From: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
To: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/8] gdb/remote: Parse tdesc field in stop reply and threads list XML
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 09:10:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <03fabbae-14ea-67bd-b9f4-984d43e0afc0@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871qn5m0v6.fsf@linaro.org>
On 2/5/23 00:06, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
>
> Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com> writes:
>
>> On 1/30/23 04:45, Thiago Jung Bauermann via Gdb-patches wrote:
>>> --- a/gdb/remote.c
>>> +++ b/gdb/remote.c
>>> @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@
>>> #include <unordered_map>
>>> #include "async-event.h"
>>> #include "gdbsupport/selftest.h"
>>> +#include "xml-tdesc.h"
>>> /* The remote target. */
>>> @@ -238,6 +239,16 @@ class remote_state
>>> /* Get the remote arch state for GDBARCH. */
>>> struct remote_arch_state *get_remote_arch_state (struct gdbarch *gdbarch);
>>> + /* Add new ID to the target description list. The corresponding XML will be
>>> + requested soon. */
>>
>> Will it be requested soon or can gdb just ignore it if the user
>> doesn't switch to that thread?
>
> In this patch it would be requested soon, right after the threads list
> XML and the stop reply packet were parsed.
>
> But in my local branch that will become v4 I implemented Andrew's
> suggestion of getting the target descriptions on demand in
> remote_state::get_tdesc so now GDB may indeed ignore it.
>
>> If gdb can ignore it, then it might be nice to mention it here that
>> gdb can chose to request it at any point in time, but may opt not to
>> do it at all.
>
> As a consequence of Andrew's suggestion, the add_tdesc_id method isn't
> necessary anymore, so this comment isn't present anymore.
>
>>> + void add_tdesc_id (ULONGEST id);
>>> +
>>> + /* Get the target description corresponding to remote protocol ID. */
>>
>> s/remote protocol/remote target description?
>
> I meant that in the sense of “ID that is used in the remote protocol”,
> but I agree it's more confusing than helpful. I changed it to:
>
> /* Get the target description corresponding to the given remote target
> description ID. */
>
> WDYT?
>
Looks good!
>>> @@ -3814,6 +3844,13 @@ start_thread (struct gdb_xml_parser *parser,
>>> attr = xml_find_attribute (attributes, "handle");
>>> if (attr != NULL)
>>> item.thread_handle = hex2bin ((const char *) attr->value.get ());
>>> +
>>> + attr = xml_find_attribute (attributes, "tdesc");
>>> + if (attr != NULL)
>>
>> s/NULL/nullptr
>
> Fixed.
>
>>> diff --git a/gdb/xml-tdesc.h b/gdb/xml-tdesc.h
>>> index 0fbfc7e043e9..c7cc97c5dfc0 100644
>>> --- a/gdb/xml-tdesc.h
>>> +++ b/gdb/xml-tdesc.h
>>> @@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ const struct target_desc *file_read_description_xml (const char *filename);
>>> const struct target_desc *target_read_description_xml (struct target_ops *);
>>> +/* Read an XML target description with the given ID using OPS. Parse it, and
>>> + return the parsed description. */
>>> +
>>> +const struct target_desc *target_read_description_xml (struct target_ops *ops,
>>> + ULONGEST id);
>>> +
>>> /* Fetches an XML target description using OPS, processing includes,
>>> but not parsing it. Used to dump whole tdesc as a single XML file.
>>> Returns the description on success, and a disengaged optional
>>
>> I noticed we're dealing with the target description id as ULONGEST on
>> gdb's side, but as unsigned int on gdbserver's side.
>>
>> Should we make them the same, if possible?
>
> My thinking was that since it's gdbserver that defines what the ID will
> be, it can use a simpler type (2³² target descriptions should be enough
> for anybody) since it knows what kind of IDs it will issue. But GDB
> doesn't know what the remote stub will want to do, so it should use a
> big type.
>
> But with Andrew's idea of passing a value during target negotiation to
> decide whether the ID will be a number or a hash, then we can use
> unsigned int for both types.
