Some 'int' to 'bool' cleanup in linux-thread-db.c. There should be no
user visible changes after this commit.
Reviewed-By: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
While working on Windows non-stop support, I ran into a
very-hard-to-track-down bug.
The problem turned out to be that
infrun.c:proceed_resume_thread_checked resumed an already-executing
thread because the thread was marked as "executing=true,
resumed=false", and that function only skips resuming threads that are
marked resumed=true. The consequence was that GDB corrupted the
registers of the Windows DLL loader threads, eventually leading to a
GDB+inferior deadlock.
Originally, the "resumed" flag was only ever set when infrun decided
is was ready to process a thread's pending wait status. infrun has
since evolved to set the resumed flag when we set a thread's executing
flag too. We are not always consistent throughout in guaranteeing
that a thread is marked resumed=true whenever it is marked
executing=true, though. For instance, no target code that supports
non-stop mode (linux-nat, remote, and windows-nat with this series) is
making sure that new threads are marked resumed=true when they are
added to the thread list. They are only marked as {state=running,
executing=true}, the "resumed" flag is not touched.
Making proceed_resume_thread_checked check thr->executing() in
addition to thr->resumed(), feels like papering over a combination of
states that shouldn't happen nowadays.
OTOH, having to have the target backends mark new threads as
resumed=true just feels like too many different states (three) to set:
add_thread (...);
set_running (...);
set_executing (...);
set_resumed (...);
Yuck. I think we can do better.
We really have too many "state tracking" flags in a thread.
Basically:
- whether a thread is "running/stopped/exited" (from the user's
perspective). This is the thread_info::state field.
- whether a thread is "executing" (infrun asked the target to set the
thread executing). This is thread_info::executing().
- whether a thread is "resumed" (infrun wants the thread to be
resumed, but maybe can't yet because the thread has a pending wait
status). This is thread_info::resumed()
"running", "executing", and "resumed" are almost synonyms, so this can
be highly confusing English-wise too.
For "running" vs "executing", in comments, we tipically need to
explain that "running/stopped/exited" is for the user/frontend
perspective, while "executing true/false" is for gdb's internal run
control.
(Also, "executing or not" can also mean something else in GDB's
codebase -- "target has execution" does not mean that threads are
actually running right now -- it's a test for whether we have a live
process vs a core dump!)
One simplification we can do that avoids this running vs executing
ambiguity is to replace the "executing" field with an "internal_state"
field, similar to the thread_info::state field, and make that new
internal_state field reuse the same enum thread_state type that is
used by thread_info::state. Like:
struct thread_info
{
...
/* Frontend/public/external/user view of the thread state. */
enum thread_state m_state = THREAD_STOPPED;
/* The thread's internal state. When the thread is stopped
internally while handling an internal event, like a software
single-step breakpoint, the internal state will be
THREAD_STOPPED, but the external state will still be
THREAD_RUNNING. */
enum thread_state m_internal_state = THREAD_STOPPED;
};
(Assume we'd add state() and internal_state() getters.)
With that, every check for thr->executing() is replaced with a
'thr->internal_state() == THREAD_RUNNING' check, and the code is
clearer by design. There is no confusion between "running" vs
"executing" any more, because they now mean the exact same thing.
Instead, we say e.g., 'thread has (user) state "running", and internal
state "stopped"'. Or simpler, 'thread is running (from the user's
perspective), but internally stopped'. That is after all what we
would way in comments today already.
That still leaves the 'resumed' flag, though. That's the least
obvious one. Turns out we can get rid of it, and make it a new state
tracked by thread_info::internal_state. That is, we make
internal_state have its own enumeration type (decoupled from
thread_info::state's type), and convert the resumed true/false flag to
a new enumerator of this new enumeration. Like so:
enum thread_int_state
{
THREAD_INT_STOPPED,
THREAD_INT_RUNNING,
+ THREAD_INT_RESUMED_PENDING_STATUS,
THREAD_INT_EXITED,
};
That is what this patch does. So in summary, we go from:
thread_info::state {THREAD_STOPPED, THREAD_RUNNING, THREAD_EXITED}
thread_info::executing {false, true}
thread_info::resumed {false, true}
to:
thread_info::state {THREAD_STOPPED, THREAD_RUNNING, THREAD_EXITED}
thread_info::internal_state {THREAD_INT_STOPPED, THREAD_INT_RUNNING,
THREAD_INT_RESUMED_PENDING_STATUS,
THREAD_INT_EXITED}
The patch adds getters/setters for both (user) state and
internal_state, and adds assertions around state transitions, ensuring
that internal_state doesn't get out of sync with
thread::have_pending_wait_status().
The code that adds/removes threads from the proc_target's
resumed_with_pending_wait_status list is all centralized within
thread_info::set_internal_state, when we switch to/from the
resumed-pending-status state. With the assertions in place, it should
be impossible to end up with a THREAD_INT_RUNNING thread with a
pending status.
The thread.c:set_running, thread.c:set_executing, thread.c:set_resumed
global functions are all gone, replaced with new thread.c:set_state
and thread.c:set_internal_state functions.
Tested on x86_64-linux-gnu, native and gdbserver.
Change-Id: I4f5097d68f4694d44e1ae23fea3e9bce45fb078c
commit-id:42ba97d4
I was looking at the new_objfile observer and noticed a comment in
reread_symbols (symfile.c) that seemed out of date, it talked about
calling the new objfile observer with a NULL objfile argument.
A little digging indicates that the comment is indeed out of date, and
that we never call the new_objfile observer with a NULL argument any
more.
So in this commit I have:
1. Updated the out of date comment in reread_symbols.
2. Changed the argument type for the new_objfile observer from
'objfile *' to 'objfile &'. Passing a NULL pointer is no longer
an option.
3. Updated the existing new_objfile observers to take 'objfile &'
and updated their implementations as needed.
