Move declarations of initialize_progspace and initialize_inferiors to
progspace.h and inferior.h, respectively.
Change-Id: I62292ffda429861b9f27d8c836a56d161dfa548d
Approved-By: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
We currently pass frames to function by value, as `frame_info_ptr`.
This is somewhat expensive:
- the size of `frame_info_ptr` is 64 bytes, which is a bit big to pass
by value
- the constructors and destructor link/unlink the object in the global
`frame_info_ptr::frame_list` list. This is an `intrusive_list`, so
it's not so bad: it's just assigning a few points, there's no memory
allocation as if it was `std::list`, but still it's useless to do
that over and over.
As suggested by Tom Tromey, change many function signatures to accept
`const frame_info_ptr &` instead of `frame_info_ptr`.
Some functions reassign their `frame_info_ptr` parameter, like:
void
the_func (frame_info_ptr frame)
{
for (; frame != nullptr; frame = get_prev_frame (frame))
{
...
}
}
I wondered what to do about them, do I leave them as-is or change them
(and need to introduce a separate local variable that can be
re-assigned). I opted for the later for consistency. It might not be
clear why some functions take `const frame_info_ptr &` while others take
`frame_info_ptr`. Also, if a function took a `frame_info_ptr` because
it did re-assign its parameter, I doubt that we would think to change it
to `const frame_info_ptr &` should the implementation change such that
it doesn't need to take `frame_info_ptr` anymore. It seems better to
have a simple rule and apply it everywhere.
Change-Id: I59d10addef687d157f82ccf4d54f5dde9a963fd0
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
This commit is the result of the following actions:
- Running gdb/copyright.py to update all of the copyright headers to
include 2024,
- Manually updating a few files the copyright.py script told me to
update, these files had copyright headers embedded within the
file,
- Regenerating gdbsupport/Makefile.in to refresh it's copyright
date,
- Using grep to find other files that still mentioned 2023. If
these files were updated last year from 2022 to 2023 then I've
updated them this year to 2024.
I'm sure I've probably missed some dates. Feel free to fix them up as
you spot them.
When running test-case gdb.base/vfork-follow-parent.exp on powerpc64 (likewise
on s390x), I run into:
...
(gdb) PASS: gdb.base/vfork-follow-parent.exp: \
exec_file=vfork-follow-parent-exit: target-non-stop=on: non-stop=off: \
resolution_method=schedule-multiple: print unblock_parent = 1
continue^M
Continuing.^M
Reading symbols from vfork-follow-parent-exit...^M
^M
^M
Fatal signal: Segmentation fault^M
----- Backtrace -----^M
0x1027d3e7 gdb_internal_backtrace_1^M
src/gdb/bt-utils.c:122^M
0x1027d54f _Z22gdb_internal_backtracev^M
src/gdb/bt-utils.c:168^M
0x1057643f handle_fatal_signal^M
src/gdb/event-top.c:889^M
0x10576677 handle_sigsegv^M
src/gdb/event-top.c:962^M
0x3fffa7610477 ???^M
0x103f2144 for_each_block^M
src/gdb/dcache.c:199^M
0x103f235b _Z17dcache_invalidateP13dcache_struct^M
src/gdb/dcache.c:251^M
0x10bde8c7 _Z24target_dcache_invalidatev^M
src/gdb/target-dcache.c:50^M
...
or similar.
The root cause for the segmentation fault is that linux_is_uclinux gives an
incorrect result: it should always return false, given that we're running on a
regular linux system, but instead it returns first true, then false.
In more detail, the segmentation fault happens as follows:
- a program space with an address space is created
- a second program space is about to be created. maybe_new_address_space
is called, and because linux_is_uclinux returns true, maybe_new_address_space
returns false, and no new address space is created
- a second program space with the same address space is created
- a program space is deleted. Because linux_is_uclinux now returns false,
gdbarch_has_shared_address_space (current_inferior ()->arch ()) returns
false, and the address space is deleted
- when gdb uses the address space of the remaining program space, we run into
the segfault, because the address space is deleted.
Hardcoding linux_is_uclinux to false makes the test-case pass.
We leave addressing the root cause for the following commit in this series.
For now, prevent the segmentation fault by making the address space a refcounted
object.
This was already suggested here [1]:
...
A better solution might be to have the address spaces be reference counted
...
Tested on top of trunk on x86_64-linux and ppc64le-linux.
Tested on top of gdb-14-branch on ppc64-linux.
Co-Authored-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
PR gdb/30547
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30547
[1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2023-October/202928.html
Since GDB now requires C++17, we don't need the internally maintained
gdb::optional implementation. This patch does the following replacing:
- gdb::optional -> std::optional
- gdb::in_place -> std::in_place
- #include "gdbsupport/gdb_optional.h" -> #include <optional>
This change has mostly been done automatically. One exception is
gdbsupport/thread-pool.* which did not use the gdb:: prefix as it
already lives in the gdb namespace.
Change-Id: I19a92fa03e89637bab136c72e34fd351524f65e9
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Approved-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
set_target_gdbarch is basically a setter for the current inferior's
arch, that notifies other parts of GDB of the architecture change. Move
the code of set_target_gdbarch to the inferior::set_arch method.
Add gdbarch_initialized_p, so we can keep the assertion.
Change-Id: I276e28eafd4740c94bc5233c81a86c01b4a6ae90
Reviewed-By: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Make the inferior's gdbarch field private, and add getters and setters.
This helped me by allowing putting breakpoints on set_arch to know when
the inferior's arch was set. A subsequent patch in this series also
adds more things in set_arch.
Change-Id: I0005bd1ef4cd6b612af501201cec44e457998eec
Reviewed-By: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
This changes hash_ptid to instead be a specialization of std::hash.
This makes it a little easier to use with standard containers.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
After the previous commit, exit_inferior_1 no longer makes use of the
silent parameter. This commit removes this parameter and cleans up
the callers.
After doing this exit_inferior_1, exit_inferior, and
exit_inferior_silent are all equivalent, so rename exit_inferior_1 to
exit_inferior and delete exit_inferior_silent, update all the callers.
Also I spotted the declaration exit_inferior_num_silent in inferior.h,
but this function is not defined anywhere, so I deleted the
declaration.
There should be no user visible changes after this commit.
After this commit:
commit a78ef87574
Date: Wed Jun 22 18:10:00 2022 +0100
Always emit =thread-exited notifications, even if silent
The function mi_interp::on_thread_exited (or mi_thread_exit as the
function was called back then) no longer makes use of the "silent"
parameter.
