From: Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Alan.Hayward@arm.com
Cc: omair.javaid@linaro.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
david.spickett@linaro.org, jose.marchesi@oracle.com
Subject: [PATCH 22/23] Add NEWS entry.
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:45:12 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200715194513.16641-23-luis.machado@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200715194513.16641-1-luis.machado@linaro.org>
Mention the new packets and memory tagging features.
gdb/ChangeLog:
YYYY-MM-DD Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org>
* NEWS: Mention memory tagging changes.
---
gdb/NEWS | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index ded544d640..42e719417f 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,19 @@
*** Changes since GDB 9
+* GDB now supports general memory tagging functionality if the underlying
+ architecture supports the proper primitives and hooks. Currently this is
+ enabled only for AArch64 MTE.
+
+ This includes additional information when the inferior crashes with a
+ SIGSEGV caused by a memory tag violation.
+
+* The "x" command supports the 'm' modifier to display allocation tags for
+ a particular memory range.
+
+* The "print" command will display memory tag mismatches for addresses and
+ pointers, if memory tagging is supported by the architecture.
+
* Help and apropos commands will now show the documentation of a
command only once, even if that command has one or more aliases.
These commands now show the command name, then all of its aliases,
@@ -63,8 +76,27 @@
* On Windows targets, it is now possible to debug 32-bit programs with a
64-bit GDB.
+* New remote packets
+
+qMemTags
+ Request the remote to send allocation tags for a particular memory range.
+QMemTags
+ Request the remote to store the specified allocation tags to the requested
+ memory range.
+
* New commands
+mtag showltag ADDRESS
+ Show the logical tag for ADDRESS.
+mtag setltag ADDRESS TAG
+ Set the logical tag for ADDRESS to TAG.
+mtag showatag ADDRESS
+ Show the allocation tag for ADDRESS.
+mtag setatag ADDRESS LENGTH TAGS
+ Set the allocation tag for [ADDRESS, ADDRESS + LENGTH) to TAGS.
+mtag check ADDRESS
+ Validate that ADDRESS' logical tag matches the allocation tag.
+
set exec-file-mismatch -- Set exec-file-mismatch handling (ask|warn|off).
show exec-file-mismatch -- Show exec-file-mismatch handling (ask|warn|off).
Set or show the option 'exec-file-mismatch'. When GDB attaches to a
--
2.17.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-15 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-15 19:44 [PATCH 00/23] Memory Tagging Support + AArch64 Linux implementation Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:44 ` [PATCH 01/23] New target methods for memory tagging support Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:44 ` [PATCH 02/23] New gdbarch memory tagging hooks Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:44 ` [PATCH 03/23] Add GDB-side remote target support for memory tagging Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:44 ` [PATCH 04/23] Unit testing for GDB-side remote memory tagging handling Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:44 ` [PATCH 05/23] GDBserver remote packet support for memory tagging Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:44 ` [PATCH 06/23] Unit tests for gdbserver memory tagging remote packets Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:44 ` [PATCH 07/23] Documentation for " Luis Machado
2020-07-17 5:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-17 14:20 ` Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:44 ` [PATCH 08/23] AArch64: Add MTE CPU feature check support Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:44 ` [PATCH 09/23] AArch64: Add target description/feature for MTE registers Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 10/23] AArch64: Add MTE register set support for GDB and gdbserver Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 11/23] AArch64: Add MTE ptrace requests Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 12/23] AArch64: Implement memory tagging target methods for AArch64 Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 13/23] Refactor parsing of /proc/<pid>/smaps Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 14/23] AArch64: Implement the memory tagging gdbarch hooks Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 15/23] AArch64: Add unit testing for logical tag set/get operations Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 16/23] AArch64: Report tag violation error information Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 17/23] AArch64: Add gdbserver MTE support Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 18/23] New mtag commands Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 19/23] Documentation for the new " Luis Machado
2020-07-17 6:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-17 14:20 ` Luis Machado
2020-07-17 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-17 15:08 ` Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 20/23] Extend "x" and "print" commands to support memory tagging Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 21/23] Document new "x" and "print" memory tagging extensions Luis Machado
2020-07-17 6:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-17 14:20 ` Luis Machado
2020-07-17 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-15 19:45 ` Luis Machado [this message]
2020-07-17 6:18 ` [PATCH 22/23] Add NEWS entry Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-17 14:20 ` Luis Machado
2020-07-15 19:45 ` [PATCH 23/23] Add memory tagging testcases Luis Machado
2020-07-16 16:49 ` [PATCH 00/23] Memory Tagging Support + AArch64 Linux implementation Alan Hayward
2020-07-17 12:33 ` Luis Machado
2020-07-17 22:02 ` John Baldwin
2020-07-23 13:59 ` Luis Machado
2020-07-23 16:48 ` John Baldwin
2020-07-24 16:10 ` David Spickett
2020-07-23 14:59 ` Luis Machado
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