Skip server-kill.exp on remote target

Hi,
We see the following fail in the real remote testing...

(gdb) Executing on target: kill -9 29808    (timeout = 300)
spawn [open ...]^M
sh: 1: kill: No such process

XYZ1ZYX
tstatus^M
Trace can not be run on this target.^M
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.server/server-kill.exp: tstatus

The test tries to kill gdbserver in this way:

set server_pid [exp_pid -i [board_info target fileid]]
remote_exec target "kill -9 $server_pid"

in native testing, we'll get the pid of spawned gdbserver, however, in
remote testing, we'll get the pid of ssh session, since we start
gdbserver on the remote target through ssh.  The pid on build doesn't
exist on target.

I thought about different ways to handle remote target, for example:

 - use command ps on remote target to gdbserver pid, but it doesn't work
   if we have multiple gdbserver instances during testing,
 - port number can be regarded as an id to differentiate different
   instances, but port number is unknown to each test case.  Likewise,
   we can't use 'pkill' due to the same reason.
 - close the gdbserver channel, but gdbserver doesn't exit on the target,

then, I have to skip this test for remote target.

gdb/testsuite:

2014-09-30  Yao Qi  <yao@codesourcery.com>

	* gdb.server/server-kill.exp: Skip it if the target is remote.
---
 gdb/testsuite/gdb.server/server-kill.exp | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com> writes:

> gdb/testsuite:
>
> 2014-09-30  Yao Qi  <yao@codesourcery.com>
>
> 	* gdb.server/server-kill.exp: Skip it if the target is remote.

Ping.

On 09/30/2014 02:10 PM, Yao Qi wrote:
> I thought about different ways to handle remote target, for example:
> 
>  - use command ps on remote target to gdbserver pid, but it doesn't work
>    if we have multiple gdbserver instances during testing,
>  - port number can be regarded as an id to differentiate different
>    instances, but port number is unknown to each test case.  Likewise,
>    we can't use 'pkill' due to the same reason.
>  - close the gdbserver channel, but gdbserver doesn't exit on the target,

gdbserver will be the parent of the tested process.  So how about
tweaking the test program to do:

int server_pid;

int main ()
{
   server_pid = getppid ();
}

and then simply read "server_pid" out of the inferior ?

Thanks,
Pedro Alves

Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:

> gdbserver will be the parent of the tested process.  So how about
> tweaking the test program to do:
>
> int server_pid;
>
> int main ()
> {
>    server_pid = getppid ();
> }
>
> and then simply read "server_pid" out of the inferior ?

That is a good idea!  Patch 2/3 is about this.  Patch 1/3 is a clean
up.  Patch 3/3 is to fix a fail we've seen on target doesn't support
tracepoint.

*** BLURB HERE ***

Yao Qi (3):
  Clean up server-kill.exp
  Get GDBserver pid on remote target
  Use command "monitor set debug 0" to check the connection

 gdb/testsuite/gdb.server/server-kill.c   | 10 +++++++++-
 gdb/testsuite/gdb.server/server-kill.exp | 23 +++++++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com> writes:

> That is a good idea!  Patch 2/3 is about this.  Patch 1/3 is a clean
> up.  Patch 3/3 is to fix a fail we've seen on target doesn't support
> tracepoint.

These three patches are pushed in.