In a later commit I want target_fileio_stat, that is a call that
operates on a filename rather than an open file descriptor as
target_fileio_fstat does.
This commit adds the initial framework for target_fileio_stat, I've
added the top level target function and the virtual target_ops methods
in the target_ops base class.
At this point no actual targets override target_ops::fileio_stat, so
any attempts to call this function will return ENOSYS error code.
C++ 11 has a built-in attribute for this, no need to use a compat macro.
Change-Id: I90e4220d26e8f3949d91761f8a13cd9c37da3875
Reviewed-by: Lancelot Six <lancelot.six@amd.com>
Make the current program space reference bubble up one level. Pass
`current_program_space` everywhere, except in some cases where we can
get the pspace another way, and it's relatively obvious that it's the
same as the current program space.
Change-Id: Id86b79f1e44f92a398f49d137d57457174dfa96d
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Reviewed-By: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
The `no_shared_libraries` function is currently used to implement the
`nosharedlibrary` command, but it also used internally by other
functions. This does not make a very good internal API.
Add the `no_shared_libraries_command` function to implement the CLI
command. Remove the unused parameters from `no_shared_libraries`.
Remove the `from_tty` parameter of `target_pre_inferior`, since it's now
unused.
Change-Id: I4fcba5ee1e0f7d250aab1a7b62b9ea16265fe962
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Reviewed-By: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
Calls of `get_exec_file (0)` are equivalent to just getting the exec
filename from the current program space. I'm looking to remove
`get_exec_file`, so replace these uses with
`current_program_space->exec_filename ()`.
Remove the `err` parameter of `get_exec_wrapper` since all the calls
that remain pass 1, meaning to error out if no executable is specified.
Change-Id: I7729ea4c7f03dbb046211cc5aa3858ab3a551965
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
I spotted a few more places where we could apply filename styling in
remote.c and target.c. Other than the styling, there should be no
user visible changes after this commit.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
This changes target_ops::thread_events and target_thread_events to use
'bool'. The callers were already doing this.
Tested by rebuilding.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Most files including gdbcmd.h currently rely on it to access things
actually declared in cli/cli-cmds.h (setlist, showlist, etc). To make
things easy, replace all includes of gdbcmd.h with includes of
cli/cli-cmds.h. This might lead to some unused includes of
cli/cli-cmds.h, but it's harmless, and much faster than going through
the 170 or so files by hand.
Change-Id: I11f884d4d616c12c05f395c98bbc2892950fb00f
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Move the declarations out of defs.h, and the implementations out of
findvar.c.
I opted for a new file, because this functionality of converting
integers to bytes and vice-versa seems a bit to generic to live in
findvar.c.
Change-Id: I524858fca33901ee2150c582bac16042148d2251
Approved-By: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Add the `target_debug_printf` and `target_debug_printf_nofunc` macros
and use them when outputting debug messages depending on `targetdebug`.
I opted for `target_debug_printf_nofunc` to follow the current style
where the function name is already printed, along with the arguments.
Modify the debug printfs in the `debug_target` methods (generated by
`make-target-delegates.py`) to use `target_debug_printf_nofunc` as well.
This makes the "target" debug prints integrate nicely with the other
debug prints that use the "new" debug print system:
[infrun] proceed: enter
[infrun] follow_fork: enter
[target] -> multi-thread->record_will_replay (...)
[target] <- multi-thread->record_will_replay (-1, 0) = false
[target] -> multi-thread->supports_multi_process (...)
[target] <- multi-thread->supports_multi_process () = true
[infrun] follow_fork: exit
...
Change-Id: Ide3c8c1b8a30e6d4c353a29cba911c7192de29ac
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Rename the method to `register_debug_string`.
This makes it easier to introduce `target_debug_printf` in a subsequent
patch.
Change-Id: I5bb2d49476d17940d503e66f40762e3f1e3baabc
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
This commit introduces a new target hook, target_is_address_tagged,
which is used instead of the gdbarch_tagged_address_p gdbarch hook in
the upper layer (printcmd.c).
This change enables easy specialization of memory tagging address
check per target in the future. As target_is_address_tagged continues
to utilize the gdbarch_tagged_address_p hook, there is no change in
behavior for all the targets that use the new target hook (i.e., the
remote.c, aarch64-linux-nat.c, and corelow.c targets).
Just the gdbarch_tagged_address_p signature is changed for convenience,
since target_is_address_tagged takes the address to be checked as a
CORE_ADDR type.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Romero <gustavo.romero@linaro.org>
Approved-By: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
Tested-By: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
Now that defs.h, server.h and common-defs.h are included via the
`-include` option, it is no longer necessary for source files to include
them. Remove all the inclusions of these files I could find. Update
the generation scripts where relevant.
Change-Id: Ia026cff269c1b7ae7386dd3619bc9bb6a5332837
Approved-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
By inspection, I believe that breakpoint_init_inferior doesn't call
anything that relies on the current program space or inferior. So,
add an inferior parameter, to make the current inferior / program space
references bubble up one level.
Change-Id: Ib07b7a6d360e324f6ae1aa502dd314b8cce421b7
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Make the current_program_space reference bubble up one level.
Change-Id: Idc8ed78d23bf3bb2969f6963d8cc049f26901c29
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.
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>
In the following commit I ran into a problem. The next commit aims to
improve GDB's handling of the main executable being a file on a remote
target (i.e. one with a 'target:' prefix).
To do this I have replaced a system 'stat' call with a bfd_stat call.
However, doing this caused a regression in gdb.base/attach.exp.
The problem is that the bfd library caches open FILE* handles for bfd
objects that it has accessed, which is great for short-lived, non
interactive programs (e.g. the assembler, or objcopy, etc), however,
for GDB this caching causes us a problem.
