[PATCHv3,1/2] gdbserver: Add mechanism to prevent sending T stop packets
Commit Message
There is a developer only feature in gdbserver that provides a
command line option --disable-packet that prevents some packets from
being sent, which is used to increase test coverage within GDB.
This commit extends this mechanism to prevent GDBserver from sending
the T stop reply packets, instead limiting GDBserver to only send the
S stop reply packets.
The S stop reply packet is part of the older target control mechanism,
which has design flaws that were worked around with the introduction
of the newer target control mechanism, which uses the T stop reply
packet.
Limiting GDBserver to use S stop packets instead of T stop packets
will, inevitably, mean that GDBserver doesn't function correctly in
many cases involving multiple threads, however, I don't think this is
too important, this is a developer only feature, intended to allow us
to test GDB.
A new test that makes use of this feature will be added in the next
commit.
gdbserver/ChangeLog:
* remote-utils.cc (prepare_resume_reply): Add ability to convert T
reply into an S reply.
* server.cc (disable_packet_T): New global.
(captured_main): Set new global when appropriate.
* server.h (disable_packet_T): Declare.
---
gdbserver/ChangeLog | 8 ++++++++
gdbserver/remote-utils.cc | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
gdbserver/server.cc | 3 +++
gdbserver/server.h | 1 +
4 files changed, 32 insertions(+)
Comments
On 3/2/20 11:54 AM, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> There is a developer only feature in gdbserver that provides a
> command line option --disable-packet that prevents some packets from
> being sent, which is used to increase test coverage within GDB.
>
> This commit extends this mechanism to prevent GDBserver from sending
> the T stop reply packets, instead limiting GDBserver to only send the
> S stop reply packets.
>
> The S stop reply packet is part of the older target control mechanism,
> which has design flaws that were worked around with the introduction
> of the newer target control mechanism, which uses the T stop reply
> packet.
>
> Limiting GDBserver to use S stop packets instead of T stop packets
> will, inevitably, mean that GDBserver doesn't function correctly in
> many cases involving multiple threads, however, I don't think this is
> too important, this is a developer only feature, intended to allow us
> to test GDB.
>
> A new test that makes use of this feature will be added in the next
> commit.
>
> gdbserver/ChangeLog:
>
> * remote-utils.cc (prepare_resume_reply): Add ability to convert T
> reply into an S reply.
> * server.cc (disable_packet_T): New global.
> (captured_main): Set new global when appropriate.
> * server.h (disable_packet_T): Declare.
OK.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves
@@ -1204,6 +1204,26 @@ prepare_resume_reply (char *buf, ptid_t ptid,
else
sprintf (buf, "T%02x", status->value.sig);
+ if (disable_packet_T)
+ {
+ /* This is a bit (OK, a lot) of a kludge, however, this isn't
+ really a user feature, but exists only so GDB can use the
+ gdbserver to test handling of the 'S' stop reply packet, so
+ we would rather this code be as simple as possible.
+
+ By this point we've started to build the 'T' stop packet,
+ and it should look like 'Txx....' where 'x' is a hex digit.
+ An 'S' stop packet always looks like 'Sxx', so all we do
+ here is convert the buffer from a T packet to an S packet
+ and the avoid adding any extra content by breaking out. */
+ gdb_assert (*buf == 'T');
+ gdb_assert (isxdigit (*(buf + 1)));
+ gdb_assert (isxdigit (*(buf + 2)));
+ *buf = 'S';
+ *(buf + 3) = '\0';
+ break;
+ }
+
buf += strlen (buf);
saved_thread = current_thread;
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ bool disable_packet_vCont;
bool disable_packet_Tthread;
bool disable_packet_qC;
bool disable_packet_qfThreadInfo;
+bool disable_packet_T;
static unsigned char *mem_buf;
@@ -3649,6 +3650,8 @@ captured_main (int argc, char *argv[])
disable_packet_qC = true;
else if (strcmp ("qfThreadInfo", tok) == 0)
disable_packet_qfThreadInfo = true;
+ else if (strcmp ("T", tok) == 0)
+ disable_packet_T = true;
else if (strcmp ("threads", tok) == 0)
{
disable_packet_vCont = true;
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ extern bool disable_packet_vCont;
extern bool disable_packet_Tthread;
extern bool disable_packet_qC;
extern bool disable_packet_qfThreadInfo;
+extern bool disable_packet_T;
extern bool run_once;
extern bool non_stop;