[Bug threads/11593] New: mi-nsmoribund.exp: unexpected stop

[Bug threads/11593] New: mi-nsmoribund.exp: unexpected stop

[jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com]

at least on Fedora kernels (tested kernel-2.6.32.12-116.fc12.x86_64) ptrace
implemented on top of utrace gdb.mi/mi-nsmoribund.exp randomly FAILs:
        FAIL: gdb.mi/mi-nsmoribund.exp: unexpected stop

It is due to moribund breakpoint location being retired too early.

Unaware if it happens with legacy ptrace implementation, it probably does not.
utrace has been optimized for the best parallelization for maximum performance
on multicore systems while still maintaining full ptrace backward
compatibility.

In the attached new debug messages instrumentated debug dump one can see
LWP 12856 has been still running the time "-break-delete" has been executed,
then (too) many stop-and-continue operations happened for other LWPs and only
then LWP 12856 finally reported SIGTRAP having already its moribund breakpoint
location retired.

Any increased value of this expression cannot help to fix the bug:
              old_loc->events_till_retirement = 3 * (thread_count () + 1);

I believe to safely retire moribunds each existing thread must get into 
(a) !is_executing() state and 
(b) all its events must get processed.

The (b) requirement may cause moribunds to be never retired during some 
debugging situations.  Also unaware how to find the (b) point now,
stop_and_resume_callback is needlessly expensive.

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           Summary: mi-nsmoribund.exp: unexpected stop
           Product: gdb
           Version: unknown
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: threads
        AssignedTo: unassigned at sourceware dot org
        ReportedBy: jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com
                CC: gdb-prs at sourceware dot org,pedro at codesourcery dot
                    com
GCC target triplet: x86_64-fedora12-linux-gnu


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[Bug threads/11593] mi-nsmoribund.exp: unexpected stop

[jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com  2010-05-12 13:13 -------
Created an attachment (id=4784)
 --> (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=4784&action=view)
gdb.log dump


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