When using a remote target, it is possible to tell GDB that the
executable to be debugged is located on the remote machine, like this:
(gdb) target extended-remote :54321
... snip ...
(gdb) file target:/tmp/hello.x
Reading /tmp/hello.x from remote target...
warning: File transfers from remote targets can be slow. Use "set sysroot" to access files locally instead.
Reading /tmp/hello.x from remote target...
Reading symbols from target:/tmp/hello.x...
(gdb)
So far so good. However, when we try to start the inferior we run
into a small problem:
(gdb) set remote exec-file /tmp/hello.x
(gdb) start
`target:/tmp/hello.x' has disappeared; keeping its symbols.
Temporary breakpoint 1 at 0x401198: file /tmp/hello.c, line 18.
Starting program: target:/tmp/hello.x
... snip ...
Temporary breakpoint 1, main () at /tmp/hello.c:18
18 printf ("Hello World\n");
(gdb)
Notice this line:
`target:/tmp/hello.x' has disappeared; keeping its symbols.
That's wrong, the executable hasn't been removed, GDB just doesn't
know how to check if the remote file has changed, and so falls back to
assuming that the file has been removed.
In this commit I update reread_symbols to use bfd_stat instead of
a direct stat call, this adds support for target: files, and fixes the
problem.
This change was proposed before in this commit:
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb-patches/20200114210956.25115-3-tromey@adacore.com/
However, that patch never got merged, and seemed to get stuck
discussing issues around gnulib stat vs system stat as used by BFD.
I didn't 100% understand the issues discussed in that thread, however,
I think the problem with the previous thread related to the changes in
gdb_bfd.c, rather than to the change in symfile.c. As such, I think
this change might be acceptable, my reasoning is:
- the objfile::mtime field is set by a call to bfd_get_mtime (see
objfiles.c), which calls bfd_stat under the hood. This will end
up using the system stat,
- In symfile.c we currently call stat directly, which will call the
gnulib stat, which, if I understand the above thread correctly,
might give a different result to the system stat in some cases,
- By switching to using bfd_stat in symfile.c we should now be
consistently calling the system stat.
There is another issue that came up during testing that this commit
fixes. Consider this GDB session:
$ gdb -q
(gdb) target extended-remote | ./gdbserver/gdbserver --multi --once -
Remote debugging using | ./gdbserver/gdbserver --multi --once -
Remote debugging using stdio
(gdb) file /tmp/hello.x
Reading symbols from /tmp/hello.x...
(gdb) set remote exec-file /tmp/hello.x
(gdb) start
... snip ...
(gdb) load
`system-supplied DSO at 0x7ffff7fcf000' has disappeared; keeping its symbols.
Loading section .interp, size 0x1c lma 0x4002a8
... snip ...
Start address 0x0000000000401050, load size 2004
Transfer rate: 326 KB/sec, 87 bytes/write.
Notice this line:
`system-supplied DSO at 0x7ffff7fcf000' has disappeared; keeping its symbols.
We actually see the same output, for the same reasons, when using a
native target, like this:
$ gdb -q
(gdb) file /tmp/hello.x
Reading symbols from /tmp/hello.x...
(gdb) start
... snip ...
(gdb) load
`system-supplied DSO at 0x7ffff7fcf000' has disappeared; keeping its symbols.
You can't do that when your target is `native'
(gdb)
In both cases this line appears because load_command (symfile.c) calls
reread_symbols, and reread_symbols loops over every currently loaded
objfile and tries to check if the file has changed on disk by calling
stat.
However, the `system-supplied DSO at 0x7ffff7fcf000' is an in-memory
BFD, the filename for this BFD is literally the string
'system-supplied DSO at 0x7ffff7fcf000'.
Before this commit GDB would try to use the system 'stat' call to stat
the file `system-supplied DSO at 0x7ffff7fcf000', which obviously
fails; there's no file with that name (usually). As a consequence of
the stat failing GDB prints the ' .... has disappeared ...' line.
Initially, all this commit did was switch from using 'stat' to using
'bfd_stat'. Calling bfd_stat on an in-memory BFD works just fine,
however, BFD just fills the 'struct stat' buffer with zeros (except
for the file size), see memory_bstat in bfd/bfdio.c.
