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Re: [PATCH] [gdbserver] Disable conditional breakpoints on no-hardware-single-step targets




On 05/08/2015 07:50 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
On 05/07/2015 12:45 PM, Antoine Tremblay wrote:

Just fyi, I'm working on doing this at the moment, my investigation is
still incomplete...

So far I mainly plan to port the arm_get_next code to gdbserver, to
accomplish 1. , the code doesn't have so many deps so it should be ok
2. by looking at $cpsr
3. should be fine as 1 and 2 are done...

I don't know however yet the best strategy to share the code but I'm
guessing I could make the parts that don't have any deps to gdbarch etc
in a shared function with gdb/gdbserver... Any pointers on this are
welcome...

Yeah, sharing is good.

Maybe adding an abstraction layer object, like:

struct get_next_pc;

struct get_next_pc_ops
{
    void (*read_memory) (struct get_next_pc *self, ...);
    void (*read_register) (struct get_next_pc *self, ...);
    ...
};

struct get_next_pcs
{
    struct get_next_pc_ops *vtable;

    VEC(CORE_ADDR) *result;

    enum bfd_endian byte_order;
    enum bfd_endian byte_order_for_code;
    whatever_type whatever_other_context;
    ...
};

And then both GDB and GDBserver would instantiate
a struct get_next_pc object, like:

struct get_next_pc_ops gdb_get_next_pc_ops = {
    gdb_get_next_pc_read_memory,
    gdb_get_next_pc_read_register,
    ...
}

struct gdb_get_next_pcs
{
   struct get_next_pc base;

   // add whatever other context only gdb needs.
};

int
arm_software_single_step (struct frame_info *frame)
{
   struct gdbarch *gdbarch = get_frame_arch (frame);
   struct gdb_get_next_pc next_pc;
   CORE_ADDR pc;

   next_pc.vtable = gdb_get_next_pc_ops;
   next_pc.byte_order = gdbarch_byte_order (gdbarch);
   next_pc.byte_order_for_code = gdbarch_byte_order_for_code (gdbarch);

   // arm_get_next_pcs is the existing gdb code adjusted to the
   // new interface.
   arm_get_next_pcs (&next_pc);

   // walk result vec (a VEC of CORE_ADDRs) and insert breakpoints.
   // alternatively add a insert_breakpoint callback to struct get_next_pc_ops
   // and insert breakpoints from within arm_get_next_pcs, as currently.
   for (i = 0;
        VEC_iterate (CORE_ADDR, next_pcs.result, i, pc);
        ++i)
     {
        arm_insert_single_step_breakpoint (gdbarch, aspace, pc);
     }

   return 1;
}


This looks very nice thanks! , but I do have one question , why is the result a VEC ?

From the context and current code won't we have only one next instruction ?

Also, if you may,file structure wise, where would be a good place for this abstration layer in your view ?

Thanks,
Antoine


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