On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 11:22:05AM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Frederik Deweerdt wrote:
> > Following the i386 pda patches, it's not possible to set gs or fs value
> > from gdb anymore. The following patch restores the old behaviour of
> > getting and setting thread.gs of thread.fs respectively.
> > Here's a gdb session *before* the patch:
> > (gdb) info reg
> > [...]
> > fs 0x33 51
> > gs 0x33 51
> > (gdb) set $fs=0xffff
> > (gdb) info reg
> > [...]
> > fs 0x33 51
> > gs 0x33 51
> > (gdb) set $gs=0xffffffff
> > (gdb) info reg
> > [...]
> > fs 0xffff 65535
> > gs 0x33 51
> >
> > Another one *after* the patch:
> > (gdb) info reg
> > [...]
> > fs 0xd8 216
> >
>
> This doesn't look right. This is the kernel's %fs, not usermode's
> (which should be 0).
>
Right, I missed that.
> > gs 0x33 51
> > (gdb) set $fs=0xffff
> > (gdb) info reg
> > [...]
> > fs 0xffff 65535
> > gs 0x33 51
> > (gdb) set $gs=0xffff
> > (gdb) info reg
> > [...]
> > fs 0xffff 65535
> > gs 0xffff 65535
> >
> Hm. This shouldn't be possible since this is a bad selector, but I
> guess ptrace/gdb doesn't really know that. If you run the target (even
> single step it), these should revert to 0.
I does, my point there is just that in that case gdb would stick the
0xffff value in the right place, which it doesn't without the patch.
>
> > Andrew, this goes on top of ptrace-fix-efl_offset-value-according-to-i386-pda-changes.patch
> > sent by Jeremy yesterday.
> >
>
> Don't think this is quite right yet. Assuming the %gs->%fs patch has
> been applied, then the target %fs should be on its stack, and target %gs
> will be in thread.gs. I'm not sure that thread.fs has any use, but I'd
> want to double check vm86 to be sure.
I'm not sure what you mean by the '%gs->%fs patch'. Do you refer to
convert-i386-pda-code-to-use-%fs-fixes.patch
which is in -mm1?
Or is there another one I might have missed? For the record, I'm running
-mm1 + the efl_offset patch.
Regards,
Frederik
>
> J
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