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authorMark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>2016-08-25 17:17:23 +0200
committerMark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>2016-08-25 21:02:11 +0200
commit9008499a5276c45b37bc0adb47e7ad227e6ba2a9 (patch)
tree1bc5f04f83f072d4107a1d93bdfa395d42dadbee /po
parent324cc566974470090ed4a86f38afafe231501320 (diff)
downloadelfutils-9008499a5276c45b37bc0adb47e7ad227e6ba2a9.tar.gz
tests: Simplify backtrace-native tests. Drop raise jmp patching for x86_64.
The backtrace-native[-biarch] testcase was a little too clever in places making it unreliable. On x86_64 we tried to make an interesting backtrace by catching the first signal and then replacing the pc with the address of the first instruction of a function. Then we would raise a new signal, through ptrace, to create a backtrace that went from a signal frame into a frame at the start of a function. That way we could check that we were trying to fetch the correct CFI for the (jmp) function even at the first instruction (normally we would substract one from the return address to get at the call address). This works as long as the CFI for the jmp() function is identical to the CFI for the raise() function that we "patched away". Unfortunately on Fedora rawhide glibc has a rewritten raise() implementation that has different CFI, in particular the CFA is calculated differently. Making the testcase fail because we cannot properly unwind from jmp(). So this special x86_64 case has been disabled (the code is still there in case we find another way to test this in a more reliable way). On Ubuntu there have been spurious testcase failures because see_exec_module found two Dwfl_Modules with the same path. This would trigger an assert. Although this might indicate some issue (maybe we are not parsing the proc/pid/map correctly?) it isn't clear that it really is a bug. Since the assert is not very helpful finding any actual bug and for the testcase it is only necessary that the first Dwfl_Module that represents the executable is found we just pick that Dwfl_Module and don't iterate through any of the others. Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>
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