Differential D23837

Retire procfs-based process debugging.
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Authored by jhb on Feb 25 2020, 5:51 PM.

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rS359530: Retire procfs-based process debugging.

Summary

Modern debuggers and process tracers use ptrace() rather than procfs
for debugging. ptrace() has a supserset of functionality available
via procfs and new debugging features are only added to ptrace().
While the two debugging services share some fields in struct proc,
they each use dedicated fields and separate code. This results in
extra complexity to support a feature that hasn't been enabled in the
default install for several years.

Test Plan

passes make tinderbox and ptrace_test tests

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rS FreeBSD src repository - subversion

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jhb created this revision.Feb 25 2020, 5:51 PM

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Harbormaster completed remote builds in B29610: Diff 68814.Feb 25 2020, 5:52 PM

jhb added a parent revision: D23822: Mark procfs-based process debugging as deprecated for FreeBSD 13..Feb 25 2020, 5:52 PM

no objection here

Note that there is a parent review to add a deprecation notice that is waiting for an exa-run. I will do a separate exp-run for this one after the first is committed since this removes the header entirely.

mjg accepted this revision.Feb 25 2020, 7:33 PM

mjg mentioned this in D23685: Remove long broken procfs-based process tracing..

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Feb 25 2020, 7:33 PM

kib accepted this revision.Feb 25 2020, 9:09 PM

kib added inline comments.

sys/amd64/amd64/vm_machdep.c
205 ↗	(On Diff #68814)	Isn't TDB_STOPATFORK enough, and even better for the same purpose ?

I've rebased the patch set, but need to let a tinderbox build finish. After that I will refresh the review and request an exp-run.

Rebase.
Drop comment about PTRACE_FORK.
Remove #warning workarounds.
Remove pioctl.h.

This revision now requires review to proceed.Mar 20 2020, 10:01 PM

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B30033: Diff 69735.Mar 20 2020, 10:01 PM

exp-run requested at https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244939

This revision was not accepted when it landed; it landed in state Needs Review.Apr 2 2020, 4:02 AM

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lib/

libsysdecode/

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sys/

amd64/

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ia32/

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arm/

arm/

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arm64/

arm64/

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compat/

ia32/

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conf/

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fs/

procfs/

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i386/

i386/

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kern/

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mips/

mips/

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modules/

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powerpc/

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