tree e05654b1fe087c3f0c9e57bc5489626b98a01f73
parent 73d60558e13ab94f59d3865c5c07ddd7cda032b7
author Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> 1570171338 -0700
committer Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com> 1571177011 +0000

arch,base: Restructure the object file loaders.

This change creates a distinction between object files which hold
executable code, and flat files which don't. The first type of files
have entry points, symbols, etc., while the others are just blobs which
can be shoved into memory. Rather than have those aspects but stub
them out, this change creates a new base class which simply doesn't
have them.

This change also restructures the ELF loader since it's main function
was quite long and doing multiple jobs.

It stops passing the architecture and operating system to the
ObjectFile constructor, since those might not be known at the very top
of the constructor. Instead, those default to Uknown*, and then are
filled in in the constructor body if appropriate. This removes a lot
of plumbing that was hard to actually use in practice.

It also introduces a mechanism to collect generic object file formats
so that they can be tried one by one by the general createObjectFile
function, rather than listing them all there one by one. It's unlikely
that new types of object files will need to be added in a modular way
without being able to modify the core loader code, but it's cleaner to
have that abstraction and modularization like is already there for
process loaders.

Finally, to make it possible to share the code which handles zipped
files for both true object files and also files which will be loaded
into memory but are just blobs, that mechanism is pulled out into a
new class called ImageFileData. It holds a collection of segments
which are set up by the object file and may refer to regions of the
original file, buffers maintained elsewhere, or even nothing to support
bss-es. shared_ptr is used to make it easier to keep track of that
information without having to do so explicitly or worry about deleting
a buffer before everyone was done using it.

Change-Id: I92890266f2ba0a703803cccad675a3ab41f2c4af
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/21467
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>