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# a50ea2f7 09-Jan-2024 Nicholas Mosier <nmosier@stanford.edu>

[lldb] Fix Intel PT plugin compile errors (#77252)

Fix #77251.


Revision tags: llvmorg-17.0.6, llvmorg-17.0.5, llvmorg-17.0.4, llvmorg-17.0.3, llvmorg-17.0.2, llvmorg-17.0.1, llvmorg-17.0.0, llvmorg-17.0.0-rc4, llvmorg-17.0.0-rc3, llvmorg-17.0.0-rc2, llvmorg-17.0.0-rc1, llvmorg-18-init, llvmorg-16.0.6, llvmorg-16.0.5, llvmorg-16.0.4, llvmorg-16.0.3, llvmorg-16.0.2, llvmorg-16.0.1, llvmorg-16.0.0, llvmorg-16.0.0-rc4, llvmorg-16.0.0-rc3, llvmorg-16.0.0-rc2, llvmorg-16.0.0-rc1, llvmorg-17-init, llvmorg-15.0.7
# 2fe83274 07-Jan-2023 Kazu Hirata <kazu@google.com>

[lldb] Use std::optional instead of llvm::Optional (NFC)

This patch replaces (llvm::|)Optional< with std::optional<. I'll post
a separate patch to clean up the "using" declarations, #include
"llvm/

[lldb] Use std::optional instead of llvm::Optional (NFC)

This patch replaces (llvm::|)Optional< with std::optional<. I'll post
a separate patch to clean up the "using" declarations, #include
"llvm/ADT/Optional.h", etc.

This is part of an effort to migrate from llvm::Optional to
std::optional:

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/deprecating-llvm-optional-x-hasvalue-getvalue-getvalueor/63716

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# f190ce62 07-Jan-2023 Kazu Hirata <kazu@google.com>

[lldb] Add #include <optional> (NFC)

This patch adds #include <optional> to those files containing
llvm::Optional<...> or Optional<...>.

I'll post a separate patch to actually replace llvm::Optiona

[lldb] Add #include <optional> (NFC)

This patch adds #include <optional> to those files containing
llvm::Optional<...> or Optional<...>.

I'll post a separate patch to actually replace llvm::Optional with
std::optional.

This is part of an effort to migrate from llvm::Optional to
std::optional:

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/deprecating-llvm-optional-x-hasvalue-getvalue-getvalueor/63716

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# d920ab4a 06-Dec-2022 Kazu Hirata <kazu@google.com>

[lldb] Use std::nullopt instead of llvm::None (NFC)

This is part of an effort to migrate from llvm::Optional to
std::optional:

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/deprecating-llvm-optional-x-hasvalue-getv

[lldb] Use std::nullopt instead of llvm::None (NFC)

This is part of an effort to migrate from llvm::Optional to
std::optional:

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/deprecating-llvm-optional-x-hasvalue-getvalue-getvalueor/63716

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# 529ca5ad 06-Dec-2022 Kazu Hirata <kazu@google.com>

[lldb] Use std::nullopt instead of llvm::None (NFC)

This is part of an effort to migrate from llvm::Optional to
std::optional:

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/deprecating-llvm-optional-x-hasvalue-getv

[lldb] Use std::nullopt instead of llvm::None (NFC)

This is part of an effort to migrate from llvm::Optional to
std::optional:

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/deprecating-llvm-optional-x-hasvalue-getvalue-getvalueor/63716

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Revision tags: llvmorg-15.0.6, llvmorg-15.0.5, llvmorg-15.0.4
# f6eb0897 24-Oct-2022 Jakob Johnson <johnsonjakob99@gmail.com>

[trace][intelpt] Fix multi CPU decoding TSC assertion error

Occasionally the assertion that enforces increasing TSC values in `DecodedThread::NotifyTsc`
would get tripped during large multi CPU trac

