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authorSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>2024-12-04 15:07:32 -0500
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gdbserver: simplify win32 process removal
In the spirit of encapsulation, I'm looking to remove the need for external code to access the "ptid -> thread" map of process_info, making it an internal implementation detail. The only remaining use is in function clear_inferiors, and it led me down this rabbit hole: - clear_inferiors is really only used by the Windows port and doesn't really make sense in the grand scheme of things, I think (when would you want to remove all threads of all processes, without removing those processes?) - ok, so let's remove clear_inferiors and inline the code where it's called, in function win32_clear_inferiors - the Windows port does not support multi-process, so it's not really necessary to loop over all processes like this: for_each_process ([] (process_info *process) { process->thread_list ().clear (); process->thread_map ().clear (); }); We could just do: current_process ()->thread_list ().clear (); current_process ()->thread_map ().clear (); (or pass down the process from the caller, but it's not important right now) - so, the code that we've inlined in win32_clear_inferiors does 3 things: - clear the process' thread list and map (which deletes the thread_info objects) - clear the dll list, which just basically frees some objects - switch to no current process / no current thread - let's now look at where this win32_clear_inferiors function is used: - in win32_process_target::kill, where the process is removed just after - in win32_process_target::detach, where the process is removed just after - in win32_process_target::wait, when handling a process exit. After this returns, we could be in handle_target_event (if async) or resume (if sync), both in `server.cc`. In both of these cases, target_mourn_inferior gets called, we end up in win32_process_target::mourn, which removes the process - in all 3 cases above, we end up removing the process, which takes care of the 3 actions listed above: - the thread list and map get cleared when the process gets destroyed - same with the dll list - remove_process switches to no current process / current thread if the process being removed is the current one - I conclude that it's probably unnecessary to do the cleanup in win32_clear_inferiors, because it's going to get done right after anyway. Therefore, this patch does: - remove clear_inferiors, remove the call in win32_clear_inferiors - remove clear_dlls, which is now unused - remove process_info::thread_map, which is now unused - rename win32_clear_inferiors to win32_clear_process, which seems more accurate win32_clear_inferiors also does: for_each_thread (delete_thread_info); which also makes sure to delete all threads, but it also deletes the Windows private data object (windows_thread_info), so I'll leave this one there for now. But if we could make the thread private data destruction automatic, on thread destruction, it could be removed, I think. There should be no user-visible change with this patch. Of course, operations don't happen in the same order as before, so there might be some important detail I'm missing. I'm only able to build-test this, if someone could give it a test run on Windows, it would be appreciated. Change-Id: I4a560affe763a2c965a97754cc02f3083dbe6fbf
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