/* Generate a core file for the inferior process.
- Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
+ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GDB.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
- Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
+ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+ Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
#include "defs.h"
#include "elf-bfd.h"
#include "gdb_assert.h"
+/* The largest amount of memory to read from the target at once. We
+ must throttle it to limit the amount of memory used by GDB during
+ generate-core-file for programs with large resident data. */
+#define MAX_COPY_BYTES (1024 * 1024)
+
static char *default_gcore_target (void);
static enum bfd_architecture default_gcore_arch (void);
static unsigned long default_gcore_mach (void);
static void
gcore_copy_callback (bfd *obfd, asection *osec, void *ignored)
{
- bfd_size_type size = bfd_section_size (obfd, osec);
+ bfd_size_type size, total_size = bfd_section_size (obfd, osec);
+ file_ptr offset = 0;
struct cleanup *old_chain = NULL;
void *memhunk;
if (strncmp ("load", bfd_section_name (obfd, osec), 4) != 0)
return;
+ size = min (total_size, MAX_COPY_BYTES);
memhunk = xmalloc (size);
/* ??? This is crap since xmalloc should never return NULL. */
if (memhunk == NULL)
error (_("Not enough memory to create corefile."));
old_chain = make_cleanup (xfree, memhunk);
- if (target_read_memory (bfd_section_vma (obfd, osec),
- memhunk, size) != 0)
- warning (_("Memory read failed for corefile section, %s bytes at 0x%s."),
- paddr_d (size), paddr (bfd_section_vma (obfd, osec)));
- if (!bfd_set_section_contents (obfd, osec, memhunk, 0, size))
- warning (_("Failed to write corefile contents (%s)."),
- bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
+ while (total_size > 0)
+ {
+ if (size > total_size)
+ size = total_size;
+
+ if (target_read_memory (bfd_section_vma (obfd, osec) + offset,
+ memhunk, size) != 0)
+ {
+ warning (_("Memory read failed for corefile section, %s bytes at 0x%s."),
+ paddr_d (size), paddr (bfd_section_vma (obfd, osec)));
+ break;
+ }
+ if (!bfd_set_section_contents (obfd, osec, memhunk, offset, size))
+ {
+ warning (_("Failed to write corefile contents (%s)."),
+ bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
+ break;
+ }
+
+ total_size -= size;
+ offset += size;
+ }
do_cleanups (old_chain); /* Frees MEMHUNK. */
}
void
_initialize_gcore (void)
{
- add_com ("generate-core-file", class_files, gcore_command,
- "\
+ add_com ("generate-core-file", class_files, gcore_command, _("\
Save a core file with the current state of the debugged process.\n\
-Argument is optional filename. Default filename is 'core.<process_id>'.");
+Argument is optional filename. Default filename is 'core.<process_id>'."));
add_com_alias ("gcore", "generate-core-file", class_files, 1);
exec_set_find_memory_regions (objfile_find_memory_regions);