[PATCH] gdb: make use of SCOPE_EXIT to manage thread executing state

Andrew Burgess aburgess@redhat.com
Fri Dec 3 13:51:51 GMT 2021


While working on another patch relating to how GDB manages threads
executing and resumed state, I spotted the following code in
record-btrace.c:

  executing = tp->executing ();
  set_executing (proc_target, inferior_ptid, false);

  id = null_frame_id;
  try
    {
      id = get_frame_id (get_current_frame ());
    }
  catch (const gdb_exception &except)
    {
      /* Restore the previous execution state.  */
      set_executing (proc_target, inferior_ptid, executing);

      throw;
    }

  /* Restore the previous execution state.  */
  set_executing (proc_target, inferior_ptid, executing);

  return id;

I notice that we only catch the exception so we can call
set_executing, and this is the same call to set_executing that we need
to perform in the non-exception return path.

This would be much cleaner if we could use SCOPE_EXIT to avoid the
try/catch, so lets do that.

While cleaning this up, I also applied a similar patch to
record-full.c, though there's no try/catch in that case, but using
SCOPE_EXIT makes the code safe if, in the future, we do start throwing
exceptions.

There should be no user visible changes after this commit.
---
 gdb/record-btrace.c | 24 ++++--------------------
 gdb/record-full.c   |  8 +++++---
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/record-btrace.c b/gdb/record-btrace.c
index 3fcfd6a4761..a6ce3db64e5 100644
--- a/gdb/record-btrace.c
+++ b/gdb/record-btrace.c
@@ -1980,9 +1980,6 @@ record_btrace_resume_thread (struct thread_info *tp,
 static struct frame_id
 get_thread_current_frame_id (struct thread_info *tp)
 {
-  struct frame_id id;
-  bool executing;
-
   /* Set current thread, which is implicitly used by
      get_current_frame.  */
   scoped_restore_current_thread restore_thread;
@@ -1998,26 +1995,13 @@ get_thread_current_frame_id (struct thread_info *tp)
      For the former, EXECUTING is true and we're in wait, about to
      move the thread.  Since we need to recompute the stack, we temporarily
      set EXECUTING to false.  */
-  executing = tp->executing ();
+  bool executing = tp->executing ();
   set_executing (proc_target, inferior_ptid, false);
-
-  id = null_frame_id;
-  try
-    {
-      id = get_frame_id (get_current_frame ());
-    }
-  catch (const gdb_exception &except)
+  SCOPE_EXIT
     {
-      /* Restore the previous execution state.  */
       set_executing (proc_target, inferior_ptid, executing);
-
-      throw;
-    }
-
-  /* Restore the previous execution state.  */
-  set_executing (proc_target, inferior_ptid, executing);
-
-  return id;
+    };
+  return get_frame_id (get_current_frame ());
 }
 
 /* Start replaying a thread.  */
diff --git a/gdb/record-full.c b/gdb/record-full.c
index 971c0f568b4..11a9457027c 100644
--- a/gdb/record-full.c
+++ b/gdb/record-full.c
@@ -1249,11 +1249,13 @@ record_full_wait_1 (struct target_ops *ops,
 			  /* Try to insert the software single step breakpoint.
 			     If insert success, set step to 0.  */
 			  set_executing (proc_target, inferior_ptid, false);
-			  reinit_frame_cache ();
+			  SCOPE_EXIT
+			    {
+			      set_executing (proc_target, inferior_ptid, true);
+			    };
 
+			  reinit_frame_cache ();
 			  step = !insert_single_step_breakpoints (gdbarch);
-
-			  set_executing (proc_target, inferior_ptid, true);
 			}
 
 		      if (record_debug)
-- 
2.25.4



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