So far the microdump_writer dumped the log in logcat using the default
system log. This is simple to achieve but has some drawbacks:
1. Creates spam in the system log, pushing back other eventual useful
messages.
2. There is a high chance that the microdump gets lost if some log
spam storm happens immediately after a crash and before the log
is collected by the feedback client.
3. Since Android L, the logger is smartly throttling messages (to
reduce logcat spam). Throttling brekpad logs defeats the all
point of microdumps.
This change is conceptually very simple. Replace the use of
__android_log_write() with __android_log_buf_write(), which takes
an extra bufID argument. The main drawback is that the
__android_log_buf_write is not exported in the NDK and needs to be
dynamically looked up via dlsym.
This choice has been discussed and advocated by Android owners.
See the internal bug b/21753476.
BUG=chromium:512755
R=thestig@chromium.org
Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/1286063003 .
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Shared libraries containing Android packed relocations have a load
bias that differs from the start address in /proc/$$/maps. Current
breakpad assumes that the load bias and mapping start address are
the same.
Fixed by changing the client to detect the presence of Android packed
relocations in the address space of a loaded library, and adjusting the
stored mapping start address of any that are packed so that it contains
the linker's load bias.
For this to work properly, it is important that the non-packed library
is symbolized for breakpad. Either packed or non-packed libraries may
be run on the device; the client detects which has been loaded by the
linker.
BUG=499747
R=primiano@chromium.org, rmcilroy@chromium.org
Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/1189823002.
Patch from Simon Baldwin <simonb@chromium.org>.
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This is to add build fingerprint and product name/version to
microdumps. Conversely to what happens in the case of minidumps
with MIME fields, due to the nature of minidumps, extra metadata
cannot be reliably injected after the dump is completed.
This CL adds the plumbing to inject two optional fields plus the
corresponding tests.
BUG=chromium:410294
R=thestig@chromium.org
Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/1125153008
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A recent change in the client-side microdump write (r1404) ended up
introducing a call to new() to instantiate the line buffer that
microdump uses to dump its lines. new/malloc is a luxury we cannot
afford in a compromised context.
This change switches the line buffer to be backed by the dumper
page allocator, which on Linux/Android ends up requesting pages
via mmap.
Also, the microdump write bails out without crashing if the page
allocator failed (crash during severe OOM).
BUG=640
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- Filter modules by prot flags (only +x) not extensions. It wouldn't
otherwise catch the case of Chrome mapping the library from the
apk (which is mapped r-x but doesn't end in .so).
- Use compile-time detection of target arch, in order to cope with
multilib OSes, where uname() doesn't reflect the run-time arch.
- Add OS information and CPU arch / count.
- Add support for aarch64.
- Add tests and stackwalk expectations for aarch64.
- Fix a potential overflow bug in the processor.
- Rebaseline the tests using smaller symbols.
- Fix microdump_writer_unittest.cc on 32-bit host.
BUG=chromium:410294
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Microdumps are a very lightweight variant of minidumps. They are meant
to dump a minimal crash report on the system log (logcat on Android),
containing only the state of the crashing thread.
This is to deal with cases where the user has opted out from crash
uploading but we still want to generate meaningful information on the
device to pull a stacktrace for development purposes.
Conversely to conventional stack traces (e.g. the one generated by
Android's debuggerd or Chromium's base::stacktrace) microdumps do NOT
require unwind tables to be present in the target binary. This allows
to save precious binary size (~1.5 MB for Chrome on Arm, ~10 MB on
arm64).
More information and design doc on crbug.com/410294
BUG=chromium:410294
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