Add API for capturing backtrace
This PR adds two new Miri-defined extern functions:
`miri_get_backtrace` and `miri_resolve_frame`, which are documented in
the README. Together, they allow obtaining a backtrace for the currently
executing program.
I've added a test showing how these APIs are used. I've also prepared a
companion PR `backtrace-rs`, which will allow
`backtrace::Backtrace::new()` to work automatically under Miri.
Once these two PRs are merged, we will be able to print backtraces from
the normal Rust panic hook (since libstd is now using backtrace-rs).
A few notes:
* Resolving the backtrace frames is *very* slow - you can actually see
each line being printed out one at a time. Some local testing showed
that this is not (primrary) caused by resolving a `Span` - it seems
to be just Miri being slow.
* For the first time, we now interact directly with a user-defined
struct (instead of just executing the user-provided MIR that
manipulates the struct). To allow for future changes, I've added
a 'version' parameter (currently required to be 0). This should allow
us to change the `MiriFrame` struct should the need ever arise.
* I used the approach suggested by `@oli-obk` - a returned backtrace
pointer consists of a base function allocation, with the 'offset'
used to encode the `Span.lo`. This allows losslessly reconstructing
the location information in `miri_resolve_frame`.
* There are a few quirks on the `backtrace-rs` side:
* `backtrace-rs` calls `getcwd()` by default to try to simplify
the filename. This results in an isolation error by default,
which could be annoying when printing a backtrace from libstd.
* `backtrace-rs` tries to remove 'internal' frames (everything between
the call to `Backtrace::new()` and the internal API call made by
backtrace-rs) by comparing the returned frame pointer value to
a Rust function pointer. This doesn't work due to the way we
construct the frame pointers passed to the caller. We could
attempt to support this kind of comparison, or just add a
`#[cfg(miri)]` and ignore the frames ourselves.
This PR adds two new Miri-defined extern functions:
`miri_get_backtrace` and `miri_resolve_frame`, which are documented in
the README. Together, they allow obtaining a backtrace for the currently
executing program.
I've added a test showing how these APIs are used. I've also prepared a
companion PR `backtrace-rs`, which will allow
`backtrace::Backtrace::new()` to work automatically under Miri.
Once these two PRs are merged, we will be able to print backtraces from
the normal Rust panic hook (since libstd is now using backtrace-rs).
A few notes:
* Resolving the backtrace frames is *very* slow - you can actually see
each line being printed out one at a time. Some local testing showed
that this is not (primrary) caused by resolving a `Span` - it seems
to be just Miri being slow.
* For the first time, we now interact directly with a user-defined
struct (instead of just executing the user-provided MIR that
manipulates the struct). To allow for future changes, I've added
a 'version' parameter (currently required to be 0). This should allow
us to change the `MiriFrame` struct should the need ever arise.
* I used the approach suggested by @oli-obk - a returned backtrace
pointer consists of a base function allocation, with the 'offset'
used to encode the `Span.lo`. This allows losslessly reconstructing
the location information in `miri_resolve_frame`.
* There are a few quirks on the `backtrace-rs` side:
* `backtrace-rs` calls `getcwd()` by default to try to simplify
the filename. This results in an isolation error by default,
which could be annoying when printing a backtrace from libstd.
* `backtrace-rs` tries to remove 'internal' frames (everything between
the call to `Backtrace::new()` and the internal API call made by
backtrace-rs) by comparing the returned frame pointer value to
a Rust function pointer. This doesn't work due to the way we
construct the frame pointers passed to the caller. We could
attempt to support this kind of comparison, or just add a
`#[cfg(miri)]` and ignore the frames ourselves.
support panic=abort
This adds support for abort-on-panic (https://github.com/rust-lang/miri/issues/1058). To achieve this, we insert `cargo-miri` as `RUSTC` when building the standard library, and patch the rustc flags in a way similar to what bootstrap does.
However, this is currently not supported on Windows as the Windows code uses inline assembly to cause an abort (?!?). I'll submit a rustc PR with some `cffg(miri)` to make that work. (EDIT: that would be https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/76871)
Cc `@Aaron1011` r? `@oli-obk`
