From: Yubin via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
To: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Subject: Re: parallel loading of debug info in gdb
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 19:33:13 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJYFCiOV1POiKnomUZOw7-SX6RqMvVeJ2f7A-L=R5EmKEukOPg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48d24318-27d8-4cae-bfdc-64a8828c6f75@arm.com>
On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com> wrote:
> On 1/7/25 02:14, Yubin via Gdb wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does gdb supports parallel loading of debug symbols? I am debugging some
> > binary which is 3~4GB itself, and loading and parsing its debug info
> takes
> > minutes.
>
> Since a few years, gdb has had worker threads, potentially as many as cores
> (physical or virtual) on the system.
>
> So it does support trying to read things in parallel. Unfortunately the
> nature of the data limits things somewhat, as you have dependencies and
> have
> to look those up before proceeding further.
>
Yes dependency is a problem, but some dependent libs
are naturally independent to be read by parallel. If there could be some
way to specify this, it would be great.
> I've cc-ed Tromey, which worked in this area before.
>
Thanks.
Yubin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-07 11:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-07 2:14 Yubin via Gdb
2025-01-07 11:07 ` Luis Machado via Gdb
2025-01-07 11:33 ` Yubin via Gdb [this message]
2025-01-07 23:45 ` Tom Tromey
2025-01-08 15:40 ` Yubin via Gdb
2025-01-09 0:26 ` Tom Tromey
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