There should be no user visible changes after this commit.
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Replace all occurrences of:
strcmp (...) == 0
strcmp (...) != 0
!strcmp (...)
0 == strcmp (...)
strcmp (...) directly used as a boolean predicate
with the equivalent expression using streq.
This is for consistency (we already use streq as some places in the
testsuite) but also for clarity. I think that streq is clearer on the
intent than strcmp. It's also a bit shorter.
Change-Id: Ibbf5261b1872c240bc0c982c147f6a5477275a91
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
This updates the copyright headers to include 2026. I did this by
running gdb/copyright.py and then manually modifying a few files as
noted by the script.
I noticed my IDE (VSCode) starting to automatically trim trailing
whitespaces on save, despite the setting for it being disabled. I
realized that this is because the .editorconfig file now has
trim_trailing_whitespace = true
for many file types. If we have this EditorConfig setting forcing
editors to trim trailing whitespaces, I think it would make sense to
clean up trailing whitespaces from our files. Otherwise, people will
always get spurious whitespace changes when editing these files.
I did a mass cleanup using this command:
$ find gdb gdbserver gdbsupport -type f \( \
-name "*.c" -o \
-name "*.h" -o \
-name "*.cc" -o \
-name "*.texi" -o \
-name "*.exp" -o \
-name "*.tcl" -o \
-name "*.py" -o \
-name "*.s" -o \
-name "*.S" -o \
-name "*.asm" -o \
-name "*.awk" -o \
-name "*.ac" -o \
-name "Makefile*" -o \
-name "*.sh" -o \
-name "*.adb" -o \
-name "*.ads" -o \
-name "*.d" -o \
-name "*.go" -o \
-name "*.F90" -o \
-name "*.f90" \
\) -exec sed -ri 's/[ \t]+$//' {} +
I then did an autotools regen, because we don't actually want to change
the Makefile and Makefile.in files that are generated.
Change-Id: I6f91b83e3b8c4dc7d5d51a2ebf60706120efe691
This commit removes the program_space::core_bfd member function, which
was left in place as a temporary hack in the last commit in order to
reduce the size of the last commit.
In every place that 'current_program_space->core_bfd ()' was used I
now call 'get_inferior_core_bfd (current_inferior ())'.
I think there is further scope for improving things in the future,
reducing the number of times we access the core file via global state,
but doing that cleanup might be more involved than the clean up I've
done up to this point. So I'm leaving that work for the future.
But I think in some places, at the top level (e.g. user command
functions), there's always going to be some cases where we just need
to access the current global state, this is just the nature of the
command handlers.
There should be no user visible changes after this commit.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
When adding reference_to_pointer_iterator, I saw it as a temporary
thing, to not have to do a codebase-wide change right away. Remove it
from inf_threads_iterator and adjust all the users.
It's very possible that I forgot to update some spots in the files I
can't compile, but it will be very easy to fix if that happens.
Change-Id: Iddc462fecfaafb6a9861d185b217bc714e7dc651
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
PR ada/33217 points out that gdb incorrectly calls the <ctype.h>
functions. In particular, gdb feels free to pass a 'char' like:
char *str = ...;
... isdigit (*str)
This is incorrect as isdigit only accepts EOF and values that can be
represented as 'unsigned char' -- that is, a cast is needed here to
avoid undefined behavior when 'char' is signed and a character in the
string might be sign-extended. (As an aside, I think this API seems
obviously bad, but unfortunately this is what the standard says, and
some systems check this.)
Rather than adding casts everywhere, this changes all the code in gdb
that uses any <ctype.h> API to instead call the corresponding c-ctype
function.
Now, c-ctype has some limitations compared to <ctype.h>. It works as
if the C locale is in effect, so in theory some non-ASCII characters
may be misclassified. This would only affect a subset of character
sets, though, and in most places I think ASCII is sufficient -- for
example the many places in gdb that check for whitespace.
Furthermore, in practice most users are using UTF-8-based locales,
where these functions aren't really informative for non-ASCII
characters anyway; see the existing workarounds in gdb/c-support.h.
Note that safe-ctype.h cannot be used because it causes conflicts with
readline.h. And, we canot poison the <ctype.h> identifiers as this
provokes errors from some libstdc++ headers.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33217
Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
This patch introduces a new macro, INIT_GDB_FILE. This is used to
replace the current "_initialize_" idiom when introducing a per-file
initialization function. That is, rather than write:
void _initialize_something ();
void
_initialize_something ()
{
...
}
... now you would write:
INIT_GDB_FILE (something)
{
...
}
The macro handles both the declaration and definition of the function.
The point of this approach is that it makes it harder to accidentally
cause an initializer to be omitted; see commit 2711e475 ("Ensure
cooked_index_entry self-tests are run"). Specifically, the regexp now
used by make-init-c seems harder to trick.
New in v2: un-did some erroneous changes made by the script.
The bulk of this patch was written by script.
Regression tested on x86-64 Fedora 41.
This updates the copyright headers to include 2025. I did this by
running gdb/copyright.py and then manually modifying a few files as
noted by the script.
Approved-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
linux-thread-db.c may print "warning_pre_print" before displaying an
error message. This seems like a mistake to me, and furthermore I
think it's best to be as sparing as possible with uses of
warning_pre_print, so this patch removes the prefix.
Reviewed-By: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
>From what I can see, lookup_minimal_symbol doesn't have any dependencies
on the global current state other than the single reference to
current_program_space. Add a program_space parameter and make that
current_program_space reference bubble up one level.
Change-Id: I759415e2f9c74c9627a2fe05bd44eb4147eee6fe
Reviewed-by: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Most calls to lookup_minimal_symbol don't pass a value for sfile and
objf. Make these parameters optional (have a default value of
nullptr). And since passing a value to `objf` is much more common than
passing a value to `sfile`, swap the order so `objf` comes first, to
avoid having to pass a nullptr value to `sfile` when wanting to pass a
value to `objf`.