However, there is a bit of a weirdness about in-memory BFDs. When
they are initially created the libbfd caches an mtime within the bfd
object, this is done in bfd_from_remote_memory (elfcode.h), the cached
mtime is the time at which the in-memory BFD is created.
What this means is that when GDB creates the in-memory BFD, and we
call bfd_get_mtime(), the value returned, which GDB caches within
objfile::mtime is the creation time of the in-memory BFD. But, when
this patch changes to use bfd_stat() we now get back 0, and so we
believe that the in-memory BFD has changed. This is a change in
behaviour.
To avoid this change in behaviour, in this commit, I propose that we
always skip in-memory BFDs in reread_symbols. This preserves the
behaviour from before this commit -- mostly.
As I'm not specifically checking for, and then skipping, in-memory
BFDs, we no longer see this line:
`system-supplied DSO at 0x7ffff7fcf000' has disappeared; keeping its symbols.
Which I think is an improvement.
Co-Authored-By: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
This started with me running into this comment in symfile.c:
/* FIXME, should use print_sys_errmsg but it's not filtered. */
gdb_printf (_("`%ps' has disappeared; keeping its symbols.\n"),
styled_string (file_name_style.style (), filename));
In this particular case I think I disagree with the comment; I think
the output should be a warning rather than just a message printed to
gdb_stdout, I think when the executable, or some other objfile that is
currently being debugged, disappears from disk, this is likely an
unexpected situation, and worth warning the user about.
So, in theory, I could just call print_sys_errmsg and remove the
comment, but that would mean loosing the filename styling in the
output... so in the end I remove the comment and updated the code to
call warning.
But that got me looking at print_sys_errmsg and how it's used.
Currently the function takes a string and an errno, and prints, to
stderr, the string followed by the result of calling strerror on the
errno.
In some places the string passed to print_sys_errmsg is just a
filename, and this is used when something goes wrong. In these cases,
I think calling warning rather than gdb_printf to gdb_stderr, would be
better, and in fact, in a couple of places we manually print a
"warning" prefix, and then call print_sys_errmsg. And so, for these
users I have added a new function warning_filename_and_errno, which
takes a filename, which is printed with styling, and an errno, which
is passed through strerror and the resulting string printed. This new
function calls warning to print its output. I then updated some of
the print_sys_errmsg users to use this new function.
Some other users of print_sys_errmsg are also emitting what is clearly
a warning, however, the string being passed in is more than just a
filename, so the new warning_filename_and_errno function can't be
used, it would style the whole string. For these users I have
switched to calling warning directly, this allows me to style the
warning message correctly.
Finally, in inflow.c there is one last call to print_sys_errmsg, in
this case I just inlined the definition of print_sys_errmsg. This is
a really weird case, as after printing this message GDB just does a
hard exit. This is pretty old code, dating back to the initial GDB
import, I guess it should be updated to call error() maybe, but I'm
reluctant to make this change as part of this commit, just in case
there's some reason why we can't throw an error at this point.
With that done there are now no users of print_sys_errmsg, and so the
old function can be removed.
While I was doing all of the above I added some additional filename
styling in soure.c, this is in an else block where the if contained
the print_sys_errmsg call, so these felt related.
And finally, while I was updating the uses of print_sys_errmsg in
procfs.c, I noticed that we used a static errmsg buffer to format some
error strings. As the above changes got rid of one of the users of
errmsg I also removed the other two users, and the static buffer.
There were a couple of tests that depended on the existing output
message format that needed updating. In one case we gained an extra
'warning: ' prefix, and in the other 'Warning: ' becomes 'warning: ',
I think in both cases the new output is an improvement.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
I noticed in procfs.c that we use a static buffer for building error
strings when we could easily use std::string and string_printf to
achieve the same result, this commit does that.
I ran into this while performing a further refactor/cleanup that will
be presented in a later patch in this series, and thought this was
worth splitting out into its own patch.
