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From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Laurent Vivier" <lvivier@redhat.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH 03/22] docs: document breakpoint and watchpoint support
Date: Wed,  3 May 2023 10:12:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230503091244.1450613-4-alex.bennee@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230503091244.1450613-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>

This varies by accelerator. Also mention the modern bear trap that is
ASLR.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
---
 docs/system/gdb.rst | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/system/gdb.rst b/docs/system/gdb.rst
index 453eb73f6c..7d3718deef 100644
--- a/docs/system/gdb.rst
+++ b/docs/system/gdb.rst
@@ -46,6 +46,28 @@ Here are some useful tips in order to use gdb on system code:
 3. Use ``set architecture i8086`` to dump 16 bit code. Then use
    ``x/10i $cs*16+$eip`` to dump the code at the PC position.
 
+Breakpoint and Watchpoint support
+=================================
+
+While GDB can always fall back to inserting breakpoints into memory
+(if writable) other features are very much dependent on support of the
+accelerator. For TCG system emulation we advertise an infinite number
+of hardware assisted breakpoints and watchpoints. For other
+accelerators it will depend on if support has been added (see
+supports_guest_debug and related hooks in AccelOpsClass).
+
+As TCG cannot track all memory accesses in user-mode there is no
+support for watchpoints.
+
+Relocating code
+---------------
+
+On modern kernels confusion can be caused by code being relocated by
+features such as address space layout randomisation. To avoid
+confusion when debugging such things you either need to update gdb's
+view of where things are in memory or perhaps more trivially disable
+ASLR when booting the system.
+
 Debugging multicore machines
 ============================
 
-- 
2.39.2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-05-03  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-03  9:12 [PATCH 00/22] testing/next: cirrus, docker, docs, ci, configs, gitlab Alex Bennée
2023-05-03  9:12 ` [PATCH 01/22] gitlab/cirrus: reduce scope of the FreeBSD testing matrix Alex Bennée
2023-05-03  9:18   ` Thomas Huth
2023-05-03  9:12 ` [PATCH 02/22] tests/docker: bump the xtensa base to debian:11-slim Alex Bennée
2023-05-03  9:20   ` Thomas Huth
2023-05-03 10:28   ` Juan Quintela
2023-05-03  9:12 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2023-05-03 10:30   ` [PATCH 03/22] docs: document breakpoint and watchpoint support Juan Quintela
2023-05-03  9:12 ` [PATCH 04/22] scripts/ci: add gitlab-runner to kvm group Alex Bennée
2023-05-03  9:22   ` Thomas Huth
2023-05-03 10:15   ` Richard Henderson
2023-05-03  9:12 ` [PATCH 05/22] hw/arm: Select VIRTIO_NET for virt machine Alex Bennée
2023-05-03 10:17   ` Richard Henderson
2023-05-03 14:00   ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-03 14:46     ` Fabiano Rosas
2023-05-03 15:35     ` Alex Bennée
2023-05-03 17:05       ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-03 18:32         ` Peter Maydell
2023-05-04  6:56           ` Thomas Huth
2023-05-04  7:09             ` Alex Bennée
2023-05-04  7:16           ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-04 12:56             ` Fabiano Rosas
2023-05-08 22:23               ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-09  9:27                 ` Peter Maydell
2023-05-09  9:42                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-09 10:00                     ` Peter Maydell
2023-05-09 10:53                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-09 11:37                         ` Alex Bennée
2023-05-09 11:59                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-03  9:12 ` [PATCH 06/22] hw/arm: Select VIRTIO_BLK " Alex Bennée
2023-05-03 10:17   ` Richard Henderson
2023-05-03 10:31   ` Juan Quintela
2023-05-03 17:21   ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-03  9:12 ` [PATCH 07/22] hw/arm: Select XLNX_USB_SUBSYS for xlnx-zcu102 machine Alex Bennée
2023-05-03 10:18   ` Richard Henderson
2023-05-03 17:07   ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-03  9:12 ` [PATCH 08/22] hw/arm: Select GICV3_TCG for sbsa-ref machine Alex Bennée
2023-05-03 10:19   ` Richard Henderson
2023-05-03 17:22   ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-03  9:12 ` [PATCH 09/22] hw/arm: Select e1000e " Alex Bennée
2023-05-03 10:20   ` Richard Henderson
2023-05-03 17:13   ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-03  9:12 ` [PATCH 10/22] hw/arm: Select VGA_PCI " Alex Bennée
2023-05-03 10:21   ` Richard Henderson
2023-05-03  9:12 ` [PATCH 11/22] hw/alpha: make E1000_PCI a hard dependency for clipper Alex Bennée
2023-05-03 10:26   ` Richard Henderson
2023-05-03 17:14   ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-03  9:12 ` [PATCH 12/22] hw/hppa: add TULIP as a dependency for HPPA_B160L Alex Bennée
2023-05-03 10:26   ` Richard Henderson
2023-05-03 17:15   ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-03  9:12 ` [PATCH 13/22] hw/sparc: add a TCX dependency for SUN4M machines Alex Bennée
2023-05-03 10:27   ` Richard Henderson
2023-05-03 17:17   ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-03  9:12 ` [PATCH 14/22] hw/loongarch: add VIRTIO as a dependency for LOONGARCH_VIRT Alex Bennée
2023-05-03 10:27   ` Richard Henderson
2023-05-03 17:18   ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-03  9:12 ` [PATCH 15/22] hw/sh4: make RTL8139 a hard dependency for RD2 Alex Bennée
2023-05-03 10:27   ` Richard Henderson
2023-05-03 17:19   ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-03  9:12 ` [PATCH 16/22] hw/mips: add VIRTIO and USB dependencies for LOONGSON3V Alex Bennée
2023-05-03 17:20   ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-03  9:12 ` [PATCH 17/22] hw/xtensa: add VIRTIO as dependencies for XTENSA_VIRT Alex Bennée
2023-05-03 10:28   ` Richard Henderson
2023-05-03 14:14   ` Max Filippov
2023-05-03 17:20   ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-05-03  9:12 ` [PATCH 18/22] scripts/ci: clean-up the 20.04/22.04 confusion in ansible Alex Bennée
2023-05-03  9:12 ` [PATCH 19/22] gitlab: add ubuntu-22.04-aarch64-without-defaults Alex Bennée
2023-05-03  9:34   ` Thomas Huth
2023-05-03 10:29   ` Richard Henderson
2023-05-03  9:12 ` [PATCH 20/22] gitlab: enable minimal device profoile for aarch64 --disable-tcg Alex Bennée
2023-05-03 10:30   ` Richard Henderson
2023-05-03 10:34   ` Juan Quintela
2023-05-03 13:01   ` Fabiano Rosas
2023-05-03  9:12 ` [PATCH 21/22] tests/avocado: use http for mipsdistros.mips.com Alex Bennée
2023-05-03  9:43   ` Thomas Huth
2023-05-03 10:31   ` Richard Henderson
2023-05-10  7:12   ` Jiaxun Yang
2023-05-03  9:12 ` [PATCH 22/22] tests/qtest: skip bcm2835-test if no raspi3b model Alex Bennée
2023-05-03  9:51   ` Thomas Huth
2023-05-03 10:34     ` Alex Bennée

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