[trace][intelpt] Fix multi CPU decoding TSC assertion error

Occasionally the assertion that enforces increasing TSC values in `DecodedThread::NotifyTsc`
would get tripped during large multi CPU trace decoding.
The root cause of this issue was an assumption that all the data of a
PSB will fit within the start,end TSC of the "owning"
`ThreadContinuousExecution`. After investigating, this is not the case
because PSBs can have multiple TSCs.
This diff works around this issue by introducing a TSC upper bound for
each `PSBBlockDecoder`. This fixes the assertion failure by simply
"dropping" the remaining data of PSB whenever the TSC upper bound is
exceeded during decoding.
Future work will do a larger refactor of the multi CPU decoding to
remove the dependencies on this incorrect assumption so that PSB blocks
that span multiple `ThreadContinuousExecutions` are correctly handled.
correctly

Test Plan:

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D136610

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# c49d14ac 23-Oct-2022 Walter Erquinigo <wallace@fb.com>

[trace][intel pt] Simple detection of infinite decoding loops

The low-level decoder might fall into an infinite decoding loop for
various reasons, the simplest being an infinite direct loop reached

[trace][intel pt] Simple detection of infinite decoding loops

The low-level decoder might fall into an infinite decoding loop for
various reasons, the simplest being an infinite direct loop reached due
to wrong handling of self-modified code in the kernel, e.g. it might
reach

```
0x0A: pause
0x0C: jump to 0x0A
```

In this case, all the code is sequential and requires no packets to be
decoded. The low-level decoder would produce an output like the
following

```
0x0A: pause
0x0C: jump to 0x0A
0x0A: pause
0x0C: jump to 0x0A
0x0A: pause
0x0C: jump to 0x0A
... infinite amount of times
```

These cases require stopping the decoder to avoid infinite work and signal this
at least as a trace error.

- Add a check that breaks decoding of a single PSB once 500k instructions have been decoded since the last packet was processed.
- Add a check that looks for infinite loops after certain amount of instructions have been decoded since the last packet was processed.
- Add some `settings` properties for tweaking the thresholds of the checks above. This is also nice because it does the basic work needed for future settings.
- Add an AnomalyDetector class that inspects the DecodedThread and the libipt decoder in search for anomalies. These anomalies are then signaled as fatal errors in the trace.
- Add an ErrorStats class that keeps track of all the errors in a DecodedThread, with a special counter for fatal errors.
- Add an entry for decoded thread errors in the `dump info` command.

Some notes are added in the code and in the documention of the settings,
so please read them.

Besides that, I haven't been unable to create a test case in LLVM style, but
I've found an anomaly in the thread #12 of the trace
72533820-3eb8-4465-b8e4-4e6bf0ccca99 at Meta. We have to figure out how to
artificially create traces with this kind of anomalies in LLVM style.

With this change, that anomalous thread now shows:

```
(lldb)thread trace dump instructions 12 -e -i 23101

thread #12: tid = 8
...missing instructions
23101: (error) anomalous trace: possible infinite loop detected of size 2
vmlinux-5.12.0-0_fbk8_clang_6656_gc85768aa64da`panic_smp_self_stop + 5 [inlined] rep_nop at processor.h:13:2
23100: 0xffffffff81342785 pause
vmlinux-5.12.0-0_fbk8_clang_6656_gc85768aa64da`panic_smp_self_stop + 7 at panic.c:87:2
23099: 0xffffffff81342787 jmp 0xffffffff81342785 ; <+5> [inlined] rep_nop at processor.h:13:2
vmlinux-5.12.0-0_fbk8_clang_6656_gc85768aa64da`panic_smp_self_stop + 5 [inlined] rep_nop at processor.h:13:2
23098: 0xffffffff81342785 pause
vmlinux-5.12.0-0_fbk8_clang_6656_gc85768aa64da`panic_smp_self_stop + 7 at panic.c:87:2
23097: 0xffffffff81342787 jmp 0xffffffff81342785 ; <+5> [inlined] rep_nop at processor.h:13:2
vmlinux-5.12.0-0_fbk8_clang_6656_gc85768aa64da`panic_smp_self_stop + 5 [inlined] rep_nop at processor.h:13:2
23096: 0xffffffff81342785 pause
vmlinux-5.12.0-0_fbk8_clang_6656_gc85768aa64da`panic_smp_self_stop + 7 at panic.c:87:2
23095: 0xffffffff81342787 jmp 0xffffffff81342785 ; <+5> [inlined] rep_nop at processor.h:13:2
```

It used to be in an infinite loop where the decoder never stopped.