As far as I can tell, only Solaris uses procfs.c, so I did a test
build on a Solaris machine, and I don't believe that I've broken
anything.
There should be no user visible changes after this commit.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
While working on some other patch I noticed that in reread_symbols
there is a diagnostic message that can be printed, and in some cases
we might use the wrong filename in the message.
The code in question is checking to see if an objfile has changed on
disk, we do this by stat-ing the on disk file and checking the mtime.
If this file has been removed from disk then we print a message that
the file has been removed, however, if the objfile is within an
archive then we stat the archive itself, but then warn that the
component within the archive has disappeared. I think it makes more
sense to say that the archive has disappeared.
The last related commit is this one:
commit 02aeec7bde
Date: Tue Apr 27 21:01:30 2010 +0000
Check library name rather than member name when rereading symbols.
Though this just makes the code to stat the archive unconditional, the
code in question existed before this commit.
However, the above commit doesn't include any tests, and seems to
indicate that the problem being addressed was seen on Darwin. I'm not
sure how to setup a test where GDB is using an objfile from within an
archive, and so there's no tests for this commit...
... but if someone can let me know how I can setup a suitable test,
please let me know and I'll try to get something working.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Some gdb.base/fileio.exp tests expect the inferior to not have write
access to some files. If the test is being run as root, this is never
possible. This commit adds a way to identify if the user is root and
xfails the tests that expect no write access.
Approved-By: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
The linker will generate warnings if it is creating an executable
stack or a segment with all three read, write and execute permissions.
These settings are not appropriate for all targets including
MicroBlaze.
Signed-off-by: Neal Frager <neal.frager@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael J. Eager <eager@eagercon.com>
Reusing the SME tests, this patch introduces additional tests to exercise
reading/writing ZT0, availability of the register set, signal context reading
for ZT0 and also core file generation.
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
This patch adds support for ZT register dumps/reads for core files. The
ZT register is available when the SME2 feature is advertised as available
by the Linux Kernel.
Unlike the enablement for SME1 and the ZA register, support for SME2 is rather
simple given the fixed size of the ZT0 register.
Validated on the Fast Models.
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
Teach gdb about the ZT state on signal frames and how to restore
the contents of the registers.
There is a new ZT_MAGIC context that the Linux Kernel uses to communicate
the ZT register state to gdb.
As mentioned before, the ZT state should only be available when the ZA state
is available.
Validated under Fast Models.
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
This patch teaches gdbserver about the SME2 and the ZT0 register.
Since most of the code used by gdbserver for SME2 is shared with gdb, this
is a rather small patch that reuses most of the code put in place for native
AArch64 Linux.
Validated under Fast Models.
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
SME2 defines a new 512-bit register named ZT0, and it is only available
if SME is also supported. The ZT0 state is valid only if the SVCR ZA bit
is enabled. Otherwise its contents are empty (0).
The target description is dynamic and gets generated at runtime based on the
availability of the feature.
Validated under Fast Models.
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
Provide documentation for the SME feature and other information that
should be useful for users that need to debug a SME-capable target.
Reviewed-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
Add 5 SVE/SME tests to exercise all the new features like reading/writing
registers, pseudo-registers, signal frames and core files.
- Sanity check for SME: Gives a brief smoke test to make sure the most basic
of features are working correctly.
- ZA unavailability tests: Validates the behavior/content of the ZA register
is correct when no payload is available. It also exercises changing the
vector lengths.
- ZA availability tests: These tests exercise reading/writing to all the
possible ZA pseudo-registers, and validates the state is correct.
- Core file tests: Validates that core file reading and writing works
correctly and that all state dumped/loaded is sane. This is exercised for
both Linux Kernel core files and gcore core files.
- Signal frame tests: Validates the correct restoration of SME/SVE/FPSIMD
values across signal frames.
Since some of these tests are very lengthy and take a little while to run
(under QEMU at the moment), I decided to parallelize them into smaller
chunks so we can throw some more CPU power at them so they run faster.
I'd still like to add a few more tests to give the testsuite more coverage
in the areas of SME/SVE. Hopefully in the near future that will happen.