Change-Id: I8e9cc6b942e593bec640f9dfd30f62786b0f5a27
Reviewed-by: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
This is a simple find / replace from "struct bound_minimal_symbol" to
"bound_minimal_symbol", to make things shorter and more consisten
througout. In some cases, move variable declarations where first used.
Change-Id: Ica4af11c4ac528aa842bfa49a7afe8fe77a66849
Reviewed-by: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Remove some includes reported as unused by clangd. Add some includes in
other files that were previously relying on the transitive include.
Change-Id: Ibdd0a998b04d21362a20d0ca8e5267e21e2e133e
Most files including gdbcmd.h currently rely on it to access things
actually declared in cli/cli-cmds.h (setlist, showlist, etc). To make
things easy, replace all includes of gdbcmd.h with includes of
cli/cli-cmds.h. This might lead to some unused includes of
cli/cli-cmds.h, but it's harmless, and much faster than going through
the 170 or so files by hand.
Change-Id: I11f884d4d616c12c05f395c98bbc2892950fb00f
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Now that defs.h, server.h and common-defs.h are included via the
`-include` option, it is no longer necessary for source files to include
them. Remove all the inclusions of these files I could find. Update
the generation scripts where relevant.
Change-Id: Ia026cff269c1b7ae7386dd3619bc9bb6a5332837
Approved-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
The core_bfd macro hides a use of current_program_space. Remove it, so
that we have the opportunity to get the program space from the context,
if possible. I guess that the macro was introduced at some point to
replace a global variable of the same name without changing all the
uses.
Change-Id: I971a65b29b5e5a5941f3cb7ea234547daa787268
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
This commit is the result of the following actions:
- Running gdb/copyright.py to update all of the copyright headers to
include 2024,
- Manually updating a few files the copyright.py script told me to
update, these files had copyright headers embedded within the
file,
- Regenerating gdbsupport/Makefile.in to refresh it's copyright
date,
- Using grep to find other files that still mentioned 2023. If
these files were updated last year from 2022 to 2023 then I've
updated them this year to 2024.
I'm sure I've probably missed some dates. Feel free to fix them up as
you spot them.
Since GDB now requires C++17, we don't need the internally maintained
gdb::optional implementation. This patch does the following replacing:
- gdb::optional -> std::optional
- gdb::in_place -> std::in_place
- #include "gdbsupport/gdb_optional.h" -> #include <optional>
This change has mostly been done automatically. One exception is
gdbsupport/thread-pool.* which did not use the gdb:: prefix as it
already lives in the gdb namespace.
Change-Id: I19a92fa03e89637bab136c72e34fd351524f65e9
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Approved-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
The new_objfile observer is currently used to indicate both when a new
objfile is added to program space (when passed non-nullptr) and when all
objfiles of a program space were just removed (when passed nullptr).
I think this is confusing (and Andrew apparently thinks so too [1]).
Add a new "all_objfiles_removed" observer to remove the second role from
"new_objfile".
Some existing users of new_objfile do nothing if the passed objfile is
nullptr. For them, we can simply drop the nullptr check. For others,
add a new all_objfiles_removed callback, and refactor things a bit to
keep the existing behavior as much as possible.
Some callbacks relied on current_program_space, and following
the refactoring now use either objfile->pspace or the pspace passed to
all_objfiles_removed. I think this should be relatively safe, and in
general a step in the right direction.
On the notify side, I found only one call site to change from
new_objfile to all_objfiles_removed, in clear_symtab_users. It is not
entirely clear to me that this is entirely correct. clear_symtab_users
appears to be called in spots that don't remove all objfiles
(functions finish_new_objfile, remove_symbol_file_command, reread_symbols,
do_module_cleanups). But I think that this patch at least makes the
current code clearer.
[1] a0a031bce0
Change-Id: Icb648f72862e056267f30f44dd439bd4ec766f13
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
In remote_target::thread_info_to_thread_handle we return a copy:
...
gdb::byte_vector
remote_target::thread_info_to_thread_handle (struct thread_info *tp)
{
remote_thread_info *priv = get_remote_thread_info (tp);
return priv->thread_handle;
}
...
Fix this by returning a gdb::array_view instead:
...
gdb::array_view<const gdb_byte>
remote_target::thread_info_to_thread_handle (struct thread_info *tp)
...
Tested on x86_64-linux.
This fixes the build when building with -std=c++20.
Approved-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
This changes add_thread_with_info to accept a unique_ptr, making it
clear that it takes ownership of the passed-in pointer.
I can't test the AIX or Darwin changes, but I think they are
relatively obvious.
Make find_thread_ptid (the overload that takes a process_stratum_target)
a method of process_stratum_target.
Change-Id: Ib190a925a83c6b93e9c585dc7c6ab65efbdd8629
Reviewed-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Make find_thread_ptid (the overload that takes an inferior) a method of
struct inferior.
Change-Id: Ie5b9fa623ff35aa7ddb45e2805254fc8e83c9cd4
Reviewed-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
This commit is the result of running the gdb/copyright.py script,
which automated the update of the copyright year range for all
source files managed by the GDB project to be updated to include
year 2023.
Pedro mentioned that this prune_threads call in
thread_db_target::update_thread_list was not needed, and it was probably
an oversight to leave it there in the work following commit e8032dde10
("Push pruning old threads down to the target"). That commit changed
the "find new threads" target operation to "update thread list", making
the target responsible of adding new threads and removing exited
threads, rather than just adding new threads. Commit e8032dde10 moved
the prune_threads calls previously done in common code into each
target's update_thread_list method, in order to keep the existing
behavior, which is why this prune_threads call ended up there.