Besides that, the dump info command shows

```
(lldb) thread trace dump info 12

Errors:
Number of individual errors: 32
Number of fatal errors: 1
Number of other errors: 31
```

and in json format

```
(lldb) thread trace dump info 12 -j

"errors": {
"totalCount": 32,
"libiptErrors": {},
"fatalErrors": 1,
"otherErrors": 31
}
```

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D136557

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Revision tags: llvmorg-15.0.3, working, llvmorg-15.0.2, llvmorg-15.0.1, llvmorg-15.0.0, llvmorg-15.0.0-rc3
# 4025a8ae 15-Aug-2022 Walter Erquinigo <wallace@fb.com>

[NFC][trace][intel pt] add simple documentation line


# e17cae07 08-Aug-2022 Walter Erquinigo <wallace@fb.com>

[trace][intel pt] Fix per-psb packet decoding

The per-PSB packet decoding logic was wrong because it was assuming that pt_insn_get_sync_offset was being udpated after every PSB. Silly me, that is no

[trace][intel pt] Fix per-psb packet decoding

The per-PSB packet decoding logic was wrong because it was assuming that pt_insn_get_sync_offset was being udpated after every PSB. Silly me, that is not true. It returns the offset of the PSB packet after invoking pt_insn_sync_forward regardless of how many PSBs are visited later. Instead, I'm now following the approach described in https://github.com/intel/libipt/blob/master/doc/howto_libipt.md#parallel-decode for parallel decoding, which is basically what we need.

A nasty error that happened because of this is that when we had two PSBs (A and B), the following was happening

1. PSB A was processed all the way up to the end of the trace, which includes PSB B.
2. PSB B was then processed until the end of the trace.

The instructions emitted by step 2. were also emitted as part of step 1. so our trace had duplicated chunks. This problem becomes worse when you many PSBs.

As part of making sure this diff is correct, I added some other features that are very useful.

- Added a "synchronization point" event to the TraceCursor, so we can inspect when PSBs are emitted.
- Removed the single-thread decoder. Now the per-cpu decoder and single-thread decoder use the same code paths.
- Use the query decoder to fetch PSBs and timestamps. It turns out that the pt_insn_sync_forward of the instruction decoder can move past several PSBs (this means that we could skip some TSCs). On the other hand, the pt_query_sync_forward method doesn't skip PSBs, so we can get more accurate sync events and timing information.
- Turned LibiptDecoder into PSBBlockDecoder, which decodes single PSB blocks. It is the fundamental processing unit for decoding.
- Added many comments, asserts and improved error handling for clarity.
- Improved DecodeSystemWideTraceForThread so that a TSC is emitted always before a cpu change event. This was a bug that was annoying me before.
- SplitTraceInContinuousExecutions and FindLowestTSCInTrace are now using the query decoder, which can identify precisely each PSB along with their TSCs.
- Added an "only-events" option to the trace dumper to inspect only events.

I did extensive testing and I think we should have an in-house testing CI. The LLVM buildbots are not capable of supporting testing post-mortem traces of hundreds of megabytes. I'll leave that for later, but at least for now the current tests were able to catch most of the issues I encountered when doing this task.

A sample output of a program that I was single stepping is the following. You can see that only one PSB is emitted even though stepping happened!

```
thread #1: tid = 3578223
0: (event) trace synchronization point [offset = 0x0xef0]
a.out`main + 20 at main.cpp:29:20
1: 0x0000000000402479 leaq -0x1210(%rbp), %rax
2: (event) software disabled tracing
3: 0x0000000000402480 movq %rax, %rdi
4: (event) software disabled tracing
5: (event) software disabled tracing
6: 0x0000000000402483 callq 0x403bd4 ; std::vector<int, std::allocator<int>>::vector at stl_vector.h:391:7
7: (event) software disabled tracing
a.out`std::vector<int, std::allocator<int>>::vector() at stl_vector.h:391:7
8: 0x0000000000403bd4 pushq %rbp
9: (event) software disabled tracing
10: 0x0000000000403bd5 movq %rsp, %rbp
11: (event) software disabled tracing
```

