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process_initial_stop_replies
The following scenario hangs:
- maint set target-non-stop on
- `gdbserver --attach`
- a multi-threaded program
For example:
Terminal 1:
$ gnome-calculator&
[1] 495731
$ ../gdbserver/gdbserver --once --attach :1234 495731
Attached; pid = 495731
Listening on port 1234
Terminal 2:
$ ./gdb -nx -q --data-directory=data-directory /usr/bin/gnome-calculator -ex "maint set target-non-stop on" -ex "tar rem :1234"
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/gnome-calculator...
(No debugging symbols found in /usr/bin/gnome-calculator)
Remote debugging using :1234
* hangs *
What happens is:
- The protocol between gdb and gdbserver is in non-stop mode, but the
user-visible behavior is all-stop
- On connect, gdbserver sends one stop reply for one thread that is
stops, the others stay running
- In process_initial_stop_replies, gdb calls stop_all_threads to stop
these other threads, because we are using the all-stop user-visible
mode
- stop_all_threads sends a stop request for all the running threads and
then waits for resulting events
- At this point, the remote target is in target_async(0) mode, which
makes stop_all_threads not consider it for events
- stop_all_threads loops indefinitely (it does not even block
indefinitely, it is in an infinite busy loop) because there are no
event sources. wait_one_event returns a TARGET_WAITKIND_NO_RESUMED
wait status.
Fix that by making the remote target async around the stop_all_threads
call.
I haven't implemented it because I'm not sure how to do it, but I think
it would be a good idea to have, in stop_all_threads / wait_one /
handle_one, an assert to check that if we are expecting one or more
event, then there are some targets that are in a state where they can
supply some events. Otherwise, we'll necessarily be stuck in this
infinite loop, and it's probably due to a bug in GDB. I'm not too sure
where to put this or how to express it though. Perhaps in
stop_all_threads, here:
for (int i = 0; i < waits_needed; i++)
{
wait_one_event event = wait_one ();
*here*
if (handle_one (event))
break;
}
If at that point, the returned event is TARGET_WAITKIND_NO_RESUMED,
there's a problem. We expect some event, because we've asked some
threads to stop, but all targets are answering that they won't have any
events for us. That's a contradiction, and a sign that something has
gone wrong. It could perhaps event be:
gdb_assert (event.ws.kind != TARGET_WAITKIND_NO_RESUMED);
in handle_one, as the idea is the same in prepare_for_detach.
A bit more sophisticated would be: we know which targets we are
expecting waits from, since we know which threads we have asked to
stop. So if any of these targets returns TARGET_WAITKIND_NO_RESUMED,
something is fishy.
Add a test that tests attaching with gdbserver's --attach flag to a
multi-threaded program, and then connecting to it. Without the fix, the
test reproduces the hang.
Change-Id: If6f6690a4887ca66693ef1af64791dda4c65f24f
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