In the mean time, the linux-nat target was taught to update_thread_list,
and thread_db_target::update_thread_list defers to that for any live
inferior, so the prune_threads call is not needed there. Otherwise, the
thread_db_target::update_thread_list implementation based on
td_ta_thr_iter_p only knows how to add new threads, not how to delete
exited threads, but that is only used for non-live inferiors, where
threads can't exit anyway. So the prune_threads call is not needed for
that case either.
Change-Id: I127fd4f84c25086f97853dadf34c5cec6816840d
Approved-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
Now that filtered and unfiltered output can be treated identically, we
can unify the printf family of functions. This is done under the name
"gdb_printf". Most of this patch was written by script.
Now that filtered and unfiltered output can be treated identically, we
can unify the puts family of functions. This is done under the name
"gdb_puts". Most of this patch was written by script.
A number of spots call printf_unfiltered only because they are in code
that should not be interrupted by the pager. However, I believe these
cases are all handled by infrun's blanket ban on paging, and so can be
converted to the default (_filtered) API.
After this patch, I think all the remaining _unfiltered calls are ones
that really ought to be. A few -- namely in complete_command -- could
be replaced by a scoped assignment to pagination_enabled, but for the
remainder, the code seems simple enough like this.
linux-thread-db.c has a bit of unusual code that unconditionally
prints a message, but decides whether to print to gdb_stdout or
gdb_stdlog based on a debug flag. It seems better to me to simply
always print this; and this is the only spot in gdb where we
conditionally pass gdb_stdout to one of the f*_unfiltered functions.
This commit brings all the changes made by running gdb/copyright.py
as per GDB's Start of New Year Procedure.
For the avoidance of doubt, all changes in this commits were
performed by the script.
I stumbled on a bug caused by the fact that a code path read
target_waitstatus::value::sig (expecting it to contain a gdb_signal
value) while target_waitstatus::kind was TARGET_WAITKIND_FORKED. This
meant that the active union field was in fact
target_waitstatus::value::related_pid, and contained a ptid. The read
signal value was therefore garbage, and that caused GDB to crash soon
after. Or, since that GDB was built with ubsan, this nice error
message:
/home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-nat.c:1271:12: runtime error: load of value 2686365, which is not a valid value for type 'gdb_signal'
Despite being a large-ish change, I think it would be nice to make
target_waitstatus safe against that kind of bug. As already done
elsewhere (e.g. dynamic_prop), validate that the type of value read from
the union matches what is supposed to be the active field.
- Make the kind and value of target_waitstatus private.
- Make the kind initialized to TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE on
target_waitstatus construction. This is what most users appear to do
explicitly.
- Add setters, one for each kind. Each setter takes as a parameter the
data associated to that kind, if any. This makes it impossible to
forget to attach the associated data.
- Add getters, one for each associated data type. Each getter
validates that the data type fetched by the user matches the wait
status kind.
- Change "integer" to "exit_status", "related_pid" to "child_ptid",
just because that's more precise terminology.
- Fix all users.
That last point is semi-mechanical. There are a lot of obvious changes,
but some less obvious ones. For example, it's not possible to set the
kind at some point and the associated data later, as some users did.
But in any case, the intent of the code should not change in this patch.
This was tested on x86-64 Linux (unix, native-gdbserver and
native-extended-gdbserver boards). It was built-tested on x86-64
FreeBSD, NetBSD, MinGW and macOS. The rest of the changes to native
files was done as a best effort. If I forgot any place to update in
these files, it should be easy to fix (unless the change happens to
reveal an actual bug).
Change-Id: I0ae967df1ff6e28de78abbe3ac9b4b2ff4ad03b7
String-like settings (var_string, var_filename, var_optional_filename,
var_string_noescape) currently take a pointer to a `char *` storage
variable (typically global) that holds the setting's value. I'd like to
"mordernize" this by changing them to use an std::string for storage.
An obvious reason is that string operations on std::string are often
easier to write than with C strings. And they avoid having to do any
manual memory management.
Another interesting reason is that, with `char *`, nullptr and an empty
string often both have the same meaning of "no value". String settings
are initially nullptr (unless initialized otherwise). But when doing
"set foo" (where `foo` is a string setting), the setting now points to
an empty string. For example, solib_search_path is nullptr at startup,
but points to an empty string after doing "set solib-search-path". This
leads to some code that needs to check for both to check for "no value".
Or some code that converts back and forth between NULL and "" when
getting or setting the value. I find this very error-prone, because it
is very easy to forget one or the other. With std::string, we at least
know that the variable is not "NULL". There is only one way of
representing an empty string setting, that is with an empty string.
I was wondering whether the distinction between NULL and "" would be
important for some setting, but it doesn't seem so. If that ever
happens, it would be more C++-y and self-descriptive to use
optional<string> anyway.
Actually, there's one spot where this distinction mattered, it's in
init_history, for the test gdb.base/gdbinit-history.exp. init_history
sets the history filename to the default ".gdb_history" if it sees that
the setting was never set - if history_filename is nullptr. If
history_filename is an empty string, it means the setting was explicitly
cleared, so it leaves it as-is. With the change to std::string, this
distinction doesn't exist anymore. This can be fixed by moving the code
that chooses a good default value for history_filename to
_initialize_top. This is ran before -ex commands are processed, so an
-ex command can then clear that value if needed (what
gdb.base/gdbinit-history.exp tests).
Another small improvement, in my opinion is that we can now easily
give string parameters initial values, by simply initializing the global
variables, instead of xstrdup-ing it in the _initialize function.
In Python and Guile, when registering a string-like parameter, we
allocate (with new) an std::string that is owned by the param_smob (in
Guile) and the parmpy_object (in Python) objects.
This patch started by changing all relevant add_setshow_* commands to
take an `std::string *` instead of a `char **` and fixing everything
that failed to build. That includes of course all string setting
variable and their uses.
string_option_def now uses an std::string also, because there's a
connection between options and settings (see
add_setshow_cmds_for_options).