As a result there is no difference between inferior::clear_thread_list
with silent true or false, because:
- None of the interpreter ::on_thread_exited functions rely on the
silent parameter, and
- None of GDB's thread_exit observers rely on the silent parameter
either.
This commit removes the silent parameter from
inferior::clear_thread_list, and makes the function always silent.
This commit was originally part of a larger series:
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb-patches/20221212203101.1034916-1-pedro@palves.net/
But didn't really need to be part of that series. I had an interest
in seeing this patch merged:
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb-patches/20221212203101.1034916-31-pedro@palves.net/
Which also didn't really need to be part of the larger series, but
does depend, at least a little, on this commit. In order to get the
fix I'm interested in merged quicker, I (Andrew Burgess) have rebased
this commit outside of the original series. Any bugs introduced while
splitting this patch out and rebasing, are entirely my own.
There should be no user visible changes after this commit.
Co-Authored-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
This commit extends the breakpoint mechanism to allow for inferior
specific breakpoints (but not watchpoints in this commit).
As GDB gains better support for multiple connections, and so for
running multiple (possibly unrelated) inferiors, then it is not hard
to imagine that a user might wish to create breakpoints that apply to
any thread in a single inferior. To achieve this currently, the user
would need to create a condition possibly making use of the $_inferior
convenience variable, which, though functional, isn't the most user
friendly.
This commit adds a new 'inferior' keyword that allows for the creation
of inferior specific breakpoints.
Inferior specific breakpoints are automatically deleted when the
associated inferior is removed from GDB, this is similar to how
thread-specific breakpoints are deleted when the associated thread is
deleted.
Watchpoints are already per-program-space, which in most cases mean
watchpoints are already inferior specific. There is a small window
where inferior-specific watchpoints might make sense, which is after a
vfork, when two processes are sharing the same address space.
However, I'm leaving that as an exercise for another day. For now,
attempting to use the inferior keyword with a watchpoint will give an
error, like this:
(gdb) watch a8 inferior 1
Cannot use 'inferior' keyword with watchpoints
A final note on the implementation: currently, inferior specific
breakpoints, like thread-specific breakpoints, are inserted into every
inferior, GDB then checks once the inferior stops if we are in the
correct thread or inferior, and resumes automatically if we stopped in
the wrong thread/inferior.
An obvious optimisation here is to only insert breakpoint locations
into the specific program space (which mostly means inferior) that
contains either the inferior or thread we are interested in. This
would reduce the number times GDB has to stop and then resume again in
a multi-inferior setup.
I have a series on the mailing list[1] that implements this
optimisation for thread-specific breakpoints. Once this series has
landed I'll update that series to also handle inferior specific
breakpoints in the same way. For now, inferior specific breakpoints
are just slightly less optimal, but this is no different to
thread-specific breakpoints in a multi-inferior debug session, so I
don't see this as a huge problem.
[1] https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb-patches/cover.1685479504.git.aburgess@redhat.com/
From what I can tell, inferior::priv is reserved for the
process_stratum target. It seems to me that it has to be, because
currenlty only such targets use it, and if a target at another stratum
started using this field, then conflicts could occur. This patch
documents this.
Reviewed-by: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Andrew reported that the previous change to gdb.Inferior.read_memory &
friends introducing scoped_restore_current_inferior_for_memory broke
gdb.dap/stop-at-main.exp. This is also reported as PR dap/30644.
The root of the problem is that all the methods that now use
scoped_restore_current_inferior_for_memory cause GDB to crash with a
failed assert if they are run on an inferior that is not yet started.
E.g.:
(gdb) python i = gdb.selected_inferior ()
(gdb) python i.read_memory (4,4)
gdb/thread.c:626: internal-error: any_thread_of_inferior: Assertion `inf->pid != 0' failed.
This patch fixes the problem by removing
scoped_restore_current_inferior_for_memory's ctor ptid parameter and
the any_thread_of_inferior calls completely, and making
scoped_restore_current_inferior_for_memory switch inferior_ptid to a
pid ptid.
I was a little worried that some port might be assuming inferior_ptid
points at a thread in the xfer_partial memory access routines. We
know that anything that supports forks must not assume that, due to
how detach_breakpoints works. I looked at a number of xfer_partial
implementations, and didn't see anything that is looking at
inferior_ptid in a way that would misbehave. I'm thinking that we
could go forward with this and just fix ports if they break.
While on some ports like on AMD GPU we have thread-specific address
spaces, and so when accessing memory for those address spaces, we must
have the right thread context (via inferior_ptid) selected, in
Inferior.read_memory, we only have the inferior to work with, so this
API as is can't be used to access thread-specific address spaces.
IOW, it can only be used to access the global address space that is
visible to both the CPU and the GPUs.
In proc-service.c:ps_xfer_memory, the other spot using
scoped_restore_current_inferior_for_memory, we're always accessing
per-inferior memory.
If we end up using scoped_restore_current_inferior_for_memory later to
set up the context to read memory from a specific thread, then we can
add an alternative ctor that takes a thread_info pointer, and make
inferior_ptid point to the thread, for example.
New test added to gdb.python/py-inferior.exp, exercising
Inferior.read_memory without execution.
No regressions on native and extended-gdbserver x86_64 GNU/Linux.
Reviewed-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30644
Change-Id: I11309c5ddbbb51a4594cf63c21b3858bfd9aed19
This introduces a new class,
scoped_restore_current_inferior_for_memory, and arranges to use it in
a few places. This class is intended to handle setting up and
restoring the various globals that are needed to read or write memory
-- but without invalidating the frame cache.
I wasn't able to test the change to aix-thread.c.
Approved-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
Add the maybe_switch_inferior function, which ensures that the given
inferior is the current one. Return an instantiated
scoped_restore_current_thread object only we actually needed to switch
inferior.
Returning a scoped_restore_current_thread requires it to be
move-constructible, so give it a move constructor.
Change-Id: I1231037102ed6166f2530399e8257ad937fb0569
Reviewed-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
Make find_thread_ptid (the overload that takes an inferior) a method of
struct inferior.
Change-Id: Ie5b9fa623ff35aa7ddb45e2805254fc8e83c9cd4
Reviewed-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Move the implementation over to target_desc_info. Remove the
target_desc_info forward declaration in target-descriptions.h, it's no
longer needed.
