From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: 6/6 [2nd try]: Add AVX support (gdbserver changes)
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6dc9ffc81003280756v230528a6q4392a729c78e0ce6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003280855.44473.pedro@codesourcery.com>
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 28 March 2010 02:11:31, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> > I guess you haven't tested this one :-) You may want to add an AVX
>> > test to the testsuite, if it's not too much trouble. You're checking
>> > for the "x86=xml" feature in the target, but only calling the target
>> > method for "x86:xstate=...". I don't see how it could work.
>> >
>> > The problem we're solving by modifying qSupported is that older
>> > versions of GDB, which do not support XML registers at all, assume
>> > a specific layout for the g/G packet. Newer versions, which do
>> > support XML, will use whatever the target supplies. So, you only want
>> > the target to supply the registers via XML if GDB will understand
>> > them. Is that accurate?
>>
>> Yes,
>>
>> > If that's the scope of the problem, then how about we handle
>> > this in a way we can reuse for other targets? That doesn't have
>> > to change the implementation; just rename the feature to
>> > "xmlRegisters+".
>>
>> I will make the change.
>
> This (and the gdbarch_qsupported mechanism) worries me multi-arch
> design wise. There's a bootstrapping problem here. GDB sends qSupported
> to the target before knowing the target's target description. The target
> sends the target description based on qSupported.
> As is, things only work correctly, when GDB already somehow knows the
> arch is some sort of x86 _before_ connecting to the target. That's
> usually true if you give GDB a binary, but may not be true in some
> use cases.
>
> As a matter of example, if you have, say, a PPC --enable-targets=all
> GDB build, and you simply do:
>
> $ gdb
> (gdb) tar rem :9999
>
> to connect to a x86 linux gdbserver, then, the x86 target will not
> be sending the registers target description, because GDB wouldn't
> be sending the "x86=xml" feature (the target_gdbarch would be
> set to something not-x86 early in the connection, at the point
> gdbarch_qsupported it called). With the "xmlRegisters+" change,
> it would be slightly even worse, as GDB would be sending a generic
> "xmlRegisters+", meaning "Hello target, I understand xml register
> descriptions for your arch", but, at a point when it may be
> mistaken what is the target's arch, and the target would
> have no way of knowing that.
>
> It seems to me that GDB should be sending "x86=xml" or something
> similar to the target unconditionally of whatever target_gdbarch is
> before having fetched the target description.
>
I think current_target should be set to something sensible before
sending qSupported. It should match arch and OSABI of the executable.
--
H.J.
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Thread overview: 115+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-04 18:02 PATCH: 1/6: Add AVX support H.J. Lu
2010-03-04 18:05 ` PATCH: 2/6: Add AVX support (Update document) H.J. Lu
2010-03-04 18:06 ` PATCH: 3/6: Add AVX support (i386 changes) H.J. Lu
2010-03-06 22:21 ` PATCH: 3/6 [2nd try]: " H.J. Lu
2010-03-07 21:32 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-11 22:37 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-12 0:00 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-27 14:55 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-27 15:30 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-27 16:05 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-27 15:33 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-27 16:09 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-28 1:39 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-12 16:49 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-13 1:38 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-29 1:11 ` PATCH: 3/6 [3rd " H.J. Lu
2010-04-02 14:31 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-02 14:42 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-04-02 15:28 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-07 10:13 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-04-07 14:56 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-07 15:04 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-07 15:19 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-04-07 16:55 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-07 18:34 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-04-07 18:50 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-27 15:48 ` PATCH: 3/6 [2nd " Mark Kettenis
2010-03-28 1:37 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-28 11:55 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-28 14:25 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-29 20:32 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-29 21:41 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-04 18:08 ` PATCH: 4/6: Add AVX support (amd64 changes) H.J. Lu
2010-03-04 18:09 ` PATCH: 5/6: Add AVX support (i387 changes) H.J. Lu
2010-03-04 18:10 ` PATCH: 6/6: Add AVX support (gdbserver changes) H.J. Lu
2010-03-06 22:23 ` PATCH: 6/6 [2nd try]: " H.J. Lu
2010-03-12 17:25 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-27 16:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-28 1:11 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-28 7:55 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-28 14:56 ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2010-03-28 16:17 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-28 16:37 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-28 16:40 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-28 16:47 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-28 20:53 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-28 21:27 ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-28 16:39 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-28 19:31 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-29 1:09 ` PATCH: 6/6 [3rd " H.J. Lu
2010-03-29 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-29 14:42 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-29 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-29 15:42 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-29 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-30 16:48 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-02 17:39 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-04-07 4:37 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-03 21:57 ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-04-07 4:12 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-07 16:59 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-05 3:20 ` PATCH: 5/6: Add AVX support (i387 changes) Hui Zhu
2010-03-05 3:54 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-06 22:22 ` PATCH: 5/6 [2nd try]: " H.J. Lu
2010-03-12 17:24 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-07 16:57 ` PATCH: 5/6 [3rd " H.J. Lu
2010-03-27 15:08 ` PATCH: 5/6 [2nd " Mark Kettenis
2010-03-27 15:15 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-06 22:21 ` PATCH: 4/6 [2nd try]: Add AVX support (amd64 changes) H.J. Lu
2010-03-07 21:33 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-12 17:01 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-13 1:38 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-29 1:07 ` PATCH: 4/6 [3rd " H.J. Lu
2010-04-02 14:32 ` H.J. Lu
2010-04-07 16:54 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-05 10:33 ` PATCH: 2/6: Add AVX support (Update document) Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-05 14:08 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-06 22:19 ` PATCH: 2/6 [2nd try]: " H.J. Lu
2010-03-12 11:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-12 14:17 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-12 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-12 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-12 16:46 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-12 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-29 0:18 ` PATCH: 2/6 [3rd " H.J. Lu
2010-03-30 16:41 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-30 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-30 18:37 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-04 19:09 ` PATCH: 1/6: Add AVX support Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-04 19:29 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-04 19:47 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-04 21:27 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-04 21:34 ` Nathan Froyd
2010-03-04 21:41 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-04 21:59 ` Nathan Froyd
2010-03-04 21:47 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-05 2:06 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-05 7:29 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-06 22:16 ` PATCH: 0/6 [2nd try]: " H.J. Lu
2010-03-06 22:18 ` PATCH: 1/6 [2nd try]: Add AVX support (AVX XML files) H.J. Lu
2010-03-07 14:16 ` PATCH: 0/6 [2nd try]: Add AVX support Mark Kettenis
2010-03-07 14:37 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-07 16:31 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-07 16:40 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-07 17:04 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-07 17:39 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-07 20:00 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-07 19:10 ` Nathan Froyd
2010-03-07 19:49 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-07 21:07 ` Nathan Froyd
2010-03-07 21:17 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-07 20:29 ` Mark Kettenis
2010-03-07 21:04 ` H.J. Lu
2010-03-27 16:16 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-03-29 0:16 ` PATCH: 0/6 [3nd " H.J. Lu
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