Just a reminder that these SME tests are currently unsupported when gdb is
connected to a remote target. That's because the RSP doesn't support
communicating changes in vector lenghts mid-execution, so gdb will always
get wrong state from the remote target.
Co-Authored-By: Ezra Sitorus <ezra.sitorus@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
This patch enables dumping SME state via gdb's gcore command and also
enables gdb to read SME state from a core file generated by the Linux
Kernel.
Regression-tested on aarch64-linux Ubuntu 22.04/20.04.
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
Due to the nature of the AArch64 SVE/SME extensions in GDB, each thread
can potentially have distinct target descriptions/gdbarches.
When loading a gcore-generated core file, at the moment GDB gives priority
to the target description dumped to NT_GDB_TDESC. Though technically correct
for most targets, it doesn't work correctly for AArch64 with SVE or SME
support.
The correct approach for AArch64/Linux is to either have per-thread target
description notes in the corefiles or to rely on the
gdbarch_core_read_description hook, so it can figure out the proper target
description for a given thread based on the various available register notes.
The former, although more correct, doesn't address the case of existing gdb's
that only output a single target description note.
This patch goes for the latter, and adds a new gdbarch hook to conditionalize
the use of the corefile target description note. The hook is called
use_target_description_from_corefile_notes.
The hook defaults to returning true, meaning targets will use the corefile
target description note. AArch64 Linux overrides the hook to return false
when it detects any of the SVE or SME register notes in the corefile.
Otherwise it should be fine for AArch64 Linux to use the corefile target
description note.
When we support per-thread target description notes, then we can augment
the AArch64 Linux hook to rely on those notes.
Regression-tested on aarch64-linux Ubuntu 22.04/20.04.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
When we have a core file generated by gdb (via the gcore command), gdb dumps
the target description to a note. During loading of that core file, gdb will
first try to load that saved target description.
This works fine for almost all architectures. But AArch64 has a few
dynamically-generated target descriptions/gdbarch depending on the vector
length that was in use at the time the core file was generated.
The target description gdb dumps to the core file note is the one generated
at the time of attachment/startup. If, for example, the SVE vector length
changed during execution, this would not reflect on the core file, as gdb
would still dump the initial target description.
Another issue is that the gdbarch potentially doesn't match the thread's
real gdbarch, and so things like the register cache may have different formats
and sizes.
To address this, fetch the thread's architecture before dumping its register
state. That way we will always use the correct target description/gdbarch.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
This struct type seems to have been used in the past as a callback
parameter. Now it seems that case is no longer true, so we can simplify
things by passing the individual parameters linux_core_thread_data
encapsulates directly to the functions.
This is just a cleanup before the next change.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
The Linux Kernel defines a separate context for the TPIDR2 register in a
signal frame. Handle this additional context in gdb so this register
gets restored properly when unwinding through signal frames.
The TPIDR2 register is closely related to SME, and is available when SME
support is reported.
This is tested by testcases that are available in a later patch in the series.
Regressions-tested on aarch64-linux Ubuntu 22.04/20.04.
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
With SME, where you have two different vector lengths (vl and svl), it may be
the case that the current frame has a set of vector lengths (A) but the signal
context has a distinct set of vector lengths (B).
In this case, we may run into a situation where GDB attempts to use a gdbarch
created for set A, but it is really dealing with a frame that was using set
B.
This is problematic, specially with SME, because now we have a different
number of pseudo-registers and types that gets cached on creation of each
gdbarch variation.
For AArch64 we really need to be able to use the correct gdbarch for each
frame, and I noticed the signal frame (tramp-frame) doesn't have a settable
prev_arch field. So it ends up using the default frame_unwind_arch function
and eventually calling get_frame_arch (next_frame). That means the previous
frame will always have the same gdbarch as the current frame.
This patch first refactors the AArch64/Linux signal context code, simplifying
it and making it reusable for our purposes of calculating the previous frame's
gdbarch.
I introduced a struct that holds information that we have found in the signal
context, and with which we can make various decisions.
Finally, a small change to tramp-frame.c and tramp-frame.h to expose a
prev_arch hook that the architecture can set.
