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authorGabriel Krisman Bertazi <gabriel@krisman.be>2016-07-23 18:38:24 -0300
committerGabriel Krisman Bertazi <gabriel@krisman.be>2016-07-23 18:38:24 -0300
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Implement catch syscall group
Implement support to add catchpoints for a group of related syscalls using the syntax: (gdb) catch syscall group:<group> or (gdb) catch syscall g:<group> Several groups are predefined in the xml files for all architectures supported by GDB over Linux. They are based on the groups defined by strace. gdb/ * xml-syscall.c (get_syscalls_by_group): New. (get_syscall_group_names): New. (struct syscall_group_desc): New structure to store group data. (struct syscalls_info): Include field to store the group list. (sysinfo_free_syscall_group_desc): New. (free_syscalls_info): Free group list. (syscall_group_create_syscall_group_desc): New. (syscall_group_add_syscall): New. (syscall_create_syscall_desc): Add syscall to its groups. (syscall_start_syscall): Load group attribute. (syscall_group_get_group_by_name): New. (xml_list_syscalls_by_group): New. (xml_list_of_groups): New. * xml-syscall.h (get_syscalls_by_group): Export function to retrieve a list of syscalls filtered by the group name. (get_syscall_group_names): Export function to retrieve the list of syscall groups. * break-catch-syscall.c (catch_syscall_split_args): Verify if argument is a syscall group and expand it to a list of syscalls when creating catchpoints. (catch_syscall_completer): Add word completion for system call groups. * configure.ac: Include dependency for xsltproc when building in maintainer-mode. * break-catch-syscall.c (_initialize_breakpoint): Update catch syscall command documentation. * NEWS: Include section about catching groups of syscalls. * configure: Regenerate. * data-directory/Makefile.in: Generate syscall xml when building in maintainer mode. * syscalls/gdb-syscalls.dtd: Include group attribute to the syscall element. * syscalls/apply-defaults.xsl: New. * syscalls/linux-defaults.xml.in: New. * syscalls/aarch64-linux.xml: Rename to aarch64-linux.xml.in. * syscalls/amd64-linux.xml: Rename to amd64-linux.xml.in. * syscalls/arm-linux.xml: Rename to arm-linux.xml.in. * syscalls/bfin-linux.xml: Rename to bfin-linux.xml.in. * syscalls/i386-linux.xml: Rename to i386-linux.xml.in. * syscalls/mips-n32-linux.xml: Rename to mips-n32-linux.xml.in. * syscalls/mips-n64-linux.xml: Rename to mips-n64-linux.xml.in. * syscalls/mips-o32-linux.xml: Rename to mips-o32-linux.xml.in. * syscalls/ppc-linux.xml: Rename to ppc-linux.xml.in. * syscalls/ppc64-linux.xml: Rename to ppc64-linux.xml.in. * syscalls/s390-linux.xml: Rename to s390-linux.xml.in. * syscalls/s390x-linux.xml: Rename to s390x-linux.xml.in. * syscalls/sparc-linux.xml: Rename to sparc-linux.xml.in. * syscalls/sparc64-linux.xml: Rename to sparc64-linux.xml.in. * syscalls/aarch64-linux.xml: Regenerate. * syscalls/amd64-linux.xml: Regenerate. * syscalls/arm-linux.xml: Regenerate. * syscalls/i386-linux.xml: Regenerate. * syscalls/mips-n32-linux.xml: Regenerate. * syscalls/mips-n64-linux.xml: Regenerate. * syscalls/mips-o32-linux.xml: Regenerate. * syscalls/ppc-linux.xml: Regenerate. * syscalls/ppc64-linux.xml: Regenerate. * syscalls/s390-linux.xml: Regenerate. * syscalls/s390x-linux.xml: Regenerate. * syscalls/sparc-linux.xml: Regenerate. * syscalls/sparc64-linux.xml: Regenerate. gdb/testsuite/ * gdb.base/catch-syscall.exp (do_syscall_tests): Add call to test_catch_syscall_group. (test_catch_syscall_group): New. gdb/doc/ * gdb.texinfo (Set Catchpoints): Add 'group' argument to catch syscall.
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@@ -4375,7 +4375,7 @@ A failed Ada assertion.
A call to @code{exec}.
@item syscall
-@itemx syscall @r{[}@var{name} @r{|} @var{number}@r{]} @dots{}
+@itemx syscall @r{[}@var{name} @r{|} @var{number} @r{|} @r{group:}@var{groupname} @r{|} @r{g:}@var{groupname}@r{]} @dots{}
@kindex catch syscall
@cindex break on a system call.
A call to or return from a system call, a.k.a.@: @dfn{syscall}. A
@@ -4410,6 +4410,15 @@ may be useful if @value{GDBN}'s database does not have the complete
list of syscalls on your system (e.g., because @value{GDBN} lags
behind the OS upgrades).
+You may specify a group of related syscalls to be caught at once using
+the @code{group:} syntax (@code{g:} is a shorter equivalent). For
+instance, on some platforms @value{GDBN} allows you to catch all
+network related syscalls, by passing the argument @code{group:network}
+to @code{catch syscall}. Note that not all syscall groups are
+available in every system. You can use the command completion
+facilities (@pxref{Completion,, command completion}) to list the
+syscall groups available on your environment.
+
The example below illustrates how this command works if you don't provide
arguments to it:
@@ -4466,6 +4475,23 @@ Program exited normally.
(@value{GDBP})
@end smallexample
+Here is an example of catching a syscall group:
+
+@smallexample
+(@value{GDBP}) catch syscall group:process
+Catchpoint 1 (syscalls 'exit' [1] 'fork' [2] 'waitpid' [7]
+'execve' [11] 'wait4' [114] 'clone' [120] 'vfork' [190]
+'exit_group' [252] 'waitid' [284] 'unshare' [310])
+(@value{GDBP}) r
+Starting program: /tmp/catch-syscall
+
+Catchpoint 1 (call to syscall fork), 0x00007ffff7df4e27 in open64 ()
+ from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
+
+(@value{GDBP}) c
+Continuing.
+@end smallexample
+
However, there can be situations when there is no corresponding name
in XML file for that syscall number. In this case, @value{GDBN} prints
a warning message saying that it was not able to find the syscall name,