[Bug external/8841] Can not set breakpoints in the vsyscall page

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8841

Hannes Domani <ssbssa at sourceware dot org> changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Hannes Domani <ssbssa at sourceware dot org> ---
(In reply to Sourceware Commits from comment #6)
> The master branch has been updated by Yao Qi <qiyao@sourceware.org>:
> 
> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;
> h=7eb895307f53af3435440d3fe67c0e4e679d99b2
> 
> commit 7eb895307f53af3435440d3fe67c0e4e679d99b2
> Author: Yao Qi <yao.qi@arm.com>
> Date:   Mon May 23 17:32:56 2016 +0100
> 
>     Skip unwritable frames in command "finish"
>     
>     Nowadays, GDB can't insert breakpoint on the return address of the
>     exception handler on ARM M-profile, because the address is a magic
>     one 0xfffffff9,
>     
>      (gdb) bt
>      #0  CT32B1_IRQHandler () at ../src/timer.c:67
>      #1  <signal handler called>
>      #2  main () at ../src/timer.c:127
>     
>     (gdb) info frame
>     Stack level 0, frame at 0x200ffa8:
>      pc = 0x4ec in CT32B1_IRQHandler (../src/timer.c:67); saved pc =
> 0xfffffff9
>      called by frame at 0x200ffc8
>      source language c.
>      Arglist at 0x200ffa0, args:
>      Locals at 0x200ffa0, Previous frame's sp is 0x200ffa8
>      Saved registers:
>       r7 at 0x200ffa0, lr at 0x200ffa4
>     
>     (gdb) x/x 0xfffffff9
>     0xfffffff9:     Cannot access memory at address 0xfffffff9
>     
>     (gdb) finish
>     Run till exit from #0  CT32B1_IRQHandler () at ../src/timer.c:67
>     Ed:15: Target error from Set break/watch: Et:96: Pseudo-address
> (0xFFFFFFxx) for EXC_RETURN is invalid (GDB error?)
>     
>     Warning:
>     Cannot insert hardware breakpoint 0.
>     Could not insert hardware breakpoints:
>     You may have requested too many hardware breakpoints/watchpoints.
>     
>     Command aborted.
>     
>     even some debug probe can't set hardware breakpoint on the magic
>     address too,
>     
>     (gdb) hbreak *0xfffffff9
>     Hardware assisted breakpoint 2 at 0xfffffff9
>     (gdb) c
>     Continuing.
>     Ed:15: Target error from Set break/watch: Et:96: Pseudo-address
> (0xFFFFFFxx) for EXC_RETURN is invalid (GDB error?)
>     
>     Warning:
>     Cannot insert hardware breakpoint 2.
>     Could not insert hardware breakpoints:
>     You may have requested too many hardware breakpoints/watchpoints.
>     
>     Command aborted.
>     
>     The problem described above is quite similar to PR 8841, in which GDB
>     can't set breakpoint on signal trampoline, which is mapped to a read-only
>     page by kernel.  The rationale of this patch is to skip "unwritable"
>     frames when looking for caller frames in command "finish", and a new
>     gdbarch method code_of_frame_writable is added.  This patch fixes
>     the problem on ARM cortex-m target, but it can be used to fix
>     PR 8841 too.

Can this be closed?

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