This patch fixes a couple of failures in gdb.base/foll-vfork.exp for
extended-remote targets. The failures were the result of the
verbose/debug "Detaching..." messages in infrun.c:follow_fork_inferior
not matching what was expected in the extended-remote case.
The path modifies the ptids used in the messages to ensure that they
print "process nnn" instead of (possibly) "Thread nnn.nnn". The
detach is a process-wide operation, so we need to use a process-
style ptid regardless of what type of ptid target_pid_to_str returns.
Tested on x86_64 GNU/Linux, native, remote, extended-remote.
gdb/
* infrun.c (follow_fork_inferior): Ensure the use of
process-style ptids (pid,0,0) in verbose/debug "Detaching"
messages.
When using a conditional breakpoint where the condition evaluated
to false a large number of times before the program stopped,
a user reported that GDB's memory consumption was growing very
quickly until it ran out of memory.
The problem was tracked down to temporary struct values being created
each time the program stops and handles an inferior event. Because
the breakpoint condition usually evaluates to false, there can be
a fairly large number of such events to be handled before we eventually
return the prompt to the user (which is when we would normally purge
such values).
This patch fixes the issue by making sure that handle_inferior_event
releases all new values created during its execution.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* infrun.c (handle_inferior_event_1): Renames handle_inferior_event.
(handle_inferior_event): New function.
Now stop_registers are no longer used and it can be removed.
I am not much sure what 'proceed_to_finish' really means now so I make a wild
guess while updating comments about it.
gdb/ChangeLog
2015-05-13 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
* gdbthread.h (struct thread_control_state): Update comment for
proceed_to_finish.
* infcall.c (run_inferior_call): Update comment about
proceed_to_finish.
* infcmd.c (get_return_value): Update comment about stop_registers.
(finish_forward): Update comment about proceed_to_finish.
* infrun.c (stop_registers): Remove.
(clear_proceed_status, normal_stop): Remove stop_registers handling.
* infrun.h (stop_registers): Remove.
This commit allows NULL to be passed as the int *fd argument
to exec_file_find and solib_find to simplify use cases where
the caller does not require the file to be opened.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* solib.c (solib_find_1): Allow fd argument to be NULL.
(exec_file_find): Update comment.
(solib_find): Likewise.
* exec.c (exec_file_locate_attach): Use NULL as fd
argument to exec_file_find to avoid having to close
the opened file.
* infrun.c (follow_exec): Likewise.
This commit updates follow_exec to use exec_file_find to prefix
the new executable's filename with gdb_sysroot rather than doing
it longhand.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* infrun.c (solist.h): New include.
(follow_exec): Use exec_file_find to prefix execd_pathname
with gdb_sysroot.
Hi,
When I run gdb.threads/non-stop-fair-events.exp on arm-linux target,
I see the following message in the debugging log,
displaced: breakpoint is gone: Thread 22518, step(1)^M
Sending packet: $vCont;s:p57f3.57f6#9d...
^^^^^^^^^
GDB sends vCont;s by mistake, and GDBserver fails on assert. GDB
doesn't consider software single step in infrun.c:displaced_step_fixup,
/* Go back to what we were trying to do. */
step = currently_stepping (tp);
if (debug_displaced)
fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stdlog,
"displaced: breakpoint is gone: %s, step(%d)\n",
target_pid_to_str (tp->ptid), step);
target_resume (ptid, step, GDB_SIGNAL_0);
The patch is to let GDB consider software single step here. It fixes
fails in gdb.threads/non-stop-fair-events.exp on arm.
gdb:
2015-04-16 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
* infrun.c (maybe_software_singlestep): Declare.
(displaced_step_fixup): Call maybe_software_singlestep.
Pedro Alves:
The commands that enables aren't even documented in the manual.
Judging from that, I assume that only wdb users would ever really
be using the --xdb switch.
I think it's time to drop "support" for the --xdb switch too. I
looked through the commands that that exposes, the only that looked
potentially interesting was "go", but then it's just an alias
for "tbreak+jump", which can easily be done with "define go...end".
I'd rather free up the "go" name for something potentially
more interesting (either run control, or maybe even unrelated,
e.g., for golang).
gdb/ChangeLog
2015-04-11 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
* NEWS (Changes since GDB 7.9): Add removed -xdb.
* breakpoint.c (command_line_is_silent): Remove xdb_commands
conditional.
(_initialize_breakpoint): Remove xdb_commands for bc, ab, sb, db, ba
and lb.
* cli/cli-cmds.c (_initialize_cli_cmds): Remove xdb_commands for v and
va.
* cli/cli-decode.c (find_command_name_length): Remove xdb_commands
conditional.
* defs.h (xdb_commands): Remove declaration.
* f-valprint.c (_initialize_f_valprint): Remove xdb_commands for lc.
* guile/scm-cmd.c (command_classes): Remove xdb from comment.
* infcmd.c (run_no_args_command, go_command): Remove.
(_initialize_infcmd): Remove xdb_commands for S, go, g, R and lr.
* infrun.c (xdb_handle_command): Remove.
(_initialize_infrun): Remove xdb_commands for lz and z.
* main.c (xdb_commands): Remove variable.
(captured_main): Remove "xdb" from long_options.
(print_gdb_help): Remove --xdb from help.
* python/py-cmd.c (gdbpy_initialize_commands): Remove xdb from comment.
* source.c (_initialize_source): Remove xdb_commands for D, ld, / and ?.
* stack.c (backtrace_full_command, args_plus_locals_info)
(current_frame_command): Remove.
(_initialize_stack): Remove xdb_commands for t, T and l.
* symtab.c (_initialize_symtab): Remove xdb_commands for lf and lg.
* thread.c (_initialize_thread): Remove xdb_commands condition.
* tui/tui-layout.c (tui_toggle_layout_command)
(tui_toggle_split_layout_command, tui_handle_xdb_layout): Remove.
(_initialize_tui_layout): Remove xdb_commands for td and ts.
* tui/tui-regs.c (tui_scroll_regs_forward_command)
(tui_scroll_regs_backward_command): Remove.
(_initialize_tui_regs): Remove xdb_commands for fr, gr, sr, +r and -r.
* tui/tui-win.c (tui_xdb_set_win_height_command): Remove.
(_initialize_tui_win): Remove xdb_commands for U and w.
* utils.c (pagination_on_command, pagination_off_command): Remove.
(initialize_utils): Remove xdb_commands for am and sm.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2015-04-11 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Mode Options): Remove -xdb.
PPC64 currently fails this test like:
FAIL: gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.exp: displaced=on: no thread-specific bp: step: step
FAIL: gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.exp: displaced=on: no thread-specific bp: next: next
FAIL: gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.exp: displaced=on: no thread-specific bp: continue: continue (the program exited)
FAIL: gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.exp: displaced=on: with thread-specific bp: step: step
FAIL: gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.exp: displaced=on: with thread-specific bp: next: next
FAIL: gdb.threads/step-over-trips-on-watchpoint.exp: displaced=on: with thread-specific bp: continue: continue (the program exited)
The problem is that PPC is a non-continuable watchpoints architecture
and the displaced stepping code isn't coping with that correctly. On
such targets/architectures, a watchpoint traps _before_ the
instruction executes/completes. On a watchpoint trap, the PC points
at the instruction that triggers the watchpoint (side effects haven't
happened yet). In order to move past the watchpoint, GDB needs to
remove the watchpoint, single-step, and reinsert the watchpoint, just
like when stepping past a breakpoint.
The trouble is that if GDB is stepping over a breakpoint with
displaced stepping, and the instruction under the breakpoint triggers
a watchpoint, we get the watchpoint SIGTRAP, expecting a finished
(hard or software) step trap. Even though the thread's PC hasn't
advanced yet (must remove watchpoint for that), since we get a
SIGTRAP, displaced_step_fixup thinks the single-step finished
successfuly anyway, and calls gdbarch_displaced_step_fixup, which then
adjusts the thread's registers incorrectly.
The fix is to cancel the displaced step if we trip on a watchpoint.
handle_inferior_event then processes the watchpoint event, and starts
a new step-over, here:
...
/* At this point, we are stopped at an instruction which has
attempted to write to a piece of memory under control of
a watchpoint. The instruction hasn't actually executed
yet. If we were to evaluate the watchpoint expression
now, we would get the old value, and therefore no change
would seem to have occurred.
...
ecs->event_thread->stepping_over_watchpoint = 1;
keep_going (ecs);
return;
...
but this time, since we have a watchpoint to step over, watchpoints
are removed from the target, so the step-over succeeds.
The keep_going/resume changes are necessary because if we're stepping
over a watchpoint, we need to remove it from the target - displaced
stepping doesn't help, the copy of the instruction in the scratch pad
reads/writes to the same addresses, thus triggers the watchpoint
too... So without those changes we keep triggering the watchpoint
forever, never making progress. With non-stop that means we'll need
to pause all threads momentarily, which we can't today. We could
avoid that by removing the watchpoint _only_ from the thread that is
moving past the watchpoint, but GDB is not prepared for that today
either. For remote targets, that would need new packets, so good to
be able to step over it in-line as fallback anyway.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-04-10 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* infrun.c (displaced_step_fixup): Switch to the event ptid
earlier. If the thread stopped for a watchpoint and the
target/arch has non-continuable watchpoints, cancel the displaced
step.
(resume): Don't start a displaced step if in-line step-over info
is valid.
TL;DR:
When stepping over a breakpoint with displaced stepping, the core must
be notified of all signals, otherwise the displaced step fixup code
confuses a breakpoint trap in the signal handler for the expected trap
indicating the displaced instruction was single-stepped
normally/successfully.
Detailed version:
Running sigstep.exp with displaced stepping on, against my x86
software single-step branch, I got:
FAIL: gdb.base/sigstep.exp: step on breakpoint, to handler: performing step
FAIL: gdb.base/sigstep.exp: next on breakpoint, to handler: performing next
FAIL: gdb.base/sigstep.exp: continue on breakpoint, to handler: performing continue
Turning on debug logs, we see:
(gdb) step
infrun: clear_proceed_status_thread (process 32147)
infrun: proceed (addr=0xffffffffffffffff, signal=GDB_SIGNAL_DEFAULT)
infrun: resume (step=1, signal=GDB_SIGNAL_0), trap_expected=1, current thread [process 32147] at 0x400842
displaced: stepping process 32147 now
displaced: saved 0x400622: 49 89 d1 5e 48 89 e2 48 83 e4 f0 50 54 49 c7 c0
displaced: %rip-relative addressing used.
displaced: using temp reg 2, old value 0x3615eafd37, new value 0x40084c
displaced: copy 0x400842->0x400622: c7 81 1c 08 20 00 00 00 00 00
displaced: displaced pc to 0x400622
displaced: run 0x400622: c7 81 1c 08
LLR: Preparing to resume process 32147, 0, inferior_ptid process 32147
LLR: PTRACE_CONT process 32147, 0 (resume event thread)
linux_nat_wait: [process -1], [TARGET_WNOHANG]
LLW: enter
LNW: waitpid(-1, ...) returned 32147, No child processes
LLW: waitpid 32147 received Alarm clock (stopped)
LLW: PTRACE_CONT process 32147, Alarm clock (preempt 'handle')
LNW: waitpid(-1, ...) returned 0, No child processes
LLW: exit (ignore)
sigchld
infrun: target_wait (-1.0.0, status) =
infrun: -1.0.0 [process -1],
infrun: status->kind = ignore
infrun: TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE
infrun: prepare_to_wait
linux_nat_wait: [process -1], [TARGET_WNOHANG]
LLW: enter
LNW: waitpid(-1, ...) returned 32147, No child processes
LLW: waitpid 32147 received Trace/breakpoint trap (stopped)
CSBB: process 32147 stopped by software breakpoint
LNW: waitpid(-1, ...) returned 0, No child processes
LLW: trap ptid is process 32147.
