On a target that is both always in non-stop mode and can do displaced
stepping (such as native x86_64 GNU/Linux, with "maint set
target-non-stop on"), the step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.exp test
sometimes fails like this:
(gdb) PASS: gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.exp: no thread-specific bp: step: thread 1
set scheduler-locking off
(gdb) PASS: gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.exp: no thread-specific bp: step: set scheduler-locking off
step
-[Switching to Thread 0x7ffff7fc0700 (LWP 11782)]
-Hardware watchpoint 4: watch_me
-
-Old value = 0
-New value = 1
-child_function (arg=0x0) at /home/pedro/gdb/mygit/src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.c:39
-39 other = 1; /* set thread-specific breakpoint here */
-(gdb) PASS: gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.exp: no thread-specific bp: step: step
+wait_threads () at /home/pedro/gdb/mygit/src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.c:49
+49 return 1; /* in wait_threads */
+(gdb) FAIL: gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.exp: no thread-specific bp: step: step
Note "scheduler-locking" was set off. The problem is that on such
targets, the step-over of thread 2 and the "step" of thread 1 can be
set to run simultaneously (since with displaced stepping the
breakpoint isn't ever removed from the target), and sometimes, the
"step" of thread 1 finishes first, so it'd take another resume to see
the watchpoint trigger. Fix this by replacing the wait_threads
function with a one-line infinite loop that doesn't call any function,
so that the "step" of thread 1 never finishes.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2015-08-07 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.threads/step-over-lands-on-breakpoint.c (wait_threads):
Delete function.
(main): Add alarm. Run an infinite loop instead of calling
wait_threads.
* gdb.threads/step-over-lands-on-breakpoint.exp (do_test): Change
comment.
* gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.c (wait_threads):
Delete function.
(main): Add alarm. Run an infinite loop instead of calling
wait_threads.
* gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.exp (do_test): Change
comment.
This test is currently failing like this on (at least) PPC64 and s390x:
FAIL: gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.exp: no thread-specific bp: step: step
FAIL: gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.exp: no thread-specific bp: next: next
FAIL: gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.exp: with thread-specific bp: step: step
FAIL: gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.exp: with thread-specific bp: next: next
gdb.log:
(gdb) PASS: gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.exp: no thread-specific bp: step: set scheduler-locking off
step
wait_threads () at ../../../src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.c:49
49 return 1; /* in wait_threads */
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.exp: no thread-specific bp: step: step
The problem is that the test assumes that both the "watch_me = 1;" and
the "other = 1;" lines compile to a single instruction each, which
happens to be true on x86, but no necessarily true everywhere else.
The result is that the test doesn't really test what it wants to test.
Fix it by looking for the instruction that triggers the watchpoint.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-04-10 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.c (child_function):
Remove comment.
* gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.exp (do_test): Find
both the address of the instruction that triggers the watchpoint
and the address of the instruction immediately after, and use
those addresses for the test. Fix comment.
Even with deferred_step_ptid out of the way, GDB can still lose
watchpoints.
If a watchpoint triggers and the PC points to an address where a
thread-specific breakpoint for another thread is set, the thread-hop
code triggers, and we lose the watchpoint:
if (ecs->event_thread->suspend.stop_signal == GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP)
{
int thread_hop_needed = 0;
struct address_space *aspace =
get_regcache_aspace (get_thread_regcache (ecs->ptid));
/* Check if a regular breakpoint has been hit before checking
for a potential single step breakpoint. Otherwise, GDB will
not see this breakpoint hit when stepping onto breakpoints. */
if (regular_breakpoint_inserted_here_p (aspace, stop_pc))
{
if (!breakpoint_thread_match (aspace, stop_pc, ecs->ptid))
thread_hop_needed = 1;
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
}
And on software single-step targets, even without a thread-specific
breakpoint in the way, here in the thread-hop code:
else if (singlestep_breakpoints_inserted_p)
{
...
if (!ptid_equal (singlestep_ptid, ecs->ptid)
&& in_thread_list (singlestep_ptid))
{
/* If the PC of the thread we were trying to single-step
has changed, discard this event (which we were going
to ignore anyway), and pretend we saw that thread
trap. This prevents us continuously moving the
single-step breakpoint forward, one instruction at a
time. If the PC has changed, then the thread we were
trying to single-step has trapped or been signalled,
but the event has not been reported to GDB yet.