With this new field, AArch64/Linux can implement a hook that looks at the
signal context and infers the gdbarch for the previous frame.
Regression-tested on aarch64-linux Ubuntu 22.04/20.04.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
Teach gdb about the ZA/SSVE state on signal frames and how to restore
the contents of the registers.
There is a new ZA_MAGIC context that the Linux Kernel uses to communicate
the ZA register state to gdb.
The SVE_MAGIC context has also been adjusted to contain a flag indicating
whether it is a SVE or SSVE state.
Regression-tested on aarch64-linux Ubuntu 22.04/20.04.
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
While doing some SME work, I ran into the situation where the Z register
contents restored from a signal frame are incorrect if the signal frame
only contains fpsimd state and no sve state.
This happens because we only restore the v register values in that case,
and don't do anything for the z registers.
Fix this by initializing the z registers to 0 and then copying over the
overlapping part of the v registers to the z registers.
While at it, refactor the code a bit to simplify it and make it smaller.
Regression-tested on aarch64-linux Ubuntu 22.04/20.04.
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
Enable SME support in gdbserver by adjusting the usual fields. There is
not much to this patch because the code is either in gdb or it is shared
between gdbserver and gdb. One exception is the bump to gdbserver's
PBUFSIZ from 18432 to 131104.
Since the ZA register can be quite big (256 * 256 bytes), the g/G remote
packet will also become quite big
From gdbserver/tdesc.cc:init_target_desc, I estimated the new size should
be at least (2 * 256 * 256 + 32), which yields 131104.
It is also unlikely we will find a process starting up with SVL set to 256.
Ideally we'd adjust the packet size dynamically based on what we need, but
for now this should do.
Please note we have the same limitation for SME that we have for SVE, and
that is the fact gdbserver cannot communicate vector length changes to gdb
via the remote protocol.
Thiago is working on this improvement, which hopefully will be able to be
adapted to SME in an easy way.
Co-Authored-By: Ezra Sitorus <ezra.sitorus@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
Instead of using static arrays, build the list of expedited registers
dynamically using a std::vector.
This refactor shouldn't cause any user-visible changes.
Regression-tested for aarch64-linux Ubuntu 22.04/20.04.
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
Right now the list of expedited registers is stored as an array of char *,
with a nullptr element at the end to signal its last element.
Convert expedite_regs to a std::vector of std::string so it is easier to
manage the elements and the storage is handled automatically.
Eventually we might want to convert all the target functions so they pass a
std::vector of std::string as well. Or maybe expose an interface that target can
use to add expedited registers on-by-one depending on the target description
discovery needs, as opposed to just a static list of char *.
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
The SME (Scalable Matrix Extension) [1] exposes a new matrix register ZA with
variable sizes. It also exposes a new mode called streaming mode.
Similarly to SVE, the ZA register size is dictated by a vector length, but the
SME vector length is called streaming vetor length. The total size for
ZA in a given moment is svl x svl.
In streaming mode, the SVE registers have their sizes based on svl rather than
the regular vector length (vl).
The feature detection is controlled by the HWCAP2_SME bit, but actual support
should be validated by attempting a ptrace call for one of the new register
sets: NT_ARM_ZA and NT_ARM_SSVE.
Due to its large size, the ZA register is exposed as a vector of bytes, but we
introduce a number of pseudo-registers that gives various different views
into the ZA contents. These can be arranged in a couple categories: tiles and
tile slices.
Tiles are matrices the same size or smaller than ZA. Tile slices are vectors
which map to ZA's rows/columns in different ways.
A new dynamic target description is provided containing the ZA register, the SVG
register and the SVCR register. The size of ZA, like the SVE vector registers,
is based on the vector length register SVG (VG for SVE).
This patch enables SME register support for gdb.
[1] https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/architectures-and-processors-blog/posts/scalable-matrix-extension-armv9-a-architecture
Co-Authored-By: Ezra Sitorus <ezra.sitorus@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
In a target without SVE support, the V registers have a size of 16 bytes,
otherwise they may have a size bigger than 16 bytes (depending on the current
vector length for the Z registers, as they overlap the V registers).
