From: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/12] gdb: rename displaced_step_fixup to displaced_step_finish
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 01:29:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34f2bad8-a187-6f42-709e-aaf4dde81f0a@palves.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201110214614.2842615-6-simon.marchi@efficios.com>
On 11/10/20 9:46 PM, Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches wrote:
> This is a preparatory patch to reduce a little bit the diff size of the
> main patch later in this series. It renames the displaced_step_fixup
> function in infrun.c to displaced_step_finish.
>
> The rationale is to better differentiate the low and high level
> operations.
>
> We first have the low level operation of writing an instruction to a
> displaced buffer, called "copy_insn". The mirror low level operation to
> fix up the state after having executed the instruction is "fixup". The
> high level operation of preparing a thread for a displaced step (which
> includes doing the "copy_insn" and some more bookkeeping) is called
> "prepare" (as in displaced_step_prepare). The mirror high level
> operation to cleaning up after a displaced step (which includes doing
> the "fixup" and some more bookkeeping) is currently also called "fixup"
> (as in displaced_step_fixup), just like the low level operation.
>
> I think that choosing a different name for the low and high level
> cleanup operation makes it clearer, hence "finish".
>
> gdb/ChangeLog:
>
> * infrun.c (displaced_step_fixup): Rename to...
> (displaced_step_finish): ... this, update all callers.
OK.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-25 1:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-10 21:46 [PATCH 00/12] Concurrent displaced stepping Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-11-10 21:46 ` [PATCH 01/12] gdb: add inferior_execd observable Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-11-25 1:28 ` Pedro Alves
2020-11-10 21:46 ` [PATCH 02/12] gdb: clear inferior displaced stepping state on exec Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-11-25 1:28 ` Pedro Alves
2020-12-01 4:27 ` Simon Marchi
2020-11-10 21:46 ` [PATCH 03/12] gdb: rename things related to step over chains Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-11-25 1:28 ` Pedro Alves
2020-11-25 13:16 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-11-10 21:46 ` [PATCH 04/12] gdb: rename displaced_step_closure to displaced_step_copy_insn_closure Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-11-25 1:29 ` Pedro Alves
2020-11-10 21:46 ` [PATCH 05/12] gdb: rename displaced_step_fixup to displaced_step_finish Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-11-25 1:29 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2020-11-10 21:46 ` [PATCH 06/12] gdb: introduce status enum for displaced step prepare/finish Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-11-11 23:36 ` Andrew Burgess
2020-11-25 13:17 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-11-25 1:30 ` Pedro Alves
2020-11-25 13:20 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-11-10 21:46 ` [PATCH 07/12] gdb: pass inferior to get_linux_inferior_data Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-11-25 1:30 ` Pedro Alves
2020-11-10 21:46 ` [PATCH 08/12] gdb: move displaced stepping types to displaced-stepping.{h, c} Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-11-25 1:30 ` Pedro Alves
2020-11-10 21:46 ` [PATCH 09/12] gdb: move displaced stepping logic to gdbarch, allow starting concurrent displaced steps Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-11-25 1:40 ` Pedro Alves
2020-11-25 19:29 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-11-25 19:35 ` Simon Marchi
2020-11-26 14:25 ` Pedro Alves
2020-11-30 19:13 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-11-26 14:24 ` Pedro Alves
2020-11-30 20:26 ` Simon Marchi
2020-11-10 21:46 ` [PATCH 10/12] gdb: change linux gdbarch data from post to pre-init Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-11-25 1:41 ` Pedro Alves
2020-11-10 21:46 ` [PATCH 11/12] gdb: make displaced stepping implementation capable of managing multiple buffers Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-11-25 1:41 ` Pedro Alves
2020-11-30 18:58 ` Simon Marchi
2020-11-30 19:01 ` Simon Marchi
2020-11-10 21:46 ` [PATCH 12/12] gdb: use two displaced step buffers on amd64/Linux Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2020-11-25 1:42 ` Pedro Alves
2020-11-25 6:26 ` Simon Marchi
2020-11-25 20:07 ` Simon Marchi
2020-11-25 20:56 ` Simon Marchi
2020-11-26 21:43 ` Simon Marchi
2020-11-26 22:34 ` Simon Marchi
2020-11-28 18:56 ` Pedro Alves
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