Crash annotations in content processes are currently sent over IPC via
shared memory buffers. To pave the way for the Rust rewrite of the exception
handler we are removing this code and gathering all the crash annotations
within the content processes themselves. This patch causes annotations to be
stored in the global table of each content process. They are then streamed
out to the parent process by the exception handler together with the
exception-time annotations.
This has a number of benefits:
* we have one less channel to exchange data between content processes and
the parent process
* we save memory because we don't need to allocate the shared memory buffers
* annotations are faster because we don't stream them all out every time one
changes
* we won't truncate annotations anymore if we run out of space in the shared
segment.
* we don't need delayed annotations anymore, so we can get rid of the
associated machinery
As I refactored the code I tried to adjust all the obsolete comments,
consolidate shared code and remove the redundant steps that were sometimes
present. In many places we had two entire crash annotation tables we merged to
change just a couple; that comes from the fact that historically we loaded
them from disk. Now it doesn't matter anymore and we can just go ahead and
change the ones we care about.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D62586
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extra : moz-landing-system : lando
Crash annotations in content processes are currently sent over IPC via
shared memory buffers. To pave the way for the Rust rewrite of the exception
handler we are removing this code and gathering all the crash annotations
within the content processes themselves. This patch causes annotations to be
stored in the global table of each content process. They are then streamed
out to the parent process by the exception handler together with the
exception-time annotations.
This has a number of benefits:
* we have one less channel to exchange data between content processes and
the parent process
* we save memory because we don't need to allocate the shared memory buffers
* annotations are faster because we don't stream them all out every time one
changes
* we won't truncate annotations anymore if we run out of space in the shared
segment.
* we don't need delayed annotations anymore, so we can get rid of the
associated machinery
As I refactored the code I tried to adjust all the obsolete comments,
consolidate shared code and remove the redundant steps that were sometimes
present. In many places we had two entire crash annotation tables we merged to
change just a couple; that comes from the fact that historically we loaded
them from disk. Now it doesn't matter anymore and we can just go ahead and
change the ones we care about.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D62586
--HG--
extra : moz-landing-system : lando
Crash annotations in content processes are currently sent over IPC via
shared memory buffers. To pave the way for the Rust rewrite of the exception
handler we are removing this code and gathering all the crash annotations
within the content processes themselves. This patch causes annotations to be
stored in the global table of each content process. They are then streamed
out to the parent process by the exception handler together with the
exception-time annotations.
This has a number of benefits:
* we have one less channel to exchange data between content processes and
the parent process
* we save memory because we don't need to allocate the shared memory buffers
* annotations are faster because we don't stream them all out every time one
changes
* we won't truncate annotations anymore if we run out of space in the shared
segment.
* we don't need delayed annotations anymore, so we can get rid of the
associated machinery
As I refactored the code I tried to adjust all the obsolete comments,
consolidate shared code and remove the redundant steps that were sometimes
present. In many places we had two entire crash annotation tables we merged to
change just a couple; that comes from the fact that historically we loaded
them from disk. Now it doesn't matter anymore and we can just go ahead and
change the ones we care about.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D62586
--HG--
extra : moz-landing-system : lando
This will help to catch changes that cause a loss of annotations without
affecting Release or Beta.
This also makes CrashReporterClient::InitSingleton return void as the previous
bool was ignored in all cases.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D44642
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extra : moz-landing-system : lando
This patch includes multiple changes cleaning up various aspects of the crash
reporter client and exception handler:
* Some Unix-specific code was moved out from the base crashreporter client
code and into the appropriate platform implementation
* Functions used to open files in the crashreporter client now accept C++
`std::ios` flags instead of unreadable booleans
* Useless character conversion routines were removed from the
minidump-analyzer
* Crash annotations are not serialized into a huge string anymore every time
they change. They are all written out individually during an exception.
* `WriteEscapedMozCrashReason()` uses the exception-safe `my_strlen()` instead
of plain `strlen()`
* The Windows-specific DLL-blocklist shutdown was removed from the Linux &
macOS Breakpad callbacks
* The `CrashReporterHost`, `CrashReporterClient` and
`CrashReporterMetadataShmem` classes now take `nsACString` references
instead of `nsCString` ones since they never modify their contents
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D33267
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extra : moz-landing-system : lando
This introduces the machinery needed to generate crash annotations from a YAML
file. The relevant C++ functions are updated to take a typed enum. JavaScript
calls are unaffected but they will throw if the string argument does not
correspond to one of the known entries in the C++ enum. The existing whitelists
and blacklists of annotations are also generated from the YAML file and all
duplicate code related to them has been consolidated. Once written out to the
.extra file the annotations are converted in string form and are no different
than the existing ones.
All existing annotations have been included in the list (and some obsolete ones
have been removed) and all call sites have been updated including tests where
appropriate.
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extra : source : 4f6c43f2830701ec5552e08e3f1b06fe6d045860
Gabriele Svelto
Brindusan Cristian
Bogdan Tara
Andrew McCreight
Ciure Andrei
Jed Davis
Alex Gaynor
Sylvestre Ledru
Brian Hackett
shindli
David Anderson
David Anderson