[AArch64] When unavailable, fetch VG from ptrace.
I was doing some SVE tests on system QEMU and noticed quite a few failures related to inferior function calls. Any attempt to do an inferior function call would result in the following: Unable to set VG register.: Success. This happens because, after an inferior function call, GDB attempts to restore the regcache state and updates the SVE register in order. Since the Z registers show up before the VG register, VG is still INVALID by the time the first Z register is being updated. So when executing the following code in aarch64_sve_set_vq: if (reg_buf->get_register_status (AARCH64_SVE_VG_REGNUM) != REG_VALID) return false; By returning false, we signal something is wrong, then we get to this: /* First store vector length to the thread. This is done first to ensure the ptrace buffers read from the kernel are the correct size. */ if (!aarch64_sve_set_vq (tid, regcache)) perror_with_name (_("Unable to set VG register.")); Ideally we'd always have a valid VG before attempting to set the Z registers, but in this case the ordering of registers doesn't make that possible. I considered reordering the registers to put VG before the Z registers, like the DWARF numbering, but that would break backwards compatibility with existing implementations. Also, the Z register numbering is pinned to the V registers, and adding VG before Z would create a gap for non-SVE targets, since we wouldn't be able to undefine VG for non-SVE targets. As a compromise, it seems we can safely fetch the VG register value from ptrace. The value in the kernel is likely the updated value anyway. This patch fixed all the failures i saw in the testsuite and caused no further regressions. gdb/ChangeLog: 2020-03-19 Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org> * nat/aarch64-sve-linux-ptrace.c (aarch64_sve_set_vq): If vg is not valid, fetch vg value from ptrace.
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