LLW: exit
infrun: target_wait (-1.0.0, status) =
infrun: 32147.32147.0 [process 32147],
infrun: status->kind = stopped, signal = GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP
infrun: TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED
displaced: restored process 32147 0x400622
displaced: fixup (0x400842, 0x400622), insn = 0xc7 0x81 ...
displaced: restoring reg 2 to 0x3615eafd37
displaced: relocated %rip from 0x400717 to 0x400937
infrun: stop_pc = 0x400937
infrun: delayed software breakpoint trap, ignoring
infrun: no line number info
infrun: stop_waiting
0x0000000000400937 in __dso_handle ()
1: x/i $pc
=> 0x400937: and %ah,0xa0d64(%rip) # 0x4a16a1
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.base/sigstep.exp: displaced=on: step on breakpoint, to handler: performing step
What should have happened is that the breakpoint hit in the signal
handler should have been presented to the user. But note that
"preempt 'handle'" -- what happened instead is that
displaced_step_fixup confused the breakpoint in the signal handler for
the expected SIGTRAP indicating the displaced instruction was
single-stepped normally/successfully.
This should be affecting all software single-step targets in the same
way.
The fix is to make sure the core sees all signals when displaced
stepping, just like we already must see all signals when doing an
stepping over a breakpoint in-line. We now get:
infrun: target_wait (-1.0.0, status) =
infrun: 570.570.0 [process 570],
infrun: status->kind = stopped, signal = GDB_SIGNAL_ALRM
infrun: TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED
displaced: restored process 570 0x400622
infrun: stop_pc = 0x400842
infrun: random signal (GDB_SIGNAL_ALRM)
infrun: signal arrived while stepping over breakpoint
infrun: inserting step-resume breakpoint at 0x400842
infrun: resume (step=0, signal=GDB_SIGNAL_ALRM), trap_expected=0, current thread [process 570] at 0x400842
LLR: Preparing to resume process 570, Alarm clock, inferior_ptid process 570
LLR: PTRACE_CONT process 570, Alarm clock (resume event thread)
infrun: prepare_to_wait
linux_nat_wait: [process -1], [TARGET_WNOHANG]
LLW: enter
LNW: waitpid(-1, ...) returned 0, No child processes
LLW: exit (ignore)
infrun: target_wait (-1.0.0, status) =
infrun: -1.0.0 [process -1],
infrun: status->kind = ignore
sigchld
infrun: TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE
infrun: prepare_to_wait
linux_nat_wait: [process -1], [TARGET_WNOHANG]
LLW: enter
LNW: waitpid(-1, ...) returned 570, No child processes
LLW: waitpid 570 received Trace/breakpoint trap (stopped)
CSBB: process 570 stopped by software breakpoint
LNW: waitpid(-1, ...) returned 0, No child processes
LLW: trap ptid is process 570.
LLW: exit
infrun: target_wait (-1.0.0, status) =
infrun: 570.570.0 [process 570],
infrun: status->kind = stopped, signal = GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP
infrun: TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED
infrun: stop_pc = 0x400717
infrun: BPSTAT_WHAT_STOP_NOISY
infrun: stop_waiting
Breakpoint 3, handler (sig=14) at /home/pedro/gdb/mygit/src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/sigstep.c:35
35 done = 1;
Hardware single-step targets already behave this way, because the
Linux backends (both native and gdbserver) always report signals to
the core if the thread was single-stepping.
As mentioned in the new comment in do_target_resume, we can't fix this
by instead making the displaced_step_fixup phase skip fixing up the PC
if the single step stopped somewhere we didn't expect. Here's what
the backtrace would look like if we did that:
Breakpoint 3, handler (sig=14) at /home/pedro/gdb/mygit/src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/sigstep.c:35
35 done = 1;
1: x/i $pc
=> 0x400717 <handler+7>: movl $0x1,0x200943(%rip) # 0x601064 <done>
(gdb) bt
#0 handler (sig=14) at /home/pedro/gdb/mygit/src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/sigstep.c:35
#1 <signal handler called>
#2 0x0000000000400622 in _start ()
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.base/sigstep.exp: displaced=on: step on breakpoint, to handler: backtrace
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-04-10 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* infrun.c (displaced_step_in_progress): New function.
(do_target_resume): Advise target to report all signals if
displaced stepping.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2015-04-10 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.base/sigstep.exp (breakpoint_to_handler)
(breakpoint_to_handler_entry): New parameter 'displaced'. Use it.
Test "backtrace" in handler.
(breakpoint_over_handler): New parameter 'displaced'. Use it.
(top level): Add new "displaced" test axis to
breakpoint_to_handler, breakpoint_to_handler_entry and
breakpoint_over_handler.
The problem is that with hardware step targets and displaced stepping,
"signal FOO" when stopped at a breakpoint steps the breakpoint
instruction at the same time it delivers a signal. This results in
tp->stepped_breakpoint set, but no step-resume breakpoint set. When
the next stop event arrives, GDB crashes. Irrespective of whether we
should do something more/different to step past the breakpoint in this
scenario (e.g., PR 18225), it's just wrong to assume there'll be a
step-resume breakpoint set (and was not the original intention).
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-04-10 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR gdb/18216
* infrun.c (process_event_stop_test): Don't assume a step-resume
is set if tp->stepped_breakpoint is true.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2015-04-10 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR gdb/18216
* gdb.threads/multiple-step-overs.exp: Remove expected eof.
On GNU/Linux, if the running kernel supports clone events, then
linux-thread-db.c defers thread listing to the target beneath:
static void
thread_db_update_thread_list (struct target_ops *ops)
{
...
if (target_has_execution && !thread_db_use_events ())
ops->beneath->to_update_thread_list (ops->beneath);
else
thread_db_update_thread_list_td_ta_thr_iter (ops);
...
}
However, when live debugging, the target beneath, linux-nat.c, does
not implement the to_update_thread_list method. The result is that if
a thread is marked exited (because it can't be deleted right now,
e.g., it was the selected thread), then it won't ever be deleted,
until the process exits or is killed/detached.
A similar thing happens with the remote.c target. Because its
target_update_thread_list implementation skips exited threads when it
walks the current thread list looking for threads that no longer exits
on the target side, using ALL_NON_EXITED_THREADS_SAFE, stale exited
threads are never deleted.
This is not a big deal -- I can't think of any way this might be user
visible, other than gdb's memory growing a tiny bit whenever a thread
gets stuck in exited state. Still, might as well clean things up
properly.
All other targets use prune_threads, so are unaffected.
The fix adds a ALL_THREADS_SAFE macro, that like
ALL_NON_EXITED_THREADS_SAFE, walks the thread list and allows deleting
the iterated thread, and uses that in places that are walking the
thread list in order to delete threads. Actually, after converting
linux-nat.c and remote.c to use this, we find the only other user of
ALL_NON_EXITED_THREADS_SAFE is also walking the list to delete
threads. So we convert that too, and end up deleting
ALL_NON_EXITED_THREADS_SAFE.
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20, native and gdbserver.
gdb/ChangeLog
2015-04-07 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdbthread.h (ALL_NON_EXITED_THREADS_SAFE): Rename to ...
(ALL_THREADS_SAFE): ... this, and don't skip exited threads.
(delete_exited_threads): New declaration.
* infrun.c (follow_exec): Use ALL_THREADS_SAFE.
* linux-nat.c (linux_nat_update_thread_list): New function.
(linux_nat_add_target): Install it.
* remote.c (remote_update_thread_list): Use ALL_THREADS_SAFE.
* thread.c (prune_threads): Use ALL_THREADS_SAFE.
(delete_exited_threads): New function.
Although not currently possible in practice when we get here,
'resume_ptid' can also be a wildcard throughout this function. It's
clearer to fetch the regcache using the thread's ptid.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-04-07 Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
* infrun.c (resume) <displaced stepping debug output>: Get the
leader thread's regcache, not resume_ptid's.
My all-stop-on-top-of-non-stop series manages to shows regressions due
to this latent bug. currently_stepping returns true if
stepped_breakpoint is set. Obviously we should clear
it before checking currently_stepping, not after.
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-04-01 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* infrun.c (resume): Check currently_stepping after clearing
stepped_breakpoint, not before.
By inspection, I noticed a path where we return without discarding the
cleanups.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-04-01 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* infrun.c (keep_going): Also discard cleanups if inserting
breakpoints fails.
Noticed that if an error is thrown out of target_wait, we miss running
finish_thread_state_cleanup.
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20, with "maint set target-async off".
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-04-01 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* infrun.c (wait_for_inferior): Install the
finish_thread_state_cleanup cleanup across the whole function, not
just around handle_inferior_event.
We can use the recently added do_target_resume do simplify the code a
bit here.
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-04-01 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* infrun.c (resume) <step past permanent breakpoint>: Use
do_target_resume.
... and move comment to declaration.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-03-24 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* infrun.c (user_visible_resume_ptid): Rewrite going from
most-locked to unlocked instead of the opposite. Move comment ...
* infrun.h (user_visible_resume_ptid): ... here.
The "step" parameters of 'proceed' and 'resume' aren't really useful
as indication of whether run control wants to single-step the target,
as that information must already be retrievable from
currently_stepping. In fact, if currently_stepping disagrees with
whether we single-stepped the target, then things break. Thus instead
of having the same information in two places, this patch removes those
parameters.
Setting 'step_start_function' is the only user of proceed's 'step'
argument, other than passing the 'step' argument down to 'resume' and
debug log output. Move that instead to set_step_frame, where we
already set other related fields.
clear_proceed_status keeps its "step" parameter for now because it
needs to know which set of threads should have their state cleared,
and is called before the "stepping_command" flag is set.
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20, native and gdbserver.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-03-24 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* breakpoint.c (until_break_command): Adjust call to proceed.
* gdbthread.h (struct thread_control_state) <stepping_command>:
New field.
* infcall.c (run_inferior_call): Adjust call to proceed.
* infcmd.c (run_command_1, proceed_thread_callback, continue_1):
Adjust calls to proceed.
(set_step_frame): Set the current thread's step_start_function
here.
(step_once): Adjust calls to proceed.
(jump_command, signal_command, until_next_command)
(finish_backward, finish_forward, proceed_after_attach_callback)
(attach_command_post_wait): Adjust calls to proceed.
* infrun.c (proceed_after_vfork_done): Adjust call to proceed.
(do_target_resume): New function, factored out from ...
(resume): ... here. Remove 'step' parameter. Instead, check
currently_stepping to determine whether the thread should be
single-stepped.
(proceed): Remove 'step' parameter and don't set the thread's
step_start_function here. Adjust call to 'resume'.
(handle_inferior_event): Adjust calls to 'resume'.
(switch_back_to_stepped_thread): Use do_target_resume instead of
'resume'.
(keep_going): Adjust calls to 'resume'.
* infrun.h (proceed): Remove 'step' parameter.
(resume): Likewise.
* windows-nat.c (do_initial_windows_stuff): Adjust call to
'resume'.
* mi/mi-main.c (proceed_thread): Adjust call to 'proceed'.
Currently, "set scheduler-locking step" is a bit odd. The manual
documents it as being optimized for stepping, so that focus of
debugging does not change unexpectedly, but then it says that
sometimes other threads may run, and thus focus may indeed change
unexpectedly... A user can then be excused to get confused and wonder
why does GDB behave like this.
I don't think a user should have to know about details of how "next"
or whatever other run control command is implemented internally to
understand when does the "scheduler-locking step" setting take effect.
This patch completes a transition that the code has been moving
towards for a while. It makes "set scheduler-locking step" hold
threads depending on whether the _command_ the user entered was a
stepping command [step/stepi/next/nexti], or not.
Before, GDB could end up locking threads even on "continue" if for
some reason run control decides a thread needs to be single stepped
(e.g., for a software watchpoint).
