From: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <gabriel@krisman.be>
To: sergiodj@redhat.com
Cc: palves@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, dje@google.com,
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <gabriel@krisman.be>
Subject: [PATCH v4 5/5] Update documentation on catching a group of related syscalls.
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 00:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1431304069-19647-6-git-send-email-gabriel@krisman.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1431304069-19647-1-git-send-email-gabriel@krisman.be>
gdb/
* break-catch-syscall.c (_initialize_breakpoint): Update catch
syscall command documentation.
* NEWS: Include section about catching groups of syscalls.
gdb/doc/
* gdb.texinfo (Set Catchpoints): Add 'group' argument to catch
syscall.
---
gdb/NEWS | 5 +++++
gdb/break-catch-syscall.c | 10 +++++-----
gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 6ad68ac..a6b5e44 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -138,6 +138,11 @@ qXfer:exec-file:read
HP/PA running HP-UX hppa*-*-hpux*
Itanium running HP-UX ia64-*-hpux*
+* The "catch syscall" command catches groups of related syscalls.
+
+ The "catch syscall" command now supports catching a group of related
+ syscalls using the 'group:' or 'g:' prefix.
+
*** Changes in GDB 7.9
* GDB now supports hardware watchpoints on x86 GNU Hurd.
diff --git a/gdb/break-catch-syscall.c b/gdb/break-catch-syscall.c
index 686daf1..e65bd0a 100644
--- a/gdb/break-catch-syscall.c
+++ b/gdb/break-catch-syscall.c
@@ -723,11 +723,11 @@ _initialize_break_catch_syscall (void)
catch_syscall_inferior_data_cleanup);
add_catch_command ("syscall", _("\
-Catch system calls by their names and/or numbers.\n\
-Arguments say which system calls to catch. If no arguments\n\
-are given, every system call will be caught.\n\
-Arguments, if given, should be one or more system call names\n\
-(if your system supports that), or system call numbers."),
+Catch system calls by their names, groups and/or numbers.\n\
+Arguments say which system calls to catch. If no arguments are given,\n\
+every system call will be caught. Arguments, if given, should be one\n\
+or more system call names (if your system supports that), system call\n\
+groups or system call numbers."),
catch_syscall_command_1,
catch_syscall_completer,
CATCH_PERMANENT,
diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
index 9e2787d..e2be1d3 100644
--- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
+++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo
@@ -4282,7 +4282,7 @@ A call to @code{exec}. This is currently only available for HP-UX
and @sc{gnu}/Linux.
@item syscall
-@itemx syscall @r{[}@var{name} @r{|} @var{number}@r{]} @dots{}
+@itemx syscall @r{[}@var{name} @r{|} @var{number} @r{|} @r{group:}@var{groupname} @r{|} @r{g:}@var{groupname}@r{]} @dots{}
@kindex catch syscall
@cindex break on a system call.
A call to or return from a system call, a.k.a.@: @dfn{syscall}. A
@@ -4317,6 +4317,15 @@ may be useful if @value{GDBN}'s database does not have the complete
list of syscalls on your system (e.g., because @value{GDBN} lags
behind the OS upgrades).
+You may specify a group of related syscalls to be caught at once using
+the @code{group:} syntax (@code{g:} is a shorter equivalent.). For
+instance, on some platforms @value{GDBN} allows you to catch all
+network related syscalls, by passing the argument @code{group:network}
+to @code{catch syscall}. Note that not all syscall groups are
+available in every system. You can use the command completion
+facilities (@pxref{Completion,, command completion}) to list the
+syscall groups available on your environment.
+
The example below illustrates how this command works if you don't provide
arguments to it:
@@ -4373,6 +4382,23 @@ Program exited normally.
(@value{GDBP})
@end smallexample
+Here is an example of catching a syscall group:
+
+@smallexample
+(@value{GDBP}) catch syscall group:process
+Catchpoint 1 (syscalls 'exit' [1] 'fork' [2] 'waitpid' [7]
+'execve' [11] 'wait4' [114] 'clone' [120] 'vfork' [190]
+'exit_group' [252] 'waitid' [284] 'unshare' [310])
+(@value{GDBP}) r
+Starting program: /tmp/catch-syscall
+
+Catchpoint 1 (call to syscall fork), 0x00007ffff7df4e27 in open64 ()
+ from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
+
+(@value{GDBP}) c
+Continuing.
+@end smallexample
+
However, there can be situations when there is no corresponding name
in XML file for that syscall number. In this case, @value{GDBN} prints
a warning message saying that it was not able to find the syscall name,
--
2.1.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-11 0:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-26 1:25 [PATCH v3 00/17] Catch syscall group Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-04-26 1:25 ` [PATCH v3 02/17] Add support to catch groups of syscalls Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-04-26 1:25 ` [PATCH v3 03/17] Add tests for catching groups of syscalls on supported architectures Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-04-26 18:44 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2015-04-26 1:25 ` [PATCH v3 01/17] Implemement support for groups of syscalls in the xml-syscall interface Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-04-26 1:26 ` [PATCH v3 12/17] Create syscall groups for mips-n64 Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-04-26 1:26 ` [PATCH v3 06/17] Create syscall groups for ppc64 Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-04-26 1:26 ` [PATCH v3 07/17] Create syscall groups for aarch64 Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-04-26 1:26 ` [PATCH v3 05/17] Create syscall groups for ppc Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-04-26 1:26 ` [PATCH v3 04/17] Create syscall groups for amd64 Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-04-26 1:26 ` [PATCH v3 10/17] Create syscall groups for i386 Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-04-26 1:26 ` [PATCH v3 08/17] Create syscall groups for arm Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-04-26 1:26 ` [PATCH v3 09/17] Create syscall groups for bfin Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-04-26 1:47 ` [PATCH v3 11/17] Create syscall groups for mips-n32 Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-04-26 1:47 ` [PATCH v3 14/17] Create syscall groups for s390 Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-04-26 1:47 ` [PATCH v3 13/17] Create syscall groups for mips-o32 Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-04-26 1:47 ` [PATCH v3 15/17] Create syscall groups for s390x Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-04-26 1:47 ` [PATCH v3 17/17] Create syscall groups for sparc64 Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-04-26 1:47 ` [PATCH v3 16/17] Create syscall groups for sparc Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-04-26 18:58 ` [PATCH v3 00/17] Catch syscall group Sergio Durigan Junior
2015-04-28 11:24 ` Pedro Alves
2015-04-29 0:45 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2015-04-29 10:44 ` Pedro Alves
2015-05-04 2:34 ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-05-06 14:38 ` Pedro Alves
2015-05-10 18:34 ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-05-10 19:01 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2015-05-11 0:28 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] catch " Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-05-11 0:28 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] Add tests for catching groups of syscalls on supported architectures Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-05-11 0:28 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] Add support to catch groups of syscalls Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-05-13 10:38 ` Pedro Alves
2015-05-11 0:28 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] Include group information in xml syscall files Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-05-12 21:42 ` Doug Evans
2015-05-13 1:17 ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-05-13 10:43 ` Pedro Alves
2015-05-11 0:28 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] Implemement support for groups of syscalls in the xml-syscall interface Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-05-11 0:28 ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi [this message]
2015-05-11 0:40 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] Update documentation on catching a group of related syscalls Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2015-05-13 10:30 ` Pedro Alves
2015-05-13 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-13 10:47 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] catch syscall group Pedro Alves
2015-05-11 11:39 ` [PATCH v3 00/17] Catch " Pedro Alves
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