[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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[trace][intelpt] Support system-wide tracing [12] - Support multi-core trace load and save

:q!
This diff is massive, but it's because it connects the client with lldb-server
and also ensures that th

[trace][intelpt] Support system-wide tracing [12] - Support multi-core trace load and save

:q!
This diff is massive, but it's because it connects the client with lldb-server
and also ensures that the postmortem case works.

- Flatten the postmortem trace schema. The reason is that the schema has become quite complex due to the new multicore case, which defeats the original purpose of having a schema that could work for every trace plug-in. At this point, it's better that each trace plug-in defines it's own full schema. This means that the only common field is "type".
-- Because of this new approach, I merged the "common" trace load and saving functionalities into the IntelPT one. This simplified the code quite a bit. If we eventually implement another trace plug-in, we can see then what we could reuse.
-- The new schema, which is flattened, has now better comments and is parsed better. A change I did was to disallow hex addresses, because they are a bit error prone. I'm asking now to print the address in decimal.
-- Renamed "intel" to "GenuineIntel" in the schema because that's what you see in /proc/cpuinfo.
- Implemented reading the context switch trace data buffer. I had to do
some refactors to do that cleanly.
-- A major change that I did here was to simplify the perf_event circular buffer reading logic. It was too complex. Maybe the original Intel author had something different in mind.
- Implemented all the necessary bits to read trace.json files with per-core data.
- Implemented all the necessary bits to save to disk per-core trace session.
- Added a test that ensures that parsing and saving to disk works.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D126015

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[trace][intel-pt] Implement trace start and trace stop

This implements the interactive trace start and stop methods.

This diff ended up being much larger than I anticipated because, by doing it, I

[trace][intel-pt] Implement trace start and trace stop

This implements the interactive trace start and stop methods.

This diff ended up being much larger than I anticipated because, by doing it, I found that I had implemented in the beginning many things in a non optimal way. In any case, the code is much better now.

There's a lot of boilerplate code due to the gdb-remote protocol, but the main changes are:

- New tracing packets: jLLDBTraceStop, jLLDBTraceStart, jLLDBTraceGetBinaryData. The gdb-remote packet definitions are quite comprehensive.
- Implementation of the "process trace start|stop" and "thread trace start|stop" commands.
- Implementaiton of an API in Trace.h to interact with live traces.
- Created an IntelPTDecoder for live threads, that use the debugger's stop id as checkpoint for its internal cache.
- Added a functionality to stop the process in case "process tracing" is enabled and a new thread can't traced.
- Added tests

I have some ideas to unify the code paths for post mortem and live threads, but I'll do that in another diff.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91679

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[trace][intel-pt] Implement the basic decoding functionality

Depends on D89408.

This diff finally implements trace decoding!

The current interface is

$ trace load /path/to/trace/session/file.js

[trace][intel-pt] Implement the basic decoding functionality

Depends on D89408.

This diff finally implements trace decoding!

The current interface is

$ trace load /path/to/trace/session/file.json
$ thread trace dump instructions

thread #1: tid = 3842849, total instructions = 22
[ 0] 0x40052d
[ 1] 0x40052d
...
[19] 0x400521

$ # simply enter, which is a repeat command
[20] 0x40052d
[21] 0x400529
...

This doesn't do any disassembly, which will be done in the next diff.

Changes:
- Added an IntelPTDecoder class, that is a wrapper for libipt, which is the actual library that performs the decoding.
- Added TraceThreadDecoder class that decodes traces and memoizes the result to avoid repeating the decoding step.
- Added a DecodedThread class, which represents the output from decoding and that for the time being only stores the list of reconstructed instructions. Later it'll contain the function call hierarchy, which will enable reconstructing backtraces.
- Added basic APIs for accessing the trace in Trace.h:
- GetInstructionCount, which counts the number of instructions traced for a given thread
- IsTraceFailed, which returns an Error if decoding a thread failed
- ForEachInstruction, which iterates on the instructions traced for a given thread, concealing the internal storage of threads, as plug-ins can decide to generate the instructions on the fly or to store them all in a vector, like I do.
- DumpTraceInstructions was updated to print the instructions or show an error message if decoding was impossible.
- Tests included

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D89283

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