The `ready` flag of async event handlers is cleared by the async event
handler system right before invoking the associated callback, in
check_async_event_handlers.
This is not ideal with how the infrun subsystem consumes events: all
targets' async event handler callbacks essentially just invoke
`inferior_event_handler`, which eventually calls `fetch_inferior_event`
and `do_target_wait`. `do_target_wait` picks an inferior at random,
and thus a target at random (it could be the target whose `ready` flag
was cleared, or not), and pulls one event from it.
So it's possible that:
- the async event handler for a target A is called
- we end up consuming an event for target B
- all threads of target B are stopped, target_async(0) is called on it,
so its async event handler is cleared (e.g.
record_btrace_target::async)
As a result, target A still has events to report while its async event
handler is left unmarked, so these events are not consumed. To counter
this, at the end of their async event handler callbacks, targets check
if they still have something to report and re-mark their async event
handler (e.g. remote_async_inferior_event_handler).
The linux_nat target does not suffer from this because it doesn't use an
async event handler at the moment. It only uses a pipe registered with
the event loop. It is written to in the SIGCHLD handler (and in other
spots that want to get target wait method called) and read from in
the target's wait method. So if linux_nat happened to be target A in
the example above, the pipe would just stay readable, and the event loop
would wake up again, until linux_nat's wait method is finally called and
consumes the contents of the pipe.
I think it would be nicer if targets using async_event_handler worked in
a similar way, where the flag would stay set until the target's wait
method is actually called. As a first step towards that, this patch
moves the responsibility of clearing the ready flags of async event
handlers to the invoked callback.
All async event handler callbacks are modified to clear their ready flag
before doing anything else. So in practice, nothing changes with this
patch. It's only the responsibility of clearing the flag that is
shifted toward the callee.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* async-event.h (async_event_handler_func): Add documentation.
* async-event.c (check_async_event_handlers): Don't clear
async_event_handler ready flag.
* infrun.c (infrun_async_inferior_event_handler): Clear ready
flag.
* record-btrace.c (record_btrace_handle_async_inferior_event):
Likewise.
* record-full.c (record_full_async_inferior_event_handler):
Likewise.
* remote-notif.c (remote_async_get_pending_events_handler):
Likewise.
* remote.c (remote_async_inferior_event_handler): Likewise.
Change-Id: I179ef8e99580eae642d332846fd13664dbddc0c1
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.
Assign names to async event/signal handlers. They will be used in debug
messages when file handlers are invoked.
Unlike in the previous patch, the names are not copied in the structure,
since we don't need to (all names are string literals for the moment).
gdb/ChangeLog:
* async-event.h (create_async_signal_handler): Add name
parameter.
(create_async_event_handler): Likewise.
* async-event.c (struct async_signal_handler) <name>: New field.
(struct async_event_handler) <name>: New field.
(create_async_signal_handler): Assign name.
(create_async_event_handler): Assign name.
* event-top.c (async_init_signals): Pass name when creating
handler.
* infrun.c (_initialize_infrun): Likewise.
* record-btrace.c (record_btrace_push_target): Likewise.
* record-full.c (record_full_open): Likewise.
* remote-notif.c (remote_notif_state_allocate): Likewise.
* remote.c (remote_target::open_1): Likewise.
* tui/tui-win.c (tui_initialize_win): Likewise.
Change-Id: Icd9d9f775542ae5fc2cd148c12f481e7885936d5
Assign names to event loop file handlers. They will be used in debug
messages when file handlers are invoked.
In GDB, each UI used to get its own unique number, until commit
cbe256847e ("Remove ui::num"). Re-introduce this field, and use it to
make a unique name for the handler.
I'm not too sure what goes on in ser-base.c, all I know is that it's
what is used when debugging remotely. I've just named the main handler
"serial". It would be good to have unique names there too. For instance
when debugging with two different remote connections, we'd ideally want
the handlers to have unique names. I didn't do it in this patch though.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* async-event.c (initialize_async_signal_handlers): Pass name to
add_file_handler
* event-top.c (ui_register_input_event_handler): Likewise.
* linux-nat.c (linux_nat_target::async): Likewise.
* run-on-main-thread.c (_initialize_run_on_main_thread):
Likewise
* ser-base.c (reschedule): Likewise.
(ser_base_async): Likewise.
* tui/tui-io.c: Likewise.
* top.h (struct ui) <num>: New field.
* top.c (highest_ui_num): New variable.
(ui::ui): Initialize num.
gdbserver/ChangeLog:
* linux-low.cc (linux_process_target::async): Pass name to
add_file_handler.
* remote-utils.cc (handle_accept_event): Likewise.
(remote_open): Likewise.
gdbsupport/ChangeLog:
* event-loop.h (add_file_handler): Add "name" parameter.
* event-loop.cc (struct file_handler) <name>: New field.
(create_file_handler): Add "name" parameter, assign it to file
handler.
(add_file_handler): Add "name" parameter.
Change-Id: I9f1545f73888ebb6778eb653a618ca44d105f92c
The async-event.[ch] files were introduced recently as a result of
splitting the event-loop. I believe the copyright year update was
just an oversight. So, this patch fixes that.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2020-05-13 Tankut Baris Aktemur <tankut.baris.aktemur@intel.com>
* async-event.c: Update the copyright year.
* async-event.h: Update the copyright year.
This is a small cleanup to normalize the structures in async-event.c
with the rest of the code base:
- Remove the unnecessary typedefs
- Fix indentation of struct bodies
- Put comments above fields
No functional changes expected.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* async-event.c (struct async_signal_handler, struct
async_event_handler): Reformat, remove typedef.
This patch splits out some gdb-specific code from event-loop, into new
files async-event.[ch]. Strictly speaking this code could perhaps be
put into gdbsupport/, but because gdbserver does not currently use it,
it seemed better, for size reasons, to split it out.
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-04-13 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* tui/tui-win.c: Include async-event.h.
* remote.c: Include async-event.h.
* remote-notif.c: Include async-event.h.
* record-full.c: Include async-event.h.
* record-btrace.c: Include async-event.h.
* infrun.c: Include async-event.h.
* event-top.c: Include async-event.h.
* event-loop.h: Move some declarations to async-event.h.
* event-loop.c: Don't include ser-event.h or top.h. Move some
code to async-event.c.
* async-event.h: New file.
* async-event.c: New file.
* Makefile.in (COMMON_SFILES): Add async-event.c.
(HFILES_NO_SRCDIR): Add async-event.h.
