feat(debug): port the debugger to FreeBSD

Assisted-by: GLM 5.3 Flash
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// Copyright (c) 2026 Petr Balvín <opensource@petrbalvin.org> (https://petrbalvin.org)
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
//go:build freebsd && (amd64 || arm64 || riscv64)
package debug
import (
"fmt"
"os"
"os/exec"
"path/filepath"
"runtime"
"strings"
"syscall"
"time"
"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
)
// Session is a ptrace debugging session controlling one debuggee process.
// The FreeBSD implementation sits behind the same surface as the Linux one:
// PT_TRACE_ME from the debuggee, PT_CONTINUE/PT_STEP from the tracer, and
// tracee memory through PT_IO (FreeBSD has no /proc/pid/mem to fall back
// on, so PT_IO is the only supported route).
type Session struct {
pid int
cmd *exec.Cmd
stopped bool
exited bool
codeBase uint64 // base address of the JIT code in the debuggee
tmpDir string // scratch directory of the session, removed on Kill
wpSlots [16]bool // hardware watchpoint slots in use (DR0-DR3, arm64 dbw 0-15)
// lastSignal holds the signal of the most recent stop when that stop
// was a genuine signal-delivery-stop the caller must see (a fault such
// as SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, SIGFPE or SIGILL); 0 for breakpoint traps,
// single-steps, SIGSTOP and suppressed runtime signals.
lastSignal syscall.Signal
}
// Launch starts the debuggee subprocess (gasm debug --target ...) and
// attaches to it via ptrace.
func Launch(gasmBin, asmPath, funcName string, args []byte) (*Session, error) {
sess, _, err := LaunchWithBuffers(gasmBin, asmPath, funcName, args, "")
return sess, err
}
// LaunchWithBuffers is like Launch but also allocates buffers in the debuggee.
//
// It pins the calling goroutine to its OS thread and leaves it pinned: the
// debuggee's PT_TRACE_ME binds the tracer relation to the forking thread,
// and every ptrace request on the session must come from that same thread.
// All Session methods must therefore be called from the goroutine that
// launched the session (the REPL and coverage loops do exactly that).
func LaunchWithBuffers(gasmBin, asmPath, funcName string, args []byte, bufSpec string) (*Session, []uint64, error) {
runtime.LockOSThread() // ptrace requests must stay on the forking thread
self, err := os.Executable()
if err != nil {
return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("debug: cannot find gasm binary: %w", err)
}
if gasmBin != "" {
self = gasmBin
}
tmpDir, err := os.MkdirTemp("", "gasm-debug-*")
if err != nil {
return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("debug: tempdir: %w", err)
}
argsFile := filepath.Join(tmpDir, "args.bin")
if err := os.WriteFile(argsFile, args, 0o644); err != nil {
os.RemoveAll(tmpDir)
return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("debug: write args: %w", err)
}
if bufSpec != "" {
if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(tmpDir, "bufspec"), []byte(bufSpec), 0o644); err != nil {
os.RemoveAll(tmpDir)
return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("debug: write bufspec: %w", err)
}
}
cmd := exec.Command(self, "debug", "--func", funcName, "--args", argsFile, asmPath)
cmd.Env = append(os.Environ(), "GASM_DEBUG_TARGET=1", "GASM_DEBUG_TMP="+tmpDir)
cmd.Stdout = nil
cmd.Stderr = os.Stderr
cmd.SysProcAttr = &syscall.SysProcAttr{}
if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
os.RemoveAll(tmpDir)
return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("debug: start debuggee: %w", err)
}
s := &Session{pid: cmd.Process.Pid, cmd: cmd, tmpDir: tmpDir}
readyFile := filepath.Join(tmpDir, "ready")
for range 500 {
if _, err := os.Stat(readyFile); err == nil {
break
}
time.Sleep(5 * time.Millisecond)
}
// The debuggee parks itself with SIGSTOP once the JIT code is mapped.
// A Go tracee also reports SIGURG preemption as signal-delivery-stops,
// so the wait loops until a stop the debugger cares about instead of
// assuming the first event is the SIGSTOP.
if _, err := s.waitStopped(); err != nil {
cmd.Process.Kill()
os.RemoveAll(tmpDir)
return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("debug: wait for debuggee: %w", err)
}
s.stopped = true
// The debuggee reports its JIT mapping in the codebase file; that is
// the supported path on FreeBSD, where no /proc/pid/maps exists to
// scan for the RWX region as a fallback.
if data, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(tmpDir, "codebase")); err == nil {
fmt.Sscanf(string(data), "%d", &s.codeBase)
}
var bufAddrs []uint64
if bufSpec != "" {
addrFile := filepath.Join(tmpDir, "bufaddrs")
if data, err := os.ReadFile(addrFile); err == nil {
for line := range strings.SplitSeq(strings.TrimSpace(string(data)), "\n") {
var addr uint64
if _, err := fmt.Sscanf(line, "%d", &addr); err == nil {
bufAddrs = append(bufAddrs, addr)
}
}
}
}
return s, bufAddrs, nil
}
// waitStopped consumes ptrace-stop events until one the debugger cares
// about arrives: SIGTRAP (a breakpoint or a completed single-step), the
// debuggee's own SIGSTOP, or a genuine signal-delivery-stop. A Go tracee's
// runtime raises SIGURG for asynchronous preemption, and every signal on a
// traced thread surfaces as a signal-delivery-stop, so SIGURG is suppressed
// and the tracee resumed without it. Every other signal (SIGSEGV, SIGBUS,
// SIGFPE, SIGILL, ...) is returned to the caller: resuming with signal 0
// would restart the faulting instruction and fault forever, so a faulting
// kernel must surface as a stop the caller reports.
