After building gdb with "-O0 -g -fsanitize=thread" on aarch64-linux, with
test-case gdb.reverse/time-reverse.exp I run into:
...
(gdb) continue^M
Continuing.^M
FAIL: $exp: mode=c: continue to breakpoint: marker2 (timeout)
...
The problem is that instruction stepping gets stuck in a loop with this call
stack: time -> __GI___clock_gettime -> __kernel_clock_gettime ->
__cvdso_clock_gettime.
This is not specific to fsanitize=thread, it just makes gdb slow, which makes
instruction stepping slow, which results in the application getting stuck.
I ran into this as well with a regular gdb build on a 32-bit i686 laptop with
1GB of memory, an inherently slow setup. In that instance, I was able to
observe that the loop we're stuck in is the outer loop in do_coarse in linux
kernel source lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c.
Fix this by setting "record full insn-number-max" to 2000, and handling
running into the limit.
Initially I tried the approach of using "stepi 2000" instead of continue, but
that made the issue more likely to show up (for instance, I observed it after
building gdb with -O0 on aarch64-linux).