src: add commands to inspect the workqueue #122

mmarchini · 2017-08-17T20:13:32Z

Added two new commands (v8 getactivehandles and v8 getactiverequests) which prints all pending handles and requests (same return given by process._getActiveHandles() and process._getActiveRequests()). Those changes were built upon the symbols added on nodejs/node#14901, which means it's currently not working with node's latest build.

Fixes: #100
Ref: nodejs/node#14901
Ref: nodejs/post-mortem#46

hhellyer · 2017-08-18T14:23:39Z

Looks interesting, I can see there's some conversation going on over on nodejs/node. ;-)

Could you add some sample output to this PR? It's hard to test out your changes without building node as well.

A few thoughts (I'll do a proper review after we see what happens in nodejs/node!):

If this is likely to be expanded on this later it might be worth moving it to it's own source file. That might be a good place for Node.js specific functionality.
The constants are repeatedly loaded instead of being in llv8-constants.cc.
You read pointers using process.ReadMemory instead of process.ReadPointerFromMemory which is simpler and correctly handles 32bit/64bit and endianess differences.
Using ReadPointerFromMemory might also let you simplify your use of buffer and myMemory to be less confusing. (A more descriptive name for myMemory might be good too!)

mmarchini · 2017-08-18T20:10:23Z

Thanks for the feedbacks! I'll do a full refactor after nodejs/node#14901 is merged, because probably there are going to be some changes which will impact this PR.

Here are the sample outputs of both commands:

mmarchini · 2017-08-29T20:43:59Z

All code related to those new commands were refactored by assigning constants in a different file and by creating helper classes to access some node internal properties. I also added a "higher-level" constants.h file, which has classes that can be used by both llnode-constants.h and llv8-constants.h (I didn't change llv8-constants.h in this PR though to avoid making unrelated changes).

Besides that, a new fallback method to determine the current environment was added. This method uses a heuristic approach to try to find the root context of the process. With this, those new commands will work most of the time even without the new symbols added to V8.

There are probably still some error handling to be done. I'll do another review tomorrow and see what else can be improved.

Please tell me what you think and let me know if there are any changes necessary.

Before these changes, only V8 added debug symbols to Node's binary, limiting the possibilities for debugger's developers to add some features that rely on investigating Node's internal structures. These changes are a first steps towards empowering debug tools to navigate Node's internals strucutres. One example of what can be achieved with this is shown at nodejs/llnode#122 (a command which prints information about handles and requests on the queue for a core dump file). Node debug symbols are prefixed with node_dbg_. Ref: nodejs/llnode#122 Ref: nodejs/post-mortem#46

Before these changes, only V8 added debug symbols to Node's binary, limiting the possibilities for debugger's developers to add some features that rely on investigating Node's internal structures. These changes are a first steps towards empowering debug tools to navigate Node's internals strucutres. One example of what can be achieved with this is shown at nodejs/llnode#122 (a command which prints information about handles and requests on the queue for a core dump file). Node debug symbols are prefixed with node_dbg_. Ref: nodejs/llnode#122 PR-URL: #14901 Refs: nodejs/post-mortem#46 Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]>

Before these changes, only V8 added debug symbols to Node's binary, limiting the possibilities for debugger's developers to add some features that rely on investigating Node's internal structures. These changes are a first steps towards empowering debug tools to navigate Node's internals strucutres. One example of what can be achieved with this is shown at nodejs/llnode#122 (a command which prints information about handles and requests on the queue for a core dump file). Node debug symbols are prefixed with node_dbg_. Ref: nodejs/llnode#122 Ref: nodejs/post-mortem#46

Before these changes, only V8 added debug symbols to Node's binary, limiting the possibilities for debugger's developers to add some features that rely on investigating Node's internal structures. These changes are a first steps towards empowering debug tools to navigate Node's internals strucutres. One example of what can be achieved with this is shown at nodejs/llnode#122 (a command which prints information about handles and requests on the queue for a core dump file). Node debug symbols are prefixed with node_dbg_. Ref: nodejs/llnode#122 PR-URL: #14901 Refs: nodejs/post-mortem#46 Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]>

Before these changes, only V8 added postmortem metadata to Node's binary, limiting the possibilities for debugger's developers to add some features that rely on investigating Node's internal structures. These changes are first steps towards empowering debug tools to navigate Node's internal structures. One example of what can be achieved with this is shown at nodejs/llnode#122 (a command which prints information about handles and requests on the queue for a core dump file). Node postmortem metadata are prefixed with nodedbg_. This also adds tests to validate if all postmortem metadata are calculated correctly, plus some documentation on what is postmortem metadata and a few care to be taken to avoid breaking it. Ref: nodejs/llnode#122 Ref: nodejs/post-mortem#46 PR-URL: nodejs#14901 Refs: nodejs/post-mortem#46 Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <[email protected]>

Before these changes, only V8 added postmortem metadata to Node's binary, limiting the possibilities for debugger's developers to add some features that rely on investigating Node's internal structures. These changes are first steps towards empowering debug tools to navigate Node's internal structures. One example of what can be achieved with this is shown at nodejs/llnode#122 (a command which prints information about handles and requests on the queue for a core dump file). Node postmortem metadata are prefixed with nodedbg_. This also adds tests to validate if all postmortem metadata are calculated correctly, plus some documentation on what is postmortem metadata and a few care to be taken to avoid breaking it. Ref: nodejs/llnode#122 Ref: nodejs/post-mortem#46 Backport-PR-URL: #18550 PR-URL: #14901 Refs: nodejs/post-mortem#46 Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <[email protected]>

