Re: kvm guest debug using gdb on x86

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On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:57:21AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:10:59AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >> Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> >>> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:23:12AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> With the latest qemu-kvm and 2.6.30-rc6 kernel i am not able to get
> >>>> the guest debugging with gdb. I get the following error.
> >>>>
> >>>> $gdb ./vmlinux
> >>>> GNU gdb 6.8-debian
> >>>> Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >>>> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
> >>>> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> >>>> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> >>>> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show
> >>>> copying"
> >>>> and "show warranty" for details.
> >>>> This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
> >>>> (gdb) b do_fork
> >>>> Breakpoint 1 at 0xc106cfc8: file kernel/fork.c, line 1347.
> >>>> (gdb) target remote localhost:1234
> >>>> Remote debugging using localhost:1234
> >>>> [New Thread 1]
> >>>> Remote 'g' packet reply is too long:
> >>>> 7fa5000000000000000000000000000057e209c10000000004000000000000000000000000000000c8b3d0c100000000c03fd1c100000000a83fd1c10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000912d03c1000000000202000060000000680000007b0000007b000000d8000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000f60b801540000000000000000000007f030000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> 00
> >> 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
> >>>> (gdb)
> >>>>
> >>>> any patches that i can try ?
> >>> Works better with the four patches found at
> >>>
> >>> http://git.kiszka.org/?p=kvm-userspace.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/queues/gdb
> >>>
> >>> But a next and continue doesn't get the prompt back on gdb. The guest
> >>> does stops the execution.
> >> What arch is host and guest (x86-32 or -64)? What KVM versions are you
> >> using? Are you sure that guest and vmlinux matches?
> >>
> > 
> > Both host and guest are x86-32.  For kvm user space I did a git clone
> > from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git. I tested with
> > commit 22d239bcee126742df46938ee8ddc7c6b9209e23. That version fails
> > with the "remote g packet reply is too long" error. Then i applied the
> > four patches from your git repo. That gets the guest to stop execution
> > on breakpoint, i can check the stack. but single stepping doesn't work.
> > 
> > Guest kernel I tried was linux-2.6-tip
> 
> Does debugging work with -no-kvm, ie. in TCG mode?


Yes. debugging works with -no-kvm option. I can do single stepping.


-aneesh
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