If we open the main executable as a bfd then the bfd library will
cache the open FILE*. If some time passes, maybe just sat at the GDB
prompt, or with the inferior running, and then later we use bfd_stat
to check if the underlying, on-disk file has changed, then the bfd
library will actually use fstat on the underlying file descriptor.
This is of course slightly different than using system stat on with
the on-disk file name.
If the on-disk file has changed then system stat will give results for
the current on-disk file. But, if the bfd cache is still holding open
the file descriptor for the original on-disk file (from before the
change) then fstat will return a result based on the original file,
and so show no change as having happened.
This is a known problem in GDB, and so far this has been solved by
scattering bfd_cache_close_all() calls throughout GDB. But, as I
said, in the next commit I've made a change and run into a
problem (gdb.base/attach.exp) where we are apparently missing a
bfd_cache_close_all() call.
Now I could solve this problem by adding a bfd_cache_close_all() call
before the bfd_stat call that I plan to add in the next commit, that
would for sure solve the problem, but feels a little crude.
Better I think would be to track down where the bfd is being opened
and add a corresponding bfd_cache_close_all() call elsewhere in GDB
once we've finished doing whatever it is that caused us to open the
bfd in the first place.
This second solution felt like the better choice, so I tracked the
problem down to elf_locate_base and fixed that. But that just exposed
another problem in gdb_bfd_map_section which was also re-opening the
bfd, so I fixed this (with another bfd_cache_close_all() call), and
that exposed another issue in gdbarch_lookup_osabi... and at this
point I wondered if I was approaching this problem the wrong way...
.... And so, I wonder, is there a _better_ way to handle these
bfd_cache_close_all() calls?
I see two problems with the current approach:
1. It's fragile. Folk aren't always aware that they need to clear
the bfd cache, and this feels like something that is easy to
overlook in review. So adding new code to GDB can innocently touch
a bfd, which populates the cache, which will then be a bug that can
lie hidden until an on-disk file just happens to change at the wrong
time ... and GDB fails to spot the change. Additionally,
2. It's in efficient. The caching is intended to stop the bfd
library from continually having to re-open the on-disk file. If we
have a function that touches a bfd then often that function is the
obvious place to call bfd_cache_close_all. But if a single GDB
command calls multiple functions, each of which touch the bfd, then
we will end up opening and closing the same on-disk file multiple
times. It feels like we would be better postponing the
bfd_cache_close_all call until some later point, then we can benefit
from the bfd cache.
So, in this commit I propose a new approach. We now clear the bfd
cache in two places:
(a) Just before we display a GDB prompt. We display a prompt after
completing a command, and GDB is about to enter an idle state
waiting for further input from the user (or in async mode, for an
inferior event). If while we are in this idle state the user
changes the on-disk file(s) then we would like GDB to notice this
the next time it leaves its idle state, e.g. the next time the user
executes a command, or when an inferior event arrives,
(b) When we resume the inferior. In synchronous mode, resuming the
inferior is another time when GDB is blocked and sitting idle, but
in this case we don't display a prompt. As with (a) above, when an
inferior event arrives we want GDB to notice any changes to on-disk
files.
It turns out that there are existing observers for both of these
cases (before_prompt and target_resumed respectively), so my initial
thought was that I should attach to these observers in gdb_bfd.c, and
in both cases call bfd_cache_close_all().
And this does indeed solve the gdb.base/attach.exp problem that I see
with the following commit.
However, I see a problem with this solution.
Both of the observers I'm using are exposed through the Python API as
events that a user can hook into. The user can potentially run any
GDB command (using gdb.execute), so Python code might end up causing
some bfds to be reopened, and inserted into the cache.
To solve this one solution would be to add a bfd_cache_close_all()
call into gdbpy_enter::~gdbpy_enter(). Unfortunately, there's no
similar enter/exit object for Guile, though right now Guile doesn't
offer the same event API, so maybe we could just ignore that
problem... but this doesn't feel great.
So instead, I think a better solution might be to not use observers
for the bfd_cache_close_all() calls. Instead, I'll call
bfd_cache_close_all() directly from core GDB after we've notified the
before_prompt and target_resumed observers, this was we can be sure
that the cache is cleared after the observers have run, and before GDB
enters an idle state.
This commit also removes all of the other bfd_cache_close_all() calls
from GDB. My claim is that these are no longer needed.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
A simple refactor to make the reference to current_program_space bubble
up one level. No behavior changes expected.
Change-Id: I237cf2f45ae73c35bcb433ce40e3c03cef6b87e2
While looking at the regcache code, I noticed that the address space
(passed to regcache when constructing it, and available through
regcache::aspace) wasn't relevant for the regcache itself. Callers of
regcache::aspace use that method because it appears to be a convenient
way of getting the address space for a thread, if you already have the
regcache. But there is always another way to get the address space, as
the callers pretty much always know which thread they are dealing with.
The regcache code itself doesn't use the address space.
This patch removes anything related to address_space from the regcache
code, and updates callers to get it from the thread in context. This
removes a bit of unnecessary complexity from the regcache code.
The current get_thread_arch_regcache function gets an address_space for
the given thread using the target_thread_address_space function (which
calls the target_ops::thread_address_space method). This suggest that
there might have been the intention of supporting per-thread address
spaces. But digging through the history, I did not find any such case.
Maybe this method was just added because we needed a way to get an
address space from a ptid (because constructing a regcache required an
address space), and this seemed like the right way to do it, I don't
know.
The only implementations of thread_address_space and
process_stratum_target::thread_address_space and
linux_nat_target::thread_address_space, which essentially just return
the inferior's address space. And thread_address_space is only used in
the current get_thread_arch_regcache, which gets removed. So, I think
that the thread_address_space target method can be removed, and we can
assume that it's fine to use the inferior's address space everywhere.
