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From: Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>, <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Cc: <macro@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, v3] Expect SI_KERNEL or TRAP_BRKPT si_code values for MIPS breakpoint traps
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56CB9042.8090809@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56CB8E9D.70605@redhat.com>

On 02/22/2016 07:41 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 02/22/2016 10:20 PM, Luis Machado wrote:
>
>> diff --git a/gdb/nat/linux-ptrace.h b/gdb/nat/linux-ptrace.h
>> index ba58717..72b32b1 100644
>> --- a/gdb/nat/linux-ptrace.h
>> +++ b/gdb/nat/linux-ptrace.h
>> @@ -140,11 +140,16 @@ struct buffer;
>>      in SPU code on a Cell/B.E.  However, SI_KERNEL is never seen
>>      on a SIGTRAP for any other reason.
>>
>> +   The MIPS kernel uses the default si_code of SI_KERNEL for software
>> +   breakpoints, hardware watchpoints and SIGTRAP's in general.
>
> If we get this for both software breakpoints and hardware watchpoints,
> then it seems to me that this change still leaves watchpoints broken,
> as I can't see how check_stopped_by_watchpoint is reached, in either
> gdb/linux-nat.c or gdbserver/linux-low.c.
>
> Also, "and SIGTRAP's in general." seems wrong.  I hope that that's
> not the case for user-sent SIGTRAPs?

I'll defer that to Maciej, as he knows what the kernel emits here. From 
his descriptions, it seems MIPS' kernel pretty much just uses the 
default si_code of SI_KERNEL.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-22 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-22 22:20 Luis Machado
2016-02-22 22:41 ` Pedro Alves
2016-02-22 22:48   ` Luis Machado [this message]
2016-02-23  0:01     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2016-02-23  2:00   ` Luis Machado
2016-02-23 21:09     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2016-02-24 12:55     ` Pedro Alves
2016-02-24 13:21       ` Luis Machado
2016-02-24 14:44         ` Pedro Alves
2016-02-24 16:46           ` Pedro Alves

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