Clear non-significant bits of address in watchpoint
authorYao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
Fri, 8 Dec 2017 17:27:03 +0000 (17:27 +0000)
committerYao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org>
Fri, 8 Dec 2017 17:27:03 +0000 (17:27 +0000)
Nowadays, GDB can't set watchpoint on tagged address on AArch64,

(gdb) p p2
$1 = (int *) 0xf000fffffffff474
(gdb) watch *((int *) 0xf000fffffffff474)
Hardware watchpoint 2: *((int *) 0xf000fffffffff474)
(gdb) c
Continuing.
main () at
binutils-gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.c:45
45   void (*func_ptr) (void) = foo;
Unexpected error setting hardware debug registers

This patch is about setting watchpoint on a tagged address.  Unlike
breakpoint, watchpoint record the expression rather than the address, and
when a watchpoint is fired, GDB checks the expression value changed
instead of matching address, so we can mask the watchpoint address by
getting rid of non-significant bits of address.

gdb:

2017-12-08  Yao Qi  <yao.qi@linaro.org>

* breakpoint.c (update_watchpoint): Call
address_significant.

gdb/testsuite:

2017-12-08  Yao Qi  <yao.qi@linaro.org>

* gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.c (main): Update.
* gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.exp: Add tests for watchpoint.

gdb/ChangeLog
gdb/breakpoint.c
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.c
gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.exp

index 134f7b4..7d061c8 100644 (file)
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2017-12-08  Yao Qi  <yao.qi@linaro.org>
 
+       * breakpoint.c (update_watchpoint): Call
+       address_significant.
+
+2017-12-08  Yao Qi  <yao.qi@linaro.org>
+
        * breakpoint.c (adjust_breakpoint_address): Call
        address_significant.
 
index 1cee730..b68718d 100644 (file)
@@ -1864,7 +1864,7 @@ update_watchpoint (struct watchpoint *b, int reparse)
                  loc->gdbarch = get_type_arch (value_type (v));
 
                  loc->pspace = frame_pspace;
-                 loc->address = addr;
+                 loc->address = address_significant (loc->gdbarch, addr);
 
                  if (bitsize != 0)
                    {
index 17fbe4f..53a2ca4 100644 (file)
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 2017-12-08  Yao Qi  <yao.qi@linaro.org>
 
        * gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.c (main): Update.
+       * gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.exp: Add tests for watchpoint.
+
+2017-12-08  Yao Qi  <yao.qi@linaro.org>
+
+       * gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.c (main): Update.
        * gdb.arch/aarch64-tagged-pointer.exp: Add test for breakpoint.
 
 2017-12-08  Yao Qi  <yao.qi@linaro.org>
index fcab1b7..c08993e 100644 (file)
@@ -89,3 +89,17 @@ foreach_with_prefix bptype {"hbreak" "break"} {
     gdb_test "up" "\\(\*func_ptr\\) \\(\\).*" "caller is *func_ptr"
     delete_breakpoints
 }
+
+gdb_test "down"
+gdb_test "finish"
+# Watch on tagged pointer.
+gdb_test "watch *sp2"
+gdb_test "continue" \
+    "Continuing\\..*Hardware watchpoint \[0-9\]+.*" \
+    "run until watchpoint on s1"
+delete_breakpoints
+
+gdb_test "watch *p2"
+gdb_test "continue" \
+    "Continuing\\..*Hardware watchpoint \[0-9\]+.*" \
+    "run until watchpoint on i"