Change-Id: Ic95060341685afe0b73af591ca6efe32f5e7e892
I initially made this field a unique pointer, to have automatic memory
management. But I then thought that the field didn't really need to be
allocated separately from struct inferior. So make it a regular
non-pointer field of inferior.
Remove target_desc_info_free, as it's no longer needed.
Change-Id: Ica2b97071226f31c40e86222a2f6922454df1229
In preparation for the following patch, where struct inferior needs to
"see" struct target_desc_info, move target_desc_info to the header file.
I initially moved the structure to target-descriptions.h, and later made
inferior.h include target-descriptions.h. This worked, but it then
occured to me that target_desc_info is really an inferior property that
involves a target description, so I think it makes sense to have it in
inferior.h.
Change-Id: I3e81d04faafcad431e294357389f3d4c601ee83d
This commit is the result of running the gdb/copyright.py script,
which automated the update of the copyright year range for all
source files managed by the GDB project to be updated to include
year 2023.
This commit removes the global functions pop_all_targets,
pop_all_targets_above, and pop_all_targets_at_and_above, and makes
them methods on the inferior class.
As the pop_all_targets functions will unpush each target, which
decrements the targets reference count, it is possible that the target
might be closed.
Right now, closing a target, in some cases, depends on the current
inferior being set correctly, that is, to the inferior from which the
target was popped.
To facilitate this I have used switch_to_inferior_no_thread within the
new methods. Previously it was the responsibility of the caller to
ensure that the correct inferior was selected.
In a couple of places (event-top.c and top.c) I have been able to
remove a previous switch_to_inferior_no_thread call.
In remote_unpush_target (remote.c) I have left the
switch_to_inferior_no_thread call as it is required for the
generic_mourn_inferior call.
As Hannes pointed out, the Windows target-async patches broke C-c
handling there. Looking into this, I found a few oddities, fixed
here.
First, windows_nat_target::interrupt calls GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent.
I think this event can be ignored by the inferior, so it's not a great
way to interrupt. Instead, using DebugBreakProcess (or a more
complicated thing for Wow64) seems better.
Second, windows_nat_target did not implement the pass_ctrlc method.
Implementing this lets us remove the special code to call
SetConsoleCtrlHandler and instead integrate into gdb's approach to C-c
handling. I believe that this should also fix the race that's
described in the comment that's being removed.
Initially, I thought a simpler version of this patch would work.
However, I think what happens is that some other library (I'm not sure
what) calls SetConsoleCtrlHandler while gdb is running, and this
intercepts and handles C-c -- so that the gdb SIGINT handler is not
called. C-break continues to work, presumably because whatever
handler is installed ignores it.
This patch works around this issue by ensuring that the gdb handler
always comes first.
This refactors the code to check for terminal sharing.
is_gdb_terminal is exported, and sharing_input_terminal_1 is renamed,
slightly refactored, and moved to posix-hdep.c. A new
Windows-specific implementation of this function is added to
mingw-hdep.c.
MSDN has a warning about GetConsoleProcessList
This API is not recommended and does not have a virtual terminal
equivalent. [...] Applications remoting via cross-platform
utilities and transports like SSH may not work as expected if
using this API.
However, we believe this isn't likely to be an issue for gdb.
This changes GDB to use frame_info_ptr instead of frame_info *
The substitution was done with multiple sequential `sed` commands:
sed 's/^struct frame_info;/class frame_info_ptr;/'
sed 's/struct frame_info \*/frame_info_ptr /g' - which left some
issues in a few files, that were manually fixed.
sed 's/\<frame_info \*/frame_info_ptr /g'
sed 's/frame_info_ptr $/frame_info_ptr/g' - used to remove whitespace
problems.
The changed files were then manually checked and some 'sed' changes
undone, some constructors and some gets were added, according to what
made sense, and what Tromey originally did
Co-Authored-By: Bruno Larsen <blarsen@redhat.com>
Approved-by: Tom Tomey <tom@tromey.com>
This rewrites registry.h, removing all the macros and replacing it
with relatively ordinary template classes. The result is less code
than the previous setup. It replaces large macros with a relatively
straightforward C++ class, and now manages its own cleanup.
The existing type-safe "key" class is replaced with the equivalent
template class. This approach ended up requiring relatively few
changes to the users of the registry code in gdb -- code using the key
system just required a small change to the key's declaration.
All existing users of the old C-like API are now converted to use the
type-safe API. This mostly involved changing explicit deletion
functions to be an operator() in a deleter class.
The old "save/free" two-phase process is removed, and replaced with a
single "free" phase. No existing code used both phases.
The old "free" callbacks took a parameter for the enclosing container
object. However, this wasn't truly needed and is removed here as
well.
For every stop, Linux GDB and GDBserver save the stopped thread's PC,
in lwp->stop_pc. This is done in save_stop_reason, in both
gdb/linux-nat.c and gdbserver/linux-low.cc. However, while we're
going through the shell after "run", in startup_inferior, we shouldn't
be reading registers, as we haven't yet determined the target's
architecture -- the shell's architecture may not even be the same as
the final inferior's.
In gdb/linux-nat.c, lwp->stop_pc is only needed when the thread has
stopped for a breakpoint, and since when going through the shell, no
breakpoint is going to hit, we could simply teach save_stop_reason to
only record the stop pc when the thread stopped for a breakpoint.
However, in gdbserver/linux-low.cc, lwp->stop_pc is used in more cases
than breakpoint hits (e.g., it's used in tracepoints & the
"while-stepping" feature).
So to avoid GDB vs GDBserver divergence, we apply the same approach to
both implementations.
We set a flag in the inferior (process in GDBserver) whenever it is
being nursed through the shell, and when that flag is set,
save_stop_reason bails out early. While going through the shell,
we'll only ever get process exits (normal or signalled), random
signals, and exec events, so nothing is lost.
Change-Id: If0f01831514d3a74d17efd102875de7d2c6401ad
The inferior::waiting_for_vfork_done flag indicates that some thread in
that inferior is waiting for a vfork-done event. Subsequent patches
will need to know which thread precisely is waiting for that event.
Replace the boolean flag (waiting_for_vfork_done) with a thread_info
pointer (thread_waiting_for_vfork_done).
I think there is a latent buglet in that waiting_for_vfork_done is
currently not reset on inferior exec or exit. I could imagine that if a
thread in the parent process calls exec or exit while another thread of
the parent process is waiting for its vfork child to exec or exit, we
could end up with inferior::waiting_for_vfork_done without a thread
actually waiting for a vfork-done event anymore. And since that flag is
checked in resume_1, things could misbehave there.