This is another trace of a long program with a few PSBs.
```
(lldb) thread trace dump instructions -E -f thread #1: tid = 3603082
0: (event) trace synchronization point [offset = 0x0x80]
47417: (event) software disabled tracing
129231: (event) trace synchronization point [offset = 0x0x800]
146747: (event) software disabled tracing
246076: (event) software disabled tracing
259068: (event) trace synchronization point [offset = 0x0xf78]
259276: (event) software disabled tracing
259278: (event) software disabled tracing
no more data
```

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D131630

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# c4fb631c 11-Aug-2022 Walter Erquinigo <wallace@fb.com>

[NFC][lldb][trace] Fix formatting of tracing files

Pavel Labath taught me that clang-format sorts headers automatically
using llvm's rules, and it's better not to have spaces between

So in this dif

[NFC][lldb][trace] Fix formatting of tracing files

Pavel Labath taught me that clang-format sorts headers automatically
using llvm's rules, and it's better not to have spaces between

So in this diff I'm removing those spaces and formatting them as well.

I used `clang-format -i` to format these files.

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Revision tags: llvmorg-15.0.0-rc2
# d179ea12 03-Aug-2022 Walter Erquinigo <wallace@fb.com>

[NFC][trace] format source files

Cleanup formatting diff


Revision tags: llvmorg-15.0.0-rc1, llvmorg-16-init
# 4f676c25 18-Jul-2022 Walter Erquinigo <wallace@fb.com>

[trace][intel pt] Introduce wall clock time for each trace item

- Decouple TSCs from trace items
- Turn TSCs into events just like CPUs. The new name is HW clock tick, wich could be reused by other

[trace][intel pt] Introduce wall clock time for each trace item

- Decouple TSCs from trace items
- Turn TSCs into events just like CPUs. The new name is HW clock tick, wich could be reused by other vendors.
- Add a GetWallTime that returns the wall time that the trace plug-in can infer for each trace item.
- For intel pt, we are doing the following interpolation: if an instruction takes less than 1 TSC, we use that duration, otherwise, we assume the instruction took 1 TSC. This helps us avoid having to handle context switches, changes to kernel, idle times, decoding errors, etc. We are just trying to show some approximation and not the real data. For the real data, TSCs are the way to go. Besides that, we are making sure that no two trace items will give the same interpolation value. Finally, we are using as time 0 the time at which tracing started.

