jasonmolenda added a comment.

In D129814#3654368 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D129814#3654368>, @labath wrote:

> In D129814#3654276 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D129814#3654276>, @jasonmolenda 
> wrote:
>
>> In D129814#3654230 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D129814#3654230>, @labath wrote:
>>
>>> Generally, this makes sense to me, but I do have one question (not 
>>> necessarily for Jim). These tests work on (arm) linux, and I am wondering 
>>> why is that the case. Could it be related to the fact that lldb-server 
>>> preserves the stop reason for threads that are not running? I.e. if we have 
>>> two threads hit a breakpoint (or whatever), and then step one of them, then 
>>> the other thread will still report a stop_reason=breakpoint. Do you know if 
>>> this is supposed to happen (e.g. does debugserver do that)?
>>
>> I'd have to go back and test it to be 100% sure but from the behavior I see 
>> on Darwin systems, when we receive a watchpoint hit on two threads at the 
>> same time, and instruction-step the first thread, when we ask debugserver 
>> for the current stop-reason on thread two, it says there is no reason.  The 
>> watchpoint exception on the second thread is lost.  I could imagine 
>> lldb-server behaving differently. (I think when we fetch the mach exceptions 
>> for the threads, they've now been delivered, and when we ask the kernel for 
>> any pending mach exceptions for the threads a second time -- even if those 
>> threads haven't been allowed to run, I think the state is lost, and 
>> debugserver didn't save that initial state it received.)
>
> Yes, that sounds plausible. It lldb-server (on linux) it happens differently 
> because we store each stop reason inside the thread object, and since we can 
> control each thread independently, there's no reason to touch it if we're not 
> running the thread. Although it also wouldn't be hard to clear in on every 
> resume.
>
> So which one of these behaviors would you say is the correct one?

Yeah, as I was writing my explanation for why we see this problem on Darwin, I 
realized the obvious next question was, "why isn't this a debugserver fix" - I 
think that would be another valid way to approach this, although we still need 
to interop with older debugservers on iOS etc devices from the past five years. 
 (to be fair, it's relatively uncommon that this issue is hit in real-world 
programs, our API tests stress this area specifically to expose bugs)  I do 
wonder about the failure mgorny reported in 
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/48777 which sound like exactly the 
same problems as we have on Darwin, but on a BSD or linux system running under 
AArch64 qemu?  (he doesn't say which OS he was running under qemu)

That being said, compensating for this debugserver deficiency in lldb doesn't 
seem like a bad thing to me, given that the patch exists.


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