func (s *Session) waitStopped() (syscall.Signal, error) {
for {
var ws syscall.WaitStatus
if _, err := syscall.Wait4(s.pid, &ws, syscall.WUNTRACED, nil); err != nil {
return 0, err
}
if ws.Exited() {
s.exited = true
return 0, fmt.Errorf("debuggee exited with status %d", ws.ExitStatus())
}
if ws.Signaled() {
s.exited = true
return 0, fmt.Errorf("debuggee killed by signal %v", ws.Signal())
}
switch sig := ws.StopSignal(); sig {
case syscall.SIGTRAP, syscall.SIGSTOP:
s.stopped = true
s.lastSignal = 0
return sig, nil
case syscall.SIGURG:
// Go runtime asynchronous preemption: resume the tracee
// without delivering the signal.
s.lastSignal = 0
if err := unix.PtraceCont(s.pid, 0); err != nil {
return 0, fmt.Errorf("debug: PT_CONTINUE: %w", err)
}
default:
// A genuine signal-delivery-stop. Report it; the caller
// decides how to proceed.
s.stopped = true
s.lastSignal = sig
return sig, nil
}
}
}
// LastSignal returns the signal of the most recent stop when that stop was
// a genuine signal-delivery-stop (a fault such as SIGSEGV, SIGFPE, SIGILL
// or SIGBUS), and 0 for breakpoint traps, single-steps, SIGSTOP and
// suppressed runtime signals.
func (s *Session) LastSignal() syscall.Signal { return s.lastSignal }
// Peek reads a word (8 bytes) from the debuggee's memory at addr, through
// PT_IO with PIOD_READ_D.
func (s *Session) Peek(addr uint64) (uint64, error) {
var buf [8]byte
if _, err := unix.PtraceIO(unix.PIOD_READ_D, s.pid, uintptr(addr), buf[:], len(buf)); err != nil {
return 0, fmt.Errorf("debug: read mem %#x: %w", addr, err)
}
return uint64(buf[0]) | uint64(buf[1])<<8 | uint64(buf[2])<<16 | uint64(buf[3])<<24 |
uint64(buf[4])<<32 | uint64(buf[5])<<40 | uint64(buf[6])<<48 | uint64(buf[7])<<56, nil
}
// Poke writes a word (8 bytes) to the debuggee's memory at addr, through
// PT_IO with PIOD_WRITE_D.
func (s *Session) Poke(addr, val uint64) error {
buf := []byte{byte(val), byte(val >> 8), byte(val >> 16), byte(val >> 24),
byte(val >> 32), byte(val >> 40), byte(val >> 48), byte(val >> 56)}
if _, err := unix.PtraceIO(unix.PIOD_WRITE_D, s.pid, uintptr(addr), buf, len(buf)); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("debug: write mem %#x: %w", addr, err)
}
return nil
}
// ReadMemory reads len bytes from the debuggee's memory at addr in one
// PT_IO request, the shape the request is built for.
func (s *Session) ReadMemory(addr uint64, length int) ([]byte, error) {
out := make([]byte, length)
n, err := unix.PtraceIO(unix.PIOD_READ_D, s.pid, uintptr(addr), out, length)
return out[:n], err
}
// WriteMemory writes bytes to the debuggee's memory at addr in one PT_IO
// request.
func (s *Session) WriteMemory(addr uint64, data []byte) error {
_, err := unix.PtraceIO(unix.PIOD_WRITE_D, s.pid, uintptr(addr), data, len(data))
return err
}
// Step executes a single instruction in the debuggee.
func (s *Session) Step() error {
if s.exited {
return fmt.Errorf("debug: debuggee has exited")
}
if err := unix.PtraceSingleStep(s.pid); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("debug: PT_STEP: %w", err)
}
_, err := s.waitStopped()
return err
}
// Continue resumes execution until the next breakpoint or exit.
func (s *Session) Continue() error {
if s.exited {
return fmt.Errorf("debug: debuggee has exited")
}
if err := unix.PtraceCont(s.pid, 0); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("debug: PT_CONTINUE: %w", err)
}
_, err := s.waitStopped()
return err
}
// Exited returns true if the debuggee has terminated.
func (s *Session) Exited() bool { return s.exited }
// Pid returns the debuggee's process ID.
func (s *Session) Pid() int { return s.pid }
// CodeBase returns the base address of the JIT code in the debuggee.
func (s *Session) CodeBase() uint64 { return s.codeBase }
// Kill terminates the debuggee and removes the session's scratch
// directory, so a successful session leaves no gasm-debug-* debris behind.
func (s *Session) Kill() {
if !s.exited {
syscall.Kill(s.pid, syscall.SIGKILL)
syscall.Wait4(s.pid, nil, 0, nil)
s.exited = true
}
if s.cmd != nil && s.cmd.Process != nil {
s.cmd.Wait()
}
if s.tmpDir != "" {
os.RemoveAll(s.tmpDir)
s.tmpDir = ""
}
}
// execRange is one executable mapping of the debuggee.
type execRange struct {
lo, hi uint64
}
// execRanges is a stub on FreeBSD: there is no /proc/pid/maps to parse,
// and procfs(5) is not guaranteed to be mounted. The callers degrade
// gracefully: archReturnAddr falls back to the raw stack convention and
// the mapping scan is skipped.
func execRanges(pid int) []execRange { return nil }
// findRWXMapping is a stub on FreeBSD for the same reason: the codebase
// handshake file is the supported way the JIT region is located.
func findRWXMapping(pid int) uint64 { return 0 }