binutils-gdb/gdb/arm-pikeos-tdep.c
Jerome Guitton e1c3a37375 arm-pikeos: software single step
On ARM, PikeOS does not support hardware single step, causing various
semi-random errors when trying to next/step over some user code. So
this patch changes this target to use software-single-step instead.

The challenge is that, up to now, the PikeOS target was in all respects
identical to a baremetal target as far as GDB was concerned, meaning
we were using the baremetal osabi for this target too. This is no longer
possible, and we need to introduce a new OSABI variant. Unfortunately,
there isn't anything in the object file that would allow us to
differentiate between the two platforms. So we have to rely on a
heuristic instead, where we look for some known symbols that are
required in a PikeOS application (these symbols are expected to be
defined by the default linker script, and correspond to routines used
to allocate the application stack).

For the long run, the hope is that the stub implementation provided
by PikeOS is enhanced so that it includes vContSupported+ to the
$qSupported query, and then that the reply to the "vCont?" query
only return support for "continue" operations (thus exclusing "step"
operations). We could then use that information to reliably determine
at connection time that the target does not support single-stepping
and therefore automatically turn software single-stepping automatically
based on it.

gdb/ChangeLog:

        * defs.h (enum gdb_osabi): Add GDB_OSABI_PIKEOS.
        * osabi.c (gdb_osabi_names): Add name for GDB_OSABI_PIKEOS.
        * arm-pikeos-tdep.c: New file.
        * configure.tgt: Add arm-pikeos-tdep.o to the case of ARM
        embedded system.
        * Makefile.in (ALL_TARGET_OBS): Add arm-pikeos-tdep.o.

Tested on arm-pikeos and arm-elf using AdaCore's testsuite.
We also evaluated it on armhf-linux as a cross platform.
2018-11-01 14:43:44 -07:00

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#include "defs.h"
#include "objfiles.h"
#include "arm-tdep.h"
#include "osabi.h"
/* The gdbarch_register_osabi handler for ARM PikeOS; it performs
the gdbarch initialization for that platform. */
static void
arm_pikeos_init_abi (struct gdbarch_info info, struct gdbarch *gdbarch)
{
/* Single stepping. */
set_gdbarch_software_single_step (gdbarch, arm_software_single_step);
}
/* The ARM PikeOS OSABI sniffer (see gdbarch_register_osabi_sniffer).
Returns GDB_OSABI_PIKEOS if the given BFD is a PikeOS binary,
GDB_OSABI_UNKNOWN otherwise. */
static enum gdb_osabi
arm_pikeos_osabi_sniffer (bfd *abfd)
{
long number_of_symbols;
long i;
int pikeos_stack_found = 0;
int pikeos_stack_size_found = 0;
/* The BFD target of PikeOS is really just standard elf, so we
cannot use it to detect this variant. The only common thing that
may be found in PikeOS modules are symbols _vm_stack/__p4_stack and
_vm_stack_size/__p4_stack_end. They are used to specify the stack
location and size; and defined by the default linker script.
OS ABI sniffers are called before the minimal symtabs are
created. So inspect the symbol table using BFD. */
long storage_needed = bfd_get_symtab_upper_bound (abfd);
if (storage_needed <= 0)
return GDB_OSABI_UNKNOWN;
gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<asymbol *> symbol_table
((asymbol **) xmalloc (storage_needed));
number_of_symbols = bfd_canonicalize_symtab (abfd, symbol_table.get ());
if (number_of_symbols <= 0)
return GDB_OSABI_UNKNOWN;
for (i = 0; i < number_of_symbols; i++)
{
const char *name = bfd_asymbol_name (symbol_table.get ()[i]);
if (strcmp (name, "_vm_stack") == 0
|| strcmp (name, "__p4_stack") == 0)
pikeos_stack_found = 1;
if (strcmp (name, "_vm_stack_size") == 0
|| strcmp (name, "__p4_stack_end") == 0)
pikeos_stack_size_found = 1;
}
if (pikeos_stack_found && pikeos_stack_size_found)
return GDB_OSABI_PIKEOS;
else
return GDB_OSABI_UNKNOWN;
}
void
_initialize_arm_pikeos_tdep (void)
{
/* Register the sniffer for the PikeOS targets. */
gdbarch_register_osabi_sniffer (bfd_arch_arm, bfd_target_elf_flavour,
arm_pikeos_osabi_sniffer);
gdbarch_register_osabi (bfd_arch_arm, 0, GDB_OSABI_PIKEOS,
arm_pikeos_init_abi);
}