>
Got it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-06 9:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-30 4:45 [PATCH v3 0/8] gdbserver improvements for AArch64 SVE support Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-01-30 4:45 ` [PATCH v3 1/8] gdbserver: Add assert in find_register_by_number Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-01-31 17:05 ` Simon Marchi
2023-01-31 19:49 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-01 15:43 ` Simon Marchi
2023-01-30 4:45 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] gdbserver: Add PID parameter to linux_get_auxv and linux_get_hwcap Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-01 9:07 ` Luis Machado
2023-02-01 10:54 ` Andrew Burgess
2023-02-01 16:01 ` Simon Marchi
2023-02-01 19:33 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-01 19:53 ` Simon Marchi
2023-02-01 21:55 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-06 19:54 ` Pedro Alves
2023-02-06 20:16 ` Simon Marchi
2023-02-07 15:19 ` Pedro Alves
2023-02-07 21:47 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-09 1:31 ` Simon Marchi
2023-02-10 3:54 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-07 22:28 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-01-30 4:45 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] gdbserver/linux-aarch64: Factor out function to get aarch64_features Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-01 8:59 ` Luis Machado
2023-02-01 16:04 ` Simon Marchi
2023-02-01 22:13 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-01-30 4:45 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] gdbserver/linux-aarch64: When thread stops, update its target description Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-01 9:05 ` Luis Machado
2023-02-01 11:06 ` Andrew Burgess
2023-02-01 16:21 ` Simon Marchi
2023-02-01 16:32 ` Luis Machado
2023-02-02 2:54 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-02 3:47 ` Simon Marchi
2023-02-03 3:47 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-03 11:13 ` Luis Machado
2023-02-04 15:26 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-03 11:11 ` Luis Machado
2023-02-04 15:21 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-06 9:07 ` Luis Machado
2023-02-06 12:15 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-06 20:29 ` Pedro Alves
2023-02-07 8:11 ` Luis Machado
2023-02-07 14:39 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-03 10:57 ` Luis Machado
2023-02-04 6:18 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-06 20:26 ` Pedro Alves
2023-02-07 21:06 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-09 2:46 ` Simon Marchi
2023-02-10 3:29 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-10 14:56 ` Luis Machado
2023-02-10 15:04 ` Tom Tromey
2023-02-10 15:28 ` Luis Machado
2023-02-10 17:26 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-10 21:01 ` Simon Marchi
2023-01-30 4:45 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] gdbserver: Transmit target description ID in thread list and stop reply Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-01-30 12:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-30 14:05 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-01 9:39 ` Luis Machado
2023-02-01 12:07 ` Andrew Burgess
2023-02-01 13:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-01 17:37 ` Simon Marchi
2023-02-02 20:36 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-02 20:56 ` Simon Marchi
2023-02-01 20:46 ` Simon Marchi
2023-02-02 21:43 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-01 14:51 ` Andrew Burgess
2023-02-01 17:03 ` Simon Marchi
2023-02-02 19:52 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-02 20:51 ` Simon Marchi
2023-02-03 2:44 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-03 16:29 ` Andrew Burgess
2023-02-04 6:08 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-03 11:22 ` Luis Machado
2023-02-03 12:50 ` Simon Marchi
2023-01-30 4:45 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] gdb/remote: Parse tdesc field in stop reply and threads list XML Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-01 9:52 ` Luis Machado
2023-02-05 0:06 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-06 9:10 ` Luis Machado [this message]
2023-02-01 14:32 ` Andrew Burgess
2023-02-01 19:50 ` Simon Marchi
2023-02-01 20:16 ` Simon Marchi
2023-02-03 11:27 ` Luis Machado
2023-02-03 13:19 ` Simon Marchi
2023-02-03 16:33 ` Andrew Burgess
2023-01-30 4:45 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] gdb/aarch64: Detect vector length changes when debugging remotely Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-01 9:58 ` Luis Machado
2023-02-01 15:26 ` Andrew Burgess
2023-02-01 20:20 ` Simon Marchi
2023-02-03 11:31 ` Luis Machado
2023-02-03 16:38 ` Andrew Burgess
2023-02-03 19:07 ` Simon Marchi
2023-01-30 4:45 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] gdb/testsuite: Add test to exercise multi-threaded AArch64 SVE inferiors Thiago Jung Bauermann
2023-02-01 10:10 ` Luis Machado
2023-02-06 19:11 ` [PATCH v3 0/8] gdbserver improvements for AArch64 SVE support Pedro Alves
2023-02-06 20:05 ` Simon Marchi
2023-02-06 21:06 ` Pedro Alves
2023-02-07 13:49 ` Simon Marchi
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