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[PATCH 1/2] Fix PR gdb/19676: Disable displaced stepping if /proc not mounted
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 16:45:12 +0000
- Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Fix PR gdb/19676: Disable displaced stepping if /proc not mounted
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On GNU/Linux archs that support displaced stepping, if /proc is not
mounted, GDB gets stuck not able to step past breakpoints:
(gdb) c
Continuing.
dl_main (phdr=<optimized out>, phnum=<optimized out>, user_entry=<optimized out>, auxv=<optimized out>) at rtld.c:2163
2163 LIBC_PROBE (init_complete, 2, LM_ID_BASE, r);
Cannot find AT_ENTRY auxiliary vector entry.
(gdb) c
Continuing.
dl_main (phdr=<optimized out>, phnum=<optimized out>, user_entry=<optimized out>, auxv=<optimized out>) at rtld.c:2163
2163 LIBC_PROBE (init_complete, 2, LM_ID_BASE, r);
Cannot find AT_ENTRY auxiliary vector entry.
(gdb)
That's because GDB can't figure out where the scratch pad is.
This is a regression introduced by the earlier changes to make the
Linux native target always work in non-stop mode.
This commit makes GDB detect the case and fallback to stepping over
breakpoints in-line.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2016-03-01 Pedro Alves <pedro@cascais.lan>
PR gdb/19676
* infrun.c (displaced_step_prepare): Also disable displaced
stepping on NOT_SUPPORTED_ERROR.
* linux-tdep.c (linux_displaced_step_location): If reading auxv
fails, throw NOT_SUPPORTED_ERROR instead of generic error.
---
gdb/infrun.c | 3 ++-
gdb/linux-tdep.c | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/infrun.c b/gdb/infrun.c
index 3e8c9e0..696105d 100644
--- a/gdb/infrun.c
+++ b/gdb/infrun.c
@@ -1894,7 +1894,8 @@ displaced_step_prepare (ptid_t ptid)
{
struct displaced_step_inferior_state *displaced_state;
- if (ex.error != MEMORY_ERROR)
+ if (ex.error != MEMORY_ERROR
+ && ex.error != NOT_SUPPORTED_ERROR)
throw_exception (ex);
if (debug_infrun)
diff --git a/gdb/linux-tdep.c b/gdb/linux-tdep.c
index 555c302..f197aa7 100644
--- a/gdb/linux-tdep.c
+++ b/gdb/linux-tdep.c
@@ -2426,7 +2426,8 @@ linux_displaced_step_location (struct gdbarch *gdbarch)
location. The auxiliary vector gets us the PowerPC-side entry
point address instead. */
if (target_auxv_search (¤t_target, AT_ENTRY, &addr) <= 0)
- error (_("Cannot find AT_ENTRY auxiliary vector entry."));
+ throw_error (NOT_SUPPORTED_ERROR,
+ _("Cannot find AT_ENTRY auxiliary vector entry."));
/* Make certain that the address points at real code, and not a
function descriptor. */
--
2.5.0