From: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
To: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
Cc: GDB Mailing list <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Problems interrupting remote target on powerpc
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 23:25:17 +1200 [thread overview]
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2023, 9:41 PM Luis Machado, <luis.machado@arm.com> wrote:
> On 4/28/23 10:38, Chris Packham wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 28 Apr 2023, 9:19 PM Luis Machado, <luis.machado@arm.com
> <mailto:luis.machado@arm.com>> wrote:
> >
> > On 4/28/23 10:14, Chris Packham via Gdb wrote:
> > > On Thu, 27 Apr 2023, 4:55 PM Chris Packham, <
> judge.packham@gmail.com <mailto:judge.packham@gmail.com>> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi GDB,
> > >>
> > >> I've had a few users report to me issues with interrupting a
> running
> > >> process after continuing when attached to a remote gdbserver
> running
> > >> on a powerpc target. Everything seems to work properly on arm and
> > >> aarch64 so there might be some powerpc or big-endian specific
> issue
> > >> lurking.
> > >>
> > >> The gdbserver version we're currently using is from gdb-11.2
> built
> > >> from source and most users have gdb-multiarch 12.1 from ubuntu
> 22.04
> > >> (some might still be using gdb-multiarch 10.2 from a PPA).
> > >>
> > >> Does this ring any bells for anyone? I'm going to try and get
> hold of
> > >> a powerpc target to test with to see if I can reproduce it for
> myself.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> Chris
> > >>
> > >
> > > Did some digging of my own I can report that indeed things aren't
> working
> > > well for powerpc. I tried updating gdbserver to 12.1 and 13.1.
> 12.1 was
> > > much the same as 11.2. 13.1 reported that it was unable to send
> sigkill
> > > when processing the interrupt command. 13.1 also seems not to be
> able to
> > > respond to the 'info os processes' command from the gdb client
> > >
> > >>
> >
> > What sort of behavior/output do you see?
> >
> >
> > I'll capture some proper output when I'm back in the office but
> basically once I 'continue' I can't get the gdb prompt back with Ctrl+C.
> >
>
> Is it a tight loop by any change? Or is gdb trapped in a long sequence of
> instruction-steps?
>
It's a daemon using a g_main_loop() not sure if that counts as a tight
loop. GDB shouldn't be doing any stepping. I'll also give a process that
runs and finishes when I get a chance to see if there are issues with that.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-28 11:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-27 4:55 Chris Packham
2023-04-28 9:14 ` Chris Packham
2023-04-28 9:18 ` Luis Machado
2023-04-28 9:38 ` Chris Packham
2023-04-28 9:40 ` Luis Machado
2023-04-28 11:25 ` Chris Packham [this message]
2023-04-28 13:02 ` Luis Machado
2023-04-28 14:05 ` Joel Brobecker
2023-05-01 5:30 ` Chris Packham
2023-05-01 21:20 ` Chris Packham
2023-05-02 12:46 ` Tom Tromey
2023-05-02 12:55 ` Luis Machado
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