Since the new field points to a thread_info object, and those are
destroyed on exec or exit, it could be worse now since we could try to
access freed memory, if thread_waiting_for_vfork_done were to point to a
stale thread_info. To avoid this, clear the field in
infrun_inferior_exit and infrun_inferior_execd.
Change-Id: I31b847278613a49ba03fc4915f74d9ceb228fdce
Prior to the multi-target support commit:
commit 5b6d1e4fa4
Date: Fri Jan 10 20:06:08 2020 +0000
Multi-target support
When a new inferior was added using the MI -add-inferior command, the
new inferior would be using the same target as all the other
inferiors. This makes sense, GDB only supported a single target stack
at a time.
After the above commit, each inferior has its own target stack.
To maintain backward compatibility, for the CLI add-inferior command,
when a new inferior is added the above commit has the new inferior
inherit a copy of the target stack from the current inferior.
Unfortunately, this same backward compatibility is missing for the MI.
This commit fixes this oversight.
Now, when the -add-inferior MI command is used, the new inferior will
inherit a copy of the target stack from the current inferior.
Add an argument to the get_return_value function to indicate the symbol
of the function the debuggee is returning from. This will be used by
the following patch.
Since the function return type can be deduced from the symbol remove the
value_type argument which becomes redundant.
No user visible change after this patch.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
Change-Id: Idf1279f1f7199f5022738a6679e0fa63fbd22edc
Co-authored-by: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
This commit brings all the changes made by running gdb/copyright.py
as per GDB's Start of New Year Procedure.
For the avoidance of doubt, all changes in this commits were
performed by the script.
Same idea as the previous patch, but for m_cwd.
To keep things consistent across the board, change get_inferior_cwd as
well, which is shared with GDBserver. So update the related GDBserver
code too.
Change-Id: Ia2c047fda738d45f3d18bc999eb67ceb8400ce4e
With the current code, both a NULL pointer and an empty string can mean
"no arguments". We don't need this distinction. Changing to a string
has the advantage that there is now a single state for that (an empty
string), which makes the code a bit simpler in my opinion.
Change-Id: Icdc622820f7869478791dbaa84b4a1c7fec21ced
Add cwd/set_cwd to the inferior class, remove set_inferior_args.
Keep get_inferior_args, because it is used from fork_inferior, in shared
code. The cwd could eventually be passed as a parameter eventually,
though, I think that would be cleaner.
Change-Id: Ifb72ea865d7e6f9a491308f0d5c1595579d8427e
Add args/set_args to the inferior class, remove the set_inferior_args
and get_inferior_args functions, that would just be wrappers around
them.
Change-Id: If87d52f3402ce08be26c32897ae8915d9f6d1ea3
There are currently two states that the inferior args can be stored.
The main one is the `args` field, where they are stored as a single
string. The other one is the `argc`/`argv` fields.
This last one is only used for arguments passed in GDB's
command line. And the only outcome is that when get_inferior_args is
called, `argc`/`argv` are serialized into `args`. So really,
`argc`/`argv` is just a staging area before moving the arguments in
`args`.
Simplify this by only keeping the `args` field. Change
set_inferior_args_vector to immediately serialize the arguments into
`args`, work that would be done in get_inferior_args later anyway.
The only time where this work would be "wasted" is when the user passes
some arguments on the command line, but does not end up running the
program. But that just seems unlikely. And it's not that much work.
Change-Id: Ica0b9859397c095f6530350c8fb3c36905f2044a
The test gdb.threads/fork-plus-threads.exp fails since 08bdefb58b
("gdb: make inferior_list use intrusive_list"):
FAIL: gdb.threads/fork-plus-threads.exp: detach-on-fork=off: only inferior 1 left
Looking at the log, we see that we are left with a bunch of inferiors in
the detach-on-fork=off case:
info inferiors^M
Num Description Connection Executable ^M
* 1 <null> <snip>/fork-plus-threads ^M
2 <null> <snip>/fork-plus-threads ^M
3 <null> <snip>/fork-plus-threads ^M
4 <null> <snip>/fork-plus-threads ^M
5 <null> <snip>/fork-plus-threads ^M
6 <null> <snip>/fork-plus-threads ^M
7 <null> <snip>/fork-plus-threads ^M
8 <null> <snip>/fork-plus-threads ^M
9 <null> <snip>/fork-plus-threads ^M
10 <null> <snip>/fork-plus-threads ^M
11 <null> <snip>/fork-plus-threads ^M
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.threads/fork-plus-threads.exp: detach-on-fork=off: only inferior 1 left
when we expect to have just one. The problem is prune_inferiors not
pruning inferiors. And this is caused by all_inferiors_safe not
actually iterating on inferiors. The current implementation:
inline all_inferiors_safe_range
all_inferiors_safe ()
{
return {};
}
default-constructs an all_inferiors_safe_range, which default-constructs
an all_inferiors_safe_iterator as its m_begin field, which
default-constructs a all_inferiors_iterator. A default-constructed
all_inferiors_iterator is an end iterator, which means we have
constructed an (end,end) all_inferiors_safe_range.
We actually need to pass down the list on which we want to iterator
(that is the inferior_list global), so that all_inferiors_iterator's
first constructor is chosen. We also pass nullptr as the proc_target
filter. In this case, we don't do any filtering, but if in the future
all_inferiors_safe needed to allow filtering on process target (like
all_inferiors does), we could pass down a process target pointer.
basic_safe_iterator's constructor needs to be changed to allow
constructing the wrapped iterator with multiple arguments, not just one.
With this, gdb.threads/fork-plus-threads.exp is passing once again for
me.
Change-Id: I650552ede596e3590c4b7606ce403690a0278a01
When debugging a large number of threads (thousands), looking up a
thread by ptid_t using the inferior::thread_list linked list can add up.
Add inferior::thread_map, an std::unordered_map indexed by ptid_t, and
change the find_thread_ptid function to look up a thread using
std::unordered_map::find, instead of iterating on all of the
inferior's threads. This should make it faster to look up a thread
from its ptid.
Change-Id: I3a8da0a839e18dee5bb98b8b7dbeb7f3dfa8ae1c
Co-Authored-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
Looking up threads that are both resumed and have a pending wait
status to report is something that we do quite often in the fast path
and is expensive if there are many threads, since it currently requires
walking whole thread lists.
