From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com, koriakin@0x04.net, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] gdb/s390: Fill gen_return_address hook.
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 18:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83shzwj2wt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56E2FA1B.7050808@redhat.com> (message from Pedro Alves on Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:02:19 +0000)
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> Marcin KoÅcielnicki
> <koriakin@0x04.net>,
> gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:02:19 +0000
>
> > @item $_ret
> > Collect the return address. This is helpful if you want to see more
> > -of a backtrace.
> > +of a backtrace. Note that the return address can not always be
> > +determined reliably, and a wrong address may be collected instead.
> > +The reliability is usually higher for tracepoints at function entry.
>
> Hmm, this reads a bit as if the backtrace will be incorrect/bogus
> later on, which is not true.
>
> How about a merge of your suggestion with Marcin's previous reply,
> and some extras on top:
>
> @item $_ret
> Collect the set of memory addresses and/or registers necessary to compute
> the frame's return address. This is helpful if you want to see
> more of a backtrace.
>
> @emph{Note:} The necessary set can not always be reliability determined up
> front, and the wrong address / registers may end up collected instead.
> The reliability is usually higher for tracepoints at function entry.
> When this happens, backtracing will stop because the return address
> is found unavailable (unless another collect rule happened to match it).
Maybe it's me, but I don't see the significant difference between
these two versions. (And there's a typo in the second one:
"reliability" should be "reliably".)
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-11 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-24 12:12 [PATCH 0/8] gdb/s390: Add regular and fast tracepoint support Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-01-24 12:12 ` [PATCH 5/8] gdbserver/s390: Switch on " Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-02-07 14:04 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-02-22 7:38 ` [PATCH] " Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-03-04 10:39 ` [PATCH v3] " Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-03-15 18:41 ` [PATCH v4] " Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-03-22 9:16 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-03-23 15:25 ` Andreas Arnez
2016-03-24 1:15 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-03-29 18:31 ` Ulrich Weigand
2016-03-29 21:40 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-03-29 21:40 ` [PATCH obv] gdb/NEWS: Add mention of s390*-linux tracepoints Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-03-30 2:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-24 12:12 ` [PATCH 8/8] gdbserver/s390: Add support for compiled agent expressions Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-03-04 10:41 ` [PATCH v2] " Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-03-14 16:19 ` Andreas Arnez
2016-01-24 12:12 ` [PATCH 1/8] gdb: Add write_guessed_tracepoint_pc hook to gdbarch Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-01-26 14:58 ` Andreas Arnez
2016-02-07 13:59 ` [PATCH 1/8] gdb: Add supply_pseudo_pc " Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-02-16 18:28 ` Ulrich Weigand
2016-02-16 21:32 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-02-18 10:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] gdb: Add guess_tracepoint_registers " Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-02-18 10:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] gdb/s390: Fill guess_tracepoint_registers hook Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-02-18 16:03 ` Ulrich Weigand
2016-02-18 16:36 ` [PATCH] " Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-02-18 16:48 ` Ulrich Weigand
2016-02-18 16:58 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-02-18 11:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] gdb: Add guess_tracepoint_registers hook to gdbarch Luis Machado
2016-02-18 11:39 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-02-18 11:45 ` [PATCH] " Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-02-18 15:40 ` Ulrich Weigand
2016-02-18 15:41 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-02-18 15:58 ` Ulrich Weigand
2016-02-18 16:01 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-02-18 16:06 ` Ulrich Weigand
2016-02-18 16:11 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-02-18 16:13 ` Ulrich Weigand
2016-02-18 16:22 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-01-24 12:12 ` [PATCH 3/8] gdb/s390: Fill pseudo register agent expression hooks Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-02-07 14:01 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-02-25 19:23 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-03-04 10:42 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-03-11 2:20 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-03-11 9:58 ` Andreas Arnez
2016-03-11 10:04 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-01-24 12:12 ` [PATCH 7/8] gdb.trace: Bump tspeed.exp timeout to 600 seconds Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-01-26 18:17 ` Andreas Arnez
2016-01-29 9:53 ` [PATCH] " Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-02-12 11:20 ` Yao Qi
2016-02-18 18:54 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-01-24 12:12 ` [PATCH 4/8] gdb/s390: Fill gen_return_address hook Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-02-07 14:02 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-02-25 19:23 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-03-04 10:42 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-03-11 11:20 ` Andreas Arnez
2016-03-11 11:35 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-03-11 12:18 ` Andreas Arnez
2016-03-11 12:26 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-03-11 15:31 ` Andreas Arnez
2016-03-11 15:44 ` Pedro Alves
2016-03-11 16:45 ` Andreas Arnez
2016-03-11 17:02 ` Pedro Alves
2016-03-11 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-03-11 18:37 ` Pedro Alves
2016-03-11 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-15 11:11 ` Pedro Alves
2016-03-15 11:23 ` Andreas Arnez
2016-03-15 11:30 ` Pedro Alves
2016-03-11 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-13 9:53 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-03-14 10:07 ` Andreas Arnez
2016-01-24 12:12 ` [PATCH 2/8] gdb/s390: Fill write_guessed_tracepoint_pc hook Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-01-26 18:12 ` Andreas Arnez
2016-01-26 19:26 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-01-29 18:57 ` Andreas Arnez
2016-02-07 14:00 ` [PATCH 2/8] gdb/s390: Fill supply_pseudo_pc hook Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-01-24 12:13 ` [PATCH 6/8] gdbserver/s390: Add fast tracepoint support Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-01-25 14:34 ` Antoine Tremblay
2016-02-19 13:41 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-02-19 14:41 ` Antoine Tremblay
2016-03-04 10:40 ` [PATCH v2] " Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-03-14 16:19 ` Andreas Arnez
2016-03-14 16:25 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-01-25 13:27 ` [PATCH 0/8] gdb/s390: Add regular and " Antoine Tremblay
2016-01-25 13:56 ` Pedro Alves
2016-01-25 14:28 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-01-25 15:57 ` Pedro Alves
2016-01-25 16:03 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
2016-02-12 11:04 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
[not found] <8ce93c6f-5822-4e27-9e59-c6cbe158424d@email.android.com>
2016-03-11 17:34 ` [PATCH 4/8] gdb/s390: Fill gen_return_address hook Pedro Alves
2016-03-11 17:43 ` Marcin Kościelnicki
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