On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 09:48:07AM +0000, Daniel Thompson wrote: > Currently kgdbts can get stuck waiting for do_sys_open() to be called > in some of the current tests. This is because C compilers often > automatically inline this function, which is a very thin wrapper around > do_sys_openat2(), into some of its callers. gcc-10 does this on (at least) > both x86 and arm64. > > We can fix the test suite by placing the breakpoints on do_sys_openat2() > instead since that isn't (currently) inlined. However do_sys_openat2() is > a static function so we cannot simply use an addressof. Since we are > testing debug machinery it is acceptable to use kallsyms to lookup a > suitable address because this is more or less what kdb does in the same > circumstances. Re-implement lookup_addr() to be based on kallsyms rather > than function pointers. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thomp...@linaro.org> > --- > > Notes: > So less than a week ago I said I had nothing pending for kgdbts. > That was entirely true when I said it... but then this came up.
No worries, I'll take this too :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kgdb-bugreport mailing list Kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kgdb-bugreport
