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From: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>,
	Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>,
	gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] skip_prolgoue (amd64)
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 01:39:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <529FD8F7.1020305@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPb22REFRk5r5sb_TmfduDEbos4sooF6LP9GKq9fXQ+g0T6GQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/05/2013 01:54 AM, Doug Evans wrote:
> The dcache and non-stop are basically incompatible, but we need both.

Agreed.

> With any other thread still running the ground can be pulled out from
> underneath my view of memory from a stopped thread (even when I'm in
> the middle of viewing it - I can imagine a pretty-printer of a complex
> object getting really confused for example).
> It feels like there's diminishing returns and increasing costs the
> farther we go to try to protect the user from this.

That is reasonable.  In the long term, we'll switch to "running
all-stop on top of non-stop", users shouldn't get staled results
because they think they are in "all-stop" mode, although all-stop is
"simulated" by non-stop, which is invisible to users.

-- 
Yao (齐尧)


  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-05  1:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-29 14:27 [PATCH 0/3] Use target_read_code in skip_prologue Yao Qi
2013-11-29 14:27 ` [PATCH 2/3] skip_prolgoue (amd64) Yao Qi
2013-11-29 14:38   ` Mark Kettenis
2013-11-29 18:55     ` Mark Kettenis
2013-11-30  3:40       ` Yao Qi
2013-11-30 12:01         ` Pedro Alves
2013-12-02  7:34           ` Yao Qi
2013-12-03 18:28             ` Pedro Alves
2013-12-04  2:34             ` Yao Qi
2013-12-04 12:08               ` Pedro Alves
2013-12-04 15:38                 ` Tom Tromey
2013-12-04 18:31                   ` Doug Evans
2013-12-05 11:31                   ` Pedro Alves
2013-12-05  1:21                 ` Yao Qi
2013-12-05 12:08                   ` Pedro Alves
2013-12-05 14:08                     ` Yao Qi
2013-12-05 14:37                       ` Pedro Alves
2013-12-08  8:01                 ` Yao Qi
2013-12-08  8:26                   ` Doug Evans
2013-12-09  1:45                     ` Yao Qi
2013-12-09 11:32                       ` Pedro Alves
2013-12-09 11:53                   ` Pedro Alves
2013-12-09 13:03                     ` Yao Qi
2013-12-09 13:13                       ` Pedro Alves
2013-12-09 13:58                         ` Yao Qi
2013-12-09 15:34                           ` Pedro Alves
2013-12-10  0:57                             ` Yao Qi
2013-12-10 10:23                               ` Pedro Alves
2013-12-10 12:02                                 ` Yao Qi
2013-12-04 17:42             ` Doug Evans
2013-12-04 18:00             ` Doug Evans
2013-12-04 17:54           ` Doug Evans
2013-12-05  1:39             ` Yao Qi [this message]
2013-12-05 11:47             ` Pedro Alves
2013-11-29 14:36 ` [PATCH 1/3] Use target_read_code in skip_prologue (i386) Yao Qi
2013-11-30 11:43   ` Pedro Alves
2013-11-29 14:38 ` [PATCH 3/3] Perf test case: skip-prologue Yao Qi
2013-12-03  7:34   ` Yao Qi
2013-12-10 12:45     ` Yao Qi

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