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[PATCH] Fetch all registers before writing the core register notes.
- From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd dot org>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 18:02:21 -0400
- Subject: [PATCH] Fetch all registers before writing the core register notes.
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Without this, not all registers were present in the core generated by gcore.
For example, running 'gcore' on a program without examining the vector
registers (SSE or AVX) would store all the vector registers as zeros because
they were not pulled into the regcache. Running 'info vector' before 'gcore'
would store the correct values in the core since it populated the regcache.
For Linux processes, a similar operation is achieved somewhat by having the
thread iterator callback invoke target_fetch_registers on each thread before
its corresponding register notes are dumped.
(I don't plan on including that level of detail in the commit log, just as
a way to explain the bug this change fixes.)
gdb/ChangeLog:
* fbsd-tdep.c (fbsd_make_corefile_notes): Fetch all target registers
before writing core register notes.
---
diff --git a/gdb/fbsd-tdep.c b/gdb/fbsd-tdep.c
index 5d17f03..9609cd8 100644
--- a/gdb/fbsd-tdep.c
+++ b/gdb/fbsd-tdep.c
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ fbsd_collect_regset_section_cb (const char *sect_name, int size,
static char *
fbsd_make_corefile_notes (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, bfd *obfd, int *note_size)
{
- const struct regcache *regcache = get_current_regcache ();
+ struct regcache *regcache = get_current_regcache ();
char *note_data;
Elf_Internal_Ehdr *i_ehdrp;
struct fbsd_collect_regset_section_cb_data data;
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ fbsd_make_corefile_notes (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, bfd *obfd, int *note_size)
data.obfd = obfd;
data.note_data = NULL;
data.note_size = note_size;
+ target_fetch_registers (regcache, -1);
gdbarch_iterate_over_regset_sections (gdbarch,
fbsd_collect_regset_section_cb,
&data, regcache);
--
2.2.1