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[binutils-gdb] Clear non-significant bits of address in watchpoint
- From: Yao Qi <qiyao at sourceware dot org>
- To: gdb-cvs at sourceware dot org
- Date: 8 Dec 2017 17:28:02 -0000
- Subject: [binutils-gdb] Clear non-significant bits of address in watchpoint
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=f17d9474776e50ae47aa71c52211ea6e21adf5d5
commit f17d9474776e50ae47aa71c52211ea6e21adf5d5
Author: Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
Date: Fri Dec 8 17:27:03 2017 +0000
Clear non-significant bits of address in watchpoint
Nowadays, GDB can't set watchpoint on tagged address on AArch64,
(gdb) p p2
$1 = (int *) 0xf000fffffffff474
(gdb) watch *((int *) 0xf000fffffffff474)
Hardware watchpoint 2: *((int *) 0xf000fffffffff474)
(gdb) c
Continuing.
main () at
binutils-gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.c:45
45 void (*func_ptr) (void) = foo;
Unexpected error setting hardware debug registers
This patch is about setting watchpoint on a tagged address. Unlike
breakpoint, watchpoint record the expression rather than the address, and
when a watchpoint is fired, GDB checks the expression value changed
instead of matching address, so we can mask the watchpoint address by
getting rid of non-significant bits of address.
gdb:
2017-12-08 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
* breakpoint.c (update_watchpoint): Call
address_significant.
gdb/testsuite:
2017-12-08 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
* gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.c (main): Update.
* gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.exp: Add tests for watchpoint.
Diff:
---
gdb/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
gdb/breakpoint.c | 2 +-
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.c | 1 +
gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.exp | 14 ++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 134f7b4..7d061c8 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
2017-12-08 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
+ * breakpoint.c (update_watchpoint): Call
+ address_significant.
+
+2017-12-08 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
+
* breakpoint.c (adjust_breakpoint_address): Call
address_significant.
diff --git a/gdb/breakpoint.c b/gdb/breakpoint.c
index 1cee730..b68718d 100644
--- a/gdb/breakpoint.c
+++ b/gdb/breakpoint.c
@@ -1864,7 +1864,7 @@ update_watchpoint (struct watchpoint *b, int reparse)
loc->gdbarch = get_type_arch (value_type (v));
loc->pspace = frame_pspace;
- loc->address = addr;
+ loc->address = address_significant (loc->gdbarch, addr);
if (bitsize != 0)
{
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
index 17fbe4f..53a2ca4 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
2017-12-08 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
* gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.c (main): Update.
+ * gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.exp: Add tests for watchpoint.
+
+2017-12-08 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
+
+ * gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.c (main): Update.
* gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.exp: Add test for breakpoint.
2017-12-08 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.c b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.c
index 9bfe41e..5754785 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.c
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.c
@@ -53,4 +53,5 @@ main (void)
}
sp1->i = 8765;
+ i = 1;
}
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.exp
index fcab1b7..c08993e 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.exp
@@ -89,3 +89,17 @@ foreach_with_prefix bptype {"hbreak" "break"} {
gdb_test "up" "\\(\*func_ptr\\) \\(\\).*" "caller is *func_ptr"
delete_breakpoints
}
+
+gdb_test "down"
+gdb_test "finish"
+# Watch on tagged pointer.
+gdb_test "watch *sp2"
+gdb_test "continue" \
+ "Continuing\\..*Hardware watchpoint \[0-9\]+.*" \
+ "run until watchpoint on s1"
+delete_breakpoints
+
+gdb_test "watch *p2"
+gdb_test "continue" \
+ "Continuing\\..*Hardware watchpoint \[0-9\]+.*" \
+ "run until watchpoint on i"