After, if a "continue" happens to need to single-step for some reason,
we won't lock threads (unless when stepping over a breakpoint,
naturally). And if a stepping command wants to continue a thread for
bit, like when skipping a function to a step-resume breakpoint, we'll
still lock threads, so focus of debugging doesn't change.
In order to make this work, we need to record in the thread structure
whether what set it running was a stepping command.
(A follow up patch will remove the "step" parameters of 'proceed' and 'resume')
FWIW, Fedora GDB, which defaults to "scheduler-locking step" (mainline
defaults to "off") carries a different patch that goes in this
direction as well.
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20, native and gdbserver.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-03-24 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdbthread.h (struct thread_control_state) <stepping_command>:
New field.
* infcmd.c (step_once): Pass step=1 to clear_proceed_status. Set
the thread's stepping_command field.
* infrun.c (resume): Check the thread's stepping_command flag to
determine which threads should be resumed. Rename 'entry_step'
local to user_step.
(clear_proceed_status_thread): Clear 'stepping_command'.
(schedlock_applies): Change parameter type to struct thread_info
pointer. Adjust.
(find_thread_needs_step_over): Remove 'step' parameter. Adjust.
(switch_back_to_stepped_thread): Adjust calls to
'schedlock_applies'.
(_initialize_infrun): Adjust "set scheduler-locking step" help.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2015-03-24 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.threads/schedlock.exp (test_step): No longer expect that
"set scheduler-locking step" with "next" over a function call runs
threads unlocked.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
2015-03-24 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (test_step) <set scheduler-locking step>: No longer
mention that threads may sometimes run unlocked.
I noticed that step_start_function is still a global, while it
obviously should be a per-thread field.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-03-24 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* infrun.c (step_start_function): Delete and ...
* gdbthread.h (struct thread_control_state) <step_start_function>:
... now a field here.
* infrun.c (clear_proceed_status_thread): Clear the thread's
step_start_function.
(proceed, process_event_stop_test, print_stop_event): Adjust.
Nothing ever passes a negative 'step' to proceed.
Gets rid of one of the few remaining stop_after_trap references.
gdb/ChangeLog
2015-03-24 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* infrun.c (proceed): No longer handle negative step.
This patch splits the TRY_CATCH macro into three, so that we go from
this:
~~~
volatile gdb_exception ex;
TRY_CATCH (ex, RETURN_MASK_ERROR)
{
}
if (ex.reason < 0)
{
}
~~~
to this:
~~~
TRY
{
}
CATCH (ex, RETURN_MASK_ERROR)
{
}
END_CATCH
~~~
Thus, we'll be getting rid of the local volatile exception object, and
declaring the caught exception in the catch block.
This allows reimplementing TRY/CATCH in terms of C++ exceptions when
building in C++ mode, while still allowing to build GDB in C mode
(using setjmp/longjmp), as a transition step.
TBC, after this patch, is it _not_ valid to have code between the TRY
and the CATCH blocks, like:
TRY
{
}
// some code here.
CATCH (ex, RETURN_MASK_ERROR)
{
}
END_CATCH
Just like it isn't valid to do that with C++'s native try/catch.
By switching to creating the exception object inside the CATCH block
scope, we can get rid of all the explicitly allocated volatile
exception objects all over the tree, and map the CATCH block more
directly to C++'s catch blocks.
The majority of the TRY_CATCH -> TRY+CATCH+END_CATCH conversion was
done with a script, rerun from scratch at every rebase, no manual
editing involved. After the mechanical conversion, a few places
needed manual intervention, to fix preexisting cases where we were
using the exception object outside of the TRY_CATCH block, and cases
where we were using "else" after a 'if (ex.reason) < 0)' [a CATCH
after this patch]. The result was folded into this patch so that GDB
still builds at each incremental step.
END_CATCH is necessary for two reasons:
First, because we name the exception object in the CATCH block, which
requires creating a scope, which in turn must be closed somewhere.
Declaring the exception variable in the initializer field of a for
block, like:
#define CATCH(EXCEPTION, mask) \
for (struct gdb_exception EXCEPTION; \
exceptions_state_mc_catch (&EXCEPTION, MASK); \
EXCEPTION = exception_none)
would avoid needing END_CATCH, but alas, in C mode, we build with C90,
which doesn't allow mixed declarations and code.
Second, because when TRY/CATCH are wired to real C++ try/catch, as
long as we need to handle cleanup chains, even if there's no CATCH
block that wants to catch the exception, we need for stop at every
frame in the unwind chain and run cleanups, then rethrow. That will
be done in END_CATCH.
After we require C++, we'll still need TRY/CATCH/END_CATCH until
cleanups are completely phased out -- TRY/CATCH in C++ mode will
save/restore the current cleanup chain, like in C mode, and END_CATCH
catches otherwise uncaugh exceptions, runs cleanups and rethrows, so
that C++ cleanups and exceptions can coexist.
IMO, this still makes the TRY/CATCH code look a bit more like a
newcomer would expect, so IMO worth it even if we weren't considering
C++.
gdb/ChangeLog.
2015-03-07 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* common/common-exceptions.c (struct catcher) <exception>: No
longer a pointer to volatile exception. Now an exception value.
<mask>: Delete field.
(exceptions_state_mc_init): Remove all parameters. Adjust.
(exceptions_state_mc): No longer pop the catcher here.
(exceptions_state_mc_catch): New function.
(throw_exception): Adjust.
* common/common-exceptions.h (exceptions_state_mc_init): Remove
all parameters.
(exceptions_state_mc_catch): Declare.
(TRY_CATCH): Rename to ...
(TRY): ... this. Remove EXCEPTION and MASK parameters.
(CATCH, END_CATCH): New.
All callers adjusted.
gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog:
2015-03-07 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Adjust all callers of TRY_CATCH to use TRY/CATCH/END_CATCH
instead.
record-btrace was the only target making use of this, and it no longer
uses it.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-03-04 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* target.h (struct target_ops) <to_decr_pc_after_break>: Delete.
(target_decr_pc_after_break): Delete declaration.
* target.c (default_target_decr_pc_after_break)
(target_decr_pc_after_break): Delete.
* linux-nat.c (check_stopped_by_breakpoint, linux_nat_wait_1): Use
gdbarch_decr_pc_after_break instead of target_decr_pc_after_break.
* linux-thread-db.c (check_event): Likewise.
* infrun.c (adjust_pc_after_break): Likewise.
* darwin-nat.c (cancel_breakpoint): Likewise.
* aix-thread.c (aix_thread_wait): Likewise.
* target-delegates.c: Regenerate.
The moribund locations heuristics are problematic. This patch teaches
GDB about targets that can reliably tell whether a trap was caused by
a software or hardware breakpoint, and thus don't need moribund
locations, thus bypassing all the problems that mechanism has.
The non-stop-fair-events.exp test is frequently failing currently.
E.g., see https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-testers/2015-q1/msg03148.html.
The root cause is a fundamental problem with moribund locations. For
example, the stepped_breakpoint logic added by af48d08f breaks in this
case (which is what happens with that test):
- Step thread A, no breakpoint is set at PC.
- The kernel doesn't schedule thread A yet.
- Insert breakpoint at A's PC, for some reason (e.g., a step-resume
breakpoint for thread B).
- Kernel finally schedules thread A.
- thread A's stepped_breakpoint flag is not set, even though it now
stepped a breakpoint instruction.
- adjust_pc_after_break gets the PC wrong, because PC == PREV_PC, but
stepped_breakpoint is not set.
We needed the stepped_breakpoint logic to workaround moribund
locations, because otherwise adjust_pc_after_break could apply an
adjustment when it shouldn't just because there _used_ to be a
breakpoint at PC (a moribund breakpoint location). For example, on
x86, that's wrong if the thread really hasn't executed an int3, but
instead executed some other 1-byte long instruction. Getting the PC
adjustment wrong of course leads to the inferior executing the wrong
instruction.
Other problems with moribund locations are:
- if a true SIGTRAP happens to be raised when the program is
executing the PC that used to have a breakpoint, GDB will assume
that is a trap for a breakpoint that has recently been removed, and
thus we miss reporting the random signal to the user.
- to minimize that, we get rid of moribund location after a while.
That while is defined as just a certain number of events being
processed. That number of events sometimes passes by before a
delayed breakpoint is processed, and GDB confuses the trap for a
random signal, thus reporting the random trap. Once the user
resumes the thread, the program crashes because the PC was not
adjusted...
The fix for all this is to bite the bullet and get rid of heuristics
and instead rely on the target knowing accurately what caused the
SIGTRAP. The target/kernel/stub is in the best position to know what
that, because it can e.g. consult priviledged CPU flags GDB has no
access to, or by knowing which exception vector entry was called when
the instruction trapped, etc. Most debug APIs I've seen to date
report breakpoint hits as a distinct event in some fashion. For
example, on the Linux kernel, whether a breakpoint was executed is
exposed to userspace in the si_code field of the SIGTRAP's siginfo.
On Windows, the debug API reports a EXCEPTION_BREAKPOINT exception
code.
We needed to keep around deleted breakpoints in an on-the-side list
(the moribund locations) for two main reasons:
- Know that a SIGTRAP actually is a delayed event for a hit of a
breakpoint that was removed before the event was processed, and
thus should not be reported as a random signal.
- So we still do the decr_pc_after_break adjustment in that case, so
that the thread is resumed at the correct address.
In the new model, if GDB processes an event the target tells is a
breakpoint trap, and GDB doesn't find the corresponding breakpoint in
its breakpoint tables, it means that event is a delayed event for a
breakpoint that has since been removed, and thus the event should be
ignored.
For the decr_pc_after_after issue, it ends up being much simpler that
on targets that can reliably tell whether a breakpoint trapped, for
the breakpoint trap to present the PC already adjusted. Proper
multi-threading support already implies that targets needs to be doing
decr_pc_after_break adjustment themselves, otherwise for example, in
all-stop if two threads hit a breakpoint simultaneously, and the user
does "info threads", he'll see the non-event thread that hit the
breakpoint stopped at the wrong PC.
This way (target adjusts) also ends up eliminating the need for some
awkward re-incrementing of the PC in the record-full and Linux targets
that we do today, and the need for the target_decr_pc_after_break
hook.
If the target always adjusts, then there's a case where GDB needs to
re-increment the PC. Say, on x86, an "int3" instruction that was
explicitly written in the program traps. In this case, GDB should
report a random SIGTRAP signal to the user, with the PC pointing at
the instruction past the int3, just like if GDB was not debugging the
program. The user may well decide to pass the SIGTRAP to the program
because the program being debugged has a SIGTRAP handler that handles
its own breakpoints, and expects the PC to be unadjusted.
Tested on x86-64 Fedora 20.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-03-04 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* breakpoint.c (need_moribund_for_location_type): New function.
(bpstat_stop_status): Don't skipping checking moribund locations
of breakpoint types which the target tell caused a stop.
(program_breakpoint_here_p): New function, factored out from ...
(bp_loc_is_permanent): ... this.
(update_global_location_list): Don't create a moribund location if
the target supports reporting stops of the type of the removed
breakpoint.
* breakpoint.h (program_breakpoint_here_p): New declaration.
* infrun.c (adjust_pc_after_break): Return early if the target has
already adjusted the PC. Add comments.
(handle_signal_stop): If nothing explains a signal, and the target
tells us the stop was caused by a software breakpoint, check if
there's a breakpoint instruction in the memory. If so, adjust the
PC before presenting the stop to the user. Otherwise, ignore the
trap. If nothing explains a signal, and the target tells us the
stop was caused by a hardware breakpoint, ignore the trap.
* target.h (struct target_ops) <to_stopped_by_sw_breakpoint,
to_supports_stopped_by_sw_breakpoint, to_stopped_by_hw_breakpoint,
to_supports_stopped_by_hw_breakpoint>: New fields.
