If GDB has crashed then gdb_spawn_id still exists (although it does not work).
So my patch does not change anything. And also currently it will leave the
stale gdbserver running anyway.
In general if gdb_spawn_id does not exist then send_gdb + gdb_expect just do
not make sense anyway. So this patch just prevents the error in such case.
The killing of stale gdbserver could be improved multiple ways (also as
suggested by Pedro in the original thread) but that is IMO outside of the
scope of this patch. Apparently if there is no good response from GDB then
gdb_finish() should try to call gdb_start just to kill that gdbserver, IIUC.
gdb/testsuite/
2014-02-16 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Fix "ERROR: no fileid for" in the testsuite.
* lib/gdb.exp (gdb_finish): Check gdb_spawn_id.
Message-ID: <20140206205814.GA18495@host2.jankratochvil.net>
We added a new proc gdb_produce_source recently, and it can be used
more widely in lib/gdb.exp to generate source file.
gdb/testsuite:
2013-12-08 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
* lib/gdb.exp (support_complex_tests): Use gdb_produce_source.
(is_elf_target, is_ilp32_target, is_ilp64_target): Likewise.
(is_64_target, is_amd64_regs_target): Likewise.
(skip_altivec_tests, skip_vsx_tests, skip_btrace_tests): Likewise.
In some languages, e.g. fortran, arrays start with index 1
instead 0. This patch changes the MI library to support testing
varobj children of fortran arrays.
2013-11-21 Keven Boell <keven.boell@intel.com>
testsuite/
* lib/mi-support.exp (mi_list_varobj_children_range): Add
call to mi_list_array_varobj_children_with_index.
(mi_list_array_varobj_children_with_index): New function.
Add parameter to specify array start.
This patch adds a test case to test the performance of GDB doing
disassembly.
gdb/testsuite/
2013-11-28 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
* lib/gdb.exp (with_gdb_prompt): New proc.
* gdb.perf/disassemble.exp: New.
* gdb.perf/disassemble.py: New.
Hi,
I find "has_more" is not checked when a dynamic varobj is created in
proc mi_create_dynamic_varobj. This patch adds the check to
"has_more".
gdb/testsuite:
2013-11-22 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
* lib/mi-support.exp (mi_create_dynamic_varobj): Update
comment and add one more argument "has_more".
* gdb.python/py-mi.exp: Callers update.
Hi,
In proc mi_child_regexp, \(,thread-id=\"\[0-9\]+\") is appended to
children_exp, while the first '\' is not necessary. This patch
is to remove it. With this patch applied, Emacs can find the right
left paren.
gdb/testsuite:
2013-11-19 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
* lib/mi-support.exp (mi_child_regexp): Remove unnecessary '\'.
There are some format issues in lib/mi-support.exp, such as using
spaces instead of tab and trailing spaces. This patch is to fix them.
gdb/testsuite:
2013-11-19 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
* lib/mi-support.exp: Fix format.
Variable 'whatever' is not used at all. This patch is to remove it.
gdb/testsuite:
2013-11-19 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
* lib/mi-support.exp (mi_child_regexp): Remove 'whatever'.
(mi_list_varobj_children_range): Likewise.
of inferior output for remote and native sessions.
* gdb.mi/mi-console.exp: Remove obsolete comment.
Check for semihosted inferior output pattern.
(semihosted_string): New function.
This patch is to add a test case to on the performance of GDB handling
load and unload of shared library.
In V4:
- Handle malloc and dlopen failure,
- Document test parameters.
In V3, there are some changes,
- Adapt to perf test framework changes.
- Measure load and unload separately.
In V2, there are some changes,
- A new proc gdb_produce_source to produce source files. I tried to
move all source file generation code out of solib.exp, but
compilation step still needs to know the generated file names. I
have to hard-code the file names in compilation step, which is not
good to me, so I give up on this moving.
- SOLIB_NUMBER -> SOLIB_COUNT
- New variable SOLIB_DLCLOSE_REVERSED_ORDER to control the order of
iterating a list of shared libs to dlclose them.
- New variable GDB_PERFORMANCE to enable these perf test cases.
- Remove dlsym call in solib.c.
- Update solib.py for the updated framework.
gdb/testsuite/
* lib/gdb.exp (gdb_produce_source): New procedure.
* gdb.perf/solib.c: New.
