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From: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
To: "Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>,
	"Riku Voipio" <riku.voipio@iki.fi>,
	"Laurent Vivier" <laurent@vivier.eu>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Cc: "Kyle Evans" <kevans@freebsd.org>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Ilya Leoshkevich" <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 8/9] docs/user: Document the %d placeholder and suspend=n QEMU_GDB features
Date: Wed,  8 Jan 2025 21:05:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250108202625.149869-9-iii@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250108202625.149869-1-iii@linux.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
---
 docs/user/main.rst | 16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/user/main.rst b/docs/user/main.rst
index 7a126ee8093..8dcb1d90a8b 100644
--- a/docs/user/main.rst
+++ b/docs/user/main.rst
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Command line options
 
 ::
 
-   qemu-i386 [-h] [-d] [-L path] [-s size] [-cpu model] [-g port] [-B offset] [-R size] program [arguments...]
+   qemu-i386 [-h] [-d] [-L path] [-s size] [-cpu model] [-g endpoint] [-B offset] [-R size] program [arguments...]
 
 ``-h``
    Print the help
@@ -87,8 +87,18 @@ Debug options:
    Activate logging of the specified items (use '-d help' for a list of
    log items)
 
-``-g port``
-   Wait gdb connection to port
+``-g endpoint``
+   Wait gdb connection to a port (e.g., ``1234``) or a unix socket (e.g.,
+   ``/tmp/qemu.sock``).
+
+   If a unix socket path contains single ``%d`` placeholder (e.g.,
+   ``/tmp/qemu-%d.sock``), it is replaced by the emulator PID, which is useful
+   when passing this option via the ``QEMU_GDB`` environment variable to a
+   multi-process application.
+
+   If the endpoint address is followed by ``,suspend=n`` (e.g.,
+   ``1234,suspend=n``), then the emulated program starts without waiting for a
+   connection, which can be established at any later point in time.
 
 ``-one-insn-per-tb``
    Run the emulation with one guest instruction per translation block.
-- 
2.47.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-01-08 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-08 20:04 [PATCH v4 0/9] gdbstub: Allow late attachment Ilya Leoshkevich
2025-01-08 20:04 ` [PATCH v4 1/9] qapi: Make qapi_bool_parse() gracefully handle NULL value Ilya Leoshkevich
2025-01-10 11:33   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-01-10 13:03     ` Ilya Leoshkevich
2025-01-10 13:32       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-01-08 20:04 ` [PATCH v4 2/9] gdbstub: Allow the %d placeholder in the socket path Ilya Leoshkevich
2025-01-08 20:04 ` [PATCH v4 3/9] gdbstub: Try unlinking the unix socket before binding Ilya Leoshkevich
2025-01-08 20:04 ` [PATCH v4 4/9] user: Introduce user/signal.h Ilya Leoshkevich
2025-01-08 20:05 ` [PATCH v4 5/9] user: Introduce host_interrupt_signal Ilya Leoshkevich
2025-01-08 20:05 ` [PATCH v4 6/9] osdep: Introduce qemu_kill_thread() Ilya Leoshkevich
2025-01-08 20:05 ` [PATCH v4 7/9] gdbstub: Allow late attachment Ilya Leoshkevich
2025-01-08 20:05 ` Ilya Leoshkevich [this message]
2025-01-08 20:05 ` [PATCH v4 9/9] tests/tcg: Add late gdbstub attach test Ilya Leoshkevich

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