Initial work to allow debugger attaching without performance impact.

Author: joncham

mono/metadata/domain-internals.h

@@ -246,6 +246,8 @@ struct _MonoJitInfo {
 	/* Whenever this jit info refers to an interpreter method */
 	gboolean    is_interp:1;
 
+	gboolean    dbg_ignore : 1;
+
 	/* FIXME: Embed this after the structure later*/
 	gpointer    gc_info; /* Currently only used by SGen */
 

mono/mini/debugger-agent.c

@@ -1050,6 +1050,61 @@ mono_debugger_agent_parse_options (char *options)
 	}
 }
 
+static gboolean disable_optimizations = TRUE;
+
+static void
+update_mdb_optimizations ()
+{
+	gboolean enable = disable_optimizations;
+#ifndef RUNTIME_IL2CPP
+	mini_get_debug_options ()->gen_sdb_seq_points = enable;
+	/*
+	 * This is needed because currently we don't handle liveness info.
+	 */
+	mini_get_debug_options ()->mdb_optimizations = enable;
+
+#ifndef MONO_ARCH_HAVE_CONTEXT_SET_INT_REG
+	/* This is needed because we can't set local variables in registers yet */
+	mono_disable_optimizations (MONO_OPT_LINEARS);
+#endif
+
+	/*
+	 * The stack walk done from thread_interrupt () needs to be signal safe, but it
+	 * isn't, since it can call into mono_aot_find_jit_info () which is not signal
+	 * safe (#3411). So load AOT info eagerly when the debugger is running as a
+	 * workaround.
+	 */
+	mini_get_debug_options ()->load_aot_jit_info_eagerly = enable;
+#endif // !RUNTIME_IL2CPP
+}
+
+MONO_API void
+mono_debugger_set_generate_debug_info (gboolean enable)
+{
+	disable_optimizations = enable;
+	update_mdb_optimizations ();
+}
+
+MONO_API gboolean
+mono_debugger_get_generate_debug_info ()
+{
+	return disable_optimizations;
+}
+
+MONO_API void
+mono_debugger_disconnect (const char *message)
+{
+	stop_debugger_thread ();
+}
+
+typedef void (*MonoDebuggerAttachFunc)(gboolean attached);
+static MonoDebuggerAttachFunc attach_func;
+MONO_API void
+mono_debugger_install_attach_detach_callback (MonoDebuggerAttachFunc func)
+{
+	attach_func = func;
+}
+
 void
 mono_debugger_agent_init (void)
 {
@@ -1117,26 +1172,7 @@ mono_debugger_agent_init (void)
 	breakpoints_init ();
 	suspend_init ();
 
-#ifndef RUNTIME_IL2CPP
-	mini_get_debug_options ()->gen_sdb_seq_points = TRUE;
-	/* 
-	 * This is needed because currently we don't handle liveness info.
-	 */
-	mini_get_debug_options ()->mdb_optimizations = TRUE;
-
-#ifndef MONO_ARCH_HAVE_CONTEXT_SET_INT_REG
-	/* This is needed because we can't set local variables in registers yet */
-	mono_disable_optimizations (MONO_OPT_LINEARS);
-#endif
-
-	/*
-	 * The stack walk done from thread_interrupt () needs to be signal safe, but it
-	 * isn't, since it can call into mono_aot_find_jit_info () which is not signal
-	 * safe (#3411). So load AOT info eagerly when the debugger is running as a
-	 * workaround.
-	 */
-	mini_get_debug_options ()->load_aot_jit_info_eagerly = TRUE;
-#endif // !RUNTIME_IL2CPP
+	update_mdb_optimizations ();
 
 #ifdef HAVE_SETPGID
 	if (agent_config.setpgid)
@@ -4659,6 +4695,8 @@ insert_breakpoint (MonoSeqPointInfo *seq_points, MonoDomain *domain, MonoJitInfo
 			mini_get_interp_callbacks ()->set_breakpoint (ji, inst->ip);
 		} else {
 #ifdef MONO_ARCH_SOFT_DEBUG_SUPPORTED
+			if (ji->dbg_ignore)
+				return;
 			mono_arch_set_breakpoint (ji, inst->ip);
 #else
 			NOT_IMPLEMENTED;
@@ -11992,6 +12030,8 @@ debugger_thread (void *arg)
 			attach_failed = TRUE; // Don't abort process when we can't listen
 		} else {
 			mono_set_is_debugger_attached (TRUE);
+			if (attach_func)
+				attach_func (TRUE);
 			/* Send start event to client */
 			process_profiler_event (EVENT_KIND_VM_START, mono_thread_get_main ());
 #ifdef RUNTIME_IL2CPP
@@ -12008,6 +12048,8 @@ debugger_thread (void *arg)
 		}
 	} else {
 		mono_set_is_debugger_attached (TRUE);
+		if (attach_func)
+			attach_func (TRUE);
 	}
 
 	while (!attach_failed) {
@@ -12142,6 +12184,8 @@ debugger_thread (void *arg)
 	}
 
 	mono_set_is_debugger_attached (FALSE);
+	if (attach_func)
+		attach_func (FALSE);
 
 #ifdef RUNTIME_IL2CPP
 	il2cpp_mono_free_method_signatures();

mono/mini/mini.c

@@ -2809,6 +2809,8 @@ create_jit_info (MonoCompile *cfg, MonoMethod *method_to_compile)
 		jinfo->unwind_info = cfg->used_int_regs;
 	}
 
+	jinfo->dbg_ignore = !cfg->gen_sdb_seq_points;
+
 	return jinfo;
 }