From: Luis Machado via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: david.spickett@linaro.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 23/24] Add NEWS entry.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 14:04:34 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201109170435.15766-24-luis.machado@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201109170435.15766-1-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 3e08aee7c6..55af85528d 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -51,6 +51,19 @@ condition [-force] N COND
*** Changes in GDB 10
+* 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 displays memory tag mismatches for addresses and
+ pointers, if memory tagging is supported by the architecture.
+
* There are new feature names for ARC targets: "org.gnu.gdb.arc.core"
and "org.gnu.gdb.arc.aux". The old names are still supported but
must be considered obsolete. They will be deprecated after some
@@ -133,8 +146,27 @@ condition [-force] N COND
* 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 withltag 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:[~2020-11-09 17:05 UTC|newest]
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2020-11-09 17:04 [PATCH v3 00/24] Memory Tagging Support + AArch64 Linux implementation Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 01/24] New target methods for memory tagging support Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-25 4:26 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-12-28 15:05 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-25 5:08 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 02/24] New gdbarch memory tagging hooks Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-25 4:40 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-12-28 15:44 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 03/24] Add GDB-side remote target support for memory tagging Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-25 5:08 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-12-28 16:28 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 04/24] Unit testing for GDB-side remote memory tagging handling Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-25 5:34 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-12-28 17:17 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 05/24] GDBserver remote packet support for memory tagging Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-25 5:50 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-12-28 17:46 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 06/24] Unit tests for gdbserver memory tagging remote packets Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-25 20:13 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-12-28 18:12 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 07/24] Documentation for " Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2020-11-16 15:44 ` David Spickett via Gdb-patches
2020-11-16 16:04 ` David Spickett via Gdb-patches
2020-11-16 17:22 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-17 10:05 ` David Spickett via Gdb-patches
2020-11-17 12:01 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-17 12:29 ` David Spickett via Gdb-patches
2020-11-17 14:44 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-17 15:16 ` David Spickett via Gdb-patches
2020-11-17 17:29 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-18 10:39 ` David Spickett via Gdb-patches
2020-11-18 10:56 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-18 11:22 ` David Spickett via Gdb-patches
2020-11-16 16:49 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 08/24] AArch64: Add MTE CPU feature check support Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-26 0:04 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 09/24] AArch64: Add target description/feature for MTE registers Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-26 0:10 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-12-28 18:28 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 10/24] AArch64: Add MTE register set support for GDB and gdbserver Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-26 0:17 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-12-28 18:41 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 11/24] AArch64: Add MTE ptrace requests Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-26 0:19 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-12-28 19:12 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 12/24] AArch64: Implement memory tagging target methods for AArch64 Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-26 0:33 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-12-28 19:50 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 13/24] Refactor parsing of /proc/<pid>/smaps Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-26 6:36 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-12-29 10:57 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 14/24] AArch64: Implement the memory tagging gdbarch hooks Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-26 6:52 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-12-29 12:16 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2021-01-18 16:29 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2021-01-20 20:01 ` Tom Tromey
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 15/24] AArch64: Add unit testing for logical tag set/get operations Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 16/24] AArch64: Report tag violation error information Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-16 15:43 ` David Spickett via Gdb-patches
2020-11-16 16:45 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-17 9:36 ` David Spickett via Gdb-patches
2020-12-26 22:23 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-12-30 0:50 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 17/24] AArch64: Add gdbserver MTE support Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-26 22:30 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-12-29 14:32 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 18/24] AArch64: Add MTE register set support for core files Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 19/24] New mtag commands Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-27 3:32 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-12-29 17:21 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 20/24] Documentation for the new " Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 21/24] Extend "x" and "print" commands to support memory tagging Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:20 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-27 4:18 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-12-29 18:50 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2021-01-18 17:56 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2021-01-18 20:20 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 22/24] Document new "x" and "print" memory tagging extensions Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches [this message]
2020-11-09 17:19 ` [PATCH v3 23/24] Add NEWS entry Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:22 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-09 17:04 ` [PATCH v3 24/24] Add memory tagging testcases Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-16 15:47 ` David Spickett via Gdb-patches
2020-11-16 16:51 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-27 4:36 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-12-29 19:32 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-16 13:48 ` [PATCH v3 00/24] Memory Tagging Support + AArch64 Linux implementation Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-16 14:37 ` Alan Hayward via Gdb-patches
2020-11-23 16:08 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-11-30 13:38 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2020-12-07 13:17 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
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