds the symbols file created in step 9 and loads it. 11. Set my breakpoints and hit continue. Now, I hit the problem that's talked about already on the forum, where the target machine locks when single stepping. This email sent to jamesshimer(a)mac.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: remote debugging with gdb on 10.6.2
by mogambo 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

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Re: Kernel stack size and kernel memory debugger
by Andrew Myrick 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

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Re: Kernel stack size and kernel memory debugger
by mogambo 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

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Re: Kernel stack size and kernel memory debugger
by Michael Crawford 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

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Re: Kernel stack size and kernel memory debugger
by Michael Smith 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel(a)lists.apple.com On Nov 24, 2009, at 6:11 PM, mogambo wrote: > I am debugging a couple of issues with a filesystem driver kext on 64-bit 10.6. One of them looks like stack corruption. A pointer to an array of two ints on stack in fnA() is passed to a fnB(). When fnB() tries writing to it, it gets a kernel trap. Looking at the address of the passed in array in fnB() reveals that it is corrupt. If I compare the esp between frame 0 and frame 20 in the kernel coredump, the difference is about 6400 bytes. I do not think the kernel stack will be smaller than that, but in general, is there an easy way to check kernel stack size? You've confused two things here; corrupting your stack, and running off the stack. Totally different issues. If you run out of stack, you'll take a trap on the guard page that's below the stack. Not at all related to running off an array boundary or dereferencing a bad pointer into the stack and corrupting your array. = Mike _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Building 10.6 kernel?
by Shantonu Sen 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

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