x86-nat.c revision 1.3
1/* Native-dependent code for x86 (i386 and x86-64).
2
3   Copyright (C) 2001-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4
5   This file is part of GDB.
6
7   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
10   (at your option) any later version.
11
12   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
15   GNU General Public License for more details.
16
17   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
19
20#include "defs.h"
21#include "x86-nat.h"
22#include "gdbcmd.h"
23#include "inferior.h"
24
25/* Support for hardware watchpoints and breakpoints using the x86
26   debug registers.
27
28   This provides several functions for inserting and removing
29   hardware-assisted breakpoints and watchpoints, testing if one or
30   more of the watchpoints triggered and at what address, checking
31   whether a given region can be watched, etc.
32
33   The functions below implement debug registers sharing by reference
34   counts, and allow to watch regions up to 16 bytes long.  */
35
36/* Low-level function vector.  */
37struct x86_dr_low_type x86_dr_low;
38
39/* Per-process data.  We don't bind this to a per-inferior registry
40   because of targets like x86 GNU/Linux that need to keep track of
41   processes that aren't bound to any inferior (e.g., fork children,
42   checkpoints).  */
43
44struct x86_process_info
45{
46  /* Linked list.  */
47  struct x86_process_info *next;
48
49  /* The process identifier.  */
50  pid_t pid;
51
52  /* Copy of x86 hardware debug registers.  */
53  struct x86_debug_reg_state state;
54};
55
56static struct x86_process_info *x86_process_list = NULL;
57
58/* Find process data for process PID.  */
59
60static struct x86_process_info *
61x86_find_process_pid (pid_t pid)
62{
63  struct x86_process_info *proc;
64
65  for (proc = x86_process_list; proc; proc = proc->next)
66    if (proc->pid == pid)
67      return proc;
68
69  return NULL;
70}
71
72/* Add process data for process PID.  Returns newly allocated info
73   object.  */
74
75static struct x86_process_info *
76x86_add_process (pid_t pid)
77{
78  struct x86_process_info *proc;
79
80  proc = xcalloc (1, sizeof (*proc));
81  proc->pid = pid;
82
83  proc->next = x86_process_list;
84  x86_process_list = proc;
85
86  return proc;
87}
88
89/* Get data specific info for process PID, creating it if necessary.
90   Never returns NULL.  */
91
92static struct x86_process_info *
93x86_process_info_get (pid_t pid)
94{
95  struct x86_process_info *proc;
96
97  proc = x86_find_process_pid (pid);
98  if (proc == NULL)
99    proc = x86_add_process (pid);
100
101  return proc;
102}
103
104/* Get debug registers state for process PID.  */
105
106struct x86_debug_reg_state *
107x86_debug_reg_state (pid_t pid)
108{
109  return &x86_process_info_get (pid)->state;
110}
111
112/* See declaration in i386-nat.h.  */
113
114void
115x86_forget_process (pid_t pid)
116{
117  struct x86_process_info *proc, **proc_link;
118
119  proc = x86_process_list;
120  proc_link = &x86_process_list;
121
122  while (proc != NULL)
123    {
124      if (proc->pid == pid)
125	{
126	  *proc_link = proc->next;
127
128	  xfree (proc);
129	  return;
130	}
131
132      proc_link = &proc->next;
133      proc = *proc_link;
134    }
135}
136
137/* Clear the reference counts and forget everything we knew about the
138   debug registers.  */
139
140void
141x86_cleanup_dregs (void)
142{
143  /* Starting from scratch has the same effect.  */
144  x86_forget_process (ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid));
145}
146
147/* Insert a watchpoint to watch a memory region which starts at
148   address ADDR and whose length is LEN bytes.  Watch memory accesses
149   of the type TYPE.  Return 0 on success, -1 on failure.  */
150
151static int
152x86_insert_watchpoint (struct target_ops *self,
153		       CORE_ADDR addr, int len, int type,
154		       struct expression *cond)
155{
156  struct x86_debug_reg_state *state
157    = x86_debug_reg_state (ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid));
158
159  return x86_dr_insert_watchpoint (state, type, addr, len);
160}
161
162/* Remove a watchpoint that watched the memory region which starts at
163   address ADDR, whose length is LEN bytes, and for accesses of the
164   type TYPE.  Return 0 on success, -1 on failure.  */
165static int
166x86_remove_watchpoint (struct target_ops *self,
167		       CORE_ADDR addr, int len, int type,
168		       struct expression *cond)
169{
170  struct x86_debug_reg_state *state
171    = x86_debug_reg_state (ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid));
172
173  return x86_dr_remove_watchpoint (state, type, addr, len);
174}
175
176/* Return non-zero if we can watch a memory region that starts at
177   address ADDR and whose length is LEN bytes.  */
178
179static int
180x86_region_ok_for_watchpoint (struct target_ops *self,
181			      CORE_ADDR addr, int len)
182{
183  struct x86_debug_reg_state *state
184    = x86_debug_reg_state (ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid));
185
186  return x86_dr_region_ok_for_watchpoint (state, addr, len);
187}
188
189/* If the inferior has some break/watchpoint that triggered, set the
190   address associated with that break/watchpoint and return non-zero.