* gdb.perf/solib.exp: New.
* gdb.perf/solib.py: New.
This patch adds a basic framework to do performance testing for GDB.
perftest.py is about the test case, testresult.py is about test
results, and how are they saved. reporter.py is about how results
are reported (in what format). measure.py is about measuring the
execution of tests by a collection of measurements.
In V5:
- Simplify perftest.exp.
In V4:
- Rename MeasurementCPUTime to MeasurementCpuTime,
- Add 'pass' in empty method,
- Simplify string comparison in perftest.exp.
- Rename GDB_PERFORMANCE to GDB_PERFTEST_MODE and rename
GDB_PERFORMANCE_TIMEOUT to GDB_PERFTEST_TIMEOUT.
In V3, there are some changes,
- Add wall time measurement, cpu time measurement and vmsize
measurement.
- Rename SingleStatisticTestCase to TestCaseWithBasicMeasurements,
which measures cpu time, wall time, and memory (vmsize).
- GDB_PERFORMANCE=run|compile|both to control the mode of perf
testing.
- New GDB_PERFORMANCE_TIMEOUT to specify the timeout.
- Split proc prepare to proc compile and startup.
- Disable GC while doing measurements.
In V2, there are several changes to address Doug and Sanimir's
comments.
- Add copyright header and docstring in perftest/__init__.py
- Remove config.py.
- Fix docstring format.
- Rename classes "SingleVariable" to "SingleStatistic".
- Don't extend gdb.Function in class TestCase. Add a new method run
to run the test case so that we can pass parameters to test.
- Allow to customize whether to warm up and to append test log.
- Move time measurement into test harness. Add a new class
Measurement for a specific measurement and a new class Measure to
measure them for a given test case.
- A new class ResultFactory to create instances of TestResult.
- New file lib/perftest.exp, which is to do some preparations and
cleanups to simplify each *.exp file.
- Skip compilation step if GDB_PERFORMANCE_SKIP_COMPILE is set.
gdb/testsuite/
2013-11-06 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
* lib/perftest.exp: New.
* gdb.perf/lib/perftest/__init__.py: New.
* gdb.perf/lib/perftest/measure.py: New.
* gdb.perf/lib/perftest/perftest.py: New.
* gdb.perf/lib/perftest/reporter.py: New.
* gdb.perf/lib/perftest/testresult.py: New.
This introduces a new relative_filename proc to gdb.exp and changes
some tests to use it. This helps make these tests parallel-safe.
2013-11-04 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
* gdb.base/fullname.exp: Use standard_output_file,
relative_filename.
* gdb.base/hashline1.exp: Use standard_testfile,
standard_output_file, relative_filename, clean_restart.
* gdb.base/hashline2.exp: Use standard_testfile,
standard_output_file.
* gdb.base/hashline3.exp: Use standard_testfile,
standard_output_file, relative_filename.
* lib/gdb.exp (relative_filename): New proc.
This fixes the gdb.gdb tests to be parallel-safe, by ensuring that the
new "xgdb" file ends up in the standard output directory during the
tests.
2013-11-04 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
* gdb.gdb/selftest.exp: Use standard_output_file.
* lib/selftest-support.exp (do_self_tests): Use
standard_output_file.
Currently a proc in gdb.exp toggles the expect (and thus dejagnu)
logging. This is not a super idea, but it is there to avoid putting
some preprocessor output into the log.
In the right circumstances, this can result in the log file being
mysteriously truncated. I think this happens because it doesn't
necessarily write to the correct log file again.
The fix is to use "log_file -info" to save the previous log file.
2013-11-04 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
* lib/gdb.exp (get_compiler_info): Use log_file -info and
restore from that.
2013-10-29 Nicolas Blanc <nicolas.blanc@intel.com>
gdb/testsuite
* lib/gdb.exp (is_elf_target): New function.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Blanc <nicolas.blanc@intel.com>
* lib/gdb.exp (gdb_finish): Send a kill request to `gdbserver'
if in the persistent mode.
* gdb.trace/disconnected-tracing.exp: Reconnect before completion.
gdb/
* linux-tdep.c (linux_corefile_thread_callback): Propagate any
failure from register information collection.
gdb/testsuite/
* lib/gdb.exp (gdb_gcore_cmd): Also handle a "Target does not
support core file generation" reply.
