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authorAndrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>2021-04-19 13:14:41 +0100
committerAndrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>2021-04-23 09:40:42 +0100
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gdb: remove some caching from the dwarf reader
While working on some changes to 'info sources' I ran into a situation where I was seeing the same source files reported twice in the output of the 'info sources' command when using either .gdb_index or the .debug_name index. I traced the problem back to some caching in dwarf2_base_index_functions::map_symbol_filenames; when called GDB caches the set of filenames, but, filesnames are not removed as the index entries are expanded into full symtabs. As a result we can end up seeing filenames reported both from a full symtab _and_ from a (stale) previously cached index entry. Now, obviously, when seeing a problem like this the "correct" fix is to remove the stale entries from the cache, however, I ran a few experiments to see why this wasn't really hitting us anywhere, and, as far as I can tell, ::map_symbol_filenames is only called from three places: 1. The mi command -file-list-exec-source-files, 2. The 'info sources' command, and 3. Filename completion However, the result of this "bug" is that we will see duplicate filenames, and readline's completion mechanism already removes duplicates, so for case #3 we will never see any problems. Cases #1 and #2 are basically the same, and in each case, to see a problem we need to ensure we craft the test in a particular way, start up ensuring we have some unexpected symtabs, then run one of the commands to populate the cache, then expand one of the symtabs, and list the sources again. At this point you'll see duplicate entries in the results. Hardly surprising we haven't randomly hit this situation in testing. So, considering that use cases #1 and #2 are certainly not "high performance" code (i.e. I don't think these justify the need for caching) this leaves use case #3. Does this use justify the need for caching? Well the psymbol_functions::map_symbol_filenames function doesn't seem to do any extra caching, and within dwarf2_base_index_functions::map_symbol_filenames, the only expensive bit appears to be the call to dw2_get_file_names, and this already does its own caching via this_cu->v.quick->file_names. The upshot of all this analysis was that I'm not convinced the need for the additional caching is justified, and so, I propose that to fix the bug in GDB, I just remove the extra caching (for now). If we later find that the caching _was_ useful, then we can reintroduce it, but add it back such that it doesn't reintroduce this bug. As I was changing dwarf2_base_index_functions::map_symbol_filenames I replaced the use of htab_up with std::unordered_set. Tested using target_boards cc-with-debug-names and dwarf4-gdb-index. gdb/ChangeLog: * dwarf2/read.c: Add 'unordered_set' include. (dwarf2_base_index_functions::map_symbol_filenames): Replace 'visited' hash table with 'qfn_cache' unordered_set. Remove use of per_Bfd->filenames_cache cache, and use function local filenames_cache instead. Reindent. * dwarf2/read.h (struct dwarf2_per_bfd) <filenames_cache>: Delete. gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: * gdb.base/info_sources.exp: Add new tests.
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+2021-04-23 Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
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+ * dwarf2/read.c: Add 'unordered_set' include.
+ (dwarf2_base_index_functions::map_symbol_filenames): Replace
+ 'visited' hash table with 'qfn_cache' unordered_set. Remove use
+ of per_Bfd->filenames_cache cache, and use function local
+ filenames_cache instead. Reindent.
+ * dwarf2/read.h (struct dwarf2_per_bfd) <filenames_cache>: Delete.
+
2021-04-22 Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
* breakpoint.c (iterate_over_bp_locations): Change callback to