From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31234 invoked by alias); 14 Jun 2013 12:37:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 31223 invoked by uid 89); 14 Jun 2013 12:37:23 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:37:23 +0000 Received: from svr-orw-fem-01.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.93]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1UnTFp-0001PO-1N from Maciej_Rozycki@mentor.com for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:37:21 -0700 Received: from SVR-IES-FEM-01.mgc.mentorg.com ([137.202.0.104]) by svr-orw-fem-01.mgc.mentorg.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:37:20 -0700 Received: from [172.30.64.79] (137.202.0.76) by SVR-IES-FEM-01.mgc.mentorg.com (137.202.0.104) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.247.3; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:37:18 +0100 Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:53:00 -0000 From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Yao Qi CC: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Include asm/ptrace.h in mips-linux-nat.c In-Reply-To: <51BA8252.3010303@codesourcery.com> Message-ID: References: <1369881867-11372-1-git-send-email-yao@codesourcery.com> <1369881867-11372-2-git-send-email-yao@codesourcery.com> <51BA8252.3010303@codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-SW-Source: 2013-06/txt/msg00332.txt.bz2 On Fri, 14 Jun 2013, Yao Qi wrote: > > ../../src/gdb/mips-linux-nat.c:599: error: storage size of 'dummy_regs' > > isn't known > > > > etc. for the very reason the system I used for testing has old kernel > > headers installed (2.6.19 it would seem, according to ). > > > > Such a failure is not acceptable from the user's point of view; I think > > there are three ways to deal with this: > > > > 1. Add an autoconf test that checks for the presence of a key > > definition; I think 'struct pt_watch_regs' is a good > > candidate. If that test does not succeed, then the configure process > > fails gracefully stating the minimum released version of kernel headers > > required. > > > > 2. Add the same test, except in the failure case fall back to the internal > > definitions we already have, wrapped into #ifndef > > HAVE_STRUCT_PT_WATCH_REGS. > > > > 3. Add the same test and disable hardware watchpoint support in the > > failure case. > > I prefer #3. If 'struct pt_watch_regs' is not defined, hardware watchpoint is > not supported in the kernel. Because 'struct pt_watch_regs' was added in this > commit in linux kernel, > > commit 0926bf953ee79b8f139741b442e5a18520f81705 > Author: David Daney > Date: Tue Sep 23 00:11:26 2008 -0700 > > MIPS: Ptrace support for HARDWARE_WATCHPOINTS > > This is the final part of the watch register patch. Here we hook up > ptrace so that the user space debugger (gdb), can set and read the > registers. > > Signed-off-by: David Daney > Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle Well, kernel headers bundled with the C library installed on a system GDB is being built on do not necessarily have to match the kernel binary the system uses (as is the case with the system I'm using for this validation) or GDB may be run on another system. So you cannot infer at the build time whether the kernel used on a system GDB is going to run on supports watchpoints until you actually query the kernel at the run time; you need to do a run-time check anyway as hardware may not even if the kernel will. Therefore I think my question here is a matter of policy in GDB rather than limitations posed by a system in a given configuration. Which makes your preference valid, although not for the reason you stated. Maciej