Put single-step breakpoints on the bp_location chain
This patch makes single-step breakpoints "real" breakpoints on the
global location list.
There are several benefits to this:
- It removes the currently limitation that only 2 single-step
breakpoints can be inserted. See an example here of a discussion
around a case that wants more than 2, possibly unbounded:
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-03/msg00663.html
- makes software single-step work on read-only code regions.
The logic to convert a software breakpoint to a hardware breakpoint
if the memory map says the breakpoint address is in read only memory
is in insert_bp_location. Because software single-step breakpoints
bypass all that go and straight to target_insert_breakpoint, we
can't software single-step over read only memory. This patch
removes that limitation, and adds a test that makes sure that works,
by forcing a code region to read-only with "mem LOW HIGH ro" and
then stepping through that.
- Fixes PR breakpoints/9649
This is an assertion failure in insert_single_step_breakpoint in
breakpoint.c, because we may leave stale single-step breakpoints
behind on error.
The tests for stepping through read-only regions exercise the root
cause of the bug, which is that we leave single-step breakpoints
behind if we fail to insert any single-step breakpoint. Deleting
the single-step breakpoints in resume_cleanups,
delete_just_stopped_threads_infrun_breakpoints, and
fetch_inferior_event fixes this. Without that, we'd no longer hit
the assertion, as that code is deleted, but we'd instead run into
errors/warnings trying to insert/remove the stale breakpoints on
next resume.
- Paves the way to have multiple threads software single-stepping at
the same time, leaving update_global_location_list to worry about
duplicate locations.
- Makes the moribund location machinery aware of software single-step
breakpoints, paving the way to enable software single-step on
non-stop, instead of forcing serialized displaced stepping for all
single steps.
- It's generaly cleaner.
We no longer have to play games with single-step breakpoints
inserted at the same address as regular breakpoints, like we
recently had to do for 7.8. See this discussion:
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-06/msg00052.html.
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20, on top of my 'single-step breakpoints on
x86' series.
gdb/
2014-10-15 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR breakpoints/9649
* breakpoint.c (single_step_breakpoints, single_step_gdbarch):
Delete array globals.
(single_step_breakpoints): New global.
(breakpoint_xfer_memory): Remove special handling for single-step
breakpoints.
(update_breakpoints_after_exec): Delete bp_single_step
breakpoints.
(detach_breakpoints): Remove special handling for single-step
breakpoints.
(breakpoint_init_inferior): Delete bp_single_step breakpoints.
(bpstat_stop_status): Add comment.
(bpstat_what, bptype_string, print_one_breakpoint_location)
(adjust_breakpoint_address, init_bp_location): Handle
bp_single_step.
(new_single_step_breakpoint): New function.
(set_momentary_breakpoint, bkpt_remove_location): Remove special
handling for single-step breakpoints.
(insert_single_step_breakpoint, single_step_breakpoints_inserted)
(remove_single_step_breakpoints, cancel_single_step_breakpoints):
Rewrite.
(detach_single_step_breakpoints, find_single_step_breakpoint):
Delete functions.
(breakpoint_has_location_inserted_here): New function.
(single_step_breakpoint_inserted_here_p): Rewrite.
* breakpoint.h: Remove FIXME.
(enum bptype) <bp_single_step>: New enum value.
(insert_single_step_breakpoint): Update comment.
* infrun.c (resume_cleanups)
(delete_step_thread_step_resume_breakpoint): Remove single-step
breakpoints.
(fetch_inferior_event): Install a cleanup that removes infrun
breakpoints.
(switch_back_to_stepped_thread) <expect thread advanced also>:
Clear step-over info.
gdb/testsuite/
2014-10-15 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR breakpoints/9649
* gdb.base/breakpoint-in-ro-region.c (main): Add more instructions.
* gdb.base/breakpoint-in-ro-region.exp
(probe_target_hardware_step): New procedure.
(top level): Probe hardware stepping and hardware breakpoint
support. Test stepping through a read-only region, with both
"breakpoint auto-hw" on and off and both "always-inserted" on and
off.