From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: richard.henderson@linaro.org,
"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
"Juan Quintela" <quintela@redhat.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>
Subject: [PULL 2/8] docs: document breakpoint and watchpoint support
Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 16:06:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230510150658.1399087-3-alex.bennee@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230510150658.1399087-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
This varies by accelerator. Also mention the modern bear trap that is
ASLR.
Message-Id: <20230503091244.1450613-4-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-10 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-10 15:06 [PULL 0/8] testing and misc (docker, docs, ci scripts, gitlab, avocado, Kconfig) Alex Bennée
2023-05-10 15:06 ` [PULL 1/8] tests/docker: bump the xtensa base to debian:11-slim Alex Bennée
2023-05-10 15:06 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2023-05-10 15:06 ` [PULL 3/8] scripts/ci: add gitlab-runner to kvm group Alex Bennée
2023-05-10 15:06 ` [PULL 4/8] scripts/ci: clean-up the 20.04/22.04 confusion in ansible Alex Bennée
2023-05-10 15:06 ` [PULL 5/8] gitlab: add ubuntu-22.04-aarch64-without-defaults Alex Bennée
2023-05-10 15:06 ` [PULL 6/8] gitlab: enable minimal device profile for aarch64 --disable-tcg Alex Bennée
2023-05-10 15:06 ` [PULL 7/8] tests/avocado: use http for mipsdistros.mips.com Alex Bennée
2023-05-10 15:06 ` [PULL 8/8] hw/arm: Select XLNX_USB_SUBSYS for xlnx-zcu102 machine Alex Bennée
2023-05-10 17:14 ` [PULL 0/8] testing and misc (docker, docs, ci scripts, gitlab, avocado, Kconfig) Richard Henderson
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