[PING][PATCH PR gdb/18071] TLS variables can't be resolved on aarch64-linux-gnu

Wei-min Pan weimin.pan@oracle.com
Thu Nov 16 01:53:00 GMT 2017


On 11/2/2017 8:32 AM, Weimin Pan wrote:
> Running the test case with upstream gdb shows two failures:
>
> (1) Receiving different error messages when printing TLS variable before
>      program runs - because the ARM compiler does not emit dwarf attribute
>      DW_AT_location for TLS, the result is expected and the baseline may
>      need to be changed for aarch64.
>
> (2) Using "info address" command on C++ static TLS object resulted in
>      "symbol unresolved" error - below is a snippet from the test case:
>
> class K {
>   public:
>    static __thread int another_thread_local;
> };
>
> __thread int K::another_thread_local;
>
> (gdb) info address K::another_thread_local
> Symbol "K::another_thread_local" is unresolved.
>
> This patch contains fix for (2).
>
> Function info_address_command() handles the "info address" command and
> calls lookup_minimal_symbol_and_objfile() to find sym's symbol entry in
> mininal symbol table if SYMBOL_COMPUTED_OPS (sym) is false. Problem is
> that function lookup_minimal_symbol_and_objfile() only looked up an
> objfile's minsym ordinary hash table, not its demangled hash table, which
> was the reason why the C++ name was not found.
>
> The fix is to call lookup_minimal_symbol(), which already looks up entries
> in both minsym's hash tables, to find names when traversing the object file
> list in lookup_minimal_symbol_and_objfile().
>
> Tested in both aarch64-linux-gnu and amd64-linux-gnu. No regressions.
> ---
>   gdb/ChangeLog |    5 +++++
>   gdb/minsyms.c |   17 +++--------------
>   2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
> index 4b292e0..2f630bc 100644
> --- a/gdb/ChangeLog
> +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
> @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
> +2017-11-01  Weimin Pan  <weimin.pan@oracle.com>
> +
> +	* minsyms.c (lookup_minimal_symbol_and_objfile): Use
> +	lookup_minimal_symbol() to find symbol entry.
> +
>   2017-10-27  Keith Seitz  <keiths@redhat.com>
>   
>   	* breakpoint.c (print_breakpoint_location): Use the symbol saved
> diff --git a/gdb/minsyms.c b/gdb/minsyms.c
> index 37edbd8..4edd8b1 100644
> --- a/gdb/minsyms.c
> +++ b/gdb/minsyms.c
> @@ -881,23 +881,12 @@ lookup_minimal_symbol_and_objfile (const char *name)
>   {
>     struct bound_minimal_symbol result;
>     struct objfile *objfile;
> -  unsigned int hash = msymbol_hash (name) % MINIMAL_SYMBOL_HASH_SIZE;
>   
>     ALL_OBJFILES (objfile)
>       {
> -      struct minimal_symbol *msym;
> -
> -      for (msym = objfile->per_bfd->msymbol_hash[hash];
> -	   msym != NULL;
> -	   msym = msym->hash_next)
> -	{
> -	  if (strcmp (MSYMBOL_LINKAGE_NAME (msym), name) == 0)
> -	    {
> -	      result.minsym = msym;
> -	      result.objfile = objfile;
> -	      return result;
> -	    }
> -	}
> +      result = lookup_minimal_symbol (name, NULL, objfile);
> +      if (result.minsym != NULL)
> +        return result;
>       }
>   
>     memset (&result, 0, sizeof (result));



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