Before these changes, only V8 added postmortem metadata to Node's binary, limiting the possibilities for debugger's developers to add some features that rely on investigating Node's internal structures. These changes are first steps towards empowering debug tools to navigate Node's internal structures. One example of what can be achieved with this is shown at nodejs/llnode#122 (a command which prints information about handles and requests on the queue for a core dump file). Node postmortem metadata are prefixed with nodedbg_. This also adds tests to validate if all postmortem metadata are calculated correctly, plus some documentation on what is postmortem metadata and a few care to be taken to avoid breaking it. Ref: nodejs/llnode#122 Ref: nodejs/post-mortem#46 PR-URL: nodejs#14901 Refs: nodejs/post-mortem#46 Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <[email protected]>

mmarchini · 2018-03-18T21:02:29Z

Ok, since nodejs/node#14901 landed and Node's postmortem metadata is now available on Node.js v9.7.0+ (also might be available on v8.11.0+ and v6.14.0+) I've refactored, added tests and rebased this PR. I believe it's good for review now! 😄

P.S.: The PR grew a lot. If you want I can break it into two PRs (one to add Node's constants and other to add the new commands).

mmarchini · 2018-03-20T13:48:29Z

Updated to fix an infinite loop in v6.x + missing constant for the same version: 63901e8 and 3d2543f

mmarchini · 2018-04-02T15:20:51Z

Rebased to resolve some conflicts.

Before these changes, only V8 added postmortem metadata to Node's binary, limiting the possibilities for debugger's developers to add some features that rely on investigating Node's internal structures. These changes are first steps towards empowering debug tools to navigate Node's internal structures. One example of what can be achieved with this is shown at nodejs/llnode#122 (a command which prints information about handles and requests on the queue for a core dump file). Node postmortem metadata are prefixed with nodedbg_. This also adds tests to validate if all postmortem metadata are calculated correctly, plus some documentation on what is postmortem metadata and a few care to be taken to avoid breaking it. Ref: nodejs/llnode#122 Ref: nodejs/post-mortem#46 PR-URL: nodejs#14901 Refs: nodejs/post-mortem#46 Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <[email protected]>

This commit refactors llv8-constants to make it easier to introduce Node's internals constants. Common code for llv8 and node constants is now on src/constants.h. Also moved the Error class to its own file, removing the dependency on src/llv8.h to use Errors.

Add two new commands: `v8 getactivehandles` and `v8 getactiverequests`. These comamnds will print all pending handles and requests. The result should be similar to running process._getActiveHandles() and process._getActiveRequests() on the living process. Fixes: nodejs#100

mmarchini · 2018-05-11T14:36:08Z

Rebased to resolve conflicts again.

@indutny @hhellyer @cjihrig would you like me to break this into 2 separate PRs?

Before these changes, only V8 added postmortem metadata to Node's binary, limiting the possibilities for debugger's developers to add some features that rely on investigating Node's internal structures. These changes are first steps towards empowering debug tools to navigate Node's internal structures. One example of what can be achieved with this is shown at nodejs/llnode#122 (a command which prints information about handles and requests on the queue for a core dump file). Node postmortem metadata are prefixed with nodedbg_. This also adds tests to validate if all postmortem metadata are calculated correctly, plus some documentation on what is postmortem metadata and a few care to be taken to avoid breaking it. Ref: nodejs/llnode#122 Ref: nodejs/post-mortem#46 PR-URL: #14901 Refs: nodejs/post-mortem#46 Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <[email protected]>

Before these changes, only V8 added postmortem metadata to Node's binary, limiting the possibilities for debugger's developers to add some features that rely on investigating Node's internal structures. These changes are first steps towards empowering debug tools to navigate Node's internal structures. One example of what can be achieved with this is shown at nodejs/llnode#122 (a command which prints information about handles and requests on the queue for a core dump file). Node postmortem metadata are prefixed with nodedbg_. This also adds tests to validate if all postmortem metadata are calculated correctly, plus some documentation on what is postmortem metadata and a few care to be taken to avoid breaking it. Ref: nodejs/llnode#122 Ref: nodejs/post-mortem#46 Backport-PR-URL: #19176 PR-URL: #14901 Refs: nodejs/post-mortem#46 Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <[email protected]>

mmarchini · 2018-07-01T17:52:31Z

Superseded by #204 and #210

Before these changes, only V8 added postmortem metadata to Node's binary, limiting the possibilities for debugger's developers to add some features that rely on investigating Node's internal structures. These changes are first steps towards empowering debug tools to navigate Node's internal structures. One example of what can be achieved with this is shown at nodejs/llnode#122 (a command which prints information about handles and requests on the queue for a core dump file). Node postmortem metadata are prefixed with nodedbg_. This also adds tests to validate if all postmortem metadata are calculated correctly, plus some documentation on what is postmortem metadata and a few care to be taken to avoid breaking it. Ref: nodejs/llnode#122 Ref: nodejs/post-mortem#46 Backport-PR-URL: #19176 PR-URL: #14901 Refs: nodejs/post-mortem#46 Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <[email protected]>

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