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From: Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org,  Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] [i386] Put hlt at the ON_STACK breakpoint  [Re: GDB 7.4.91 available for testing]
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:39:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1343248757.2240.41.camel@soleil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120725201107.GA32326@host2.jankratochvil.net>

On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 22:11 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:04:01 +0200, Philippe Waroquiers wrote:
> > IIUC, Jan's patch was to have GDB storing a hlt after the place
> > where GDBSERVER will put 0xCC.
> 
> Not after, all the storage happens for the same byte.
Oops, I misunderstood that.
> 
> hlt is stored there by memory write, int3 is stored there by Z0.
> 
> 
> > What Valgrind needs is to have GDB storing the 0xCC
> > (the hlt will then have no positive nor negative impact on Valgrind).
> 
> I will put 0xcc == int3 there although I believe valgrind could decode hlt (or
> even nop) the same way.
I have not found the decoding of the hlt instruction in Valgrind, so
I suspect it might not be supported.

Any valid instruction that will terminate a "Valgrind block" will be ok
there. For sure, the 0xcc is ok. There are other instructions which also
ensures Valgrind stops translating the block (e.g. others "int"
instructions). I think "nop" does not stop the block translation.

So, inserting 0xcc looks more straightforward/natural/safer.

Philippe




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2012-07-23  7:22           ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-23 16:00             ` Joel Brobecker
2012-07-23 16:36               ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-23 20:07                 ` Philippe Waroquiers
2012-07-23 20:16                   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-23 20:37                     ` Philippe Waroquiers
2012-07-25 14:49                       ` Joel Brobecker
2012-07-25 20:04                         ` Philippe Waroquiers
2012-07-25 20:11                           ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-25 20:39                             ` Philippe Waroquiers [this message]
2012-07-25 14:59                       ` Pedro Alves
2012-07-25 20:24                         ` Philippe Waroquiers
2012-07-25 21:27                           ` Joel Brobecker
2012-07-25 21:46                             ` Philippe Waroquiers
2012-07-25 22:39                               ` Joel Brobecker
2012-07-26 21:24                                 ` [patchv2] Write bpt at the ON_STACK bpt address Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-26 21:50                                   ` Philippe Waroquiers
2012-07-27 18:47                                     ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-28  7:28                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-07-28  7:42                                         ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-31  7:37                                       ` [commit+7.5] " Jan Kratochvil
2012-08-01  9:08                                         ` [commit#2+7.5] testsuite: valgrind-infcall.exp UNSUPPORTED update [Re: [commit+7.5] [patchv2] Write bpt at the ON_STACK bpt address] Jan Kratochvil
2012-08-02 22:49                                         ` [commit+7.5] [patchv2] Write bpt at the ON_STACK bpt address Edjunior Barbosa Machado
2012-08-02 23:09                                           ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2012-08-03  0:15                                             ` Edjunior Barbosa Machado
2012-08-03 11:23                                               ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-08-03 12:09                                                 ` Edjunior Barbosa Machado
2012-08-03  1:00                                             ` Pedro Alves
2012-08-03  1:48                                               ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2012-08-03  2:30                                                 ` Edjunior Barbosa Machado
2012-08-03 21:45                                                   ` Philippe Waroquiers
2012-08-03 14:23                                               ` Tom Tromey
2012-08-03 14:31                                                 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-08-03 15:02                                                   ` Edjunior Barbosa Machado
2012-08-03 15:08                                                     ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-08-03 16:43                                                       ` Edjunior Barbosa Machado
2012-08-03 16:46                                                         ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-08-03 18:00                                                           ` Edjunior Barbosa Machado
2012-08-03 20:23                                           ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-08-03 21:46                                             ` Edjunior Barbosa Machado
2012-08-06 18:40                                               ` Tom Tromey
2012-07-31  7:40                                       ` [commit] valgrind-db-attach.exp: Do not run in remote mode [Re: [patchv2] Write bpt at the ON_STACK bpt address] Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-26 23:14                                   ` [patchv2] Write bpt at the ON_STACK bpt address Maciej W. Rozycki
2012-07-27 16:02                                     ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-28  0:10                                       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2012-07-28  6:06                                         ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-30 18:09                                           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2012-07-26 23:15                                   ` Philippe Waroquiers
2012-07-27 16:03                                     ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-27 15:21                                   ` Pedro Alves
2012-07-26 21:56                                 ` [patch] [i386] Put hlt at the ON_STACK breakpoint [Re: GDB 7.4.91 available for testing] Philippe Waroquiers
2012-07-26 22:41                                   ` Philippe Waroquiers
2012-07-26  5:13                               ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-26 12:48                           ` Pedro Alves
2012-07-26 22:21                             ` Philippe Waroquiers
2012-07-27 14:59                               ` Pedro Alves

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