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[PATCH v2 0/8] software single-step support rework, fix limitations
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 14:54:10 +0100
- Subject: [PATCH v2 0/8] software single-step support rework, fix limitations
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Here's v2 of the series that reworks software single-step support.
v1 was here:
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-09/msg00755.html
In a nutshell, this series:
- Makes single-step breakpoints regular breakpoints and puts them on
the global location chain.
- Makes the moribund location machinery aware of software single-step
breakpoints.
- Removes the currently limitation that only 2 single-step breakpoints
can be inserted. Some archs, like PPC, need this.
- Makes software single-step work when stepping through read-only code
regions.
- Fixes PR breakpoints/9649
An assertion failure caused by leaving stale single-step breakpoints
behind on error.
- Adds support for having multiple threads software single-stepping
simultaneously. Currently, in non-stop, all single-step requests
are handled by displaced stepping the threads, which means threads
are serialized, because only one thread can be displaced stepping at
any given time.
- Finally eliminates deprecated_insert_raw_breakpoint and friends.
- Removes a set of run control globals along the way.
- Cleans things up here and there.
In v2:
- Yao's review comments addressed:
Fixed failure to clear the single_step_breakpoints global.
Skip adjusting breakpoint address of bp_single_step breakpoints
(in adjust_breakpoint_address)
- patch #5 (Switch back to stepped thread: clear step-over info)
folded into patch #3 (Put single-step breakpoints on the
bp_location chain), and comment expanded.
- old patch #7 (infrun.c: add for_each_just_stopped_thread) moved
earlier in the series, to make use of
delete_just_stopped_threads_infrun_breakpoints in patch #3.
- New test added to patch #3 that tests stepping through read-only
regions. That uncovered PR 9649 was still alive in v1. v2 now
fixes that.
v2 tested on:
- x86_64 Fedora 20
- x86_64 Fedora 20 w/ 'software single-step on x86' series
v1 had been tested on PPC64 Fedora 18 too, to test the non-continuable
watchpoints patch. As that patch is unchanged in this revision, I
didn't bother to retest there.
Pedro Alves (8):
Decide whether we may have removed breakpoints based on step_over_info
Rewrite non-continuable watchpoints handling
infrun.c: add for_each_just_stopped_thread
Put single-step breakpoints on the bp_location chain
Remove deprecated_insert_raw_breakpoint and friends
thread.c: cleanup breakpoint deletion
Make single-step breakpoints be per-thread
Non-stop + software single-step archs: don't force displaced-stepping
for all single-steps
gdb/breakpoint.c | 413 ++++++---------------
gdb/breakpoint.h | 31 +-
gdb/gdbthread.h | 25 ++
gdb/infrun.c | 360 ++++++++----------
gdb/infrun.h | 4 +
gdb/record-full.c | 8 +-
gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/breakpoint-in-ro-region.c | 9 +
gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/breakpoint-in-ro-region.exp | 104 ++++++
gdb/thread.c | 80 +++-
9 files changed, 490 insertions(+), 544 deletions(-)
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