Re: [PATCH] target/arm: Report pauth information to gdb as 'pauth_v2'

[Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>]

On 4/6/23 08:08, Peter Maydell wrote:
> So that we can avoid the "older gdb crashes" problem described in
> commit 5787d17a42f7af4 and which caused us to disable reporting pauth
> information via the gdbstub, newer gdb is going to implement support
> for recognizing the pauth information via a new feature name:
>   org.gnu.gdb.aarch64.pauth_v2
> 
> Older gdb won't recognize this feature name, so we can re-enable the
> pauth support under the new name without risking them crashing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell<peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> I think the gdb change isn't quite upstream yet, but this is
> for 8.1 so I would expect it to be there by the time we
> get around to committing this patch to QEMU.
> ---
>   target/arm/gdbstub.c      | 9 ++++-----
>   gdb-xml/aarch64-pauth.xml | 2 +-
>   2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>


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