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[gdb/tdep] Handle mxcsr kernel bug on Intel Skylake CPUs

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On my openSUSE Leap 15.1 x86_64 Skylake system with the default (4.12) kernel,
I run into:
...
FAIL: gdb.base/gcore.exp: corefile restored all registers
...

The problem is that there's a difference in the mxcsr register value before
and after the gcore command:
...
- mxcsr          0x0                 [ ]
+ mxcsr          0x400440            [ DAZ OM ]
...

This can be traced back to amd64_linux_nat_target::fetch_registers, where
xstateregs is partially initialized by the ptrace call:
...
          char xstateregs[X86_XSTATE_MAX_SIZE];
          struct iovec iov;

          amd64_collect_xsave (regcache, -1, xstateregs, 0);
          iov.iov_base = xstateregs;
          iov.iov_len = sizeof (xstateregs);
          if (ptrace (PTRACE_GETREGSET, tid,
                      (unsigned int) NT_X86_XSTATE, (long) &iov) < 0)
            perror_with_name (_("Couldn't get extended state status"));

          amd64_supply_xsave (regcache, -1, xstateregs);
...
after which amd64_supply_xsave is called.

The amd64_supply_xsave call is supposed to only use initialized parts of
xstateregs, but due to a kernel bug on intel skylake (fixed from 4.14 onwards
by commit 0852b374173b "x86/fpu: Add FPU state copying quirk to handle XRSTOR
failure on Intel Skylake CPUs") it can happen that the mxcsr part of
xstateregs is not initialized, while amd64_supply_xsave expects it to be
initialized, which explains the FAIL mentioned above.

Fix the undetermined behaviour by initializing xstateregs before calling
ptrace, which makes sure we get a 0x0 for mxcsr when this kernel bug occurs,
and which also happens to fix the FAIL.

Furthermore, add an xfail for this FAIL which triggers the same kernel bug:
...
FAIL: gdb.arch/amd64-init-x87-values.exp: check_setting_mxcsr_before_enable: \
  check new value of MXCSR is still in place
...

Both FAILs pass when using a 5.3 kernel instead on the system mentioned above.

Tested on x86_64-linux.

gdb/ChangeLog:

2019-09-24  Tom de Vries  <tdevries@suse.de>

	PR gdb/23815
	* amd64-linux-nat.c (amd64_linux_nat_target::fetch_registers):
	Initialize xstateregs before ptrace PTRACE_GETREGSET call.

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:

2019-09-24  Tom de Vries  <tdevries@suse.de>

	PR gdb/24598
	* gdb.arch/amd64-init-x87-values.exp: Add xfail.
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Tom de Vries 2019-09-24 23:38:49 +02:00
parent e8f8842d90
commit 3d4352200e
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@ -238,6 +238,12 @@ amd64_linux_nat_target::fetch_registers (struct regcache *regcache, int regnum)
char xstateregs[X86_XSTATE_MAX_SIZE];
struct iovec iov;
/* Pre-4.14 kernels have a bug (fixed by commit 0852b374173b
"x86/fpu: Add FPU state copying quirk to handle XRSTOR failure on
Intel Skylake CPUs") that sometimes causes the mxcsr location in
xstateregs not to be copied by PTRACE_GETREGSET. Make sure that
the location is at least initialized with a defined value. */
memset (xstateregs, 0, sizeof (xstateregs));
iov.iov_base = xstateregs;
iov.iov_len = sizeof (xstateregs);
if (ptrace (PTRACE_GETREGSET, tid,