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[2/4] gdb: aarch64: Move MTE address check out of set_memtag

Message ID 20240328070055.2578783-3-gustavo.romero@linaro.org
State New
Headers
Series Add another way to check for MTE-tagged addresses on remote targets |

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Commit Message

Gustavo Romero March 28, 2024, 7 a.m. UTC 
  Move MTE address check out of set_memtag and add this check to the
upper layer, before set_memtag is called. This is a preparation for
using a target hook instead of a gdbarch hook MTE address checks.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo Romero <gustavo.romero@linaro.org>
---
 gdb/aarch64-linux-tdep.c | 4 ----
 gdb/printcmd.c           | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/gdb/aarch64-linux-tdep.c b/gdb/aarch64-linux-tdep.c
index 50055ac3f48..8e6e63d4dcb 100644
--- a/gdb/aarch64-linux-tdep.c
+++ b/gdb/aarch64-linux-tdep.c
@@ -2525,10 +2525,6 @@  aarch64_linux_set_memtags (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, struct value *address,
       /* Remove the top byte.  */
       addr = gdbarch_remove_non_address_bits (gdbarch, addr);
 
-      /* Make sure we are dealing with a tagged address to begin with.  */
-      if (!aarch64_linux_tagged_address_p (gdbarch, address))
-	return false;
-
       /* With G being the number of tag granules and N the number of tags
 	 passed in, we can have the following cases:
 
diff --git a/gdb/printcmd.c b/gdb/printcmd.c
index cb0d32aa4bc..ae4d640ccf2 100644
--- a/gdb/printcmd.c
+++ b/gdb/printcmd.c
@@ -3127,6 +3127,12 @@  memory_tag_set_allocation_tag_command (const char *args, int from_tty)
   /* Parse the input.  */
   parse_set_allocation_tag_input (args, &val, &length, tags);
 
+  /* If the address is not in a region memory mapped with a memory tagging
+     flag, it is no use trying to manipulate its allocation tag.  */
+  if (!gdbarch_tagged_address_p (current_inferior ()->arch (), val)) {
+    show_addr_not_tagged (value_as_address(val));
+  }
+
   if (!gdbarch_set_memtags (current_inferior ()->arch (), val, length, tags,
 			    memtag_type::allocation))
     gdb_printf (_("Could not update the allocation tag(s).\n"));