Callers of regcache::aspace are updated to get the address space from
the relevant inferior, either using some context they already know
about, or in last resort using the current global context.
So, to summarize:
- remove everything in regcache related to address spaces
- in particular, remove get_thread_arch_regcache, and rename
get_thread_arch_aspace_regcache to get_thread_arch_regcache
- remove target_ops::thread_address_space, and
target_thread_address_space
- adjust all users of regcache::aspace to get the address space another
way
Change-Id: I04fd41b22c83fe486522af7851c75bcfb31c88c7
A previous patch taught GDB about a new TARGET_WAITKIND_THREAD_CLONED
event kind, and made the Linux target report clone events.
A following patch will teach Linux GDBserver to do the same thing.
However, for remote debugging, it wouldn't be ideal for GDBserver to
report every clone event to GDB, when GDB only cares about such events
in some specific situations. Reporting clone events all the time
would be potentially chatty. We don't enable thread create/exit
events all the time for the same reason. Instead we have the
QThreadEvents packet. QThreadEvents is target-wide, though.
This patch makes GDB instead explicitly request that the target
reports clone events or not, on a per-thread basis.
In order to be able to do that with GDBserver, we need a new remote
protocol feature. Since a following patch will want to enable thread
exit events on per-thread basis too, the packet introduced here is
more generic than just for clone events. It lets you enable/disable a
set of options at once, modelled on Linux ptrace's PTRACE_SETOPTIONS.
IOW, this commit introduces a new QThreadOptions packet, that lets you
specify a set of per-thread event options you want to enable. The
packet accepts a list of options/thread-id pairs, similarly to vCont,
processed left to right, with the options field being a number
interpreted as a bit mask of options. The only option defined in this
commit is GDB_THREAD_OPTION_CLONE (0x1), which ask the remote target
to report clone events. Another patch later in the series will
introduce another option.
For example, this packet sets option "1" (clone events) on thread
p1000.2345:
QThreadOptions;1:p1000.2345
and this clears options for all threads of process 1000, and then sets
option "1" (clone events) on thread p1000.2345:
QThreadOptions;0:p1000.-1;1:p1000.2345
This clears options of all threads of all processes:
QThreadOptions;0
The target reports the set of supported options by including
"QThreadOptions=<supported options>" in its qSupported response.
infrun is then tweaked to enable GDB_THREAD_OPTION_CLONE when stepping
over a breakpoint.
Unlike PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, fork/vfork/clone children do NOT inherit
their parent's thread options. This is so that GDB can send e.g.,
"QThreadOptions;0;1:TID" without worrying about threads it doesn't
know about yet.
Documentation for this new remote protocol feature is included in a
documentation patch later in the series.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19675
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27830
Reviewed-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Change-Id: Ie41e5093b2573f14cf6ac41b0b5804eba75be37e
(A good chunk of the problem statement in the commit log below is
Andrew's, adjusted for a different solution, and for covering
displaced stepping too. The testcase is mostly Andrew's too.)
This commit addresses bugs gdb/19675 and gdb/27830, which are about
stepping over a breakpoint set at a clone syscall instruction, one is
about displaced stepping, and the other about in-line stepping.
Currently, when a new thread is created through a clone syscall, GDB
sets the new thread running. With 'continue' this makes sense
(assuming no schedlock):
- all-stop mode, user issues 'continue', all threads are set running,
a newly created thread should also be set running.
- non-stop mode, user issues 'continue', other pre-existing threads
are not affected, but as the new thread is (sort-of) a child of the
thread the user asked to run, it makes sense that the new threads
should be created in the running state.
Similarly, if we are stopped at the clone syscall, and there's no
software breakpoint at this address, then the current behaviour is
fine:
- all-stop mode, user issues 'stepi', stepping will be done in place
(as there's no breakpoint to step over). While stepping the thread
of interest all the other threads will be allowed to continue. A
newly created thread will be set running, and then stopped once the
thread of interest has completed its step.
- non-stop mode, user issues 'stepi', stepping will be done in place
(as there's no breakpoint to step over). Other threads might be
running or stopped, but as with the continue case above, the new
thread will be created running. The only possible issue here is
that the new thread will be left running after the initial thread
has completed its stepi. The user would need to manually select
the thread and interrupt it, this might not be what the user
expects. However, this is not something this commit tries to
change.
The problem then is what happens when we try to step over a clone
syscall if there is a breakpoint at the syscall address.
- For both all-stop and non-stop modes, with in-line stepping:
+ user issues 'stepi',
+ [non-stop mode only] GDB stops all threads. In all-stop mode all
threads are already stopped.
+ GDB removes s/w breakpoint at syscall address,
+ GDB single steps just the thread of interest, all other threads
are left stopped,
+ New thread is created running,
+ Initial thread completes its step,
+ [non-stop mode only] GDB resumes all threads that it previously
stopped.
There are two problems in the in-line stepping scenario above:
1. The new thread might pass through the same code that the initial
thread is in (i.e. the clone syscall code), in which case it will
fail to hit the breakpoint in clone as this was removed so the
first thread can single step,
2. The new thread might trigger some other stop event before the
initial thread reports its step completion. If this happens we
end up triggering an assertion as GDB assumes that only the
thread being stepped should stop. The assert looks like this:
infrun.c:5899: internal-error: int finish_step_over(execution_control_state*): Assertion `ecs->event_thread->control.trap_expected' failed.
- For both all-stop and non-stop modes, with displaced stepping:
+ user issues 'stepi',
+ GDB starts the displaced step, moves thread's PC to the
out-of-line scratch pad, maybe adjusts registers,
+ GDB single steps the thread of interest, [non-stop mode only] all
other threads are left as they were, either running or stopped.
In all-stop, all other threads are left stopped.