(target_stopped_by_sw_breakpoint)
(target_supports_stopped_by_sw_breakpoint)
(target_stopped_by_hw_breakpoint)
(target_supports_stopped_by_hw_breakpoint): Define.
* target-delegates.c: Regenerate.
This Linuxism has made its way into infrun.c, in the follow-fork code:
inferior_ptid = ptid_build (child_pid, child_pid, 0);
The OS-specific code should fill in the LWPID, TID parts with the
appropriate values, if any, and the core code should not be peeking at
the components of the ptids.
gdb/
2015-03-04 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* infrun.c (follow_fork_inferior): Use the whole of the
inferior_ptid and pending_follow.related_pid ptids instead of
building ptids from the process components. Adjust verbose output
to use target_pid_to_str.
* linux-nat.c (linux_child_follow_fork): Use the whole of the
inferior_ptid and pending_follow.related_pid ptids instead of
building ptids from the process components.
This fixes invalid reads Valgrind first caught when debugging against
a GDBserver patched with a series that adds exec events to the remote
protocol. Like these, using the gdb.threads/thread-execl.exp test:
$ valgrind ./gdb -data-directory=data-directory ./testsuite/gdb.threads/thread-execl -ex "tar extended-remote :9999" -ex "b thread_execler" -ex "c" -ex "set scheduler-locking on"
...
Breakpoint 1, thread_execler (arg=0x0) at src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.threads/thread-execl.c:29
29 if (execl (image, image, NULL) == -1)
(gdb) n
Thread 32509.32509 is executing new program: build/gdb/testsuite/gdb.threads/thread-execl
[New Thread 32509.32532]
==32510== Invalid read of size 4
==32510== at 0x5AA7D8: delete_breakpoint (breakpoint.c:13989)
==32510== by 0x6285D3: delete_thread_breakpoint (thread.c:100)
==32510== by 0x628603: delete_step_resume_breakpoint (thread.c:109)
==32510== by 0x61622B: delete_thread_infrun_breakpoints (infrun.c:2928)
==32510== by 0x6162EF: for_each_just_stopped_thread (infrun.c:2958)
==32510== by 0x616311: delete_just_stopped_threads_infrun_breakpoints (infrun.c:2969)
==32510== by 0x616C96: fetch_inferior_event (infrun.c:3267)
==32510== by 0x63A2DE: inferior_event_handler (inf-loop.c:57)
==32510== by 0x4E0E56: remote_async_serial_handler (remote.c:11877)
==32510== by 0x4AF620: run_async_handler_and_reschedule (ser-base.c:137)
==32510== by 0x4AF6F0: fd_event (ser-base.c:182)
==32510== by 0x63806D: handle_file_event (event-loop.c:762)
==32510== Address 0xcf333e0 is 16 bytes inside a block of size 200 free'd
==32510== at 0x4A07577: free (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==32510== by 0x77CB74: xfree (common-utils.c:98)
==32510== by 0x5AA954: delete_breakpoint (breakpoint.c:14056)
==32510== by 0x5988BD: update_breakpoints_after_exec (breakpoint.c:3765)
==32510== by 0x61360F: follow_exec (infrun.c:1091)
==32510== by 0x6186FA: handle_inferior_event (infrun.c:4061)
==32510== by 0x616C55: fetch_inferior_event (infrun.c:3261)
==32510== by 0x63A2DE: inferior_event_handler (inf-loop.c:57)
==32510== by 0x4E0E56: remote_async_serial_handler (remote.c:11877)
==32510== by 0x4AF620: run_async_handler_and_reschedule (ser-base.c:137)
==32510== by 0x4AF6F0: fd_event (ser-base.c:182)
==32510== by 0x63806D: handle_file_event (event-loop.c:762)
==32510==
[Switching to Thread 32509.32532]
Breakpoint 1, thread_execler (arg=0x0) at src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.threads/thread-execl.c:29
29 if (execl (image, image, NULL) == -1)
(gdb)
The breakpoint in question is the step-resume breakpoint of the
non-main thread, the one that was "next"ed.
The exact same issue can be seen on mainline with native debugging, by
running the thread-execl.exp test in non-stop mode, because the kernel
doesn't report a thread exit event for the execing thread.
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-03-02 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* infrun.c (follow_exec): Delete all threads of the process except
the event thread. Extended comments.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2015-03-02 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.threads/thread-execl.exp (do_test): Handle non-stop.
(top level): Call do_test with non-stop as well.
On decr_pc_after_break targets, GDB adjusts the PC incorrectly if a
background single-step stops somewhere where PC-$decr_pc has a
breakpoint, and the thread that finishes the step is not the current
thread, like:
ADDR1 nop <-- breakpoint here
ADDR2 jmp PC
IOW, say thread A is stepping ADDR2's line in the background (an
infinite loop), and the user switches focus to thread B. GDB's
adjust_pc_after_break logic confuses the single-step stop of thread A
for a hit of the breakpoint at ADDR1, and thus adjusts thread A's PC
to point at ADDR1 when it should not, and reports a breakpoint hit,
when thread A did not execute the instruction at ADDR1 at all.
The test added by this patch exercises exactly that.
I can't find any reason we'd need the "thread to be examined is still
the current thread" condition in adjust_pc_after_break, at least
nowadays; it might have made sense in the past. Best just remove it,
and rely on currently_stepping().
Here's the test's log of a run with an unpatched GDB:
35 while (1);
(gdb) PASS: gdb.threads/step-bg-decr-pc-switch-thread.exp: next over nop
next&
(gdb) PASS: gdb.threads/step-bg-decr-pc-switch-thread.exp: next& over inf loop
thread 1
[Switching to thread 1 (Thread 0x7ffff7fc2740 (LWP 29027))](running)
(gdb)
PASS: gdb.threads/step-bg-decr-pc-switch-thread.exp: switch to main thread
Breakpoint 2, thread_function (arg=0x0) at ...src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.threads/step-bg-decr-pc-switch-thread.c:34
34 NOP; /* set breakpoint here */
FAIL: gdb.threads/step-bg-decr-pc-switch-thread.exp: no output while stepping
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-02-11 Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
* infrun.c (adjust_pc_after_break): Don't adjust the PC just
because the event thread is not the current thread.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2015-02-11 Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
* gdb.threads/step-bg-decr-pc-switch-thread.c: New file.
* gdb.threads/step-bg-decr-pc-switch-thread.exp: New file.
displaced_step_fixup takes an thread to work with, as argument. OTOH,
gdbarch_displaced_step_fixup fixes up the current thread. The former
calls the latter without making sure the current thread is the one
that was passed in. If it is not, then gdbarch_displaced_step_fixup
may e.g., try reading from a running thread, which doesn't work on
some targets, or worse, read memory from the wrong inferior and
succeed.
This is mostly a latent problem currently, as non-stop switches the
current thread to the event thread early in fetch_inferior_event.
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20.
gdb/
2015-02-10 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* infrun.c (displaced_step_fixup): Switch to the event thread
before calling gdbarch_displaced_step_fixup.
Commit d3d4baed (PR python/17372 - Python hangs when displaying
help()) had the side effect of causing 'gdb -batch' to leave the
terminal in the wrong state if the program was run. E.g,.
$ echo 'main(){*(int*)0=0;}' | gcc -x c -; ./gdb/gdb -batch -ex r ./a.out
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000000004004ff in main ()
$
If you start typing the next command, seemingly nothing happens - GDB
left the terminal with echo disabled.
The issue is that that "r" ends up in fetch_inferior_event, which
calls reinstall_readline_callback_handler_cleanup, which causes
readline to prep the terminal (raw, echo disabled). But "-batch"
causes GDB to exit before the top level event loop is first started,
and then nothing de-preps the terminal.
The reinstall_readline_callback_handler_cleanup function's intro
comment mentions:
"Need to do this as we go back to the event loop, ready to process
further input."
but the implementation forgets the case of when the interpreter is
sync, which indicates we won't return to the event loop yet, or as in
the case of -batch, we have not started it yet.
The fix is to not install the readline callback in that case.
For the test, in this case, checking that command echo still works is
sufficient. Comparing stty output before/after running GDB is even
better. Because stty may not be available, the test tries both ways.
In any case, since expect's spawn (what we use to start gdb) creates a
new pseudo tty, another expect spawn or tcl exec after GDB exits would
not see the wrong terminal settings. So instead, the test spawns a
shell and runs stty and GDB in it.
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20.
gdb/
2015-01-14 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR cli/17828
* infrun.c (reinstall_readline_callback_handler_cleanup): Don't
reinstall if the interpreter is sync.
gdb/testsuite/
2015-01-14 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR cli/17828
* gdb.base/batch-preserve-term-settings.c: New file.
* gdb.base/batch-preserve-term-settings.exp: New file.
This patch introduces find_inferior_ptid to replace the common idiom
find_inferior_pid (ptid_get_pid (...));
It replaces all the instances of that idiom that I found with the new
function.
No significant changes before/after the patch in the regression suite
on amd64 linux.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* inferior.c (find_inferior_ptid): New function.
* inferior.h (find_inferior_ptid): New declaration.
* ada-tasks.c (ada_get_task_number): Use find_inferior_ptid.
* corelow.c (core_pid_to_str): Same.
* darwin-nat.c (darwin_resume): Same.
* infrun.c (fetch_inferior_event): Same.
(get_inferior_stop_soon): Same.
(handle_inferior_event): Same.
(handle_signal_stop): Same.
* linux-nat.c (resume_lwp): Same.
(stop_wait_callback): Same.
* mi/mi-interp.c (mi_new_thread): Same.
(mi_thread_exit): Same.
* proc-service.c (ps_pglobal_lookup): Same.
* record-btrace.c (record_btrace_step_thread): Same.
* remote-sim.c (gdbsim_close_inferior): Same.
(gdbsim_resume): Same.
(gdbsim_stop): Same.
* sol2-tdep.c (sol2_core_pid_to_str): Same.
* target.c (memory_xfer_partial_1): Same.
(default_thread_address_space): Same.
* thread.c (thread_change_ptid): Same.
(switch_to_thread): Same.
(do_restore_current_thread_cleanup): Same.
Currently "symtabs" in gdb are stored as a single linked list of
struct symtab that contains both symbol symtabs (the blockvectors)
and file symtabs (the linetables).
This has led to confusion, bugs, and performance issues.
This patch is conceptually very simple: split struct symtab into
two pieces: one part containing things common across the entire
compilation unit, and one part containing things specific to each
source file.
Example.
For the case of a program built out of these files:
foo.c
foo1.h
foo2.h
bar.c
foo1.h
bar.h
Today we have a single list of struct symtabs:
objfile -> foo.c -> foo1.h -> foo2.h -> bar.c -> foo1.h -> bar.h -> NULL
where "->" means the "next" pointer in struct symtab.
With this patch, that turns into:
objfile -> foo.c(cu) -> bar.c(cu) -> NULL
| |
v v
foo.c bar.c
| |
v v
foo1.h foo1.h
| |
v v
foo2.h bar.h
| |
v v
NULL NULL
where "foo.c(cu)" and "bar.c(cu)" are struct compunit_symtab objects,
and the files foo.c, etc. are struct symtab objects.
So now, for example, when we want to iterate over all blockvectors
we can now just iterate over the compunit_symtab list.
Plus a lot of the data that was either unused or replicated for each
symtab in a compilation unit now lives in struct compunit_symtab.
E.g., the objfile pointer, the producer string, etc.
I thought of moving "language" out of struct symtab but there is
logic to try to compute the language based on previously seen files,
and I think that's best left as is for now.
With my standard monster benchmark with -readnow (which I can't actually
do, but based on my calculations), whereas today the list requires
77MB to store all the struct symtabs, it now only requires 37MB.
