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authorSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>2020-07-06 15:53:28 -0400
committerPedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>2021-03-26 16:02:11 +0000
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gdb: defer commit resume until all available events are consumed
Rationale --------- Let's say you have multiple threads hitting a conditional breakpoint at the same time, and all of these are going to evaluate to false. All these threads will need to be resumed. Currently, GDB fetches one target event (one SIGTRAP representing the breakpoint hit) and decides that the thread should be resumed. It calls resume and commit_resume immediately. It then fetches the second target event, and does the same, until it went through all threads. The result is therefore something like: - consume event for thread A - resume thread A - commit resume (affects thread A) - consume event for thread B - resume thread B - commit resume (affects thread B) - consume event for thread C - resume thread C - commit resume (affects thread C) For targets where it's beneficial to group resumptions requests (most likely those that implement target_ops::commit_resume), it would be much better to have: - consume event for thread A - resume thread A - consume event for thread B - resume thread B - consume event for thread C - resume thread C - commit resume (affects threads A, B and C) Implementation details ---------------------- To achieve this, this patch adds another check in maybe_set_commit_resumed_all_targets to avoid setting the commit-resumed flag of targets that readily have events to provide to infrun. To determine if a target has events readily available to report, this patch adds an `has_pending_events` target_ops method. The method returns a simple bool to say whether or not it has pending events to report. Testing ======= To test this, I start GDBserver with a program that spawns multiple threads: $ ../gdbserver/gdbserver --once :1234 ~/src/many-threads-stepping-over-breakpoints/many-threads-stepping-over-breakpoints I then connect with GDB and install a conditional breakpoint that always evaluates to false (and force the evaluation to be done by GDB): $ ./gdb -nx --data-directory=data-directory \ /home/simark/src/many-threads-stepping-over-breakpoints/many-threads-stepping-over-breakpoints \ -ex "set breakpoint condition-evaluation host" \ -ex "set pag off" \ -ex "set confirm off" \ -ex "maint set target-non-stop on" \ -ex "tar rem :1234" \ -ex "tb main" \ -ex "b 13 if 0" \ -ex c \ -ex "set debug infrun" \ -ex "set debug remote 1" \ -ex "set debug displaced" I then do "continue" and look at the log. The remote target receives a bunch of stop notifications for all threads that have hit the breakpoint. infrun consumes and processes one event, decides it should not cause a stop, prepares a displaced step, after which we should see: [infrun] maybe_set_commit_resumed_all_process_targets: not requesting commit-resumed for target remote, target has pending events Same for a second thread (since we have 2 displaced step buffers). For the following threads, their displaced step is deferred since there are no more buffers available. After consuming the last event the remote target has to offer, we get: [infrun] maybe_set_commit_resumed_all_process_targets: enabling commit-resumed for target remote [infrun] maybe_call_commit_resumed_all_process_targets: calling commit_resumed for target remote [remote] Sending packet: $vCont;s:p14d16b.14d1b1;s:p14d16b.14d1b2#55 [remote] Packet received: OK Without the patch, there would have been one vCont;s just after each prepared displaced step. gdb/ChangeLog: yyyy-mm-dd Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com> Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net> * async-event.c (async_event_handler_marked): New. * async-event.h (async_event_handler_marked): Declare. * infrun.c (maybe_set_commit_resumed_all_targets): Switch to inferior before calling target method. Don't commit-resumed if target_has_pending_events is true. * remote.c (remote_target::has_pending_events): New. * target-delegates.c: Regenerate. * target.c (target_has_pending_events): New. * target.h (target_ops::has_pending_events): New target method. (target_has_pending_events): New. Change-Id: I18112ba19a1ff4986530c660f530d847bb4a1f1d
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/target.c')
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diff --git a/gdb/target.c b/gdb/target.c
index 0da035e..995e7ef 100644
--- a/gdb/target.c
+++ b/gdb/target.c
@@ -2679,6 +2679,14 @@ target_commit_resumed ()
current_inferior ()->top_target ()->commit_resumed ();
}
+/* See target.h. */
+
+bool
+target_has_pending_events ()
+{
+ return current_inferior ()->top_target ()->has_pending_events ();
+}
+
void
target_pass_signals (gdb::array_view<const unsigned char> pass_signals)
{