Initialize target description early in IPA
Target descriptions are allocated lazily, that is fine in GDBserver, but it is not safe to call malloc in gdb_collect in IPA, because we can set a fast tracepoint in malloc, and when the tracepoint is hit, gdb_collect/malloc is called, deadlock or memory corruption may be triggered. #0 0xf7cfc200 in malloc () #1 0xf7efdc07 in operator new(unsigned int) () #2 0xf7ef7636 in allocate_target_description() () #3 0xf7efcbe1 in i386_create_target_description(unsigned long long, bool) () #4 0xf7efb474 in i386_linux_read_description(unsigned long long) () #5 0xf7efb190 in get_ipa_tdesc(int) () #6 0xf7ef9baa in gdb_collect () The fix is to initialize all target descriptions earlier, when the IPA is loaded. In order to guarantee malloc is not called in IPA in gdb_collect, I change the test to set a breakpoint on malloc, if IPA gdb_collect calls malloc, program will hit the breakpoint, and test fail. continue Continuing. Thread 1 "" hit Breakpoint 5, 0xf7cfc200 in malloc () (gdb) FAIL: gdb.trace/ftrace.exp: advance through tracing gdb/gdbserver: 2017-12-07 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org> * linux-aarch64-ipa.c (initialize_low_tracepoint): Call aarch64_linux_read_description. * linux-amd64-ipa.c (idx2mask): New array. (get_ipa_tdesc): Move idx2mask out. (initialize_low_tracepoint): Initialize target descriptions. * linux-i386-ipa.c (idx2mask): New array. (get_ipa_tdesc): Move idx2mask out. (initialize_low_tracepoint): Initialize target descriptions. gdb/testsuite: 2017-12-07 Yao Qi <yao.qi@linaro.org> * gdb.trace/ftrace.exp (run_trace_experiment): Set breakpoint on malloc and catch syscall.
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