A modest space savings given the gigabytes needed for all the debug info,
etc. Still, it's nice. Plus, whereas today we create a copy of dirname
for each source file symtab in a compilation unit, we now only create one
for the compunit.
So this patch is basically just a data structure reorg,
I don't expect significant performance improvements from it.
Notes:
1) A followup patch can do a similar split for struct partial_symtab.
I have left that until after I get the changes I want in to
better utilize .gdb_index (it may affect how we do partial syms).
2) Another followup patch *could* rename struct symtab.
The term "symtab" is ambiguous and has been a source of confusion.
In this patch I'm leaving it alone, calling it the "historical" name
of "filetabs", which is what they are now: just the file-name + line-table.
gdb/ChangeLog:
Split struct symtab into two: struct symtab and compunit_symtab.
* amd64-tdep.c (amd64_skip_xmm_prologue): Fetch producer from compunit.
* block.c (blockvector_for_pc_sect): Change "struct symtab *" argument
to "struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
(set_block_compunit_symtab): Renamed from set_block_symtab. Change
"struct symtab *" argument to "struct compunit_symtab *".
All callers updated.
(get_block_compunit_symtab): Renamed from get_block_symtab. Change
result to "struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
(find_iterator_compunit_symtab): Renamed from find_iterator_symtab.
Change result to "struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
* block.h (struct global_block) <compunit_symtab>: Renamed from symtab.
hange type to "struct compunit_symtab *". All uses updated.
(struct block_iterator) <d.compunit_symtab>: Renamed from "d.symtab".
Change type to "struct compunit_symtab *". All uses updated.
* buildsym.c (struct buildsym_compunit): New struct.
(subfiles, buildsym_compdir, buildsym_objfile, main_subfile): Delete.
(buildsym_compunit): New static global.
(finish_block_internal): Update to fetch objfile from
buildsym_compunit.
(make_blockvector): Delete objfile argument.
(start_subfile): Rewrite to use buildsym_compunit. Don't initialize
debugformat, producer.
(start_buildsym_compunit): New function.
(free_buildsym_compunit): Renamed from free_subfiles_list.
All callers updated.
(patch_subfile_names): Rewrite to use buildsym_compunit.
(get_compunit_symtab): New function.
(get_macro_table): Delete argument comp_dir. All callers updated.
(start_symtab): Change result to "struct compunit_symtab *".
All callers updated. Create the subfile of the main source file.
(watch_main_source_file_lossage): Rewrite to use buildsym_compunit.
(reset_symtab_globals): Update.
(end_symtab_get_static_block): Update to use buildsym_compunit.
(end_symtab_without_blockvector): Rewrite.
(end_symtab_with_blockvector): Change result to
"struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
Update to use buildsym_compunit. Don't set symtab->dirname,
instead set it in the compunit.
Explicitly make sure main symtab is first in its list.
Set debugformat, producer, blockvector, block_line_section, and
macrotable in the compunit.
(end_symtab_from_static_block): Change result to
"struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
(end_symtab, end_expandable_symtab): Ditto.
(set_missing_symtab): Change symtab argument to
"struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
(augment_type_symtab): Ditto.
(record_debugformat): Update to use buildsym_compunit.
(record_producer): Update to use buildsym_compunit.
* buildsym.h (struct subfile) <dirname>: Delete.
<producer, debugformat>: Delete.
<buildsym_compunit>: New member.
(get_compunit_symtab): Declare.
* dwarf2read.c (struct type_unit_group) <compunit_symtab>: Renamed
from primary_symtab. Change type to "struct compunit_symtab *".
All uses updated.
(dwarf2_start_symtab): Change result to "struct compunit_symtab *".
All callers updated.
(dwarf_decode_macros): Delete comp_dir argument. All callers updated.
(struct dwarf2_per_cu_quick_data) <compunit_symtab>: Renamed from
symtab. Change type to "struct compunit_symtab *". All uses updated.
(dw2_instantiate_symtab): Change result to "struct compunit_symtab *".
All callers updated.
(dw2_find_last_source_symtab): Ditto.
(dw2_lookup_symbol): Ditto.
(recursively_find_pc_sect_compunit_symtab): Renamed from
recursively_find_pc_sect_symtab. Change result to
"struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
(dw2_find_pc_sect_compunit_symtab): Renamed from
dw2_find_pc_sect_symtab. Change result to
"struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
(get_compunit_symtab): Renamed from get_symtab. Change result to
"struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
(recursively_compute_inclusions): Change type of immediate_parent
argument to "struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
(compute_compunit_symtab_includes): Renamed from
compute_symtab_includes. All callers updated. Rewrite to compute
includes of compunit_symtabs and not symtabs.
(process_full_comp_unit): Update to work with struct compunit_symtab.
(process_full_type_unit): Ditto.
(dwarf_decode_lines_1): Delete argument comp_dir. All callers updated.
(dwarf_decode_lines): Remove special case handling of main subfile.
(macro_start_file): Delete argument comp_dir. All callers updated.
(dwarf_decode_macro_bytes): Ditto.
* guile/scm-block.c (bkscm_print_block_syms_progress_smob): Update to
use struct compunit_symtab.
* i386-tdep.c (i386_skip_prologue): Fetch producer from compunit.
* jit.c (finalize_symtab): Build compunit_symtab.
* jv-lang.c (get_java_class_symtab): Change result to
"struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
* macroscope.c (sal_macro_scope): Fetch macro table from compunit.
* macrotab.c (struct macro_table) <compunit_symtab>: Renamed from
comp_dir. Change type to "struct compunit_symtab *".
All uses updated.
(new_macro_table): Change comp_dir argument to cust,
"struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
* maint.c (struct cmd_stats) <nr_compunit_symtabs>: Renamed from
nr_primary_symtabs. All uses updated.
(count_symtabs_and_blocks): Update to handle compunits.
(report_command_stats): Update output, "primary symtabs" renamed to
"compunits".
* mdebugread.c (new_symtab): Change result to
"struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
(parse_procedure): Change type of search_symtab argument to
"struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
* objfiles.c (objfile_relocate1): Loop over blockvectors in a
separate loop.
* objfiles.h (struct objfile) <compunit_symtabs>: Renamed from
symtabs. Change type to "struct compunit_symtab *". All uses updated.
(ALL_OBJFILE_FILETABS): Renamed from ALL_OBJFILE_SYMTABS.
All uses updated.
(ALL_OBJFILE_COMPUNITS): Renamed from ALL_OBJFILE_PRIMARY_SYMTABS.
All uses updated.
(ALL_FILETABS): Renamed from ALL_SYMTABS. All uses updated.
(ALL_COMPUNITS): Renamed from ALL_PRIMARY_SYMTABS. All uses updated.
* psympriv.h (struct partial_symtab) <compunit_symtab>: Renamed from
symtab. Change type to "struct compunit_symtab *". All uses updated.
* psymtab.c (psymtab_to_symtab): Change result type to
"struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
(find_pc_sect_compunit_symtab_from_partial): Renamed from
find_pc_sect_symtab_from_partial. Change result type to
"struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
(lookup_symbol_aux_psymtabs): Change result type to
"struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
(find_last_source_symtab_from_partial): Ditto.
* python/py-symtab.c (stpy_get_producer): Fetch producer from compunit.
* source.c (forget_cached_source_info_for_objfile): Fetch debugformat
and macro_table from compunit.
* symfile-debug.c (debug_qf_find_last_source_symtab): Change result
type to "struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
(debug_qf_lookup_symbol): Ditto.
(debug_qf_find_pc_sect_compunit_symtab): Renamed from
debug_qf_find_pc_sect_symtab, change result type to
"struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
* symfile.c (allocate_symtab): Delete objfile argument.
New argument cust.
(allocate_compunit_symtab): New function.
(add_compunit_symtab_to_objfile): New function.
* symfile.h (struct quick_symbol_functions) <lookup_symbol>:
Change result type to "struct compunit_symtab *". All uses updated.
<find_pc_sect_compunit_symtab>: Renamed from find_pc_sect_symtab.
Change result type to "struct compunit_symtab *". All uses updated.
* symmisc.c (print_objfile_statistics): Compute blockvector count in
separate loop.
(dump_symtab_1): Update test for primary source symtab.
(maintenance_info_symtabs): Update to handle compunit symtabs.
(maintenance_check_symtabs): Ditto.
* symtab.c (set_primary_symtab): Delete.
(compunit_primary_filetab): New function.
(compunit_language): New function.
(iterate_over_some_symtabs): Change type of arguments "first",
"after_last" to "struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
Update to loop over symtabs in each compunit.
(error_in_psymtab_expansion): Rename symtab argument to cust,
and change type to "struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
(find_pc_sect_compunit_symtab): Renamed from find_pc_sect_symtab.
Change result type to "struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
(find_pc_compunit_symtab): Renamed from find_pc_symtab.
Change result type to "struct compunit_symtab *". All callers updated.
(find_pc_sect_line): Only loop over symtabs within selected compunit
instead of all symtabs in the objfile.
* symtab.h (struct symtab) <blockvector>: Moved to compunit_symtab.
<compunit_symtab> New member.
<block_line_section>: Moved to compunit_symtab.
<locations_valid>: Ditto.
<epilogue_unwind_valid>: Ditto.
<macro_table>: Ditto.
<dirname>: Ditto.
<debugformat>: Ditto.
<producer>: Ditto.
<objfile>: Ditto.
<call_site_htab>: Ditto.
<includes>: Ditto.
<user>: Ditto.
<primary>: Delete
(SYMTAB_COMPUNIT): New macro.
(SYMTAB_BLOCKVECTOR): Update definition.
(SYMTAB_OBJFILE): Update definition.
(SYMTAB_DIRNAME): Update definition.
(struct compunit_symtab): New type. Common members among all source
symtabs within a compilation unit moved here. All uses updated.
(COMPUNIT_OBJFILE): New macro.
(COMPUNIT_FILETABS): New macro.
(COMPUNIT_DEBUGFORMAT): New macro.
(COMPUNIT_PRODUCER): New macro.
(COMPUNIT_DIRNAME): New macro.
(COMPUNIT_BLOCKVECTOR): New macro.
(COMPUNIT_BLOCK_LINE_SECTION): New macro.
(COMPUNIT_LOCATIONS_VALID): New macro.
(COMPUNIT_EPILOGUE_UNWIND_VALID): New macro.
(COMPUNIT_CALL_SITE_HTAB): New macro.
(COMPUNIT_MACRO_TABLE): New macro.
(ALL_COMPUNIT_FILETABS): New macro.
(compunit_symtab_ptr): New typedef.
(DEF_VEC_P (compunit_symtab_ptr)): New vector type.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.base/maint.exp: Update expected output.
No longer used since the non-continuable watchpoints handling rework.
gdb/
2014-11-12 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* infrun.c (enum infwait_states, infwait_state): Delete.
The gdb.arch/i386-bp_permanent.exp test is currently failing an
assertion recently added:
(gdb) stepi
../../src/gdb/infrun.c:2237: internal-error: resume: Assertion `sig != GDB_SIGNAL_0' failed.
A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
further debugging may prove unreliable.
Quit this debugging session? (y or n)
FAIL: gdb.arch/i386-bp_permanent.exp: Single stepping past permanent breakpoint. (GDB internal error)
The assertion expects that the only reason we currently need to step a
breakpoint instruction is when we have a signal to deliver. But when
stepping a permanent breakpoint (with or without a signal) we also
reach this code.
The assertion is correct and the permanent breakpoints skipping code
is wrong.
