From: Abhay Kandpal <abhay@linux.ibm.com>
To: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [gdb/record] Fix syscall recording some more
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 10:40:04 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5af9f5dc-c5ac-44ae-bdfe-41ff4c6c476a@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260226144529.360296-1-tdevries@suse.de>
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Hi Tom,
On 26/02/26 20:15, Tom de Vries wrote:
> I ran into the same gdb.reverse/sigall-reverse.exp failure on ppc64le-linux,
> as fixed in commits:
> - commit 3686645cec9 ("[gdb/record] Fix return value for svc in
> aarch64_record_branch_except_sys"), and
> - commit 4ef576bdb7f ("[gdb/record] Fix return value for syscall in
> loongarch_record_syscall_insn").
>
> The difference with those commits is that the problem is not due to confusion
> about a port-local enums (aarch64_record_result, loongarch_record_result).
>
> Instead, the port just treats return values 1 and -1 the same:
> ...
> if (tdep->ppc_syscall_record (regcache) != 0)
> return -1;
> ...
>
> Fix this by passing through the return value 1 instead.
>
> Likewise on s390x-linux.
>
> Tested on ppc64le-linux and s390x-linux.
> ---
> gdb/rs6000-tdep.c | 5 +++--
> gdb/s390-tdep.c | 5 +++--
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gdb/rs6000-tdep.c b/gdb/rs6000-tdep.c
> index 8aa155e1f36..7d0902941a0 100644
> --- a/gdb/rs6000-tdep.c
> +++ b/gdb/rs6000-tdep.c
> @@ -7187,8 +7187,9 @@ ppc_process_record (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, struct regcache *regcache,
>
> if (tdep->ppc_syscall_record != NULL)
> {
> - if (tdep->ppc_syscall_record (regcache) != 0)
> - return -1;
> + int res = tdep->ppc_syscall_record (regcache);
> + if (res != 0)
> + return res;
> }
> else
> {
I ran into the same issue on ppc64le and submitted a similar fix independently.
I’ve tested your patch on Power10 (ppc64le), and it resolves the problem there as well.
Please feel free to add:
Reviewed-by: Abhay Kandpal<abhay@linux.ibm.com>
Thanks for addressing this and for covering s390x as well.
> diff --git a/gdb/s390-tdep.c b/gdb/s390-tdep.c
> index 6cf5acbc542..f52e898047b 100644
> --- a/gdb/s390-tdep.c
> +++ b/gdb/s390-tdep.c
> @@ -3242,8 +3242,9 @@ s390_process_record (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, struct regcache *regcache,
> /* SVC - supervisor call */
> if (tdep->s390_syscall_record != NULL)
> {
> - if (tdep->s390_syscall_record (regcache, ibyte[1]))
> - return -1;
> + int res = tdep->s390_syscall_record (regcache, ibyte[1]);
> + if (res != 0)
> + return res;
> }
> else
> {
>
> base-commit: 96cc0a530d58d96a81b1c30247de79812f1d4538
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