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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@mips.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: Target-specific thread switching backend
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071205144031.GA19944@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0712051240360.26738@perivale.mips.com>

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 02:13:18PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  In preparation for submitting support for the MDI target I propose the 
> following enhancement to target_switch_to_thread().  The MDI implements a 
> multi-threaded target which remembers the currently selected thread within 
> itself.  All the operations that have thread-local scope, such as 
> accessing of the CPU registers, use that thread identifier.  Therefore I 
> think it is reasonable to propagate the thread-switch event down to the 
> target, which is what the following change implements.

I don't see why this is necessary, or how it is safe.  At every
operation, the requested thread should be indicated by inferior_ptid
(or a ptid_t argument in some cases).  And switch_to_thread is usually
but not always called when inferior_ptid is changed, e.g.
regcache_raw_read.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-05 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-05 14:26 Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-12-05 15:22 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-12-05 16:07   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-12-05 18:37     ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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