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| author | Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> | 2010-06-14 22:16:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> | 2010-06-14 22:16:09 +0000 |
| commit | 6a271cae85843023ce9c046c040b643158d85054 (patch) | |
| tree | 2914b912497d6af43dbbd6d6294d0c3a460aabdd /gdb/NEWS | |
| parent | 6b13a44ce0abe26636e946e07399083968f3ee7e (diff) | |
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gdb/
2010-06-14 Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
* NEWS: Mention GDBserver's JIT compilation of tracepoint
bytecode.
gdb/gdbserver/
2010-06-14 Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
Bytecode compiler.
* linux-x86-low.c: Include limits.h.
(add_insns): New.
(always_true): New.
(EMIT_ASM): New.
(EMIT_ASM32): New.
(amd64_emit_prologue, amd64_emit_epilogue, amd64_emit_add)
(amd64_emit_sub, amd64_emit_mul, amd64_emit_lsh)
(amd64_emit_rsh_signed, amd64_emit_rsh_unsigned, amd64_emit_ext,
(amd64_emit_log_not, amd64_emit_bit_and, amd64_emit_bit_or)
(amd64_emit_bit_xor, amd64_emit_bit_not, amd64_emit_equal,
(amd64_emit_less_signed, amd64_emit_less_unsigned, amd64_emit_ref,
(amd64_emit_if_goto, amd64_emit_goto, amd64_write_goto_address)
(amd64_emit_const, amd64_emit_call, amd64_emit_reg)
(amd64_emit_pop, amd64_emit_stack_flush, amd64_emit_zero_ext)
(amd64_emit_swap, amd64_emit_stack_adjust, amd64_emit_int_call_1)
(amd64_emit_void_call_2): New.
(amd64_emit_ops): New.
(i386_emit_prologue, i386_emit_epilogue, i386_emit_add)
(i386_emit_sub,i386_emit_mul, i386_emit_lsh, i386_emit_rsh_signed)
(i386_emit_rsh_unsigned, i386_emit_ext, i386_emit_log_not)
(i386_emit_bit_and, i386_emit_bit_or, i386_emit_bit_xor)
(i386_emit_bit_not, i386_emit_equal, i386_emit_less_signed)
(i386_emit_less_unsigned, i386_emit_ref, i386_emit_if_goto)
(i386_emit_goto, i386_write_goto_address, i386_emit_const)
(i386_emit_call, i386_emit_reg, i386_emit_pop)
(i386_emit_stack_flush, i386_emit_zero_ext, i386_emit_swap)
(i386_emit_stack_adjust, i386_emit_int_call_1)
(i386_emit_void_call_2): New.
(i386_emit_ops): New.
(x86_emit_ops): New.
(the_low_target): Install x86_emit_ops.
* server.h (struct emit_ops): New.
(get_raw_reg_func_addr): Declare.
(current_insn_ptr, emit_error): Declare.
* tracepoint.c (get_raw_reg, get_trace_state_variable_value)
(set_trace_state_variable_value): New defines.
(struct ipa_sym_addresses): New fields addr_get_raw_reg,
addr_get_trace_state_variable_value and
addr_set_trace_state_variable_value.
(symbol_list): New fields for get_raw_reg,
get_trace_state_variable_value and set_trace_state_variable_value.
(condfn): New typedef.
(struct tracepoint): New field `compiled_cond'.
(do_action_at_tracepoint): Clear compiled_cond.
(get_trace_state_variable_value, set_trace_state_variable_value):
Export in the IPA.
(condition_true_at_tracepoint): If there's a compiled condition,
run that.
(current_insn_ptr, emit_error): New globals.
(struct bytecode_address): New.
(get_raw_reg_func_addr): New.
(emit_prologue, emit_epilogue, emit_add, emit_sub, emit_mul)
(emit_lsh, emit_rsh_signed, emit_rsh_unsigned, emit_ext)
(emit_log_not, emit_bit_and, emit_bit_or, emit_bit_xor)
(emit_bit_not, emit_equal, emit_less_signed, emit_less_unsigned)
(emit_ref, emit_if_goto, emit_goto, write_goto_address, emit_const)
(emit_reg, emit_pop, emit_stack_flush, emit_zero_ext, emit_swap)
(emit_stack_adjust, emit_int_call_1, emit_void_call_2): New.
(compile_tracepoint_condition, compile_bytecodes): New.
* target.h (emit_ops): Forward declare.
(struct target_ops): New field emit_ops.
(target_emit_ops): New.
* linux-amd64-ipa.c (gdb_agent_get_raw_reg): New.
* linux-i386-ipa.c (gdb_agent_get_raw_reg): New.
* linux-low.c (linux_emit_ops): New.
(linux_target_ops): Install it.
* linux-low.h (struct linux_target_ops): New field emit_ops.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/NEWS | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -36,7 +36,14 @@ qRelocInsn - GDBserver now support tracepoints (including fast tracepoints). The feature is currently supported by the i386-linux and amd64-linux builds. See the "Tracepoints support in gdbserver" - section in the manual for more information. + section in the manual for more information. GDBserver JIT + compiles the tracepoint's conditional agent expression bytecode + into native code whenever possible for low overhead dynamic + tracepoints conditionals. For such tracepoints, an expression + that examines program state is evaluated when the tracepoint is + reached, in order to determine whether to capture trace data. If + the condition is simple and false, processing the tracepoint + finishes very quickly and no data is gathered. - GDBserver now supports x86_64 Windows 64-bit debugging. |