Sample output:

```
(lldb) r
Process 750047 launched: '/home/wallace/a.out' (x86_64)
Process 750047 stopped
* thread #1, name = 'a.out', stop reason = breakpoint 1.1
frame #0: 0x0000000000402479 a.out`main at main.cpp:29:20
26 };
27
28 int main() {
-> 29 std::vector<int> vvv;
30 for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
31 vvv.push_back(i);
32
(lldb) process trace start -s 64kb -t --per-cpu
(lldb) b 60
Breakpoint 2: where = a.out`main + 1689 at main.cpp:60:23, address = 0x0000000000402afe
(lldb) c
Process 750047 resuming
Process 750047 stopped
* thread #1, name = 'a.out', stop reason = breakpoint 2.1
frame #0: 0x0000000000402afe a.out`main at main.cpp:60:23
57 map<int, int> m;
58 m[3] = 4;
59
-> 60 map<string, string> m2;
61 m2["5"] = "6";
62
63 std::vector<std::string> vs = {"2", "3"};
(lldb) thread trace dump instructions -t -f -e thread #1: tid = 750047
0: [379567.000 ns] (event) HW clock tick [48599428476224707]
1: [379569.000 ns] (event) CPU core changed [new CPU=2]
2: [390487.000 ns] (event) HW clock tick [48599428476246495]
3: [1602508.000 ns] (event) HW clock tick [48599428478664855]
4: [1662745.000 ns] (event) HW clock tick [48599428478785046]
libc.so.6`malloc
5: [1662746.995 ns] 0x00007ffff7176660 endbr64
6: [1662748.991 ns] 0x00007ffff7176664 movq 0x32387d(%rip), %rax ; + 408
7: [1662750.986 ns] 0x00007ffff717666b pushq %r12
8: [1662752.981 ns] 0x00007ffff717666d pushq %rbp
9: [1662754.977 ns] 0x00007ffff717666e pushq %rbx
10: [1662756.972 ns] 0x00007ffff717666f movq (%rax), %rax
11: [1662758.967 ns] 0x00007ffff7176672 testq %rax, %rax
12: [1662760.963 ns] 0x00007ffff7176675 jne 0x9c7e0 ; <+384>
13: [1662762.958 ns] 0x00007ffff717667b leaq 0x17(%rdi), %rax
14: [1662764.953 ns] 0x00007ffff717667f cmpq $0x1f, %rax
15: [1662766.949 ns] 0x00007ffff7176683 ja 0x9c730 ; <+208>
16: [1662768.944 ns] 0x00007ffff7176730 andq $-0x10, %rax
17: [1662770.939 ns] 0x00007ffff7176734 cmpq $-0x41, %rax
18: [1662772.935 ns] 0x00007ffff7176738 seta %dl
19: [1662774.930 ns] 0x00007ffff717673b jmp 0x9c690 ; <+48>
20: [1662776.925 ns] 0x00007ffff7176690 cmpq %rdi, %rax
21: [1662778.921 ns] 0x00007ffff7176693 jb 0x9c7b0 ; <+336>
22: [1662780.916 ns] 0x00007ffff7176699 testb %dl, %dl
23: [1662782.911 ns] 0x00007ffff717669b jne 0x9c7b0 ; <+336>
24: [1662784.906 ns] 0x00007ffff71766a1 movq 0x3236c0(%rip), %r12 ; + 24
(lldb) thread trace dump instructions -t -f -e -J -c 4
[
{
"id": 0,
"timestamp_ns": "379567.000000",
"event": "HW clock tick",
"hwClock": 48599428476224707
},
{
"id": 1,
"timestamp_ns": "379569.000000",
"event": "CPU core changed",
"cpuId": 2
},
{
"id": 2,
"timestamp_ns": "390487.000000",
"event": "HW clock tick",
"hwClock": 48599428476246495
},
{
"id": 3,
"timestamp_ns": "1602508.000000",
"event": "HW clock tick",
"hwClock": 48599428478664855
},
{
"id": 4,
"timestamp_ns": "1662745.000000",
"event": "HW clock tick",
"hwClock": 48599428478785046
},
{
"id": 5,
"timestamp_ns": "1662746.995324",
"loadAddress": "0x7ffff7176660",
"module": "libc.so.6",
"symbol": "malloc",
"mnemonic": "endbr64"
},
{
"id": 6,
"timestamp_ns": "1662748.990648",
"loadAddress": "0x7ffff7176664",
"module": "libc.so.6",
"symbol": "malloc",
"mnemonic": "movq"
},
{
"id": 7,
"timestamp_ns": "1662750.985972",
"loadAddress": "0x7ffff717666b",
"module": "libc.so.6",
"symbol": "malloc",
"mnemonic": "pushq"
},
{
"id": 8,
"timestamp_ns": "1662752.981296",
"loadAddress": "0x7ffff717666d",
"module": "libc.so.6",
"symbol": "malloc",
"mnemonic": "pushq"
}
]
```

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130054

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# 4a843d92 08-Jul-2022 Walter Erquinigo <wallace@fb.com>

[trace][intel pt] Create a CPU change event and expose it in the dumper

Thanks to fredzhou@fb.com for coming up with this feature.

When tracing in per-cpu mode, we have information of in which cpu

[trace][intel pt] Create a CPU change event and expose it in the dumper

Thanks to fredzhou@fb.com for coming up with this feature.

When tracing in per-cpu mode, we have information of in which cpu we are execution each instruction, which comes from the context switch trace. This diff makes this information available as a `cpu changed event`, which an additional accessor in the cursor `GetCPU()`. As cpu changes are very infrequent, any consumer should listen to cpu change events instead of querying the actual cpu of a trace item. Once a cpu change event is seen, the consumer can invoke GetCPU() to get that information. Also, it's possible to invoke GetCPU() on an arbitrary instruction item, which will return the last cpu seen. However, this call is O(logn) and should be used sparingly.