The first instance is in maybe_set_commit_resumed_all_targets. This is
called after handling each event in fetch_inferior_event, to see if we
should ask targets to commit their resumed threads or not. If at least
one thread is resumed but has a pending wait status, we don't ask the
targets to commit their resumed threads, because we want to consume and
handle the pending wait status first.
The second instance is in random_pending_event_thread, where we want to
select a random thread among all those that are resumed and have a
pending wait status. This is called every time we try to consume
events, to see if there are any pending events that we we want to
consume, before asking the targets for more events.
To allow optimizing these cases, maintain a per-process-target list of
threads that are resumed and have a pending wait status.
In maybe_set_commit_resumed_all_targets, we'll be able to check in O(1)
if there are any such threads simply by checking whether the list is
empty.
In random_pending_event_thread, we'll be able to use that list, which
will be quicker than iterating the list of threads, especially when
there are no resumed with pending wait status threads.
About implementation details: using the new setters on class
thread_info, it's relatively easy to maintain that list. Any time the
"resumed" or "pending wait status" property is changed, we check whether
that should cause the thread to be added or removed from the list.
In set_thread_exited, we try to remove the thread from the list, because
keeping an exited thread in that list would make no sense (especially if
the thread is freed). My first implementation assumed that a process
stratum target was always present when set_thread_exited is called.
That's however, not the case: in some cases, targets unpush themselves
from an inferior and then call "exit_inferior", which exits all the
threads. If the target is unpushed before set_thread_exited is called
on the threads, it means we could mistakenly leave some threads in the
list. I tried to see how hard it would be to make it such that targets
have to exit all threads before unpushing themselves from the inferior
(that would seem logical to me, we don't want threads belonging to an
inferior that has no process target). That seemed quite difficult and
not worth the time at the moment. Instead, I changed
inferior::unpush_target to remove all threads of that inferior from the
list.
As of this patch, the list is not used, this is done in the subsequent
patches.
The debug messages in process-stratum-target.c need to print some ptids.
However, they can't use target_pid_to_str to print them without
introducing a dependency on the current inferior (the current inferior
is used to get the current target stack). For debug messages, I find it
clearer to print the spelled out ptid anyway (the pid, lwp and tid
values). Add a ptid_t::to_string method that returns a string
representation of the ptid that is meant for debug messages, a bit like
we already have frame_id::to_string.
Change-Id: Iad8f93db2d13984dd5aa5867db940ed1169dbb67
Change inferior_list, the global list of inferiors, to use
intrusive_list. I think most other changes are somewhat obvious
fallouts from this change.
There is a small change in behavior in scoped_mock_context. Before this
patch, constructing a scoped_mock_context would replace the whole
inferior list with only the new mock inferior. Tests using two
scoped_mock_contexts therefore needed to manually link the two inferiors
together, as the second scoped_mock_context would bump the first mock
inferior from the thread list. With this patch, a scoped_mock_context
adds its mock inferior to the inferior list on construction, and removes
it on destruction. This means that tests run with mock inferiors in the
inferior list in addition to any pre-existing inferiors (there is always
at least one). There is no possible pid clash problem, since each
scoped mock inferior uses its own process target, and pids are per
process target.
Co-Authored-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Change-Id: I7eb6a8f867d4dcf8b8cd2dcffd118f7270756018
GDB currently has several objects that are put in a singly linked list,
by having the object's type have a "next" pointer directly. For
example, struct thread_info and struct inferior. Because these are
simply-linked lists, and we don't keep track of a "tail" pointer, when
we want to append a new element on the list, we need to walk the whole
list to find the current tail. It would be nice to get rid of that
walk. Removing elements from such lists also requires a walk, to find
the "previous" position relative to the element being removed. To
eliminate the need for that walk, we could make those lists
doubly-linked, by adding a "prev" pointer alongside "next". It would be
nice to avoid the boilerplate associated with maintaining such a list
manually, though. That is what the new intrusive_list type addresses.
With an intrusive list, it's also possible to move items out of the
list without destroying them, which is interesting in our case for
example for threads, when we exit them, but can't destroy them
immediately. We currently keep exited threads on the thread list, but
we could change that which would simplify some things.
Note that with std::list, element removal is O(N). I.e., with
std::list, we need to walk the list to find the iterator pointing to
the position to remove. However, we could store a list iterator
inside the object as soon as we put the object in the list, to address
it, because std::list iterators are not invalidated when other
elements are added/removed. However, if you need to put the same
object in more than one list, then std::list<object> doesn't work.
You need to instead use std::list<object *>, which is less efficient
for requiring extra memory allocations. For an example of an object
in multiple lists, see the step_over_next/step_over_prev fields in
thread_info:
/* Step-over chain. A thread is in the step-over queue if these are
non-NULL. If only a single thread is in the chain, then these
fields point to self. */
struct thread_info *step_over_prev = NULL;
struct thread_info *step_over_next = NULL;
The new intrusive_list type gives us the advantages of an intrusive
linked list, while avoiding the boilerplate associated with manually
maintaining it.
intrusive_list's API follows the standard container interface, and thus
std::list's interface. It is based the API of Boost's intrusive list,
here:
https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_73_0/doc/html/boost/intrusive/list.html
Our implementation is relatively simple, while Boost's is complicated
and intertwined due to a lot of customization options, which our version
doesn't have.
The easiest way to use an intrusive_list is to make the list's element
type inherit from intrusive_node. This adds a prev/next pointers to
the element type. However, to support putting the same object in more
than one list, intrusive_list supports putting the "node" info as a
field member, so you can have more than one such nodes, one per list.
As a first guinea pig, this patch makes the per-inferior thread list use
intrusive_list using the base class method.
Unlike Boost's implementation, ours is not a circular list. An earlier
version of the patch was circular: the intrusive_list type included an
intrusive_list_node "head". In this design, a node contained pointers
to the previous and next nodes, not the previous and next elements.
This wasn't great for when debugging GDB with GDB, as it was difficult
to get from a pointer to the node to a pointer to the element. With the
design proposed in this patch, nodes contain pointers to the previous
and next elements, making it easy to traverse the list by hand and
inspect each element.
The intrusive_list object contains pointers to the first and last
elements of the list. They are nullptr if the list is empty.
Each element's node contains a pointer to the previous and next
elements. The first element's previous pointer is nullptr and the last
element's next pointer is nullptr. Therefore, if there's a single
element in the list, both its previous and next pointers are nullptr.
To differentiate such an element from an element that is not linked into
a list, the previous and next pointers contain a special value (-1) when
the node is not linked. This is necessary to be able to reliably tell
if a given node is currently linked or not.
