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[v3,1/5] gdb/aarch64: Disable displaced single-step for MOPS instructions

Message ID 20240510052408.2173579-2-thiago.bauermann@linaro.org
State New
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Series Add support for AArch64 MOPS instructions | expand

Commit Message

Thiago Jung Bauermann May 10, 2024, 5:24 a.m. UTC 
The AArch64 MOPS (Memory Operation) instructions provide a standardised
instruction sequence to perform a memset, memcpy or memmove.  A sequence is
always composed of three instructions: a prologue instruction, a main
instruction and an epilogue instruction.  As an illustration, here are the
implementations of these memory operations in glibc 2.39:

  (gdb) disassemble/r
  Dump of assembler code for function __memset_mops:
  => 0x0000fffff7e8d780 <+0>:     d503201f        nop
     0x0000fffff7e8d784 <+4>:     aa0003e3        mov     x3, x0
     0x0000fffff7e8d788 <+8>:     19c10443        setp    [x3]!, x2!, x1
     0x0000fffff7e8d78c <+12>:    19c14443        setm    [x3]!, x2!, x1
     0x0000fffff7e8d790 <+16>:    19c18443        sete    [x3]!, x2!, x1
     0x0000fffff7e8d794 <+20>:    d65f03c0        ret
  End of assembler dump.

  (gdb) disassemble/r
  Dump of assembler code for function __memcpy_mops:
  => 0x0000fffff7e8c580 <+0>:     d503201f        nop
     0x0000fffff7e8c584 <+4>:     aa0003e3        mov     x3, x0
     0x0000fffff7e8c588 <+8>:     19010443        cpyfp   [x3]!, [x1]!, x2!
     0x0000fffff7e8c58c <+12>:    19410443        cpyfm   [x3]!, [x1]!, x2!
     0x0000fffff7e8c590 <+16>:    19810443        cpyfe   [x3]!, [x1]!, x2!
     0x0000fffff7e8c594 <+20>:    d65f03c0        ret
  End of assembler dump.

  (gdb) disassemble/r
  Dump of assembler code for function __memmove_mops:
  => 0x0000fffff7e8d180 <+0>:     d503201f        nop
     0x0000fffff7e8d184 <+4>:     aa0003e3        mov     x3, x0
     0x0000fffff7e8d188 <+8>:     1d010443        cpyp    [x3]!, [x1]!, x2!
     0x0000fffff7e8d18c <+12>:    1d410443        cpym    [x3]!, [x1]!, x2!
     0x0000fffff7e8d190 <+16>:    1d810443        cpye    [x3]!, [x1]!, x2!
     0x0000fffff7e8d194 <+20>:    d65f03c0        ret
  End of assembler dump.

The Arm Architecture Reference Manual says that "the prologue, main, and
epilogue instructions are expected to be run in succession and to appear
consecutively in memory".  Therefore this patch disables displaced stepping
on them.

PR tdep/31666
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31666
---
 gdb/aarch64-tdep.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Change in v3:
- Remove aarch64_software_single_step_mops function and the change to call
  it from aarch64_software_single_step, since Luis clarified that it is in
  fact possible to single step through MOPS sequences.

No change in v2.
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diff --git a/gdb/aarch64-tdep.c b/gdb/aarch64-tdep.c
index 8d0553f3d7cd..05ecd421cd0e 100644
--- a/gdb/aarch64-tdep.c
+++ b/gdb/aarch64-tdep.c
@@ -3808,10 +3808,12 @@  aarch64_displaced_step_copy_insn (struct gdbarch *gdbarch,
   if (aarch64_decode_insn (insn, &inst, 1, NULL) != 0)
     return NULL;
 
-  /* Look for a Load Exclusive instruction which begins the sequence.  */
-  if (inst.opcode->iclass == ldstexcl && bit (insn, 22))
+  /* Look for a Load Exclusive instruction which begins the sequence,
+     or for a MOPS instruction.  */
+  if ((inst.opcode->iclass == ldstexcl && bit (insn, 22))
+      || AARCH64_CPU_HAS_FEATURE (*inst.opcode->avariant, MOPS))
     {
-      /* We can't displaced step atomic sequences.  */
+      /* We can't displaced step atomic sequences nor MOPS instructions.  */
       return NULL;
     }