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authorTom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>2021-11-02 19:08:49 +0100
committerTom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>2021-11-02 19:08:49 +0100
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[gdb/tdep, rs6000] Don't skip system call in skip_prologue
I ran into a case where a breakpoint on _exit never triggered, because it was set past the end of the _exit prologue, past the end of the exit_group system call (which does not return). More concretely, the breakpoint was set at the last insn show here: ... Dump of assembler code for function _exit: 0x00007ffff7e42ea0 <+0>: 12 00 4c 3c addis r2,r12,18 0x00007ffff7e42ea4 <+4>: 60 43 42 38 addi r2,r2,17248 0x00007ffff7e42ea8 <+8>: 00 00 00 60 nop 0x00007ffff7e42eac <+12>: f8 ff e1 fb std r31,-8(r1) 0x00007ffff7e42eb0 <+16>: 78 1b 7f 7c mr r31,r3 0x00007ffff7e42eb4 <+20>: f0 ff c1 fb std r30,-16(r1) 0x00007ffff7e42eb8 <+24>: ea 00 00 38 li r0,234 0x00007ffff7e42ebc <+28>: a0 8b 22 e9 ld r9,-29792(r2) 0x00007ffff7e42ec0 <+32>: 78 fb e3 7f mr r3,r31 0x00007ffff7e42ec4 <+36>: 14 6a c9 7f add r30,r9,r13 0x00007ffff7e42ec8 <+40>: 02 00 00 44 sc 0x00007ffff7e42ecc <+44>: 26 00 00 7c mfcr r0 0x00007ffff7e42ed0 <+48>: 00 10 09 74 andis. r9,r0,4096 ... Fix this by treating system calls the same as branches in skip_prologue: by default, don't skip, such that the breakpoint is set at 0x00007ffff7e42eb8 instead. Tested on ppc64le-linux, on a power 8 machine. Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28527
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/rs6000-tdep.c')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/rs6000-tdep.c b/gdb/rs6000-tdep.c
index 78b4fd1..4830ed2 100644
--- a/gdb/rs6000-tdep.c
+++ b/gdb/rs6000-tdep.c
@@ -2137,6 +2137,12 @@ skip_prologue (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, CORE_ADDR pc, CORE_ADDR lim_pc,
/* Never skip branches. */
break;
+ /* Test based on opcode and mask values of
+ powerpc_opcodes[svc..svcla] in opcodes/ppc-opc.c. */
+ if ((op & 0xffff0000) == 0x44000000)
+ /* Never skip system calls. */
+ break;
+
if (num_skip_non_prologue_insns++ > max_skip_non_prologue_insns)
/* Do not scan too many insns, scanning insns is expensive with
remote targets. */