The add_path function in source.c is really complex and twisted, I'd
rather not try to change it to work on an std::string right now.
Instead, I added an overload that copies the std:string to a `char *`
and back. This means more copying, but this is not used in a hot path
at all, so I think it is acceptable.
Change-Id: I92c50a1bdd8307141cdbacb388248e4e4fc08c93
Co-authored-by: Lancelot SIX <lsix@lancelotsix.com>
Replace the manually maintained linked list of lwp_info objects with
intrusive_list. Replace the ALL_LWPS macro with all_lwps, which returns
a range. Add all_lwps_safe as well, for use in iterate_over_lwps, which
currently iterates in a safe manner.
Change-Id: I355313502510acc0103f5eaf2fbde80897d6376c
get_ada_task_ptid currently takes a 'long' as its 'thread' parameter
type. However, on some platforms this is actually a pointer, and
using 'long' can sometimes end up with the value being sign-extended.
This sign extension can cause problems later, if the tid is then later
used as an address again.
This patch changes the parameter type to ULONGEST and updates all the
uses. This approach preserves sign extension on the targets where it
is apparently intended, while avoiding it on others.
Co-Authored-By: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
I wanted to find, and potentially modify, all the spots where the
'tid' parameter to the ptid_t constructor was used. So, I temporarily
removed this parameter and then rebuilt.
In order to make it simpler to search through the "real" (nonzero)
uses of this parameter, something I knew I'd have to do multiple
times, I removed any ", 0" from constructor calls.
Co-Authored-By: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Rename thread_info::executing to thread_info::m_executing, and make it
private. Add a new get/set member functions, and convert GDB to make
use of these.
The only real change of interest in this patch is in thread.c where I
have deleted the helper function set_executing_thread, and now just
use the new set function thread_info::set_executing. However, the old
helper function set_executing_thread included some code to reset the
thread's stop_pc, so I moved this code into the new function
thread_info::set_executing. However, I don't believe there is
anywhere that this results in a change of behaviour, previously the
executing flag was always set true through a call to
set_executing_thread anyway.
GDB doesn't handle well the case of an inferior using the JIT interface
to register JIT-ed objfiles and forking. If an inferior registers a
code object using the JIT interface and then forks, the child process
conceptually has the same code object loaded, so GDB should look it up
and learn about it (it currently doesn't).
To achieve this, I think it would make sense to have the
inferior_created observable called when an inferior is created due to a
fork in follow_fork_inferior. The inferior_created observable is
currently called both after starting a new inferior and after attaching
to an inferior, allowing various sub-components to learn about that new
executing inferior. We can see handling a fork child just like
attaching to it, so any work done when attaching should also be done in
the case of a fork child.
Instead of just calling the inferior_created observable, this patch
makes follow_fork_inferior call the whole post_create_inferior function.
This way, the attach and follow-fork code code paths are more alike.
Given that post_create_inferior calls solib_create_inferior_hook,
follow_fork_inferior doesn't need to do it itself, so those calls to
solib_create_inferior_hook are removed.
One question you may have: why not just call post_create_inferior at the
places where solib_create_inferior_hook is currently called, instead of
after target_follow_fork?
- there's something fishy for the second solib_create_inferior_hook
call site: at this point we have switched the current program space
to the child's, but not the current inferior nor the current thread.
So solib_create_inferior_hook (and everything under, including
check_for_thread_db, for example) is called with inferior 1 as the
current inferior and inferior 2's program space as the current
program space. I think that's wrong, because at this point we are
setting up inferior 2, and all that code relies on the current
inferior. We could just add a switch_to_thread call before it to
make inferior 2 the current one, but there are other problems (see
below).
- solib_create_inferior_hook is currently not called on the
`follow_child && detach_fork` path. I think we need to call it,
because we still get a new inferior in that case (even though we
detach the parent). If we only call post_create_inferior where
solib_create_inferior_hook used to be called, then the JIT
subcomponent doesn't get informed about the new inferior, and that
introduces a failure in the new gdb.base/jit-elf-fork.exp test.
- if we try to put the post_create_inferior just after the
switch_to_thread that was originally at line 662, or just before the
call to target_follow_fork, we introduce a subtle failure in
gdb.threads/fork-thread-pending.exp. What happens then is that
libthread_db gets loaded (somewhere under post_create_inferior)
before the linux-nat target learns about the LWPs (which happens in
linux_nat_target::follow_fork). As a result, the ALL_LWPS loop in
try_thread_db_load_1 doesn't see the child LWP, and the thread-db
target doesn't have the chance to fill in thread_info::priv. A bit
later, when the test does "info threads", and
thread_db_target::pid_to_str is called, the thread-db target doesn't
recognize the thread as one of its own, and delegates the request to
the target below. Because the pid_to_str output is not the expected
one, the test fails.
This tells me that we need to call the process target's follow_fork
first, to make the process target create the necessary LWP and thread
structures. Then, we can call post_create_inferior to let the other
components of GDB do their thing.
But then you may ask: check_for_thread_db is already called today,
somewhere under solib_create_inferior_hook, and that is before
target_follow_fork, why don't we see this ordering problem!? Well,
because of the first bullet point: when check_for_thread_db /
thread_db_load are called, the current inferior is (erroneously)
inferior 1, the parent. Because libthread_db is already loaded for
the parent, thread_db_load early returns. check_for_thread_db later
gets called by linux_nat_target::follow_fork. At this point, the
current inferior is the correct one and the child's LWP exists, so
all is well.
Since we now call post_create_inferior after target_follow_fork, which
calls the inferior_created observable, which calls check_for_thread_db,
I don't think linux_nat_target needs to explicitly call
check_for_thread_db itself, so that is removed.