A begin() iterator points to the first item in the list. An end()
iterator contains nullptr. This makes iteration until end naturally
work, as advancing past the last element will make the iterator contain
nullptr, making it equal to the end iterator. If the list is empty,
a begin() iterator will contain nullptr from the start, and therefore be
immediately equal to the end.
Iterating on an intrusive_list yields references to objects (e.g.
`thread_info&`). The rest of GDB currently expects iterators and ranges
to yield pointers (e.g. `thread_info*`). To bridge the gap, add the
reference_to_pointer_iterator type. It is used to define
inf_threads_iterator.
Add a Python pretty-printer, to help inspecting intrusive lists when
debugging GDB with GDB. Here's an example of the output:
(top-gdb) p current_inferior_.m_obj.thread_list
$1 = intrusive list of thread_info = {0x61700002c000, 0x617000069080, 0x617000069400, 0x61700006d680, 0x61700006eb80}
It's not possible with current master, but with this patch [1] that I
hope will be merged eventually, it's possible to index the list and
access the pretty-printed value's children:
(top-gdb) p current_inferior_.m_obj.thread_list[1]
$2 = (thread_info *) 0x617000069080
(top-gdb) p current_inferior_.m_obj.thread_list[1].ptid
$3 = {
m_pid = 406499,
m_lwp = 406503,
m_tid = 0
}
Even though iterating the list in C++ yields references, the Python
pretty-printer yields pointers. The reason for this is that the output
of printing the thread list above would be unreadable, IMO, if each
thread_info object was printed in-line, since they contain so much
information. I think it's more useful to print pointers, and let the
user drill down as needed.
[1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-April/178050.html
Co-Authored-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Change-Id: I3412a14dc77f25876d742dab8f44e0ba7c7586c0
I was always a bit confused by next_adapter, because it kind of mixes
the element type and the iterator type. In reality, it is not much more
than a class that wraps two iterators (begin and end). However, it
assumes that:
- you can construct the begin iterator by passing a pointer to the
first element of the iterable
- you can default-construct iterator to make the end iterator
I think that by generalizing it a little bit, we can re-use it at more
places.
Rename it to "iterator_range". I think it describes a bit better: it's
a range made by wrapping a begin and end iterator. Move it to its own
file, since it's not related to next_iterator anymore.
iterator_range has two constructors. The variadic one, where arguments
are forwarded to construct the underlying begin iterator. The end
iterator is constructed through default construction. This is a
generalization of what we have today.
There is another constructor which receives already constructed begin
and end iterators, useful if the end iterator can't be obtained by
default-construction. Or, if you wanted to make a range that does not
end at the end of the container, you could pass any iterator as the
"end".
This generalization allows removing some "range" classes, like
all_inferiors_range. These classes existed only to pass some arguments
when constructing the begin iterator. With iterator_range, those same
arguments are passed to the iterator_range constructed and then
forwarded to the constructed begin iterator.
There is a small functional difference in how iterator_range works
compared to next_adapter. next_adapter stored the pointer it received
as argument and constructeur an iterator in the `begin` method.
iterator_range constructs the begin iterator and stores it as a member.
Its `begin` method returns a copy of that iterator.
With just iterator_range, uses of next_adapter<foo> would be replaced
with:
using foo_iterator = next_iterator<foo>;
using foo_range = iterator_range<foo_iterator>;
However, I added a `next_range` wrapper as a direct replacement for
next_adapter<foo>. IMO, next_range is a slightly better name than
next_adapter.
The rest of the changes are applications of this new class.
gdbsupport/ChangeLog:
* next-iterator.h (class next_adapter): Remove.
* iterator-range.h: New.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* breakpoint.h (bp_locations_range): Remove.
(bp_location_range): New.
(struct breakpoint) <locations>: Adjust type.
(breakpoint_range): Use iterator_range.
(tracepoint_range): Use iterator_range.
* breakpoint.c (breakpoint::locations): Adjust return type.
* gdb_bfd.h (gdb_bfd_section_range): Use iterator_range.
* gdbthread.h (all_threads_safe): Pass argument to
all_threads_safe_range.
* inferior-iter.h (all_inferiors_range): Use iterator_range.
(all_inferiors_safe_range): Use iterator_range.
(all_non_exited_inferiors_range): Use iterator_range.
* inferior.h (all_inferiors, all_non_exited_inferiors): Pass
inferior_list as argument.
* objfiles.h (struct objfile) <compunits_range>: Remove.
<compunits>: Return compunit_symtab_range.
* progspace.h (unwrapping_objfile_iterator)
<unwrapping_objfile_iterator>: Take parameter by value.
(unwrapping_objfile_range): Use iterator_range.
(struct program_space) <objfiles_range>: Define with "using".
<objfiles>: Adjust.
<objfiles_safe_range>: Define with "using".
<objfiles_safe>: Adjust.
<solibs>: Return so_list_range, define here.
* progspace.c (program_space::solibs): Remove.
* psymtab.h (class psymtab_storage) <partial_symtab_iterator>:
New.
<partial_symtab_range>: Use iterator_range.
* solist.h (so_list_range): New.
* symtab.h (compunit_symtab_range):
New.
(symtab_range): New.
(compunit_filetabs): Change to a function.
* thread-iter.h (inf_threads_range,
inf_non_exited_threads_range, safe_inf_threads_range,
all_threads_safe_range): Use iterator_range.
* top.h (ui_range): New.
(all_uis): Use ui_range.
Change-Id: Ib7a9d2a3547f45f01aa1c6b24536ba159db9b854
When trying to attach to a pthread process on a Linux system with glibc 2.33,
we get:
$ ./gdb -q -nx --data-directory=data-directory -p 1472010
Attaching to process 1472010
[New LWP 1472013]
[New LWP 1472014]
[New LWP 1472015]
Error while reading shared library symbols for /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0:
Cannot find user-level thread for LWP 1472015: generic error
0x00007ffff6d3637f in poll () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
(gdb)
When attaching to a process (or handling a fork child, an operation very
similar to attaching), GDB reads the shared library list from the
process. For each shared library (if "set auto-solib-add" is on), it
reads its symbols and calls the "new_objfile" observable.
The libthread-db code monitors this observable, and if it sees an
objfile named somewhat like "libpthread.so" go by, it tries to load
libthread_db.so in the GDB process itself. libthread_db knows how to
navigate libpthread's data structures to get information about the
existing threads.