+ New thread is created running,
+ Initial thread completes its step, GDB re-adjusts its PC,
restores/releases scratchpad,
+ [non-stop mode only] GDB resumes the thread, now past its
breakpoint.
+ [all-stop mode only] GDB resumes all threads.
There is one problem with the displaced stepping scenario above:
3. When the parent thread completed its step, GDB adjusted its PC,
but did not adjust the child's PC, thus that new child thread
will continue execution in the scratch pad, invoking undefined
behavior. If you're lucky, you see a crash. If unlucky, the
inferior gets silently corrupted.
What is needed is for GDB to have more control over whether the new
thread is created running or not. Issue #1 above requires that the
new thread not be allowed to run until the breakpoint has been
reinserted. The only way to guarantee this is if the new thread is
held in a stopped state until the single step has completed. Issue #3
above requires that GDB is informed of when a thread clones itself,
and of what is the child's ptid, so that GDB can fixup both the parent
and the child.
When looking for solutions to this problem I considered how GDB
handles fork/vfork as these have some of the same issues. The main
difference between fork/vfork and clone is that the clone events are
not reported back to core GDB. Instead, the clone event is handled
automatically in the target code and the child thread is immediately
set running.
Note we have support for requesting thread creation events out of the
target (TARGET_WAITKIND_THREAD_CREATED). However, those are reported
for the new/child thread. That would be sufficient to address in-line
stepping (issue #1), but not for displaced-stepping (issue #3). To
handle displaced-stepping, we need an event that is reported to the
_parent_ of the clone, as the information about the displaced step is
associated with the clone parent. TARGET_WAITKIND_THREAD_CREATED
includes no indication of which thread is the parent that spawned the
new child. In fact, for some targets, like e.g., Windows, it would be
impossible to know which thread that was, as thread creation there
doesn't work by "cloning".
The solution implemented here is to model clone on fork/vfork, and
introduce a new TARGET_WAITKIND_THREAD_CLONED event. This event is
similar to TARGET_WAITKIND_FORKED and TARGET_WAITKIND_VFORKED, except
that we end up with a new thread in the same process, instead of a new
thread of a new process. Like FORKED and VFORKED, THREAD_CLONED
waitstatuses have a child_ptid property, and the child is held stopped
until GDB explicitly resumes it. This addresses the in-line stepping
case (issues #1 and #2).
The infrun code that handles displaced stepping fixup for the child
after a fork/vfork event is thus reused for THREAD_CLONE, with some
minimal conditions added, addressing the displaced stepping case
(issue #3).
The native Linux backend is adjusted to unconditionally report
TARGET_WAITKIND_THREAD_CLONED events to the core.
Following the follow_fork model in core GDB, we introduce a
target_follow_clone target method, which is responsible for making the
new clone child visible to the rest of GDB.
Subsequent patches will add clone events support to the remote
protocol and gdbserver.
displaced_step_in_progress_thread becomes unused with this patch, but
a new use will reappear later in the series. To avoid deleting it and
readding it back, this patch marks it with attribute unused, and the
latter patch removes the attribute again. We need to do this because
the function is static, and with no callers, the compiler would warn,
(error with -Werror), breaking the build.
This adds a new gdb.threads/stepi-over-clone.exp testcase, which
exercises stepping over a clone syscall, with displaced stepping vs
inline stepping, and all-stop vs non-stop. We already test stepping
over clone syscalls with gdb.base/step-over-syscall.exp, but this test
uses pthreads, while the other test uses raw clone, and this one is
more thorough. The testcase passes on native GNU/Linux, but fails
against GDBserver. GDBserver will be fixed by a later patch in the
series.
Co-authored-by: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19675
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27830
Change-Id: I95c06024736384ae8542a67ed9fdf6534c325c8e
Reviewed-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Remove this typedef. I think that hiding the real type (std::vector)
behind a typedef just hinders readability.
Change-Id: I80949da3392f60a2826c56c268e0ec6f503ad79f
Approved-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
Reviewed-By: Reviewed-By: Lancelot Six <lancelot.six@amd.com>
This function is just a wrapper around the current inferior's gdbarch.
I find that having that wrapper just obscures where the arch is coming
from, and that it's often used as "I don't know which arch to use so
I'll use this magical target_gdbarch function that gets me an arch" when
the arch should in fact come from something in the context (a thread,
objfile, symbol, etc). I think that removing it and inlining
`current_inferior ()->arch ()` everywhere will make it a bit clearer
where that arch comes from and will trigger people into reflecting
whether this is the right place to get the arch or not.
Change-Id: I79f14b4e4934c88f91ca3a3155f5fc3ea2fadf6b
Reviewed-By: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
This replaces some casts to 'tracepoint *' with checked_static_cast.
Some functions are changed to accept a 'tracepoint *' now, for better
type safety.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
An upstream bug report points out this bug: if the user switches from
one Ada executable to another without "kill"ing the inferior, then the
"start" command will fail.
What happens here is that the Ada "main" name is found in a constant
string in the executable. But, if the inferior is running, then the
process_stratum target reads from the inferior memory.
This patch fixes the problem by changing the main name code to set
trust-readonly-sections, causing the target stack to read from the
executable instead.
I looked briefly at changing GNAT to emit DW_AT_main_subprogram
instead, but this looks to be pretty involved.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25811
This structure is fetched from the current target in i386_gdbarch_init
via a new "fetch_x86_xsave_layout" target method.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
In remote_target::thread_info_to_thread_handle we return a copy:
...
gdb::byte_vector
remote_target::thread_info_to_thread_handle (struct thread_info *tp)
{
remote_thread_info *priv = get_remote_thread_info (tp);
return priv->thread_handle;
}
...
Fix this by returning a gdb::array_view instead:
...
gdb::array_view<const gdb_byte>
remote_target::thread_info_to_thread_handle (struct thread_info *tp)
...