191   Otherwise, return zero.  */
192
193static int
194x86_stopped_data_address (struct target_ops *ops, CORE_ADDR *addr_p)
195{
196  struct x86_debug_reg_state *state
197    = x86_debug_reg_state (ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid));
198
199  return x86_dr_stopped_data_address (state, addr_p);
200}
201
202/* Return non-zero if the inferior has some watchpoint that triggered.
203   Otherwise return zero.  */
204
205static int
206x86_stopped_by_watchpoint (struct target_ops *ops)
207{
208  struct x86_debug_reg_state *state
209    = x86_debug_reg_state (ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid));
210
211  return x86_dr_stopped_by_watchpoint (state);
212}
213
214/* Insert a hardware-assisted breakpoint at BP_TGT->reqstd_address.
215   Return 0 on success, EBUSY on failure.  */
216
217static int
218x86_insert_hw_breakpoint (struct target_ops *self, struct gdbarch *gdbarch,
219			  struct bp_target_info *bp_tgt)
220{
221  struct x86_debug_reg_state *state
222    = x86_debug_reg_state (ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid));
223
224  bp_tgt->placed_address = bp_tgt->reqstd_address;
225  return x86_dr_insert_watchpoint (state, hw_execute,
226				   bp_tgt->placed_address, 1) ? EBUSY : 0;
227}
228
229/* Remove a hardware-assisted breakpoint at BP_TGT->placed_address.
230   Return 0 on success, -1 on failure.  */
231
232static int
233x86_remove_hw_breakpoint (struct target_ops *self, struct gdbarch *gdbarch,
234			  struct bp_target_info *bp_tgt)
235{
236  struct x86_debug_reg_state *state
237    = x86_debug_reg_state (ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid));
238
239  return x86_dr_remove_watchpoint (state, hw_execute,
240				   bp_tgt->placed_address, 1);
241}
242
243/* Returns the number of hardware watchpoints of type TYPE that we can
244   set.  Value is positive if we can set CNT watchpoints, zero if
245   setting watchpoints of type TYPE is not supported, and negative if
246   CNT is more than the maximum number of watchpoints of type TYPE
247   that we can support.  TYPE is one of bp_hardware_watchpoint,
248   bp_read_watchpoint, bp_write_watchpoint, or bp_hardware_breakpoint.
249   CNT is the number of such watchpoints used so far (including this
250   one).  OTHERTYPE is non-zero if other types of watchpoints are
251   currently enabled.
252
253   We always return 1 here because we don't have enough information
254   about possible overlap of addresses that they want to watch.  As an
255   extreme example, consider the case where all the watchpoints watch
256   the same address and the same region length: then we can handle a
257   virtually unlimited number of watchpoints, due to debug register
258   sharing implemented via reference counts in i386-nat.c.  */
259
260static int
261x86_can_use_hw_breakpoint (struct target_ops *self,
262			   int type, int cnt, int othertype)
263{
264  return 1;
265}
266
267static void
268add_show_debug_regs_command (void)
269{
270  /* A maintenance command to enable printing the internal DRi mirror
271     variables.  */
272  add_setshow_boolean_cmd ("show-debug-regs", class_maintenance,
273			   &show_debug_regs, _("\
274Set whether to show variables that mirror the x86 debug registers."), _("\
275Show whether to show variables that mirror the x86 debug registers."), _("\
276Use \"on\" to enable, \"off\" to disable.\n\
277If enabled, the debug registers values are shown when GDB inserts\n\
278or removes a hardware breakpoint or watchpoint, and when the inferior\n\
279triggers a breakpoint or watchpoint."),
280			   NULL,
281			   NULL,
282			   &maintenance_set_cmdlist,
283			   &maintenance_show_cmdlist);
284}
285
286/* There are only two global functions left.  */
287
288void
289x86_use_watchpoints (struct target_ops *t)
290{
291  /* After a watchpoint trap, the PC points to the instruction after the
292     one that caused the trap.  Therefore we don't need to step over it.
293     But we do need to reset the status register to avoid another trap.  */
294  t->to_have_continuable_watchpoint = 1;
295
296  t->to_can_use_hw_breakpoint = x86_can_use_hw_breakpoint;
297  t->to_region_ok_for_hw_watchpoint = x86_region_ok_for_watchpoint;
298  t->to_stopped_by_watchpoint = x86_stopped_by_watchpoint;
299  t->to_stopped_data_address = x86_stopped_data_address;
300  t->to_insert_watchpoint = x86_insert_watchpoint;
301  t->to_remove_watchpoint = x86_remove_watchpoint;
302  t->to_insert_hw_breakpoint = x86_insert_hw_breakpoint;
303  t->to_remove_hw_breakpoint = x86_remove_hw_breakpoint;
304}
305
306void
307x86_set_debug_register_length (int len)
308{
309  /* This function should be called only once for each native target.  */
310  gdb_assert (x86_dr_low.debug_register_length == 0);
311  gdb_assert (len == 4 || len == 8);
312  x86_dr_low.debug_register_length = len;
313  add_show_debug_regs_command ();
314}
315