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authorPedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>2022-07-12 12:20:13 +0200
committerTom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>2022-07-12 12:20:13 +0200
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Introduce struct packed template
When building gdb with -fsanitize=thread and gcc 12, and running test-case gdb.dwarf2/dwz.exp, we run into a few data races. For example, between: ... Write of size 1 at 0x7b200000300e by thread T4: #0 process_psymtab_comp_unit gdb/dwarf2/read.c:6789 (gdb+0x830720) ... and: ... Previous read of size 1 at 0x7b200000300e by main thread: #0 cutu_reader::cutu_reader(dwarf2_per_cu_data*, dwarf2_per_objfile*, \ abbrev_table*, dwarf2_cu*, bool, abbrev_cache*) gdb/dwarf2/read.c:6164 \ (gdb+0x82edab) ... In other words, between: ... this_cu->unit_type = DW_UT_partial; ... and: ... if (this_cu->reading_dwo_directly) ... The problem is that the written fields are part of the same memory location as the read fields, so executing a read and write in different threads is undefined behavour. Making the written fields separate memory locations, like this: ... struct { ENUM_BITFIELD (dwarf_unit_type) unit_type : 8; }; ... fixes it, however that also increases the size of struct dwarf2_per_cu_data, because it introduces padding due to alignment of these new structs, which align on the natural alignment of the specified type of their fields. We can fix that with __attribute__((packed)), like so: struct { ENUM_BITFIELD (dwarf_unit_type) unit_type : 8 __attribute__((packed)); }; but to avoid having to write that in several places and add suitable comments explaining how that concoction works, introduce a new struct packed template that wraps/hides this. Instead of the above, we'll be able to write: packed<dwarf_unit_type, 1> unit_type; Note that we can't change the type of dwarf_unit_type, as that is defined in include/, and shared with other projects, some of those written in C. This patch just adds the struct packed type. Following patches will make use of it. One of those patches will want to wrap a struct packed in an std::atomic, like: std::atomic<std::packed<language, 1>> m_lang; so the new gdbsupport/packed.h header adds some operators to make comparisions between that std::atomic and the type that the wrapped struct packed wraps work, like in: if (m_lang == language_c) It would be possible to implement struct packed without using __attribute__((packed)), by having it store an array of bytes of the appropriate size instead, however that would make it less convenient to debug GDB. The way it's implemented, printing a struct packed variable just prints its field using its natural type, which is particularly useful if the type is an enum. I believe that __attribute__((packed)) is supported by all compilers that are able to build GDB. Even a few BFD headers use on ATTRIBUTE_PACKED on external types: include/coff/external.h: } ATTRIBUTE_PACKED include/coff/external.h:} ATTRIBUTE_PACKED ; include/coff/external.h:} ATTRIBUTE_PACKED ; include/coff/pe.h:} ATTRIBUTE_PACKED ; include/coff/pe.h:} ATTRIBUTE_PACKED; include/elf/external.h:} ATTRIBUTE_PACKED Elf_External_Versym; It is not possible to build GDB with MSVC today, but if it could, that would be one compiler that doesn't support this attribute. However, it supports packing via pragmas, so there's a way to cross that bridge if we ever get to it. I believe any compiler worth its salt supports some way of packing. In any case, the worse that happens without the attribute is that some types become larger than ideal. Regardless, I've added a couple static assertions to catch such compilers in action: /* Ensure size and aligment are what we expect. */ gdb_static_assert (sizeof (packed) == Bytes); gdb_static_assert (alignof (packed) == 1); Change-Id: Ifa94f0a2cebfae5e8f6ddc73265f05e7fd9e1532
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