Consider the case of the user doing "step/stepi" when stopped at a
permanent breakpoint. GDB's `resume' calls the
gdbarch_skip_permanent_breakpoint hook and then happily continues
stepping:
/* Normally, by the time we reach `resume', the breakpoints are either
removed or inserted, as appropriate. The exception is if we're sitting
at a permanent breakpoint; we need to step over it, but permanent
breakpoints can't be removed. So we have to test for it here. */
if (breakpoint_here_p (aspace, pc) == permanent_breakpoint_here)
{
gdbarch_skip_permanent_breakpoint (gdbarch, regcache);
}
But since gdbarch_skip_permanent_breakpoint already advanced the PC
manually, this ends up executing the instruction that is _after_ the
breakpoint instruction. The user-visible result is that a single-step
steps two instructions.
The gdb.arch/i386-bp_permanent.exp test is actually ensuring that
that's indeed how things work. It runs to an int3 instruction, does
"stepi", and checks that "leave" was executed with that "stepi". Like
this:
(gdb) b *0x0804848c
Breakpoint 2 at 0x804848c
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Breakpoint 2, 0x0804848c in standard ()
(gdb) disassemble
Dump of assembler code for function standard:
0x08048488 <+0>: push %ebp
0x08048489 <+1>: mov %esp,%ebp
0x0804848b <+3>: push %edi
=> 0x0804848c <+4>: int3
0x0804848d <+5>: leave
0x0804848e <+6>: ret
0x0804848f <+7>: nop
(gdb) si
0x0804848e in standard ()
(gdb) disassemble
Dump of assembler code for function standard:
0x08048488 <+0>: push %ebp
0x08048489 <+1>: mov %esp,%ebp
0x0804848b <+3>: push %edi
0x0804848c <+4>: int3
0x0804848d <+5>: leave
=> 0x0804848e <+6>: ret
0x0804848f <+7>: nop
End of assembler dump.
(gdb)
One would instead expect that a stepi at 0x0804848c stops at
0x0804848d, _before_ the "leave" is executed. This commit changes GDB
this way. Care is taken to make stepping into a signal handler when
the step starts at a permanent breakpoint instruction work correctly.
The patch adjusts gdb.arch/i386-bp_permanent.exp in this direction,
and also makes it work on x86_64 (currently it only works on i*86).
The patch also adds a new gdb.base/bp-permanent.exp test that
exercises many different code paths related to stepping permanent
breakpoints, including the stepping with signals cases. The test uses
"hack/trick" to make it work on all (or most) platforms -- it doesn't
really hard code a breakpoint instruction.
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20, native and gdbserver.
gdb/
2014-11-12 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* infrun.c (resume): Clear the thread's 'stepped_breakpoint' flag.
Rewrite stepping over a permanent breakpoint.
(thread_still_needs_step_over, proceed): Don't set
stepping_over_breakpoint for permanent breakpoints.
(handle_signal_stop): Don't clear stepped_breakpoint. Also pull
single-step breakpoints out of the target on hardware step
targets.
(process_event_stop_test): If stepping a permanent breakpoint
doesn't hit the step-resume breakpoint, delete the step-resume
breakpoint.
(switch_back_to_stepped_thread): Also check if the stepped thread
has advanced already on hardware step targets.
(currently_stepping): Return true if the thread stepped a
breakpoint.
gdb/testsuite/
2014-11-12 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.arch/i386-bp_permanent.c: New file.
* gdb.arch/i386-bp_permanent.exp: Don't skip on x86_64.
(srcfile): Set to i386-bp_permanent.c.
(top level): Adjust to work in both 32-bit and 64-bit modes. Test
that stepi does not execute the 'leave' instruction, instead of
testing it does execute.
* gdb.base/bp-permanent.c: New file.
* gdb.base/bp-permanent.exp: New file.
breakpoint.c uses gdbarch_breakpoint_from_pc to determine whether a
breakpoint location points at a permanent breakpoint:
static int
bp_loc_is_permanent (struct bp_location *loc)
{
...
addr = loc->address;
bpoint = gdbarch_breakpoint_from_pc (loc->gdbarch, &addr, &len);
...
if (target_read_memory (loc->address, target_mem, len) == 0
&& memcmp (target_mem, bpoint, len) == 0)
retval = 1;
...
So I think we should default the gdbarch_skip_permanent_breakpoint
hook to advancing the PC by the length of the breakpoint instruction,
as determined by gdbarch_breakpoint_from_pc. I believe that simple
implementation does the right thing for most architectures. If
there's an oddball architecture where that doesn't work, then it
should override the hook, just like it should be overriding the hook
if there was no default anyway.
The only two implementation of skip_permanent_breakpoint are
i386_skip_permanent_breakpoint, for x86, and
hppa_skip_permanent_breakpoint, for PA-RISC/HP-UX
The x86 implementation is trivial, and can clearly be replaced by the
new default.
I don't know about the HP-UX one though, I know almost nothing about
PA. It may well be advancing the PC ends up being equivalent.
Otherwise, it must be that "jump $pc_after_bp" doesn't work either...
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20 native and gdbserver.
gdb/
2014-11-12 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* arch-utils.c (default_skip_permanent_breakpoint): New function.
* arch-utils.h (default_skip_permanent_breakpoint): New
declaration.
* gdbarch.sh (skip_permanent_breakpoint): Now an 'f' function.
Install default_skip_permanent_breakpoint as default method.
* i386-tdep.c (i386_skip_permanent_breakpoint): Delete function.
(i386_gdbarch_init): Don't install it.
* infrun.c (resume): Assume there's always a
gdbarch_skip_permanent_breakpoint implementation.
* gdbarch.h, gdbarch.c: Regenerate.
The in_prologue check in the nexti code is obsolete; this commit
removes that, and then removes the in_prologue function as nothing
else uses it.
Looking at the code in GDB that makes use in_prologue, all we find is
this one caller:
if ((ecs->event_thread->control.step_over_calls == STEP_OVER_NONE)
|| ((ecs->event_thread->control.step_range_end == 1)
&& in_prologue (gdbarch, ecs->event_thread->prev_pc,
ecs->stop_func_start)))
{
/* I presume that step_over_calls is only 0 when we're
supposed to be stepping at the assembly language level
("stepi"). Just stop. */
/* Also, maybe we just did a "nexti" inside a prolog, so we
thought it was a subroutine call but it was not. Stop as
well. FENN */
/* And this works the same backward as frontward. MVS */
end_stepping_range (ecs);
return;
}
This was added by:
commit 100a02e1de
...
From Fernando Nasser:
* infrun.c (handle_inferior_event): Handle "nexti" inside function
prologues.
The mailing list thread is here:
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2001-01/msg00047.html
Not much discussion there, and no test, but looking at the code around
what was patched in that revision, we see that the checks that detect
whether the program has just stepped into a subroutine didn't rely on
the unwinders at all back then.
From 'git show 100a02e1:gdb/infrun.c':
if (stop_pc == ecs->stop_func_start /* Quick test */
|| (in_prologue (stop_pc, ecs->stop_func_start) &&
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
!IN_SOLIB_RETURN_TRAMPOLINE (stop_pc, ecs->stop_func_name))
|| IN_SOLIB_CALL_TRAMPOLINE (stop_pc, ecs->stop_func_name)
|| ecs->stop_func_name == 0)
{
/* It's a subroutine call. */
if ((step_over_calls == STEP_OVER_NONE)
|| ((step_range_end == 1)
&& in_prologue (prev_pc, ecs->stop_func_start)))
{
/* I presume that step_over_calls is only 0 when we're
supposed to be stepping at the assembly language level
("stepi"). Just stop. */
/* Also, maybe we just did a "nexti" inside a prolog,
so we thought it was a subroutine call but it was not.
Stop as well. FENN */
stop_step = 1;
print_stop_reason (END_STEPPING_RANGE, 0);
stop_stepping (ecs);
return;
}
Stripping the IN_SOLIB_RETURN_TRAMPOLINE checks for simplicity, we had:
if (stop_pc == ecs->stop_func_start /* Quick test */
|| in_prologue (stop_pc, ecs->stop_func_start)
|| ecs->stop_func_name == 0)
{
/* It's a subroutine call. */
That is, detecting a subroutine call was based on prologue detection
back then. So the in_prologue check in the current tree only made
sense back then as it was undoing a bad decision the in_prologue check
that used to exist above did.
Today, the check for a subroutine call relies on frame ids instead,
which are stable throughout the function. So we can just remove the
in_prologue check for nexti, and the whole in_prologue function along
with it.
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20, and also by nexti-ing manually a prologue.
gdb/
2014-11-07 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* infrun.c (process_event_stop_test) <subroutine check>: Don't
check if we did a "nexti" inside a prologue.
* symtab.c (in_prologue): Delete function.
* symtab.h (in_prologue): Delete declaration.
This PR shows that GDB can easily trigger an assertion here, in
infrun.c:
5392 /* Did we find the stepping thread? */
5393 if (tp->control.step_range_end)
5394 {
5395 /* Yep. There should only one though. */
5396 gdb_assert (stepping_thread == NULL);
5397
5398 /* The event thread is handled at the top, before we
5399 enter this loop. */
5400 gdb_assert (tp != ecs->event_thread);
5401
5402 /* If some thread other than the event thread is
5403 stepping, then scheduler locking can't be in effect,
5404 otherwise we wouldn't have resumed the current event
5405 thread in the first place. */
5406 gdb_assert (!schedlock_applies (currently_stepping (tp)));
5407
5408 stepping_thread = tp;
5409 }
Like:
gdb/infrun.c:5406: internal-error: switch_back_to_stepped_thread: Assertion `!schedlock_applies (1)' failed.
The way the assertion is written is assuming that with schedlock=step
we'll always leave threads other than the one with the stepping range
locked, while that's not true with the "next" command. With schedlock
"step", other threads still run unlocked when "next" detects a
function call and steps over it. Whether that makes sense or not,
still, it's documented that way in the manual. If another thread hits
an event that doesn't cause a stop while the nexting thread steps over
a function call, we'll get here and fail the assertion.
The fix is just to adjust the assertion. Even though we found the
stepping thread, we'll still step-over the breakpoint that just
triggered correctly.
Surprisingly, gdb.threads/schedlock.exp doesn't have any test that
steps over a function call. This commits fixes that. This ensures
that "next" doesn't switch focus to another thread, and checks whether
other threads run locked or not, depending on scheduler locking mode
and command. There's a lot of duplication in that file that this ends
cleaning up. There's more that could be cleaned up, but that would
end up an unrelated change, best done separately.
This new coverage in schedlock.exp happens to trigger the internal
error in question, like so:
FAIL: gdb.threads/schedlock.exp: schedlock=step: cmd=next: call_function=1: next to increment (1) (GDB internal error)
FAIL: gdb.threads/schedlock.exp: schedlock=step: cmd=next: call_function=1: next to increment (3) (GDB internal error)
FAIL: gdb.threads/schedlock.exp: schedlock=step: cmd=next: call_function=1: next to increment (5) (GDB internal error)
FAIL: gdb.threads/schedlock.exp: schedlock=step: cmd=next: call_function=1: next to increment (7) (GDB internal error)
FAIL: gdb.threads/schedlock.exp: schedlock=step: cmd=next: call_function=1: next to increment (9) (GDB internal error)
FAIL: gdb.threads/schedlock.exp: schedlock=step: cmd=next: call_function=1: next does not change thread (switched to thread 0)
FAIL: gdb.threads/schedlock.exp: schedlock=step: cmd=next: call_function=1: current thread advanced - unlocked (wrong amount)
That's because we have more than one thread running the same loop, and
while one thread is stepping over a function call, the other thread
hits the step-resume breakpoint of the first, which needs to be
stepped over, and we end up in switch_back_to_stepped_thread exactly
in the problem case.
I think a simpler and more directed test is also useful, to not rely
on internal breakpoint magics. So this commit also adds a test that
has a thread trip on a conditional breakpoint that doesn't cause a
user-visible stop while another thread is stepping over a call. That
currently fails like this:
FAIL: gdb.threads/next-bp-other-thread.exp: schedlock=step: next over function call (GDB internal error)
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20.
gdb/
2014-10-29 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR gdb/17408
* infrun.c (switch_back_to_stepped_thread): Use currently_stepping
instead of assuming a thread with a stepping range is always
stepping.
gdb/testsuite/
2014-10-29 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR gdb/17408
* gdb.threads/schedlock.c (some_function): New function.