Tested on x86_64-linux.
This fixes the build when building with -std=c++20.
Approved-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
I noticed that target_close is only called in two places:
solib-svr4.c, and target_ops_ref_policy::decref.
This patch fixes the former by changing target_bfd_reopen to return a
target_ops_up and then fixing the sole caller. Then it removes
target_close by inlining its body into the decref method.
The advantage of this approach is that targets are now automatically
managed.
Regression tested on x86-64 Fedora 38.
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
A DAP client can request that an expression be evaluated in "hover"
context, meaning that it should not cause side effects. In gdb, this
can be implemented by temporarily setting a few "may-" parameters to
"off".
In order to make this work, I had to also change "may-write-registers"
so that it can be changed while the program is running. I don't think
there was any reason for this prohibition in the first place.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30476
I'd like to move some things so they become methods on struct ui. But
first, I think that struct ui and the related things are big enough to
deserve their own file, instead of being scattered through top.{c,h} and
event-top.c.
Change-Id: I15594269ace61fd76ef80a7b58f51ff3ab6979bc
I originally wrote this patch, because while working on some other
patch, I spotted a regression in the
gdb.multi/multi-target-no-resumed.exp.exp testcase. Debugging the
issue, I realized that the problem was related to how I was using
previous_inferior_ptid to look up the thread the user had last
selected. The problem is that previous_inferior_ptid alone doesn't
tell you which target that ptid is from, and I was just always using
the current target, which was incorrect. Two different targets may
have threads with the same ptid.
I decided to fix this by replacing previous_inferior_ptid with a
strong reference to the thread, called previous_thread.
I have since found a new motivation for this change -- I would like to
tweak "info program" to not rely on get_last_target_status returning a
ptid that still exists in the thread list. With both the follow_fork
changes later in this series, and the step-over-thread-exit changes,
that can happen, as we'll delete threads and not clear the last
waitstatus.
A new update_previous_thread function is added that can be used to
update previous_thread from inferior_ptid. This must be called in
several places that really want to get rid of previous_thread thread,
and reset the thread id counter, otherwise we get regressions like
these:
(gdb) info threads -gid
Id GId Target Id Frame
- * 1 1 Thread 2974541.2974541 "tids-gid-reset" main () at src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.multi/tids-gid-reset.c:21
- (gdb) PASS: gdb.multi/tids-gid-reset.exp: single-inferior: after restart: info threads -gid
+ * 1 2 Thread 2958361.2958361 "tids-gid-reset" main () at src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.multi/tids-gid-reset.c:21
+ (gdb) FAIL: gdb.multi/tids-gid-reset.exp: single-inferior: after restart: info threads -gid
and:
Core was generated by `build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.reverse/sigall-precsave/si'.
Program terminated with signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
#0 gen_ABRT () at src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.reverse/sigall-reverse.c:398
398 kill (getpid (), SIGABRT);
+[Current thread is 1 (LWP 2662066)]
Restored records from core file build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.reverse/sigall-precsave/sigall.precsave.
#0 gen_ABRT () at src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.reverse/sigall-reverse.c:398
398 kill (getpid (), SIGABRT);
continue
Continuing.
-Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
+Thread 1 received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x00007ffff7dfd55b in kill () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:78
78 ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S: No such file or directory.
-(gdb) PASS: gdb.reverse/sigall-precsave.exp: sig-test-1: get signal ABRT
+(gdb) FAIL: gdb.reverse/sigall-precsave.exp: sig-test-1: get signal ABRT
I.e., GDB was failing to restart the thread counter back to 1, because
the previous_thread thread was being help due to the strong reference.
Tested on GNU/Linux native, gdbserver and gdbserver + "maint set
target-non-stop on".
gdb/ChangeLog:
yyyy-mm-dd Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
* infcmd.c (kill_command, detach_command, disconnect_command):
Call update_previous_thread.
* infrun.c (previous_inferior_ptid): Delete.
(previous_thread): New.
(update_previous_thread): New.
(proceed, init_wait_for_inferior): Call update_previous_thread.
(normal_stop): Adjust to compare previous_thread and
inferior_thread. Call update_previous_thread.
* infrun.h (update_previous_thread): Declare.
* target.c (target_pre_inferior, target_preopen): Call
update_previous_thread.
Change-Id: I42779a1ee51a996fa1e8f6e1525c6605dbfd42c7
Add an observable notified in target_detach just before calling the
detach method on the inferior's target stack. This allows observer to
do some work on the inferior while it's still ptrace-attached, in the
case of a native Linux inferior. Specifically, the amd-dbgapi target
will need it in order to call amd_dbgapi_process_detach before the
process gets ptrace-detached.
Change-Id: I28b6065e251012a4c2db8a600fe13ba31671e3c9
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
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.
PR gdb/28947
The address_significant gdbarch setting was introduced as a way to remove
non-address bits from pointers, and it is specified by a constant. This
constant represents the number of address bits in a pointer.
Right now AArch64 is the only architecture that uses it, and 56 was a
correct option so far.
But if we are using Pointer Authentication (PAuth), we might use up to 2 bytes
from the address space to store the required information. We could also have
cases where we're using both PAuth and MTE.
We could adjust the constant to 48 to cover those cases, but this doesn't
cover the case where GDB needs to sign-extend kernel addresses after removal
of the non-address bits.
This has worked so far because bit 55 is used to select between kernel-space
and user-space addresses. But trying to clear a range of bits crossing the
bit 55 boundary requires the hook to be smarter.
The following patch renames the gdbarch hook from significant_addr_bit to
remove_non_address_bits and passes a pointer as opposed to the number of
bits. The hook is now responsible for removing the required non-address bits
and sign-extending the address if needed.
While at it, make GDB and GDBServer share some more code for aarch64 and add a
new arch-specific testcase gdb.arch/aarch64-non-address-bits.exp.
Bug-url: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28947
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
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.
The decref_target function is not really needed. Calling
target_ops::decref will just redirect to decref_target anyway, so why
not just rename decref_target to target_ops::decref?
That's what this commit does.
It's not exactly renaming to target_ops::decref, because the decref
functionality is handled by a policy class, so the new name is now
target_ops_ref_policy::decref.
There should be no user visible change after this commit.
This commit changes the target_stack class from using a C style array
of 'target_ops *' to using a C++ std::array<target_ops_ref, ...>. The
benefit of this change is that some of the reference counting of
target_ops objects is now done automatically.
This commit fixes a crash in gdb.python/py-inferior.exp where GDB
crashes at exit, leaving a core file behind.
The crash occurs in connpy_connection_dealloc, and is actually
triggered by this assert:
gdb_assert (conn_obj->target == nullptr);
Now a little aside...
... the assert is never actually printed, instead GDB crashes due
to calling a pure virtual function. The backtrace at the point of
crash looks like this:
#7 0x00007fef7e2cf747 in std::terminate() () from /lib64/libstdc++.so.6
#8 0x00007fef7e2d0515 in __cxa_pure_virtual () from /lib64/libstdc++.so.6
#9 0x0000000000de334d in target_stack::find_beneath (this=0x4934d78, t=0x2bda270 <the_dummy_target>) at ../../s>
#10 0x0000000000df4380 in inferior::find_target_beneath (this=0x4934b50, t=0x2bda270 <the_dummy_target>) at ../.>
#11 0x0000000000de2381 in target_ops::beneath (this=0x2bda270 <the_dummy_target>) at ../../src/gdb/target.c:3047
#12 0x0000000000de68aa in target_ops::supports_terminal_ours (this=0x2bda270 <the_dummy_target>) at ../../src/gd>
#13 0x0000000000dde6b9 in target_supports_terminal_ours () at ../../src/gdb/target.c:1112
#14 0x0000000000ee55f1 in internal_vproblem(internal_problem *, const char *, int, const char *, typedef __va_li>
Notice in frame #12 we called target_ops::supports_terminal_ours,
however, this is the_dummy_target, which is of type dummy_target,
and so we should have called dummy_target::supports_terminal_ours.
I believe the reason we ended up in the wrong implementation of
supports_terminal_ours (which is a virtual function) is because we
made the call during GDB's shut-down, and, I suspect, the vtables
were in a weird state.
Anyway, the point of this patch is not to fix GDB's ability to
print an assert during exit, but to address the root cause of the
assert. With that aside out of the way, we can return to the main
story...
Connections are represented in Python with gdb.TargetConnection
objects (or its sub-classes). The assert in question confirms that
when a gdb.TargetConnection is deallocated, the underlying GDB
connection has itself been removed from GDB. If this is not true then
we risk creating multiple different gdb.TargetConnection objects for
the same connection, which would be bad.
To ensure that we have one gdb.TargetConnection object for each
connection, the all_connection_objects map exists, this maps the
process_stratum_target object (the connection) to the
gdb.TargetConnection object that represents the connection.
When a connection is removed in GDB the connection_removed observer
fires, which we catch with connpy_connection_removed, this function
then sets conn_obj->target to nullptr, and removes the corresponding
entry from the all_connection_objects map.
The first issue here is that connpy_connection_dealloc is being called
as part of GDB's exit code, which is run after the Python interpreter
has been shut down. The connpy_connection_dealloc function is used to
deallocate the gdb.TargetConnection Python object. Surely it is
wrong for us to be deallocating Python objects after the interpreter
has been shut down.
The reason why connpy_connection_dealloc is called during GDB's exit
is that the global all_connection_objects map is still holding a
reference to the gdb.TargetConnection object. When the map is
destroyed during GDB's exit, the gdb.TargetConnection objects within
the map can finally be deallocated.
The reason why all_connection_objects has contents when GDB exits, and
the reason the assert fires, is that, when GDB exits, there are still
some connections that have not yet been removed from GDB, that is,
they have a non-zero reference count.
If we take a look at quit_force (top.c) you can see that, for each
inferior, we call pop_all_targets before we (later in the function)
call do_final_cleanups. It is the do_final_cleanups call that is
responsible for shutting down the Python interpreter. The
pop_all_targets calls should, in theory, cause all the connections to
be removed from GDB.
That this isn't working indicates that some targets have a non-zero
reference count even after this final pop_all_targets call, and
indeed, when I debug GDB, that is what I see.
I tracked the problem down to delete_inferior where we do some house
keeping, and then delete the inferior object, which calls
inferior::~inferior.
In neither delete_inferior or inferior::~inferior do we call
pop_all_targets, and it is this missing call that means we leak some
references to the target_ops objects on the inferior's target_stack.
In this commit I will provide a partial fix for the problem. I say
partial fix, but this will actually be enough to resolve the crash.
In a later commit I will provide the final part of the fix.
As mentioned at the start of the commit message, this commit changes
the m_stack in target_stack to hold target_ops_ref objects. This
means that when inferior::~inferior is called, and m_stack is
released, we automatically decrement the target_ops reference count.
With this change in place we no longer leak any references, and now,
in quit_force the final pop_all_targets calls will release the final
references. This means that the targets will be correctly closed at
this point, which means the connections will be removed from GDB and
the Python objects deallocated before the Python interpreter shuts
down.
There's a slight oddity in target_stack::unpush, where we std::move
the reference out of m_stack like this:
auto ref = std::move (m_stack[stratum]);
the `ref' isn't used explicitly, but it serves to hold the
target_ops_ref until the end of the scope while allowing the m_stack
entry to be reset back to nullptr. The alternative would be to
directly set the m_stack entry to nullptr, like this:
m_stack[stratum] = nullptr;
The problem here is that when we set the m_stack entry to nullptr we
first decrement the target_ops reference count, and then set the array
entry to nullptr.
If the decrement means that the target_ops object reaches a zero
reference count then the target_ops object will be closed by calling
target_close. In target_close we ensure that the target being closed
is not in any inferiors target_stack.
As we decrement before clearing, then this check in target_close will
fail, and an assert will trigger.
By using std::move to move the reference out of m_stack, this clears
the m_stack entry, meaning the inferior no longer contains the
target_ops in its target_stack. Now when the REF object goes out of
scope and the reference count is decremented, target_close can run
successfully.
I've made use of the Python connection_removed listener API to add a
test for this issue. The test installs a listener and then causes
delete_inferior to be called, we can then see that the connection is
then correctly removed (because the listener triggers).
New in this version:
- Better comment in target_kill
- Uncomment line in test to avoid hanging when exiting, when testing on
native-extended-gdbserver
PR 28275 shows that doing a sequence of:
- Run inferior in background (run &)
- kill that inferior
- Run again
We get into this assertion:
/home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/target.c:2590: internal-error: target_wait: Assertion `!proc_target->commit_resumed_state' failed.
#0 internal_error_loc (file=0x5606b344e740 "/home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/target.c", line=2590, fmt=0x5606b344d6a0 "%s: Assertion `%s' failed.") at /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/errors.cc:54
#1 0x00005606b6296475 in target_wait (ptid=..., status=0x7fffb9390630, options=...) at /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/target.c:2590
#2 0x00005606b5767a98 in startup_inferior (proc_target=0x5606bfccb2a0 <the_amd64_linux_nat_target>, pid=3884857, ntraps=1, last_waitstatus=0x0, last_ptid=0x0) at /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/nat/fork-inferior.c:482
#3 0x00005606b4e6c9c5 in gdb_startup_inferior (pid=3884857, num_traps=1) at /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/fork-child.c:132
#4 0x00005606b50f14a5 in inf_ptrace_target::create_inferior (this=0x5606bfccb2a0 <the_amd64_linux_nat_target>, exec_file=0x604000039f50 "/home/smarchi/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/test", allargs="", env=0x61500000a580, from_tty=1)
at /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/inf-ptrace.c:105
#5 0x00005606b53b6d23 in linux_nat_target::create_inferior (this=0x5606bfccb2a0 <the_amd64_linux_nat_target>, exec_file=0x604000039f50 "/home/smarchi/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/test", allargs="", env=0x61500000a580, from_tty=1)
at /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-nat.c:978
#6 0x00005606b512b79b in run_command_1 (args=0x0, from_tty=1, run_how=RUN_NORMAL) at /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infcmd.c:468
#7 0x00005606b512c236 in run_command (args=0x0, from_tty=1) at /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infcmd.c:526
When running the kill command, commit_resumed_state for the
process_stratum_target (linux-nat, here) is true. After the kill, when
there are no more threads, commit_resumed_state is still true, as
nothing touches this flag during the kill operation. During the
subsequent run command, run_command_1 does:
scoped_disable_commit_resumed disable_commit_resumed ("running");
We would think that this would clear the commit_resumed_state flag of
our native target, but that's not the case, because
scoped_disable_commit_resumed iterates on non-exited inferiors in order
to find active process targets. And after the kill, the inferior is
exited, and the native target was unpushed from it anyway. So
scoped_disable_commit_resumed doesn't touch the commit_resumed_state
flag of the native target, it stays true. When reaching target_wait, in
startup_inferior (to consume the initial expect stop events while the
inferior is starting up and working its way through the shell),
commit_resumed_state is true, breaking the contract saying that
commit_resumed_state is always false when calling the targets' wait
method.
(note: to be correct, I think that startup_inferior should toggle
commit_resumed between the target_wait and target_resume calls, but I'll
ignore that for now)
I can see multiple ways to fix this. In the end, we need
commit_resumed_state to be cleared by the time we get to that
target_wait. It could be done at the end of the kill command, or at the
beginning of the run command.
To keep things in a coherent state, I'd like to make it so that after
the kill command, when the target is left with no threads, its
commit_resumed_state flag is left to false. This way, we can keep
working with the assumption that a target with no threads (and therefore
no running threads) has commit_resumed_state == false.
Do this by adding a scoped_disable_commit_resumed in target_kill. It
clears the target's commit_resumed_state on entry, and leaves it false
if the target does not have any resumed thread on exit. That means,
even if the target has another inferior with stopped threads,
commit_resumed_state will be left to false, which makes sense.
Add a test that tries to cover various combinations of actions done
while an inferior is running (and therefore while commit_resumed_state
is true on the process target).
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28275
Change-Id: I8e6fe6dc1f475055921520e58cab68024039a1e9
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
This commit addresses one of the issues identified in PR gdb/28275.
Bug gdb/28275 identifies a number of situations in which this assert:
Assertion `!proc_target->commit_resumed_state' failed.
could be triggered. There's actually a number of similar places where
this assert is found in GDB, the two of interest in gdb/28275 are in
target_wait and target_stop.
In one of the comments:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28275#c1
steps to trigger the assertion within target_stop were identified when
using a modified version of the gdb.threads/detach-step-over.exp test
script.
In the gdb.threads/detach-step-over.exp test, we attach to a
multi-threaded inferior, and continue the inferior in asynchronous
(background) mode. Each thread is continuously hitting a conditional
breakpoint where the condition is always false. While the inferior is
running we detach. The goal is that we detach while GDB is performing a
step-over for the conditional breakpoint in at least one thread.
While detaching, if a step-over is in progress, then GDB has to
complete the step over before we can detach. This involves calling
target_stop and target_wait (see prepare_for_detach).
As far as gdb/28275 is concerned, the interesting part here, is the
the process_stratum_target::commit_resumed_state variable must be
false when target_stop and target_wait are called.
This is currently ensured because, in detach_command (infrun.c), we
create an instance of scoped_disable_commit_resumed, this ensures that
when target_detach is called, ::commit_resumed_state will be false.
The modification to the test that I propose here, and which exposed
the bug, is that, instead of using "detach" to detach from the
inferior, we instead use "quit". Quitting GDB after attaching to an
inferior will cause GDB to first detach, and then exit.
When we quit GDB we end up calling target_detach via a different code
path, the stack looks like:
#0 target_detach
#1 kill_or_detach
#2 quit_force
#3 quit_command
Along this path there is no scoped_disable_commit_resumed created.
::commit_resumed_state can be true when we reach prepare_for_detach,
which calls target_wait and target_stop, so the assertion will trigger.
In this commit, I propose fixing this by adding the creation of a
scoped_disable_commit_resumed into target_detach. This will ensure
that ::commit_resumed_state is false when calling prepare_for_detach
from within target_detach.
I did consider placing the scoped_disable_commit_resumed in
prepare_for_detach, however, placing it in target_detach ensures that
the target's commit_resumed_state flag is left to false if the detached
inferior was the last one for that target. It's the same rationale as
for patch "gdb: disable commit resumed in target_kill" that comes later
in this series, but for detach instead of kill.
detach_command still includes a scoped_disable_commit_resumed too, but I
think it is still relevant to cover the resumption at the end of the
function.
Co-Authored-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28275
Change-Id: Ie128f7aba6ef0e018859275eca372e6ea738e96f
Some class members were changed to bool, but there was
still some assignments or comparisons using 0/1.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Currently, every internal_error call must be passed __FILE__/__LINE__
explicitly, like:
internal_error (__FILE__, __LINE__, "foo %d", var);
The need to pass in explicit __FILE__/__LINE__ is there probably
because the function predates widespread and portable variadic macros
availability. We can use variadic macros nowadays, and in fact, we
already use them in several places, including the related
gdb_assert_not_reached.
So this patch renames the internal_error function to something else,
and then reimplements internal_error as a variadic macro that expands
__FILE__/__LINE__ itself.
The result is that we now should call internal_error like so:
internal_error ("foo %d", var);
Likewise for internal_warning.
The patch adjusts all calls sites. 99% of the adjustments were done
with a perl/sed script.
The non-mechanical changes are in gdbsupport/errors.h,
gdbsupport/gdb_assert.h, and gdb/gdbarch.py.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Change-Id: Ia6f372c11550ca876829e8fd85048f4502bdcf06
Converting from free-form macros to an enum gives a bit of type-safety.
This caught places where we would assign host error numbers to what
should contain a target fileio error number, for instance in
target_fileio_pread.
I added the FILEIO_SUCCESS enumerator, because
remote.c:remote_hostio_parse_result initializes the remote_errno output
variable to 0. It seems better to have an explicit enumerator than to
assign a value for which there is no enumerator. I considered
initializing this variable to FILEIO_EUNKNOWN instead, such that if the
remote side replies with an error and omits the errno value, we'll get
an errno that represents an error instead of 0 (which reprensents no
error). But it's not clear what the consequences of that change would
be, so I prefer to err on the side of caution and just keep the existing
behavior (there is no intended change in behavior with this patch).
Note that remote_hostio_parse_resul still reads blindly what the remote
side sends as a target errno into this variable, so we can still end up
with a nonsensical value here. It's not good, but out of the scope of
this patch.
Convert host_to_fileio_error and fileio_errno_to_host to return / accept
a fileio_error instead of an int, and cascade the change in the whole
chain that uses that.
Change-Id: I454b0e3fcf0732447bc872252fa8e57d138b0e03
I don't see why include/gdb/fileio.h is placed there. It's not
installed by "make install", and it's not included by anything outside
of gdb/gdbserver/gdbsupport.
Move its content back to gdbsupport/fileio.h. I have omitted the bits
inside an `#if 0`, since it's obviously not used, as well as the
"limits" constants, which are also unused.
Change-Id: I6fbc2ea10fbe4cfcf15f9f76006b31b99c20e5a9
This changes target_pid_to_exec_file and target_ops::pid_to_exec_file
to return a "const char *". I couldn't build many of these targets,
but did examine the code by hand -- also, as this only affects the
return type, it's normally pretty safe. This brings gdb and gdbserver
a bit closer, and allows for the removal of a const_cast as well.
The current target_resume interface is a bit odd & non-intuitive.
I've found myself explaining it a couple times the recent past, while
reviewing patches that assumed STEP/SIGNAL always applied to the
passed in PTID. It goes like this today:
- if the passed in PTID is a thread, then the step/signal request is
for that thread.
- otherwise, if PTID is a wildcard (all threads or all threads of
process), the step/signal request is for inferior_ptid, and PTID
indicates which set of threads run free.
Because GDB always switches the current thread to "leader" thread
being resumed/stepped/signalled, we can simplify this a bit to:
- step/signal are always for inferior_ptid.
- PTID indicates the set of threads that run free.
Still not ideal, but it's a minimal change and at least there are no
special cases this way.
That's what this patch does. It renames the PTID parameter to
SCOPE_PTID, adds some assertions to target_resume, and tweaks
target_resume's description. In addition, it also renames PTID to
SCOPE_PTID in the remote and linux-nat targets, and simplifies their
implementation a little bit. Other targets could do the same, but
they don't have to.
Change-Id: I02a2ec2ab3a3e9b191de1e9a84f55c17cab7daaf
target_read_string takes a byte order parameter, but only uses this to
check whether a given character is zero. This is readily done without
requiring the parameter, so remove it.
