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authorPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2014-10-02 09:55:38 +0100
committerPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2014-10-02 10:08:00 +0100
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Fix non-stop regressions caused by "breakpoints always-inserted off" changes
Commit a25a5a45 (Fix "breakpoint always-inserted off"; remove "breakpoint always-inserted auto") regressed non-stop remote debugging. This was exposed by mi-nsintrall.exp intermittently failing with a spurious SIGTRAP. The problem is that when debugging with "target remote", new threads the target has spawned but have never reported a stop aren't visible to GDB until it explicitly resyncs its thread list with the target's. For example, in a program like this: int main (void) { pthread_t child_thread; pthread_create (&child_thread, NULL, child_function, NULL); return 0; <<<< set breakpoint here } If the user sets a breakpoint at the "return" statement, and runs the program, when that breakpoint hit is reported, GDB is only aware of the main thread. So if we base the decision to remove or insert breakpoints from the target based on whether all the threads we know about are stopped, we'll miss that child_thread is running, and thus we'll remove breakpoints from the target, even through they should still remain inserted, otherwise child_thread will miss them. The break-while-running.exp test actually should also be exposing this thread-list-out-of-synch problem. That test sets a breakpoint while the main thread is stopped, but other threads are running. Because other threads are running, the breakpoint is supposed to be inserted immediately. But, unless something forces a refetch of the thread list, like, e.g., "info threads", GDB won't be aware of the other threads that had been spawned by the main thread, and so won't insert new or old breakpoints in the target. And it turns out that the test is exactly doing an explicit "info threads", masking out the problem... This commit adjust the test to exercise the case of not issuing "info threads". The test then fails without the GDB fix. In the ni-nsintrall.exp case, what happens is that several threads hit the same breakpoint, and when the first thread reports the stop, because GDB wasn't aware other threads exist, all threads known to GDB are found stopped, so GDB removes the breakpoints from the target. The other threads follow up with SIGTRAPs too for that same breakpoint, which has already been removed. For the first few threads, the moribund breakpoints machinery suppresses the SIGTRAPs, but after a few events (precisely '3 * thread_count () + 1' at the time the breakpoint was removed, see update_global_location_list), the moribund breakpoint machinery is no longer aware of the removed breakpoint, and the SIGTRAP is reported as a spurious stop. The fix is naturally then to stop assuming that if no thread in the list is executing, then the target is fully stopped. We can't know that until we fully sync the thread list. Because updating the thread list on every stop would be too much RSP traffic, I chose instead to update it whenever we're about to present a stop to the user. Actually updating the thread list at that point happens to be an item I had added to the local/remote parity wiki page a while ago: Native GNU/Linux debugging adds new threads to the thread list as the program creates them "The [New Thread foo] messages". Remote debugging can't do that, and it's arguable whether we shouldn't even stop native debugging from doing that, as it hinders inferior performance. However, a related issue is that with remote targets (and gdbserver), even after the program stops, the user still needs to do "info threads" to pull an updated thread list. This, should most likely be addressed, so that GDB pulls the list itself, perhaps just before presenting a stop to the user. With that in place, the need to delay "Program received signal FOO" was actually caught by the manythreads.exp test. Without that bit, I was getting: [Thread 0x7ffff7f13700 (LWP 4499) exited] [New Thread 0x7ffff7f0b700 (LWP 4500)] ^C Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt. [New Thread 0x7ffff7f03700 (LWP 4501)] <<< new output [Switching to Thread 0x7ffff7f0b700 (LWP 4500)] __GI___nptl_death_event () at events.c:31 31 { (gdb) FAIL: gdb.threads/manythreads.exp: stop threads 1 That is, I was now getting "New Thread" lines after the "Program received signal" line, and the test doesn't expect them. As the number of new threads discovered before and after the "Program received signal" output is unbounded, it's much nicer to defer "Program received signal" until after synching the thread list, thus close to the "switching to thread" output and "current frame/source" info: [Thread 0x7ffff7863700 (LWP 7647) exited] ^C[New Thread 0x7ffff786b700 (LWP 7648)] Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt. [Switching to Thread 0x7ffff7fc4740 (LWP 6243)] __GI___nptl_create_event () at events.c:25 25 { (gdb) PASS: gdb.threads/manythreads.exp: stop threads 1 Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20, native and gdbserver. gdb/ 2014-10-02 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * breakpoint.c (breakpoints_should_be_inserted_now): Use threads_are_executing. * breakpoint.h (breakpoints_should_be_inserted_now): Add describing comment. * gdbthread.h (threads_are_executing): Declare. (handle_signal_stop) <random signals>: Don't print about the signal here if stopping. (end_stepping_range): Don't notify observers here. (normal_stop): Update the thread list. If stopped by a random signal or a stepping range ended, notify observers. * thread.c (threads_executing): New global. (init_thread_list): Clear 'threads_executing'. (set_executing): Set or clear 'threads_executing'. (threads_are_executing): New function. (update_threads_executing): New function. (update_thread_list): Use it. gdb/testsuite/ 2014-10-02 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * gdb.threads/break-while-running.exp (test): Add new 'update_thread_list' argument. Skip "info threads" if false. (top level): Add new 'update_thread_list' axis.
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diff --git a/gdb/gdbthread.h b/gdb/gdbthread.h
index 6768491..26ca925 100644
--- a/gdb/gdbthread.h
+++ b/gdb/gdbthread.h
@@ -381,6 +381,9 @@ extern void set_executing (ptid_t ptid, int executing);
/* Reports if thread PTID is executing. */
extern int is_executing (ptid_t ptid);
+/* True if any (known or unknown) thread is or may be executing. */
+extern int threads_are_executing (void);
+
/* Merge the executing property of thread PTID over to its thread
state property (frontend running/stopped view).