(call_function): New global.
(MAYBE_CALL_SOME_FUNCTION): New macro.
(thread_function): Call it.
* gdb.threads/schedlock.exp (get_args): Add description parameter,
and use it instead of a global counter. Adjust all callers.
(get_current_thread): Use "find current thread" for test message
here rather than having all callers pass down the same string.
(goto_loop): New procedure, factored out from ...
(my_continue): ... this.
(step_ten_loops): Change parameter from test message to command to
use. Adjust.
(list_count): Delete global.
(check_result): New procedure, factored out from duplicate top
level code.
(continue tests): Wrap in with_test_prefix.
(test_step): New procedure, factored out from duplicate top level
code.
(top level): Test "step" in combination with all scheduler-locking
modes. Test "next" in combination with all scheduler-locking
modes, and in combination with stepping over a function call or
not.
* gdb.threads/next-bp-other-thread.c: New file.
* gdb.threads/next-bp-other-thread.exp: New file.
This is more of a readline/terminal issue than a Python one.
PR17372 is a regression in 7.8 caused by the fix for PR17072:
commit 0017922d02
Author: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Date: Mon Jul 14 19:55:32 2014 +0100
Background execution + pagination aborts readline/gdb
gdb_readline_wrapper_line removes the handler after a line is
processed. Usually, we'll end up re-displaying the prompt, and that
reinstalls the handler. But if the output is coming out of handling
a stop event, we don't re-display the prompt, and nothing restores the
handler. So the next input wakes up the event loop and calls into
readline, which aborts.
...
gdb/
2014-07-14 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR gdb/17072
* top.c (gdb_readline_wrapper_line): Tweak comment.
(gdb_readline_wrapper_cleanup): If readline is enabled, reinstall
the input handler callback.
The problem is that installing the input handler callback also preps
the terminal, putting it in raw mode and with echo disabled, which is
bad if we're going to call a command that assumes cooked/canonical
mode, and echo enabled, like in the case of the PR, Python's
interactive shell. Another example I came up with that doesn't depend
on Python is starting a subshell with "(gdb) shell /bin/sh" from a
multi-line command. Tests covering both these examples are added.
The fix is to revert the original fix for PR gdb/17072, and instead
restore the callback handler after processing an asynchronous target
event.
Furthermore, calling rl_callback_handler_install when we already have
some input in readline's line buffer discards that input, which is
obviously a bad thing to do while the user is typing. No specific
test is added for that, because I first tried calling it even if the
callback handler was still installed and that resulted in hundreds of
failures in the testsuite.
gdb/
2014-10-29 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR python/17372
* event-top.c (change_line_handler): Call
gdb_rl_callback_handler_remove instead of
rl_callback_handler_remove.
(callback_handler_installed): New global.
(gdb_rl_callback_handler_remove, gdb_rl_callback_handler_install)
(gdb_rl_callback_handler_reinstall): New functions.
(display_gdb_prompt): Call gdb_rl_callback_handler_remove and
gdb_rl_callback_handler_install instead of
rl_callback_handler_remove and rl_callback_handler_install.
(gdb_disable_readline): Call gdb_rl_callback_handler_remove
instead of rl_callback_handler_remove.
* event-top.h (gdb_rl_callback_handler_remove)
(gdb_rl_callback_handler_install)
(gdb_rl_callback_handler_reinstall): New declarations.
* infrun.c (reinstall_readline_callback_handler_cleanup): New
cleanup function.
(fetch_inferior_event): Install it.
* top.c (gdb_readline_wrapper_line) Call
gdb_rl_callback_handler_remove instead of
rl_callback_handler_remove.
(gdb_readline_wrapper_cleanup): Don't call
rl_callback_handler_install.
gdb/testsuite/
2014-10-29 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR python/17372
* gdb.python/python.exp: Test a multi-line command that spawns
interactive Python.
* gdb.base/multi-line-starts-subshell.exp: New file.
TL;DR - if we step an instruction that is as long as
decr_pc_after_break (1-byte on x86) right after removing the
breakpoint at PC, in non-stop mode, adjust_pc_after_break adjusts the
PC, but it shouldn't.
In non-stop mode, when a breakpoint is removed, it is moved to the
"moribund locations" list. This is because other threads that are
running may have tripped on that breakpoint as well, and we haven't
heard about it. When a trap is reported, we check if perhaps it was
such a deleted breakpoint that caused the trap. If so, we also need
to adjust the PC (decr_pc_after_break).
Now, say that, on x86:
- a breakpoint was placed at an address where we have an instruction
of the same length as decr_pc_after_break on this arch (1 on x86).
- the breakpoint is removed, and thus put on the moribund locations
list.
- the thread is single-stepped.
As there's no breakpoint inserted at PC anymore, the single-step
actually executes the 1-byte instruction normally. GDB should _not_
adjust the PC for the resulting SIGTRAP. But, adjust_pc_after_break
confuses the step SIGTRAP reported for this single-step as being a
SIGTRAP for the moribund location of the breakpoint that used to be at
the previous PC, and so infrun applies the decr_pc_after_break
adjustment incorrectly.
The confusion comes from the special case mentioned in the comment:
static void
adjust_pc_after_break (struct execution_control_state *ecs)
{
...
As a special case, we could have hardware single-stepped a
software breakpoint. In this case (prev_pc == breakpoint_pc),
we also need to back up to the breakpoint address. */
if (thread_has_single_step_breakpoints_set (ecs->event_thread)
|| !ptid_equal (ecs->ptid, inferior_ptid)
|| !currently_stepping (ecs->event_thread)
|| (ecs->event_thread->stepped_breakpoint
&& ecs->event_thread->prev_pc == breakpoint_pc))
regcache_write_pc (regcache, breakpoint_pc);
The condition that incorrectly triggers is the
"ecs->event_thread->prev_pc == breakpoint_pc" one.
Afterwards, the next resume resume re-executes an instruction that had
already executed, which if you're lucky, results in the inferior
crashing. If you're unlucky, you'll get silent bad behavior...
The fix is to remember that we stepped a breakpoint. Turns out the
only case we step a breakpoint instruction today isn't covered by the
testsuite. It's the case of a 'handle nostop" signal arriving while a
step is in progress _and_ we have a software watchpoint, which forces
always single-stepping. This commit extends sigstep.exp to cover
that, and adds a new test for the adjust_pc_after_break issue.
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20, native and gdbserver.
gdb/
2014-10-28 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR gdb/12623
* gdbthread.h (struct thread_info) <stepped_breakpoint>: New
field.
* infrun.c (resume) <stepping breakpoint instruction>: Set the
thread's stepped_breakpoint field. Skip if reverse debugging.
Add comment.
(init_thread_stepping_state, handle_signal_stop): Clear the
thread's stepped_breakpoint field.
gdb/testsuite/
2014-10-28 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR gdb/12623
* gdb.base/sigstep.c (no_handler): New global.
(main): If 'no_handler is true, set the signal handlers to
SIG_IGN.
* gdb.base/sigstep.exp (breakpoint_over_handler): Add
with_sw_watch and no_handler parameters. Handle them.
(top level) <stepping over handler when stopped at a breakpoint
test>: Add a test axis for testing with a software watchpoint, and
another for testing with the signal handler set to SIG_IGN.
* gdb.base/step-sw-breakpoint-adjust-pc.c: New file.
* gdb.base/step-sw-breakpoint-adjust-pc.exp: New file.
I noticed that "si" behaves differently when a "handle nostop" signal
arrives while the step is in progress, depending on whether the
program was stopped at a breakpoint when "si" was entered.
Specifically, in case GDB needs to step off a breakpoint, the handler
is skipped and the program stops in the next "mainline" instruction.
Otherwise, the "si" stops in the first instruction of the signal
handler.
I was surprised the testsuite doesn't catch this difference. Turns
out gdb.base/sigstep.exp covers a bunch of cases related to stepping
and signal handlers, but does not test stepi nor nexti, only
step/next/continue.
My first reaction was that stopping in the signal handler was the
correct thing to do, as it's where the next user-visible instruction
that is executed is. I considered then "nexti" -- a signal handler
could be reasonably considered a subroutine call to step over, it'd
seem intuitive to me that "nexti" would skip it.
But then, I realized that signals that arrive while a plain/line
"step" is in progress _also_ have their handler skipped. A user might
well be excused for being confused by this, given:
(gdb) help step
Step program until it reaches a different source line.
And the signal handler's sources will be in different source lines,
after all.
I think that having to explain that "stepi" steps into handlers, (and
that "nexti" wouldn't according to my reasoning above), while "step"
does not, is a sign of an awkward interface.
E.g., if a user truly is interested in stepping into signal handlers,
then it's odd that she has to either force the signal to "handle
stop", or recall to do "stepi" whenever such a signal might be
delivered. For that use case, it'd seem nicer to me if "step" also
stepped into handlers.
This suggests to me that we either need a global "step-into-handlers"
setting, or perhaps better, make "handle pass/nopass stop/nostop
print/noprint" have have an additional axis - "handle
stepinto/nostepinto", so that the user could configure whether
handlers for specific signals should be stepped into.
In any case, I think it's simpler (and thus better) for all step
commands to behave the same. This commit thus makes "si/ni" skip
handlers for "handle nostop" signals that arrive while the command was
already in progress, like step/next do.
To be clear, nothing changes if the program was stopped for a signal,
and the user enters a stepping command _then_ -- GDB still steps into
the handler. The change concerns signals that don't cause a stop and
that arrive while the step is in progress.
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20, native and gdbserver.
gdb/
2014-10-27 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* infrun.c (handle_signal_stop): Also skip handlers when a random
signal arrives while handling a "stepi" or a "nexti". Set the
thread's 'step_after_step_resume_breakpoint' flag.
gdb/doc/
2014-10-27 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.texinfo (Continuing and Stepping): Add cross reference to
info on stepping and signal handlers.
(Signals): Explain stepping and signal handlers. Add context
index entry, and cross references.
gdb/testsuite/
2014-10-27 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.base/sigstep.c (dummy): New global.
(main): Issue a couple writes to the new global.
* gdb.base/sigstep.exp (get_next_pc, test_skip_handler): New
procedures.
(skip_over_handler): Use test_skip_handler.
(top level): Call skip_over_handler for stepi and nexti too.
(breakpoint_over_handler): Use test_skip_handler.
(top level): Call breakpoint_over_handler for stepi and nexti too.
This commit modifies the code that prints attach and detach messages
related to following fork and vfork. The changes include using
target_terminal_ours_for_output instead of target_terminal_ours,
printing "vfork" instead of "fork" for all vfork-related messages,
and using _() for the format strings of all of the messages.
We also add a "detach" message for when a fork parent is detached.
Previously in this case the only message was notification of attaching
to the child. We still do not print any messages when following the
parent and detaching the child (the default). The rationale for this
is that from the user's perspective the new child was never attached.
Note that all of these messages are only printed when 'verbose' is set
or when debugging is turned on.
The tests gdb.base/foll-fork.exp and gdb.base/foll-vfork.exp were
modified to check for the new message.
Tested on x64 Ubuntu Lucid, native only.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* infrun.c (follow_fork_inferior): Update fork message printing
to use target_terminal_ours_for_output instead of
target_terminal_ours, to use _() for all format strings, to print
"vfork" instead of "fork" for vforks, and to add a detach message.
(handle_vfork_child_exec_or_exit): Update message printing to use
target_terminal_ours_for_output instead of target_terminal_ours, to
use _() for all format strings, and to fix some formatting.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.base/foll-fork.exp (test_follow_fork,
catch_fork_child_follow): Check for updated fork messages emitted
from infrun.c.
