[PING 2][PATCH 0/8] Add SVE support for Aarch64 GDB

Alan Hayward
2018-05-29T09:03:27Z

Ping ping.

Thanks,
Alan.

> On 22 May 2018, at 09:34, Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com> wrote:
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> Ping.
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> Thanks,
> Alan.
>
>> On 11 May 2018, at 11:52, Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com> wrote:
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>> This set of patches adds gdb support for SVE on AArch64.
>>
>> SVE is the new vector extension for Aarch64. SVE is different in that the
>> length of a vector register is not fixed - it is can vary for different
>> hardware implementors. All code compiled for SVE is vector length agnostic.
>> The Linux kernel can then further restrict the vector length up to the
>> supported maximum for the hardware. Potentially different process and
>> threads can have different vector lengths, and they could change at any
>> time. However, in practice, we expect the vector length to remain constant
>> across the lifetime of a process.
>> This set of patches assumes the vector length will not change and either
>> warns once (when reading registers) or errors (when writing registers) if the
>> vector length has changed. A future set of patches will offer full support.
>>
>> This series does not support gdbserver. However, where it makes sense I have
>> commonised as much code as possible and have added the groundwork in
>> gdbserver. Enabling gdbserver should be a small set of additional patches.
>>
>> Core files and watchpoints are not yet supported.
>>
>> The vector length is read from ptrace and is required to create the target
>> description for the running process. There is no hardcoded SVE XML.
>>
>> The patches require recent linux header files for all the SVE ptrace macros.
>> To allow builds for older headers, I've added all required macros and
>> structures within ifdef checks. I'm not sure if this is the ideal solution.
>> When including kernel header code, I've not performed any reformatting (ie
>> they are not in GNU style).
>>
>> One of the later patches adds functions to gdbserver regcache so that I can
>> add common functionality that works on gdb and gdbserver.
>>
>> Given there are no working SVE systems available today, this was manually
>> tested on an Aarch64 SVE emulator running Ubuntu. In addition I've run make
>> check on X86 and Aarch64 builds for both unix and native-gdbserver.
>>
>>
>> Alan.
>>
>> Alan Hayward (8):
>> Add Aarch64 SVE target description
>> Function for reading the Aarch64 SVE vector length.
>> Add SVE register defines
>> Enable SVE for GDB
>> Add aarch64 psuedo help functions
>> Aarch64 SVE pseudo register support
>> Add methods to gdbserver regcache and raw_compare
>> Ptrace support for Aarch64 SVE
>>
>> gdb/Makefile.in | 1 +
>> gdb/aarch64-linux-nat.c | 60 +++++-
>> gdb/aarch64-linux-tdep.c | 5 +-
>> gdb/aarch64-tdep.c | 402 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>> gdb/aarch64-tdep.h | 12 +-
>> gdb/arch/aarch64.c | 12 +-
>> gdb/arch/aarch64.h | 37 +++-
>> gdb/configure.nat | 2 +-
>> gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 4 +
>> gdb/features/aarch64-sve.c | 158 ++++++++++++++
>> gdb/gdbserver/Makefile.in | 1 +
>> gdb/gdbserver/configure.srv | 1 +
>> gdb/gdbserver/linux-aarch64-tdesc.c | 3 +-
>> gdb/gdbserver/regcache.c | 55 ++++-
>> gdb/gdbserver/regcache.h | 8 +
>> gdb/nat/aarch64-sve-linux-ptrace.c | 315 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> gdb/nat/aarch64-sve-linux-ptrace.h | 193 +++++++++++++++++
>> gdb/regcache.c | 17 ++
>> gdb/regcache.h | 2 +
>> 19 files changed, 1122 insertions(+), 166 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 gdb/features/aarch64-sve.c
>> create mode 100644 gdb/nat/aarch64-sve-linux-ptrace.c
>> create mode 100644 gdb/nat/aarch64-sve-linux-ptrace.h
>>
>> --
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