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[binutils-gdb] gdbserver: Leave already-vCont-resumed threads as they were


*** TEST RESULTS FOR COMMIT 5a04c4cf5df6d13596e79e7b84520cbe245a5a4d ***

Author: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Branch: master
Commit: 5a04c4cf5df6d13596e79e7b84520cbe245a5a4d

gdbserver: Leave already-vCont-resumed threads as they were

Currently GDB never sends more than one action per vCont packet, when
connected in non-stop mode.  A follow up patch will change that, and
it exposed a gdbserver problem with the vCont handling.

For example, this in non-stop mode:

  => vCont;s:p1.1;c
  <= OK

Should be equivalent to:

  => vCont;s:p1.1
  <= OK
  => vCont;c
  <= OK

But gdbserver currently doesn't handle this.  In the latter case,
"vCont;c" makes gdbserver clobber the previous step request.  This
patch fixes that.

Note the server side must ignore resume actions for the thread that
has a pending %Stopped notification (and any other threads with events
pending), until GDB acks the notification with vStopped.  Otherwise,
e.g., the following case is mishandled:

 #1 => g  (or any other packet)
 #2 <= [registers]
 #3 <= %Stopped T05 thread:p1.2
 #4 => vCont s:p1.1;c
 #5 <= OK

Above, the server must not resume thread p1.2 when it processes the
vCont.  GDB can't know that p1.2 stopped until it acks the %Stopped
notification.  (Otherwise it wouldn't send a default "c" action.)

(The vCont documentation already specifies this.)

Finally, special care must also be given to handling fork/vfork
events.  A (v)fork event actually tells us that two processes stopped
-- the parent and the child.  Until we follow the fork, we must not
resume the child.  Therefore, if we have a pending fork follow, we
must not send a global wildcard resume action (vCont;c).  We can still
send process-wide wildcards though.

(The comments above will be added as code comments to gdb in a follow
up patch.)

gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog:
2016-10-26  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>

	* linux-low.c (handle_extended_wait): Link parent/child fork
	threads.
	(linux_wait_1): Unlink them.
	(linux_set_resume_request): Ignore resume requests for
	already-resumed and unhandled fork child threads.
	* linux-low.h (struct lwp_info) <fork_relative>: New field.
	* server.c (in_queued_stop_replies_ptid, in_queued_stop_replies):
	New functions.
	(handle_v_requests) <vCont>: Don't call require_running.
	* server.h (in_queued_stop_replies): New declaration.


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