Change the scanning algorithm in DynamicLoaderDarwinKernel::SearchForKernelNearPC.
Currently when lldb might be doing a kernel debug session, it scans through memory by taking the current pc value and looking for a kernel at megabyte boundaries, up to 32MB behind $pc. This adjusts the algorithm to scan back at every 16k page boundary and to stop scanning as soon as we hit a memory read error. The addition of stopping at a memory read error saves us from tons of unnecessary packet traffic on generic targets where lldb might look for a kernel binary. I've been trying to think of how to construct a test for this; it's a bit tricky. A gdb-remote protocol test with the contents of a fake tiny kernel mach-o binary would satisify part of it, but this kernel path also directly calls over to dsymForUUID or DebugSymbols framework lookups to find the kernel binary as well. I'll keep thinking about this one, but it's so intertangled with these two external systems that it may be hard to do. <rdar://problem/48578197> llvm-svn: 355476
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