Re: [PATCH]: Fix PR19061, gdb hangs/spins-on-cpu when debugging any program on Alpha

[Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 4:53 PM, Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com> wrote:
> On 2017-12-15 07:11 AM, Uros Bizjak wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> Attached patch fixes PR19061, where gdb hangs/spins-on-cpu when
>> debugging any program on Alpha. The patch is effectively a forward
>> port of Richard's patch from the Comment #5 of the PR [1].
>>
>>
>> 2017-12-15  Uros Bizjak  <ubizjak@gmail.com>
>>         Richard Henderson  <rth@redhat.com>
>>
>>     PR gdb/19061
>>     * alpha-tdep.c (alpha_software_single_step): Call
>>     alpha_deal_with_atomic_sequence here.
>>     (set_gdbarch_software_single_step): Set to alpha_software_single_step.
>>     * nat/linux-ptrace.h [__alpha__]: Define GDB_ARCH_IS_TRAP_BRKPT
>>     and GDB_ARCH_IS_TRAP_HWBKPT.
>>
>> Patch was tested on alphaev68-linux-gnu, also tested with gcc's
>> testsuite, where it fixed all hangs in guality.exp and
>> simulate-thread.exp testcases.
>>
>> Please note that I have no commit access, so if approved, please
>> commit the patch to the source repository for me. I also have
>> functionally equivalent patch for gdb-8 branch which I plan to submit
>> later.
>>
>> [1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19061#c5
>>
>> Uros.
>>
>
> Hi Uros and Richard,
>
> I would need your input.  Using this cross-compiler:
>
> alphaev67-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc (crosstool-NG crosstool-ng-1.22.0-677-ga3dd55b9) 6.3.0
> Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> I get this error:
>
>   CXX    linux-nat.o
> /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-nat.c: In function 'void save_stop_reason(lwp_info*)':
> /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-nat.c:2718:9: error: duplicated 'if' condition [-Werror=duplicated-cond]
>     else if (GDB_ARCH_IS_TRAP_HWBKPT (siginfo.si_code))
>          ^~
> In file included from /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-nat.c:31:0:
> /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/nat/linux-ptrace.h:173:41: note: previously used here
>  # define GDB_ARCH_IS_TRAP_BRKPT(X) ((X) == TRAP_BRKPT)
>                                     ~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-nat.c:2709:13: note: in expansion of macro 'GDB_ARCH_IS_TRAP_BRKPT'
>     else if (GDB_ARCH_IS_TRAP_BRKPT (siginfo.si_code))
>              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Does Alpha even have hardware breakpoints?  If not, I would suggest
> defining GDB_ARCH_IS_TRAP_HWBKPT to 0 for __alpha__.  It would get
> rid of the error, and be more exact (no si_code can mean "hardware
> breakpoint" on alpha).

Richard said that:

The hardware does not, but the linux kernel pretends.
IIRC the number of round-trips and flushes is supposed
to be lower doing it from within the kernel.

BR,
Uros.