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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: [PATCH 20/34] Windows gdbserver: Eliminate soft-interrupt mechanism
Date: Wed,  8 May 2024 00:42:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240507234233.371123-21-pedro@palves.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240507234233.371123-1-pedro@palves.net>

I noticed that faked_breakpoint is write only.  And then I hacked
win32_process_target::request_interrupt to force it to stop threads
using the soft_interrupt_requested mechanism (which suspends threads,
and then fakes a breakpoint event in the main thread), and saw that it
no longer works -- gdbserver crashes accessing a NULL current_thread,
because fake_breakpoint_event does not switch to a thread.

This code was originally added for Windows CE, as neither
GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent nor DebugBreakProcess worked there.

We nowadays require Windows XP or later, and XP has DebugBreakProcess.

The soft_interrupt_requested mechanism has other problems, like for
example faking the event in the main thread, even if that thread was
previously stopped, due to scheduler-locking.

A following patch will add a similar mechanism stopping all threads
with SuspendThread to native GDB, for non-stop mode, which doesn't
have these problems.  It's different enough from this old code that I
think we should just rip the old code out, and reimplement it from
scratch (based on gdb's version) when we need it.

Change-Id: I89e98233a9c40c6dcba7c8e1dacee08603843fb1
---
 gdbserver/win32-low.cc | 32 +-------------------------------
 gdbserver/win32-low.h  |  8 --------
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdbserver/win32-low.cc b/gdbserver/win32-low.cc
index 7d37068ab91..99a6150599e 100644
--- a/gdbserver/win32-low.cc
+++ b/gdbserver/win32-low.cc
@@ -307,8 +307,6 @@ do_initial_child_stuff (HANDLE proch, DWORD pid, int attached)
   windows_process.process_id = pid;
   windows_process.main_thread_id = 0;
 
-  windows_process.soft_interrupt_requested = 0;
-  windows_process.faked_breakpoint = 0;
   windows_process.open_process_used = true;
 
   memset (&windows_process.current_event, 0,
@@ -433,7 +431,6 @@ child_continue_for_kill (DWORD continue_status, int thread_id)
     {
       continue_one_thread (thread, thread_id);
     });
-  windows_process.faked_breakpoint = 0;
 
   return continue_last_debug_event (continue_status, debug_threads);
 }
@@ -941,23 +938,6 @@ suspend_one_thread (thread_info *thread)
   th->suspend ();
 }
 
-static void
-fake_breakpoint_event (void)
-{
-  OUTMSG2(("fake_breakpoint_event\n"));
-
-  windows_process.faked_breakpoint = 1;
-
-  memset (&windows_process.current_event, 0,
-	  sizeof (windows_process.current_event));
-  windows_process.current_event.dwThreadId = windows_process.main_thread_id;
-  windows_process.current_event.dwDebugEventCode = EXCEPTION_DEBUG_EVENT;
-  windows_process.current_event.u.Exception.ExceptionRecord.ExceptionCode
-    = EXCEPTION_BREAKPOINT;
-
-  for_each_thread (suspend_one_thread);
-}
-
 /* See nat/windows-nat.h.  */
 
 bool
@@ -1012,13 +992,6 @@ get_child_debug_event (DWORD *continue_status,
 
   DEBUG_EVENT *current_event = &windows_process.current_event;
 
-  if (windows_process.soft_interrupt_requested)
-    {
-      windows_process.soft_interrupt_requested = 0;
-      fake_breakpoint_event ();
-      goto gotevent;
-    }
-
   windows_process.attaching = 0;
   {
     for (thread_info *thread : all_threads)
@@ -1058,8 +1031,6 @@ get_child_debug_event (DWORD *continue_status,
       }
   }
 
- gotevent:
-
   switch (current_event->dwDebugEventCode)
     {
     case CREATE_THREAD_DEBUG_EVENT:
@@ -1313,8 +1284,7 @@ win32_process_target::request_interrupt ()
   if (DebugBreakProcess (windows_process.handle))
     return;
 
-  /* Last resort, suspend all threads manually.  */
-  windows_process.soft_interrupt_requested = 1;
+  OUTMSG2 (("Could not interrupt.\n"));
 }
 
 bool
diff --git a/gdbserver/win32-low.h b/gdbserver/win32-low.h
index 7ee4de4b37f..4d26b87d73d 100644
--- a/gdbserver/win32-low.h
+++ b/gdbserver/win32-low.h
@@ -187,14 +187,6 @@ struct gdbserver_windows_process : public windows_nat::windows_process_info
      debug event off the win32 API.  */
   struct target_waitstatus cached_status;
 
-  /* Non zero if an interrupt request is to be satisfied by suspending
-     all threads.  */
-  int soft_interrupt_requested = 0;
-
-  /* Non zero if the inferior is stopped in a simulated breakpoint done
-     by suspending all the threads.  */
-  int faked_breakpoint = 0;
-
   /* True if current_process_handle needs to be closed.  */
   bool open_process_used = false;
 
