History log of /gem5/src/arch/x86/remote_gdb.hh
Revision Date Author Comments
# 12449:2260f4a68210 16-Jan-2018 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

sim, arch, base: Refactor the base remote GDB class.

Fold the GDBListener class into the main BaseRemoteGDB class, move
around a bunch of functions, convert a lot of internal functions to
be private, move some functions into the .cc, make some functions
non-virtual which didn't really need to be overridden.

Change-Id: Id0832b730b0fdfb2eababa5067e72c66de1c147d
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/7422
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>


# 12073:fe5885672fab 03-May-2017 Matthias Hille <matthiashille8@gmail.com>

x86: Fixed remote debugging of simulated code

GDB breaks if more bytes are sent than the transmitted registers
actually need. Therefore the GdbRegCache struct needs to be packed to
prevent padding at the end.

Change-Id: Ib2c14eb70becdac609eb4f475d5dddbd5bcc60da
Signed-off-by: Matthias Hille <matthiashille8@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3020
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>


# 12031:46116545e745 11-May-2017 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

base: Refactor the GDB code.

The new version modularizes the implementation of the various commands,
gets rid of dynamic allocation of the register cache, fixes some small
style problems, and uses exceptions to simplify error handling internal to
the GDB stub.

Change-Id: Iff3548373ce4adfb99106a810f5713b769df89b2
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/3280
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Shingarov <shingarov@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>


# 11274:d9a0136ab8cc 18-Dec-2015 Boris Shingarov <shingarov@labware.com>

arm: remote GDB: rationalize structure of register offsets

Currently, the wire format of register values in g- and G-packets is
modelled using a union of uint8/16/32/64 arrays. The offset positions
of each register are expressed as a "register count" scaled according
to the width of the register in question. This results in counter-
intuitive and error-prone "register count arithmetic", and some
formats would even be altogether unrepresentable in such model, e.g.
a 64-bit register following a 32-bit one would have a fractional index
in the regs64 array.
Another difficulty is that the array is allocated before the actual
architecture of the workload is known (and therefore before the correct
size for the array can be calculated).

With this patch I propose a simpler mechanism for expressing the
register set structure. In the new code, GdbRegCache is an abstract
class; its subclasses contain straightforward structs reflecting the
register representation. The determination whether to use e.g. the
AArch32 vs. AArch64 register set (or SPARCv8 vs SPARCv9, etc.) is made
by polymorphically dispatching getregs() to the concrete subclass.
The subclass is not instantiated until it is needed for actual
g-/G-packet processing, when the mode is already known.

This patch is not meant to be merged in on its own, because it changes
the contract between src/base/remote_gdb.* and src/arch/*/remote_gdb.*,
so as it stands right now, it would break the other architectures.
In this patch only the base and the ARM code are provided for review;
once we agree on the structure, I will provide src/arch/*/remote_gdb.*
for the other architectures; those patches could then be merged in
together.

Review Request: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3207/
Pushed by Joel Hestness <jthestness@gmail.com>


# 10804:df2aa91dba5b 24-Apr-2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

misc: Appease gcc 5.1 without moving GDB_REG_BYTES

This patch rolls back the move of the GDB_REG_BYTES constant, and
instead adds M5_VAR_USED.


# 10799:1e8e6c141372 23-Apr-2015 Andreas Hansson <andreas.hansson@arm.com>

misc: Appease gcc 5.1

This patch fixes a few small issues to ensure gem5 compiles when using
gcc 5.1.

First, the GDB_REG_BYTES in the RemoteGDB header are, rather
surprisingly, flagged as unused for both ARM and X86. Removing them,
however, causes compilation errors as they are actually used in the
source file. Moving the constant into the class definition fixes the
issue. Possibly a gcc bug.

Second, we have an unused EthPktData constructor using auto_ptr, and
the latter is deprecated. Since the code is never used it is simply
removed.


# 10601:6efb37480d87 06-Dec-2014 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

misc: Generalize GDB single stepping.

The new single stepping implementation for x86 doesn't rely on any ISA
specific properties or functionality. This change pulls out the per ISA
implementation of those functions and promotes the X86 implementation to the
base class.

One drawback of that implementation is that the CPU might stop on an
instruction twice if it's affected by both breakpoints and single stepping.
While that might be a little surprising, it's harmless and would only happen
under somewhat unlikely circumstances.


# 10600:e60c7758cf69 06-Dec-2014 Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

x86: Implement a remote GDB stub.

This stub should allow remote debugging of 32 bit and 64 bit targets. Single
stepping seems to work, as do breakpoints. If both breakpoints and single
stepping affect an instruction, gdb will stop at the instruction twice before
continuing. That's a little surprising, but is generally harmless.


# 7087:fb8d5786ff30 24-May-2010 Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>

copyright: Change HP copyright on x86 code to be more friendly


# 4161:3147493a5c6b 05-Mar-2007 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Add in NumGDBRegs so the constructor to the base class can get all it's arguments.


# 4144:f54c2e74010c 05-Mar-2007 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Filled in a stub header file for remote gdb


# 4120:3e09b5d32c45 03-Mar-2007 Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>

Add build hooks for x86.