To locate these data structures, libthread_db calls ps_pglobal_lookup
(implemented in proc-service.c), passing in a symbol name and expecting
an address in return.
Before glibc 2.33, libthread_db always asked for symbols found in
libpthread. There was no ordering problem: since we were always trying
to load libthread_db in reaction to processing libpthread (and reading
in its symbols) and libthread_db only asked symbols from libpthread, the
requested symbols could always be found. Starting with glibc 2.33,
libthread_db now asks for a symbol name that can be found in
/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (_rtld_global). And the ordering in which GDB
reads the shared libraries from the inferior when attaching is
unfortunate, in that libpthread is processed before ld-linux. So when
loading libthread_db in reaction to processing libpthread, and
libthread_db requests the symbol that is from ld-linux, GDB is not yet
able to supply it.
That problematic symbol lookup happens in the thread_from_lwp function,
when we call td_ta_map_lwp2thr_p, and an exception is thrown at this
point:
#0 0x00007ffff6681012 in __cxxabiv1::__cxa_throw (obj=0x60e000006100, tinfo=0x555560033b50 <typeinfo for gdb_exception_error>, dest=0x55555d9404bc <gdb_exception_error::~gdb_exception_error()>) at /build/gcc/src/gcc/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_throw.cc:78
#1 0x000055555e5d3734 in throw_it(return_reason, errors, const char *, typedef __va_list_tag __va_list_tag *) (reason=RETURN_ERROR, error=GENERIC_ERROR, fmt=0x55555f0c5360 "Cannot find user-level thread for LWP %ld: %s", ap=0x7fffffffaae0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/common-exceptions.cc:200
#2 0x000055555e5d37d4 in throw_verror (error=GENERIC_ERROR, fmt=0x55555f0c5360 "Cannot find user-level thread for LWP %ld: %s", ap=0x7fffffffaae0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/common-exceptions.cc:208
#3 0x000055555e0b0ed2 in verror (string=0x55555f0c5360 "Cannot find user-level thread for LWP %ld: %s", args=0x7fffffffaae0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/utils.c:171
#4 0x000055555e5e898a in error (fmt=0x55555f0c5360 "Cannot find user-level thread for LWP %ld: %s") at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/errors.cc:43
#5 0x000055555d06b4bc in thread_from_lwp (stopped=0x617000035d80, ptid=...) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-thread-db.c:418
#6 0x000055555d07040d in try_thread_db_load_1 (info=0x60c000011140) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-thread-db.c:912
#7 0x000055555d071103 in try_thread_db_load (library=0x55555f0c62a0 "libthread_db.so.1", check_auto_load_safe=false) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-thread-db.c:1014
#8 0x000055555d072168 in try_thread_db_load_from_sdir () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-thread-db.c:1091
#9 0x000055555d072d1c in thread_db_load_search () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-thread-db.c:1146
#10 0x000055555d07365c in thread_db_load () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-thread-db.c:1203
#11 0x000055555d07373e in check_for_thread_db () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-thread-db.c:1246
#12 0x000055555d0738ab in thread_db_new_objfile (objfile=0x61300000c0c0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-thread-db.c:1275
#13 0x000055555bd10740 in std::__invoke_impl<void, void (*&)(objfile*), objfile*> (__f=@0x616000068d88: 0x55555d073745 <thread_db_new_objfile(objfile*)>) at /usr/include/c++/10.2.0/bits/invoke.h:60
#14 0x000055555bd02096 in std::__invoke_r<void, void (*&)(objfile*), objfile*> (__fn=@0x616000068d88: 0x55555d073745 <thread_db_new_objfile(objfile*)>) at /usr/include/c++/10.2.0/bits/invoke.h:153
#15 0x000055555bce0392 in std::_Function_handler<void (objfile*), void (*)(objfile*)>::_M_invoke(std::_Any_data const&, objfile*&&) (__functor=..., __args#0=@0x7fffffffb4a0: 0x61300000c0c0) at /usr/include/c++/10.2.0/bits/std_function.h:291
#16 0x000055555d3595c0 in std::function<void (objfile*)>::operator()(objfile*) const (this=0x616000068d88, __args#0=0x61300000c0c0) at /usr/include/c++/10.2.0/bits/std_function.h:622
#17 0x000055555d356b7f in gdb::observers::observable<objfile*>::notify (this=0x555566727020 <gdb::observers::new_objfile>, args#0=0x61300000c0c0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/../gdbsupport/observable.h:106
#18 0x000055555da3f228 in symbol_file_add_with_addrs (abfd=0x61200001ccc0, name=0x6190000d9090 "/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0", add_flags=..., addrs=0x7fffffffbc10, flags=..., parent=0x0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/symfile.c:1131
#19 0x000055555da3f763 in symbol_file_add_from_bfd (abfd=0x61200001ccc0, name=0x6190000d9090 "/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0", add_flags=<error reading variable: Cannot access memory at address 0xffffffffffffffb0>, addrs=0x7fffffffbc10, flags=<error reading variable: Cannot access memory at address 0xffffffffffffffc0>, parent=0x0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/symfile.c:1167
#20 0x000055555d95f9fa in solib_read_symbols (so=0x6190000d8e80, flags=...) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib.c:681
#21 0x000055555d96233d in solib_add (pattern=0x0, from_tty=0, readsyms=1) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib.c:987
#22 0x000055555d93646e in enable_break (info=0x608000008f20, from_tty=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib-svr4.c:2238
#23 0x000055555d93cfc0 in svr4_solib_create_inferior_hook (from_tty=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib-svr4.c:3049
#24 0x000055555d96610d in solib_create_inferior_hook (from_tty=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib.c:1195
#25 0x000055555cdee318 in post_create_inferior (from_tty=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infcmd.c:318
#26 0x000055555ce00e6e in setup_inferior (from_tty=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infcmd.c:2439
#27 0x000055555ce59c34 in handle_one (event=...) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:4887
#28 0x000055555ce5cd00 in stop_all_threads () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:5064
#29 0x000055555ce7f0da in stop_waiting (ecs=0x7fffffffd170) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:8006
#30 0x000055555ce67f5c in handle_signal_stop (ecs=0x7fffffffd170) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:6062
#31 0x000055555ce63653 in handle_inferior_event (ecs=0x7fffffffd170) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:5727
#32 0x000055555ce4f297 in fetch_inferior_event () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:4105
#33 0x000055555cdbe3bf in inferior_event_handler (event_type=INF_REG_EVENT) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/inf-loop.c:42
#34 0x000055555d018047 in handle_target_event (error=0, client_data=0x0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-nat.c:4060
#35 0x000055555e5ea77e in handle_file_event (file_ptr=0x60600008b1c0, ready_mask=1) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/event-loop.cc:575