-- 
2.43.2


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-05-07 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-07 23:41 [PATCH 00/34] Windows non-stop mode Pedro Alves
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 01/34] Windows gdb: Dead code in windows_nat_target::do_initial_windows_stuff Pedro Alves
2024-05-08 14:39   ` Tom Tromey
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 02/34] Windows gdb: Eliminate global current_process.dr[8] global Pedro Alves
2024-05-08 15:02   ` Tom Tromey
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 03/34] Windows gdb+gdbserver: New find_thread, replaces thread_rec(DONT_INVALIDATE_CONTEXT) Pedro Alves
2024-05-08 15:03   ` Tom Tromey
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 04/34] Windows gdb: handle_output_debug_string return type Pedro Alves
2024-05-08 14:43   ` Tom Tromey
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 05/34] Windows gdb: Eliminate reload_context Pedro Alves
2024-05-08 14:45   ` Tom Tromey
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 06/34] Windows gdb+gdbserver: Eliminate thread_rec(INVALIDATE_CONTEXT) calls Pedro Alves
2024-05-08 15:08   ` Tom Tromey
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 07/34] Windows gdb+gdbserver: Eliminate DONT_SUSPEND Pedro Alves
2024-05-08 15:12   ` Tom Tromey
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 08/34] Windows gdb+gdbserver: Eliminate windows_process_info::thread_rec Pedro Alves
2024-05-08 15:12   ` Tom Tromey
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 09/34] Windows gdb: Simplify windows_nat_target::wait Pedro Alves
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 10/34] Windows gdb+gdbserver: Move suspending thread to when returning event Pedro Alves
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 11/34] Windows gdb: Introduce continue_last_debug_event_main_thread Pedro Alves
2024-05-08 14:53   ` Tom Tromey
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 12/34] Windows gdb: Introduce windows_continue_flags Pedro Alves
2024-05-08 15:16   ` Tom Tromey
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 13/34] Windows gdb: Factor code out of windows_nat_target::windows_continue Pedro Alves
2024-05-08 15:18   ` Tom Tromey
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 14/34] Windows gdb: Pending stop and current_event Pedro Alves
2024-05-08 15:18   ` Tom Tromey
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 15/34] Windows gdb+gdbserver: Elim desired_stop_thread_id / rework pending_stops Pedro Alves
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 16/34] Windows gdb+gdbserver: Introduce get_last_debug_event_ptid Pedro Alves
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 17/34] Windows gdb: Can't pass signal to thread other than last stopped thread Pedro Alves
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 18/34] Windows gdbserver: Fix scheduler-locking Pedro Alves
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 19/34] Windows gdb: Enable "set scheduler-locking on" Pedro Alves
2024-05-08 15:25   ` Tom Tromey
2024-05-07 23:42 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2024-05-08 15:26   ` [PATCH 20/34] Windows gdbserver: Eliminate soft-interrupt mechanism Tom Tromey
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 21/34] Windows gdb+gdbserver: Make current_event per-thread state Pedro Alves
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 22/34] Windows gdb+gdbserver: Make last_sig " Pedro Alves
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 23/34] Windows gdb+gdbserver: Make siginfo_er " Pedro Alves
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 24/34] Add backpointer from windows_thread_info to windows_process_info Pedro Alves
2024-05-08 15:28   ` Tom Tromey
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 25/34] Windows gdb+gdbserver: Share $_siginfo reading code Pedro Alves
2024-05-08 15:29   ` Tom Tromey
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 26/34] Windows gdb+gdbserver: Eliminate struct pending_stop Pedro Alves
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 27/34] Windows gdb: Change serial_event management Pedro Alves
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 28/34] Windows gdb: cygwin_set_dr => windows_set_dr, etc Pedro Alves
2024-05-08 14:46   ` Tom Tromey
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 29/34] windows_per_inferior::continue_one_thread, unify WoW64/non-WoW64 paths Pedro Alves
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 30/34] windows-nat.c: Avoid writing debug registers if watchpoint hit pending Pedro Alves
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 31/34] Windows gdb+gdbserver: Check whether DBG_REPLY_LATER is available Pedro Alves
2024-05-08 12:45   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-08 21:33     ` [PATCH 31/34 v1.2] " Pedro Alves
2024-05-09 10:07       ` Hannes Domani
     [not found]         ` <86zfsz5kly.fsf@gnu.org>
2024-05-09 11:11           ` Pedro Alves
2024-05-09 11:47             ` [PATCH 31/34 v1.3] " Pedro Alves
2024-05-09 12:28               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-09 14:17               ` Tom Tromey
     [not found]             ` <86r0eb5g2n.fsf@gnu.org>
2024-05-09 13:27               ` [PATCH 31/34 v1.2] " Pedro Alves
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 32/34] Windows gdb: Add non-stop support Pedro Alves
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 33/34] Windows gdb: Watchpoints while running (internal vs external stops) Pedro Alves
2024-05-07 23:42 ` [PATCH 34/34] Mention Windows non-stop support in NEWS Pedro Alves
2024-05-08 15:40 ` [PATCH 00/34] Windows non-stop mode Tom Tromey
2024-05-15 17:35   ` Tom Tromey
2024-05-15 20:39     ` Pedro Alves
2024-05-16 15:53       ` Tom Tromey

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