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[AArch64] When unavailable, fetch VG from ptrace. 

I was doing some SVE tests on system QEMU and noticed quite a few failures
related to inferior function calls. Any attempt to do an inferior function
call would result in the following:

Unable to set VG register.: Success.

This happens because, after an inferior function call, GDB attempts to restore
the regcache state and updates the SVE register in order. Since the Z registers
show up before the VG register, VG is still INVALID by the time the first Z
register is being updated. So when executing the following code in
aarch64_sve_set_vq:

if (reg_buf->get_register_status (AARCH64_SVE_VG_REGNUM) != REG_VALID)
  return false;

By returning false, we signal something is wrong, then we get to this:

  /* First store vector length to the thread.  This is done first to ensure the
     ptrace buffers read from the kernel are the correct size.  */
  if (!aarch64_sve_set_vq (tid, regcache))
    perror_with_name (_("Unable to set VG register."));

Ideally we'd always have a valid VG before attempting to set the Z registers,
but in this case the ordering of registers doesn't make that possible.

I considered reordering the registers to put VG before the Z registers, like
the DWARF numbering, but that would break backwards compatibility with
existing implementations. Also, the Z register numbering is pinned to the V
registers, and adding VG before Z would create a gap for non-SVE targets,
since we wouldn't be able to undefine VG for non-SVE targets.

As a compromise, it seems we can safely fetch the VG register value from
ptrace. The value in the kernel is likely the updated value anyway.

This patch fixed all the failures i saw in the testsuite and caused no further
regressions.

gdb/ChangeLog:

2020-03-19  Luis Machado  <luis.machado@linaro.org>

	* nat/aarch64-sve-linux-ptrace.c (aarch64_sve_set_vq): If vg is not
	valid, fetch vg value from ptrace.
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Luis Machado 2020-03-16 14:09:25 -03:00
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@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
2020-03-19 Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org>
* nat/aarch64-sve-linux-ptrace.c (aarch64_sve_set_vq): If vg is not
valid, fetch vg value from ptrace.
2020-03-19 Kamil Rytarowski <n54@gmx.com>
* x86-bsd-nat.c (gdb_ptrace): New.

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@ -92,11 +92,26 @@ aarch64_sve_set_vq (int tid, uint64_t vq)
bool
aarch64_sve_set_vq (int tid, struct reg_buffer_common *reg_buf)
{
if (reg_buf->get_register_status (AARCH64_SVE_VG_REGNUM) != REG_VALID)
return false;
uint64_t reg_vg = 0;
reg_buf->raw_collect (AARCH64_SVE_VG_REGNUM, &reg_vg);
/* The VG register may not be valid if we've not collected any value yet.
This can happen, for example, if we're restoring the regcache after an
inferior function call, and the VG register comes after the Z
registers. */
if (reg_buf->get_register_status (AARCH64_SVE_VG_REGNUM) != REG_VALID)
{
/* If vg is not available yet, fetch it from ptrace. The VG value from
ptrace is likely the correct one. */
uint64_t vq = aarch64_sve_get_vq (tid);
/* If something went wrong, just bail out. */
if (vq == 0)
return false;
reg_vg = sve_vg_from_vq (vq);
}
else
reg_buf->raw_collect (AARCH64_SVE_VG_REGNUM, &reg_vg);
return aarch64_sve_set_vq (tid, sve_vq_from_vg (reg_vg));
}