Debugging with "maintenance set target-async off" on Linux has been
broken since
5b6d1e4fa4f ("Multi-target support").
The issue is easy to reproduce:
$ ./gdb -q --data-directory=data-directory -nx ./test
Reading symbols from ./test...
(gdb) maintenance set target-async off
(gdb) start
Temporary breakpoint 1 at 0x1151: file test.c, line 5.
Starting program: /home/simark/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/test
... and it hangs there.
The difference between pre-
5b6d1e4fa4f and
5b6d1e4fa4f is that
fetch_inferior_event now calls target_wait with TARGET_WNOHANG for
non-async-capable targets, whereas it didn't before.
For non-async-capable targets, this is how it's expected to work when
resuming execution:
1. we call resume
2. the infrun async handler is marked in prepare_to_wait, to immediately
wake up the event loop when we get back to it
3. fetch_inferior_event calls the target's wait method without
TARGET_WNOHANG, effectively blocking until the target has something
to report
However, since we call the target's wait method with TARGET_WNOHANG,
this happens:
1. we call resume
2. the infrun async handler is marked in prepare_to_wait, to immediately
wake up the event loop when we get back to it
3. fetch_inferior_event calls the target's wait method with
TARGET_WNOHANG, the target has nothing to report yet
4. we go back to blocking on the event loop
5. SIGCHLD finally arrives, but the event loop is not woken up, because
we are not in async mode. Normally, we should have been stuck in
waitpid the SIGCHLD would have unblocked us.
We end up in this situation because these two necessary conditions are
met:
1. GDB uses the TARGET_WNOHANG option with a target that can't do async.
I don't think this makes sense. I mean, it's technically possible,
the doc for TARGET_WNOHANG is:
/* Return immediately if there's no event already queued. If this
options is not requested, target_wait blocks waiting for an
event. */
TARGET_WNOHANG = 1,
... which isn't in itself necessarily incompatible with synchronous
targets. It could be possible for a target to support non-blocking
polls, while not having a way to asynchronously wake up the event
loop, which is also necessary to support async. But as of today,
we don't expect GDB and sync targets to work this way.
2. The linux-nat target, even in the mode where it emulates a
synchronous target (with "maintenance set target-async off") respects
TARGET_WNOHANG. Other non-async targets, such as windows_nat_target,
simply don't check / support TARGET_WNOHANG, so their wait method is
always blocking.
Fix the first issue by avoiding using TARGET_WNOHANG on non-async
targets, in do_target_wait_1. Add an assert in target_wait to verify it
doesn't happen.
The new test gdb.base/maint-target-async-off.exp is a simple test that
just tries running to main and then to the end of the program, with
"maintenance set target-async off".
gdb/ChangeLog:
PR gdb/26642
* infrun.c (do_target_wait_1): Clear TARGET_WNOHANG if the
target can't do async.
* target.c (target_wait): Assert that we don't pass
TARGET_WNOHANG to a target that can't async.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
PR gdb/26642
* gdb.base/maint-target-async-off.c: New test.
* gdb.base/maint-target-async-off.exp: New test.
Change-Id: I69ad3a14598863d21338a8c4e78700a58ce7ad86
+2020-10-13 Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
+
+ PR gdb/26642
+ * infrun.c (do_target_wait_1): Clear TARGET_WNOHANG if the
+ target can't do async.
+ * target.c (target_wait): Assert that we don't pass
+ TARGET_WNOHANG to a target that can't async.
+
2020-10-13 Kamil Rytarowski <n54@gmx.com>
* Makefile.in (ALL_64_TARGET_OBS, ALL_TARGET_OBS)
/* But if we don't find one, we'll have to wait. */
+ /* We can't ask a non-async target to do a non-blocking wait, so this will be
+ a blocking wait. */
+ if (!target_can_async_p ())
+ options &= ~TARGET_WNOHANG;
+
if (deprecated_target_wait_hook)
event_ptid = deprecated_target_wait_hook (ptid, status, options);
else
target_wait (ptid_t ptid, struct target_waitstatus *status,
target_wait_flags options)
{
- return current_top_target ()->wait (ptid, status, options);
+ target_ops *target = current_top_target ();
+
+ if (!target->can_async_p ())
+ gdb_assert ((options & TARGET_WNOHANG) == 0);
+
+ return target->wait (ptid, status, options);
}
/* See target.h. */
+2020-10-13 Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
+
+ PR gdb/26642
+ * gdb.base/maint-target-async-off.c: New test.
+ * gdb.base/maint-target-async-off.exp: New test.
+
2020-10-13 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
* gdb.arch/powerpc-altivec.s,
--- /dev/null
+/* This testcase is part of GDB, the GNU debugger.
+
+ Copyright 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+int
+main (void)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
--- /dev/null
+# Copyright 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# Verify that debugging with "maintenance target-async off" works somewhat. At
+# least running to main and to the end of the program.
+
+standard_testfile
+
+save_vars { GDBFLAGS } {
+ # Enable target-async off this way, because with board
+ # native-extended-gdbserver, the remote target is already open when
+ # returning from prepare_for_testing, and that would be too late to toggle
+ # it.
+ append GDBFLAGS { -ex "maintenance set target-async off" }
+
+ if { [prepare_for_testing "failed to prepare" ${testfile} ${srcfile}] } {
+ return
+ }
+}
+
+# Make sure our command-line flag worked.
+gdb_test "maintenance show target-async" "Controlling the inferior in asynchronous mode is off\\."
+
+if { ![runto_main] } {
+ fail "can't run to main"
+ return
+}
+
+gdb_continue_to_end
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