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RE: [PATCH 13/17] btrace: non-stop


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pedro Alves [mailto:palves@redhat.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 1:05 PM
> To: Metzger, Markus T
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/17] btrace: non-stop
> 
> On 09/10/2015 08:47 AM, Metzger, Markus T wrote:
> 
> > That seems to be the case.  I'm still getting the error I'm checking for before
> > the prompt, though, and my test will run into a timeout.
> >
> > 	thread apply all reverse-stepi 4 &
> >
> > 	Thread 2 (Thread 0x7ffff74fb700 (LWP 70895)):
> >
> > 	Thread 1 (Thread 0x7ffff7fcc740 (LWP 70891)):
> > 	Cannot execute this command while the selected thread is running.
> > 	(gdb) PASS: gdb.btrace/non-stop.exp: reverse-step: all: thread apply
> all reverse-stepi 4: prompt
> > 	0x0000000000400671      28        for (; i < 10; ++i) global += i; /* loop */
> > 	PASS: gdb.btrace/non-stop.exp: reverse-step: all: thread apply all
> reverse-stepi 4: thread 0
> > 	FAIL: gdb.btrace/non-stop.exp: reverse-step: all: thread apply all
> reverse-stepi 4: thread 1 (timeout)
> >
> > A failing run might take a bit longer, but that should be it.
> 
> Odd.  I'm running the test now for over 20 minutes, and it doesn't ever fail.
> Before I ran it against gdbserver for 10 minutes, never failed.
> This is with an i7-2620M; I hacked linux-btrace.c:intel_supports_bts to
> enable btrace.

I reverted one of the patches to trigger the error.  I wanted to see if
the test catches it.  The full series should run without error, of course.

This was meant to demonstrate that the error message precedes the
prompt.


> This looks good to me.  The comments above gdb_cont_to are stale though.

Thanks.  Will update.

Regards,
Markus.

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