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[RFA/commit 1/3] Ignore DLL load/unload events during inferior initialization.


This patch aims at simplifying DLL handling during the inferior
initialization (process creation during the "run", or during an
"attach"). Instead of processing each DLL load event, which is
sometimes incomplete, we ignore these events until the inferior
has completed its startup phase, and then just iterate over all
DLLs via EnumProcessModules.

gdb/ChangeLog:

        * windows-nat.c (get_windows_debug_event): Ignore
	LOAD_DLL_DEBUG_EVENT and UNLOAD_DLL_DEBUG_EVENT
	if windows_initialization_done == 0.
        (windows_add_all_dlls): Renames windows_ensure_ntdll_loaded.
        Adjust implementation to always load all DLLs.
        (do_initial_windows_stuff): Replace call to
        windows_ensure_ntdll_loaded by call to windows_add_all_dlls.
---
 gdb/windows-nat.c | 45 ++++++++++++---------------------------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/windows-nat.c b/gdb/windows-nat.c
index 3ce564a..a71e391 100644
--- a/gdb/windows-nat.c
+++ b/gdb/windows-nat.c
@@ -1576,7 +1576,7 @@ get_windows_debug_event (struct target_ops *ops,
 		     (unsigned) current_event.dwThreadId,
 		     "LOAD_DLL_DEBUG_EVENT"));
       CloseHandle (current_event.u.LoadDll.hFile);
-      if (saw_create != 1)
+      if (saw_create != 1 || ! windows_initialization_done)
 	break;
       catch_errors (handle_load_dll, NULL, (char *) "", RETURN_MASK_ALL);
       ourstatus->kind = TARGET_WAITKIND_LOADED;
@@ -1589,7 +1589,7 @@ get_windows_debug_event (struct target_ops *ops,
 		     (unsigned) current_event.dwProcessId,
 		     (unsigned) current_event.dwThreadId,
 		     "UNLOAD_DLL_DEBUG_EVENT"));
-      if (saw_create != 1)
+      if (saw_create != 1 || ! windows_initialization_done)
 	break;
       catch_errors (handle_unload_dll, NULL, (char *) "", RETURN_MASK_ALL);
       ourstatus->kind = TARGET_WAITKIND_LOADED;
@@ -1722,21 +1722,11 @@ windows_wait (struct target_ops *ops,
     }
 }
 
-/* On certain versions of Windows, the information about ntdll.dll
-   is not available yet at the time we get the LOAD_DLL_DEBUG_EVENT,
-   thus preventing us from reporting this DLL as an SO. This has been
-   witnessed on Windows 8.1, for instance.  A possible explanation
-   is that ntdll.dll might be mapped before the SO info gets created
-   by the Windows system -- ntdll.dll is the first DLL to be reported
-   via LOAD_DLL_DEBUG_EVENT and other DLLs do not seem to suffer from
-   that problem.
-
-   If we indeed are missing ntdll.dll, this function tries to recover
-   from this issue, after the fact.  Do nothing if we encounter any
-   issue trying to locate that DLL.  */
+/* Iterate over all DLLs currently mapped by our inferior, and
+   add them to our list of solibs.  */
 
 static void
-windows_ensure_ntdll_loaded (void)
+windows_add_all_dlls (void)
 {
   struct so_list *so;
   HMODULE dummy_hmodule;
@@ -1744,10 +1734,6 @@ windows_ensure_ntdll_loaded (void)
   HMODULE *hmodules;
   int i;
 
-  for (so = solib_start.next; so != NULL; so = so->next)
-    if (FILENAME_CMP (lbasename (so->so_name), "ntdll.dll") == 0)
-      return;  /* ntdll.dll already loaded, nothing to do.  */
-
   if (EnumProcessModules (current_process_handle, &dummy_hmodule,
 			  sizeof (HMODULE), &cb_needed) == 0)
     return;
@@ -1760,7 +1746,7 @@ windows_ensure_ntdll_loaded (void)
 			  cb_needed, &cb_needed) == 0)
     return;
 
-  for (i = 0; i < (int) (cb_needed / sizeof (HMODULE)); i++)
+  for (i = 1; i < (int) (cb_needed / sizeof (HMODULE)); i++)
     {
       MODULEINFO mi;
 #ifdef __USEWIDE
@@ -1781,12 +1767,9 @@ windows_ensure_ntdll_loaded (void)
 #else
       name = dll_name;
 #endif
-      if (FILENAME_CMP (lbasename (name), "ntdll.dll") == 0)
-	{
-	  solib_end->next = windows_make_so (name, mi.lpBaseOfDll);
-	  solib_end = solib_end->next;
-	  return;
-	}
+
+      solib_end->next = windows_make_so (name, mi.lpBaseOfDll);
+      solib_end = solib_end->next;
     }
 }
 
@@ -1843,13 +1826,9 @@ do_initial_windows_stuff (struct target_ops *ops, DWORD pid, int attaching)
 	break;
     }
 
-  /* FIXME: brobecker/2013-12-10: We should try another approach where
-     we first ignore all DLL load/unload events up until this point,
-     and then iterate over all modules to create the associated shared
-     objects.  This is a fairly significant change, however, and we are
-     close to creating a release branch, so we are delaying it a bit,
-     after the branch is created.  */
-  windows_ensure_ntdll_loaded ();
+  /* Now that the inferior has been started and all DLLs have been mapped,
+     we can iterate over all DLLs and load them in.  */
+  windows_add_all_dlls ();
 
   windows_initialization_done = 1;
   inf->control.stop_soon = NO_STOP_QUIETLY;
-- 
1.8.3.2


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