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From: Pedro Alves <alves.ped@gmail.com>
To: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] Test tracepoints are installed or not
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:53:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C7731A.7040007@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50C489B3.8050101@codesourcery.com>

On 12/09/2012 12:53 PM, Yao Qi wrote:
> On 12/07/2012 10:20 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
>>> >> When pending tracepoint is resolved, breakpoint_modified observer is notified, and then, when tracepoint is downloaded, the breakpoint_modified observer is notified again.
>> > Okay.  Could you add a comment mentioning this in the test?
> Sure.  Comments are added in the new version.

Thanks.

On 12/09/2012 12:53 PM, Yao Qi wrote:
>      set test "tracepoint on pendfunc2 resolved"
> +    # It is expected to get two "=breakpoint-modified" notifications.
>      gdb_expect {
> -	-re ".*=breakpoint-modified,bkpt=\{number=\"1\",type=\"tracepoint\".*.*times=\"0\"" {
> +	-re "=breakpoint-modified,bkpt=\{number=\"1\",type=\"tracepoint\".*.*times=\"0\".*installed=\"n\"" {
> +	    # Pending tracepoint is resolved.
>  	    pass "$test"
> +	    exp_continue
> +	}
> +	-re "=breakpoint-modified,bkpt=\{number=\"1\",type=\"tracepoint\".*.*times=\"0\".*installed=\"y\"" {
> +	    # Resolved tracepoint is installed.
> +	    pass "tracepoint on pendfunc2 installed"
>  	}
>  	-re ".*${mi_gdb_prompt}$" {
>  	    fail $test

Actually, sorry for not thinking of this before, but, it seems to me
this use of pass+exp_continue is fragile.  Say a GDB bug is
introduced, and the second =breakpoint-modified fails to be output.  In
that case, this will result in:

     PASS: tracepoint on pendfunc2 resolved
     FAIL: tracepoint on pendfunc2 resolved

instead of
     PASS: tracepoint on pendfunc2 resolved
     FAIL: tracepoint on pendfunc2 installed

You could fix that by doing:

 +	    # Pending tracepoint is resolved.
  	    pass "$test"
 +	    set test "tracepoint on pendfunc2 installed"
 +	    exp_continue

But then, if the order of the notifications changes (IOW, due to a bug,
we end up with the tracepoint not installed), this won't catch it.
It seems best to me to only use exp_continue in cases we won't to
consume/skip output, and in the case of this patch, split the two
tests into two consecutive gdb_expects.

-- 
Pedro Alves


  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-11 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-04  4:45 [PATCH 0/6] Add a new field 'installed' when reporting tracepoint Yao Qi
2012-12-04  4:45 ` [PATCH 3/6] Notify breakpoint-modified when tracepoints are downloaded Yao Qi
2012-12-06 20:56   ` Pedro Alves
2012-12-04  4:45 ` [PATCH 6/6] Update test cases for 'installed' field Yao Qi
2012-12-07 12:42   ` Pedro Alves
2012-12-13 12:07     ` Yao Qi
2012-12-13 17:13       ` Pedro Alves
2012-12-04  4:45 ` [PATCH 2/6] Iterate over ALL_TRACEPOINTS first Yao Qi
2012-12-06 20:56   ` Pedro Alves
2012-12-04  4:45 ` [PATCH 4/6] Notify breakpoint-modified when uploaded tracepoints are merged Yao Qi
2012-12-06 20:57   ` Pedro Alves
2012-12-04  4:45 ` [PATCH 1/6] Add a field 'installed' for each location of tracepoint Yao Qi
2012-12-06 20:56   ` Pedro Alves
2012-12-07 13:49     ` Yao Qi
2012-12-09 12:49     ` Yao Qi
2012-12-09 16:57       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-11 17:26       ` Pedro Alves
2012-12-12  1:54         ` Yao Qi
2012-12-12 12:03           ` Pedro Alves
2012-12-04  4:45 ` [PATCH 5/6] Test tracepoints are installed or not Yao Qi
2012-12-07 12:39   ` Pedro Alves
2012-12-07 13:55     ` Yao Qi
2012-12-07 14:20       ` Pedro Alves
2012-12-09 12:53         ` Yao Qi
2012-12-11 17:53           ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2012-12-12  2:59             ` Yao Qi
2012-12-12 12:24               ` Pedro Alves
2012-12-12 15:00                 ` Yao Qi
2012-12-06 20:55 ` [PATCH 0/6] Add a new field 'installed' when reporting tracepoint Pedro Alves

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