This patch fixes gdb PR symtab/15597.
The bug is that the .gnu_debugaltlink section includes the build-id of
the alt file, but gdb does not use it.
This patch fixes the problem by changing gdb to do what it ought to
always have done: verify the build id of the file found using the
filename in .gnu_debugaltlink; and if that does not match, try to find
the correct debug file using the build-id and debug-file-directory.
This patch touches BFD. Previously, gdb had its own code for parsing
.gnu_debugaltlink; I changed it to use the BFD functions after those
were introduced. However, the BFD functions are incorrect -- they
assume that .gnu_debugaltlink is formatted like .gnu_debuglink.
However, it it is not. Instead, it consists of a file name followed
by the build-id -- no alignment, and the build-id is not a CRC.
Fixing this properly is a bit of a pain. But, because
separate_alt_debug_file_exists just has a FIXME for the build-id case,
I did not fix it properly. Instead I introduced a hack. This leaves
BFD working just as well as it did before my patch.
I'm willing to do something better here but I could use some guidance
as to what. It seems that the build-id code in BFD is largely punted
on.
FWIW gdb is the only user of bfd_get_alt_debug_link_info outside of
BFD itself.
I moved the build-id logic out of elfread.c and into a new file.
This seemed cleanest to me.
Writing a test case was a bit of a pain. I added a couple new
features to the DWARF assembler to handle this.
Built and regtested on x86-64 Fedora 18.
* bfd-in2.h: Rebuild.
* opncls.c (bfd_get_alt_debug_link_info): Add buildid_len
parameter. Change type of buildid_out. Update.
(get_alt_debug_link_info_shim): New function.
(bfd_follow_gnu_debuglink): Use it.
* Makefile.in (SFILES): Add build-id.c.
(HFILES_NO_SRCDIR): Add build-id.h.
* build-id.c: New file, largely from elfread.c. Modified
most functions.
* build-id.h: New file.
* dwarf2read.c (dwarf2_get_dwz_file): Update for change to
bfd_get_alt_debug_link_info. Verify dwz file's build-id.
Search for dwz file using build-id.
* elfread.c (build_id_bfd_get, build_id_verify)
(build_id_to_debug_filename, find_separate_debug_file): Remove.
* gdb.dwarf2/dwzbuildid.exp: New file.
* lib/dwarf.exp (Dwarf::_section): Add "flags" and "type"
parameters.
(Dwarf::_defer_output): Change "section" parameter to
"section_spec"; update.
(Dwarf::gnu_debugaltlink, Dwarf::_note, Dwarf::build_id): New
procs.
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.
This fixes dwz.exp on 32-bit targets. It does so by introducing a new
"default" setting for the address size in the DWARF assembler.
Built and regtested on x86-64 Fedora 18.
I also ran the gdb.dwarf2 tests on an x86 machine (gcc45).
* lib/dwarf.exp (cu, tu): Handle addr_size of "default". Change
default addr_size.
* lib/gdb.exp (is_64_target): New gdb_caching_proc.
I noticed that skip_btrace_tests is a classic "caching proc" that I
missed when I added gdb_caching_proc. This patch converts it.
Built and regtested on x86-64 Fedora 18.
* lib/gdb.exp (skip_btrace_tests): Use gdb_caching_proc and
standard_temp_file.
In an earlier patch I forgot to change the caching proc in cell.exp to
use standard_temp_file. This fixes the oversight.
Tested on x86-64 Fedora 18.
* lib/cell.exp (skip_cell_tests): Use standard_temp_file.
This finishes making gdb.dwarf2 parallel-safe.
To do this, this patch introduces a new gdb_remote_download proc, that
works somewhat differently in the one specific case where it matters:
for a copy to "host", if no destination was given, and the host is not
actually remote, then standard_output_file is used. In parallel mode
this guarantees that the resulting file will end up in a parallel-safe
location.
Tested on x86-64 Fedora 18.
* gdb.dwarf2/dw2-basic.exp: Use gdb_remote_download.
* gdb.dwarf2/dw2-compressed.exp: Use gdb_remote_download.
* gdb.dwarf2/dw2-intercu.exp: Use gdb_remote_download.
* gdb.dwarf2/dw2-intermix.exp: Use gdb_remote_download.
* gdb.dwarf2/dw2-producer.exp: Use gdb_remote_download.
