[lldb][Mach-O] Allow "process metadata" LC_NOTE to supply registers (#144627) The "process metadata" LC_NOTE allows for thread IDs to be specified in a Mach-O corefile. This extends the JSON recognzied in that LC_NOTE to allow for additional registers to be supplied on a per-thread basis. The registers included in a Mach-O corefile LC_THREAD load command can only be one of the register flavors that the kernel (xnu) defines in <mach/arm/thread_status.h> for arm64 -- the general purpose registers, floating point registers, exception registers. JTAG style corefile producers may have access to many additional registers beyond these that EL0 programs typically use, for instance TCR_EL1 on AArch64, and people developing low level code need access to these registers. This patch defines a format for including these registers for any thread. The JSON in "process metadata" is a dictionary that must have a `threads` key. The value is an array of entries, one per LC_THREAD in the Mach-O corefile. The number of entries must match the LC_THREADs so they can be correctly associated. Each thread's dictionary must have two keys, `sets`, and `registers`. `sets` is an array of register set names. If a register set name matches one from the LC_THREAD core registers, any registers that are defined will be added to that register set. e.g. metadata can add a register to the "General Purpose Registers" set that lldb shows users. `registers` is an array of dictionaries, one per register. Each register must have the keys `name`, `value`, `bitsize`, and `set`. It may provide additional keys like `alt-name`, that `DynamicRegisterInfo::SetRegisterInfo` recognizes. This `sets` + `registers` formatting is the same that is used by the `target.process.python-os-plugin-path` script interface uses, both are parsed by `DynamicRegisterInfo`. The one addition is that in this LC_NOTE metadata, each register must also have a `value` field, with the value provided in big-endian base 10, as usual with JSON. In RegisterContextUnifiedCore, I combine the register sets & registers from the LC_THREAD for a specific thread, and the metadata sets & registers for that thread from the LC_NOTE. Even if no LC_NOTE is present, this class ingests the LC_THREAD register contexts and reformats it to its internal stores before returning itself as the RegisterContex, instead of shortcutting and returning the core's native RegisterContext. I could have gone either way with that, but in the end I decided if the code is correct, we should live on it always. I added a test where we process save-core to create a userland corefile, then use a utility "add-lcnote" to strip the existing "process metadata" LC_NOTE that lldb put in it, and adds a new one from a JSON string. rdar://74358787 --------- Co-authored-by: Jonas Devlieghere <jonas@devlieghere.com>
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