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authorYao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>2013-10-31 22:18:10 +0800
committerYao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>2013-11-20 12:41:26 +0800
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Associate target_dcache to address_space.
Hi, Nowadays, 'target_dcache' is a global variable in GDB, which is not necessary. It can be a per-address-space variable. In this patch, we associate target_dcache to address_space. gdb/doc: 2013-11-20 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com> * gdb.texinfo (Caching Target Data): Update doc for per-address-space dcache. gdb: 2013-11-20 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com> * progspace.h (struct address_space_data): Declare. * target-dcache.c: Include "progspace.h". (target_dache): Remove. (target_dcache_aspace_key): New. (target_dcache_cleanup): New function. (target_dcache_init_p): Get data through target_dcache_aspace_key. (target_dcache_invalidate): Likewise. (target_dcache_get): Likewise. (target_dcache_get_or_init): Likewise. (_initialize_target_dcache): Initialize target_dcache_aspace_key.
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diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
2013-11-20 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
+ * gdb.texinfo (Caching Target Data): Update doc for
+ per-address-space dcache.
+
+2013-11-20 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
+
* gdb.texinfo (Data): Rename menu item.
(Caching Remote Data): Rename to ...
(Caching Target Data): ... it. Update.
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 7ec16dd..d854f46 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -10828,6 +10828,8 @@ character.
@cindex caching data of targets
@value{GDBN} caches data exchanged between the debugger and a target.
+Each cache is associated with the address space of the inferior.
+@xref{Inferiors and Programs}, about inferior and address space.
Such caching generally improves performance in remote debugging
(@pxref{Remote Debugging}), because it reduces the overhead of the
remote protocol by bundling memory reads and writes into large chunks.
@@ -10867,11 +10869,11 @@ Show the current state of data caching for memory accesses.
@kindex info dcache
@item info dcache @r{[}line@r{]}
-Print the information about the data cache performance. The
-information displayed includes the dcache width and depth, and for
-each cache line, its number, address, and how many times it was
-referenced. This command is useful for debugging the data cache
-operation.
+Print the information about the performance of data cache of the
+current inferior's address space. The information displayed
+includes the dcache width and depth, and for each cache line, its
+number, address, and how many times it was referenced. This
+command is useful for debugging the data cache operation.
If a line number is specified, the contents of that line will be
printed in hex.