In aarch64-tdep.c:aarch64_store_return_value, the code is laid
out in a way that allocates the buffer with the size of the register, but
only updates the amount of bytes for the particular type we're returning.
This may cause a situation where we have a register size of 32 bytes but
are returning a floating point value of 8 bytes. The temporary buffer
will therefore have 32 bytes, but we'll only update 8 bytes of it.
When we write the entire register back, it will have potentially 24 bytes
of garbage in it.
Fix this by first reading the original contents of the register and then
overriding only the bytes that we need for the return value.
Tested on aarch64-linux Ubuntu 22.04/20.04.
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
This is a patch in preparation to upcoming patches enabling SME support. It
attempts to simplify the gdb/gdbserver shared interface used to read/write
SVE registers.
Where the current code makes use of unique_ptr, allocating a new buffer by
hand and passing a buffer around, this patch makes that code use
gdb::byte_vector and passes a reference to this byte vector to the functions,
allowing the functions to have ready access to the size of the buffer.
It also shares a bit more code between gdb and gdbserver, in particular around
handling of ptrace get/set requests for SVE.
I think gdbserver could be refactored to handle register reads/writes more
like gdb's native layer as opposed to letting the generic linux-low layer do
the ptrace calls. This is not very flexible and assumes one size for the
responses. If you have something like NT_ARM_SVE, where you can have either
FPSIMD or SVE contents, it doesn't work that well.
I didn't want to change that interface right now as it is a bit too much work
and touches all the targets, some of which I can't easily test.
Hence the reason why the buffer the generic linux-now passes down to
linux-aarch64-low is unused or ignored.
No user-visible changes should happen as part of this refactor other than a
slightly reworded warning message.
While doing the refactor, I also noticed what seems to be a mistake in checking
if the register cache contains active (non-zero) SVE data.
For instance, the original code did something like this in
aarch64_sve_regs_copy_from_reg_buf:
has_sve_state |= reg_buf->raw_compare (AARCH64_SVE_Z0_REGNUM + i
reg, sizeof (__int128_t));
"reg" is a zeroed-out buffer that we compare the Z register contents
past the first 128 bits. The problem here is that raw_compare returns
1 if the contents compare the same, which means has_sve_state will be
true. But if we compared the Z register contents to 0, it means we
*do not* have SVE state, and therefore has_sve_state should be false.
The consequence of this mistake is that we convert the initial
FPSIMD-formatted data we get from ptrace for the NT_ARM_SVE register
set to a SVE-formatted one.
In the end, this doesn't cause user-visible differences because the
values of both the Z and V registers will still be the same. But the
logic is not correct.
I used the opportunity to fix this, and it gets tested later on by
the additional SME tests.
I do plan on submitting some SVE-specific tests to make sure we have
a bit more coverage in GDB's testsuite.
Regression-tested on aarch64-linux Ubuntu 22.04/20.04.
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
In preparation to the SME support patches, rename the SVE-specific files to
something a bit more meaningful that can be shared with the SME code.
In this case, I've renamed the "sve" in the names to "scalable".
No functional changes.
Regression-tested on aarch64-linux Ubuntu 22.04/20.04.
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
I noticed we don't handle register reads/writes in the best way for native
AArch64 Linux. Some other registers are fetched/stored even if upper level
code told us to fetch a particular register number.
Fix this by being more strict about which registers we touch when
reading/writing them in the native AArch64 Linux layer.
There should be no user-visible changes due to this patch.
Regression-tested on aarch64-linux Ubuntu 22.04/20.04.
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
This patch moves instances of system register definitions, represented
by the SYSREG macro, out of their original place in `aarch64-opc.c'
and into a dedicated .def file, `aarch64-sys-regs.def'.
System register entries in this new file are ordered alphabetically by
name. This choice is made to enable the use of fast search algorithms
such as binary search when validating register names.
The SYSREG macro, defined as SYSREG (name, encoding, flags, features)
is kept as is and used in the def file, but all other SR_* macros
which previously served as indirections to SYSREG are removed.
opcodes/ChangeLog:
* aarch64-opc.c (SR_CORE): Macro definition and uses deleted.
