Re: kvm guest debug using gdb on x86

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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> 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:
>>>>>>> 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
>>  000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
>>> 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.
>>
> 
> Sigh, confirmed, there is a regression in qemu-kvm. Will dig into this.

Hmpf, the regression is also present in qemu upstream in kvm mode.

Jan

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