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Diffstat (limited to 'gdb')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/NEWS | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 37 |
2 files changed, 44 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -196,6 +196,16 @@ QThreadOptions in qSupported QThreadOptions packet, and the qSupported response can contain the set of thread options the remote stub supports. +qIsAddressTagged + This new packet allows GDB to query the stub about a given address to check + if it is tagged or not. Many memory tagging-related GDB commands need to + perform this check before they read/write the allocation tag related to an + address. Currently, however, this is done through a 'vFile' request to read + the file /proc/<PID>/smaps and check if the address is in a region reported + as memory tagged. Since not all targets have a notion of what the smaps + file is about, this new packet provides a more generic way to perform such + a check. + *** Changes in GDB 14 * GDB now supports the AArch64 Scalable Matrix Extension 2 (SME2), which diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 82a617e..31a531e 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -44093,6 +44093,35 @@ although this should not happen given @value{GDBN} will only send this packet if the stub has advertised support for memory tagging via @samp{qSupported}. @end table +@cindex check if a given address is in a memory tagged region +@cindex @samp{qIsAddressTagged} packet +@item qIsAddressTagged:@var{address} +@anchor {qIsAddressTagged} +Check if address @var{address} is in a memory tagged region; if it is, it's +said to be @dfn{tagged}. The target is responsible for checking it, as this +is architecture-specific. + +@var{address} is the address to be checked. + +Reply: +@table @samp +Replies to this packet should all be in two hex digit format, as follows: + +@item @samp{01} +Address @var{address} is tagged. + +@item @samp{00} +Address @var{address} is not tagged. + +@item E @var{nn} +An error occurred whose code is @var{nn}. This means that address could not +be checked for some reason. + +@item @w{} +An empty reply indicates that @samp{qIsAddressTagged} is not supported by the +stub. +@end table + @item QMemTags:@var{start address},@var{length}:@var{type}:@var{tag bytes} @anchor{QMemTags} @cindex store memory tags @@ -45141,9 +45170,11 @@ The remote stub supports and implements the required memory tagging functionality and understands the @samp{qMemTags} (@pxref{qMemTags}) and @samp{QMemTags} (@pxref{QMemTags}) packets. -For AArch64 GNU/Linux systems, this feature also requires access to the -@file{/proc/@var{pid}/smaps} file so memory mapping page flags can be inspected. -This is done via the @samp{vFile} requests. +For AArch64 GNU/Linux systems, this feature can require access to the +@file{/proc/@var{pid}/smaps} file so memory mapping page flags can be +inspected, if @samp{qIsAddressTagged} (@pxref{qIsAddressTagged}) packet +is not supported by the stub. Access to the @file{/proc/@var{pid}/smaps} +file is done via @samp{vFile} requests. @end table |