* gdb.dwarf2/mac-fileno.exp: Use gdb_remote_download.
* lib/gdb.exp (gdb_remote_download): New proc.
This introduces parallel mode for the test suite.
It doesn't fully work yet in the sense that if you do a fully parallel
run, you will encounter some file-name clashes, but this has to start
somewhere, and it seemed best to add some infrastructure now, so that
you can follow along and test subsequent patches if you care to.
This patch has two parts.
First, it checks for the GDB_PARALLEL variable. If this is set (say,
on the runtest command line), then the test suite assumes "parallel
mode". In this mode, files are put into a subdirectory named after
the test. That is, for DIR/TEST.exp, the outputs are put into
./outputs/DIR/TEST/.
This first part has various follow-on changes coming in subsequent
patches. This is why the code in this patch also makes "temp" and
"cache" directories.
Second, this adds an "inotify" mode. If you have the inotifywait
command (part of inotify-tools), you can set the GDB_INOTIFY variable.
This will tell the test suite to watch for changes outside of the
allowed output directories.
This mode is useful for debugging the test suite, as it issues a
report whenever a possibly parallel-unsafe file open is done.
2013-08-13 Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
* lib/cache.exp (gdb_do_cache): Handle GDB_PARALLEL.
* lib/gdb.exp: Handle GDB_PARALLEL.
(default_gdb_version): Kill inotify_pid if it exists.
(default_gdb_exit): Emit warning if the inotify log is not
empty.
(standard_output_file): Respect GDB_PARALLEL.
(standard_temp_file): Likewise.
(gdb_init): Start inotifywait if requested.
* gdbint.texinfo (Testsuite): Use @table, not @itemize.
Document GDB_PARALLEL and GDB_INOTIFY.
In the fully parallel mode, each .exp file can be run in parallel (at
least conceptually -- the actual split may not be so severe). This
means that procs that compute a result and cache it are not going to
function very well. The test they run will be invoked over and over.
This patch introduces a generic caching mechanism and changes various
result-caching procs to use it. This is a cleanup to introduce the
basic change; the results aren't written to disk yet.
A caching proc is defined using gdb_caching_proc, which works like
"proc", except that it caches the result of the body.
* lib/cache.exp: New file.
* lib/cell.exp (skip_cell_tests): Use gdb_caching_proc.
* lib/gdb.exp: Load cache.exp.
(support_complex_tests, is_ilp32_target, is_lp64_target)
(is_amd64_regs_target, skip_altivec_tests, skip_vsx_tests)
(gdb_skip_xml_test): Use gdb_caching_proc.
* lib/opencl.exp (skip_opencl_tests): Use gdb_caching_proc.
This adds a new helper proc, standard_temp_file. This proc takes a
file name and returns a possibly-qualified form. This lets us make
parallel runs use a directory other than ".", which helps the inotify
mode.
This initial patch introduces the proc and changes a few spots to use
it.
* lib/gdb.exp (standard_temp_file): New proc.
(support_complex_tests, is_ilp32_target, is_lp64_target)
(is_amd64_regs_target, skip_altivec_tests, skip_vsx_tests): Use
standard_temp_file.
A few spots in lib make output files, either in "." or in
$objdir/$subdir.
This patch changes these spots to use standard_output_file.
This help the parallelization project.
* lib/gdb.exp (build_id_debug_filename_get): Use
standard_output_file.
* lib/prelink-support.exp (section_get)
(build_executable_own_libs): Use standard_output_file.
* lib/gdb.exp (gdb_compile_shlib): Pass the tail name of
$dest to link options if host is remote. Move the
generated file to $dest.a on host if host is remote.
* lib/future.exp (gdb_default_target_compile): Use tail name
of $destfile as the output name of compile. Move the
generated file to $destfile on build.
* lib/gdb.exp (gdb_compile): Set
gdb_saved_set_unbuffered_mode_obj to
set_unbuffered_mode_saved.o if host is remote. Invoke
remote_download to copy $unbuf_obj to host.
Jan Kratochvil
Doug Evans
Iain Buclaw
Omair Javaid
Joel Brobecker
Andrew Burgess
Yao Qi
Keven Boell
Luis Machado
Tom Tromey
Nicolas Blanc
Maciej W. Rozycki
Maciej W. Rozycki
Andreas Krebbel
Pedro Alves
Doug Evans