#36 0x000055555e5eb09c in gdb_wait_for_event (block=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/event-loop.cc:701
#37 0x000055555e5e8d19 in gdb_do_one_event () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/event-loop.cc:212
#38 0x000055555dd6e0d4 in wait_sync_command_done () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/top.c:528
#39 0x000055555dd6e372 in maybe_wait_sync_command_done (was_sync=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/top.c:545
#40 0x000055555d0ec7c8 in catch_command_errors (command=0x55555ce01bb8 <attach_command(char const*, int)>, arg=0x7fffffffe28d "1472010", from_tty=1, do_bp_actions=false) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:452
#41 0x000055555d0f03ad in captured_main_1 (context=0x7fffffffdd10) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:1149
#42 0x000055555d0f1239 in captured_main (data=0x7fffffffdd10) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:1232
#43 0x000055555d0f1315 in gdb_main (args=0x7fffffffdd10) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:1257
#44 0x000055555bb70cf9 in main (argc=7, argv=0x7fffffffde88) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/gdb.c:32
The exception is caught here:
#0 __cxxabiv1::__cxa_begin_catch (exc_obj_in=0x60e0000060e0) at /build/gcc/src/gcc/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_catch.cc:84
#1 0x000055555d95fded in solib_read_symbols (so=0x6190000d8e80, flags=...) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib.c:689
#2 0x000055555d96233d in solib_add (pattern=0x0, from_tty=0, readsyms=1) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib.c:987
#3 0x000055555d93646e in enable_break (info=0x608000008f20, from_tty=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib-svr4.c:2238
#4 0x000055555d93cfc0 in svr4_solib_create_inferior_hook (from_tty=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib-svr4.c:3049
#5 0x000055555d96610d in solib_create_inferior_hook (from_tty=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib.c:1195
#6 0x000055555cdee318 in post_create_inferior (from_tty=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infcmd.c:318
#7 0x000055555ce00e6e in setup_inferior (from_tty=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infcmd.c:2439
#8 0x000055555ce59c34 in handle_one (event=...) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:4887
#9 0x000055555ce5cd00 in stop_all_threads () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:5064
#10 0x000055555ce7f0da in stop_waiting (ecs=0x7fffffffd170) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:8006
#11 0x000055555ce67f5c in handle_signal_stop (ecs=0x7fffffffd170) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:6062
#12 0x000055555ce63653 in handle_inferior_event (ecs=0x7fffffffd170) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:5727
#13 0x000055555ce4f297 in fetch_inferior_event () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:4105
#14 0x000055555cdbe3bf in inferior_event_handler (event_type=INF_REG_EVENT) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/inf-loop.c:42
#15 0x000055555d018047 in handle_target_event (error=0, client_data=0x0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-nat.c:4060
#16 0x000055555e5ea77e in handle_file_event (file_ptr=0x60600008b1c0, ready_mask=1) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/event-loop.cc:575
#17 0x000055555e5eb09c in gdb_wait_for_event (block=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/event-loop.cc:701
#18 0x000055555e5e8d19 in gdb_do_one_event () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/event-loop.cc:212
#19 0x000055555dd6e0d4 in wait_sync_command_done () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/top.c:528
#20 0x000055555dd6e372 in maybe_wait_sync_command_done (was_sync=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/top.c:545
#21 0x000055555d0ec7c8 in catch_command_errors (command=0x55555ce01bb8 <attach_command(char const*, int)>, arg=0x7fffffffe28d "1472010", from_tty=1, do_bp_actions=false) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:452
#22 0x000055555d0f03ad in captured_main_1 (context=0x7fffffffdd10) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:1149
#23 0x000055555d0f1239 in captured_main (data=0x7fffffffdd10) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:1232
#24 0x000055555d0f1315 in gdb_main (args=0x7fffffffdd10) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:1257
#25 0x000055555bb70cf9 in main (argc=7, argv=0x7fffffffde88) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/gdb.c:32
Catching the exception at this point means that the thread_db_info
object for this inferior will be left in place, despite the failure to
load libthread_db. This means that there won't be further attempts at
loading libthread_db, because thread_db_load will think that
libthread_db is already loaded for this inferior and will always exit
early. To fix this, add a try/catch around calling try_thread_db_load_1
in try_thread_db_load, such that if some exception is thrown while
trying to load libthread_db, we reset / delete the thread_db_info for
that inferior. That alone makes attach work fine again, because
check_for_thread_db is called again in the thread_db_inferior_created
observer (that happens after we learned about all shared libraries and
their symbols), and libthread_db is successfully loaded then.
When attaching, I think that the inferior_created observer is a good
place to try to load libthread_db: it is called once everything has
stabilized, when we learned about all shared libraries.
The only problem then is that when we first try (and fail) to load
libthread_db, in reaction to learning about libpthread, we show this
warning:
warning: Unable to find libthread_db matching inferior's thread library, thread debugging will not be available.
This is misleading, because we do succeed in loading it later. So when
attaching, I think we shouldn't try to load libthread_db in reaction to
the new_objfile events, we should wait until we have learned about all
shared libraries (using the inferior_created observable). To do so, add
an `in_initial_library_scan` flag to struct inferior. This flag is used
to postpone loading libthread_db if we are attaching or handling a fork
child.
When debugging remotely with GDBserver, the same problem happens, except
that the qSymbol mechanism (allowing the remote side to ask GDB for
symbols values) is involved. The fix there is the same idea, we make
GDB wait until all shared libraries and their symbols are known before
sending out a qSymbol packet. This way, we never present the remote
side a state where libpthread.so's symbols are known but ld-linux's
symbols aren't.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* inferior.h (class inferior) <in_initial_library_scan>: New.
* infcmd.c (post_create_inferior): Set in_initial_library_scan.
* infrun.c (follow_fork_inferior): Likewise.
* linux-thread-db.c (try_thread_db_load): Catch exception thrown
by try_thread_db_load_1
(thread_db_load): Return early if in_initial_library_scan is
set.
* remote.c (remote_new_objfile): Return early if
in_initial_library_scan is set.
Change-Id: I7a279836cfbb2b362b4fde11b196b4aab82f5efb
