From: Siwei He via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
To: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
Cc: Siwei He <1726110778@qq.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb: A potential fix for PR-24069
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 13:04:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7E84D937-3772-4E0A-9726-8B06CED4FC94@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4bf807c4-d78f-05a4-6cf5-4fa283bc7c1d@simark.ca>
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Hi Simon,
I have turned the debug message switch on both on my patched version vs. The unpatched version. The results are attached in the email.
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[21378 inferior]: GDB task: 0x203, pid: 21378
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Reading symbols from /Users/siweihe/Developer/ECE496/a.out...
Reading symbols from /Users/siweihe/Developer/ECE496/a.out.dSYM/Contents/Resources/DWARF/a.out...
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x100003f9d: file test.c, line 2.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /Users/siweihe/Developer/ECE496/a.out
[21378 inferior]: inferior task: 0x1103, pid: 21449
[21378 inferior]: new_ix:0/1, old_ix:0/0, new_id:0x1503 old_id:0x0
[New Thread 0x1503 of process 21449]
[[2137821449 inferior]: inferior]: darwin_wait: waiting for a message ptid=21449.0.0ptrace (
PT_TRACE_ME, 0, 0x0, 0): 0 (no error)
[21449 inferior]: ptrace (PT_SIGEXC, 0, 0x0, 0): 0 (no error)
message header:
bits: 0x1200
size: 0x24
remote-port: 0x0
local-port: 0xe03
reserved: 0x0
id: 0x48
data: 00000000 00000001 00001103
[21378 inferior]: darwin_wait: pid 1407 received status=0x4427d9a
[21378 inferior]: darwin_wait: pid 21449 received WIFSTOPPED
message header:
bits: 0x80001112
size: 0x4c
remote-port: 0x2903
local-port: 0x1003
reserved: 0x0
id: 0x961
body: descriptor_count=2
descr 0: type=0 (port) name=0x1603, dispo=17
descr 1: type=0 (port) name=0x2803, dispo=17
NDR: mig=00 if=00 encod=00 int=01 char=00 float=00
data: 00000005 00000002 00010003 00000005
[21378 inferior]: new_ix:0/1, old_ix:0/1, new_id:0x1603 old_id:0x1503
[21378 inferior]: new_ix:0/1, old_ix:1/1, new_id:0x1603 old_id:0x0
[New Thread 0x1603 of process 21449]
[21378 inferior]: darwin_wait: thread=0x1603, got EXC_SOFTWARE
[21378 inferior]: (signal 5: SIGTRAP)
[21378 inferior]: darwin_xfer_partial(0x0000000000000000, 4096, rbuf=0x7fdcac813c00, wbuf=0x0) pid=21449
[21378 inferior]: darwin_xfer_partial(0x0000000000000000, 8, rbuf=0x7ff7bc016288, wbuf=0x0) pid=21449
[21378 inferior]: darwin_xfer_partial(0x00000001000881b8, 24, rbuf=0x7ff7bc0161f0, wbuf=0x0) pid=21449
[21378 inferior]: darwin_read_write_inferior(task=0x2803, 0x00000001000881b8, len=24)
warning: unhandled dyld version (17)
[21378 inferior]: darwin_xfer_partial(0x00000001000881b8, 24, rbuf=0x7ff7bc0160f0, wbuf=0x0) pid=21449
[21378 inferior]: darwin_read_write_inferior(task=0x2803, 0x00000001000881b8, len=24)
[21378 inferior]: darwin_xfer_partial(0x0000000100003f80, 64, rbuf=0x60000270151c, wbuf=0x0) pid=21449
[21378 inferior]: darwin_read_write_inferior(task=0x2803, 0x0000000100003f80, len=64)
[21378 inferior]: darwin_xfer_partial(0x0000000100003f9d, 1, rbuf=0x7ff7bc015dd0, wbuf=0x0) pid=21449
[21378 inferior]: darwin_read_write_inferior(task=0x2803, 0x0000000100003f9d, len=1)
[21378 inferior]: darwin_xfer_partial(0x0000000100003f9d, 1, rbuf=0x7ff7bc015d40, wbuf=0x0) pid=21449
[21378 inferior]: darwin_read_write_inferior(task=0x2803, 0x0000000100003f9d, len=1)
[21378 inferior]: darwin_xfer_partial(0x0000000100003f9d, 1, rbuf=0x0, wbuf=0x104508880) pid=21449
[21378 inferior]: darwin_read_write_inferior(task=0x2803, 0x0000000100003f9d, len=1)
[21378 inferior]: darwin_read_write_inferior: mach_vm_region_recurse addr=0x0000000100003000, start=0x0000000100000000, len=0x0000000000004000
[21378 inferior]: darwin_resume: ptid=21449.0.0, step=0, signal=0
[21378 inferior]: darwin_resume_thread: state=2, thread=0x1603, step=0 nsignal=0
[21378 inferior]: ptrace (PT_THUPDATE, 21449, 0x1603, 0): 0 (no error)
[21378 inferior]: darwin_set_sstep (thread=0x1603, enable=0)
[21378 inferior]: darwin_wait: waiting for a message ptid=-1.0.0
message header:
bits: 0x80001112
size: 0x4c
remote-port: 0x150b
local-port: 0x1003
reserved: 0x0
id: 0x961
body: descriptor_count=2
descr 0: type=0 (port) name=0x1603, dispo=17
