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The buildbot shows that some machines FAIL this test frequently.
E.g.: https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-testers/2015-q1/msg00997.html
If I stress my machine, I can sometimes see it fail too.
Bumping the 200 limit and tweaking the test to show the step count, I
get:
...
PASS: gdb.base/gdb-sigterm.exp: SIGTERM stepped 12 times
PASS: gdb.base/gdb-sigterm.exp: SIGTERM stepped 8 times
PASS: gdb.base/gdb-sigterm.exp: SIGTERM stepped 13 times
PASS: gdb.base/gdb-sigterm.exp: SIGTERM stepped 7 times
--> FAIL: gdb.base/gdb-sigterm.exp: SIGTERM stepped 228 times <--
PASS: gdb.base/gdb-sigterm.exp: SIGTERM stepped 11 times
PASS: gdb.base/gdb-sigterm.exp: SIGTERM stepped 13 times
PASS: gdb.base/gdb-sigterm.exp: SIGTERM stepped 12 times
PASS: gdb.base/gdb-sigterm.exp: SIGTERM stepped 8 times
PASS: gdb.base/gdb-sigterm.exp: SIGTERM stepped 9 times
PASS: gdb.base/gdb-sigterm.exp: SIGTERM stepped 7 times
PASS: gdb.base/gdb-sigterm.exp: SIGTERM stepped 11 times
PASS: gdb.base/gdb-sigterm.exp: SIGTERM stepped 8 times
...
Thinking that this might be a problem of SIGTERM reaching GDB, but
then the event loop taking too long to handle it, I hacked GDB to
print a debug log whenever the SIGTERM handler was called, and,
whenever the event loop finally calls the async SIGTERM handler.
Here's what I see:
infrun: 30011 [Thread 30011],
infrun: status->kind = stopped, signal = GDB_SIGNAL_TRAP
infrun: TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED
infrun: stop_pc = 0x4005de
--> infrun: got SIGTERM <--
infrun: stepping inside range [0x4005de-0x4005e0]
infrun: resume (step=1, signal=GDB_SIGNAL_0), ...
infrun: prepare_to_wait
--> infrun: handling async SIGTERM <--
Cannot execute this command while the target is running.
Use the "interrupt" command to stop the target
and then try again.
gdb.base/gdb-sigterm.exp: expect eof #27
FAIL: gdb.base/gdb-sigterm.exp: SIGTERM stepped 228 times
So, no delay on the GDB side. It just happens that occasionally it
takes more than 200 single-steps before SIGTERM even reaches GDB.
This just looks like a kernel/scheduling issue --- some extra usage
spike in the system (e.g., an I/O spike) might cause it for me. For
the build slaves, I'm guessing they're frequently busy enough to trip
on this often. Particularly more so now that we're having them run
tests in parallel mode.
The fix is to detect failure by timeout instead of counting single
steps. This should be more reliable. Indeed for me, after this
commit, I couldn't trigger a FAIL anymore, even after letting the test
run for an hour.
By timeout is also nicer in that a board file for a slow host/target
can increase it (like, e.g., an embedded GNU/Linux board).
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20, native, gdbserver, and extended-remote
gdbserver.
gdb/testsuite/
2015-02-06 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.base/gdb-sigterm.c (main): Use the TIMEOUT define to
determine how many seconds to pass to 'alarm'.
* gdb.base/gdb-sigterm.exp (top level): Build program with
-DTIMEOUT=$timeout.
(do_test): Return success/failure indication. Add more verbose
logging. Don't fail if 200 single steps are seen. Instead, fail
when the test times out.
(passes): New global.
(top level): Break the testing loop if testing fails on any
iteration. Use gdb_assert.
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