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authorPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2015-03-04 20:41:16 +0000
committerPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2015-03-04 20:41:16 +0000
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Linux native: Use TRAP_BRKPT/TRAP_HWBPT
This patch adjusts the native Linux target backend to tell the core whether a trap was caused by a breakpoint. It teaches the target to get that information out of the si_code of the SIGTRAP siginfo. Tested on x86-64 Fedora 20, s390 RHEL 7, and PPC64 Fedora 18. An earlier version was tested on ARM Fedora 21. gdb/ChangeLog: 2015-03-04 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * linux-nat.c (save_sigtrap): Check for breakpoints before checking watchpoints. (status_callback) [USE_SIGTRAP_SIGINFO]: Don't check whether a breakpoint is inserted if relying on SIGTRAP's siginfo.si_code. (check_stopped_by_breakpoint) [USE_SIGTRAP_SIGINFO]: Decide whether a breakpoint triggered based on the SIGTRAP's siginfo.si_code. (linux_nat_stopped_by_sw_breakpoint) (linux_nat_supports_stopped_by_sw_breakpoint) (linux_nat_stopped_by_hw_breakpoint) (linux_nat_supports_stopped_by_hw_breakpoint): New functions. (linux_nat_wait_1): Don't re-increment the PC if relying on SIGTRAP's siginfo->si_code. (linux_nat_add_target): Install new target methods. * linux-thread-db.c (check_event): Don't account for breakpoint PC offset if the target already adjusted the PC. * nat/linux-ptrace.h (USE_SIGTRAP_SIGINFO): New. (GDB_ARCH_TRAP_BRKPT): New. (TRAP_HWBKPT): Define if not already defined.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/nat/linux-ptrace.h')
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diff --git a/gdb/nat/linux-ptrace.h b/gdb/nat/linux-ptrace.h
index c5b0f14..8354a4d 100644
--- a/gdb/nat/linux-ptrace.h
+++ b/gdb/nat/linux-ptrace.h
@@ -88,6 +88,57 @@ struct buffer;
#define __WALL 0x40000000 /* Wait for any child. */
#endif
+/* True if whether a breakpoint/watchpoint triggered can be determined
+ from the si_code of SIGTRAP's siginfo_t (TRAP_BRKPT/TRAP_HWBKPT).
+ That is, if the kernel can tell us whether the thread executed a
+ software breakpoint, we trust it. The kernel will be determining
+ that from the hardware (e.g., from which exception was raised in
+ the CPU). Relying on whether a breakpoint is planted in memory at
+ the time the SIGTRAP is processed to determine whether the thread
+ stopped for a software breakpoint can be too late. E.g., the
+ breakpoint could have been removed since. Or the thread could have
+ stepped an instruction the size of a breakpoint instruction, and
+ before the stop is processed a breakpoint is inserted at its
+ address. Getting these wrong is disastrous on decr_pc_after_break
+ architectures. The moribund location mechanism helps with that
+ somewhat but it is an heuristic, and can well fail. Getting that
+ information out of the kernel and ultimately out of the CPU is the
+ way to go. That said, some architecture may get the si_code wrong,
+ and as such we're leaving fallback code in place. We'll remove
+ this after a while if no problem is reported. */
+#define USE_SIGTRAP_SIGINFO 1
+
+/* The x86 kernel gets some of the si_code values backwards, like
+ this:
+
+ | what | si_code |
+ |------------------------------------------+------------|
+ | software breakpoints (int3) | SI_KERNEL |
+ | single-steps | TRAP_TRACE |
+ | single-stepping a syscall | TRAP_BRKPT |
+ | user sent SIGTRAP | 0 |
+ | exec SIGTRAP (when no PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC) | 0 |
+ | hardware breakpoints/watchpoints | TRAP_HWBPT |
+
+ That is, it reports SI_KERNEL for software breakpoints (and only
+ for those), and TRAP_BRKPT for single-stepping a syscall... If the
+ kernel is ever fixed, we'll just have to detect it like we detect
+ optional ptrace features: by forking and debugging ourselves,
+ running to a breakpoint and checking what comes out of
+ siginfo->si_code.
+
+ The generic Linux target code should use GDB_ARCH_TRAP_BRKPT
+ instead of TRAP_BRKPT to abstract out this x86 peculiarity. */
+#if defined __i386__ || defined __x86_64__
+# define GDB_ARCH_TRAP_BRKPT SI_KERNEL
+#else
+# define GDB_ARCH_TRAP_BRKPT TRAP_BRKPT
+#endif
+
+#ifndef TRAP_HWBKPT
+# define TRAP_HWBKPT 4
+#endif
+
extern void linux_ptrace_attach_fail_reason (pid_t pid, struct buffer *buffer);
/* Find all possible reasons we could have failed to attach to PTID