1 /* Branch trace support for GDB, the GNU debugger.
3 Copyright (C) 2013-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 Contributed by Intel Corp. <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>.
7 This file is part of GDB.
9 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
10 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
11 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
12 (at your option) any later version.
14 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
15 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
16 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
17 GNU General Public License for more details.
19 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
20 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
22 #ifndef BTRACE_COMMON_H
23 #define BTRACE_COMMON_H
25 /* Branch tracing (btrace) is a per-thread control-flow execution trace of the
26 inferior. For presentation purposes, the branch trace is represented as a
27 list of sequential control-flow blocks, one such list per thread. */
31 /* A branch trace block.
33 This represents a block of sequential control-flow. Adjacent blocks will be
34 connected via calls, returns, or jumps. The latter can be direct or
35 indirect, conditional or unconditional. Branches can further be
36 asynchronous, e.g. interrupts. */
39 /* The address of the first byte of the first instruction in the block.
40 The address may be zero if we do not know the beginning of this block,
41 such as for the first block in a delta trace. */
44 /* The address of the first byte of the last instruction in the block. */
48 /* Branch trace is represented as a vector of branch trace blocks starting with
49 the most recent block. */
50 typedef struct btrace_block btrace_block_s;
52 /* Define functions operating on a vector of branch trace blocks. */
53 DEF_VEC_O (btrace_block_s);
55 /* Target specific branch trace information. */
56 struct btrace_target_info;
58 /* Enumeration of btrace read types. */
62 /* Send all available trace. */
65 /* Send all available trace, if it changed. */
68 /* Send the trace since the last request. This will fail if the trace
73 /* Enumeration of btrace errors. */
77 /* No error. Everything is OK. */
80 /* An unknown error. */
83 /* Branch tracing is not supported on this system. */
84 BTRACE_ERR_NOT_SUPPORTED,
86 /* The branch trace buffer overflowed; no delta read possible. */
90 #endif /* BTRACE_COMMON_H */