[PATCH] Make target shareable accross fork inferiors in AIX.

[PATCH] Make target shareable accross fork inferiors in AIX.

[Aditya Vidyadhar Kamath]

From: Aditya Kamath <Aditya.Kamath1@ibm.com>

Currently in AIX when we follow a child or do not dtach the child during multi-process debugging we get,

(gdb) set detach-on-fork off
(gdb) r
Starting program: /gdb_tests/multi-thread-fork
[New inferior 2 (process 32965026)]
target.c:1194: internal-error: Attempt to push unshareable target: native.
A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
further debugging may prove unreliable.
----- Backtrace -----
0x10092c69b gdb_internal_backtrace_1
        /home/binutils-gdb/gdb/bt-utils.c:122
0x10092c7bf _Z22gdb_internal_backtracev
        /home/binutils-gdb/gdb/bt-utils.c:175
0x10004fdef internal_vproblem
        /home/binutils-gdb/gdb/utils.c:424
0x100050307 _Z15internal_verrorPKciS0_Pc
        /home/binutils-gdb/gdb/utils.c:504

The reason being AIX missed out on making the rs6000_nat_target sharable for the child.

So align AIX native fork handling with Linux by marking rs6000_nat_target shareable.
This avoids internal errors during fork (), during detach-on-fork off and follow-fork-mode child.
---
 gdb/rs6000-aix-nat.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gdb/rs6000-aix-nat.c b/gdb/rs6000-aix-nat.c
index 57eb428cc37..54039d3dc02 100644
--- a/gdb/rs6000-aix-nat.c
+++ b/gdb/rs6000-aix-nat.c
@@ -101,6 +101,11 @@ class rs6000_nat_target final : public inf_ptrace_target
      support.  */
   void follow_fork (inferior *, ptid_t, target_waitkind, bool, bool) override;
 
+  /* Keep AIX as well sharable across inferiors while following fork() 
+     like child process in sync with Linux.  */
+  bool is_shareable () override
+  { return true; }
+
   const struct target_desc *read_description ()  override;
 
   int insert_fork_catchpoint (int) override;
-- 
2.51.2

Re: [PATCH] Make target shareable accross fork inferiors in AIX.

[Ulrich Weigand]

Aditya Vidyadhar Kamath <akamath996@gmail.com> wrote:

>diff --git a/gdb/rs6000-aix-nat.c b/gdb/rs6000-aix-nat.c
>index 57eb428cc37..54039d3dc02 100644
>--- a/gdb/rs6000-aix-nat.c
>+++ b/gdb/rs6000-aix-nat.c
>@@ -101,6 +101,11 @@ class rs6000_nat_target final : public
>inf_ptrace_target
>      support.  */
>   void follow_fork (inferior *, ptid_t, target_waitkind, bool, bool)
>override;
> 
>+  /* Keep AIX as well sharable across inferiors while following
>fork() 
>+     like child process in sync with Linux.  */
>+  bool is_shareable () override
>+  { return true; }
>+

This is OK.

Thanks,
Ulrich

Re: [PATCH] Make target shareable accross fork inferiors in AIX.

[Aditya Kamath]

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Thank you.

I have pushed the commit.

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=f0769adf6fb5afeb6826982990afad8e6260b1bc

From: Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>
Date: Tuesday, 23 June 2026 at 6:37 PM
To: akamath996@gmail.com <akamath996@gmail.com>; tom@tromey.com <tom@tromey.com>; simon.marchi@polymtl.ca <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>; SANGAMESH MALLAYYA <sangamesh.swamy@in.ibm.com>; Aditya Kamath <Aditya.Kamath1@ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make target shareable accross fork inferiors in AIX.

Aditya Vidyadhar Kamath <akamath996@gmail.com> wrote:

>diff --git a/gdb/rs6000-aix-nat.c b/gdb/rs6000-aix-nat.c
>index 57eb428cc37..54039d3dc02 100644
>--- a/gdb/rs6000-aix-nat.c
>+++ b/gdb/rs6000-aix-nat.c
>@@ -101,6 +101,11 @@ class rs6000_nat_target final : public
>inf_ptrace_target
>      support.  */
>   void follow_fork (inferior *, ptid_t, target_waitkind, bool, bool)
>override;
>
>+  /* Keep AIX as well sharable across inferiors while following
>fork()
>+     like child process in sync with Linux.  */
>+  bool is_shareable () override
>+  { return true; }
>+

This is OK.

Thanks,
Ulrich

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