(SR_FEAT): Likewise.
(SR_FEAT2): Likewise.
(SR_V8_1_A): Likewise.
(SR_V8_4_A): Likewise.
(SR_V8A): Likewise.
(SR_V8R): Likewise.
(SR_V8_1A): Likewise.
(SR_V8_2A): Likewise.
(SR_V8_3A): Likewise.
(SR_V8_4A): Likewise.
(SR_V8_6A): Likewise.
(SR_V8_7A): Likewise.
(SR_V8_8A): Likewise.
(SR_GIC): Likewise.
(SR_AMU): Likewise.
(SR_LOR): Likewise.
(SR_PAN): Likewise.
(SR_RAS): Likewise.
(SR_RNG): Likewise.
(SR_SME): Likewise.
(SR_SSBS): Likewise.
(SR_SVE): Likewise.
(SR_ID_PFR2): Likewise.
(SR_PROFILE): Likewise.
(SR_MEMTAG): Likewise.
(SR_SCXTNUM): Likewise.
(SR_EXPAND_ELx): Likewise.
(SR_EXPAND_EL12): Likewise.
* opcodes/aarch64-sys-regs.def: New.
This patch adds a mechanism for system register name alias detection
to register-matching mechanisms.
A new `F_REG_ALIAS' flag is added to the set of register flags and
used to label which entries in aarch64_sys_regs[] correspond to
aliases (and thus which CPENC values are non-unique in this array).
Where this is used is, for example, in `aarch64_print_operand' where,
in the case of system register decoding, the aarch64_sys_regs[] array
is iterated through until a match in CPENC value is made and the first
match accepted. If insufficient care is given in the ordering of
system registers in this array, the alias is encountered before the
"real" register and used incorrectly as the register name in the
disassembled output.
With this flag and the new `aarch64_sys_reg_alias_p' test, search
candidates corresponding to aliases can be conveniently skipped over.
One concrete example of where this is useful is with the
`trcextinselr0' system register. It was initially placed in the
system register list before `trcextinselr', in contrast to a more
natural alphabetical order.
include/ChangeLog:
* opcode/aarch64.h: add `aarch64_sys_reg_alias_p' prototype.
opcodes/ChangeLog:
* aarch64-opc.c (aarch64_sys_reg_alias_p): New.
(aarch64_print_operand): add aarch64_sys_reg_alias_p check.
(aarch64_sys_regs): Add F_REG_ALIAS flag to "trcextinselr"
entry.
* aarch64-opc.h (F_REG_ALIAS): New.
When creating a core file from within GDB we include a NT_GDB_TDESC
that includes the target description of the architecture in use.
For architectures with dynamic architectures (e.g. AArch64 with
sve/sme) the original architecture, calculated from the original
target description, might not match the per-thread architecture.
In the general case, where each thread has a different architecture,
then we really need a separate NT_GDB_TDESC for each thread, however,
there's currently no way to read in multiple NT_GDB_TDESC.
This commit is a step towards per-thread NT_GDB_TDESC. In this commit
I have updated the function that writes the NT_GDB_TDESC to accept a
gdbarch (rather than calling target_gdbarch() to find a gdbarch), and
I now pass in the gdbarch of the signalled thread.
In many cases (though NOT all) targets with dynamic architectures
really only use a single architecture, even when there are multiple
threads, so in the common case, this should ensure that GDB emits an
architecture that is more likely to be correct.
Additional work will be needed in order to support corefiles with
truly per-thread architectures, but that will need to be done in the
future.
Add a 64-bit traditional MIPS dump variant for the `readelf -S bintest'
test from binutils-all/readelf.exp, using a filename suffix according to
the rules set there, removing:
FAIL: readelf -S bintest
regressions with `mips64-linux-gnuabi64', `mips64el-linux-gnuabi64',
`mips64-openbsd', and `mips64el-openbsd' targets, which default to the
n64 ABI and consequently produce a section layout that is different from
what the generic dump pattern covers.
Co-Authored-By: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk>
binutils/
* testsuite/binutils-all/readelf.s-64-tmips: New test variant.
