From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-arm@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-8.0] target/arm: Don't advertise aarch64-pauth.xml to gdb
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 17:23:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilez70mt.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230317165057.1522743-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
> Unfortunately a bug in older versions of gdb means that they will
> crash if QEMU sends them the aarch64-pauth.xml. This bug is fixed in
> gdb commit 1ba3a3222039eb25, and there are plans to backport that to
> affected gdb release branches, but since the bug affects gdb 9
> through 12 it is very widely deployed (for instance by distros).
>
> It is not currently clear what the best way to deal with this is; it
> has been proposed to define a new XML feature name that old gdb will
> ignore but newer gdb can handle. Since QEMU's 8.0 release is
> imminent and at least one of our CI runners is now falling over this,
> disable the pauth XML for the moment. We can follow up with a more
> considered fix either in time for 8.0 or else for the 8.1 release.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Queued to pr/170323-for-8.0-1, thanks.
--
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-17 17:24 UTC|newest]
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2023-03-17 16:50 [PATCH for-8.0] target/arm: Don't advertise aarch64-pauth.xml to gdb Peter Maydell
2023-03-17 17:23 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2023-03-17 17:26 ` Peter Maydell
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