Re: [Patch] Avoid deadlock in guality tests.

[Yvan Roux <yvan dot roux at linaro dot org>]

Hi,

On 6 April 2016 at 17:29, Yvan Roux <yvan.roux@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 6 April 2016 at 17:24, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 04/06/2016 04:13 PM, Yvan Roux wrote:
>>> On 6 April 2016 at 17:09, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> On 04/06/2016 03:53 PM, Yvan Roux wrote:
>>>>> Dejagnu cleanup mechanism needs to be enhanced, but I think that it
>>>>> would also be better if guality tests don't get stuck and/or can be
>>>>> killed easily.  This patch changes GDB signals handling to nostop for
>>>>> SIGSEGV, SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGBUS.  I am not sure if we need to
>>>>> increase the list of signals to all the stop ones (which are not used
>>>>> by GDB) or to restrict it just to SIGSEGV.
>>>>
>>>> I'd suggest:
>>>>
>>>>  handle all pass nostop
>>>>  handle SIGINT pass nostop
>>>>
>>>> That would make gdb pass _all_ signals except SIGTRAP
>>>
>>> I've committed it already :/
>>>
>>> I can make the change, but isn't there cases where SIGILL is used for
>>> breakpoints in GDB (I think I've seen that somewhere).
>>
>> True, and SIGSEGV and SIGEMT too.  But GDB handles that transparently
>> and won't pass such a breakpoint signal to the program, even with
>> "handle pass".  Only "handle SIGTRAP pass" passes a
>> breakpoint/step/etc. trap to the program.
>
> Ah ok, thanks for the explanations Pedro, I'll prepare a new patch and
> validate it.

Here is the new patch which makes GDB pass all signals except SIGTRAP.
validated on native armv8l target without regessions. ok for trunk ?

Cheers,
Yvan

2016-04-07  Yvan Roux  <yvan.roux@linaro.org>
            Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>

        * gcc.dg/guality/guality.h (main): Make GDB pass all signals except
        SIGTRAP.

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