From: Simon Marchi Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 19:27:55 +0000 (-0400) Subject: gdb: call target_follow_exec when "set follow-exec-mode" is "same" X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2af87c859fe450d4a3a841cf19637a91d53c9486;p=binutils-gdb.git gdb: call target_follow_exec when "set follow-exec-mode" is "same" target_follow_exec is currently only called in the "follow-exec-mode == new" branch of follow_exec, not the "follow-exec-mode == same" branch. I think it would make sense to call it regardless of the mode to let targets do some necessary handling. This is needed in the context of rocm-gdb [1], where a target is pushed on top of the linux-nat target. On exec, it needs to do some bookkeeping, close some file descriptors / handles that were related to the process pre-exec and open some new ones for the process post-exec. However, by looking at the only in-tree implementation of target_ops::follow_exec, remote_target::follow_exec, I found that it would be useful for the extended-remote target too, to align its behavior with native debugging (although I think that behavior is not very user-friendly, see PR 27745 [2]). Using two programs, one (let's call it "execer") that execs the other (let's call it "execee"), with native: $ ./gdb -q -nx --data-directory=data-directory ./execer Reading symbols from ./execer... (gdb) r Starting program: /home/simark/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/execer I am execer process 1495622 is executing new program: /home/simark/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/execee I am execee [Inferior 1 (process 1495622) exited normally] (gdb) r Starting program: /home/simark/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/execee I am execee [Inferior 1 (process 1495626) exited normally] And now with gdbserver (some irrelevant output lines removed for brevity): $ ./gdbserver --once --multi :1234 ... $ ./gdb -q -nx --data-directory=data-directory ./execer -ex "set remote exec-file /home/simark/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/execer" -ex "tar ext :1234" Reading symbols from ./execer... Remote debugging using :1234 (gdb) r Starting program: /home/simark/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/execer process 1495724 is executing new program: /home/simark/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/execee [Inferior 1 (process 1495724) exited normally] (gdb) r `target:/home/simark/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/execee' has disappeared; keeping its symbols. Starting program: target:/home/simark/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/execee warning: Build ID mismatch between current exec-file target:/home/simark/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/execee and automatically determined exec-file target:/home/simark/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/execer exec-file-mismatch handling is currently "ask" Reading /home/simark/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/execer from remote target... Load new symbol table from "target:/home/simark/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/execer"? (y or n) When handling the exec, GDB updates the exec-file of the inferior to be the execee. This means that a subsequent "run" will run the execee, not the original executable (execer). remote_target::follow_exec is meant to update the "remote exec-file", which is the file on the remote system that will be executed if you "run" the inferior, to the execee as well. However, this is not called when follow-exec-mode is same, because target_follow_exec is not called in this branch. As a result, GDB thinks the inferior is executing execee but the remote side is really executing execer, hence the mismatch message. By calling target_follow_exec in the "same" branch of the follow_exec function, we ensure that everybody agrees, and we get the same behavior with the extended-remote target as we get with the native target, the execee is executed on the second run: $ ./gdbserver --once --multi :1234 ... $ ./gdb -q -nx --data-directory=data-directory ./execer -ex "set remote exec-file /home/simark/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/execer" -ex "tar ext :1234" Reading symbols from ./execer... Remote debugging using :1234 (gdb) r Starting program: /home/simark/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/execer process 1501445 is executing new program: /home/simark/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/execee [Inferior 1 (process 1501445) exited normally] (gdb) r `target:/home/simark/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/execee' has disappeared; keeping its symbols. Starting program: target:/home/simark/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/execee [Inferior 1 (process 1501447) exited normally] (gdb) This scenario is tested in gdb.base/foll-exec-mode.exp, and in fact this patch fixes the test for me when using --target_board=native-extended-gdbserver. gdb/ChangeLog: * infrun.c (follow_exec): Call target_follow_fork when follow-exec-mode is same. * target.h (target_follow_fork): Improve doc. [1] https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/ROCgdb [2] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27745 Change-Id: I4ee84a875e39bf3f8eaf3e6789a4bfe23a2a430e --- diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index de66783dd26..f0ae77e1218 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2021-05-13 Simon Marchi + + * infrun.c (follow_exec): Call target_follow_fork when + follow-exec-mode is same. + * target.h (target_follow_fork): Improve doc. + 2021-05-13 Simon Marchi * cli/cli-decode.h (struct cmd_list_element) : diff --git a/gdb/infrun.c b/gdb/infrun.c index 90bab8d984f..3e386aa587c 100644 --- a/gdb/infrun.c +++ b/gdb/infrun.c @@ -1198,6 +1198,7 @@ follow_exec (ptid_t ptid, const char *exec_file_target) around (its description is later cleared/refetched on restart). */ target_clear_description (); + target_follow_exec (inf, exec_file_target); } gdb_assert (current_program_space == inf->pspace); diff --git a/gdb/target.h b/gdb/target.h index 48bf734279a..b80cf88db81 100644 --- a/gdb/target.h +++ b/gdb/target.h @@ -1714,8 +1714,11 @@ extern int target_remove_vfork_catchpoint (int pid); void target_follow_fork (bool follow_child, bool detach_fork); -/* Handle the target-specific bookkeeping required when the inferior - makes an exec call. INF is the exec'd inferior. */ +/* Handle the target-specific bookkeeping required when the inferior makes an + exec call. The current inferior is the inferior that has executed the exec + call. INF is the inferior in which execution continues post-exec. It is the + same inferior as the current one if "follow-exec-mode" is "same" but is a new + one if "follow-exec-mode" is "new". */ void target_follow_exec (struct inferior *inf, const char *execd_pathname);