In terms of testing, this patch adds a new gdb.base/jit-elf-fork.exp
test. It makes an inferior register a JIT code object and then fork.
It then verifies that whatever the detach-on-fork and follow-fork-child
parameters are, GDB knows about the JIT code object in all the inferiors
that survive the fork. It verifies that the inferiors can unload that
code object.
There isn't currently a way to get visibility into GDB's idea of the JIT
code objects for each inferior. For the purpose of this test, add the
"maintenance info jit" command. There isn't much we can print about the
JIT code objects except their load address. So the output looks a bit
bare, but it's good enough for the test.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* NEWS: Mention "maint info jit" command.
* infrun.c (follow_fork_inferior): Don't call
solib_create_inferior_hook, call post_create_inferior if a new
inferior was created.
* jit.c (maint_info_jit_cmd): New.
(_initialize_jit): Register new command.
* linux-nat.c (linux_nat_target::follow_fork): Don't call
check_for_thread_db.
* linux-nat.h (check_for_thread_db): Remove declaration.
* linux-thread-db.c (check_thread_signals): Make static.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (Maintenance Commands): Mention "maint info jit".
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.base/jit-elf-fork-main.c: New test.
* gdb.base/jit-elf-fork-solib.c: New test.
* gdb.base/jit-elf-fork.exp: New test.
Change-Id: I9a192e55b8a451c00e88100669283fc9ca60de5c
This commit makes some adjustments to accomodate the upcoming
glibc-2.34 release. Beginning with glibc-2.34, functionality formerly
contained in libpthread has been moved to libc. For the time being,
libpthread.so still exists in the file system, but it won't show up in
ldd output and therefore won't be able to trigger initialization of
libthread_db related code. E.g...
Fedora 34 / glibc-2.33.9000:
[kev@f34-2 gdb]$ ldd testsuite/outputs/gdb.threads/tls/tls
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffcf94fa000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007ff0ba9af000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007ff0ba8d4000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007ff0ba8b9000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007ff0ba6c6000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ff0babf0000)
Fedora 34 / glibc-2.33:
[kev@f34-1 gdb]$ ldd testsuite/outputs/gdb.threads/tls/tls
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff32dc0000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f815f6de000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f815f4bf000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007f815f37b000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f815f360000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f815f191000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f815f721000)
Note that libpthread is missing from the ldd output for the
glibc-2.33.9000 machine.
This means that (unless we happen to think of some entirely different
mechanism), we'll now need to potentially match "libc" in addition to
"libpthread" as libraries which might be thread libraries. This
accounts for the change made in solib.c. Note that the new code
attempts to match "/libc." via strstr(). That trailing dot (".")
avoids inadvertently matching libraries such as libcrypt (and
all the other many libraries which begin with "libc").
To avoid attempts to load libthread_db when encountering older
versions of libc, we now attempt to find "pthread_create" (which is a
symbol that we'd expect to be in any pthread library) in the
associated objfile. This accounts for the changes in
linux-thread-db.c.
I think that other small adjustments will need to be made elsewhere
too. I've been working through regressions on my glibc-2.33.9000
machine; I've fixed some fairly "obvious" changes in the testsuite
(which are in other commits). For the rest, it's not yet clear to me
whether the handful of remaining failures represent a problem in glibc
or gdb. I'm still investigating, however, I'll note that these are
problems that I only see on my glibc-2.33.9000 machine.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* solib.c (libpthread_name_p): Match "libc" in addition
to "libpthread".
* linux-thread-db.c (libpthread_objfile_p): New function.
(libpthread_name_p): Adjust preexisting callers to use
libpthread_objfile_p().
When trying to attach to a pthread process on a Linux system with glibc 2.33,
we get:
$ ./gdb -q -nx --data-directory=data-directory -p 1472010
Attaching to process 1472010
[New LWP 1472013]
[New LWP 1472014]
[New LWP 1472015]
Error while reading shared library symbols for /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0:
Cannot find user-level thread for LWP 1472015: generic error
0x00007ffff6d3637f in poll () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6
(gdb)
When attaching to a process (or handling a fork child, an operation very
similar to attaching), GDB reads the shared library list from the
process. For each shared library (if "set auto-solib-add" is on), it
reads its symbols and calls the "new_objfile" observable.
The libthread-db code monitors this observable, and if it sees an
objfile named somewhat like "libpthread.so" go by, it tries to load
libthread_db.so in the GDB process itself. libthread_db knows how to
navigate libpthread's data structures to get information about the
existing threads.
To locate these data structures, libthread_db calls ps_pglobal_lookup
(implemented in proc-service.c), passing in a symbol name and expecting
an address in return.
Before glibc 2.33, libthread_db always asked for symbols found in
libpthread. There was no ordering problem: since we were always trying
to load libthread_db in reaction to processing libpthread (and reading
in its symbols) and libthread_db only asked symbols from libpthread, the
requested symbols could always be found. Starting with glibc 2.33,
libthread_db now asks for a symbol name that can be found in
/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (_rtld_global). And the ordering in which GDB
reads the shared libraries from the inferior when attaching is
unfortunate, in that libpthread is processed before ld-linux. So when
loading libthread_db in reaction to processing libpthread, and
libthread_db requests the symbol that is from ld-linux, GDB is not yet
able to supply it.
