The gdbarch function gdbarch_remove_non_address_bits adjusts addresses to
enable debugging of programs with tagged pointers on Linux, for instance for
ARM's feature top byte ignore (TBI).
Once the function is implemented for an architecture, it adjusts addresses for
memory access, breakpoints and watchpoints.
Linear address masking (LAM) is Intel's (R) implementation of tagged
pointer support. It requires certain adaptions to GDB's tagged pointer
support due to the following:
- LAM supports address tagging for data accesses only. Thus, specifying
breakpoints on tagged addresses is not a valid use case.
- In contrast to the implementation for ARM's TBI, the Linux kernel supports
tagged pointers for memory access.
This patch makes GDB's tagged pointer support configurable such that it is
possible to enable the address adjustment for a specific feature only (e.g
memory access, breakpoints or watchpoints). This way, one can make sure
that addresses are only adjusted when necessary. In case of LAM, this
avoids unnecessary parsing of the /proc/<pid>/status file to get the
untag mask.
Reviewed-By: Felix Willgerodt <felix.willgerodt@intel.com>
(AArch64) Tested-By: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
Approved-By: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
This is a very small patch to straighten out dot-space-space in these
comments in the gdbarch generated files:
- /* Skip verify of short_bit, invalid_p == 0 */
+ /* Skip verify of short_bit, invalid_p == 0. */
There is no functional change after this commit.
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
For clarity and symmetry with `gdbarch-gen.h`. I wouldn't mind
if all generated files had the `-gen` suffix.
Change-Id: Icb70194fb0e3e2fa9d1c6f0d9331be09b805b428
Approved-By: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
