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authorAndreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>2018-07-12 09:24:36 +0200
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>2018-08-06 12:51:59 -0700
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RISC-V: Don't use ps_get_thread_area in libthread_db (bug 23402)
Since RISC-V stores the thread pointer in a general register libthread_db can just ask the debugger for the register contents instead of trying to call ps_get_thread_area. This enables thread debugging in gdb. * sysdeps/riscv/nptl/tls.h (DB_THREAD_SELF): Use REGISTER instead of CONST_THREAD_AREA.
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/riscv/nptl/tls.h5
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1300491..c8a1b70 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2018-08-06 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
+
+ * sysdeps/riscv/nptl/tls.h (DB_THREAD_SELF): Use REGISTER instead
+ of CONST_THREAD_AREA.
+
2018-08-06 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
* sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.h (STATE_SAVE_OFFSET): Removed.
diff --git a/sysdeps/riscv/nptl/tls.h b/sysdeps/riscv/nptl/tls.h
index 7745d59..79383e9 100644
--- a/sysdeps/riscv/nptl/tls.h
+++ b/sysdeps/riscv/nptl/tls.h
@@ -99,9 +99,10 @@ typedef struct
# define TLS_DEFINE_INIT_TP(tp, pd) \
void *tp = (void *) (pd) + TLS_TCB_OFFSET + TLS_PRE_TCB_SIZE
-/* Magic for libthread_db to know how to do THREAD_SELF. */
+/* Informs libthread_db that the thread pointer is register 4, which is used
+ * to know how to do THREAD_SELF. */
# define DB_THREAD_SELF \
- CONST_THREAD_AREA (32, TLS_TCB_OFFSET + TLS_PRE_TCB_SIZE)
+ REGISTER (64, 64, 4 * 8, - TLS_TCB_OFFSET - TLS_PRE_TCB_SIZE)
/* Access to data in the thread descriptor is easy. */
# define THREAD_GETMEM(descr, member) \