Re: [PATCH 00/24] Fix reading and writing pseudo registers in non-current frames

[Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>]

On 11/8/23 14:34, Simon Marchi wrote:
> Ah, damn, probably because I switched to byte_vector,  which doesn't do
> the zero-initialization we want to do.  Here's a new patch (that applies
> on the series directly) that doesn't use byte_vector.
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/aarch64-tdep.c b/gdb/aarch64-tdep.c
> index 1815d78dec4..200e740e013 100644
> --- a/gdb/aarch64-tdep.c
> +++ b/gdb/aarch64-tdep.c
> @@ -3300,7 +3300,7 @@ aarch64_pseudo_write_1 (gdbarch *gdbarch, frame_info_ptr next_frame,
>                         int regnum_offset,
>                         gdb::array_view<const gdb_byte> buf)
>  {
> -  unsigned v_regnum = AARCH64_V0_REGNUM + regnum_offset;
> +  unsigned raw_regnum = AARCH64_V0_REGNUM + regnum_offset;
>    gdb_static_assert (AARCH64_V0_REGNUM == AARCH64_SVE_Z0_REGNUM);
> 
>    /* Enough space for a full vector register.
> @@ -3309,11 +3309,11 @@ aarch64_pseudo_write_1 (gdbarch *gdbarch, frame_info_ptr next_frame,
>       various 'scalar' pseudo registers to behavior like architectural
>       writes, register width bytes are written the remainder are set to
>       zero.  */
> -  constexpr int raw_reg_size = 16;
> +  int raw_reg_size = register_size (gdbarch, raw_regnum);
>    gdb_byte raw_buf[raw_reg_size] {};
> -  gdb::array_view<gdb_byte> raw_view (raw_buf);
> +  gdb::array_view<gdb_byte> raw_view (raw_buf, raw_reg_size);
>    copy (buf, raw_view.slice (0, buf.size ()));
> -  put_frame_register (next_frame, v_regnum, raw_view);
> +  put_frame_register (next_frame, raw_regnum, raw_view);
>  }
> 
>  /* Given REGNUM, a SME pseudo-register number, store the bytes from DATA to the
> 
> Simon

I managed to run a Debian AArch64 image in qemu, with SVE support, so I
was able to reproduce the failures you mentioned.  In the end, here's a
version of aarch64_pseudo_write_1 that works for me (written as to
minimize the number of unnecessary changes, since that seems to
introduce unexpected bugs...).

static void
aarch64_pseudo_write_1 (gdbarch *gdbarch, frame_info_ptr next_frame,
			int regnum_offset,
			gdb::array_view<const gdb_byte> buf)
{
  unsigned raw_regnum = AARCH64_V0_REGNUM + regnum_offset;

  /* Enough space for a full vector register.  */
  int raw_reg_size = register_size (gdbarch, raw_regnum);
  gdb_byte raw_buf[raw_reg_size];
  gdb_static_assert (AARCH64_V0_REGNUM == AARCH64_SVE_Z0_REGNUM);

  /* Ensure the register buffer is zero, we want gdb writes of the
     various 'scalar' pseudo registers to behavior like architectural
     writes, register width bytes are written the remainder are set to
     zero.  */
  memset (raw_buf, 0, register_size (gdbarch, AARCH64_V0_REGNUM));

  gdb::array_view<gdb_byte> raw_view (raw_buf, raw_reg_size);
  copy (buf, raw_view.slice (0, buf.size ()));
  put_frame_register (next_frame, raw_regnum, raw_view);
}

Simon