From: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: sergiodj@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb: Improve syscall entry/return tracking on Linux
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 23:52:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56185354.2080407@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <561802C0.8060902@redhat.com>
On 10/09/2015 11:09 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 10/09/2015 06:57 PM, Josh Stone wrote:
>> On 10/09/2015 03:48 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
>
>>> no-mmu / uclinux systems don't have fork. I'm not sure whether
>>> fork returns ENOSYS or SYS_fork isn't even defined there.
>>> Maybe just switch to vfork so we can keep catch syscall
>>> coverage on those systems?
>>
>> In kernel/fork.c I see that lacking CONFIG_MMU returns EINVAL.
>>
>> But it appears a few archs don't implement fork/vfork syscalls at all,
>> only clone.
>
> Ah, yeah. Even on x86 glibc doesn't really implement fork
> with the fork syscall.
>
>> Maybe I should use CLONE_VFORK for broadest coverage?
>
> That does sound the best.
I tried, but this area is fraught with idiosyncrasies. I'm going with a
direct vfork() call and loose pattern matching for what syscall results,
since I don't actually care about that detail for this test. Hope that
works for you.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-09 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-09 1:22 Josh Stone
2015-10-09 10:48 ` Pedro Alves
2015-10-09 17:57 ` Josh Stone
2015-10-09 18:09 ` Pedro Alves
2015-10-09 23:52 ` Josh Stone [this message]
2015-10-10 14:46 ` Pedro Alves
2015-10-09 23:53 ` [PATCH v2] " Josh Stone
2015-10-10 14:52 ` Pedro Alves
2015-10-17 1:17 ` [PATCH v3] " Josh Stone
2015-10-19 8:48 ` Pedro Alves
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