gdb: make async event handlers clear themselves

The `ready` flag of async event handlers is cleared by the async event
handler system right before invoking the associated callback, in
check_async_event_handlers.

This is not ideal with how the infrun subsystem consumes events: all
targets' async event handler callbacks essentially just invoke
`inferior_event_handler`, which eventually calls `fetch_inferior_event`
and `do_target_wait`.  `do_target_wait` picks an inferior at random,
and thus a target at random (it could be the target whose `ready` flag
was cleared, or not), and pulls one event from it.

So it's possible that:

- the async event handler for a target A is called
- we end up consuming an event for target B
- all threads of target B are stopped, target_async(0) is called on it,
  so its async event handler is cleared (e.g.
  record_btrace_target::async)

As a result, target A still has events to report while its async event
handler is left unmarked, so these events are not consumed.  To counter
this, at the end of their async event handler callbacks, targets check
if they still have something to report and re-mark their async event
handler (e.g. remote_async_inferior_event_handler).

The linux_nat target does not suffer from this because it doesn't use an
async event handler at the moment.  It only uses a pipe registered with
the event loop.  It is written to in the SIGCHLD handler (and in other
spots that want to get target wait method called) and read from in
the target's wait method.  So if linux_nat happened to be target A in
the example above, the pipe would just stay readable, and the event loop
would wake up again, until linux_nat's wait method is finally called and
consumes the contents of the pipe.

I think it would be nicer if targets using async_event_handler worked in
a similar way, where the flag would stay set until the target's wait
method is actually called.  As a first step towards that, this patch
moves the responsibility of clearing the ready flags of async event
handlers to the invoked callback.

All async event handler callbacks are modified to clear their ready flag
before doing anything else.  So in practice, nothing changes with this
patch.  It's only the responsibility of clearing the flag that is
shifted toward the callee.

gdb/ChangeLog:

	* async-event.h (async_event_handler_func):  Add documentation.
	* async-event.c (check_async_event_handlers): Don't clear
	async_event_handler ready flag.
	* infrun.c (infrun_async_inferior_event_handler): Clear ready
	flag.
	* record-btrace.c (record_btrace_handle_async_inferior_event):
	Likewise.
	* record-full.c (record_full_async_inferior_event_handler):
	Likewise.
	* remote-notif.c (remote_async_get_pending_events_handler):
	Likewise.
	* remote.c (remote_async_inferior_event_handler): Likewise.

Change-Id: I179ef8e99580eae642d332846fd13664dbddc0c1

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gdb/async-event.h b/gdb/async-event.h
index 0f4c892..9d96235 100644
--- a/gdb/async-event.h
+++ b/gdb/async-event.h
@@ -24,6 +24,15 @@
 struct async_signal_handler;
 struct async_event_handler;
 typedef void (sig_handler_func) (gdb_client_data);
+
+/* Type of async event handler callbacks.
+
+   DATA is the client data originally passed to create_async_event_handler.
+
+   The callback is called when the async event handler is marked.  The callback
+   is responsible for clearing the async event handler if it no longer needs
+   to be called.  */
+
 typedef void (async_event_handler_func) (gdb_client_data);
 
 extern struct async_signal_handler *