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authorPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2013-10-02 11:44:19 +0000
committerPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2013-10-02 11:44:19 +0000
commit5f60e60da1519ec1ba4d8bd3bc78a3928fcc7cec (patch)
treeefb809650dd7702cff67f9170ea05965c281fd9f /gdb/testsuite
parentbbd5ead4f2ce1216d41cc6f301f6b0db812d63b4 (diff)
downloadgdb-5f60e60da1519ec1ba4d8bd3bc78a3928fcc7cec.tar.gz
Teach the testsuite that GDBserver reliably reports program exits.
Running catch-syscall.exp against a gdbserver that actually supports it, we get: FAIL: gdb.base/catch-syscall.exp: continue until exit (the program exited) FAIL: gdb.base/catch-syscall.exp: continue until exit (the program exited) FAIL: gdb.base/catch-syscall.exp: continue until exit (the program exited) FAIL: gdb.base/catch-syscall.exp: continue until exit at catch syscall with unused syscall (mlock) (the program exited) FAIL: gdb.base/catch-syscall.exp: continue until exit (the program exited) The fail pattern is: Catchpoint 2 (call to syscall exit_group), 0x000000323d4baa29 in _exit () from /lib64/libc.so.6 (gdb) PASS: gdb.base/catch-syscall.exp: program has called exit_group delete breakpoints Delete all breakpoints? (y or n) y (gdb) info breakpoints No breakpoints or watchpoints. (gdb) break exit Breakpoint 3 at 0x323d438bf0 (gdb) continue Continuing. [Inferior 1 (process 21081) exited normally] That "break exit" + "continue" comes from: > # gdb_continue_to_end: > # The case where the target uses stubs has to be handled specially. If a > # stub is used, we set a breakpoint at exit because we cannot rely on > # exit() behavior of a remote target. > # The native-gdbserver.exp board, used to test against gdbserver in "target remote" mode, triggers that case ($use_gdb_stub is true). So gdb_continue_to_end doesn't work for catch-syscall.exp as here we catch the exit_group and continue from that, expecting to see a real program exit. I was about to post a patch that changes catch-syscall.exp to call a new function that just always does what gdb_continue_to_end does in the !$use_gdb_stub case. But, since GDBserver doesn't really need this, in the end I thought it better to teach the testsuite that there are stubs that know how to report program exits, by adding a new "exit_is_reliable" board variable that then gdb_continue_to_end checks. Tested on x86_64 Fedora 17, native and gdbserver. gdb/testsuite/ 2013-10-02 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * README (Board Settings): Document "exit_is_reliable". * lib/gdb.exp (gdb_continue_to_end): Check whether the board says running to exit reliably reports program exits. * boards/native-gdbserver.exp: Set exit_is_reliable in the board info. * boards/native-stdio-gdbserver.exp: Likewise.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/testsuite')
-rw-r--r--gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog9
-rw-r--r--gdb/testsuite/README9
-rw-r--r--gdb/testsuite/boards/native-gdbserver.exp1
-rw-r--r--gdb/testsuite/boards/native-stdio-gdbserver.exp1
-rw-r--r--gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp21
5 files changed, 35 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
index 04d9450a858..3acc52180cd 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2013-10-02 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
+
+ * README (Board Settings): Document "exit_is_reliable".
+ * lib/gdb.exp (gdb_continue_to_end): Check whether the board says
+ running to exit reliably reports program exits.
+ * boards/native-gdbserver.exp: Set exit_is_reliable in the board
+ info.
+ * boards/native-stdio-gdbserver.exp: Likewise.
+
2013-10-01 Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
* gdb.python/python.exp: Remove redundant print-stack tests.
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/README b/gdb/testsuite/README
index 4d369c554ce..ec91b14eca5 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/README
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/README
@@ -247,6 +247,15 @@ use_gdb_stub
The tests are running with a GDB stub.
+exit_is_reliable
+
+ Set to true if GDB can assume that letting the program run to end
+ reliably results in program exits being reported as such, as opposed
+ to, e.g., the program ending in an infinite loop or the board
+ crashing/resetting. If not set, this defaults to $use_gdb_stub. In
+ other words, native targets are assumed reliable by default, and
+ remote stubs assumed unreliable.
+
gdb,predefined_tsv
The predefined trace state variables the board has.
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/boards/native-gdbserver.exp b/gdb/testsuite/boards/native-gdbserver.exp
index 6c1430fdacf..ab239ec210b 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/boards/native-gdbserver.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/boards/native-gdbserver.exp
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ set_board_info noargs 1
set_board_info sockethost "localhost:"
set_board_info use_gdb_stub 1
+set_board_info exit_is_reliable 1
# We will be using the standard GDB remote protocol.
set_board_info gdb_protocol "remote"
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/boards/native-stdio-gdbserver.exp b/gdb/testsuite/boards/native-stdio-gdbserver.exp
index 3b99909527a..a0939049d99 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/boards/native-stdio-gdbserver.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/boards/native-stdio-gdbserver.exp
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ set_board_info sockethost "stdio"
set_board_info gdb,socketport ""
set_board_info gdb,get_remote_address ${board}_get_remote_address
set_board_info use_gdb_stub 1
+set_board_info exit_is_reliable 1
# We will be using the standard GDB remote protocol.
set_board_info gdb_protocol "remote"
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp b/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
index 5e3331ad645..6c9948f81d5 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
@@ -3806,11 +3806,8 @@ proc gdb_get_line_number { text { file "" } } {
return $found
}
-# gdb_continue_to_end:
-# The case where the target uses stubs has to be handled specially. If a
-# stub is used, we set a breakpoint at exit because we cannot rely on
-# exit() behavior of a remote target.
-#
+# Continue the program until it ends.
+#
# MSSG is the error message that gets printed. If not given, a
# default is used.
# COMMAND is the command to invoke. If not given, "continue" is
@@ -3833,7 +3830,19 @@ proc gdb_continue_to_end {{mssg ""} {command continue} {allow_extra 0}} {
} else {
set extra ""
}
- if $use_gdb_stub {
+
+ # By default, we don't rely on exit() behavior of remote stubs --
+ # it's common for exit() to be implemented as a simple infinite
+ # loop, or a forced crash/reset. For native targets, by default, we
+ # assume process exit is reported as such. If a non-reliable target
+ # is used, we set a breakpoint at exit, and continue to that.
+ if { [target_info exists exit_is_reliable] } {
+ set exit_is_reliable [target_info exit_is_reliable]
+ } else {
+ set exit_is_reliable [expr ! $use_gdb_stub]
+ }
+
+ if { ! $exit_is_reliable } {
if {![gdb_breakpoint "exit"]} {
return 0
}