From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 23:48:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: * infptrace.c (child_xfer_memory): Make use of the new PT_IO
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=371a6e84e5b12ed0c971ec604cfe60b8e978372c;p=binutils-gdb.git

* infptrace.c (child_xfer_memory): Make use of the new PT_IO
request that's available in *BSD.
---

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index f63f78a1622..8f8ad2c2d4c 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2002-11-09  Mark Kettenis  <kettenis@gnu.org>
 
+	* infptrace.c (child_xfer_memory): Make use of the new PT_IO
+	request that's available in *BSD.
+
 	* i386-tdep.h (IS_FPU_CTRL_REGNUM): Remove.
 
 	* i387-tdep.c (i387_fill_fxsave): Use FOOFF_REGNUM instead of
diff --git a/gdb/infptrace.c b/gdb/infptrace.c
index 777a5b491ed..601e157c8ef 100644
--- a/gdb/infptrace.c
+++ b/gdb/infptrace.c
@@ -514,6 +514,37 @@ child_xfer_memory (CORE_ADDR memaddr, char *myaddr, int len, int write,
   PTRACE_XFER_TYPE *buffer;
   struct cleanup *old_chain = NULL;
 
+#ifdef PT_IO
+  /* OpenBSD 3.1, NetBSD 1.6 and FreeBSD 5.0 have a new PT_IO request
+     that promises to be much more efficient in reading and writing
+     data in the traced process's address space.  */
+
+  {
+    struct ptrace_io_desc piod;
+
+    /* NOTE: We assume that there are no distinct address spaces for
+       instruction and data.  */
+    piod.piod_op = write ? PIOD_WRITE_D : PIOD_READ_D;
+    piod.piod_offs = (void *) memaddr;
+    piod.piod_addr = myaddr;
+    piod.piod_len = len;
+
+    if (ptrace (PT_IO, PIDGET (inferior_ptid), (caddr_t) &piod, 0) == -1)
+      {
+	/* If the PT_IO request is somehow not supported, fallback on
+           using PT_WRITE_D/PT_READ_D.  Otherwise we will return zero
+           to indicate failure.  */
+	if (errno != EINVAL)
+	  return 0;
+      }
+    else
+      {
+	/* Return the actual number of bytes read or written.  */
+	return piod.piod_len;
+      }
+  }
+#endif
+
   /* Allocate buffer of that many longwords.  */
   if (len < GDB_MAX_ALLOCA)
     {