That problematic symbol lookup happens in the thread_from_lwp function,
when we call td_ta_map_lwp2thr_p, and an exception is thrown at this
point:
#0 0x00007ffff6681012 in __cxxabiv1::__cxa_throw (obj=0x60e000006100, tinfo=0x555560033b50 <typeinfo for gdb_exception_error>, dest=0x55555d9404bc <gdb_exception_error::~gdb_exception_error()>) at /build/gcc/src/gcc/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_throw.cc:78
#1 0x000055555e5d3734 in throw_it(return_reason, errors, const char *, typedef __va_list_tag __va_list_tag *) (reason=RETURN_ERROR, error=GENERIC_ERROR, fmt=0x55555f0c5360 "Cannot find user-level thread for LWP %ld: %s", ap=0x7fffffffaae0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/common-exceptions.cc:200
#2 0x000055555e5d37d4 in throw_verror (error=GENERIC_ERROR, fmt=0x55555f0c5360 "Cannot find user-level thread for LWP %ld: %s", ap=0x7fffffffaae0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/common-exceptions.cc:208
#3 0x000055555e0b0ed2 in verror (string=0x55555f0c5360 "Cannot find user-level thread for LWP %ld: %s", args=0x7fffffffaae0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/utils.c:171
#4 0x000055555e5e898a in error (fmt=0x55555f0c5360 "Cannot find user-level thread for LWP %ld: %s") at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/errors.cc:43
#5 0x000055555d06b4bc in thread_from_lwp (stopped=0x617000035d80, ptid=...) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-thread-db.c:418
#6 0x000055555d07040d in try_thread_db_load_1 (info=0x60c000011140) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-thread-db.c:912
#7 0x000055555d071103 in try_thread_db_load (library=0x55555f0c62a0 "libthread_db.so.1", check_auto_load_safe=false) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-thread-db.c:1014
#8 0x000055555d072168 in try_thread_db_load_from_sdir () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-thread-db.c:1091
#9 0x000055555d072d1c in thread_db_load_search () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-thread-db.c:1146
#10 0x000055555d07365c in thread_db_load () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-thread-db.c:1203
#11 0x000055555d07373e in check_for_thread_db () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-thread-db.c:1246
#12 0x000055555d0738ab in thread_db_new_objfile (objfile=0x61300000c0c0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-thread-db.c:1275
#13 0x000055555bd10740 in std::__invoke_impl<void, void (*&)(objfile*), objfile*> (__f=@0x616000068d88: 0x55555d073745 <thread_db_new_objfile(objfile*)>) at /usr/include/c++/10.2.0/bits/invoke.h:60
#14 0x000055555bd02096 in std::__invoke_r<void, void (*&)(objfile*), objfile*> (__fn=@0x616000068d88: 0x55555d073745 <thread_db_new_objfile(objfile*)>) at /usr/include/c++/10.2.0/bits/invoke.h:153
#15 0x000055555bce0392 in std::_Function_handler<void (objfile*), void (*)(objfile*)>::_M_invoke(std::_Any_data const&, objfile*&&) (__functor=..., __args#0=@0x7fffffffb4a0: 0x61300000c0c0) at /usr/include/c++/10.2.0/bits/std_function.h:291
#16 0x000055555d3595c0 in std::function<void (objfile*)>::operator()(objfile*) const (this=0x616000068d88, __args#0=0x61300000c0c0) at /usr/include/c++/10.2.0/bits/std_function.h:622
#17 0x000055555d356b7f in gdb::observers::observable<objfile*>::notify (this=0x555566727020 <gdb::observers::new_objfile>, args#0=0x61300000c0c0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/../gdbsupport/observable.h:106
#18 0x000055555da3f228 in symbol_file_add_with_addrs (abfd=0x61200001ccc0, name=0x6190000d9090 "/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0", add_flags=..., addrs=0x7fffffffbc10, flags=..., parent=0x0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/symfile.c:1131
#19 0x000055555da3f763 in symbol_file_add_from_bfd (abfd=0x61200001ccc0, name=0x6190000d9090 "/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0", add_flags=<error reading variable: Cannot access memory at address 0xffffffffffffffb0>, addrs=0x7fffffffbc10, flags=<error reading variable: Cannot access memory at address 0xffffffffffffffc0>, parent=0x0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/symfile.c:1167
#20 0x000055555d95f9fa in solib_read_symbols (so=0x6190000d8e80, flags=...) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib.c:681
#21 0x000055555d96233d in solib_add (pattern=0x0, from_tty=0, readsyms=1) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib.c:987
#22 0x000055555d93646e in enable_break (info=0x608000008f20, from_tty=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib-svr4.c:2238
#23 0x000055555d93cfc0 in svr4_solib_create_inferior_hook (from_tty=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib-svr4.c:3049
#24 0x000055555d96610d in solib_create_inferior_hook (from_tty=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib.c:1195
#25 0x000055555cdee318 in post_create_inferior (from_tty=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infcmd.c:318
#26 0x000055555ce00e6e in setup_inferior (from_tty=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infcmd.c:2439
#27 0x000055555ce59c34 in handle_one (event=...) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:4887
#28 0x000055555ce5cd00 in stop_all_threads () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:5064
#29 0x000055555ce7f0da in stop_waiting (ecs=0x7fffffffd170) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:8006
#30 0x000055555ce67f5c in handle_signal_stop (ecs=0x7fffffffd170) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:6062
#31 0x000055555ce63653 in handle_inferior_event (ecs=0x7fffffffd170) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:5727
#32 0x000055555ce4f297 in fetch_inferior_event () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:4105
#33 0x000055555cdbe3bf in inferior_event_handler (event_type=INF_REG_EVENT) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/inf-loop.c:42
#34 0x000055555d018047 in handle_target_event (error=0, client_data=0x0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-nat.c:4060
#35 0x000055555e5ea77e in handle_file_event (file_ptr=0x60600008b1c0, ready_mask=1) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/event-loop.cc:575
#36 0x000055555e5eb09c in gdb_wait_for_event (block=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/event-loop.cc:701
#37 0x000055555e5e8d19 in gdb_do_one_event () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/event-loop.cc:212
#38 0x000055555dd6e0d4 in wait_sync_command_done () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/top.c:528
#39 0x000055555dd6e372 in maybe_wait_sync_command_done (was_sync=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/top.c:545
