Re: [edk2-devel] EmulatorPkg does not unload DLL after exit

["Andrew Fish" <afish@apple.com>]

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Tim,

Sounds like you are on to something....

The Unix side [1] does a dlclose() to undo a dlsym(). 

I seem to remember this code flow is very very old, I wonder if it is possible to do better? For lldb (Xcode) I skipped the LoadLibraryEx()/dlsym() action and wrote a debugger script to load symbols. So for Xcode all the code is running from the emulator memory, not in an OS context. For lldb I added a breakpoint script on SecGdbScriptBreak() that loads symbols. Since the SecGdbScriptBreak() is part of the App you get symbols for free, and the break point function can access the arguments to SecGdbScriptBreak() to load symbols [3]. Seems like this would easily work for gdb too? I'm not sure how easy this is to do in VC++, but it seems like we can leverage what ever scripts folks use to load symbols on real hardware. 

I'm not 100% sure what is happening on Linux as if you build the code as EFIAPI it seems like the dlopen would fail since it is not x86_64 Sys V ABI, and I guess it could be falling back to the use the gdb script to load symbols. This would Imply for X64 Windows is the odd person out. 

The only downside to "making it real" is you may need to launch pointing at a debugger script to get source level debug. 

I know the lldb symbol loading is working as I help Mike test his recent patches. 

[1] https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/EmulatorPkg/Unix/Host/Host.c#L1263
[2] https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/EmulatorPkg/Unix/Host/Host.c#L1120
[3] https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/EmulatorPkg/Unix/lldbefi.py#L357

Thanks,

Andrew Fish

> On Aug 21, 2019, at 2:13 PM, Tim Lewis <tim.lewis@insyde.com> wrote:
> 
> When running a shell app twice, I ran into an interesting problem: global variables that had initializers were not initialized to the defaults specified in the source. Running the same shell app under the old NT32 seems to work. It turns out that the shell app was not being reloaded, but rather being relaunched. I deduced this from the following behavior:
>
> The value of the global variables was the same as the last known value from the previous invocation.
> The following line in WinHost.c was returning the exact same value for the DLL being loaded
> Library = LoadLibraryEx (DllFileName, NULL, DONT_RESOLVE_DLL_REFERENCES); (around line 901)
> The corresponding code in Nt32’s PeCoffExtractionLib had the following lines in PeCoffLoaderUnloadImageExtraAction
>   VOID *ModHandle;
>
>   ASSERT (ImageContext != NULL);
>   ModHandle = RemoveModeHandle (ImageContext);
>   if (ModHandle != NULL) {
>     mWinNt->FreeLibrary (ModHandle);
>   }
>
> However, the same function in EmulatorPkg’s WinHost.c has:
>
> ASSERT (ImageContext != NULL);
>
> So it appears that the DLL is never being unloaded and the subsequent invocation of the shell app uses the same instance of the DLL, leaving the global variables with the previous values. There are two related functions: AddModHandle and RemoveModHandle.
>
> Am I missing something? Or heading in the right direction? 
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
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