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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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-09 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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
2020-12-07 14:17         ` Alan Hayward via Gdb-patches

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