descr 1: type=0 (port) name=0x2803, dispo=17
NDR: mig=00 if=00 encod=00 int=01 char=00 float=00
data: 00000006 00000002 00000002 00000000
[21378 inferior]: darwin_wait: thread=0x1603, got EXC_BREAKPOINT
[21378 inferior]: darwin_xfer_partial(0x0000000100003f9d, 1, rbuf=0x0, wbuf=0x7fdcac17c16c) pid=21449
[21378 inferior]: darwin_read_write_inferior(task=0x2803, 0x0000000100003f9d, len=1)
[21378 inferior]: darwin_read_write_inferior: mach_vm_region_recurse addr=0x0000000100003000, start=0x0000000100003000, len=0x0000000000001000
Thread 2 hit Breakpoint 1, [21378 inferior]: darwin_xfer_partial(0x0000000100003f9d, 1, rbuf=0x7ff7bc015df7, wbuf=0x0) pid=21449
[21378 inferior]: darwin_read_write_inferior(task=0x2803, 0x0000000100003f9d, len=1)
[21378 inferior]: darwin_xfer_partial(0x0000000100003f9d, 1, rbuf=0x7ff7bc015df7, wbuf=0x0) pid=21449
[21378 inferior]: darwin_read_write_inferior(task=0x2803, 0x0000000100003f9d, len=1)
main () at test.c:2
2 int a = 0;
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Reading symbols from /Users/siweihe/Developer/ECE496/a.out...
Reading symbols from /Users/siweihe/Developer/ECE496/a.out.dSYM/Contents/Resources/DWARF/a.out...
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x100003f9d: file test.c, line 2.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /Users/siweihe/Developer/ECE496/a.out
[40645 inferior]: inferior task: 0x1103, pid: 40718
[40645 inferior]: new_ix:0/1, old_ix:0/0, new_id:0x1503 old_id:0x0
[New Thread 0x1503 of process 40718]
[40645 inferior]: darwin_wait: waiting for a message ptid=40718.0.0
[40718 inferior]: ptrace (PT_TRACE_ME, 0, 0x0, 0): 0 (no error)
[40718 inferior]: ptrace (PT_SIGEXC, 0, 0x0, 0): 0 (no error)
message header:
bits: 0x1200
size: 0x24
remote-port: 0x0
local-port: 0xe03
reserved: 0x0
id: 0x48
data: 00000000 00000001 00001103
[46836 inferior]: WIFSTOPPED
[40645 inferior]: darwin_wait: pid=40718 exit, status=0x57f
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As pointed out by Domq half a year ago, it seems like the gdb doesn’t have to call another wait4(). The patch can fix the deadlock problem. I am having limited time dig deeper into the root cause of the bug, but I will try poking around and see what I can find out.
Best,
Louis
> On Feb 2, 2022, at 4:26 PM, Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca> wrote:
>
> On 2022-02-02 4:01 p.m., Siwei He via Gdb-patches wrote:
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>> You are absolutely right. I am new to the community and I noticed that I
>> didn't merge two of my commits together in the patch file. I have already
>> merged them and included in the attachment in this email. I also uploaded
>> it to the bug report:
>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=13953
>>
>> Best,
>> Louis
> Thanks, that makes more sense.
>
> I'd like if we could at least get some understanding of what's happening
> here and get an explanation in the commit message, otherwise it feels
> like just feels like throwing random things on the wall and seeing what
> sticks.
>
> Could you please provide the output of a GDB session running a trivial
> program, with both "set debug infrun 1" and "set debug darwin 12" (not a
> typo, the last one is really "12")? Then we can have an idea of the
> sequence of events. If you can get one where things work and one where
> things don't work, it would be even better, since it would allow us to
> compare.
>
> I'm trying to understand what the code you change does. It is in a
> scope that starts like this:
>
> else if (hdr->msgh_id == 0x48)
> {
> /* MACH_NOTIFY_DEAD_NAME: notification for exit. */
>
> What does that mean, does it mean we have received some message /
> notification to tell us the inferior has exited? So what does it mean
> to then receive a WIFSTOPPED wait status for that pid?
>
> I think it would be useful do add a debug print just after the wait4
> call above, to print (in hexadecimal) the wstatus value returned by
> wait4.
>
> Simon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-03 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-02 19:31 siweihe.eng--- via Gdb-patches
2022-02-02 20:57 ` Simon Marchi
2022-02-02 21:01 ` Siwei He via Gdb-patches
2022-02-02 21:26 ` Simon Marchi
2022-02-03 18:04 ` Siwei He via Gdb-patches [this message]
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