Manually tested with a sample program that starts on cpu 52, then goes to 18, and then goes back to 52.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D129340

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# a7d6c3ef 24-Jun-2022 Walter Erquinigo <wallace@fb.com>

[trace] Make events first class items in the trace cursor and rework errors

We want to include events with metadata, like context switches, and this
requires the API to handle events with payloads (

[trace] Make events first class items in the trace cursor and rework errors

We want to include events with metadata, like context switches, and this
requires the API to handle events with payloads (e.g. information about
such context switches). Besides this, we want to support multiple
similar events between two consecutive instructions, like multiple
context switches. However, the current implementation is not good for this because
we are defining events as bitmask enums associated with specific
instructions. Thus, we need to decouple instructions from events and
make events actual items in the trace, just like instructions and
errors.

- Add accessors in the TraceCursor to know if an item is an event or not
- Modify from the TraceDumper all the way to DecodedThread to support
- Renamed the paused event to disabled.
- Improved the tsc handling logic. I was using an API for getting the tsc from libipt, but that was an overkill that should be used when not processing events manually, but as we are already processing events, we can more easily get the tscs.
event items. Fortunately this simplified many things
- As part of this refactor, I also fixed and long stating issue, which is that some non decoding errors were being inserted in the decoded thread. I changed this so that TraceIntelPT::Decode returns an error if the decoder couldn't be set up proplerly. Then, errors within a trace are actual anomalies found in between instrutions.

All test pass

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128576

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Revision tags: llvmorg-14.0.6
# 6a5355e8 14-Jun-2022 Walter Erquinigo <wallace@fb.com>

[trace][intelpt] Support system-wide tracing [20] - Rename some fields in the schema

As discusses offline with @jj10305, we are updating some naming used throughout the code, specially in the json s

[trace][intelpt] Support system-wide tracing [20] - Rename some fields in the schema

As discusses offline with @jj10305, we are updating some naming used throughout the code, specially in the json schema

- traceBuffer -> iptTrace
- core -> cpu

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D127817

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# 67c24051 14-Jun-2022 Walter Erquinigo <wallace@fb.com>

[trace][intelpt] Support system-wide tracing [19] - Some other minor improvements

This addresses the issues in diffs [13], [14] and [16]

- Add better documentation
- Fix some castings by making the

[trace][intelpt] Support system-wide tracing [19] - Some other minor improvements

This addresses the issues in diffs [13], [14] and [16]

- Add better documentation
- Fix some castings by making them safer
- Simplify CorrelateContextSwitchesAndIntelPtTraces
- Rename some functions

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D127804

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Revision tags: llvmorg-14.0.5, llvmorg-14.0.4
# a19fcc2b 24-May-2022 Walter Erquinigo <wallace@fb.com>

[trace][intelpt] Support system-wide tracing [14] - Decode per cpu

This is the final functional patch to support intel pt decoding per cpu.
It works by doing the following:

- First, all context swi

[trace][intelpt] Support system-wide tracing [14] - Decode per cpu

This is the final functional patch to support intel pt decoding per cpu.
It works by doing the following:

- First, all context switches are split by tid and sorted in order. This produces a list of continuous executes per thread per core.
- Then, all intel pt subtraces are split by PSB boundaries and assigned to individual thread continuous executions on the same core by doing simple TSC-based comparisons.
- With this, we have, per thread, a sorted list of continuous executions each one with a list of intel pt subtraces. Up to this point, this is really fast because no instructions were actually decoded.
- Then, each thread can be decoded by traversing their continuous executions and intel pt subtraces. An advantage of having these continuous executions is that we can identify if a continuous exexecution doesn't have intel pt data, and thus has a gap in it. We can later to more sofisticated comparisons to identify if within a continuous execution there are gaps.