* gdb.base/foll-vfork.exp (vfork_parent_follow_through_step,
vfork_parent_follow_to_bp, vfork_and_exec_child_follow_to_main_bp,
vfork_and_exec_child_follow_through_step): Check for updated vfork
messages emitted from infrun.c.
This finally reverts this bit of commit 929dfd4f:
2009-07-31 Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
Julian Brown <julian@codesourcery.com>
...
(resume): If this is a software single-stepping arch, and
displaced-stepping is enabled, use it for all single-step
requests.
...
That means that in non-stop (or really displaced-stepping) mode, on
software single-step archs - even those that only use sss breakpoints
to deal with atomic sequences, like PPC - if we have more than one
thread single-stepping, we'll always serialize the threads'
single-steps, as only one thread may be displaced stepping at a given
time, because there's only one scratch pad.
We originally did that because GDB didn't support having multiple
threads software-single-stepping simultaneously. The previous patches
fixed that limitation, so we can now finally revert this too.
Tested on:
- x86_64 Fedora 20, on top of the 'software single-step on x86'
series.
gdb/
2014-10-15 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* infrun.c (resume): Don't force displaced-stepping for all
single-steps on software single-stepping archs.
This patch finally makes each thread have its own set of single-step
breakpoints. This paves the way to have multiple threads software
single-stepping, though this patch doesn't flip that switch on yet.
That'll be done on a subsequent patch.
gdb/
2014-10-15 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* breakpoint.c (single_step_breakpoints): Delete global.
(insert_single_step_breakpoint): Adjust to store the breakpoint
pointer in the current thread.
(single_step_breakpoints_inserted, remove_single_step_breakpoints)
(cancel_single_step_breakpoints): Delete functions.
(breakpoint_has_location_inserted_here): Make extern.
(single_step_breakpoint_inserted_here_p): Adjust to walk the
breakpoint list.
* breakpoint.h (breakpoint_has_location_inserted_here): New
declaration.
(single_step_breakpoints_inserted, remove_single_step_breakpoints)
(cancel_single_step_breakpoints): Remove declarations.
* gdbthread.h (struct thread_control_state)
<single_step_breakpoints>: New field.
(delete_single_step_breakpoints)
(thread_has_single_step_breakpoints_set)
(thread_has_single_step_breakpoint_here): New declarations.
* infrun.c (follow_exec): Also clear the single-step breakpoints.
(singlestep_breakpoints_inserted_p, singlestep_ptid)
(singlestep_pc): Delete globals.
(infrun_thread_ptid_changed): Remove references to removed
globals.
(resume_cleanups): Delete the current thread's single-step
breakpoints.
(maybe_software_singlestep): Remove references to removed globals.
(resume): Adjust to use thread_has_single_step_breakpoints_set and
delete_single_step_breakpoints.
(init_wait_for_inferior): Remove references to removed globals.
(delete_thread_infrun_breakpoints): Delete the thread's
single-step breakpoints too.
(delete_just_stopped_threads_infrun_breakpoints): Don't delete
single-step breakpoints here.
(delete_stopped_threads_single_step_breakpoints): New function.
(adjust_pc_after_break): Adjust to use
thread_has_single_step_breakpoints_set.
(handle_inferior_event): Remove references to removed globals.
Use delete_stopped_threads_single_step_breakpoints.
(handle_signal_stop): Adjust to per-thread single-step
breakpoints. Swap test order to do cheaper tests first.
(switch_back_to_stepped_thread): Extend debug output. Remove
references to removed globals.
* record-full.c (record_full_wait_1): Adjust to per-thread
single-step breakpoints.
* thread.c (delete_single_step_breakpoints)
(thread_has_single_step_breakpoints_set)
(thread_has_single_step_breakpoint_here): New functions.
(clear_thread_inferior_resources): Also delete the thread's
single-step breakpoints.
This patch makes single-step breakpoints "real" breakpoints on the
global location list.
There are several benefits to this:
- It removes the currently limitation that only 2 single-step
breakpoints can be inserted. See an example here of a discussion
around a case that wants more than 2, possibly unbounded:
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-03/msg00663.html
- makes software single-step work on read-only code regions.
The logic to convert a software breakpoint to a hardware breakpoint
if the memory map says the breakpoint address is in read only memory
is in insert_bp_location. Because software single-step breakpoints
bypass all that go and straight to target_insert_breakpoint, we
can't software single-step over read only memory. This patch
removes that limitation, and adds a test that makes sure that works,
by forcing a code region to read-only with "mem LOW HIGH ro" and
then stepping through that.
- Fixes PR breakpoints/9649
This is an assertion failure in insert_single_step_breakpoint in
breakpoint.c, because we may leave stale single-step breakpoints
behind on error.
The tests for stepping through read-only regions exercise the root
cause of the bug, which is that we leave single-step breakpoints
behind if we fail to insert any single-step breakpoint. Deleting
the single-step breakpoints in resume_cleanups,
delete_just_stopped_threads_infrun_breakpoints, and
fetch_inferior_event fixes this. Without that, we'd no longer hit
the assertion, as that code is deleted, but we'd instead run into
errors/warnings trying to insert/remove the stale breakpoints on
next resume.
- Paves the way to have multiple threads software single-stepping at
the same time, leaving update_global_location_list to worry about
duplicate locations.
- Makes the moribund location machinery aware of software single-step
breakpoints, paving the way to enable software single-step on
non-stop, instead of forcing serialized displaced stepping for all
single steps.
- It's generaly cleaner.
We no longer have to play games with single-step breakpoints
inserted at the same address as regular breakpoints, like we
recently had to do for 7.8. See this discussion:
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-06/msg00052.html.
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20, on top of my 'single-step breakpoints on
x86' series.
gdb/
2014-10-15 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR breakpoints/9649
* breakpoint.c (single_step_breakpoints, single_step_gdbarch):
Delete array globals.
(single_step_breakpoints): New global.
(breakpoint_xfer_memory): Remove special handling for single-step
breakpoints.
(update_breakpoints_after_exec): Delete bp_single_step
breakpoints.
(detach_breakpoints): Remove special handling for single-step
breakpoints.
(breakpoint_init_inferior): Delete bp_single_step breakpoints.
(bpstat_stop_status): Add comment.
(bpstat_what, bptype_string, print_one_breakpoint_location)
(adjust_breakpoint_address, init_bp_location): Handle
bp_single_step.
(new_single_step_breakpoint): New function.
(set_momentary_breakpoint, bkpt_remove_location): Remove special
handling for single-step breakpoints.
(insert_single_step_breakpoint, single_step_breakpoints_inserted)
(remove_single_step_breakpoints, cancel_single_step_breakpoints):
Rewrite.
(detach_single_step_breakpoints, find_single_step_breakpoint):
Delete functions.
(breakpoint_has_location_inserted_here): New function.
(single_step_breakpoint_inserted_here_p): Rewrite.
* breakpoint.h: Remove FIXME.
(enum bptype) <bp_single_step>: New enum value.
(insert_single_step_breakpoint): Update comment.
* infrun.c (resume_cleanups)
(delete_step_thread_step_resume_breakpoint): Remove single-step
breakpoints.
(fetch_inferior_event): Install a cleanup that removes infrun
breakpoints.
(switch_back_to_stepped_thread) <expect thread advanced also>:
Clear step-over info.
gdb/testsuite/
2014-10-15 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR breakpoints/9649
* gdb.base/breakpoint-in-ro-region.c (main): Add more instructions.
* gdb.base/breakpoint-in-ro-region.exp
(probe_target_hardware_step): New procedure.
(top level): Probe hardware stepping and hardware breakpoint
support. Test stepping through a read-only region, with both
"breakpoint auto-hw" on and off and both "always-inserted" on and
off.
This is a preparatory/cleanup patch that does two things:
- Renames 'delete_step_thread_step_resume_breakpoint'. The
"step_resume" part is misnomer these days, as the function deletes
other kinds of breakpoints, not just the step-resume breakpoint. A
following patch will want to make it delete yet another kind of
breakpoint, even.
- Splits out the logic of which threads get those breakpoints deleted
to a separate "for_each"-style function, so that the same following
patch may use it with a different callback.
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20.
gdb/
2014-10-15 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* infrun.c (delete_step_resume_breakpoint_callback): Delete.
(delete_thread_infrun_breakpoints): New function, with parts
salvaged from delete_step_resume_breakpoint_callback.
(delete_step_thread_step_resume_breakpoint): Delete.
(for_each_just_stopped_thread_callback_func): New typedef.
(for_each_just_stopped_thread): New function.
(delete_just_stopped_threads_infrun_breakpoints): New function.
(delete_step_thread_step_resume_breakpoint_cleanup): Rename to ...
(delete_just_stopped_threads_infrun_breakpoints_cleanup):
... this. Adjust.
(wait_for_inferior, fetch_inferior_event): Adjust to renames.
When GDB finds out the target triggered a watchpoint, and the target
has non-continuable watchpoints, GDB sets things up to step past the
instruction that triggered the watchpoint. This is just like stepping
past a breakpoint, but goes through a different mechanism - it resumes
only the thread that needs to step past the watchpoint, but also
switches a "infwait state" global, that has the effect that the next
target_wait only wait for events only from that thread.
This forcing of a ptid to pass to target_wait obviously becomes a
bottleneck if we ever support stepping past different watchpoints
simultaneously (in separate processes).
It's also unnecessary -- the target should only return events for
threads that have been resumed; if no other thread than the one we're
stepping past the watchpoint has been resumed, then those other
threads should not report events. If we couldn't assume that, then
stepping past regular breakpoints would be broken for not likewise
forcing a similar infwait_state.
So this patch eliminates infwait_state, and instead teaches keep_going
to mark step_over_info in a way that has the breakpoints module skip
inserting watchpoints (because we're stepping past one), like it skips
breakpoints when we're stepping past one.
Tested on:
- x86_64 Fedora 20 (continuable watchpoints)
- PPC64 Fedora 18 (non-steppable watchpoints)
gdb/
2014-10-15 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* breakpoint.c (should_be_inserted): Don't insert watchpoints if
trying to step past a non-steppable watchpoint.
* gdbthread.h (struct thread_info) <stepping_over_watchpoint>: New
field.
* infrun.c (struct step_over_info): Add new field
'nonsteppable_watchpoint_p' and adjust comments.
(set_step_over_info): New 'nonsteppable_watchpoint_p' parameter.
Adjust.
(clear_step_over_info): Clear nonsteppable_watchpoint_p as well.
(stepping_past_nonsteppable_watchpoint): New function.
(step_over_info_valid_p): Also return true if stepping past a
nonsteppable watchpoint.
(proceed): Adjust call to set_step_over_info. Remove reference to
init_infwait_state.
(init_wait_for_inferior): Remove reference to init_infwait_state.
(waiton_ptid): Delete global.
(struct execution_control_state)
<stepped_after_stopped_by_watchpoint>: Delete field.
(wait_for_inferior, fetch_inferior_event): Always pass
minus_one_ptid to target_wait.
(init_thread_stepping_state): Clear 'stepping_over_watchpoint'
field.
(init_infwait_state): Delete function.
(handle_inferior_event): Remove infwait_state handling.
(handle_signal_stop) <watchpoints handling>: Adjust after
stepped_after_stopped_by_watchpoint removal. Don't remove
breakpoints here nor set infwait_state. Set the thread's
stepping_over_watchpoint flag, and call keep_going instead.
(keep_going): Handle stepping_over_watchpoint. Adjust
set_step_over_info calls.
* infrun.h (stepping_past_nonsteppable_watchpoint): Declare
function.
Gary Benson
Doug Evans
Don Breazeal
Joel Brobecker
Jan Kratochvil
Yao Qi
Pedro Alves
Simon Marchi
Doug Evans