#40 0x000055555d0ec7c8 in catch_command_errors (command=0x55555ce01bb8 <attach_command(char const*, int)>, arg=0x7fffffffe28d "1472010", from_tty=1, do_bp_actions=false) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:452
#41 0x000055555d0f03ad in captured_main_1 (context=0x7fffffffdd10) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:1149
#42 0x000055555d0f1239 in captured_main (data=0x7fffffffdd10) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:1232
#43 0x000055555d0f1315 in gdb_main (args=0x7fffffffdd10) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:1257
#44 0x000055555bb70cf9 in main (argc=7, argv=0x7fffffffde88) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/gdb.c:32
The exception is caught here:
#0 __cxxabiv1::__cxa_begin_catch (exc_obj_in=0x60e0000060e0) at /build/gcc/src/gcc/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_catch.cc:84
#1 0x000055555d95fded in solib_read_symbols (so=0x6190000d8e80, flags=...) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib.c:689
#2 0x000055555d96233d in solib_add (pattern=0x0, from_tty=0, readsyms=1) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib.c:987
#3 0x000055555d93646e in enable_break (info=0x608000008f20, from_tty=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib-svr4.c:2238
#4 0x000055555d93cfc0 in svr4_solib_create_inferior_hook (from_tty=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib-svr4.c:3049
#5 0x000055555d96610d in solib_create_inferior_hook (from_tty=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/solib.c:1195
#6 0x000055555cdee318 in post_create_inferior (from_tty=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infcmd.c:318
#7 0x000055555ce00e6e in setup_inferior (from_tty=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infcmd.c:2439
#8 0x000055555ce59c34 in handle_one (event=...) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:4887
#9 0x000055555ce5cd00 in stop_all_threads () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:5064
#10 0x000055555ce7f0da in stop_waiting (ecs=0x7fffffffd170) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:8006
#11 0x000055555ce67f5c in handle_signal_stop (ecs=0x7fffffffd170) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:6062
#12 0x000055555ce63653 in handle_inferior_event (ecs=0x7fffffffd170) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:5727
#13 0x000055555ce4f297 in fetch_inferior_event () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:4105
#14 0x000055555cdbe3bf in inferior_event_handler (event_type=INF_REG_EVENT) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/inf-loop.c:42
#15 0x000055555d018047 in handle_target_event (error=0, client_data=0x0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-nat.c:4060
#16 0x000055555e5ea77e in handle_file_event (file_ptr=0x60600008b1c0, ready_mask=1) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/event-loop.cc:575
#17 0x000055555e5eb09c in gdb_wait_for_event (block=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/event-loop.cc:701
#18 0x000055555e5e8d19 in gdb_do_one_event () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/event-loop.cc:212
#19 0x000055555dd6e0d4 in wait_sync_command_done () at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/top.c:528
#20 0x000055555dd6e372 in maybe_wait_sync_command_done (was_sync=0) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/top.c:545
#21 0x000055555d0ec7c8 in catch_command_errors (command=0x55555ce01bb8 <attach_command(char const*, int)>, arg=0x7fffffffe28d "1472010", from_tty=1, do_bp_actions=false) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:452
#22 0x000055555d0f03ad in captured_main_1 (context=0x7fffffffdd10) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:1149
#23 0x000055555d0f1239 in captured_main (data=0x7fffffffdd10) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:1232
#24 0x000055555d0f1315 in gdb_main (args=0x7fffffffdd10) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:1257
#25 0x000055555bb70cf9 in main (argc=7, argv=0x7fffffffde88) at /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/gdb.c:32
Catching the exception at this point means that the thread_db_info
object for this inferior will be left in place, despite the failure to
load libthread_db. This means that there won't be further attempts at
loading libthread_db, because thread_db_load will think that
libthread_db is already loaded for this inferior and will always exit
early. To fix this, add a try/catch around calling try_thread_db_load_1
in try_thread_db_load, such that if some exception is thrown while
trying to load libthread_db, we reset / delete the thread_db_info for
that inferior. That alone makes attach work fine again, because
check_for_thread_db is called again in the thread_db_inferior_created
observer (that happens after we learned about all shared libraries and
their symbols), and libthread_db is successfully loaded then.
When attaching, I think that the inferior_created observer is a good
place to try to load libthread_db: it is called once everything has
stabilized, when we learned about all shared libraries.
The only problem then is that when we first try (and fail) to load
libthread_db, in reaction to learning about libpthread, we show this
warning:
warning: Unable to find libthread_db matching inferior's thread library, thread debugging will not be available.
This is misleading, because we do succeed in loading it later. So when
attaching, I think we shouldn't try to load libthread_db in reaction to
the new_objfile events, we should wait until we have learned about all
shared libraries (using the inferior_created observable). To do so, add
an `in_initial_library_scan` flag to struct inferior. This flag is used
to postpone loading libthread_db if we are attaching or handling a fork
child.
When debugging remotely with GDBserver, the same problem happens, except
that the qSymbol mechanism (allowing the remote side to ask GDB for
symbols values) is involved. The fix there is the same idea, we make
GDB wait until all shared libraries and their symbols are known before
sending out a qSymbol packet. This way, we never present the remote
side a state where libpthread.so's symbols are known but ld-linux's
symbols aren't.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* inferior.h (class inferior) <in_initial_library_scan>: New.
* infcmd.c (post_create_inferior): Set in_initial_library_scan.
* infrun.c (follow_fork_inferior): Likewise.
* linux-thread-db.c (try_thread_db_load): Catch exception thrown
by try_thread_db_load_1
(thread_db_load): Return early if in_initial_library_scan is
set.
* remote.c (remote_new_objfile): Return early if
in_initial_library_scan is set.
Change-Id: I7a279836cfbb2b362b4fde11b196b4aab82f5efb