I'm adding a test as well.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D126394

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Revision tags: llvmorg-14.0.3, llvmorg-14.0.2
# 059f39d2 18-Apr-2022 Walter Erquinigo <wallace@fb.com>

[trace][intel pt] Support events

A trace might contain events traced during the target's execution. For
example, a thread might be paused for some period of time due to context
switches or breakpoin

[trace][intel pt] Support events

A trace might contain events traced during the target's execution. For
example, a thread might be paused for some period of time due to context
switches or breakpoints, which actually force a context switch. Not only
that, a trace might be paused because the CPU decides to trace only a
specific part of the target, like the address filtering provided by
intel pt, which will cause pause events. Besides this case, other kinds
of events might exist.

This patch adds the method `TraceCursor::GetEvents()`` that returns the
list of events that happened right before the instruction being pointed
at by the cursor. Some refactors were done to make this change simpler.

Besides this new API, the instruction dumper now supports the -e flag
which shows pause events, like in the following example, where pauses
happened due to breakpoints.

```
thread #1: tid = 2717361
a.out`main + 20 at main.cpp:27:20
0: 0x00000000004023d9 leaq -0x1200(%rbp), %rax
[paused]
1: 0x00000000004023e0 movq %rax, %rdi
[paused]
2: 0x00000000004023e3 callq 0x403a62 ; std::vector<int, std::allocator<int> >::vector at stl_vector.h:391:7
a.out`std::vector<int, std::allocator<int> >::vector() at stl_vector.h:391:7
3: 0x0000000000403a62 pushq %rbp
4: 0x0000000000403a63 movq %rsp, %rbp
```

The `dump info` command has also been updated and now it shows the
number of instructions that have associated events.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123982

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Revision tags: llvmorg-14.0.1
# 44103c96 08-Apr-2022 Walter Erquinigo <wallace@fb.com>

[trace][intelpt] Remove code smell when printing the raw trace size

Something ugly I did was to report the trace buffer size to the DecodedThread,
which is later used as part of the `dump info` comm

[trace][intelpt] Remove code smell when printing the raw trace size

Something ugly I did was to report the trace buffer size to the DecodedThread,
which is later used as part of the `dump info` command. Instead of doing that,
we can just directly ask the trace for the raw buffer and print its size.

I thought about not asking for the entire trace but instead just for its size,
but in this case, as our traces as not extremely big, I prefer to ask for the
entire trace, ensuring it could be fetched, and then print its size.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123358

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# e0cfe20a 06-Apr-2022 Walter Erquinigo <wallace@fb.com>

[trace][intel pt] Create a common accessor for live and postmortem data

Some parts of the code have to distinguish between live and postmortem threads
to figure out how to get some data, e.g. thread

[trace][intel pt] Create a common accessor for live and postmortem data

Some parts of the code have to distinguish between live and postmortem threads
to figure out how to get some data, e.g. thread trace buffers. This makes the
code less generic and more error prone. An example of that is that we have
two different decoders: LiveThreadDecoder and PostMortemThreadDecoder. They
exist because getting the trace bufer is different for each case.

The problem doesn't stop there. Soon we'll have even more kinds of data, like
the context switch trace, whose fetching will be different for live and post-
mortem processes.

As a way to fix this, I'm creating a common API for accessing thread data,
which is able to figure out how to handle the postmortem and live cases on
behalf of the caller. As a result of that, I was able to eliminate the two
decoders and unify them into a simpler one. Not only that, our TraceSave
functionality only worked for live threads, but now it can also work for
postmortem processes, which might be useful now, but it might in the future.

This common API is OnThreadBinaryDataRead. More information in the inline
documentation.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123281

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# 6423b502 01-Apr-2022 Walter Erquinigo <wallace@fb.com>

[trace][intel pt] Create a class for the libipt decoder wrapper

As we soon will need to decode multiple raw traces for the same thread,
having a class that encapsulates the decoding of a single raw

[trace][intel pt] Create a class for the libipt decoder wrapper

As we soon will need to decode multiple raw traces for the same thread,
having a class that encapsulates the decoding of a single raw trace is
a stepping stone that will make the coming features easier to implement.

So, I'm creating a LibiptDecoder class with that purpose. I refactored
the code and it's now much more readable. Besides that, more comments
were added. With this new structure, it's also easier to implement unit
tests.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123106

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