There might be some cases where this loses signal
information, if a signal has arrived at exactly the
same time that the PC changed, but this is the best
we can do with the information available. Perhaps we
should arrange to report all events for all threads
when they stop, or to re-poll the remote looking for
this particular thread (i.e. temporarily enable
schedlock). */
CORE_ADDR new_singlestep_pc
= regcache_read_pc (get_thread_regcache (singlestep_ptid));
if (new_singlestep_pc != singlestep_pc)
{
enum gdb_signal stop_signal;
if (debug_infrun)
fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stdlog, "infrun: unexpected thread,"
" but expected thread advanced also\n");
/* The current context still belongs to
singlestep_ptid. Don't swap here, since that's
the context we want to use. Just fudge our
state and continue. */
stop_signal = ecs->event_thread->suspend.stop_signal;
ecs->event_thread->suspend.stop_signal = GDB_SIGNAL_0;
ecs->ptid = singlestep_ptid;
ecs->event_thread = find_thread_ptid (ecs->ptid);
ecs->event_thread->suspend.stop_signal = stop_signal;
stop_pc = new_singlestep_pc;
}
else
{
if (debug_infrun)
fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stdlog,
"infrun: unexpected thread\n");
thread_hop_needed = 1;
stepping_past_singlestep_breakpoint = 1;
saved_singlestep_ptid = singlestep_ptid;
}
}
}
we either end up with thread_hop_needed, ignoring the watchpoint
SIGTRAP, or switch to the stepping thread, again ignoring that the
SIGTRAP could be for some other event.
The new test added by this patch exercises both paths.
So the fix is similar to the deferred_step_ptid fix -- defer the
thread hop to _after_ the SIGTRAP had a change of passing through the
regular bpstat handling. If the wrong thread hits a breakpoint, we'll
just end up with BPSTAT_WHAT_SINGLE, and if nothing causes a stop,
keep_going starts a step-over.
Most of the stepping_past_singlestep_breakpoint mechanism is really
not necessary -- setting the thread to step over a breakpoint with
thread->trap_expected is sufficient to keep all other threads locked.
It's best to still keep the flag in some form though, because when we
get to keep_going, the software single-step breakpoint we need to step
over is already gone -- an optimization done by a follow up patch will
check whether a step-over is still be necessary by looking to see
whether the breakpoint is still there, and would find the thread no
longer needs a step-over, while we still want it.
Special care is still needed to handle the case of PC of the thread we
were trying to single-step having changed, like in the old code. We
can't just keep_going and re-step it, as in that case we can over-step
the thread (if it was already done with the step, but hasn't reported
it yet, we'd ask it to step even further). That's now handled in
switch_back_to_stepped_thread. As bonus, we're now using a technique
that doesn't lose signals, unlike the old code -- we now insert a
breakpoint at PC, and resume, which either reports the breakpoint
immediately, or any pending signal.
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 17, against pristine mainline, and against a
branch that implements software single-step on x86.
gdb/
2014-03-20 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* breakpoint.c (single_step_breakpoint_inserted_here_p): Make
extern.
* breakpoint.h (single_step_breakpoint_inserted_here_p): Declare.
* infrun.c (saved_singlestep_ptid)
(stepping_past_singlestep_breakpoint): Delete.
(resume): Remove stepping_past_singlestep_breakpoint handling.
(proceed): Store the prev_pc of the stepping thread too.
(init_wait_for_inferior): Adjust. Clear singlestep_ptid and
singlestep_pc.
(enum infwait_states): Delete infwait_thread_hop_state.
(struct execution_control_state) <hit_singlestep_breakpoint>: New
field.
(handle_inferior_event): Adjust.
(handle_signal_stop): Delete stepping_past_singlestep_breakpoint
handling and the thread-hop code. Before removing single-step
breakpoints, check whether the thread hit a single-step breakpoint
of another thread. If it did, the trap is not a random signal.
(switch_back_to_stepped_thread): If the event thread hit a
single-step breakpoint, unblock it before switching to the
stepping thread. Handle the case of the stepped thread having
advanced already.
(keep_going): Handle the case of the current thread moving past a
single-step breakpoint.
gdb/testsuite/
2014-03-20 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.c: New file.
* gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.exp: New file.
Joel Brobecker
Pedro Alves