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Re: [PATCH v2] Remove support for thread events without PTRACE_EVENT_CLONE in GDB.
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Antoine Tremblay <antoine dot tremblay at ericsson dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 17:59:55 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Remove support for thread events without PTRACE_EVENT_CLONE in GDB.
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- References: <1449760930-23203-1-git-send-email-antoine dot tremblay at ericsson dot com> <56699F0E dot 3020301 at ericsson dot com> <5669BA3D dot 1070709 at redhat dot com> <5669BD00 dot 3010903 at ericsson dot com>
On 12/10/2015 05:57 PM, Antoine Tremblay wrote:
>
>
> On 12/10/2015 12:45 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> On 12/10/2015 03:49 PM, Antoine Tremblay wrote:
>>
>>> Pushed in. (Without the dot at the end of the subject)
>>
>> This broke corethreads.exp though:
>>
>> Running /home/pedro/gdb/mygit/src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.threads/corethreads.exp ...
>> FAIL: gdb.threads/corethreads.exp: thread0 found
>> FAIL: gdb.threads/corethreads.exp: thread1 found
>>
>
> Right, somehow my buildbot did not see it :(
>
> I'm looking into it now.
>
It's this hunk:
@@ -1627,24 +1226,7 @@ find_new_threads_callback (const td_thrhandle_t *th_p, void *data)
ptid = ptid_build (info->pid, ti.ti_lid, 0);
tp = find_thread_ptid (ptid);
if (tp == NULL || tp->priv == NULL)
- {
- if (attach_thread (ptid, th_p, &ti))
- cb_data->new_threads += 1;
- else
- /* Problem attaching this thread; perhaps it exited before we
- could attach it?
- This could mean that the thread list inside glibc itself is in
- inconsistent state, and libthread_db could go on looping forever
- (observed with glibc-2.3.6). To prevent that, terminate
- iteration: thread_db_find_new_threads_2 will retry. */
- return 1;
- }
- else if (target_has_execution && !thread_db_use_events ())
- {
- /* Need to update this if not using the libthread_db events
- (particularly, the TD_DEATH event). */
- update_thread_state (tp->priv, &ti);
- }
+ thread_from_lwp (ptid);
return 0;
}
We can't use thread_from_lwp with core files. As mentioned in a comment,
td_ta_map_lwp2thr uses ps_get_thread_area, but we can't use that
currently on core targets, as it uses ptrace directly.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves