While reviewing the Linux and FreeBSD core dumping code within GDB for
another patch series, I noticed that the code that collects the
registers for each thread and writes these into ELF note format is
basically identical between Linux and FreeBSD.
This commit merges this code and moves it into a new file gcore-elf.c.
The function find_signalled_thread is moved from linux-tdep.c to
gcore.c despite not being shared. A later commit will make use of
this function.
I did merge, and then revert a previous version of this patch (commit
82a1fd3a49 for the original patch and 03642b7189 for the revert).
The problem with the original patch is that it introduced a
unconditional dependency between GDB and some ELF specific functions
in the BFD library, e.g. elfcore_write_prstatus and
elfcore_write_register_note. It was pointed out in this mailing list
post:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-February/175750.html
that this change was breaking any build of GDB for non-ELF targets.
To confirm this breakage, and to test this new version of GDB I
configured and built for the target x86_64-apple-darwin20.3.0.
Where the previous version of this patch placed all of the common code
into gcore.c, which is included in all builds of GDB, this new patch
only places non-ELF specific generic code (i.e. find_signalled_thread)
into gcore.c, the ELF specific code is put into the new gcore-elf.c
file, which is only included in GDB if BFD has ELF support.
The contents of gcore-elf.c are referenced unconditionally from
linux-tdep.c and fbsd-tdep.c, this is fine, we previously always
assumed that these two targets required ELF support, and we continue
to make that assumption after this patch; nothing has changed there.
With my previous version of this patch the darwin target mentioned
above failed to build, but with the new version, the target builds
fine.
There are a couple of minor changes to the FreeBSD target after this
commit, but I believe that these are changes for the better:
(1) For FreeBSD we always used to record the thread-id in the core
file by using ptid_t.lwp (). In contrast the Linux code did this:
/* For remote targets the LWP may not be available, so use the TID. */
long lwp = ptid.lwp ();
if (lwp == 0)
lwp = ptid.tid ();
Both target now do this:
/* The LWP is often not available for bare metal target, in which case
use the tid instead. */
if (ptid.lwp_p ())
lwp = ptid.lwp ();
else
lwp = ptid.tid ();
Which is equivalent for Linux, but is a change for FreeBSD. I think
that all this means is that in some cases where GDB might have
previously recorded a thread-id of 0 for each thread, we might now get
something more useful.
(2) When collecting the registers for Linux we collected into a zero
initialised buffer. By contrast on FreeBSD the buffer is left
uninitialised. In the new code the buffer is always zero initialised.
I suspect once the registers are copied into the buffer there's
probably no gaps left so this makes no difference, but if it does then
using zeros rather than random bits of GDB's memory is probably a good
thing.
Otherwise, there should be no other user visible changes after this
commit.
Tested this on x86-64/GNU-Linux and x86-64/FreeBSD-12.2 with no
regressions.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* Makefile.in (SFILES): Add gcore-elf.c.
(HFILES_NO_SRCDIR): Add gcore-elf.h
* configure: Regenerate.
* configure.ac: Add gcore-elf.o to CONFIG_OBS if we have ELF
support.
* fbsd-tdep.c: Add 'gcore-elf.h' include.
(struct fbsd_collect_regset_section_cb_data): Delete.
(fbsd_collect_regset_section_cb): Delete.
(fbsd_collect_thread_registers): Delete.
(struct fbsd_corefile_thread_data): Delete.
(fbsd_corefile_thread): Delete.
(fbsd_make_corefile_notes): Call
gcore_elf_build_thread_register_notes instead of the now deleted
FreeBSD code.
* gcore-elf.c: New file, the content was moved here from
linux-tdep.c, functions were renamed and given minor cleanup.
* gcore-elf.h: New file.
* gcore.c (gcore_find_signalled_thread): Moved here from
linux-tdep.c and given a new name. Minor cleanups.
* gcore.h (gcore_find_signalled_thread): Declare.
* linux-tdep.c: Add 'gcore.h' and 'gcore-elf.h' includes.
(struct linux_collect_regset_section_cb_data): Delete.
(linux_collect_regset_section_cb): Delete.
(linux_collect_thread_registers): Delete.
(linux_corefile_thread): Call
gcore_elf_build_thread_register_notes.
(find_signalled_thread): Delete.
(linux_make_corefile_notes): Call gcore_find_signalled_thread.
This reverts commit 82a1fd3a49.
It was pointed out:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-February/175750.html
that commit 82a1fd3a49 caused GDB to have an unconditional
dependency on ELF specific parts of BFD. What this means is that if
GDB and BFD are built for a non-elf target then there will be
undefined symbol references within GDB.
The right solution isn't immediately obvious. So rather than rush a
fix in I'm reverting this commit for now, and will bring it back once
I have a good solution.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* gcore.c (struct gcore_collect_regset_section_cb_data): Delete.
(gcore_collect_regset_section_cb): Delete.
(gcore_collect_thread_registers): Delete.
(gcore_build_thread_register_notes): Delete.
(gcore_find_signalled_thread): Delete.
* gcore.h: Remove 'gdbsupport/gdb_signals.h' include and delete
'gdbarch' and 'thread_info' declarations.
(gcore_build_thread_register_notes): Delete declaration.
(gcore_find_signalled_thread): Likewise.
* fbsd-tdep.c: Remove 'gcore.h' include.
(struct fbsd_collect_regset_section_cb_data): New struct.
(fbsd_collect_regset_section_cb): New function.
(fbsd_collect_thread_registers): New function.
(struct fbsd_corefile_thread_data): New struct.
(fbsd_corefile_thread): New function.
(fbsd_make_corefile_notes): Call FreeBSD specific code.
* linux-tdep.c: Remove 'gcore.h' include.
(struct linux_collect_regset_section_cb_data): New struct.
(linux_collect_regset_section_cb): New function.
(linux_collect_thread_registers): New function.
(linux_corefile_thread): Call Linux specific code.
(find_signalled_thread): New function.
(linux_make_corefile_notes): Call find_signalled_thread.
While reviewing the Linux and FreeBSD core dumping code within GDB for
another patch series, I noticed that the code that collects the
registers for each thread and writes these into ELF note format is
basically identical between Linux and FreeBSD.
This commit merges this code and moves it into the gcore.c file,
which seemed like the right place for generic writing a core file
code.
The function find_signalled_thread is moved from linux-tdep.c despite
not being shared. A later commit will make use of this function.
There are a couple of minor changes to the FreeBSD target after this
commit, but I believe that these are changes for the better:
(1) For FreeBSD we always used to record the thread-id in the core file by
using ptid_t.lwp (). In contrast the Linux code did this:
/* For remote targets the LWP may not be available, so use the TID. */
long lwp = ptid.lwp ();
if (lwp == 0)
lwp = ptid.tid ();
Both target now do this:
/* The LWP is often not available for bare metal target, in which case
use the tid instead. */
if (ptid.lwp_p ())
lwp = ptid.lwp ();
else
lwp = ptid.tid ();
Which is equivalent for Linux, but is a change for FreeBSD. I think
that all this means is that in some cases where GDB might have
previously recorded a thread-id of 0 for each thread, we might now get
something more useful.
(2) When collecting the registers for Linux we collected into a zero
initialised buffer. By contrast on FreeBSD the buffer is left
uninitialised. In the new code the buffer is always zero initialised.
I suspect once the registers are copied into the buffer there's
probably no gaps left so this makes no difference, but if it does then
using zeros rather than random bits of GDB's memory is probably a good
thing.
Otherwise, there should be no other user visible changes after this
commit.
Tested this on x86-64/GNU-Linux and x86-64/FreeBSD-12.2 with no
regressions.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* Makefile.in (HFILES_NO_SRCDIR): Add corefile.h.
* gcore.c (struct gcore_collect_regset_section_cb_data): Moved
here from linux-tdep.c and given a new name. Minor cleanups.
(gcore_collect_regset_section_cb): Likewise.
(gcore_collect_thread_registers): Likewise.
(gcore_build_thread_register_notes): Likewise.
(gcore_find_signalled_thread): Likewise.
* gcore.h (gcore_build_thread_register_notes): Declare.
(gcore_find_signalled_thread): Declare.
* fbsd-tdep.c: Add 'gcore.h' include.
(struct fbsd_collect_regset_section_cb_data): Delete.
(fbsd_collect_regset_section_cb): Delete.
(fbsd_collect_thread_registers): Delete.
(struct fbsd_corefile_thread_data): Delete.
(fbsd_corefile_thread): Delete.
(fbsd_make_corefile_notes): Call
gcore_build_thread_register_notes instead of the now deleted
FreeBSD code.
* linux-tdep.c: Add 'gcore.h' include.
(struct linux_collect_regset_section_cb_data): Delete.
(linux_collect_regset_section_cb): Delete.
(linux_collect_thread_registers): Delete.
(linux_corefile_thread): Call
gcore_build_thread_register_notes.
(find_signalled_thread): Delete.
(linux_make_corefile_notes): Call gcore_find_signalled_thread.
This commits the result of running gdb/copyright.py as per our Start
of New Year procedure...
gdb/ChangeLog
Update copyright year range in copyright header of all GDB files.
gcore.h declares load_corefile, but there are no other mentions of
this in the source. This patch removes it. Tested by grep and
rebuilding.
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-07-27 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
* gcore.h (load_corefile): Don't declare.
This commit applies all changes made after running the gdb/copyright.py
script.
Note that one file was flagged by the script, due to an invalid
copyright header
(gdb/unittests/basic_string_view/element_access/char/empty.cc).
As the file was copied from GCC's libstdc++-v3 testsuite, this commit
leaves this file untouched for the time being; a patch to fix the header
was sent to gcc-patches first.
gdb/ChangeLog:
Update copyright year range in all GDB files.
This introduces a new specialization of gdb::ref_ptr that can be used
to manage BFD reference counts. Then it changes most places in gdb to
use this new class, rather than explicit reference-counting or
cleanups. This patch removes make_cleanup_bfd_unref.
If you look you will see a couple of spots using "release" where a use
of gdb_bfd_ref_ptr would be cleaner. These will be fixed in the next
patch.
I think this patch fixes some latent bugs. For example, it seems to
me that previously objfpy_add_separate_debug_file leaked a BFD.
I'm not 100% certain that the macho_symfile_read_all_oso change is
correct. The existing code here is hard for me to follow. One goal
of this sort of automated reference counting, though, is to make it
more difficult to make logic errors; so hopefully the code is clear
now.
2017-01-10 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* windows-tdep.c (windows_xfer_shared_library): Update.
* windows-nat.c (windows_make_so): Update.
* utils.h (make_cleanup_bfd_unref): Remove.
* utils.c (do_bfd_close_cleanup, make_cleanup_bfd_unref): Remove.
* symfile.h (symfile_bfd_open)
(find_separate_debug_file_in_section): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
* symfile.c (read_symbols, symbol_file_add)
(separate_debug_file_exists): Update.
(symfile_bfd_open): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(generic_load, reread_symbols): Update.
* symfile-mem.c (symbol_file_add_from_memory): Update.
* spu-linux-nat.c (spu_bfd_open): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(spu_symbol_file_add_from_memory): Update.
* solist.h (struct target_so_ops) <bfd_open>: Return
gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(solib_bfd_fopen, solib_bfd_open): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
* solib.c (solib_bfd_fopen, solib_bfd_open): Return
gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(solib_map_sections, reload_shared_libraries_1): Update.
* solib-svr4.c (enable_break): Update.
* solib-spu.c (spu_bfd_fopen): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
* solib-frv.c (enable_break2): Update.
* solib-dsbt.c (enable_break): Update.
* solib-darwin.c (gdb_bfd_mach_o_fat_extract): Return
gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(darwin_solib_get_all_image_info_addr_at_init): Update.
(darwin_bfd_open): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
* solib-aix.c (solib_aix_bfd_open): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
* record-full.c (record_full_save): Update.
* python/py-objfile.c (objfpy_add_separate_debug_file): Update.
* procfs.c (insert_dbx_link_bpt_in_file): Update.
* minidebug.c (find_separate_debug_file_in_section): Return
gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
* machoread.c (macho_add_oso_symfile): Change abfd to
gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(macho_symfile_read_all_oso): Update.
(macho_check_dsym): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(macho_symfile_read): Update.
* jit.c (bfd_open_from_target_memory): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(jit_bfd_try_read_symtab): Update.
* gdb_bfd.h (gdb_bfd_open, gdb_bfd_fopen, gdb_bfd_openr)
(gdb_bfd_openw, gdb_bfd_openr_iovec)
(gdb_bfd_openr_next_archived_file, gdb_bfd_fdopenr): Return
gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(gdb_bfd_ref_policy): New struct.
(gdb_bfd_ref_ptr): New typedef.
* gdb_bfd.c (gdb_bfd_open, gdb_bfd_fopen, gdb_bfd_openr)
(gdb_bfd_openw, gdb_bfd_openr_iovec)
(gdb_bfd_openr_next_archived_file, gdb_bfd_fdopenr): Return
gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
* gcore.h (create_gcore_bfd): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
* gcore.c (create_gcore_bfd): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(gcore_command): Update.
* exec.c (exec_file_attach): Update.
* elfread.c (elf_symfile_read): Update.
* dwarf2read.c (dwarf2_get_dwz_file): Update.
(try_open_dwop_file, open_dwo_file): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(open_and_init_dwo_file): Update.
(open_dwp_file): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(open_and_init_dwp_file): Update.
* corelow.c (core_open): Update.
* compile/compile-object-load.c (compile_object_load): Update.
* common/gdb_ref_ptr.h (ref_ptr::operator->): New operator.
* coffread.c (coff_symfile_read): Update.
* cli/cli-dump.c (bfd_openr_or_error, bfd_openw_or_error): Return
gdb_bfd_ref_ptr. Rename.
(dump_bfd_file, restore_command): Update.
* build-id.h (build_id_to_debug_bfd): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
* build-id.c (build_id_to_debug_bfd): Return gdb_bfd_ref_ptr.
(find_separate_debug_file_by_buildid): Update.
This applies the second part of GDB's End of Year Procedure, which
updates the copyright year range in all of GDB's files.
gdb/ChangeLog:
Update copyright year range in all GDB files.
exec_set_find_memory_regions is used to modify the exec target.
However, it only has a single caller, and so it is much clearer to
simply set the appropriate field directly. It's also better for the
coming multi-target world to avoid this kind of global state change
anyway.
2014-02-19 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
* gcore.h (objfile_find_memory_regions): Declare.
* gcore.c (objfile_find_memory_regions): No longer static. Add
"self" argument.
(_initialize_gcore): Don't call exec_set_find_memory_regions.
* exec.c: Include gcore.h.
(exec_set_find_memory_regions): Remove.
(exec_find_memory_regions): Remove.
(exec_do_find_memory_regions): Remove.
(init_exec_ops): Update.
* defs.h (exec_set_find_memory_regions): Remove.
Two modifications:
1. The addition of 2013 to the copyright year range for every file;
2. The use of a single year range, instead of potentially multiple
year ranges, as approved by the FSF.
Michael Snyder <msnyder@msnyder-server.eng.vmware.com>
* record.c (RECORD_FILE_MAGIC): New constant.
(record_arch_list_cleanups): Renamed from record_message_cleanups.
(bfdcore_read): New function.
(netorder64): New function.
(netorder32): New function.
(netorder16): New function.
(record_restore): New function. Restore a saved record log.
(bfdcore_write): New function.
(cmd_record_restore): New function.
(cmd_record_save): New function. Save a record log to a file.
(_initialize_record): Set up commands for save and restore.
2009-10-17 Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
* gcore.h: New file.
* gcore.c (create_gcore_bfd): New function.
(write_gcore_file): New function.
(call_target_sbrk): New function. Abstracted from gcore_command.
(gcore_command): Call call_target_sbrk.
